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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

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Daily Pakistanpolitics Sep15-30, 2011

  • Sep30-2011--"we'll just say it was a drone attack" is the conclusion of the much hyped APC...The frightened army and ISI chiefs only called for a verbal clobbering but the politicians were even tamer frightened of the failing political, financial and military power of muslims worldwide...they however claimed that the tribals were pakistanis and they would try to talk some sense to them after the military operations have all but failed to end the tribal rebellion/insurgency...other reports suggest that the ANP is a shoe shiner and that its afrasiab khattak told the americans that the haqqanis were treated specially or differently by teh ISI and they lived in peshawar and rawalpindi cantonment and not north waziristan..however still other reports suggest that rehman malik told teh americans who funded the haqqanis since teh ISI did'nt...which turn out tobe afghan bussinessmen...only one baloch party thought that the ISI could solve teh afghan issue in a month..(laughable)...The ISI chief however distanced himself from involvement in any fighting in afghanistan and said they only treated teh haqqanis differently as they were ready to talk peace...(just like the pakistanis with india on kashmir)..he advised a dialogue between the troublemakers the USA and the peacemakers the Haqqanis...!!two baloch parties did not attend saying that ISI/Zardari refused to negotiate with the baloch rebels...pakistan has not received much from kerry lugar aid and the military alleged that the USA was not even making coalition support payments(not that the US is much of a coalition partner..(many say that the USA behaves like the mqm...willing to provide buses one day and burn them the next...and no to afaq ahmed(their haqqani))
  • Sep29-2011--The tottering rubbery(pakistan only contains multan) primemister has called an APC finally after being unable to handle US pressure on teh Haqqani network...whether the politicians can really identify issues and decide to retaliate directly rather than just verbally(as in the case of drones)...if teh US attacks militarily is doubtful given teh militaries vulnerabilities and the politicians weaknesses individually...however many see Gilani as the PPP's biggest mistake yet...just as musharaf was nawaz sharifs biggest mistake and zial ul haq zulfikar ali bhuttos biggest mistake...however the military may now be ready to follow orders and retaliate if the US attacks even though admiral Mullen has backed out and now wants a joint attack on the haqqani safe heavens...The US government given Obama's losing popularity has also backed down form calling teh haqqanis a veritable(real) arm of teh ISI as pictures of jalaluddin haqqani having visited teh white house appeared on facebook...many regard teh ISI as a corrupt, thieving and extortionist organisation(whether that is for espionage purposes or just a terroristic nature)...is used to claiming events all over teh world with even the nepal maoist leader having said that teh ISI offered them funding...however it is said to have event organizing capabilities and some undercover capabilities...however its dubious reputation as a coup plotter and organizing military regimes relatively successfully and running a long list of politicians are its popular aspects in matters of governance...In the recent past it has been accused of kidnapping people or even having them vanish from teh face of the earth...many suggest that the ISI has onits payroll people who have long been dead and it would most probably be able to run group leaders rather than group activities...but it is said tobe able to provide supposed experts in various fields to government as well as various state sectors...rumours have however been persistent in claiming that the military/ISI have long range capabilities inside afghanistan...usually army chiefs cannot be appointed without teh ISI rubber stamp...nowadays however the army chief is a former ISI chief and the current ISI chief is seen as a dubious aspirant as a Kayani loyalist or protege...an ISI chief is usually a two year appointment however as Pasha was promoted after being almost totally superceded he has been able to keep his post due to the extraordinary extension given to kayani for three years...It thus becomes a referendum on the army chief rather than the tag along pasha...since the strategic policy is implemented by kayani rather than pasha...however on the issue of the haqqani network which the taleban say is one of its three operational groups in afghanistan...the APC has to decide whether to get rid of the musharaf era yoke of slavery and to form a completely independent policy jettisoning teh USA or the haqqani network...while the government is not itself independent as many of pakistans top political leaders are ISI creations and decisions thus inevitably are controlled by the military rather political sensibilities...many suggest that the PPP's anti people policies and wasting money frivolously rather than doing something about major problems such as electricity/price hikes has made the people less sensitive about leadership and nobody really cares who is primeminister tommorow...the PPP has been trying desperately to create some popular basis for its dubious leadership but many suggest that they are in power just to end their court cases and have been unable to to do anything substantial to rectify teh countries problems...They tout their political successes but many see them as weaknesses of teh government as it is unable to implement policies in the financial and security domain what to talk of the military and intelligence domains...The government at the center has almost become an extension of the sindh government as it has no power anywhere else......drumming up needless patriotism will result in a negative fallout if not properly implemented...the government should as they say kick the aid bucket and focus on teh countries real problems...it is a failure to a large extent in the regional power game and it is many say time to suggest that the afghan problem is not ours to solve and we should either get out of it or occupy areas next to our borders to resolve teh terrorism issue which has burgeoned out of control during this government...to just resolve teh haqqani issue they would have to invade and occupy three afghan provinces according to one defence analyst......whether they can jettison their support for the haqqanis(or afghan taleban)in the hope of a favorable regime when teh americans leave is the only issue...and given the pakistan militaries nature one had better expect the worst as should teh haqqanis...
