The Daily PakistanPolitics Mar2-Mar11, 2011

• Mar09-2011--Nawaz Sharif relating the present haphazard governance to institutional errors wants a joint governing system including teh military and judiciary...The basic problem is teh exclusion of teh people, peoples representatives and peoples economic needs from the decision making process...the military and judiciary are already involved and they have improved nothing
  
• Mar09-2011--two drone attacks kill 10 in north and south waziristan...as teh dubious intentioned military says mostly terrorists killed in drone attacks...one cannot correlate how so many terrorists have been killed and no solution arrived at...many relate the terrorist attack in Faisalabad to anti punjab forces in karachi and some even suggest that it has something todo with raja riaz or PMLn links to terrorists...many suggest that sindhi mafiosi have been trying to attack punjab which has been mild inits condemnation of mqm violence...The PPP regime has beeen consistently restricting punjabs electricity and gas supplies and attempting to shift attention to karachi...The SC asks the incompetent governance in balochistan to cooperate with teh ISI, IB and FC/military...teh PPP regime while condemning violence elswhere does not even pay attention to teh violence in balochistan or attempt to restrict those that are supposedly involved
  
• Mar09-2011--bomb blast in faisalabad....25 killed as teh multan only gilanis get involved in murder, corruption and money laundering...
  
• Mar08-2011--The FIA chief landed in further trouble as he accused the lower order judiciary of releasing the K&K foreign exchange giants for monetary benfits...The government had shut down the foreign exchange giant after it was seen tobe dominating the financial field and indulging in dubious transactions...many had thought that it was a typical interior ministry shake down...
  
• Mar07-2011--16 die in militancy related conflicts in Kurram and swat and mohmand
  
• Mar07-2011--Government continues its haphazard economic policy despite there being no need for IMF funds...many also feel that the people should not be made to feel the consequences of governments economic failures
  
• Mar07-2011--many feel that the government is getting stuck onits extensions policy which destroys beaurocratic careers despite there being no extraordinary brilliance involved apart from personal loyalties...
  
• Mar06-2011--In what seems tobe a continuous nura kushti teh unification block has refused any ministries in punjab and Raja Riaz has promised to vote for shabaz sharif in any vote of confidence situation...
  
• Mar06-2011--In what seems tobe the PPP literally short of intellect a minister of State Hina Rabbani Khar minister of state for foreign affairs has got an additional posting as minister of state for finance...it seems that if shah mahmood gets reappointed than she will go back to her original position or zardari and gillani want to handle foreign affairs themslves so that they can arrange foreign tours at will...
  
• Mar06-2011--The government has refused to sack the FIA chief who seems unable to work independently...The situation is so contemptuous that the SC could take action while teh government says that the FIA chief is not dealing with any of the prevailing Gilani related corruption issues...The dubious sindhi nature of teh government is demonstrated by all three top level interior ministry positions in karachi(islamabad) being occupied by karachiites...the interior minister, IG islamabad and FIA chief are all from karachi...
  
• Mar06-2011--In karachi a second cleric was shot dead in the last few days...this time a top SSP official and half brother of maulana Azam Tariq and his son were killed...many point to the possibility of this being a retaliatory move by the interior ministry or christian/PPP groups...the situation in karachi over the last year in which many ASWJ men have been killed points to a campaign of terror by interior security or mqm both personally opposed to the former JUI(f) off shoot...The interior minister might be personally directing a campaign of eliminating religious natured opponents...in the guise of opposing terrorism...
  
• Mar05-2011--The government demonstrates that its policies are whimsical and have no rhyme or reason as it halves petroleum tariff hikes...governments economic agenda akin to economic terrorism...
  
• Mar05-2011--ten killed in a time bomb explosion at a mosque near peshawar after friday prayers
  
• Mar05-2011--In what is being seen as another snub to parliament a 4 judge SC bench ordered the parliamentary commission to accept the additional high court judges that they had rejected...the SC which dominates the judicial commission wants judges literally given bad remarks by High court chief justices tobe given extensions...
  
