The Daily PakistanPolitics Feb 01-10, 2011

• Feb10-2011--seven top PMLn contract employees resigned including ziauddin butt and rana maqbool ..the courts many say maybe still following a pro musharaf agenda although such appointments were also disaproved by the sindi PPP
  
• Feb10-2011--The problem as many thought is yusuf raza Gilani although people happy at the cabinet being kicked out as they were just in there for the luxury of being ministers......maybe they will realize the difficulties they have caused without solving a single problem...gas shortages, prices and electricity shortages have gotten worse...peopel tend to buy less wheat and think vegetables are getting expensive as meat has become a luxury..shops that used to sell mutton now sell buffalo..Since Yusuf Raza Gilani is determined not to think of the people's miseries a few ministers less will hardly matter to teh situation..unless he removes failures like rehman malik, the railways minister, the water and power minister, the gas minister,the information minister for terribel PTV, the law minister and teh food and agriculture ministers a change will hardly matter...
  
• Feb10-2011--The JUI and MQM would probably not join a drowning ship however teh PPP might still depend on teh ANP and Fata mna's who are almost like the government sponsored muslim leagues now...
  
• Feb10-2011--Yusuf Raza's handling is shown in the handling of PSO problems, railways and now PIA...and the army told him not to interfere in the fight against terrorism...where he and his interior minister have been issuing condemnation statements every few days ie the generalized waqfa in terrorism incidents...his terribel handling of the USA, IMF, mqm, india, musharaf,economy,accountability, judges etc. is also apparent...many say that yusuf raza gilani is so terrible that the PPP told him to stop foreign visits...
• Feb10-2011--The PIA situation became even more shocking as flights ground to a halt as the pilots association asked for the removal of the MD...earlier the defence minister had said that pilots living in canada were worried over the shifting of longhaul routes to the turkish airline...however later he said that it was all Gilanis handling which had resulted in the situation getting worse...
  
• Feb09-2011--many are suggesting that Yusuf Raza Gilani an ethnic arab-afghan-pukhtun type now wants to become the seraiki altaf hussain as he reads seraiki news on radio pakistan...many say PPP desperately trying to protect its seraiki base in the punjab as deputy speaker Kundi from DI khan also calls for a seraiki province...many suggest that dikhan and multan could form a new seraiki province since other districts are not too enthusiastic
  
• Feb09-2011--terrific fire in lahores shah alam market doused after 30 hours
  
• Feb09-2011--Mna's reapprove extravagant parliamentary lodges scheme which many say is already occupied by beaurocrats saying Rs400 million is not a huge amount...mna's have no clue to government spending and have not been able to even debate public issues like price hikes in petroleum and electricity...many say the primenister has allocated 400 million that was tobe spent on the motherless rawalpindi area which has been neglected totally by teh zardari-gilani regime...
  
• Feb09-2011--two soldiers including a captain die in a bannu blast
  
• Feb09-2011--prices surged by a further 20% in january says the dawn
  
• Feb09-2011--15 vehicles including four nato tankers blowup in a fire cum blast in peshawar...also in peshawar two cops killed as their vehicle was blownup as they went to check a checkpost that had been blownup...16 militants killed in orakzai as jet fighters blasted away...while some celebrations as sunni-shiite conflict in kurram subsides as thal parachinar road is opened after four years
  
• Feb09-2011--pipeline blasts cutoff gas to nine balochistan districts...21 balochistan districts donot have gas pipelines at all...irony of the situation... pipeline to balochistan coming from sindh..electricity supply also affected...
  
• Feb09-2011--ethnic fighting broke out amongst PIA employees as they blocked flights on the managements transfer of routes to teh Turkish airlines...?
  
• Feb09-2011--PPP and PMLn agree to investigate 100 large loans written off by each bank since 1971...? while Raja Riaz's 19 point ultimatum to the PMLn could only last one day as the PPP mpa's refused to even organize a sitin in front of the punjab assembly...and jumped back into the shabaz sharif lap who just agreed to discuss...
  