  • Sep28-2011--Three nato oil tankers set ablaze in dasht area of balochistan
  • Sep28-2011--PIA doles out spare parts contracts to a dubai firm with the option of handing over its entire spare parts inventory...PIA buys upto $500 million in spares annually for its US products
  • Sep28-2011--The PPP regime took three years to give sovreign guarantees to two 950MW hydel projects in the punjab
  • Sep28-2011--drone kills three in south waziristan
  • Sep28-2011--Hina Rabbani Khar wants uninterrupted talks with india which blocks and stops starts them whenever it wishes...talks with india have been generally useless in achieving any result or solution
  • Sep28-2011--Gilani is coming across as a total slave in his mentality and seems tobe encouraging teh US to attack the haqqani network in pakistan suggesting that he will respond just as he did in the matter of drone attacks...he has also made the astounding observation that a civil nuclear deal that pakistan was refused was behind teh countries electricity problems when everyone knows that the government has been deliberately refusing to take care of the electricity problem...Gilani who can at best be described as a tortoise who attempts to jump has been deliberately slow in dealing with teh countries problems wasting resources on unnecessary issues.....the countries available electricity supply has fallen to an all time low...The taleban have stated that the haqqanis are one of their three operating groups in afghanistan and are firmly under their control and are not pakistan based...The ISI/Mullen attempt to suggest that the haqqanis are ISI controled has been debunked...The US has on the other hand moved to try to end the small amounts of aid being dispensed in pakistan...many are suggesting that pakistan should free itself from the US yoke by completely breaking off relations like iran...
  • Sep27-2011--while the pakistan army wants a deescalation most are unwilling to make pakistan totally isolated especially when teh US ability to handle the regions is considered suspect...many suggest that while teh haqqanis are not that important pakistan cannot become a total slave to US orders or become isolated in teh region especially with relation to afghanistan and india..many are also calling for a preemptive action to restrain teh americans who have subdued gilani and teh ISI with continuous propaganda and drone attacks...many suggest a token downing of another drone or stoppage of all nato and non nato trucks to afghanistan...others are calling for a missile to be modified to target the american airbase in afghanistan...the americans are obviously targetting pakistan for their failed security inside teh relatively safe afghan capital...maybe it is the US that needs training rather than teh afghans as kabul is no okinawa or west germany...that is what teh americans aim for..many suggest that teh situation afghanistan is not going to change even by 2014 and teh US needs to rethink and even consider a repeat of a saigon...
  • Sep26-2011--In what is becoming a referendum on US attempts to belittle pakistan without reason the weak pakistani government which is frightened of making decisions on anything tried to make the opposition leaders a party to its international failures as the military also backed down as another abbottabad without retaliation would inevitably signal the demise of a propaganda based armed forces unable to act in teh countries defence...The US seen increasingly as unable to handle overseas situations compared to the europeans wants a scapegoat for its continued embarassments in afghanistan...according to talat masud the haqqanis or any taleban willing to fight are all in afghanistan with pakistans leverage not considered tobe beyond minor contacts at teh ISI levels...most of them he says are in paktia and kunar which probably are not conducive for attacks on kabul or further west...the probable culprits are teh afghan taleban and not the haqqanis and the US pressure on pakistan seems tobe just aerial firing many say...others suggest that pakistan has however moved its aging missiles westwards in case of any attempted american misadventures...many suggest that the US would be happy to see pakistan as a fulltime adversary so that they can at least claim some heroism rather than dying needlessly against a small literally mocking taleban insurgent force..dawn claims that the americans are blaming teh ISI's S-block for overseas attacks and that the attackers phoned ISI contacts...Visibly teh ISI has no fighting arm and would have to rely on contract killers or fighters...the US also says the LET had close contacts to teh ISI but the government wound up even suspected Let organizations mostly of a charitable nature...mixing Let and taleban attackers seems a bit perplexing but many say teh US is functioning as an indian client in anti pakistan phobia's...
