The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct 11-20, 2010

• Oct20-2010--two nato oil tankers torched in kalat
  
• Oct20-2010--SCBA president returns one million grant which many regard as corruption...
  
• Oct20-2010--daylong violence resulted in 29 killed in karachi with 12 killedd in an attack on a scrap dealer..77 killed in last six days
  
• Oct20-2010--Three soldiers kileld in south waziristan
  
• Oct20-2010-- government again asks for 7.3% increase in electricity prices
• Oct19-2010--Judicial storm subsides as judges accept aired supposed Gilani apology
• Oct19-2010-Sindh unveils karsaz bombing monuument
• Oct19-2010-Three Nato oil tankers torched in Balochistan
• Oct19-2010-three militants killed in swat
  
• Oct18-2010--while the PMLn has already reached an agreement with the mqm it is now entering negotiations with the PMLq-f as the PPP stutters its way thru its five year rule...?
  
• Oct18-2010--The PPP is attempting to destroy pakistan railways by reducing container trains to one per month from 35 five years ago...pukhtun minister destroying rail opportunities to help road transporters..?
  
• Oct18-2010--The PPP's unwillingness to take decisive actions caused another 33 killings in karachi as the mqm a failure at best in karachi affairs had nothing to offer in bringing peace to the city...killers from all sides going on a rampage...many suggest that the mqm governor should be replaced by someone more willing to act to stop the violence and qaim ali shah seems a tame chief minister at best...unless at least 400-500 people are put behind bars no solution is expected in the internecine karachi warfare going on since the mqm entered politics in 1988...The police need tobe fully empowered and rehman malik should be retired from the interior ministry for good...if people are dying from hunger than altaf hussein who has been holed up in england with millions should start helping out with the money he is sitting on...!!
  
• Oct18-2010--In what depicted the weak personal position of yusuf raza gilani he had provincial actors sit with him while making a at best funny televised address so that they could not start rumours about his wobbling status...missing were the punjab and sindh chief ministers who could replace him in the event of a coup or even party or SC ouster...The mqm too was absent threatening to withdraw from the sindh coalition and than tamely refusing to lose the key position of sindh governor...as everyone agreed that the mqm played the biggest role in the karachi mayhem and refusing local body elections...While refusing to issue a written response to teh SC paranoia since he cannot withdraw the SC notifications anyway he continued to suggest that his removal was one of the key issues faced by his party, SC and the army and wanted tobe saved by suggesting that it would cause provincial mayhem rather than anything else...In earlier discussions shariffuddin had apparently said that the SC judges were very tame during the martial governance and always accepted his interpretations or views...many urged teh i am a sindhi only zardari to do away with the slow Gilani and bring in a party stalwart like amin fahim, qaim ali shah or even let shabaz sharif become primeminister...?Gilani has been an obvious failure and there seems no way he can improve...otherwise many suggest that the judges should act to remove him for refusing to obey constitutional SC orders and destroying teh constitution which is now at best infructious...?
  
• Oct17-2010--The reviews, views, governance and the judiciary issues have upto now been resisted by teh PPP with ordinary statements rather than any real content...a false assurance, underhand nature and a lack of sincerity seem tobe teh hallmarks of governance...with the contest between the government-judiciary...a nura kushti rather than anything for the people to benefit from...with the anti people policy being the centerpiece for the govt-judiciary... people have started to feel that the overt sincerity of the evil genius musharaf-pervez elahi might be better for them...they at least thought about the effects on the people...rather than the policy of karo log samjhen ge ke bahaduri he awam ko zaleel karna...abhi tak mushkil faisle ho rahe hen.........many now think that the trio may be on its way sooner rather than later...while others suggest that the primeminister who thinks everything canbe explained away might now be moving onto the chopping block...with two and half years of internecine battles between teh same contestants people feel as if they are watching careless actors with no feelings or solutions...others say that the army chief might make a better speech than the simplistic nothings that are uttered by the state actors...speeches should have content for anybody to want to listen...others feel the government is almost like the scenario where the army chief would be facing a martial law court and the CJ teh SJC on a day in and day out basis...If the courts want to move against the top two they should give their decisions rather than play cat and mouse and the same can be said of teh government and army that they should either start a populist pro people helpful policy or move off the stage...?the decisions that are tough could be the removal of teh CJ and primeminister without which no major change in governments direction and effectiveness seem possible...
• Oct17-2010--13 killed in karachi violence
• Oct17-2010--Gilani to address the country as his attempts to deride teh judiciary fail...
• Oct17-2010--Troika meets to decide how to deal with US at an annual strategic meet
  
