The Daily Pakistanpolitics 21-31 July, 2011

• Jul31-2011--many are suggesting that the mqm is the ISI/PPP's albadr...as the desi type's and islamabad are frightened of the creeping influence of the other sindhis...... ...others suggest that things like textile cities should be built in peaceful cities like bahawalpur or sheikhupura rather than teh violence prone karachi...others say some billionaire industrialists wanted plots for their children so zardari asked pasha "bhai kuch kar do gharibon ke liye..."...karachi ke amir logon ko zulfikarabad shift kar den ge take khul ke lar saken mqm wale...aur punjab ke billionaires ke liye park lane...
  
• Jul30-2011--The redundant primeminister seems to suggest that the sindh governments setting up of a textile city in the strife torn city of karachi will get punjabis thousands of jobs...?many think that Gilani is implying that mohajirs, sindhis, baloch and pukhtun are all terrorists and that leaves only the peaceful punjabis who should be rewarded with jobs in the textile city...!!how the country with already enough textile mills with enough empty spaces in them needs a new textile city that also in terrorist controlled karachi is beyond reason...he also seems to suggest that the PPP is using teh mqm for terrorism and trouble making purposes...??how they can achieve peace in karachi without arresting teh known troublemakers is uncertain and they have not been able to do it for the last three years...expectations about teh PPP being able to control terrorism controlled quetta and karachi are very low...u cant control trouble by talking sweetly to the mqm...!!!upto now they have been reacting even more wildly than before...and the foreign ministers visit to india seems to have had negative repercussions as terrorism in balochistan has started to increase suddenly...
  
• Jul 29-2011--Hina rabbani khar is praised for her india visit but many regard her as naive as india is an enemy and has been fooling us since 1947...the nature of teh indian phsyche is being mean and nasty and intransigent...she says there is no change in teh indian position on kashmir and eventually/probably things will move back into a liberation war scenario that pakistan backed out from supporting during the musharaf era...improving contacts and trade on the kashmir border has not helped improve the indian mindset or changed their attitude...many suggest that the indian system of governance is led by a pathetic weak primeminister blocked by all sides...
  
• Jul 29-2011--nato tanker blownup in mach and gas pipeline blast in dera allahyar...
  
• Jul 29-2011--Gilani fails in convincing anyone...as he decides to attack teh SC on the issue of non compliance of its orders...Gilani is already redundant and the SC has shown that he is pathetic in his decision making ability...the parliaments authority can only not be challenged in its ability to make laws otherwise only the SC has the right to exercise the right to adjudicate right and wrong...many suggest that with a false bravura Gilani will ultimately cringe and fall at the judiciaries feet...many are already looking at the possibility of an exciting new primeminister say someone like Hina rabbani khar who is just legally too young although she has shown exceptional ability...others are suggesting the chandio from larkana although that would disfigure PPP's ability to mollify both punjab and seraiki areas...The SC can at the minimum censure, fine or even ask the armed forces to assist it in removing a primeminister who is reluctant and at best just a seraiki show for the PPP...a primeminister better able to handle teh situation and who does get blocked in teh corners of his mind is what is required...others used to suggest Kaira or gondal but both have fallen afoul of the PPP and Kaira is even more an onlooker than a doer...others suggest that the army looking into the possibility of assisting the SC in removing a recalcitrant primeminister if teh SC asks for its help...!!!
  
• Jul 28-2011--PPP's Gilani moving towards an anti constitutional position by refusing to obey court orders...Gilani has taken to transfering investigative officials who start to trouble politicians without his approval...many suggest that the court could either fine the primeminister or ask the armed forces to forcibly remove teh primeminister from his office for gross misconduct/contempt and not obeying SC orders...
  
• Jul 28-2011--PMLn drops position of secretary general so that nobody can challenge Nawaz Sharif within the party at the next elections.Nawaz sharif also came out in support of more linguistic provinces...many in punjab oppose the move if only a new province in punjab is the objective...PMLn's seraiki dissidents such as Javed Hashmi have been attracted to yusuf raza Gilani and have been opposing nawaz sharif...The PMLn in the next elections should move to amalgamate its former partymen in teh PMLq to ensure a comprehensive victory in the punjab...Nawaz Sharif also needs a more populistic approach as at the moment his approach is teh same as teh PPP's hand waving approach and anti people policies...industrialists are not attractive as are landlords due to the inherent strange nature of pakistans economics where only rich people are benefited with only tukra's(small minor pieces)for the people at large...
  
• Jul 28-2011--The anti people PPP regime after price hikes of a trillion only passes on a paltry Rs 2 billion as relief during ramazan...many suggest government should focus on the troubles of the people rather than only employed state workers...many suggest that the government instead of making profits at the expense of teh population should sell things in utility stores at zero profit and the same should be applied to the power sector where electricity average prices should theoretically be less than Rs 4...even with local(lakhra) coal and machinery bought with state funds the government wants an exorbitant Rs 10.60 per unit...this seems tobe a clear indication of teh massive corruption in the PPP regime at teh center and in sindh...
  
