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election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Friday, August 12, 2011

The Daily Pakistanpolitics Aug12-22, 2011

  • Aug20-2011--The worst violence in karachi since the early mqm days brought calls of army action...The subdued armed forces remained mum...however a day earlier the army suddenly stopped its kurram operations not wanting to get involved in the sectarian infested region further saying the taleban had been dealt with...however manzoor wassan,sindh interior minister said that the 1992 military operation had not solved teh problem when similar civilian disturbances were the norm as his police force literally only could look on..The 1992 operations which ended in the second benazir government did eliminate the mqm terror infrastructure of the time and had mqm's top extremists or leadership fleeing from pakistan...since the city of karachi has had minor controllable violent eruptions...the worst being the ones in early 2007 and the ones now...however teh PPP attempts to dismantle the militaries local governance system has again brought the issues to the fore with teh PPP due perhaps to cowardice refusing even to arrest known culprits...this is not a bhatta or gang war or a land mafia grabbing land and its ethnic overtones have always been clear...Unless the PPP takes care of the violence prone groups mostly political the only way out is to call in the military to douse and than deal with the perpretrators...many rumours here have been seeing martial law in karachi while some say the top four generals have flown to karachi to devise a solution and study teh methods of civil warfare, ethnic warfare or ethnic cleansing being adopted...some are suggesting that these are methods to subjugate an armed and violent populace not willing to see reason...PPP must realize that the mqm is unfortunately a political opponent and not a sathi...earlier experiences in the abdullah shah chief ministry when most of the earlier mqm related violence took place show that the situation while not much different he still instituted faster police response times by having a complaint center at teh chief ministry office...chief ministers should take the lead rather than be orderlies for other politicians...
  • Aug20-2011--five nato tankers gutted in dasht, balochistan and drone attack kills five in south waziristan...
  • Aug20-2011--after four were killed in balochistan on the previous day another eight bodies were found in hub, mastung and pasni...
  • Aug20-2011--The bad policies of the PPP and a bad terror inclined mqm demonstrated the countries poor governance as a suicide bomber blew up in a mosque in jamrud and killed over 47...while in karachi the troublemaking mqm attacked a police bus in korangi 2.5 and shot dead four policemen and injuring many others as they moved in to quell violence in chakra goth..at least 10 motorcycles attacked the police bus...while during the day karachi lost another 21 lives...one report on television had rehman malik saying karachi is pur aman...?at least 16 gunny sack bodies were found...despite there being evidence of mqm involvement in the wave of terror killings zardari begging mqm to join government again...recycling a failed policy seems tobe the only thing that zardari knows how to do...
  • Aug20-2011--Yusuf Raza Gilani and Rehman Malik have realized after twenty years and watching david cameron...how easy it is in england...yusuf raza gilani erroneously says that they have sent more police to karachi while rehman malik denies that and says we need more police in karachi...they should follow cameron and throw all the karachi police into the areas of trouble...or how about redressing the karachi corp in police uniforms and put them on the streets...the trouble that in england the police dont need guns and can easily deduce where they are going to strike next...cant pakistan hack mqm phones
  • Aug20-2011--In what looks like corruption to many the railways will pay upto 300 million to a contractor or a suspiciously named company to issue tickets and guide people to one train which the railways has been running itself quite profitably...from lahore to karachi...no hassles and more than 200 million into a contractors pocket...
  • Aug19-2011--As another 30 were killed in karachi in what can at best be described as the mqm style...tortured and shot to the head and bodies thrown on the streets covered with gunny sacks...suggestions are mounting that sector incharges of teh mqm are again going on the rampage...in its earlier incarnation the mqm cruelty was a legend and with altaf husseins hatchet man back in control the PPP can at best be described as a government with an inability to do anything...The PPP describes itself and the mqm as unable to handle anything karachi related or balochistan related or even punjab related what to talk about fata related...There has been a demonstrated lack of ability in the federal and provincial governments with police unable to get to the bottom of anything whether political or gang related...many are suggesting that the interior ministry needs a tougher character to handle teh karachi goons and rehman malik is at best woefully inadequate...at best one must say that the PPP's cowardice induced policy of reconciliation can only described as a failure
  • Aug19-2011--In what looks like a return to an earlier mqm era when torture cells were run in every galli of karachi 17 tortured bodies were recovered in sacks in various old karachi areas..earlier such events were blamed on teh intelligence agencies as well as mqm torture cells...many suggest that the return to the mqm fold of people like amir khan maybe an indicator of an mqm return to its earlier policies of eliminating opponents on an individual or personal basis...others suggest attempts at dominating areas that were not controlled by mqm thugs before..
