The Daily PakistanPolitics Dec 01-15, 2011

• Dec13-2011--soldier killed in north waziristan as the years 17th bank robbery takes place in karachi..!and in rawalpindi CNG stations and teh IHC cutoff gas all day in outlying rawalpindi areas for the past week...
  
• Dec13-2011--In the PTI conflicts emerged as new entrants rabble roused with old entrants...As Imran Khan has to answer a lot of questions he replaced his information secretary with an old war horse... former senator Shafqat Mahmud who has been on a long journey from the beaurocracy..when he was Benazir Bhuttos principle secretary..he than moved to teh PPP..became a political analyst...his last move..the PMLn where he brought the beaurocrats back into power as commissioners and knocked out the local body nazims...from Rahimyar Khan he probably is getting near to being in a politically important position
  
• Dec13-2011--hina Rabbani Khar states that they cannot be held responsible for an afghan refugee who stayed at rabbanis state guest house
  
• Dec13-2011--Gilani as usual drags in teh international community frightened of handling afghanistan on his own...the military was toppled from teh envoys conference since pakistan does not have teh courage to retaliate directly or covertly...and teh envoys who prefer to talk want a renegotiation of the war in afghanistan...that involves a lengthy process since it involves the Lugar aid, capitulation of musharaf, support funds and the afghan pipeline...teh US in the interim has threatened to cutoff $700 million in aid if IED making is not stopped but stopped drone attacks...the US spook Panetta still talks of winning in afghanistan and teh pakistanis prefer that they talk to teh taleban and withdraw as early as possible...many say all the pakistanis want is an apology so that they can get back to licking US boots as usual...since they cannot even stop crossovers of fertilizer into afghanistan...if any aid is stopped than pakistan should also go for a cutoff as the process of US-pakistan relations has become meaningless with teh US doing whatever they want and pakistan being dragged along..The petty US nature is apparent from some senator suggesting that fertilizer factories in pakistan are responsible for IED's...the afghans have a long history of making munitions locally and they can obviously use other explosive materials...bomb making in conflict situations is not controlled by the head office...The envoys however also suggested that overflights by teh US military should be limited
  
• Dec13-2011--problems mounted for Asif Zardari as his utility was shown to be inconsequential as teh french submarine scandal also loomed although many doubt that teh commission mafia could go for a terrorist attack...many suggest that the attack on teh french submarine bus was more indian in thinking...at best many said it was carried out by sindhi religious radicals...The acting president also clearly told Gilani that attacking teh country by envoys such as haqqani should be stopped immediately as many suggested that pakistani treacherous characters could supposedly even call in US attacks such as teh ones on teh mohmand posts..many see the PPP as backing out from dealing seriously with treacherous characters because they might be Asif zardari's friends...
  
• Dec13-2011--Just the sectarian/tribal blood letting in parachinar has resulted in 1100 casaulties with teh army scared to interfere in local squabbles...
  
• Dec13-2011--the government riddled with sugar barons wants to buy sugar at an above market price as its price is falling as demand falls...The government had last year allowed sugar prices to almost triple before they fell to present levels recently...there is definitely a lot of variation in different types of sugar and the same price for all is obviously manupulation and creation of a monopoly gang...a representative of sugar mills was illegally allowed to participate in the ECC meeting...most sugar barons are immensely rich guys and can afford to pay teh price for feed stock...sugar wholesale prices have fallen to Rs49 after almost two years of profit making...
  
• Dec13-2011--The pakistani situation is clearly depicted when the president runs away for some secret illness and the national assembly speaker runs away to be with her husband a PPP dissident...One has not seen any interim/acting president even which is a constitutional requirement..
  
