The Daily PakistanPolitics May30--June02, 2010

• Jun02-2010--In what looks like a dangerous move viz the people and punjab the federal government reaches a dubious seperate agreement with sindh on VAT...Sindh which is used to extortionist attitudes about tax collections and taxes paid by punjabis will cause heavy damage to consumers as literally even small shops will be taxed by them...The government in punjab especially should see with suspicion teh arrangement on tax origin as a punjabi could buy an airticket or pay phone bills in sindh and with many companies having head offices in sindh income taxes and sales taxes collected from punjabis will be taken by sindh as the place where the tax is collected...Punjab should resist teh attitude of taxing consumers indiscriminately and it is the shop keeper who should be taxed rather than the consumer as teh federal governments and provincial governments do nothing for the consumer..abdul hafeez sheikh blamed teh rich people for opposing VAT when it is teh people or consumers who will suffer...the people have no power in this government and the PPP should study its extortionist attitude since teh people and consumers are not going to benefit..
  
• Jun02-2010-Government counsel in teh 18th amendment case steps down after recriminations with the court suggesting that teh government is probably going to lose this case too...
  
• Jun02-2010-federal government blames south punjab terror groups for the ongoing terrorism in punjab despite teh continued visual involvement of nwfp and Fata...south punjabi terrorist groups are surfacing in Fata as the taleban succumb to the military onslaught...rehman malik suggests a military operation in punjab where the police is still sufficiently capable of mounting operations if the information is known..PMLn pooh poohs the center
  
• Jun02-2010-Army declares a suspicious victory in Orakzai where they have been supposedly decimating the remaining taleban...
  
• Jun02-2010-Hafeez sheikh continues meaningless rhetoric on budget making with out any realistic objective...he says the government has no money...on teh other hand a 2.7 trillion budget is being prepared with almost no benefit to the countries populace...one wonders what is teh objective of teh government if it is not to benefit teh countries populace...their development program seems non existent on the last two years experience and one wonders what they want to spend the money on when teh problems in specific areas are not going to be funded...electricity price hikes have proved useless over the last decade and no problem has been solved in teh field but still the precious supposed Phd(fake) wants another hike in electricity prices...an ordinary graduate if not a child could handle such meaningless rhetorical economics...what the PPP wants to bring in outsiders for doing nothing is completely beyond our understanding...
  
• Jun02-2010--school and health center blownup in mohmand
  
• Jun01-2010--terrorists storm jinnah hospital in lahore to free injured comrade but fail killing six
  
• Jun01-2010--a tv journalist and two other pakistanis in israeli custody as israelis raid aid ship killing nine
  
• Jun01-2010--Asif Zardari gets released Riaz Lalji a suspicious character involved in steel mills scams from the intelligence agencies who kidnapped him on arrival in karachi
  
• Jun01-2010--42 killed in orakzai air strikes...
  
• Jun01-2010--two prayer leaders gunned down in quetta
  
• May31-2010--In a controversial move rehman malik suggests army action in south punjab in a clear violation of provincial authority
  
• May31-2010--another of Asif zardaris controversial friends Riaz Lalji kidnapped in karachi
  
• May31-2010--US army chief hints at 'can we bomb new york" thought process in handling pakistans tribal militants as many think that the US military wants pakistan army to move into south punjab and sindhi/baloch tribal areas apart from north waziristan
  
• May30-2010--The PPP regime forgetting its own nepotist tendencies says one man appointing judges yields a substantard court although the CJ's have yet to appoint a brother or a son to teh court...a government of rishtedars(relatives) is also deemed tobe substandard and ineffective....although some khosas are seen as being politically favored...judges usually belong to three or four generalized biradris...military supporters, muslim leaguers, jamatia's and IB/ISI/ministry of interior...in advanced countries judges are appointed by the review process and is subject to popular scrutiny...committees and commission of appointments are always being manipulated by i will agree to this if u agree to that...attitude...unless there is open scrutiny judges cannot maintain independence..one suggests a minimal educational requirement and a study of their cases and experience to start with...
  
• May3o-2010--hafeez sheikh is turning out tobe an ordinary manipulated economist...when fuel adjustment charges are being made monthly than why a six per cent IMF price hike is necessary...
  
• May30-2010--government to impose VAT without provincial approval...
  
• May30-2010--americans continue to threaten pakistan...conducting dry runs of possible bombing raids...the pakistan administration should ready cross border retaliatry raids into afghanistan in such an eventuality unless they are a spent force of subjugated slaves
  
• May30-2010--three policemen killed in firing at a police picket in samanabad,lahore
  
• May30-2010--Asif zardari wants to know who funds the taleban...there is a huge mosque network which is well funded...rich and famous politicians are another group apart from religiously minded money making bussinessmen and industrialists...all generally familiar to and friendly with zardari's types...apart from overseas rich men...