The Daily PakistanPolitics Jun 21-22, 2010

• Jun22-2010--It seems funny but apparently the PPP is now prepared to put benazir to rest for good...At the Benazir birthday party in Naudero the biggest painting was that of sindhi superman asif zardari...on the stage there was no mqm governor or anyone from KP or punjab...just two anti punjabi sindhis...so much for reconciliation politics..apparently it is a family issue only now..!!...the zardari speech was typically childish bashing punjabis and suggesting that the battered constitution was now like teh original...forgetting the SC willingness to force the country to a referendum on KP and other disfiguring constitutional amendments or even striking down the entire 18th as the people were never consulted and there is evidence that the PMLn was being blackmailed on teh issue...many are considering the PPP backing down from even investigating the Benazir murder the result of army and PMLq propaganda which have made hay out of PPP misteps...many had thought that by now cases would be in teh courts on the issues relating to Benazir and akber bugti murders...akber bugti was also closer to the PPP and was at a time considered a possible presidential choice...zardari also thought that the KP's now had identity even though as pukhtuns they had dominated teh countries labour force and intelligence networks...many pukhtuns consider being KP's insulting...many question if the pukhtuns had any identity issue given their aggressive nature...Yusuf Raza Gilani continued his subjugation to sindhis after literally reaching a seperate agreement on taxes on services which many regard as a sindhi attempt to corral more punjabi taxes like sales taxes on industrial products exported to the punjab...many say the provinces should be able to get a refund on sales taxes that are collected on exports to other provinces...many suggest that the sindhis pay no more than 18-20% in taxes and the rest are collected from teh punjab...many suggest that teh seperate tax collection issue should be settled on a country wide basis rather than individually...he surprised many by again changing the government stance for the third time in as many days on iranian gas imports by suggesting that any UN sanctions on iran would be enforced...many however believe that sanctions will have ended by 2014-15 when the gas supply is supposed to begin...many suggest that the government instead of working on and creating divisions between provinces should settle the electricity issue by starting work on another 30000MW of electricity divided equally between nuclear, gas, coal and hydel with small options for wind and solar... Sindh many say is exploiting yusuf raza gilanis suspect wobbly status by trying to seek gains outside the NFC which is generally regarded as a sindh failure after it could not create any major impact for points of collection...