  • Sep25-2011--15 militants killed in lower dir firefight with the military in which one soldier also died..while four militants die in tirah aerial bombing while DI Khan stops entry of Nato trucks
  • Sep25-2011--The international court of arbitration temporarily disallows costruction by india on the neelum river
  • Sep25-2011--The comparision of voters with identity cards and homes has caused the reduction of 0.5 million voters.. mostly a similar amount of votes have been deleted and a similar number added...number of voters have declined in interior sindh and balochistan..almost 50% of punjabs voters were deleted while a similar number were added showing that probably more people move around in the punjab than other provinces...balochistan votes declined by a million and interior sindh which supposedly has the most dubious voters also declined by 2 million..karachi which is said to have a dubious voters list has 6.8 million voters with 2.72 million votes removed and 2.88 million added...quetta lost 20% votes
  • Sep25-2011--Gilani says US confused about its relationship with pakistan as usual..the US attitude of subjugating pakistn thru rhetoric and threats is a reflection of the bad natured attitude of teh US towards muslim countries especially pakistan...with ossama gone the US does not know what it is doing in the region and it has to build up another ogre to do battle with...The US seems to think as has been their attitude thruout that pakistan is behind everything in the region and their advisors as is usual are probably the afghans and indians as the CIA and US army cannot explain why the situation does not collapse in their favour...they should realize that they need a new policy in the region as the old one has failed...both pakistan and the US have failed to contain terrorism in the region......many think that the pakistanis probably told them that they should start thinking of a solution on kashmir since everything else has been solved...solving a purely muslim problem is probably beyond the US imagination.
  • Sep24-2011--LJ sectarian attack kills three in quetta..they apparently dont want teh hazaras to travel out of their areas..
  • Sep24-2011--in what can be described as accusing the karachi bussiness community of participating in the ethnic violence based karachi politics the PPP leadership following the army chief also met karachis bussiness leaders who have enjoyed the best of what pakistan can offer as the people suffer at the hands of government and ethnic militias...The PPP many say is getting rid of its people image for good and joining teh countries billionaires in enjoying life...others suggest the bussinessmen pointed to the ethnic militias chief sitting amongst the PPP and questioned the PPP committment after they had allowed violence in karachi to continue for almost three years and been unable to even handle flood victims ordinary needs despite huge taxation...others suggest that the bussinessmen would prefer an industrialist as a governor while the mqm gaddi nashin be made the head of the mqm coordination committee...the governor of sindh has overseen extreme ethnic violence without being able to manage it in any way...
  • Sep24-2011--pakistani relations with the USA further deteriorated as Obama also turned anti pakistan on teh haqqani issue...The army chief said the crooked US armed forces chief mullen is no friend of mine after he misconstrued kayanis information that they maintained contacts with teh haqqanis who are teh only sane voice in teh afghan maelstrom and willing to participate in negotiations whenever teh taleban got into it...the US is blaming the problems that it faces in afghanistan on the haqqanis when in fact they are due teh taleban refusal or withdrawal from the negotiations stance that the karzai regime was adopting in the recent past...many believe that anybody participating in negotiations from the taleban side will face a similar fate...and questioning the power of the taleban also causes negative fallouts...many suggest that Kayyani had suggested joint operations against the haqqanis but the US has as is its usual attitude of trying to prove that they run things here and not Kayyani...the defence minister also jumped into the fray and urged joint operations while the interior minister opposed american involvement...After american general allen threatened to attack pakistan thru long range artillery rumours suggest pakistan quickly re focussed 15 of its defensive missiles to target american forces in afghanistan...the american suggestion that any safe havens still exist after five years of drone attacks was laughed off by teh ISI chief whose last visit to the USA resulted in teh abbottabad attack which pakistan withstood without retaliation in a spirit of extreme weakness, lack of courage and at best cowardice...many suggest that the taleban belive they will be able to handle karzai when teh US leaves as does the pakistan army/ISI...many say US should leave whatever happens or say that they are not going to leave forever...given teh size of afghanistan which lacks a regional structure of governance afghanistan will many suggest deteriorate into a ethnic/regional power fight whenever teh US leaves..most of the recent attacks many say are due to american contractors using taleban protectors...and the american armed forces attitude of bunkering down but not going into attack taleban strongholds in afghanistan which leaves groups free to travel in on motorbikes or vehicles and attack a target of choice...the pakistan army/ISI is similarly incapable of stopping terrorist attacks in pakistan
  • Sep23-2011--As hajj season approaches dollar skyrockets to RS89.20 despite high reserve levels..rates rising in both the interbank and kerb market
  • Sep23-2011--The army chief seems also to work for the richer group of industrialists and bussinessmen...while those who have suffered are really ordinary people the army and interior ministry have both offered to help teh industrialists rather than teh people...this would make future attacks on teh industrialist infrastructure more appropriate for the karachi insurgents...industrialists have not suffered in karachi and reports of flight of capital are something that can hardly be anything more than propaganda with teh government reports that exports are surging and so are remmittances...given teh world situation with almost everything coming from china pakistans industrialists can hardly be considered as having any success in any other place...the army chief and interior minister should both realize that u cannot have islands of prosperity defended by teh armed forces while teh people suffer at teh hands of ethnic terrorits...the PPP policy of not controlling the mqm in the political and militant arena is also a serious cause for concern and will only cause more problems down the lane...the sindh situation suggests that teh provincial government can barely handle anything beyond its doorway..and DCo's, commissioners or local bodies or local government are necessary for normal governance when even ministers find it difficult to even handle relief activities...and the federal government gives immediate calls for aid rather than using their own resources...