• Jul 27-2011--many suggest that a Fata type operation suits the karachi situation and if that happens we could see karachis top leaders hideouts being bombarded...starting from 90 azizabad a long list of coordinates as been prepared by the military while others suggest a wholesale arrest and detention of upto 1500 people...many suggest that teh violence is generally because of teh mqm and its banning could be part of teh next operation and only pakistan named parties will be able to survive
  
• Jul 27-2011--NAB operations suspended as government cant appoint new chairman under SC 30 daydeadline
  
• Jul 27-2011--In what can be termed as teh SC taking over teh administration the establishment secretary told teh court that the primeminister was not issuing the transfer order...the SC threatened him with contempt and he went back and brought a transfer order for IGP baltistan to revert to teh FIA to takeup the hajj scam investigation...The primeminister retaliated against the officer and made the establishment secretary usually a senior beurocrat an OSD..
  
• Jul 27-2011--Hina Rabbani Khar tries to soften up the intransigent indians as ocuppied kashmir leaders want peace in pakistan...
  
• Jul 26-2011--mohajir judges of the SHC refuse to hear afaq ahmeds petition against unjust politically motivated incarceration since 2004..Musharaf, PPP and mqm have forced the incarceration of anti altaf mohajirs...even though they are not very different from the mqm...
  
• Jul 26-2011--The finance ministry says it is stopping financial assistance of Rs5 billion per month to KESC and releasing 20 billion to IPP's to procure furnace oil...in the strange agreements that teh government has with IPPP's it pays them high rates and has to ensure supply of fuel...?one wonders how bangladesh can generate electricity at Rs5 from furnace oil and pakistan private companies cannot
  
• Jul 26-2011--The SC seems tobe backing off on clear insults by the FIA, primeminister and interior minister on the suspension of an additional FIA director investigating the moonis elahi scam
  
• Jul 26-2011--maj gen ashfaq nadeem the DGMO who was probably also asleep on the night of May 2 tells abbottabad commission that everything else working but we were not told about the americans attack on abbottabad..otherwise Nato and ISAF cooperate fully and we can defend everything else.He also sees no threats from afghanistan despite recent cross border attacks, drone attacks and teh abbottabad attack...? Abbottabad is just over the hill from islamabad and one wonders how they would deal with a sneak attack on installations around islamabad...which is dotted with strategic locations...he also suggested that the career snoops of the ISI also knew nothing about the attack and ossama's location despite the information from afghanistan to musharaf that ossama was in haripur...and the ISI chiefs visit to washington a couple of days before...seems like obvious collusion ...
  
• Jul 25-2011--Altaf Hussein's claim that the mqm represents a wide swathe of people in karachi failed tobe true as violence broke out again killing 18...the mqm many say is crazy and forces violence/demos on minor issues forcing other groups also to set up violent retaliations...it also seems that the mqm's anti officialdom attitude causes more problems than solutions...the local bodies beaurocracy such as design approval and tehsildar registration/demarcation are necessary as well as police controls whatever their efficiency...political groups have failed to prove that the police, tehsildars and wapda were inefficient as they have been unable to improve things...themselves...
  
• Jul 25-2011--The brave new foreign minister kicks musharaf-army-gilani policy of accepting indian hegemony out the window stating that pakistan does not accept anybodies hegemony in the region...pakistans policy of assisting US-india friendship has many say backfired totally and needs tobe restructured...she apparently told Hilary clinton not to bother with pakistan if they are going to create problems in the minor levels of aid...specifically she said our high regard for relations with teh USA should not be seen as slavery and hilary should quickly reverse aid restrictions on pakistan...americans should realize that pakistan is not a nation of shrine worshippers and they should direct aid into proper channels...showing that american's seem to have strange set of priorities when it comes to pakistan
  
• Jul 23-2011--Rs 84 million embezzled in the armed forces last year
  
• Jul 23-2011--In khuzdar the baloch imbroglio in which nobody deals with terrorism continues as gunmen shot dead a BNP-M leader and three others
  
• Jul 23-2011--In Norway the wests wrong attitudes towards terrorism came home when a supposedly lone gunman shot dead over 84 people at a government youth rally and a car bomb exploded outside the primeministers office killing 7...while the terrorism seems anti the labour party it could boomerang if it causes a sympathy wave...others say it is a group of european terrorists while the lone norwegian terrorist is inspired by putin and rght wing anti islam views which seem quite contradictory..
  