• Feb09-2011--Asif Zardari who apparently can only get alongwith the ethnic mayhem of the mqm and teh lukewarm ethnicity and anti taleban nature of teh ANP... now thinks he is sufficiently presidential to call a roundtable conference on teh Raymond Davis issue...
  
• Feb09-2011--In what maybe the most laughable PPP act so far they appoint their own governor Masood Kausar in nwfp after three years of mayhem under the owais ghani-ANP rule...it sure takes a long time for them to realize that teh failures are at the top...
  
• Feb08-2011--Fire breaks out in Shah Alam market, lahore
  
• Feb08-2011--PPP playsup moonis elahi a controversial politician as an escaped criminal...moonis elahi earlier rose to fame as he gobbled up the roberts farm in rahimyar khan under his fathers chief ministership...many suggest the former governor wanted him to handover teh farm...while other rumours suggest that zardari and other PPP leaders still looking for bank numbers and codes in the caymans and switzerland...
  
• Feb08-2011--two nato tankers gutted in sibi while two policemen killed in rocket attack in hangu while blast destroys shop in mardan
  
• Feb08-2011--FIA says pervez musharaf still a suspect in benazir case...many opine that teh PMLq and the military were literally anti Benazir Bhutto and had murderous intentions...others suggest many of teh top PPP brass acted as musharaf advisors and Gilani is supposed to have literally asked him to stay around as a consultant...only when he assured them that the military would not interfere in their rule was he allowed to leave teh country
  
• Feb07-2011--In balochistan where 55 of the 60 members of the provincial assembly are ministers no constitutional change expected
  
• Feb07-2011--In protest against the PPP regimes attitude wife of one the victims of Raymond Davies the american consulate killer commits suicide...
  
• Feb07-2011--The powerless aimless PPP now wants nazims to have magistracy powers as well to control prices in sindh while before it thought that nazims had already too many powers...
  
• Feb07-2011--punjab PPP ministers to protest outside the punjab assembly in support of their 19 points claiming that shabaz sharif is a dictator...
  
• Feb06-2011--Wikileaks reports that UK initially considered Asif zardari a numbskull leaching onto his wife politically and financially...not very educated asif zardari has confounded many..support by the army and initially harangued by teh judiciary and PMLn he has overcome serious murder and corruption charges by converting his role into a behind the scenes manipulator and lobbyist for the rich rather than any populism orientation...a reputation not conducive to politics...he has however avoided teh accountability of the musharaf regime and has been unable to deal successfully with a do nothing image and tribal terrorism although succeeding to some extent in dousing the mqm's ethnic oriented terrorism and subduing pakistans antagonism oriented politicians...
  
• Feb06-2011--In what may amount to killing pakistans world cup chances an ICC tribunal sentenced two key bowlers and a pakistani cricket captain to long career ending suspensions...many mock teh cricketers that they should have become bookies rather than cricketers while others say the punishment for bowling a no ball is one extra delivery and not a ten year suspension...many say the punishments also suggest an anti pakistan motivation and the involvement of at least one or two key pakistan players probably kamran akmal who might have been working as a snitch..?
  
• Feb05-2011--two OGDC oilfield workers killed in balochistan near uchh
  
• Feb05-2011--punjab and KP call for the power sector tobe provincialized for differing reasons
  
• Feb05-2011--while Raymond Davies the american killer has been found in possession of photographs and maps of madrassa's in lahore and many speculate the americans involvement in terrorism and why he did not call the police when being threatened...many say the americans have threatened to downgrade relations with pakistan and the PPP regime is expected to backdown many say given the nature of its leadership
  
• Feb05-2011--pakistans chance of doing something special at the world cup dim as two of its key bowlers are indicted for bribery in england...since it was a newspaper sting the charges are strange...a day earlier pakistan backed down and appointed shahid afridi as teh one day captain despite being consistently upstaged by other contenders...in new zealand pakistans key players who failed to bat consistently included younis khan, razzak, kamran akmal and afridi...pakistani batsmen not consistent enough and their bowlers weaknesses were upstaged by the lowly new zealanders...
  
