The Daily PakistanPolitics May 01-10, 2011

• May11-2011--In shocking contrast to sarkari pathans and yusuf raza gilani many in the national assembly opted for a fateh khawani for ossama who had teh courage and bravery to relatively singlehandedly defeat the russians in afghanistan...something that kayani, mullah omer and karzai have been unable to achieve...The islamic way is to offer fateh or prayers for the departed soul and give a proper funeral rather than herald teh killing of someone...and refuse to bury him...lets see if Gilani has teh courage to symbolically blowup the Ossama chicken farm to remove any traces of his existence...The taleban have vowed revenge and the while the rest of alqaeda maybe mild and involved more in teh middle east somebody eventually might be sent to retaliate against gilani and others involved...
  
• May10-2011--In what can be termed tobe more apologetic to pakistan and still frightened of an obnoxious USA the sarkari batman seemed tobe frightened of a possible coup which is always possible when the militaries propagandistic reputation given their history since 1965, 1971 and recently was literally destroyed as they refused to challenge four transport helicopters that flew 200 kilometers into pakistan and picked up a dead Ossama Ben laden and got away...It is besides the point whether Ossama had already been shot dead or died standing or kneeling on his bed...The supposed primeminister was unable to explain the pathetic attitude of teh ISI and military/airforce...were all the radar watchers asleep at their jobs...?why did the ISI chief visit langley supposedly with the blessing the of teh army chief and primeminister...was it to hand over ossama's location and say u can come in and get him...did teh ISI chief crumble under US pressure and provide teh details...?why the government is not taking to task the american ambassador who threatens to deal with the pakistan army if they intervened...The ISI chief might not know it but most ambassadors are usually the CIA station chiefs...at least declare teh obnoxious ambassador persona non grata if not break off relations for a small duration given the primeministers shivering frightened attitude...why was there nobody to handle the issue ...was teh DG military operations dead...?why did teh corp commander nwfp not issue a statement or the army chief who is theoretically incharge of national security...?was everybody frightened even to speak...?...The great Kayani apparently thinks that it is just a matter of bad media handling...what can the media say when teh military and government dont know or are frightened to even speak...The impression being given that he was handling teh taleban suicide bombers does not seem tobe correct even though he might possibly be involved in raids on mazars which are said tobe controversial with everyone having their own mazar to prop up...The al qaeda chief was not known tobe as anti pakistan as the taleban and has been on teh run since the american invasion of afghanistan...few are as vehemently opposed to ossama as gilani who supported his elimination but was not willing to take the blame for providing the location...after Ossama's death the steady erosion in support of teh government and army has been felt and many feel that the primeinister , kayani and pasha should be replaced...The government and armed forces should also appoint a person who can call out the forces or retaliate on immediate notice against such attacks on the countries major military areas...Otherwise there is no need for the military if it is going to sit around watching an invasion of its airspace...
  
• May09-2011--The PPP already finding it difficult to handle teh PMLq as Gilani maneouvres Riaz H Pirzada into the health ministry who was earlier allotted minority affairs...
  
• May09-2011--blast kills two FC men in south waziristan while a hakeemullah man noor wali apparently killed by opposing taleban groups...
  
• May09-2011--many wonder at the Obama attitude towards pakistan...right from aimal kansi to the taleban number two pakistan faithfully picked up who ever they got information on and handed them over...The US apparently had information on ossama right from the time of his arrival in abbottabad and the afhans knew about his haripur stay...so why they could not provide the information to pakistan and handle the issue in a appropriate manner is suspicious and done deliberately to insult pakistan..it was they who had teh information and delayed and delayed...even Obama took eight months to move...they now have complicated teh issue and made ossama an even bigger hero in pakistan and a frightened Obama has supposedly cancelled a pakistani visit...why haqqani is making a big thing out of ossama being found in pakistan when the USA knew all along is also astounding...americans continued propaganda about the waziristan mansion also seems to play on human rights fears about how they could not arrest an oldish looking man and killed him in cold blood...it does not look like a command and control center but more like a chicken farm...a real defensive fortress would have a defensive mechanism and entrances and stairs would have been blown up...there would have been real fireworks if it was something like that...
  
• May08-2011--The US does not seem to have found much at the Ossama farm and their first release is some ordinary videos.....al qaeda acknowledges ossama elimination and US says al zawhiri was not living anywhere nearby....
  
