The Daily Pakistanpolitics 12-22 June, 2011

• June22-2011--In a daring move shahbaz sharif who needs to change from his stodgy politics agrees to bring back his foreign holding most of which he says are loans...?The PMLn needs to bring about about a province wide policy rather than address a few points here and there...and turn lahore into a city of concrete...addressing popular problems seems to be the least of teh concerns of the PMln and obviously the sindh only policies of teh PPP...with only a few hundered mw in power added naveed qamar insists that teh power problems will be resolved although there seems tobe no real change in teh short or long term evident from the policies of teh PPP regime...
  
• June22-2011--Even the pakistan police are becoming funny when they suggest that inuendo at who knocked out saleem shezad are just general allegations...
  
• June22-2011--Asif Zardari suggests that the nawaz sharif campaign against the army is to pit the PPP against the army...however one does not see any mention of the PPP or zardari anywhere in teh PMLn campaign which is directed at a change in armed forces attitudes of amassing useless weapons and being unable todo anything when teh indians or the US infiltrate...even the US newspapers point to a Kiani statement which says that the wobbling army chief and the PPP have mortgaged the country to the USA...one should actually say we have mortagaged teh defence of teh country to the USA...nawaz sharif and his men have differing perspectives on teh army...nawaz sharif remembers the kargil fiasco and the coup when he attempted to remove teh army chief...others see the millionaire and billionaire generals and the attempts at personal self preservation...while others see teh refusal by the military to replace failing commanders...The criticisms are valid and the armed forces should themselves change to see realities and change leaders if teh PPP is frightened to do so...otherwise teh only alternative will be a coup when one of the top army leaders dies or is incapacitated...??discussions and viewpoints should not be turned into diehard ideologies of one sort or the other...The military defence thinktanks should at least bring in the pakistani intelligentsia to hear differing viewpoints and at the least let their own thinktanks to stretch their visions..obviously the mere viewpoint that we are a weak and powerless country unable to fight does not require much discussion...
  
• June22-2011--In what was many say is probably a propaganda shot across the bows army announces arrest of a GHQ brigadier who went AWOL a month and half ago...supposedly for working with hizb al tahrir a not very famous banned organisation...many suggest that the timing suggests some links to the abbottabad incident or possibly even mehran base attacks...in that context many see the navy chief as very funny as he was involved in ransom payments for the somali kidnapping of a ship...navy must be very weak if it cant board a ship with just a few somali militants on board...others suggest other nefarious objectives including coruption..the naval chief supposedly a studious type arrived at the mehran base in a BMW..!!...
  
• June20-2011--nato oil tanker attacked by two motorcyclists and set on fire near mianghundoi...five tankers gutted in last four days
  
• June20-2011--mohmand area cleared after airstrikes with 25 militants and four soldiers dead
  
• June20-2011--reports suggest that karzai is worried about the nature of Us occupation as they dither about withdrawal and talks with the taleban...he would like pakistan to work out an arrangement with taleban instead...The US constantly wants to try out military subjugation but history shows that solutions only come from talks directed at mutual governance rather than exclusion
  
• June19-2011--nwfp chief minister divides hazara into two dicisions to dampen provincial movement...Abasin division created in battagram district to increase anp support in the region...
  
• June19-2011--Three killed in bomb attack on FC in panjgur
  
• June19-2011--reports suggests that teh four mehran base attackers came from the same family and were eurasians and possibly foreigners...
  
• June19-2011--The US said tobe initiating talks with the taleban...the UN creating a difference between taleban and alqaeda...many say nothing concrete is being discussed as the real solution has tobe US withdrawal and an open political system without militirization on all sides...In vietnam US talks finally resulted in teh US rushing out and the north vietnamese taking over...the situation in afghanistan might not be that polarised but there has tobe an agreement between north,south and west and obviously an american withdrawal...with the taleban emerging or maintaining their power profile a mutually agreed coalition government could also be one of teh alternatives...
  
• June19-2011--many suggest that the army is using the 500 billion budget to raise its walls higher and turn itself into the fortress army...protecting itself rather than pakistan..the army probably at its lowest ebb in stature since the 1958 coup...one lawmaker called the armed forces status confidence shaking even though the army has never been able to really deliver...mehtab abbasi teh former chief minister of nwfp said the security policy has turned teh safe nwfp and fata into problem areas and balochistan has plunged into military operations which seem tobe directionless..many however point out that nwfp has always been suspect security wise and only constant monitoring has kept teh situation calmer than it is now...many regard the abbottabad operation and tbe mehran airbase attacks as the lowest ebbs in the armed forces history...while some criticised the 25-50 crore(wealth) owning generals that teh country is making as teh cause of teh problem while others said that teh armies political motives were the real cause of teh problems
  