• Dec13-2011--Pakistan will never learn how to conduct international diplomacy unless it realizes that it is a sovreign country...Study teh history of US-pakistan relations from teh fifties to the present....during this period american ambassadors have been running the country at times and even now US aid is dispensed thru teh US ambassador rather than teh pakistani government...approvals have been sought for primeministerial and army appointments and even political change...and now we have been reduced to just a pipe for afghanistan...pakistan must learn not to fall into US traps and not be browbeaten at any levels of government and teh armed forces...US officials have been regularly derogatory and insulting about/to pakistani army/ISI chiefs and politicians...and what they do to those on the CIA payroll one can hardly guess...indian afficionada Sherry Rehman will have to realize that she has tobe upfront and not allow US power to dazzle and subjugate...There can hardly be any respect and balance between a superpower and a country that is at best isolated in teh world and usually embarassed to even state its own objectives and prefers subjugation for reasons of security and development...The US has long used these levers to subdue pakistani governments and one can hardly expect them to change and accept pakistan after what they have done to us...the government must not accept US lies because it is inferior in military power and its projection...There would have been no reason for the US to invade afghanistan if pakistan could have done it first...even now the situation would improve if we retaliated and captured territory in areas of border violations...There is no need for an army and airforce when we can hardly react to invasions and literally elimination of our soldiers on our own borders...since the pakistani position on aid(USAID) and the US presence in afghanistan is self serving they will eventually be subdued...respect is only a attitude and usually subjugating and to present ones views openly and clearly we have to overcome our fears of opening our mouths and not be afraid of derogatory attitudes from US roughnecks...as afghanistan has never been friendly and the government there has quite literally an indianized attitude...in fact one can probably say that teh indians/manmohan probably define what Karzai says in anti pakistan utterances...The US has a wrong attitude to pakistan because of teh way we have handled afghanistan since Oliver North...who will respect u when all u want is money to do their bidding...
  
• Dec12-2011--Rehman malik turns turtle...he had recently called for a coalition with the taleban but now says no negotiations being conducted with maulvi faqir who had said that an agreement in bajaur could be a model for other fata areas...he had also said that teh government had released 186 of his men...
  
• Dec12-2011--According to Gilani/PPP logic all areas of pakistan have been victimised barring central and northern punjab...with the PPP and PMLq fortunes dipping fast the Gilani section of teh PPP might move a constitutional change petition in teh national assembly for a dubious seraiki province...at teh moment they donot have teh votes and it would be a political gimmick at best...theoretically no new province can be created barring some changes in the borders of a province...The issue too is subjudice with the LHC which is holding two important cases in limbo...
  
• Dec12-2011--the government says that Asif Zardari may not be returning soon ie not by Dec 19 when teh SC takes up the memo case...that could be one of the reasons that Asif Zardari exited the country with such haste...Asif zardari and hussein haqqani are considered the main culprits while some suggest that Admiral Mullen may have broached teh subject with General Kiani prior to the Ossama adventure...it is said that teh Kiani-Mullen divide than ocurred who were supposedly friends before that... Mullen than started to critisize Kiani rather than Pasha and said that Kiani was not reliable...Asif zardari and hussain haqqani and probably others in teh government including teh ISI chief were also recently reported to have been informed of teh abbottabad attack but took no action nor did they consult teh armed forces...the abbottabad attack and the recent helicopter wipeout of two bases showed pakistans woeful defence on the western border...and obviously the hate and vindictiveness that teh US holds for pakistan...
  
• Dec12-2011--another two mpa's moving to the PTI...one from attock and one from nowshera...!
  
• Dec12-2011--Pakistan in a face saving measure got its Shamsi airbase vacated from teh US which some say was just a midway house used early on for drone operations...nine nato oil tankers were gutted and a driver killed in Bolan district...despite all the problems created for pakistan by USA the pro US Gilani still hopeful of restarting the Nato supply line...many suggest that pakistan should take a permanent break from its childish addiction to being a US stooge...The government says 34 US soldiers stationed at the Shamsi Base which many think were involved in covert activities in teh volatile rebellious province...
  
• Dec11-2011--According to dawn Bilawal Zardari has changed his views that democracy is enough...he now thinks that Asif Zardari should have reacted more strongly to the religious militant killings of Benazir and Salman Taseer..The PPP's appeasement of religious radicalism and their terrorist attacks has given their top leaders some respite from terrorist killings...and a relative reduction in terrorism...They now are said tobe negotiating with elements in the taleban...?In fact some PPP ministers were openly supporting the elimination of teh governor on religious grounds...he is not very different from his father and is going along with the suspect nature of their alliances..on teh other hand Nawaz Sharif vows to find Benazirs killers...
  
• Dec11-2011--The courts could soon decide that party leaders cannot keep their posts when they become presidents or primeministers or chief ministers...?
  
• Dec11-2011--nato vehicles clogg karachi port as political killings continue in karachi as do what many see as local bomb blast...
  
• Dec10-2011--the provincial natured PPP has not given a single job to locals in CDA since 2008...all 1066 employees come from other provinces...!!politicians from larkana and multan are now regarded as petty natured in distributing finances across teh country in an even handed manner...
  
• Dec10-2011--power pylon blown up near peshawar..
  
