The Daily Pakistanpolitics 01-10 July, 2011

• Jul 10-2011--bahria challenges CDA's extremely high priced Park enclave where CDA to sell kanal plots for 12 million each...bahria to sell at an equally high price of 6 million...CDA obviously attempting to mint money and bahria leeching onto the venture...since Bahria does its own work it can obviously challenge on prices...CDA has not previously created a beautiful heavily parked enclave as yet and many doubt its committment apart from the money minting...Bahria probably can match the roads, park building although its bahria towns generally lack greenery...and its park building has been slow as it cannot earn from just building a useless park...CDA too has been unable to keep up the greenery of islamabad and the flowers although it did some park building in the musharaf era
  
• Jul 10-2011--foreign secretary and pakistans ambassador to india threatened by HUJi...now the secretary foreign affairs also has a team of commandos posted at his house
  
• Jul 10-2011--Military intensifies Kurram Operation...another 21 militants killed
  
• Jul 10-2011--why the sindh government brought the rangers into town again after four days of internecine killings is seen as part of the inept nature of the PPP...many suggest that they were embarassed after having kicked the rangers out of town after the killing of a dacoit and initiating cases against the rangers...the rangers had the troublemakers of karachi subdued within the day...
  
• Jul 10-2011--The fake opposition of the PML-F joins government in sindh too
  
• Jul 10-2011--the army many say should not setup seperate personal natured relations with foreign armies and the gilani government should handle tough negotiations itself rather than leaving them to military officers...in the realm of foreign, political, regional, strategic and military affairs...this in teh context of an ISPR release which many say is a bit farfetched...as it accuses the NYT and Admiral Mullen of attempting to weaken pakistan as the ISI is the first line of defence...one has not noticed that ...defending at the first line of attack...as the attacks have continued mercilessly by the american military, and CIA as well as indian attempts to derail pakistans kashmir position...In fact one must say that the ISI has been pretty muted as literally all pakistans strategic enemies attack at will......The ISI which is generally regarded as pretty pathetic in matters related to the defence of pakistan or even negotiations on strategic matters such as those with afghanistan and india...The CIA, RAW and Khad has pretty much defeated it in the regional contexts as seen in relation to the bombay attacks and matters related to afghanistan and al qaeda...nor have they been too successful in dealing with CIA spies who have been moving around at will trying to push their noses into pakistans defence secrets and military hiding places......As far as the NYT claims about pasha's anti americanism...eliminating journalists maybe one of the charges too... and problems with the CIA many say these have occurred because the Gilani regime has been unable to replace the two important military positions in time...New chiefs can handle situations as their personal ego's are not involved and the three year tenure for military chiefs and two years for the ISI chief have been generally successful...one might not agree about replacing pasha and kiani in the context of the NYT and Admiral Mullen attacks but it is pretty much certain that anybody else but the Gilani-Zardari duo would have replaced the military chiefs by now since they are pretty much failures...it is like keeping on a bowler who keeps getting thrashed in cricket...
  
• Jul 09-2011--11 militants killed in Kurram operations...nato tankers fired at in mastung...16 inch gas pipelines in dera bugti area blownup...
  
• Jul 09-2011--The Geo fed New York Times calls on the US government to get ISI chief Pasha removed who is seen here as ineffective and a Kiani crony/subordinate...with ISI chiefs coming from a usually recently promoted lieutenant general the change is only in attitude and nobody with any real credibility can be in that position...The PPP in earlier terms had brought in a retired air marshal and than a retired major general but the military again wanted their own subordinates in the position...very few ISI chiefs can claim tobe independent as they usually have to follow government head and army chief orders...most have followed similar policies that are not remarkable as they have usually been unable to control coups or identify mavericks in the armies officer corp...others suggest that some ISI chiefs might have directed coups and acted as intelligence and control systems for military coup plotters...The ISI's major responsibility has been to monitor armed forces officers and spies but have usually been sidetracked into political investigations and operations and many say instead of killing foreign agents are more used to exterminating and vanishing opponents of the government...many suggest that of late there major responsibilities have been taken over by the IB, MI and the foreign office...they now only provide manpower for undercover appointments
  
