The Daily Pakistanpolitics 11-20 July, 2011

• Jul 19-2011--Yusuf Raza Gilani disappoints sindhi aspirants and appoints the mild Hina Rabbani Khar from his own south punjab constituency...as foreign minister...apparently opposed by asif zardari(read as sindhi's) who alongwith Gilani are leaving on almost daily foreign trips since teh removal of shah mehmood who was also removed on zardari's opposition...Hina rabbani khar has been moving in and out of parties as they lose government and has also been minister of state for finance
  
• Jul 19-2011--The PPP suddenly accepted teh resignation of Shahid Kardar probably the only prominent punjabi economist on teh PPP side...who was unable to take the blatant price hike and tax hike economy...many suggest that he had refused any further loans to teh government from the private sector and suggested that they spend what was coming in to reduce inflationary pressures...and provide more opportunity for loans to the private sector
  
• Jul 19-2011--the offer of unchallenged kashmir seats brought the governor back and it is only local level embarassment that does not make the mqm run into the PPP bear hug again...many suggest that the absconder was sent back as numerous mqm murderers and arsonists were relocated to sindh jails and the mqm were unable to explain their politics usually leaving it to juniors like faisal sabzawari as teh terrorist hardliners thrashed karachiites into submission in another display of arson and murders...many suggest that the mqm leaders in pakistan had fallen into a counter trap and were unable to even talk to the government as their politics of terrorism became evident......in a way the mqm terrorists were right and the PPP submitted to their killings and burnings...many suggested that asif zardari seemed a slave to the mqm tactics as almost everyone else preferred a unitary PPP government in sindh...many suggested that such politics was anathema for even pakistani political watchers who see the musharaf era PMlq, PMLf, ANP, mqm literally poles apart in ethics and ideology in one government with a conscience less PPP run by two corruption accused/involved ..The judiciary also seems subverted by recent incidents of american cia controlled events in pakistan, and its inability to get a FIA additional director reappointed and teh army subverted/subdued in a way by terrorism of a an unimaginary level including the unknown killing of a prominant journalist...the governments covert support for corruption causes further hassles...many suggest that the SC should have fined the primeminister for not obeying SC orders by now..!!
  
• Jul 19-2011--The cruel Petraeus leaves afghanistan after killing ossama and ilyas kashmiri and a spate of killings to cure corruption in the afghan regime to takeover as CIA chief...god save the political leaders of afghanistan and iraq and maybe pakistan..?
  
• Jul 19-2011--PPP and mqm literally ("siyasat ka khamba noch rahen hen") tearing the electricity pole of politics and jumhuriat to shreds...after the MC withdrew their candidates from the karachi kashmiri mohajir constituencies and mqm was left with a blackened face...altaf hussein again sent his governor back to work...PPP unable to agree on a governor of its own...the PPP ultimatum of one week or else seems to have worked..many suggest that the mqm wants to win elections by burning buses and killing people...others wonder why only present and former interior ministers negotiate with the mqm...
  
• Jul 16-2011--it seems that asif zardari no longer represents sindhi feelings and many now consider the understanding of jamhuriat amongst gilani , zardari and altaf hussain as suspect...while all three and chaudhry shujaat seem to follow ethnic vindictiveness as a personal policy they fail to realize that a party with 30 odd seats should not be given that much power under any circumstances and not going after teh mqm mafia's killers is also anathema to law abiding people...it is now clear that zulfikar mirza who could possible be an ahmedi was not the cause of the violence and that the violence had been preplanned by altaf hussein beforehand...shabaz sharif also should not be frightened of the mqm attempts at bringing sindhis and punjabi politicians to their knees as he would not be able to shutdown karachis port and industries for more than a few days...altaf hussein obviously has little regard for human life and property...and it is probably money that quickly brought an end to his planned violence..
  