• June18-2011--the retired Admiral Mullen says they dont want to break off relations with pakistan.. just make them tremble with embarassed subjugation given the haughty attitudes in the pir, zardar and army chief mentalities...one or the other is liable tobe embarassed by every event...he says the pathetic pakistanis wont be able to stop drone attacks and teh combo of kiani, pasha and gilani just fooling the populace...with zardari a step ahead wanting just one drone for personally directing teh attacks...many suggest that the PPP's anti people nature is apparent by the sanaullah comment that zardari and gilani are wearing 7-8 eight lakh suits...no wonder they have a trillion rupees budget deficit...probably the largest in history...many laud the temperament of the kicked out baber awan who is still ready to fight the PPP top duo and rana sanaullah's fatwa's...PTV acting as the PPP's mouth piece under the dictatorial buffalo doctor...kaira was probably a little straighter than teh current PPP cabinet?..methinks the US has the 7-10 year itch and is as usual moving towards another period of problematic relations...
  
• June18-2011--The afghan invasion in the bajaur area resulted in teh killing of another 12 militants and one civilian volunteer
  
• June18-2011--In what some term as the pukhtun dominated outer areas of rawalpindi people demonstrated against electricity shutdowns on peshawar road and burnt a police van, damaged several vehicles and destroyed a military chackpost on pir wadhai mor...there were also shouts of nawaz and zardari murdabad...shows the pathetic nature of teh Gilani regime..many remember the benazir era when she used the entire US Aid funds to set up IPP's and solve teh energy crisis...The current PPP regime seems blind to teh peoples problems and many forecast a terrible defeat for them in elections which many say could be held later this year...they are only interested in bringing this group and that into the coalition to protect their personal governance...
  
• June18-2011--pakistan army claims that the double dealing malicious US intelligence chief lying when he said that they let information out of the bag on IED factories...the army says that they got info on four such locations of which two were destroyed...the army says with what happens to secret documents in teh USA especially the wholesale wikileaks it is quite clear where the information is leaked...pakistan army and intelligence known tobe close mouthed people who share very little with anyone whether it is finances or intelligence...The only people that teh army and intelligence talks to are presidents and primeministers...The armed forces in pakistan are very isolated... living and working in highly secretive and seperate places which are generally offlimits to the populace...i recently passed by the old army house in rawalpindi a very friendly location in the old days and it was surrounded by a high wall and sharp fences and all its gates on the front had been closed and shuttered...a similar look at the army chiefs route to the GHQ shows roads blocked off and whole areas shuttered for security...a similar story comes from looking at an army secretariat in saddar...blocked with cement boulders...our army was paranoid about security before and now it has almost closed itself off from public view...generals live in seperate compounds almost totally isolated from public view...however teh upscale nature of teh armed forces living standards is demonstrated by the askari villas and plazas and teh DHA's which demonstrate the high premiums that teh pakistani people pay for almost a weak armed force which can barely react to attacks verbal or military...many say the development in rawalpindi is concentrated on teh roads that the army chief uses regularly...one however is flabbergasted to learn that the army has to use US special forces to train its paramilitary wings such as the FC...recently shabaz sharif has invested in 2 billion rupees in upgrading all the roads in teh rawalpindi cantonment and the road that got most of the attention was the expansion of a road leading to the CMH from the place where the two top generals live in pakistan...a ambulance they say can get to the CMH from the army chiefs house in minutes now...almost a century old grapefruit trees they say were pulled out so that teh generals could get to the CMH quickly...?and these faujis used to live in barracks in the old days...is'nt it time that the fauj started to fight rather than just enriching itself(different from uranium enrichment)
  
• June17-2011--The generally perceived as pathetic shabaz sharif comes out as the richest member of teh punjab assembly with 500 million in assets...it is maybe time that serious middle income politicians with populist agendas are elected as this lot of rich politicians barely can understand the meaning of governance...
  
• June17-2011--it is really pathetic that the US thinks that there can be IED factories in Fata...probably being made in a remote afghani village where they are more popular...the pathetic and slavish hussain haqqani with such a high sounding name turns out tobe a tame US slave...suggesting that the pakistanis are grateful for the paltry few billions that teh US wastes in pakistan...The US probably the richest country in the world should not quibble over a few dollars and put its money where its mouth is...the small amounts that it doles out are barely enough to cover costs...many suggest that pakstan should ask for its total debt writeoff for subjugated slavish occupied cooperation...
  