• Jul 09-2011--The notoriously slow sindhis finally tell rehman malik to go to hell alongwith his ineffective mqm...with his chief ministry in teh doldrums the dumb looking qaim ali shah allows major changes and brings back zardari crony zulfikar mirza as housing and works minister...the mild and moderate manzoor wassan takes over as sindh home minister...apparently the police and rangers were refusing to handle things until they were given powers to shoot at sight and were finally allowed to warn and shoot...the rangers were brought back in and the kati pahari control taken back fron suspected mqm or taleban shooters...others suggest that rangers renegades were firing at people from the kati pahari's occupied security checposts...hand grenades and rocket launchers also started tobe used as over a hundred were shot dead...the khapi mqm again sat around wringing their hands in grief as people attempted to move out of troubled areas...the mqm usually blames the police and rangers for all the trouble and wants a urdu speaking police and rangers for karachi...mqm has to understand that unleass the people are peaceful and cooperative no police,rangers or army can succeed in keeping the peace as troublemakers surface again and again...that has been the mqm scoring point as they cause trouble and than blame the police and rangers for killing them as they donot understand urdu...!!!...rangers say they assisted those falling victim to seemingly ethnic cleansing operations...problem as usual started with a possible mqm kidnapping of a bus and killing its occupants...in another unprecedented move sindh now has two senior ministers...as in the punjab sindh too quickly fell back to the british era commissioner system and almost killed the musharaf era changes to the local body system...five divisions came into effect and karachi went back to five districts and the KMC..politicians scared of taking personal responsibility want beaurocrats to handle the kill the troublemaker routine...karachi has remained unsettled eversince the zia era when the mqm came into being with successive governments unable to control trouble...krachi only had one period of calm from 2002-2005 when the mqm was not allowed to take part in elections and their top 300 troublemakers(read killers) were jailed and the jamaat islami ran the karachi local bodies...zia ul haq initiated the trouble in karachi to unsettle the PPP and it has not changed since with repeated law and order problems every few weeks or months...
  
• Jul 08-2011--shah mahmood qureshi who could lead the PMLn in the punjab in future elections falling afoul of teh PPP's punjab chapter too...
  
• Jul 08-2011--actions against Fia director zafar qureshi stopped by the SC...many blame gilani for running a personal vendetta against a supposedly family friend...
  
• Jul 08-2011--Dr. AQ Khan implicates generals such as jehangir karamat known for financial scams in the nuclear selloff to north korea...
  
• Jul 08-2011--In further evidence of the anti pakistani motivation of the americans Admiral Mullen said journalist saleem shehzad who apparently used to expose mqm tactics in karachi and later became a taleban specialist was killed by the pakistani government...his body was suspiciously found buried in a town near islamabad...blame fell on the ISI which usually is unable to clear its own name...the ISI, military and several intelligence groups some extremely secret have been blamed for many of the political killings in pakistan
  
• Jul 08-2011--In an almost ritual cull mostly blamed on armed and terrorist mqm groups...opponents of the mqm are gunned down in karachi without conscience keeping the rest loyal to the evil genius or shaitan sift altaf hussein...many groups in the mqm operate independently and surface whenever things are about to change...rehman malik the almost evil interior minister had recently said that karachi was pur aman...the weak PPP government in sindh led by another ghaddi hugging syed seems usually unaware of what is happening and cannot as usual control the killings ...63 over three days...with mayhem occurring in one area it is unbelievable that the government has to wait for intelligence to move in armed forces...many suggest that karachi should be handed over to the army like the Fata...most killings in karachi are usually ethnically motivated with some based on sectarianism and the rest on an anti terrorist operation against militants...most believe that the police and mqm both are killing people without thought...the mqm usually has a loud speaker but is unable to effect anything that happens which it continually blames on the police and sindhis...
  