• Jul 15-2011--Altaf Hussein seems tobe unable to understand the difference between terrorism and a peaceful demo...as his mohajirs went on a rampage killing 21 and burning numerous usually pukhtun owned buses, trailers, rickshaws, cars and shops...in karachi...the usual say many but for the people that the mohajirs killed...they also asked an ANP leader and zulfikar mirza to leave the city showing their long held attitude of ethnic seperatism/vindictiveness..many suggest that the newest PPP recruit chaudhry shujaat who has attempted egging on punjabi nationalist feelings against sindhi terrorism seemingly encouraged the violence......will the SC take suo moto notice of the mqm violence...ala sarfraz shah...all this because the mohajirs could not take teh scorn heaped on them by zulfikar mirza...many say the PPP, PMLq and mqm deeply involved in terrorism...with many saying over a thousand punjabis killed in balochistan also on PPP orders...mqm on first thought trying to force pakhtuns from their livelihoods in karachi...while many older pakhtuns/punjabis have migrated back north most are hard headed enough to fight it out with the mean natured mohajirs...PPP now based on isolationism inclined ethnic sindhis and seraikis not making it clear that they donot support ethnic seperatism and that people can live and work everywhere whatever their ethnicity... zulfikar mirza said that the mohajirs were literally namak haram whom sindh had fed, clothed, provided homes, bussinesses and industries after migrating from india...zulfikar mirza frightened of appearing in person seems to have a deep and probably desired effect on the mqm issued a video apologizing for the angry feeling...the PPP, and ANP distanced themselves from zulfikar mirza's known feelings...the mqm has never shown any concern for the problems that it causes to pakistan and karachi which many now consider as an inconsequential city in the pakistan context...mqm almost as terrorist in instincts as teh taleban...!!others suggest that many mohajirs would prefer a local leader rather than the expatriate altaf hussein and even teh sindhis want somebody with whom they can get along...animosities on both sides are however just skin deep...asif zardaris failed reconciliation policy is the basic cause as he would not allow even the mqm feathers tobe ruffled...punjabis generally who bore the brunt of earliest mqm attacks think that karachi should be made a seperate province but many donot like the mqm behaviour...or generally the mohajir nature and attitude...
  
• Jul 15-2011--scattered blasts in bombay as the terrorist rahul gandhi challenges manmohan sindh for the primeministership...americans offer to help blame it on pakistan as pakistani leaders frightened issue more condemnations than they do on blasts in pakistan..recently rahul gandhi in his al zwahiri mode threatened a pakistani leader that they would not sit idle until pakistan is destroyed...say rumours here...
  
• Jul 14-2011--apparently al qaeda after informants in the CIA and family of dr shakeel afridi who might have been extradited to the USA...USA might be giving out false information on who or how they got the Ossama address...
  
• Jul 14-2011--As the PMLn juggernaut faulters with lacklustre development in the punjab Nawaz Sharif again takes over as President and tries to create a new interprovincial team...Sartaj Aziz takes over as secretary general after the martial law era appointees unable to handle the situation..Sharif also attempts to create a new team for the seraiki areas...
  
• Jul 14-2011--Pepco says that the PPP regime responsible for unnecessary load shedding by restricting finances and oil supplies to the power sector
  
• Jul 14-2011--SBP governor who explained to the nation that governments revenue expansion exactly equivalent to the price hikes and inflation has supposedly resigned after he refused to meet the unjust demands of teh sindh province...
  
• Jul 14-2011--many suggest that the zulfikar ali mirza's answer to a seperate province campaign is a bit like the mqm who fire off with terrorism whenever their mean politics is threatened that is if the sindhis sheltered them when they arrived hungry, poor and unclothed...the mqm might be right that some sindhis would prefer another altaf hussein who ran away to england leaving all the trouble behind to enjoy an english lifestyle...other rumours suggest that the apart from altaf hussein the other trouble makers in pakistan are non other than zardari, gilani and shujaat hussein...shujaat and gilani have the capability to send trouble makers from gujrat and multan...while still others suggest that the chaudhries would happily prefer a seperate karachi province and sindh should realize that a karachi province might be more preferable than the current situation of constant trouble whether indian , sindhi, mohajir or punjabi in origin...karachi as a province would not be giving a piece of sindh to somebody as lots of sindhis do live in karachi too...other rumours suggest that gilani told shujaat to go to karachi and take control of the situation...
  