  • Aug18-2011--army and government want a deradicalisation drive but are not willing to make tough decisions such as ending cooperation with the USA on the countries internal matters and policies...a de radicalization drive can only succeed in areas under control...areas such as karachi where senior mqm and PPP leaders are known for their radical behaviour should be controlled first many say...however all over teh country thugs use radical methods for extortion and subduing area opponents...unless the government takes politicians to task for death threats and threatening riots no de radicalization is possible ...ending cooperation with the USA would halt many of the violent movements in the country
  • Aug18-2011--after the SC told the FIA director to cooperate with zafar qureshi when attempts at not allowing him to enter the FIA offices were described teh FIA director resigned...while baber awan tried to politisize the case by suggesting that the chaudhries had threatened zafar qureshi and he was thus biased...however the SC sidestepped the matter and told the FIA to get on with the case
  • Aug18-2011--In what many see as attempts by the mqm to occupy lyari the generally PPP dominated area of karachi waja karimdad a former PPP mna was gunned down in the old karachi area of kharadar alongwith three others...others suggest a lyari gang war which has claimed upto 13 lives on wednesday...no particular gangs identified..earlier rehman dakat was gunnned down during this PPP regimes attempts to control the area...Gabol a PPP dssident now the only major PPP figure in the area...many suggest a complete failure of teh PPP and mqm in karachi where people have suggested that the mqm policy has been to eliminate all opponents...one wonders at the PPP brain which after three years of failing to resolve teh karachi issue they still want to climb on the mqm's back...mqm unable to control anything and is still blaming the government for the violence when it is the biggest troublemaker in the city...the karachi violence has little todo with the rest of the country which is generally peaceful barring a few trouble spots...it just shows that two major parties of the country with complete control of the government and resources are still failing to handle karachi...maybe nawaz sharif is right that a midterm election might be the only answer left...many still suggest another province be carved out of sindhi...since teh situation barely allows sindh's interior regions to develop or get attention from the government...the bifurcation of sindh does not mean that karachi is going tobe in another country...at best they could form two regions in sindh where control could be established to a greater extent than at present...
  • Aug17-2011--a case has filed in the LHC calling into question the PPP attempts to divide the punjab...the litigant states that the constitution only allows changes in the limits of a province and not the creation of new provinces...also suggesting that the provinces are autonomous states as per the pakistan resolution and constitution and thus cannot be tampered with...many suggest that the federal government would have to go for a referendum which is unlikely to succeed if only punjab is tobe divided..many suggest that it is the PPP animosity to the punjab where it is unlikely to win on a unified punjab basis that is behind the Gilani attempts to form a new seraiki nationality...others suggest that the punjab could divide itself into regions for uniformity of governance and development...
  • Aug17-2011--on a lighter note Hina Rabbani Khar was allowed to address the cabinet and explain why her friends the indians had sixty nuclear missiles targeted on islamabad...!!!earlier Gilani had been unable to explain the unabashed friendliness of the new foreign minister to pakistans only enemy in the world barring the USA...!!!