• Mar05-2011--The sense of responsibility that is engendered by a real democracy is not a PPP doctrine as rehman malik refused to resign after literally failures in his own backyard, balochistan and punjab...rehman malik has a poor record at controlling political crime in most provinces and the taleban control in swat and malakand that he cites has been mostly handled by teh army and FC...The mqm while subjugated is still not a normal peaceful ethnic group...
  
• Mar05-2011--There could be other reasons many say for the shabaz bhatti murder...many suggest that murderers have a top level elimination policy which they say solves many issues at once..others say such murderers were karachi based and the mqm may have shifted them to the punjab...the effect of political murders has however been declining...others cite teh decrease in karachi violence...many suggest that religious groups should respect prophets and advise their followers not to deride other religions as a way out...of teh situation...while many in the country cannot even tolerate political taunts, insults and insinuations such as teh mqm... they expect tolerance for attacks on religions and prophets... even teh SC has laws against contempt...maulana Fazlur rehman says the implementation aspects of the blasphemy law can be discussed...while others suggest that judges should show courage when teh law is used to victimize individuals...
  
• Mar04-2011--The controversial ISI chief a seraiki character from bahawalpur is due to resign this month...Ashfaq Kiani has restarted the literally wholesale extensions which were considered bad policy even by coup plotters...kiani and pasha both on extensions amongst several other Kiani proteges...11 Lt Generals to retire in 2011...
  
• Mar04-2011--5 killed in a suicide attack on a police van near hangu
  
• Mar04-2011--Pakistan has upto now only been disbursed $179 million of teh 2010 Lugar aid...
  
• Mar04-2011--In what can at best be called a judicial farce given teh SC's validation of musharaf and his coup the pro zardari SC judge AK Dogar says he is repenting and apologizing to the court for taking an oath under teh PCO...another judge resigned his non functional status...
  
• Mar03-2011--balochistan government says that FC and police responsible and we are unable to handle the situation but no more cantonments..like the middle east where the military is guiding revolution pakistani politicians also think the fauj only capable of mounting/leading a revolution...
  
• Mar03-2011--asif zardari continues to exhort pathetic fight against teh people and terrorists from his presidential bunker...others suggest that bullet proof vehicles should be confiscated from political children and given to those running teh administration...
  
• Mar03-2011--As the conflict in pakistan grows between the people and government and politicians and religious elements the minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti was shot dead in islamabad...probably related to the killing of teh of the punjab governor and religious conflicts such as blasphemy many see it in the light of the governments continuous attempt to dictatorially justify its strange economics policy where it has again hiked prices and is going to raise taxes which will inevitably raise prices and make the peoples life miserable...the government has consistently refused to see reason and reduce spending insisting on hiking prices and taxes with literally no support from the people or the politicians...while gilani's controversial son was able to purchase a 15 million bullet proof vehicle such a vehicle was not provided to the minister...the economic disparities/difficulties engendered by the gilani-zardari regime and intra party conflicts could have resulted in this tragedy...many suggest that the governments lack of fiscal responsibility and refusal to understand the peoples economic frailities are resulting in tragedy after tragedy...punjabi taleban pamphlet found at the site although talebvan did not claim to have killed previous punjab governor
  
• Mar02-2011--SC asks government to remove incapable FIA chief
  
• Mar02-2011--governments petroleum price hikes generally critisized by teh opposition while no one in the national assembly is left with any power to effect government decisions...government suggesting mqm supported 15% tax hikes in income tax and special excise tax...applying such taxes to already negative advance taxes and withholding taxes considered pathetic as most peopel cannot get such taxes refunded even if they are below the tax threshold...
  
• Mar02-2011--hand grenades thrown at girls function in college near mardan injuring 35
  
• Mar02-2011--India's anti muslim judiciary sentences 11 muslims to death and 20 to life terms for setting fire to a train while no death sentences have been given to hindus who killed over 2000 muslims in retaliation...similarly no one has been sentenced for bombing a pakistani train...such selective judicial actions could cause more problems down teh road...
  
• Mar02-2011--Many feel that the sri lanka-pakistan game and the england-india game could have been fixed...many suggest that graeme swann rushed to the umpire for protection as indian players threatened him before teh last ball...