• Jul 13-2011--altaf hussein mounts propaganda offensive suggesting gilani conspiring against the isolated army and ISI...while chaudhry shujaat works to unravel teh achievements of teh sindh PPP...
  
• Jul 13-2011--nine killed in military attack in orakzai...at least 50 tribals killed in a US bombing close to the pakistani border...major drone attacks on monday and tuesday and at least ten missiles fired on tuesday evening...most attacks in shawal and datakhel areas
  
• Jul 13-2011--In what maybe a dangerous escalation four drone attacks kill 52 in north waziristan...there are various points of view ..many suggest that drone strikes are suggested by kiani others say teh information comes from the ISI
  
• Jul 13-2011--CNG can be dangerous as a fireball possibly from CNG cylinders incinerated a bus and killed nine in islamabad
  
• Jul 13-2011--the next list of drone attack sites maybe ready or the address of the new al qaeda chief al zwahiri might be transferred as again ISI chief Pasha goes to washington for a day...military which generally can take slaps in the faces from washington happily again trying tobe friendly with the US...many suggest that a US agent Dr shakeel afridi is in custody for trying to get ossama household dna samples...The armed forces has a misguided viewpoint that fata armed groups pose a threat to the rest of the world too...upto now they have only attacked pakistani sites...Carmen Munter misguidedly said that we can both prosper from problems and catastrophes...the situation is that the US prospers while pakistan suffers...continually more by the misguided notions of teh US government its armed forces and diplomatic officials and the foolishness of the pakistani government and armed forces...
  
• Jul 13-2011--with the kings parties such as the PMLq and mqm falling by the wayside more so by losing the king the interior minister attempts to form another 50 men electable party to trouble mostly the PMLn in punjab...the 50 men supposedly clean and electable...with PMlq votes more likely to drift to the PMLn and the mqm very undependable the PPP and interior ministry might be looking at another major coalition partner after the next elections...This group yet unnamed tobe led by the financier Jehangir Tareen at the moment in the PMLf and a friend of humayun akhter khan...this after sindhis kicked out rehman malik as chief mqm negotiator...
  
• Jul 12-2011--Blasts at COD Sihala levels several buildings...military while experienced in handling ammunition known to cause blasts by mishandling...
  
• Jul 12-2011--suicide blast in battagram kills seven...drone attack kills six..two nato trailers attacked in balochistan and four killed
  
• Jul 12-2011--malik ishaq who has been acquitted in 34 of 44 cases and considered tobe the mastermind of the attack on the sri lankan team bailed out...he has been in jail for 12 years and been convicted in two cases and belongs to the ex SSP...
  
• Jul 12-2011--The army chief Kiani and the indians both happy at the stoppage of $800 million in US military aid of which $300 million was for american trainers who kiani kicked out...many suggest that the US congress and Obama advisors have a confused attitude of pakistan as a paid servant or some sort of mercenaries for hire and that the pakistanis have some magic wand to do US bidding...others say the pakistan army might have picked up the Ossama informant while others suggest that the americans think that the pakistanis donot tell them everything...however many think that the conservatives have Obama over a barrel and he will do whatever they say...US not really too clear about what they want and probably some polishing of boots by the pakistani military duo and government might be all they want...Joint staff HQ has refused 229 visas and many say it is a consequence of the US military threatening pasha and kiani with dire consequences...others suggest that the weak natured gilani who has avoided making personal efforts and participation in talks is the cause of the US trying tobe harsh and using high handed methods with teh countries military which really cant deliver much since the US wants literally a duped subordinate attitude......
  