• Jul 07-2011--The SC asks government why it suspends FIA director after reappointment...the court should note the negative influences of teh chaudhry shujaat family on the government and the governments strange behaviour since...
  
• Jul 07-2011--as the situation started to change post ossama taleban started to move into afghanistan while afghan militants started attacking areas in upper dir...many suggest some afghan governors in teh border areas are encouraging the invasions...a hospital near miran shah in north waziristan was destroyed by the military after they came under attack on wednesday in which three troops were killed ...a huge hospital for the area had 45 private rooms and a 24 bed ward...troops clashed with militants after the military blew up its fourth floor...operations in the kurram agency have killed over 40 militants while 4000 families have been displaced...
  
• Jul 07-2011--PMLn building up its forces in seraiki areas as shah mahmood qureshi feels out of place under zardari and gilani...moderate seraiki leaders could move to the PMLn to challenge the gilani-abida family buildup in multan...nawaz sharif should be looking for a populist option to challenge the entrenched families many say...
  
• Jul 07-2011--pakistans military wants governments complete backing and participation for their anti terrorist operations...there are no other organisations that can fight terrorism and none as heavily funded and doing nothing else as the army..the people would probably prefer if both the terrorists and teh government left them alone...what with their power shortages,price hikes, tax hikes and bombings......apparently gilani stutters when saying pakistan ki ghud mukhtari in urdu so he made a speech to swati's in english where the indians would not be confused about teh khud mukhtari of kashmir and the americans would understand the ineffective primeministers equating drones and sovreignity and the US's narrow interests that are opposed to pakistans existence even...de-radicalisation...many suggest that the fight aginst terror now has little left init and kiani looked odd when he said they would continue teh fight against terrorism...with Ossama gone even teh uppity afghans want to try and invade the weakish and frightened pakistan...and many said how can everyone fight the fight with kiani...the people dont have the resources to build walls around army house's and golf courses for an individuals safety...others suggest that a defence minister who is frightened of fighting for pakistan and suffered apparently losses in teh sale of shoes in the 1965 war should also be replaced...
  
• Jul 07-2011--As the mqm went on the rampage in karachi killing pukhtuns at will nawaz sharif embarassedly stated that we donot support the killing of innocent karachiites...tell that to the mqm...apparently nawaz sharif and shabaz sharif agreed to forget everything since 1992 when coas asif nawaz started to clear karachi of terrorists...and than obviously everyone will forget about the asif nawaz's strange death at the hands of the mohajirs favorite delicacy tea...?
  
• Jul 05-2011--The jokes about the current PPP are mounting...with the one about gilani whether he was a punjabi, arab, pakistani, afghan, turk or seraiki...many say he is actually an american when he forced american security to make haji adeel enter the embassy on foot...?...and when david cameron wanted cooperation on militants...zardari assured him that they will all die out themselves...the drones, army and suicide bombs will eventually take care of them.....we just try to protect the red zone and GHQ...others say that the " roti, kapra aur makan" is really a ZAB nara and not applicable to the current zalim PPP... in teh days of car, bijli aur petrol...others say that the PPP has happily pushed roti, kapra and makan out of the range of poor people(roti at rs5-15)...the rich and corrupt already enjoyed such facilities...others say roti kapra and makan only apply to gilani, kiyani and zardari who get free food and 8000 dollar suits..recently they say even the army chief was seen wearing an imported uniform(in the old days all faujis wore teh same khaki uniform and sweater which were locally manufactured although their blankets came from china...)...the one about BISP's punjabi philanhropist suggesting that we have already bought 40000 households in baltistan and 10000 in azad kashmir...how can the PMLn win any seat even in an honest election...even the AJK election commissioners vote was illegally cast...?...and the last one in which zardaro offered the latest BMW to bilawal ...please son dont fire me as co chairman...it is becoming increasingly difficult father...!and how about firing gilano as deputy chairman since he is now a seraiki...many say the PPP leadership and their children and wives are all millionaires and unable to understand the peoples plight...obviously nobody now wants a dose of free polio vaccine only...and that too paid for by donors!
  
