The Daily PakistanPolitics Nov 01-15, 2011

• Nov15-2011--five FC men killed in militant assaults in the bara tehsil of khyber agency...
• Nov15-2011--the much touted JF-17 of the pakistan airforce crashed near attock killing teh pilot...the PAF which does not have much input in teh JF-17 manufacturing has been attempting to sell it as a replacement for aging Mig's, and even teh Mig29...it is considered by many to have some aspects of teh american F-15...obviously teh airforce has not mastered its maintenance/flying techniques as usually new aircraft donot crash...
  
• Nov15-2011--In what can be termed tobe another blow to the PPP shah mahmood qureshi resigned from teh PPP and the national assembly..PPP punjab figures were reportedly howling in anger...shah mahmood one of the PPP's pirs was seen as teh key to the PPP rejuvenation in the punjab and he handled teh previous elections in the punjab..many say his exit leaves only a few bootlickers in teh punjab PPP and the next election could become a straight contest between the PMLn and teh PTI...other dissidents like aitezaz ahsan,amin fahim, safdar abbasi, zulfikar mirza, nahid khan have not had teh courage to leave teh PPP...He was kicked out as foreign minister in what many see as a Gilani-zardari attempt to get more foreign trips and accomodate a very junior PMLq member as foreign minister..others say he had different opinions on the arrest of an american contractor caught in a murder in lahore...considered a good organizer he could provide imran khan an entry into the seraiki areas alongwith a host of other seraiki figures...many say the Punjab PPP has suffered as it is seen as subordinate to the zardari clique or the zardari league...the PPP seen floundering in the punjab dominated by teh mian biradri and its industrialists..SM Qureshi could now strengthen teh PTI...go independent or return to the PMLn fold...many say shah mahmood qureshi a twenty year old member of teh PPP was denied a speech in the national assembly and was literally refused attendance in teh PPP CEC as well as not being allowed entry to teh Bhutto graves...
  
• Nov14-2011--Imran Khan considered friendly with teh taleban and india says he wont allow any militant group...only moral support will get teh kashmiris no where...!!
  
• Nov14-2011--Hina Rabbani Khar says friendly relations with countries in teh region which all have differing political and regional interests...u can only be friendly with nepal and bhutan...and probably sri lanka and maldives..?India and afghanistan will rip u off whenever they get a chance...
  
• Nov14-2011--PPP forward bloc being formed on an anti Gilani basis in teh punjab assembly...!!
  
• Nov13-2011--hafiz gul bahadur another pro government militant breaks off talks after military bombs out a hospital in miran shah suspected of firing at the military
  
• Nov13-2011--In the ongoing Bara offensive militants attack an FC checkpost and six are killed
  
• Nov13-2011--policeman killed in shabqadar blast bordering teh mohmand agency
  
• Nov13-2011--As imran khan works to move his political career forward and attract seemingly honest but sidelined politicians teh PMLn worries at the attempt of teh PPP to foist unpopular politicians upon an unwary public while teh choice of teh PTI attracts many who are individually strong in either wealth or area politics...a realignment of many politicians working against their personal interests and conscience is many say a need of teh time...PPP, mqm and ANP trying to snuff out opposition by cooperating in areas where they are not going to win usually...
  
• Nov13-2011--in what is being described here as a major appeasement success the indian primeminister not teh pakistani says pakistani army on board on trade matters however india can easily be held hostage to another terror incident...many here believe that Gilani apparently told manmohan that teh bombay invasion was planned by an ISI chief in teh early nineties and only given a go ahead by him...many here regard Gilani as a reluctant supporter of peace and interested in maintaining strategic power especially in the region...the kashmir process has suffered under him as he goes for peace with india excluding working on the real problems between the two countries...trade has never been a problem and was initiated in the 70's under teh Simla agreement...many say trade with india can be carried out even indirectly and is not considered beneficial for pakistan
  
• Nov13-2011--The CJ tells a military audience that a coup could be justified if carried out under teh instructions of teh government...otherwise a military led coup would be an article 6 offence...The judge has previously approved a three year takeover by the military...!!
  
• Nov13-2011--In another major blow to the ISI...five men were found dead in an attempt apparently to catch an LJ leader in Pind Dadan Khan..the ISI reputation has suffered heavily after fiascos in teh lal masjid, disappearing people, afghanistan imbroglio, taleban terror and mqm violence in karachi...a generally quite area is being billed as a dangerous terrorist enclave...
  
