The Daily PakistanPolitics Jun14-11, 2010

• Jun14-2010--As it became abundantly clear that the only function of the budget was the ayashi of the top governing elite and the armed forces...literally teh entire PPP contingent was seen to have vanished from the national assembly proceedings...the ayashi of teh government was symbolized by new suits and literally a do nothing primeminister...whose lame remark was that this is the best i could do...many said that with a president whose job seems to only be to fly off to karachi and dubai and a primeminister and army only interested in new uniforms and new suits...when the chief minister of balochistan asked the primeminister when he will stop the violence in balochistan...he said soon..and what do u think of my new suit...!!..??
  
• Jun14-2010--pakistan signs another deal with iran on gas supply which seems tobe openly snubbing the USA...with iran already having winter gas shortages and pakistan having severe gas shortages in winter the gas will be needed more for domestic purposes than electricity generation...one has always wondered why they wanted to include india in the deal...many think that the deals benefit will go to sindh which already utilizes most of teh countries gas resources..many think that punjab should insist on a lion shares of teh gas as teh government has already started to charge punjabi consumers higher rates on gas...?with the pipeline not expected to come on line for another 4-5 years its benefits in teh electricity generation field are at best expected tobe limited...
  
• Jun14-2010--ISI accused of massive cooperation with afghan taleban and possibly even pakistani taleban by an LSE study...many think that most operations in afghanistan are carried out by pakistanis and many are unable to understand the taleban reactions in pakistan in that context...LSE which is supposedly asif zardaris alma mater said that asif zardari had personally met taleban leaders to apologize for arresting the taleban shura and teh study points to at least 50 taleban leaders in pakistan captivity..many point to the ISI's supposed role as an intelligence agency and that alone would make them have deep contacts with organisations in the region...others suggest that operations are not the preserve of teh ISI and would probably have to be carried out by operational commands in the pakistan army..The ISI supposedly keeps contacts with worldwide organizations and is known to provide nominal funds to almost all liberation organisations and even those fighting friendly nations
  
• Jun14-2010--hafiz saeed might serve as the pointman for a new religious alliance as all religious leaders get together for a rally in lahore
  
• Jun14-2010--balochistan PPP minority minister sacked after drunken brawl in lahore
  
• Jun14-2010--US also attempts to subdue afghan taleban by offering them participation in the afghan government
  
• Jun14-2010--Sindh continues its anti punjab animosity in countries dam politics and financial resource distribution...it also wants to collect punjabs taxes from sindh which would complicate issues and wants 10 billion for thar coal when it says it is not willing to share ownership with teh country...sindh in two and half years has been unable to even start mining coal on an industrial basis..federal government should realize that it rules pakistan and not only the sindh province which it has been attempting to solely benefit at the expense of other provinces...
  
• Jun14-2010--three militants killed in swat
  
• Jun13-2010--The PPP has only been able to depict a lavish spending without any objective in the last two years and that seems tobe the current budgets theme too...nothing has been earmarked for the growing problem of electricity production shortfalls..mismanagment in all state and government sectors continues with reports that asif zardari again attempting huge extortions from the pakistan steel mills thru new partners......The only thing that the budget seems to be directed at is ever higher taxes without any relation to how the money is spent and where...
  
• Jun13-2010--Sindh continues its crybaby attitude...this time objecting to teh NFC allocations and nwfp...it is teh ANP that inculcated the anti constitutional attitude that we will call nwfp what we like...so why cry about it...many people can barely pronounce the new name and find nwfp more palatable...i think punjab should object to telecommunications being made a provincial collectable tax...why sindh can and punjab cant collect taxes such as those from mobile phone companies which is literally telling teh account number in which such a tax should be deposited...taxation on services which are undefined sindh says is constitutionally a provincial subject which sounds quite strange...usually such services that are professional such as doctors and contractors come under this head but sindh also wants to turn each profitable business into a service..many suggest that the government has already taken care of teh tax origin issue in teh NFC and now sindh should shutup about it...in the NFC sindh did not gain much despite all its political hooliganism and that is what it is crying about still many think...maybe zardari should tell them to shutup for once...
  
• Jun13-2010--government offices set on fire in khuzdar
  
• Jun13-2010--unruly lawyers attack police offices in islamabad and beatup unprotected policemen
  
• Jun12-2010--drone attack kills 13 in north waziristan
  
• Jun12-2010--In the NRO cases teh SC only focussing on swiss cases which are at best dead and buried and forgetting about the thousands of cases against the mqm which have not been restarted as yet...
  
• Jun11-2010--PM again refuses to follow SC directives and refuses to allow tariq khosa a grade 22 secretary to be made the head of BOP investigations
  
• Jun11-2010--3 killed in drone attack on a house in north waziristan
  
• Jun11-2010--For teh SC the charter of democracy has no value as it is not a binding document and even one of its signatories is dead
  
• Jun11-2010--Yusuf Raza Gilani who is turning into a wadera type of politician protests to the punjab chief minister about a baton attack on his brother although he seems to forget that the opposition candidate was also attacked purportedly by his brother..many suggest that the PPP ganged up on the PMLn by getting the support of the PMLq-f in winning the PMLq seat in multan...many suggest that the primeministers brother frightened voters by an attack on naghma mushtaq...PPP support in teh constituency said tobe minimal