• Jul 12-2011--The PPP which has been literally waiting them out in sindh immediately felt the duality in the altaf hussein attitude who had become apparently a hardboiled sindhi...however the mqm's terrorist wing immediately went on the attack and had graffitti written on the walls of karachi calling for a mohajir province after the nazim body system was scrapped which literally had karachi run by mohajirs at every level and who could thus easily thumb their noses at the sindhi provincial governance...The PPP which has a dual purpose meanness in attitude willing to divide punjab but not sindh and nwfp was accused by terrorist mohajirs of discriminating against them...and also threatened even more violence...The sindh PPP also immediately bared its fangs and refused to even consider a division of sindh...the PPP also refused to continue the meaningless zardari attitude of concession after concession to the mqm in the name of reconciliation...the PPP has failed to get alongwith any other party but continued their supposed reconciliation with the mqm...the mqm accused them of facial reconciliation but refusing to show any concrete change in attitude...The mqm was earlier allowed even secession by the chaudhry shujaat if they did not change their mind after six years...The PPP must in talks to the mqm be truthful and not just hide behind the bush waiting for mqm support to wane due to their negative pro terrorist attitudes...
  
• Jul 12-2011--many suggest that the PPP's seraiki visionary has again fallen into a 60 year old USAID method to dupe pakistanis...he reccommended on instructions from USAID that people should follow birth control to reduce the population to increase wealth and the economy...The PPP seen as increasingly unable to handle the economy and military relations with the US...others suggest that Obama needed 800 million for his election campaign and Kiani said u can take it out of our aid...The great visionary apparently suggested that reduced children will increase the per capita income and thus the countries supposed wealth...unfortunately per capita income means little with an inflation of 15-20%...with the birth rate at around 2% that means around 3 million children per year...th government does little for children anyway...even if the birth rate falls by say a few lakh children it will barely have any effect apart from statistics...The USAID suggested the same thing in the 1950's-60's...research suggests that the birth rate actually falls with economic well being and not the other way around...
  
• Jul 11-2011--The mqm their street terrorism knocked out by the rangers went on a night time attack by suggesting that they would terrorize the entire country if driven to the wall...The mqm goes crazy whenever out of the government and accused the sindh government of cutting off their telephone lines...anis qaimkhani and mohammed anwer came across as the terrorists in the mqm...with landlines increasingly useless in teh time of mobile phones the mqm obviously came across as attempting to cause more trouble as karachiites started to remember the time of 2002-2005...many suggest that karachi is getting sick of the mqm's daily doses of terrorism and killings and want a more peaceful alternative...qaim ali shah his chief ministership threatened by teh failure of his mqm policy kept trying to suggest that they had not been kicked out but had run away from responsibility and would as usual return to the fold...not being able to sustain themselves out in the cold...many suggest that the mqm want to trouble the duped PPP further and will probably take about a month to return to the fold...the PPP has been sitting around watching the mqm terror tactics against other ethnic groups and not taking any actions...many suggest that it is time to at least incarcerate a couple of mqm's terrorist controllers...
  
• Jul 11-2011--as expected teh US government stopped $800 million of military aid and many said it might be time to say good riddance to the americans this time for good...many suggest asif zardari told cameron munter to go to hell when he asked for pasha's removal two days ago for eliminating a journalist close to the taleban and some say mqm...many suggest that the americans now want to get out of the region having achieved their major objective and Ossama again wants to playup to the indian/israeli lobbies as elections near despite having no serious challenger...pakistan has done whatever teh US asked barring literally turning into a panama...the US had already slowed down aid deliveries which were being spent in insignificant amounts and on non issues like advertisements for treckking to swat...and repairing shrines...the pakistan army had already ridiculed US military aid which generally was focused on F-16 deliveries...only 18 repaired F-16's were delivered and the ten new ones have not arrived a typical US tactic...obviously pakistan would have problems repairing the problematic US helicopters and supposedly they even refused night vision goggles...many suggest that paistan is better off depending onits own resources in intelligence and military affairs...with attacks from afghanistan becoming frequent many blamed the american tactics of fueling an internal insurgency and threatening to invade thru taleban irregulars from afghanistan...