• Nov12-2011--Imran Khan ropes in Benazir IB chief Masood Sharif..a three way contest in the punjab could see imran khan romping thru...if he can break teh PPP/MQM shackles in sindh and get a few seats in nwfp and balochistan he could be the preferred coalition partner
  
• Nov12-2011--India ropes in regional countries on the trade issue which would be beneficial to it...US policies in teh region see the future as an indian run south asia...smaller regional countries already under indian hegemony with the pakistanis being teh only country to have a distinct nature...india ,afghanistan and USA have the same policy towards pakistan now...embarass and subjugate them thru confrontation and get their way...press reports suggest that india and afghanistan continue there anti pakistan policy based on blame and bluff...pakistans appeasement oriented rulers seem the perfect target for a seemingly US oriented subjugation...culturally, militarily and strategically...The crybaby routines are very familiar..manmohan singh wants teh JUD thrashed...the USA wants the haqqanis eliminated and the afghans say gilani had burhannuddin rabbani killed...!!!why they even talk to pakistan is beyond understanding...
  
• Nov11-2011--Judges dost mohammed khan and sheikh azmat saeed tobe the CJ's of teh PHC and LHC while parliamentary committee defers decision on one judges elevation to the SC out of four...
  
• Nov10-2011--two die in militant-army clash in miranshah
  
• Nov10-2011--western reports suggest that asif zardari seeking US support for removing recalcitrant or refusing to go willingly military leadership...many see the military leaders as dummies who are trying to make the appeasement natured PPP leaders look tough while Gilani blames teh ISI chief for drone attacks...ISI and zardari now thought to be willing to attack old friends like the haqqanis...military seen as backing down after the abbottabad attack and ground/helicopter attacks from afghanistan or cowering behind the appeasement lobby and statements such as 'armed forces can deal with any foreign attack" which have generally been found tobe false...
  
• Nov10-2011--Zulfikar Mirza accuses sindh PPP ministers of corruption after manzoor wassan made an outlandish suggestion that zulfikar mirza was receiving 6 million from the karachi ghas mandi..!sindh ministers say that Zulfikar mirza has routinely disappeared in difficult times in teh past...
  
• Nov10-2011--In swabi ANP former nazim, son and guard killed in suicide blast
  
• Nov10-2011--three hindu doctors shot dead in hindu-muslim feud over a muslim dancing girl in shikarpur
  
• Nov10-2011--The appeasement oriented PPP says that it refuses to backdown from giving pakistans enemy number one teh MFN status...one can hardly describe india as paksitans most favoured nation...there have been severe protests from industry and the military many say...
  
• Nov9-2011--Rehman malik says india should also treat hindu terrorists in a similar manner in india...like pakistan treats muslim terrroists..?
  
• Nov8-2011--Rehman Malik who can best be described as the occupier of karachi or fateh e mqm has subdued altaf hussein to such an extent that he calls him a friend...the mqm said to have eliminated over 150 policemen in karachi...some news items have suggested that altaf hussein might attempt another attention gathering situation...rehman malik seems unaware that the PPP did not get a mandate anywhere except sindh...at the center their 30-40% vote mandate is almost up...
  
• Nov7-2011--PMLn says that imran khan has built a palace on 300 kanals of land with suspect funds
  
• Nov7-2011--Dawn says that politically prominent dissidents from the three major parties led by jehangir tareen a suspicious financier could soon announce a partnership with the PTI...as entire Gojra PPP joins PTI
  
• Nov7-2011--four killed in militant attacks in fata
  
• Nov7-2011--Zulfikar Mirza says that PPP(zardari) is literally appeasing teh mqm and his one aim is to crush the mqm snake.
  
• Nov6-2011--In controversial news Raja Riaz a PPP senior leader found involved in gas theft in associated factories in faisalabad...Is the MQM robbing banks in karachi...there have been 60 million in bank robberies in the last few months...blamed on militants...In karachi the mqm has usually been successful in blaming militants when its own militants army was doing killings, burnings and house occupations...altaf hussein reportedly said that my soldiers are not always following my orders...
  