• Dec10-2011--pakistans decision to put up an air defence over teh western border is questionable many say...as they neither have enough stingers nor seem willing to use teh airforce's technical capability off an aerial radar system...even on teh eastern border air defence is teh responsibility of teh airforce...many suggest that the only way is to call in air support when an attack occurs...either that or we bomb out any afghan or US post nearby after teh attack...balochistan has also decide to stop nato vehicles passing thru due to the problems they create...
  
• Dec10-2011--three rangers die in karachi as their vehicle was hit by an IED or a remote bomb blast...there have been a series of minor explosions in karachi over teh last few days
  
• Dec10-2011--Pakistans apeasement oriented Gilani who could not even order an attack on drones invading teh country daily now says there will be a fierce riposte to any further attacks...pakistans weak subordinate natured armed forces have refused to react to most invasions by teh US...however Martin Dempsey says US in afghanistan to reduce pakistans clout...many however suggest that pakistans clout is not government oriented and is due to teh invasion by the US and teh political situation in afghanistan...many suggest that teh afghan taleban retaliate for pakistan inside afghanistan when pakistan is bombed...!!
  
• Dec10-2011--Asif Zardari has all but been replaced by a young immature kid many say...zardari who has a reputation of running away when the going gets tough was reported tobe incoherent and had some sort of other problems...obviously teh rumours were true as an ordinary illness does not require even frightened individuals who even have personal physicians to go to dubai which is not very well known for medical care...
  
• Dec9-2011--The government has been providing almost free electricity to over 300000 tubewells as teh people suffer load sheddings while the agriculture community is unnecessarily pampered with price hikes...The tubewells consume over 14% electricity and are a major cause of load fluctations alongwith industry...government should allow normal releases from dams during canal closures rather than cause problems for the people
  
• Dec9-2011--DGMO says that the two mohmand border posts obliterated by US attacks were well defined and could not be mistaken for militant outposts and there wasnt any militant activity/crossings in teh area although there have been attacks from afghanistan...pakistan also withdrew 19 of its 31 joint border coordination officers who have not been effective... in stopping attacks on pakistan by US officers...Joint coordination border efforts were initiated by the same military duo in the ISI/GHQ...several years ago...
  
• Dec9-2011--uranium which is a grain in teh sand for australia where india is concerned not available to pakistan for which it becomes a rock or boulder...!!
  
• Dec9-2011--One of PPP's waris characters has apparently collapsed with an unmentionable illness and has disappeared to Dubai(a PPP safe haven) with a chorus of "he will return"...the PPP has become at best a party of ravers and ranters who have refused to study or solve problems until they become unmanageable...the same can be said about Asif Zardari who has been forced on teh country as an interim waris with little influence in teh punjab where there have been some party calls to activate Bilawal instead...!!...the first evidence of the second waris apparently taking over came as he tried to perpetuate family dynasties and force another Gilani on teh unwary punjab and attended a PPP governmental meeting...albeit in multan rather than in larkana...he is apparentally not teh child/children that Asif Zardari has gone to spend time with...!!!many donot see much respect for democracy unless teh system of entrenched families is dismantled...many suggest that to save democracy only one character per family be allowed into teh national and provincial assemblies...It is not as if the teeming millions donot create enough choices for new candidates or people with new ideas who are the life and blood of a democracy...It will eventually many say lead to a political spring here too....many point to the PPP's apparent hiding of the memo criminal hussain haqqani in the presidency and primeminister houses...
  
• Dec9-2011--in a way the people of whichever persuasion retaliated against teh mohmand attacks by gutting 34 Nato trailers in a trailer park in quetta..many have seen the PPP and military as having refused to retaliate despite there being enough evidence that teh US is literally attacking pakistan...
  
• Dec8-2011--The CDA chief who oversaw the return to slow creeping plodding development(a PPP economic miracle with trillions in revenues)transferred and replaced by farkhand iqbal...the previous regime had literally forced a faster development...
  
• Dec8-2011--a federal minister Samina Ghurki's trust hospital received over 30 million to treat seven hepatitis patients...from the Baitul Maal...?
  
• Dec8-2011--pakistans relations with the US deteriorated further as Ghulam nabi fai pleaded guilty in a US court to recieving ISI funds and working on their orders...he forfeited four bank accounts...
  
• Dec8-2011--with teh US increasingly uncooperative pakistan moving to vacate border posts that it cannot defend..!
  
• Dec8-2011--azam swati quits JUI-f and resigns from teh senate...
  