  • Aug17-2011--drone kills four in north waziristan as 12 militants die in the remote tirah valley as their vehicles hit roadside bombs..taleban group said tobe in conflict with the kukhikhel tribe of the area
  • Aug17-2011--The unnecessary mqm which remains in the opposition even while in or out of the government is again trying to get back into teh government on the back of asif zardari who can at best be described as a sindhi mohajir with deep anti PPP animosities...the PPP is just creating more problems for itself by what can at best be described as hugging the mqm even when it insultingly turns its back on them...the mqm has had no effective role in teh government and only tries to create problems when the governments usual tactics of suppressing the population by animosities such as price hikes seem to suggest its demise......its cooperation in karachi's deteriorating situation is also said tobe facial when its supporters openly participate in criminal activities...the PPP regime seems to openly want such mqm activities and it tolerates literally anti pakistan behaviour such as attempts to bring karachi to a halt and encourages threats of terrorism and failed attempts at riots in other parts of pakistan...
  • Aug16-2011--PIA's aging airbus was detained in france with numerous maintenance faults such as a leaking fuel line and lack of screws causing instruments tobe connected to the body with wires..
  • Aug16-2011--PAF women pilot crashes plane near mianwali
  • Aug16-2011--blast near tableeghi markaz in charsadda
  • Aug16-2011--marri and bugti homes raided in quetta...many blame the warring baloch tribes of terrorism in balochistan
  • Aug16-2011--four nato containers gutted near peshawar
  • Aug16-2011--The my life is in danger primeminister barely waved to rainflood affectees in sindh says teh dawn...punjab chief minister recently accused asif zardari of threatening to have him killed...usual utterances for politicians says the interior minister...!!!
  • Aug16-2011--Opposition leader critisizes the doling out of independence day awards to at best cronies and hangers on of the zardari family...PPP punjab says awards only given to sindi cronies......in fact people barely having entered politics have been given awards..nobody has ever been so blatant in their ethnic animosities as asif zardari and gilani have become...
  • Aug16-2011--two bullet riddled bodies found in quetta and mach gas supply pipeline blownup...many suggest that the liberation movements might be eliminating trouble makers while others suggest a private sector anti liberation group or the mean intelligence agencies functioning in balochistan...
  • Aug16-2011--The US should realize that neither the pakistan army or the paramilitaries need its trainers or training...most training can be covered by manuals if there is anything new since confucius...many also suggest that pakistans needs are only material and one hardly things some marine nuts can teach them anything which the pakistani subedars forgot to impart...It is many think a deep rooted anti pakistanism that plagues US policies and one cannot beget friendly reactions to the unfriendly US policies...terrorism here is at best a local issue and hardly needs any US inputs...
  • Aug16-2011--in what looks increasingly like distributing corruption at the cost of the people pasha(not the ISI chief) set to increase commissions to oil marketing companies by upto 50%...most oil marketing companies are already hugely profitable...many wonder who will solve the increasingly anti people economic policies being propagated by the PPP...who will cover teh losses being suffered by teh people of pakistan...
  • Aug15-2011--three soldiers killed in a rocket attack on the tochi scouts fort in north waziristan
  • Aug15-2011--even failures like rehman malik and khushbakht shujaat a new mqm politician given national awards in what might be described as another ugly aspect of PPP rule in which national awards were given to party politicians, unknown actors and even cronys...a father daughter combination also given teh suspect awards one of whom is a reclaimed corruption suspect from the steel mills and another a budding politician...supposedly a niece of asif zardari also claimed an award...with most presidents having been apolitical awards were usually awarded to people considered worthy of the honour...that is in contrast to army awards where even sweepers got awards...
  • Aug15-2011--a new outfit emerges in dera allahyar 'the baloch liberation tigers'which claims to have blownup up a restaurant killing 14...!!probably another one of the rehman malik routine incidents...?
  • Aug14-2011--american UsAID contractor kidnapped in lahore as his contracts windup...possible employee involvement...
  • Aug14-2011--mushahid hussein the culprit who exposed pakistans nuclear program says fixing pakistan not a rocket science...In pakistan even designing missiles/rockets is done the same way...chalo ye try kar letay hen...nahin nahin is say missile india ke bajaye afghanistan chala jaye ga.!!...for example hina asked manmohan to visit pakistan...he said kahin bomb to nahin mar do gi...acha acha aane he to aao warnna bhar men jhao..!!!...the politicians donot know what secular means...it means that the government not involve itself in any religions implementation...going to mosques and temples is hardly a secular pursuit...and liberating kashmir...!!!