• Feb04-2011--Pakistani politicians seem to remember mujibur rehmans six points on which basis teh PPP has seemingly changed the constitution to turn the powerful center into a weak provincial subordinate...however in a pun or mockery of the six points teh PMLn-10 points, MQM-9 points and PPP-19 point agendas challenge pakistans provincial-fedral sovreignity...what will be the end..khuda hafiz to pakistan, sindh or the PPP...maybe another constitutional amendment is needed detailing how provinces deal or take matters to the center... who rules the country whether the center the punjabi political boss or the mqm...or the military skunking around waiting for coup time...?
  
• Feb04-2011--afghan troops again fire into pakistani territory
  
• Feb04-2011--The shabaz sharif government fired 50 coordinators and task forces that had no justification under the law and worked honorarily as well as on petrol, cars and salaries...will danish schools produce politicians or beaurocrats or more foreign educated types...will they have the sense that our current politicians lack...education should not produce elitism but provide for the best tobe educated equivalently......the pakistani school system has been adequate however the poor cannot now afford education which is where funds should go rather than create another tier of elitist schools..an elitism for every level of soceity or another middle class grown from the working class who might work when the current one refuses to...?...in three years one or two danish schools have been completed...starting out from christian, and english/urdu medium government schools and a few universities we now have boarding schools, military schools,danish schools, private schools, government schools(urdu/english, model , ordinary and rural) and cadet schools...is there any type left...?we have almost more universities than are needed and every system is trying to creates its own elite and its own university..is this progress when the people prefer to destruct rather than participate and an ever growing unsurmountable gap between the rich and poor...with the politicians who have grown rich thru corruption and loans are unable to understand the countries situation and how to get to a stability that is always necessary to become a developed state...
  
• Feb04-2011--man killed in lahore blast
  
• Feb03-2011--18 militants and three security men killed in mohmand clashes...
  
• Feb03-2011--The mqm fails to understand that all taxes whether coming from expansion in existing revenues or agriculture will eventually be paid by the consumer and will just result in unnecessary price hikes...government should reduce spending especially in areas that are already welll developed such as karachi and ask all government deptts to return all revenues to the finance deptt at the end of each year rather than keeping them in banks for corruption and commission purposes...that seems tobe the intention of the railways GM too who should be fired...since he is unable to run the railways anyway...according to reports state organizations had upto 600 billion in bank accounts that they were not utilizing...
  
• Feb03-2011--In the punjab assembly 44 PMlq dissidents called the unification bloc moved an application for seperate seats and could possibly have their man elected as teh opposition leader..This almost ends the hopes of teh PPP to form its own government in the punjab if the center does not agree to the nawaz sharif agenda..
  
• Feb03-2011--10 killed in peshawar car bomb which destroyed numerous shops
  
• Feb03-2011--afghan forces fired a barrage of mortar shells into pakistan near north waziristan killing one soldier
  
• Feb03-2011--in the bolan area armed men killed four policemen including an SHO and kidnapped a deputy commissioner and engineer
  
• Feb03-2011--The cabinet is likely tobe dismissed tommorrow says the dawn...rumours about teh removal of the mqm minister who doubles as an interior minister and says i am the intelligence boss...other failures who might be moved to lesser jobs include the ministers of power, petroleum, railways and information...many also suggest that the mqm might not get ports and shipping which might be given to gabol...a ppp minister from nwfp might come in for an anp minister too..rumours also suggest that kaira and rehman malik have threatened to commit suicide if removed from teh cabinet...rumours suggest that with the failure of senior PPP figures possibility of juniors being promoted is being considered...PPP might also go in for its own ministers from karachi since teh mqm does not want ministries and is unable to get any say in policy matters...
  