• Oct16-2010--Th PPP only has a few corruption fighting lawyers who just donot know how to control judges with the pleas that benazir will stand trial and not musharaf sir...so zardari said get me some PMLq military lawyer to do the job...So a meeting between Dogar, sharifuddin and awan started in teh dead of the night on the 15th... zardari wanted to know why these buffoons never cause problems for the martial laws but immediately put on their boxing gloves when we come to power...another uppercut...half an hour later the paranoid judges also started their meeting and suggested that the government cannot take back teh judges notification which was infructious anyway...sharifuddin a known martial law runner said give me a week and i will have these fake balochis straightened out in no time...many suggest that martial law tactics are the only things that judges understand and another provisional constitution might solve teh problem..others suggest that the armies mla think tank has suggested that an SJC be immediately called to study teh conduct of the SC judges which should remove all of them barring any under cover cops..however Gilani immediately issued a statement that i am not going to remove teh problemAtic Cj whose repeated uppercuts have left ZardAri with no defense and gILANI with teh stuttering i have taken back the presidential notification removing teh CJ which was only under preperation......? in other rumours teh $60 million has ended up in the accounts of known mafioso altaf hussein...while zardaei has protested that benazir only left me 2.5 million...i was just joking when i told nawaz sharif that i have already spirited away $60 million...? while ishaq dar says that zardari gets 30 million from punjabi bussinessmen annually to keep the trade route from karachi open...?...dollars...?
  
• Oct16-2010--The feisty SC judges suggest that any attempt at restarting a SJC process or reversing the reinstatement of judge swill be seen as treason...!
  
• Oct16-2010--five soldiers killed in south waziristan
  
• Oct16-2010--Mullah Baradar arrested in karachi in February has been released by pakistan says the Dawn
  
• Oct16-2010--nine militants killed in drone attacks in north waziristan
  
• Oct15-2010--SC judges move to preempt Zardari attempt to fire judiciary again...?
  
• Oct15-2010-five MQM and one ANP worker killed in karachi...
  
• Oct15-2010-Pakistan urged to massively tax the wealthy rather than foist all the taxes onto consumers...?asif Zardari wanted a 1 million tax on each wealthy house in karachi...?
  
• Oct14-2010--The PPP seems to have some simplistic drivers whose simplistic logic nobody understands but it soothes their own minds......there is the zardari logic ..."we are taking everybody along"..everybody obviously does not include teh PMLn and specifically nawaz sharif... but apparently includes teh PML-f/PMLq/musharaf/mqm..there is teh fauzia wahab logic we cant get along with nawaz sharif, rana sanullah and chaudhry nisar...sanaullah however improving his logic suggests that the country is more important than the PPP's illogical tenure..fauzia wahab going against gilani logic suggests that they r not embarassed by the NRo which embarasses all the PPP, opposition and CJ......gilani and the ANP most interested in completing five years even though in a democracy u can have elections and primeministerial changes at any time...in a democracy consultations are a normal phenomenon especially when appointing people to important positions...however the NAB chief whom teh PPP could not appoint for almost two and a half years is now an ordinary administrative apointment and requires no consultation..however many say the NAB mans only reason for appointment is to say i dont know about swiss accounts they are all empty...?kaun kha giya...bilawal or zardari or bakhtawar...or gilani or awan?and will zardari have immunity if he is delving in all the decision making and acting as teh actual primeminister...not in any future government they say......PPP leaders are so happy with being in jail that they are having their jailrooms upgraded...possible government changes will land many of them in jail......who will go to jail this time ..the bets are on baber awan, raja riaz, qamruddin qaira..gilani and fazia wahab..zardari they say will escape in teh nick of time...?....? gilani jesa alalu talalu se nahin darta zardari...The PPP is so frightened that it has not yet initiated a single case against the previous regime...and nobody asks the NAB or CJ to check the foreign accounts of teh mqm, shaukat aziz and musharaf or even chief opponent nawaz sharif...altaf and musharaf say they dont want to come back because they are making a lot of money in london...altaf suggests that mqm's khidmat khalaq wing has made 490 million out of the floods and sent a couple of truckloads to the suffering sindhis..imran khan they say has run off with a billion in flood donations...?...?many suggest that musharaf is a nawaz sharif man in the PPP lobby and the PPP thinks he can unnerve him...
  