• Nov6-2011--A dawn analysis says that imran khan with his supposed crusade dictation oriented politics has problems with political issues and not having individually popular candidates..even if his huge rally figures are accepted he could have 10-20000 votes in each lahore constituency...that amounts to the upwardly mobile professionals having wealth and attitudes and those who remember his cricket and cancer hospitals...however his association with corrupt rulers has a long history...put that in the context of the country and he needs a coalition which can manage another 20000 votes per constituency...that would get him into a coalition government forming situation..Given his education background he might in all possibilities form a popular well managed government...one has to realize that if u support imran khan u have to support his candidates...having too many heavyweights or uniform weight politicians like teh PPP causes a loose unsteady government
  
• Nov6-2011--The dawn says that Gilani is desperate for a seraiki province move to embarass teh PMln who would like to handle it when they are in power...many say the punjab assembly does not have support for the seraiki province and the people trying to break punjab will be wiped out in the next elections...that is teh reason that the PPP wants to create a base in south punjab where they are likely to win some seats even when teh PMLn has a strong presence...the PPP has already bifurcated in teh punjab and appointed makhdoon shahabuddin as the seraiki region president..It has not done that in the case of sindh where karachi and hyderabad are clearly different regions or hazara in nwfp or the pukhtun/baloch areas in balochistan...which probably means that its support in south punjab must be falling for it to go for a seperate leadership...many think the PPP is confused between south punjab and seraiki identities...others say that it would be difficult for the PPP to move to a seraiki province and teh PMln for a south punjab province unless they decide how to divide teh punjab...south punjab is not all seraiki and many non seraiki areas also want to be a part of south punjab which shows the negation for the reasons for a new province...many say the PPP has a strong shiite-extremist alliance support in the south punjab area which has served the PPP upto now...however teh seraiki province creation may eventually wipe out teh PPP as teh issue will be neutralised...The PMLn is coming across as only lahore based as they show a lack of interest in other punjab areas...shabaz sharif has stopped development schemes in other areas such as a murree water supply scheme, overhead over murree road and connecting raja bazaar to chaklala...and is only moving on bigger lahore projects...Gilani has been losing support fast in central and northern punjab..even on teh seraiki province issue he has not been able to move a constitutional petition in the national assembly...he also opposed the seraiki province initially and formation of new provinces in nwfp and sindh...there has been a considerable slowdown in islamabad projects since teh PPP took over and even teh lehtrar road project has not been completed yet...
  
• Nov6-2011--people are surely being ground into teh dust economically by the PPP and their dukandar mentality...on teh last day before eid in rawalpindi one used to see hoardes of goats and sheep...this time one saw only a few bulls...people surely in teh PMLn trying to get out of buying a bakra...?...only corrupt PPP walas and rich agricultural/bussiness walas are now able to afford a real goat...
  
• Nov6-2011--many suggest that hina rabbani khar should attempt being friendly with the people of pakistan first before jumping into the indian laps who are at best planning military strikes against pakistan...the government many say wants to flood teh pakistani streets with indian products so that ahmed mukhtar can sell his shoes in india...?u cannot be friends with neighbours when the people at home are unhappy...?
  
• Nov6-2011--In what many see as the total subjugation of altaf hussein and the mqm...sindh went back to the failed british commissioner system which only existed in teh british colonies...In punjab teh commissioners have failed almost totally...unable to handle anything...The mqm had jumped out of teh coalition and threatened war if teh commssioner system was implemented while sindhis saw the LG government system as teh defacto seperation into small cantonments with sindhs entire wealth being swallowed by karachi and hyderabad...many say that altaf husseins continuous attempts to fool teh sindhis and mohajirs thru violence have failed while teh sindhis think teh PPP is little more than a mohajir tool...
  
• Nov5-2011--friend of ex shiite SHC judge shot dead in front of his house in what could be a sectarian incident...two people from multan arrested after killers car ran into a wall
  
• Nov5-2011--many feel that teh zardari regime will go in for another 400 billion in taxation after taking responsibility for circular debts which many say has mounted because teh government has not paid its share
  
• Nov5-2011--CIA to curtail drone attacks and take into consideration state deptt and pakistans opposition...Gilani's position was that teh ISI was giving the USA information for drone attacks while he was opposed to their legality..many however feel that teh americans have realised that pakistan using them for their own ends in drone attacks and that the stoppage of drone attacks would help them in the end game...
  
• Nov5-2011--PPP faced with a trust deficit in seraiki areas divides punjab wing into two...?
  