• Jul 03-2011--Nawaz Sharif hints at joining hands with the MQM and later on teh JUI and PMLq to topple the defective PPP regime...while teh PMLn and MQM have had negotiations earlier many regard the attitude of the MQM as being incapable of an honest relationship and make sharp accusations of military operations in the early nineties when the mqm openly followed an ethnic seperatism based militant politics...since that time when their militant wing was crushed and militant leaders exiled themselves the MQM top leadership has attempted to show that they are supposedly peaceful moderate pakistanis while middle order leaders and followers have continued a policy of semi altaf directed violence...or simply brutal ethnic violence...The MQM a group of student leaders supposedly setup by the military to become kingmakers have always joined all the governments since their formation only to exit before teh next elections have been able to keep the support of karachis so called mohajirs with this policy...The PMLn leaders too are east punjabi mohajirs and are impressed with the mqm's attempts to slay the duped PPP and fool karachis mohajirs again and aagin...attempts at bringing their politics into the punjab have failed because of the mqm's duality...many suggest that the nawaz sharif alliance if it contains the jui and mqm will be bedeviled by PPP attempts to use their former allies to control the nawaz sharif government or attempts to topple them...
  
• Jul 03-2011--US spokesmen show disrespect for pakistani politicians such as Gilani aand ahmed mukhtar who say they are working to stop drone attacks and vacate the shamsi airbase...americans say they have no intentions of following the orders of such ineffective pakistani politicians...whom they accuse of lying...
  
• Jul 02-2011--JUI chief attempts to torpedo a united opposition which could woo the PMLq into toppling the clueless PPP whose main policies are price hikes and tax hikes...the mqm too in a fix as nobody willing to support their ethnicism and isharat ul ibad does not want to giveup sindh governorship they say as the the PPP unable to decide who should be governor and whether qaim ali shah should be replaced too for his failed mqm policy
  
• Jul 01-2011--Kharotabad commission says that terrorists should not be killed if they are not wearing suicide jackets...appoint judges to patrol streets and mann checposts say the police and rangers......does'nt that apply to drone attacks...
  
• Jul 01-2011--In another attempt at fooling teh people FBR trumpets achieving a reduced revenue target...The FBR is also very very misinformed say people as they still are suggesting that only 1.5 million people pay taxes...many want to know who are the 20 million foreigners who pay sales tax and advanced taxes on their mobile and phone bills...and who are the idiots who pay sales taxes on each and every purchase and utility bill...many suggest that the government should bring in the IRS of teh USA to handle things..who go in and check each individuals income and tax returns...
  
• Jul01-2011--In mid summer with temperatures rising... floods increasing hydel power...the government goes for further gas load shedding and minor CNG price hikes
  
• Jul 01-2011--According to the dawn the pakistani government and military have collapsed to the same satus quo with the military not sending back any FC trainers and allowing in 70 new CIA agents ostensibly to look for the new alqaeda chief...obviously the new CIA agents are not clerical workers here to run USaid projects...The drone attacks continue and now the US has also refused to vacate the shamsi airbase in balochistan...no aid is being pumped in by teh USA nor any coalition support funds...this military and government are little more than subjugated CIA agents themselves...
  
• Jul 01-2011--The PPP with no visible change in government style or substance says it is dancing with teh achievement of supposed provincial autonomy..Sindh is still run by the presidency and karachi by the interior ministry and Gilani continually tries to interfere in teh punjab specifically the subjugated enslaved multan...The federal interference in AJK is also a case in point...with almost all PPP walas suggesting on PTV that they were rigging the polls......now the ICC also wants no government interference...cricket autonomy...who will provide teh police and security...the taleban...if sri lanka try to win...poof goes teh stadium...