The Daily PakistanPolitics Jun 10, 2010

• Jun10-2010--The CJ wants to discourage constitutional adventurism practised in the past by the SC, national assemblies and above all by military coup plotters aided usually by a lawyer from karachi... ...while coup plotters have unilaterally suspended, created new constitutions and abrogated old ones and amended constitutions at will...the SC including present judges have approved coups and constitutional meddlings by the military and approval of military coups by suspect natured assemblies and those hungry for power...The same can be said for the present assemblies and the judiciary with the military again seemingly playing a waiting game while others think they might try to bring in a retired general under some circumstances or might be another shaukat aziz...to control turning the constitution into mere toilet paper the judiciary must stop both the military and teh national assembly from meddling...There is no limit to the power of a national assembly if that is not done..assemblies approve judicial appointments in the US but that is thru proper review and public hearings...for teh court to make a clear decision it must indict coup plotters, judges, national assemblies for illegal amendments to teh constitution and it should start from itself and the most recent coup plotter...it will not have to go to the swiss courts to do that...The remedy of the referendum is to say that legality apart it must be publically approved which would be easy for teh present government given its support by the PMLn-PPP-mqm-ANP which could easily muster 50% of the vote...the only referendum held in my knowledge was an insult to the power of the vote...The court must strike down amendments which change the 1973 constitution irrepairably and start proceedings against those involved in constitutional amendments for personal power...the military coup plotters can easily be indicted while selecting politicians and judges tobe indicted would be a little more difficult...
  
• Jun10-2010-In what is being rumoured as a hair raising event the attack on a Nato convoy near rawalpindi was carried out by fifty assailants and the vehicles show that they were not using mere kalashnikovs...over fifty vehicles mostly trucks were destroyed whereas 35 vehicles survived..seven drivers were killed...the Nato transportation scheme is literally unprotected even by a police or army convoy...when such Nato convoys have been attacked in the past why such large convoys are run or congregated without any protection seems literally tobe inviting trouble...
  
• Jun10-2010--The government which wants to go on an uninhibited taxation binge/exercise for the hungry sindhis has ended the use of VAT and shifted back to GST...many were suggesting that sindh would have to reimburse GST for exports to other provinces which is what differentiates VAT from GST...Sindh regards GST on exports to other provinces as its earnings while it is paid for by other provinces...while an illogical mqm mna wanted even more taxation tobe added to teh budget to the tune of 1.2 trillion
  
• Jun10-2010--19 killed in orakzai fighting