• Nov5-2011--many say the PPP's traders amin fahim and shoe seller ahmed mukhtar are behind teh hurried attempt by indian spies in the PPP to get teh MFN status for india..PPP many say has a shopkeepers mentality...others suggest that they should encourage small bussinesses here rather than focus on trade that apparently has always benefited india...others like talat masud suggest that pakistan more used to playing on teh world stage has been brought down to earth by teh USA as a small unmanageable country and forced by teh USa to play with its regional problems india, afghanistan and iran...government now trying to suggest that military generals usually wary of teh indian dustbowl antics are being consulted about teh attempted indian bear hug of the gilanis and zardaris...USA prefers small upstart countries like pakistan to be mired in regional associations and regional problems and not be negotiating for nuclear power status...the PPP has now started to backtrack from the MFN status after teh indians refused to stop harsh crackdowns in kashmir and harsh reactions from teh military and ISI...!!
  
• Nov4-2011--In pakistan if u jail even a terrorist he becomes a politician...mohammed asif and salman butt could be future politicians as their jailing in england has caused some sympathy...many suggest that it is the PPP attempt to subdue imran kahn and is a depiction of pakistans poor foreign relations in which it has to let go murderers but but cant handle the cases of a few cricketers properly...
  
• Nov4-2011--The PPP view is that NAB can only function if it takes up cases of third tier government management rather than politicians and generals only...
  
• Nov4-2011--four new bullet ridden bodies found in balochistan...many think political groups and baloch government fighting it out..
  
• Nov4-2011--some new canadian jokes...the US economy is so bad that exxon mobil has laid off 35 congressmen...while another suggests...that the US economy is so bad that truckloads of americans caught sneaking into mexico
  
• Nov4-2011--another three die in miranshah drone attacks
  
• Nov4-2011--The gilani regime again raises electricity prices by Rs1.77 per unit after Rs3.04 in september falsely suggesting that furnace oil prices which are falling have risen by 33%...PPP trying to use electricity and gas prices to raise finances and taxes... Raja riaz who thinks that shahbaz sharif is a problem should realize that most of teh price hikes especially in teh electricity tariff have caused more problems to teh people and economy...to keep teh economy steady electricity prices must be stabilized...PPP according to sarfraz nawaz now little more than dhaka start(have tobe pushed around) in most areas of governance...PPP and mqm think that epithets or political mudslinging against unpopular politicians is teh problem...only...
  
  
• Nov4-2011--three pakistani players two of them their best bowlers jailed in england for bowling paid no balls...many suggest that shahid afridi might have been the tip off guy who had just been removed as captain...?most pakistani cricket players are used to betting with teh countries and arab tycoons...some also bet indirectly on the english betting system...people like miandad, waseem akram, saleem malik have they say made a lot on side bets...many point to the supposedly 27 crore sixer that miandad made in a UAE match's last ball against india...others point to the fact that starting a new betting system challenging teh legal british system probably caught them out...the pakistani cricketers not paupers and being paid substantial sums by the board and sponsors...others say a few cricketers like kamran akmal and riaz wahab may have gotten off scot free despite involvements...many cricketers complain that pakistani companies only sponsor a few top players...others point to a lahore mafia that controls selection and local betting with indian bookies trying to get their pounds of flesh too...
  
• Nov3-2011--two security men killed in militant attack in mohmand while two FC men killed in turbat blast... The PPP says FC control placed under provincial government for the second time after no one believed that teh FC was killing on the orders of teh provincial chief minister...
  
• Nov3-2011--The PPP fell into another trap when they propagated that india is their favorite country...The MFN status is a technical trade term...trade with india is a one way street say many and pakistan cannot benefit very much given india's refusal to buy pakistani...many say people like teh defence minister want servis shoes stores in india but india has refused to allow even teh import of shoes...
  
• Nov2-2011--Raja Riaz a senior PPP politician has had his faisalabad paper mills gas connection disconnected for failure to pay a bill of 10 million while teh sindh government attempted to takover Engro Urea(Engro has 5 billion in profits this year)after it raised urea prices by Rs400 due to unavailaibility of gas...
  