• May08-2011--analysts suggest that the pakistan army, airforce, asif zardari and probably Ossama ben Laden were fast sleep when the americans raided abbottabad...only a small boy was able to say how the raid took place who said first one helicopter came and went back and than a second came and went back before the chinnooks dropped the navy seals...firing from teh ground took care of one helicopter...possibility exists that the helicopters landed somewhere else first and than scouted the ossama place for any anti aircraft weaponry...other rumours suggest that the CIA may have had a deep mole or beacon in the household and possibly Ossama may have still been an active CIA agent...the raid could have been called by the mole who could be one of the wives...Still other reports suggest that the childish spin coming out of washington seems like ISI work or the work of pakistani propagandists...as the al qaeda worked on the basis of local command and control systems...reports also suggest only a few cases of military equipment found at the site most probably bullets...the american CIA seems to have been putting out periodic press reports on the Ossama whereabouts and Ossama might have been in the area since 2001....
  
• May07-2011--Fehmida Mirza and zulfikar mirza could be on the dissident trail as Asif Zardari forms a controversial coalition with PPP opponents..the proposed appointment of waseem akhter as minister of state for interior may not go down too well with the mirza's and they may break with the Zardaris...The mqm which is not important to the coalition has been given four ministries and the PMLq 14 positions..the PMLq has got a whopping eight ministries at the center and a ministerial position in sindh...PPP many feel is now finished for the next elections...
  
• May07-2011--three killed in karachi grenade attack
  
• May07-2011--government raises skyrocketing electricity prices by upto 27 paisa per unit...
  
• May07-2011--13 killed in a drone attack in the tribal areas and six killed in quetta as rockets are fired at a hazara playground from surrounding hills...
  
• May07-2011--government envisaging a Rs 1.95 trillion revenue target an increase of over 300 billion which fauzia wahab seems blind to...many feel the government should increase salaries in line with the package for doctors and the rest should be spent on keeping electricity prices low and increasing generation capacity...The country does not need investment in other areas...If the government does not invest in teh troubled areas than pakistan will suffer much more in teh coming years...government should overcome its blindness to the problem areas and reduce peoples suffering by checking petroleum and electricity tariff hikes...
  
• May07-2011--reports suggest that the embattled and controversial ISI chief has refused to resign and most humorous rumours suggest that he has gone to the USA time to sell Mullah Omar...reports suggest that his daughters have asked him to go and that he himself is uneasy about being an intelligence operative...many regard the top military duo of Kiani and Pasha as having outlived their utility and the government should consider appointing new fresher minds to the jobs...others suggest pasha has laid claim to the $25 million head money on OBL...?
  
• May07-2011--The area of abbottabad seems to have become some sort of a haven for terrorists on the run says teh dawn...OBL seems to have moved to a Haripur village in 2003 according to the alqaeda having walked most of the way...In 2005 he moved to abbottabad and was protected by two swatis..with everyone looking for him in the tribal territories and afghan border areas he remained safe...The americans and afghans learned about his move early but only pulled the plug on him after several years...Obama is also suspected of harbouring sympathies for OBL as he allowed/ ordered the attack on abbottabad after almost eight months...probably what helped Ossama was the refusal to use telephones and the internet and living in an unmarked area...
  
• May07-2011--The news is that the US knew in 2008 that Obama was living in a mansion rather than in a cave and that was printed in the western newspapers...If the US knew than so did the pakistan army...and one must say that it is an extremely low point in US-pakistan relations that they could not decide on a better way to handle things...THe US went ahead despite pakistans reservations and many say Obama was desperate for a new financial crisis that he could handle to public acclaim to boost his standings in US politics...Ossama was just a chicken being fattened in a Abbottabad house until the US wanted to mount its brave forces against a defenceless war hero and throw him into the sea in disregard of normal traditions...The ISI crisis and the pakistan army barely being able to move or even mount a defence against a few transport helicopters shows that the malfunctioning helicopter might also have been shot down by the americans themselves...whether Ossama now lives in Tenessee, Texas or in the sea only Obama knows...The shock to the pakistani pshyche is just that with all the planes and helicopters we are just as weak as we were in 1971 when a stronger internationally backed neighbour moved into stop us from battering the mukti bahini(read taleban and alqaeda in the present day context)...The Gilanis, Zardaris, pasha's, Kiani's and sharif's could not do anything but sit in stunned silence....The brave army has upto now not blown up the latest jamia hafsa in the shock and awe history of american warfare...
  
• May07-2011--Many are referring to the US attack on abbottabad as akin to the east pakistan debacle...where in a similar situation general niazi handed over east pakistan to the indians...the present military and political leadership is similar to General Niazi with their heads in teh sand unable to deal with enemies india and the USA but willing to beat the pulp out of the tribal warriors...many claim that the duo of Kiani and Pasha are similar punjabi generals who are unable to straighten out the political leadership and stop the US from attacking the very base of this country thru drone attacks which causes incessant terrorism...Kiani and Pasha seem more interested in keeping their jobs under a wobbly Gilani-zardari regime rather than doing their job in protecting the borders from evil intrusions by the USA...
  