• Jul 23-2011--In karachi which the mqm has turned into a chronic enigmatic troublespot...mqm and other ethnic groups in karachi are attempting ethnic cleansing in sub areas as well as the whole while the mqm has even evicted sindhis in hyderabad areas and mohajir opponents in karachi areas...democracy is a multiple group process thus the mqm is deeply opposed to the democratic process...mqm is unable to accept the viewpoint of others and is not designed to operate peacefully given its foreign controllers and attitudes...police flail around as they try to avoid blaming the mqm's troublemakers...mqm gunmen shot dead five mqmh workers and four bystanders returning to their homes after a decade from where they had been evicted by mqm politics of forcing out even political opponents from areas...four mqm walas also shot dead in the encounter...the mqm is on all sides of the problem in karachi...area cleansing of ethnic and political opponents,terrorism,ethnic/sectarian seperatism, eliminating political opponents,killing incumbents to get mohajirs appointed,wild gun firing killing whoever they see...protesting the police and rangers attitudes, and the last of which is becoming the weak persecuted mazloom protestor...no government can provide security when an entire group like teh mqm is not willing to live peacefully...they apparently start issuing wild threats when telephone line's are down rather than calling the PTCL like other people......others say police disregarding mqm threats from people like anis qaimkhani and mustafa kamal......many say the mqm does nothing to stop violence or take responsibility for their acts...in fact mqm stops at nothing and is the involved in every aspect of teh problem in karachi...the PPP has gained nothing from its one sided cooperation or supposed reconciliation...many suggest that the PPP inconsequentially playing the mqm for just the odd senate seat and the PMlq for the odd senate seat in punjab...This is the height many say of PPP irresponsibility as they disregard totally the management of public law and order in the bargain...The only way to peace in karachi is the banning of all factions of the mqm and blocking telephone calls from london which many say still orders terrorism and violence in karachi..others say that asif zardari visited the saudi king to beg for the lives of mqm workers who had killed a saudi diplomat...many say the saudis said they have identified the killers and will take action if the sindh government does not...others say that the next indian target maybe ormara where disguised indian spies are being sent...
  
• Jul 22-2011--The new foreign minister a rural woman says pakistan is a powerful country and india and the USA had better not trouble us too much...while teh pathetic Gilani wants good relations with traditional enemies USA and india...as the USA starts its process to restrict aid that they had agreed to in earlier negotiations
  
• Jul 22-2011--in continuing terrorism in balochistan three OGDC employees and a rickshaw driver killed in dera allahyar
  
• Jul 22-2011--In one of the most blatant anti democracy moves the sindhi finance minister approved Rs900 million for the sindhi coal gassification 100 MW project...There is no allocation in the budget...sindh should fund its own projects if it lays claim to teh coal...sindh has been unable to develop any of the lakhra coal despite laying claim to the resource since 1992...the atomic energy agency had said that it would develop it indigenously but now wants $100 million for equipment import...the claim that foreign companies would want to invest in lakhra coal is also highly improbable and unbelievable given teh governments inability to even meet electricity demands or develop the coal fields in any way...the government is only going to be able to meet electricity demands during flood months and some parts of winter...despite the government already inflating electricity prices to 3 times the cost it seems that they are still trying to increase tariffs with the economy being almost destroyed by the process...
  
• Jul 22-2011--Hilary Clinton has fallen to such a debased level in appeasing indians that a kashmiri lobbyist ghulam nabi fai has been arrested in the USA on charges of being funded from pakistan...a supposedly charitable US project Al shifa hospital's(which literally loots patients) former director is accused of funding teh kashmiri with ISI funds...many suggest that teh indians advised her to arrest an ISI man to get her spies released in pakistan...The US has about 90 CIA men in pakistan and their undercover modus operandi is to go around as religious theologists...many suggest that the US incharge of anti alqaeda operations was functioning from pakistan without the ISI knowing anything about it...
  
• Jul 22-2011--Yusuf Raza Gilani one of the weakest primeministers seen in pakistans history continues to lie to the public about anything that is controversial and attempts to create a teflon impact with meaningless homilies...no responsibility no explanations...for example electricity availaibility has fallen even below that of three years ago but he refuses to even notice or accept his responsibility or solve teh situation...he is unable to explain the high cost of electricity when even in bangladesh electricity is generated at 6 taka from petroleum fuels...he has even been unable to get extra electricity from hydel sources...many suggest that Gilani is deliberately reducing available electricity by not providing fuel...the PPP feels that it can still blame problems on previous governments just as the mqm wants its own orchestrated terrorism blamed on target killing...murders are murders and the mqm must take responsibility and hand over its terrorist leadership...relations with the US are in a terrible state but he insists that they are still friends...the PPP is seen tobe supporting murderers in sindh for its needless reconciliation policy which is about the only thing they tout to a hungry and troubled populace...the mqm's aseers are actual terrorists and murderers..it also seems that the ANP minister for railways is incompetent and is bent upon destroying the railways...many suggest that an educated person be appointed as railways minister rather than a bus driver type...
  
• Jul 22-2011--The PPP's top leaders seem to have a confused viewpoint on corruption, criminality and politics...at times they confuse all three...many suggest that it is the leaders that are accused of corruption, abusing teh constitution individually and the democratic system...the PPP also seems to think that because of its past misbehaviour or collusion with non constitutional forms of illegal governments the judiciary will follow and approve its wrong policies, decisions and appointments...many notice the chief justice shying away from applying a generally honest but without basis in law system of judiciary...for example all political parties should be charged with avoiding bringing corrupt and criminal politicians to court...!