  • Sep23-2011--reports from balochistan suggest that the supposed pilgrims could have been eliminated by the balochis(governmnet), pakistani security or even iranian insurgents apart from sectarian insurgents...some even suggest that they were afghans trying to infiltrate iran..this might even suggest that iranian forces are infiltrating deep into pakistan..baloch government has said that the buses to iran donot inform them while teh iranians have reportedly closed the taftan border gate although legal visitors are still allowed...many suggest that hazaras are attempting to move to iran for jobs and trying to get away from the sectarian divide in balochistan
  • Sep23-2011--reports emerging from the US suggest that hilary, mullen and panetta have all threatened pakistan and a joint india-US anti pakistan think tank group has also come out with threats of joint actions against pakistan...this shows the wrong policies followed by teh ISI, kiani and gilani who have said in just the recent past that things have been improving with teh USA...unless the slow moving pakistan armed forces and government who are frightened of even retaliating mildy changes its attitudes things might deteriorate further with the news that PPP coalition partners ANP, MQM and PMLq working for the USA to break pakistan...if pakistan is not ready to counter such a US attack immediately than the government should resign as should teh ISI and army chiefs who have been unable to straighten out teh USA and india...teh USA is blaming its failures in afghanistan on the pakistan army when it basically cant handle teh afghan taleban...blaming teh innocuous haqqani group or network is just like giving the taleban a new name... The US too should be aware of teh consequences of such an attack and it too should realize that a strategic relationship cannot hold the pakistanis hostage when it goes against their interests...the US has had the freedom of attacking north waziristan thru drones and has not achieved any success as afghan operations are not controlled or carried out by pakistani militants...that has been the primary reason for teh US failure in afghanistan as it is looking for scapegoat reasons elsewhere rather than inside afghanistan...it shows US cowardice to handle the real problems...unless the pakistan defence forces are willing to attack right back in the case of another abbottabad than there would be ittle reasons left for any type of relations with teh USA as paqistan can handle strategic opponents onits own...
  • Sep21-2011--With the mqm having the biggest militant wing followed by teh ANP..sindh ministers blame the PMLn militant wing which suggests that all parties having militant wings should be banned from politics...The JUIf with its SSP and the PPP with its al zulfikar have been destructive in the past with the present day mqm openely challenging the government with its militant prowess...while smaller baloch militant groups and the balochistan based LJ also are creating trouble...The ANP apparently has a well organised militant wing which is usually used against religious and ethnic opponents
  • Sep21-2011--Government turns its failures in the electricity,oil and gas industry into price hikes which are forced onto the people at regular intervals without any solution
  • Sep21-2011--In mastung an LJ sectarian attack kills 26 travellers to iran..mostly afghan immigrants of the hazara tribe who are generally regarded as shiite...LJ most active in balochistan
  • Sep21-2011--In afghanistan former afghan president burhanuddin rabbani killed in taleban suicide attack...supposedly a moderate and a tajik had been unable to get a peace process moving...tajiks have been at the forefront of supposed militancy in pakistan..afghans ethnic divide one of teh main cause of problems as major ethnic groups remain divided and isolated
  • Sep21-2011--military claims killing 29 militants in orakzai retaliatory attack
  • Sep20-2011--In lahore meanwhile the government shutdown numerous medical labs after reports of undue profiteering...The sharif and imran khan laboratories also having a field day many say...The imran khan run shaukat khanum labs many say is the most expensive laboratory in lahore and the sharifs attempted to shut it down as government rates of Rs90 per dengue test were not being followed
  • Sep20-2011--altaf hussein under pressure to control his hatred for pukhtuns says ANP not american funded...they were usually regarded as indian slaves until wali khans time...