• June17-2011--As al qaeda accepts Mullah umar as the supreme leader with al zwahiri as teh defacto boss the secoond invasion from afghanistan in mamond of bajaur leaves five dead while eight attackers are killed
  
• June17-2011--Shahid Afridi had to share his world cup winnings and was fined 4.5 million...Afridi who is barely selectable these days can no longer be classified as a dependable alrounder as he sells out early..many suggest that he should retire and do an indian movie and become a politician...
  
• June16-2011--nawaz sharif the original dictators son now wants to recreate himself as a do gooder and human rights activist aka imran khan...earlier he had touted himself as teh only amir ul momineen aspirant and obvious dictator aspirant...like imran khan his party bigwigs are slowly being pushed into the background..a party needs a lot of top level enthusiasts to win and govern appropriately...the same process goes on in the PPP as teh top two crush any challengers...
  
• June16-2011--The indians who can best be characterized as amreeki chakar baaz now know how inefficient teh pakistan army is and they could hardly mount an operation like the bombay attacks...however an american gilani and a retired tuhawwer rana can hardly be expected to plan something and get it executed by a rag tag band of terrorists training on the roads of pakistan...however teh americans should be told that they should stop becoming indian mouthpieces and develop their own policies...pakistan too should stop falling for the chakri indians and start making their own agendas...the current foreign secretary a mousy little sifarishi says he will now force kashmir as teh only agenda and leave the bombay attacks tobe handled by teh pakistani police...aka rehman malik...many now say that pakistan will act the same way as india as the indians are teh original terrorists in the region alongwith the afghan khad...
  
• June16-2011--eighteen killed as american drones target vehicles in north and south waziristan..most of those killed were local militants who were loyal to maulvi nazir a pro army militant commander
  
• June16-2011--IG islamabad who is suspected by many of being involved in eliminating politicians has been appointed IG sindh..two politicains were eliminated in islamabad recently while murtaza bhutto was eliminated in karachi by a posse under the orders of the present IG ...while teh army chief has yet to appoint a new DG rangers...?
  
• June16-2011--The army according to Dawn is conducting a purge suggesting that teh CIA spies might be all military men...? In what can be said tobe a late reaction investigating people who worked for the CIA on the Osama residence...while spying for the enemy is definitely culpable many are questioning the CIA nature which is basically enemy natured towards pakistan..depicting pakistan as a failed state and not worthy of confidences is not a friendly gesture and pakistan should many say restudy its terrible economic and military dependence and now intelligence dependence on an enemy of teh state...friends donot behave like enemies nor do they run operations to embarrass the host government...it would hardly have mattered if Osama had been caught five or even ten years later given the situation...reports suggest that upto now five or even more have been arrested and interrogated in the working for the enemy routine including a milkman and an army doctor...and the person who rented a home to teh CIA...many suggest that some CIA spies even fired flares over teh house to help the helicopters fly in and also refueled the helicopters...while others suggest that this is just a replay of the blackwater philosophy by the pakistanis...first they ask the CIA, FC and police to kill every suspect and terrorist and than recoil to remove DG's and IG's and arrest FC men who kill dacoits on chief minister orders......?the same process is not however carried out when suspect agencies remove troublesome journalists...many question the usurpation of the primeministers job of removing top officials from their positions which teh SC has been doing without even referring to a law under which teh action is taken...
  
• June12-2011--bangladesh to generate 9000MW more electricity by 2015 in contrast to the slow moving pakistani regime...they also will buy electricity at 2 taka for gas fired and 6.8 takka for furnace oil plants...one wonders why the rates are so high in pakistan...
  
• June12-2011--CIA chief leaves apparently unable to enforce his usual tactic to embarass Kiyani...that they donot trust pakistan and that video imagery show militants leaving two facilities soon after having informed pakistan...however video imagery as earlier american attempts demonstrate can be cooked up...however given past experience the taleban should be ready for further attacks as the CIA is used to lying about everything...pakistan going ahead with arresting suspicious americans...
  
• June12-2011--two blasts in peshawar kill 32
  
• June12-2011--shahid khaqan abbasi the airblue owner suggests that two thirds of the national assembly members donot pay their taxes...taxes these days are mostly indirect and everyone has to pay those..the punjab governments nominal taxes on farm houses is however a good move and CDA too should impose such taxes...if landowners are not paying enough than appropriate indirect taxes on land ownership should be enforced too...direct taxes are so small a part of revenues that the validity of not paying taxes does not hold these days...khaqan abbasi whose father also earned wealth thru suspect saudi bussinesses said that 50 million peopel still earn around Rs3000 a month and the government should try to think of them when they go for their needless largesse to industrialists and revenue increases and price hikes...
  
• June12-2011-- five militants killed in mohmand as taleban kidnap 18 coalminers from akhorwal near darra