• May07-2011--In pakistan it is not the extremists that are now opposing pakistans relationship with the USA but ordinary thinking pakistanis...The government with its convoluted convergence in strategic thinking(the US literally is an enemy of pakistan at various levels and is more friendly to india too and teh army chiefs suggesting that an investigation is needed into pakistans defence failure and inability to locate ossama ben laden)...is an almost obvious attempt at beliittling the thinking of ordinary pakistanis...The government should quit fooling the people and so should the pakistan army...reports that kiani and pasha were deeply involved with the americans on the questionable raid and that even teh ISI chief and zardari had requested residence's in washington seem to make teh exercise an obviously futile attempt...ossama hiding in a military city was probably a good decision for him but he probably did not realize that a terrorist just cannot stay in one place for so long even if no one suspects it...probably some of pakistans covert government groups might have known but they would obviously not inform the government...however upto now there is no independent report of ossama having been sighted in abbottabad and he must have remained indoors for the entire period...The US should not insult us in every way possible if they want strategic cooperation...The army should get rid of americans inside teh country...there is nothing that they can teach them...and teh army chief is only fooling himslef and the entire country...If the US does not want tobe even visually friendly than what does pakistan want with a relationship which is going to go down again to the stoppage of aid and probably for the first time a complete breaking in relations...there is no point left in being friendly with an enemy who brought Ossama to teh area and now blames us for his disappearance(and not being able to find him) when they themselves were handling the situation all along...
  
• May07-2011--Many are questioning the american attitude on the OBL invasion and the passive acceptance by the supposedly brave pakistan armed forces and ISI...The negative connotations are all apparent and many question the carrying away of a dead body when it should be handed over to next of kin rather than thrown into the sea...it is being rumoured that the american invasion contained indian spies who took the body to get their bounty...the bravery of teh americans is also being questioned when only a few kalashnikovs were the defence that Ossama had...killing an unarmed person can only be bravery for the american bounty hunters...later reports suggest that ossama ben Laden was never seen at the site by anyone and that brings into question the anti pakistan nature of the american armed forces and CIA chief who issued deliberately disparaging remarks about teh country...while indian journalists reported not getting balls back that were thrown over a twenty foot wall...many suggest that it is time for the over aged Kiani and pasha to move to their retirement homes...maybe their american superiors will hide them in washington or Fort Bragg...!!The pakistani regimes failure to standup to the amnericans on drones, aid and invasions shows their pathetic inability to rule pakistan...the weak cowardly military and political leaders should head straight for the next CIA stations outside pakistan...
  
• May06-2011--photographs have started to appear on the internet of how Obama would look if navy seals shot him like Ossama...with Obama and teh indian army chief issuing threatening statements of future military aggression aagainst pakistan many say teh Zardari-Kiani regime has ground to a halt because it was based on keeping teh US and india happy...their failure many say will only cause future problems if pakistan does not change its attitude to immediate retaliation against attack...apart from terrorism this is the second attack almost similar to the indians intruding into pakistan to shoot down an Orion...which pakistan has not retaliated...many suggest that the kiani-pasha combine is almost finished and will soon be replaced alongwith teh doctrine of passive resistance....others suggest that unless afghanistan is explained the consequences of attacking pakistan from its soil the americans will become trigger happy again and again like teh drone attacks...the foreign office was pathetic inits explanation of teh consequences of teh US attack and many suggest that individual americans might find life more difficult here in the future...others suggest that the bombay attacks are now justifiable under the indian/US doctrine of attacking pakistan whenever they choose too...Pakistan too should change its basic defensive position to that of intrusion whenever required otherwise the US, india, afghanistan will never let us live in peace....
  
• May06-2011--Mqm does a cartwheel and rejoins teh government as altaf hussein thinks the US attack is a matter of apologies only...heads should roll and it is obvious that teh army, ISI and ministry of interior are not working seriously or properly...
  