  • Sep20-2011--motorcycle blast near peshawar kills five
  • Sep20-2011--suicide blast blows up police officer residence in DHA karachi killing eight...police officer threatens future generations of terrorists in retaliation...ala rehman malik...many point to the fact that the police have been edging away from raiding mqm gun depots and offices and altaf hussein teh only person able to arrange such things in karachi which is far away from the taleban heartland who have been restricted to mostly fata and nwfp for some time...many suggest unless the mqm is disarmed as well things wont improve in karachi..Dawn says government officials including teh governor did not even commiserate with dead but kept focussing on calling the SSP..
  • Sep20-2011--many suggest that hina rabbani khar was unable to change the topic to pakistans problems as Hilary Clintom droned on and on about afghanistan this and haqqani that...the pakistan army chief apparently has already succumbed to american orders and agreed to attack the haqqanis although the haqqanis say they have no base in pakistan and teh ISI wala's suggest that only a few haqqani members live here...many others point to the american misconception that links do mean control...they point out that the americans are supposedly allies but they still keep attacking pakistan...
  • Sep17-2011--with enough problems at home teh seraiki primeminister who only focuses on multan ran into further trouble as he cancelled a visit to new York as Obama refused to meet him..many say the americans regarded his visit to iran as an insult in which gilani apparently heard iranian complaints and offered a regional military alliance since pakistan barely gets along with the USA now..others say the iranians offered to even build the gas pipeline in pakistan in exchange for further nuclear cooperation but gilani declined and said we can only build the P2 which the iranians have enough of...many regard the iranian reclusiveness as better than the pakistan engagment policy as iran can strut around while teh US subjugates and terrorizes pakistan.........the americans also regarded teh moscow visit of zardari as offensive as he enquired whether they could help handle the reluctant/intransigent indians and whether altaf hussein was a moscow terrorist...and if they could provide some SU30's...The russians wanted to know if they had any relationship with the chechen rebels and whether hamid gul could be sent over to deal with that...hamid gul has a long history of involvements in the regional conflicts who even threatened to send a planeload of weapons to serbian mulims...The americans whom teh ISI and army chief said were now friendlier fired off another offensive salvo on the Haqqani network threatening to retaliate as well...haqqani network obviously cannot drive to kabul 600 kilometers away attack and get back without being seen by anyone...USA will now supply some concocted clues to fool the army about haqqanis involvement in afghanistan......pakistan too should formulate its afghan doctrine in teh face of of border incursions and the arrogant US threats...The army chief said there would be no attacks on the haqqani network and teh ISI distanced itself from another american assertion that some alqaeda operations chief had been killed in a drone attack...The army actually said the americans are making things up to avoid domestic castigation...and there inability to subdue teh afghan taleban...in related news the pakistanis want to wind up IMF cooperation which causes them to literally destroy the local economy amid refusal to fund even disaster relief by teh governments...
  • Sep17-2011--seven militants die and a pakistani soldier in a clash in kurram
  • Sep17-2011--JSQM chief bashir qureshi remanded on having illegal weapons in karachi
  • Sep16-2011--45 die in lower dir as a suicide bomber blows up in a funeral as US claims killing nominal al qaeda operations chief in pakistan
  • Sep16-2011--US reluctant to finance real energy projects in pakistan and continues its silly opposition to iran gas pipeline...US pakistan relations again in the gutter...pakistan unable to control things in afghanistan..US threats to pakistan will result in eventual retaliation and an end to any meaningful relationship...US really has no powers to stop taleban actions in afghanistan and will have to handover and leave afghanistan..pakistan too cannot provide security guarantees even inside pakistan what to talk of afghanistan...under US attitudes pakistan would have to raid kabul for an attack in dir...
  • Sep16-2011--the green belts and trees along the lahore canal from thokar niaz beg to dharampura will be destroyed as SC allows the roads tobe widened on both sides...
  • Sep16-2011--two soldiers and four militants killed in bara
  • Sep16-2011--the federation cannot be strong with provinces not staying along generally similar paths...and the center having literally no power in three of the four provinces...PPP only trying to weaken punjab says gilani...other provinces can do what they like...Gilani many say should step down if he wants to work against an unconstitutional breaking up of punjab...we also donot like seraiki seperatists was the general response to gilani in the punjab...
  • Sep15-2011--dengue is one disease that does not discriminate between rich, poor and the elite...as sindh's woes due to rain continue...while dengue is not yet an epidemic almost 500 cases daily are reported in lahore..with a few cases in other areas...dengue mosquito apparently likes clean water...deaths being reported daily from dengue...people with lung and heart problems and diabetics should be extra careful not to go out in the mornings and evenings...
  • Sep15-2011--three ISI workers killed in bannu

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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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