• Oct14-2010--SC questions new NAB chairmans appointment
  
• Oct14-2010--BNP-M leader shot dead in kalat
  
• Oct14-2010--drone attack kills seven in north waziristan
  
• Oct14-2010--PPP government rented rental power at almost a 50% hugher cost than Pepco...?
  
• Oct14-2010--In the judicial musical chairs game Latif Khosa resigns as advisor and is now acceptable to the SC as a government rep in teh NRO case while kamal azfar becomes an advisor...
  
• Oct13-2010--10 taleban killed in mardan operation
  
• Oct13-2010--Sharifs have 20 pending NAB cases
  
• Oct13-2010--Mqm land reforms want minimum land holding reduced to 56 acres--arid areas and 36 acres--canal fed...earlier land reforms had declared a minimum land holding of 800 acres but were not successfully implemented and such things are said tobe impossible to implement in the elite run political and judicial systems in pakistan
  
• Oct13-2010--punjab assembly passes a resolution against coup plotter musharaf
  
• Oct12-2010--General or Lt general Ziauddin says the musharaf coup was already on track and nawaz sharifs announcement of removing musharaf just hastened the act...many suggest that the phone call to Nawaz Sharif came from india whom musharaf had informed in sri lanka that he would be taking over.....all of the generals involved in teh coup were later on given key army positions by musharaf...suggesting it was a planned conspiracy and not the action of the infamous Brigade 111...
  
• Oct12-2010--The ISIS a nuclear watchdog says several cooling towers have been completed at Khushab possibly completing the Khushab-3 plutonium reactor...earlier reports suggested that pakistans earlier plutonium reactors were unsuccessful...pakistan thus should theoretically be able to produce small amounts of plutonium a lethal bomb material...
  
• Oct11-2010--500 Nato trailers have gone missing amongst the 60000 that have gone thru chaman
  
• Oct11-2010--An elite golf course built on lahore railway land during the tenures of musharaf/shaukat aziz was sold land at Rs4/sq yd causing a loss of Rs4.82 billion...
  
• Oct11-2010--The PPP regime admits that it deliberately created a fuel crisis in teh country and now wants to create a 20 day reserve stock
  
• Oct11-2010--After an 11 day border closure which should have been enough to make teh afghan/US governments realize that attacks on pakistan will be counter productive trailers started moving thru Torkham...
  
• Oct11-2010--7 killed in two drone attacks in north waziristan
  
• Oct11-2010--Shabaz Sharif an ineffective chief minister himself now threatens a long march against Zardari-altaf corruption...why they cant ask the swiss government to return the money without resort to cases is unknown...shabaz sharif has shown some mqm tendencies which can be harmful to the punjab...the way forward is for the courts in pakistan to define the accounts where the money is located and why it is illegal and ask the swiss government to return it...The CJ can do it himself if there is adequate information
  
• Oct11-2010--Many say that sindhis have no choice but to appoint a sindhi to save them from zardaris corruption syndicate...although others say what is the point in recovering $60 million which Benazir left to the penniless Zardari when the government wastes over Rs3 trillion on nothing...?while others say the judges can only tolerate a judge in the NAB chiefs position whatever he may have done...still others suggest that democracy cannot be dragged along when a government fails as this one is doing...five years should be out of teh question...fixed terms are for beaurocrats and are not government terms...In a democracy elections can be called at any time and primeministers can also be replaced at any time...while baber awan says he will consider PMln's choice for NAB chief if they fire rana maqbool and gen ziauddin butt......even though the coup was caused by musharafs muhajir generals...will the PPP reconsider sindhi provincial appointments if opposed by teh PMLn...?...There are no sawabdeedi rights in a democracy many say...!!??