  • Aug14-2011--fehmida mirza must have done something terrible...as 1500 villages inundated in badin by rain...?
  • Aug14-2011--The frightened judiciary finally sentenced one GHQ attacker to death...upto now they have been releasing all terrorist suspects...!!
  • Aug14-2011--The sindhi strike againt the zardari-mqm LG system caused the death of eight people..with firings, arson attacks and even grenade attacks...rehman malik said it is a routine event
  • Aug13-2011--Engro Power earns a profit of Rs777 million in six months showing the excessively high rates offered to Ipp's at obviously the cost of the populace...Engro also charging excessively onits dairy and juice products...and obviously paying low rates to rural milk/ fruit sellers...
  • Aug13-2011--army chief initiates coal mining project in balochistan from where 20 trucks tobe sent to punjab daily...army chief seems tobe the ruler of balochistan...
  • Aug13-2011--in peshawar two militants are freed killing three policemen
  • Aug13-2011--five rockets fired on quetta cantt..one soldier killed..
  • Aug13-2011--On the eve of a strike by the sindh bachayo committee seven vehicles in karachi set on fire and one killed...
  • Aug13-2011--a ranger sentenced to death in karachi while six others given life imprisonment...no motive assigned by the court for the rangers shooting in the leg after being apprehended for looting women in a park...the victim was over active and seemed to grab a rangers rifle before being shot...however no medical help given by rangers to the victim...
  • Aug13-2011--fata residents given right to appeal against injudicious and cruel sentencing by the political agent...and the useless right to form political associations...women and children not be collectively punished while men to continue to suffer such cruelty..while an apellate high court or tribunal tobe formed
  • Aug12-2011--PMLn and PMLq(like minded) move into a coalition mode with issues tobe resolved later
  • Aug12-2011--punjab assembly refuses seraiki sooba bill as it is against the constitution...PMLn wants the PPP to standup and ask for its cooperation on a quid pro quo basis many think...however theoretically it has tobe moved in the national assembly first
  • Aug12-2011--The national assembly apparently does not think that quaids supposed secularism has failed miserably in pakistan...the quaid in just one statement said that everyone is free to pray in their temples and mosques and praying has nothing todo with the state...pakistan history is replete with sectarianism(fighting amongst muslims) and all sects and religions donot get along in any way...The quaid was wrong in substance as the peopel donot worry what the government thinks in such matters...even now the state discriminates in application of zakat recovery from various sects...the government should get out of zakat collection and other aspects of religious implementation if the national assembly believes the quaid was right...the quaid also failed to realize that fata would become a rebellious place and the national assembly should also study that...the quaids beliefs donot stand the test of time and u can hardly be secular if u participate in creating countries based on religious majorities
  • Aug12-2011--bomb blast in peshawars lahori gate kills five policemen and aboy while later asuicide girl died alongwith an old woman in the same area...
  • Aug12-2011--The PPP government in hunza opened fire on attabad lake protestors killing one...the protestors than set fire to a police station, DC house,a govt rest house and a police van
  • Aug12-2011--The PPP now says that the reenactment of the LG bodies is a stop gap measure as its sindh chapter, ANP and sindhi nationalists all want commissioners whom they can beg and scrape to and obviously that gives individuals some power even though these commissioners are not the same as those in the ayub khan era...they have now torpedoed teh mqm and zardaris suggest that they will get a consensus on a LG system...a seperate krachi sooba would be much easier...The PPP seems tobe isolated and does not know what it wants and what the people and the mqm want...many say the sindis are fed up of the PPP and the mqm...!!!The PPP has long been opposed to local governance but it does keep some semblance of peace and in the musharaf era there was some trickle down to every area...with provincial and federal governments not bound to spend in all areas the PPP has been able to literally keep many areas such as rawalpindi devoid of any federal attention ..the same goes for the provincial governments...one would suggest a mechanism for uniform development and financial distribution at the federal and provincial levels...karachi is already developed and funds should be focused on all other areas...a unified country wide LG system and mechanism for financial allocations to all areas at the federal and provincial levels is necessary...

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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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