• Feb03-2011--The PPP now is backing off from its radical sherry rehmans provocative amendment to the blasphemy law...sherry who is almost a semi dissident will now tow the party line...she is the only PPP minister tobe unceremoniously kicked out...many suggest that sherry had been asked by zardari to submit an individual amendment when his handpicked governor was shot dead by a policeman...the law has been attacked amongst others by teh pope, US secretary of state, Bilawal bhutto who thinks that he is anti fundamentalism and groups of supposed intellectuals...however the Benazir remnants Gilani and Rehman Malik said that they firmly belief in namoos a risalat...sherry says gilani making things up and he has not consulted me...sherry rehman was fired from teh cabinet many say for being an indian agent...while others say she transferred 200 million to her own account...however like other dissidents, amin fahim, safdar abbasi, gabol she did not switch to other parties which is the democratic system...
  
• Feb02-2011--The suzuki cultus a car with a small engine now costs Rs.850000..with luxury 1.5 litre cars moving above Rs.18 lacs...
  
• Feb02-2011--most economists question the PPP regimes expertise in managing the economy given their lack even of an economic agenda or policy apart from get more IMF loans which they forget will have tobe returned in two years...
  
• Feb02-2011--while Gilani who has more bravado than intellect first said that reshuffling the cabinet was not too difficult... but immediately put of the cabinet changes after controversial reccomendations from zardari started to arrive...The PMLn also opposed teh induction of anti PMLn ministers and nobody was willing tobe kicked out...similarly after agreeing to implement the PMLn agenda he says he would reconsider if nawaz sharifs views could be accomodated...
  
• Feb02-2011--the american who was involved in the murder of three in lahore is getting deeper into trouble as his motives seem controversial and everyone dislikes the way americans treat pakistanis who get into trouble in the USA...whether a diplomatic passport allows murders or criminal behaviour is being questioned...the US embassy also is said tobe using fake number plates on numerous hired vehicles..it highlights the negative roles of american embassy personnel in pakistan with thousands in pakistan on american diplomatic passports and their involvement in dubious activities and especially accidents with motorcyclists...The LHC put Raymond davies on the ECL and the federal government literally slavish inits attitude to the USA said that they would wait for court orders...
  
• Feb01-2011--helicopter gunships kill 21 in mohmand while six are killed in swat
  
• Feb01-2011--Calls for swapping Dr aafia with embassy killer Raymond Davis
  
• Feb01-2011--Ministry of defence appoints controversial pilot involved in several incidents as CAA chief...whose training license has also been suspended
  
• Feb01-2011--Sindh chief minister who had 73 ministers, advisors, assistants fired 12 advisors as they were illegal...
  
• Feb01-2011--The US feels that pakistan has increased its nuclear arsenal to around 110 weapons although there seem tobe none visibly deployed
  
• Feb01-2011--The army says that it will be moving out of swat and malakand by march this year...while it does not feel asif the taleban have been subdued swat and malakand have quietened down barring some incidents...the police will have to deal with teh situation as it emerges...
  
• Feb01-2011--Like egypt's hosni mubarik who at least put in place a new vice president and primeminister the PPP apparently is going to attempt a face wash and keep the same failed cabinet and ministers almost as supposedly kaira and rehman malik are supposedly losing their ministries...kaira who always refused to accept anything is going tobe shifted to the interior ministry while the equally combative and similar to kaira (refuses to accept the peoples or the oppositions viewpoint) fauzia wahab might come in as information minister...many feel that unless the ministers and primeminister start representing the people and solving their problems this PPP regime might be dust prone soon...
  
• Feb01-2011--In peshawar a DSP, three constables and a civilian were killed in two blasts
  
• Feb01-2011--The governments shopkeeper mentality remains unchanged as it complains of losing another 13 billion on petroleum prices as it keeps the prices unchanged...governments inability to keep steady prices has created an inflationery pressure that is teh main reason for the peoples opposition to this regime..The government has a sufficient cushion of taxes from petroleum products...The government and IMF both have a deep rooted anti people animosity...IMF now insists on increasing revenues and spending reduction...The IMF policies have always failed in multiple implementations and they should realize that only spending reductions is the answer...The tax base has been widened and widened with no effect as all the taxes are still eventually paid by the consumer and still the development objectives are not achieved as teh country just loses even more of its achievements...the federal government should just focus on real problems rather than spreading the revenues and foreign aid in needless areas...playing politics with everything is counter productive...