• May04-2011--reports now surfacing suggest that the americans knew of the abbottabad residence of whoever they killed since august 2010...It took Obama 8 months to take action or decide...rumours making the rounds suggest that indian or american major generals died in teh helicopter that was accidentally shot down by teh pakistanis...it is also now clear that the americans killed Ossama ben laden in cold blood...maybe even teh pakistan police could have handled the raid in a better manner...In other reports the americans were spurred into action by the ISI chief who wanted to know whether they wanted todo it or not...many are also making fun of the pakistan army at being frightened to handle the action themselves...reports also suggest that there was no armour defending the Ossama camp and the americans were just trigger happy......rumours also suggest that Ossama being originally a CIA agent might have been killed to restrict the revelation of the actual extent of american involvement in al qaeda...and many pooh pooh the assertion that no country was willing to take Obama/Osama's body...pakistan would have been happy to provide him a decent burial rather than being thrown into teh sea by the atheistic americans...the hasty disappearance act seems tobe accountable to the americans fright at some sort of quick acting retaliation from an organization almost dead and buried already...while still other reports belatedly suggest that even kids in islamabad knew that Ossama was in abbottabad...others are now comically suggesting that all americans are now fair game if they resist arrest...
  
• May04-2011--The foreign office says that india and teh USA are a thtreat to international peace as future such actions might cause serious retaliation or action
  
• May04-2011--Brigade 111 has moved to islamabad...given teh armies failure to stop teh US raid on abbottabad any attempts by teh Gilani regime could cause some sort of bravery from teh armed forces many say...The US also started hear voices to to suspend pakistani aid while many say teh correct action from pakistan should be to break off diplomatic relations...
  
• May03-2011--pakistans recent cruise missile test confused many with earlier designs mimicking US cruises while this one looks bigger and maybe either chinese or north korean...pakistan now has stocks of at least three types of cruise missiles...with a cowardly military unable or even frightened to retaliate it gives people no confidence in a fragile unstable region...
  
• May03-2011--Asif zardari who is no musharaf and lacks the brazen anti pakistan skills of the military dictator may have dealt himself a lethal blow by literally handing over a person who might have been relocated by his ISI...his destabilized regime which he was mending with a pro military group coalition might not survive and relocation might also have to be considered for the army and ISI chiefs if not zardari himself..This amid reports of a US military plane leaving with the remains...!
  
• May03-2011--In what could be said tobe a devastating blow to the demystified and failing Al Qaeda... the US in what could be an air cum ground assault raided a farm near abbottabad killing Ossama ben laden and his key core group...The decreased drone attacks and ISI visits to teh the US could have served as a pointer ...while many think that the US political cum military attacks against dictatorial regimes in teh arab world who are said tobe behind the al qaeda could have forced the islamabad decision to provide teh necessary information...many suggest that such information can only have been handed over at teh highest level of intelligence and government...The al qaeda job had been accomplished and they had only become a problem for teh islamic world...many suggest that the americans failed in mounting an al qaeda led invasion, destruction and occupation of pakistan...The recent alliance between the PPP and the pro military/intelligence PMLq could also be a part of the issue as members of teh PMLq are said to have been in direct contact for political terrorism...in the pakistani sense...hopefully the US will now vacate teh islamic world which it literally occupies and dominates...The US world war against islam and islamic people should end...confusion surrounds US claims that they have the body...many suggest that the pakistan armies cooperation in infiltrating US forces into pakistan and allowing relentless drone attacks have finally provided teh US with a victorious opportunity...most people think that the US forces mounting an individual operation in abbottabad seems difficult to believe however a drone having slipped in thru air defences to attack ossama camp is a possibility...it should be a serious lapse of internal defence and security if teh US could mount an air and ground assault and even get away with teh bodies of teh victims...one television channel reporting that one helicopter was shot down in the attack suggesting that it was probably a pakistani operation...analysts suggest that extreme muslim organizations could mount attacks against americans in retaliation however the failed nature of teh al qaeda attempt to dominate the west politically and thru terrorism will probably douse such attempts...the US should many suggest stop extreme actions of its own against many muslim nations and regions to end a what many say is the fourth world war...
  
• May03-2011--Raza Rabbani resigns from the cabinet as 14 PMLq men join teh cabinet which chaudhry nisar calls it the height of hypocrisy
  
• May03-2011--while many think the military, airforce and ISI were caught napping it is the same attitude that they follow in teh matter of drone raids...we cant do anything about it...Gilani comes out strongly in support of teh american raid despite most people thinking that pakistan has been caught in the middle of a US fight and projecting pakistan as dillydallying and frightened and too weak militarily to interfere with the US presence in pakistan as well as drone and military attacks of the ossama nature...many think that the ISI that has to take care of strategic thinking on issue has been caught napping...however many still suggest that the ISI and military heads were in teh US decision making loop
  
• May02-2011--The dubious natured Asif Zardari brings in teh conniving chaudhries into a coalition that has been unable to get along with anybody yet barring teh ANP...The chaudhries have long been the militaries choice to prop up military regimes...
  
• May02-2011--while teh people have suffered the mna's or politicians have become richer and richer...
  
• May02-2011--21 militants killed in mohmand