• Nov2-2011--The mqm is coming across as a big liar in the punjab...its punjab branch apparently is already involved in murders...PMLn sources say rehman malik duped altaf hussein into saying that nawaz sharif used to cry in attock jail at night...others say if teh military of teh country jails a primeminister in a jail meant to interrogate foreign spies than it is a crying matter...others say that nawaz sharif was reciting ayatul kursi every night...many others also describe waseem akhters mentality as belonging to the shahi mohalla variety and depicting a poor lack of intellect and honesty when he described on television that mujra's take place in all punjabi homes...others say altaf hussein a frequent visitor to londons belly dancing clubs and strip clubs...some say alcohol is the reason that he refuses to return or the possibility of a ten year jail sentence if not a hanging
  
• Nov2-2011--the undemocratic Gilani regards talk and analysis of early parliamentary elections as a joke...the PPP seems bent upon forcing the people to live in dificulties under its inept rule in which we are supposed to be unable to generate electricity even to meet domestic needs...pepco says teh economic situation is so bad that import of electricity from india or even bangladesh tobe cheaper
  
• Nov2-2011--Pakistan ranks amongst the bottom five in income and well being ratings...in fact pakistan is just above somalia in personal security ratings at number 109 out of 110...poverty can be described as being at number 85/110 in being able to afford food and shelter...105 for political stability..103 for infant mortality...100 for spending on healthcare...but is at 11/110 in emigration...but 67% of pakistanis are satisfied people...
  
• Nov2-2011--The SC should realize that nandipur was not a rental power project...a rental power project should be up and running in a year(definition)...government should either buy the karkey ship or send it back...teh court should also look into how the cost of projects such as teh Neelum Jhelum escalated from Rs15 billion in 1989 to 333.191 billion...everybody in the finance ministry, water and power ministry including ministers and secretaries since the mid 1980's should be investigated...how has teh government theoretically decreased teh cost of teh rupee by a whopping 2500%(in terms of teh NJHP)...many think that all finance ministers since 1982 should be sent to NAB...what to say of wapda chiefs and ministers of water and power...
  
• Nov2-2011--The british judiciary bowled a lose delivery...the judge allowed two no balls...in a jury system it is thought that only a unanimous verdict counts...the judge must take into account that it was a sting and that he must charge the news of teh world reporter who put up the cash...and one has always thought that the police must direct a sting not a newspaper...the three no balls were not effective...will umpires now charge a bowler for bowling deliberate no balls...seven years for what.. when most of the money was made by either salman butt or by the broker...confiscation of the money and a bann of around two years should be enough...did not hear of mohd asif receiving any money...cricketers of like salman butt have who have played around 39 tests matches have over 180000 dollars in their bank accounts...many think that is unreasonable in terms of earnings in pakistan terms...
  
• Nov1-2011--three kiled in miranshah drone attack...The USA implies that the taleban can attack us and we will attack them but still try to hold talks...the best way is to start with a negotiated ceasefire...?US attacks on teh haqqanis have resulted apparently in renewed taleban attacks in afghanistan
  
• Nov1-2011--It is being rumoured that both Kiani and pasha are just dummies and that actually Gilani approves all the drone raids himself...?
  
• Nov1-2011--The SC now wants corruption of teh railways investigated as teh railways minister appointed a relative to take over the purchase deptt...various issues discussed in which a Rs50 bulb is purchased for Rs400 and railways silver used in repairs sold at throwaway prices...chinese apparently have not repaired teh fifty engines that were recently acquired and they are not being used at all...railways electricity wires have been stolen and they donot know how to file cases of corruption in NAB...!apparently railways officials who used to have their own saloons now travel by air...however teh SC should take steps to restart the railways engine repair deptt...since Gilani wont do his job..
  
• Nov1-2011--many suggest that altaf hussein's belly dancing(in the bedroom)days are not over as he seems now willing to get out of teh zardari bed and dance into imran khan's...altaf hussein had mesmerised asif zardari and rehman malik with his belly dancing(terrorism)...PPP has done a lot to keep him tied down but his slavery to zardari not too popular amongst teh rank and file...he now apparently wants todo another flipflop and jump into the next winning combination...however imran khan has told him that he wont tolerate his murder and crybaby routines and he must give up his criminal activities for good...!
  
• Nov1-2011--Imran khan maybe opening a can of worms as Chaudhry Nisar says he is involved in spot fixing, betting,ball tampering and some say even drug smuggling...however both the PMLn and MQM saw the possibility of people swithching loyalties and were willing to jump from teh zardari to the imran khan camp...with imran khans popularity soaring and possible votes of teh PMLn and mqm the PPP coalition would be a soft target at best...thus Imran khan could become the next political supremo...