• Dec8-2011--iranians shoot dead three pakistani fishermen in the open sea of jiwani..The iranians are quite spooky as reports of a US attack esxcalate..iran says that US sentinel drone was almost 300 kilometers inside their territory...while press reports say that US has been routinely flying drones over iran for many years...with sattelites able to see almost everything on teh ground drones are generally useless for intelligence gathering...
  
• Dec8-2011--In what can happen in a day...the controversial asif zardari raced off to dubai in suspicious circumstances as reports appeared of health problems and obviously a clear suspicion of pakistans health community...reports from allover however started coming in that he might have gone for good amid the memo controversy, mohmand attacks and reports of resigning...an informal PPP meeting showed Bilawal in a chaddar playing second fiddle to the equally problem prone Gilani...reports suggested heart problems while many say that with the US continually creating problems for pakistan the regionally isolated pakistan may well have decided to change course..with rehman malik suggesting a partnership with teh taleban(to terrorize teh peopel together...)...obviously the military might not be very happy at suggestions that zardari asked teh US to get rid of his militaries top duo while other reports suggesting that asif zardari did not ask his military to tackle the May2 US invasion despite knowing of teh attack...others suggest that the military would also have knowledge of teh attack including teh ISI given their closeness to teh US...many have critisized the military and PPP for allowing literally unparalleled drone attacks and doing nothing while the US brazenly picked up Ossama Ben Laden from abbottabad and the recent mohmand attacks when two pakistani posts were wiped out..while teh taleban terrorized teh government, people and nwfp......as the taleban insurgency deescalates pakistan many suggest has been backing out from a US confontation due to weakness again and again while still suggesting that the military is still tough enough to handle such invasions...others suggest that the PPP wants a regional appeasement especially with india and some face saving formula on kashmir while others say they have no knowledge of economics and its relationship to the people given their unrelenting dependance on price hikes...others suggest that the PPP came into teh government with the mentality of staying around whatever happened...good or bad...
  
• Dec6-2011--The iranians apparently shot down a stealth high altitude new US drone called the sentinel flown from afghanistan while teh pakistanis cant yet spot the older variety predators
  
• Dec6-2011--the diehard nature of pakistani politics is going out of favor says dawn barring the Mqm as political leaders donot function as peoples representatives and people no longer interested in a heated military civilian divide...democracy too is seen as not too populistic and imran khan is providing many a way out for those stuck with dictatorial leaderships who donot support the people...
  
• Dec6-2011--policeman killed in a grenade attack in kohat as gas pipeline blast occurs in sui
  
• Dec5-2011--pakistan is so dumb that anything goes...we now hear Dempsey/Hilary/Obama saying that they did not deliberately bomb two pakistani posts in the early hours of teh morning for over four hours...and senator Mcain says that two pakistani fertilizer factories provide fertilizer used in afghan IED's...how he reaches that conclusion is unknown...
  
• Dec5-2011--Zulfikar mirza security guard shot dead in karachi...!!
  
• Dec5-2011--Imran khan who is supposedly from Mianwali says he has 530 canals of ancestral land in Mian Channu(many say that was also gifted by teh GOP)...(shah mahmood qureashi is also from khanewal...now is imran khan a niazi from mianwali,pukhtun or seraiki...)a house on 300 canals in banni gala, islamabad and that he sold a london apartment for 750000 pounds(some suggest that a one room apartment is usually not so costly)...in 2002...that must be a really expensive apartment...he says he donated two plots to SKMT and that he made 20 million in teh last world cup..he says banni gala land was just 145000/canal in 2002..he says he has paid 350000 in taxes this year...although there is no mention of what happened to his Pace deptt store investment which he supposedly also owned...another politician who announced her earnings is the sindhi shehla raza who said she earned 27000 a month as deputy speaker...he also offered his bank accounts for inspection...
  
• Dec5-2011--US moves to vacate teh shamsi airbase(there were only a few containers airlifted in two planes) as people say Asif zardari could resign in an address to parliament and make history as he supposedly wants to be compared to aung san Su kyi's long struggle for democracy in burma...others say as a last gift to responsible democracy he will resign and go and live at teh feet of bahadur shah zafar in burma(a country suppsoedly run by our ISI too...?)...Asif zardari has overseen what many say is teh division of teh country into provincial states and a continual antagonistic struggle against teh punjab while economically he drives prices higher and forces people almost to be pushed out of politics as he rules dictatorially and without any sense...his chief consultant seems tobe altaf hussein and his government has been based almost entirely on sindhi politics and issues...many regard him as one of the many politicians who like living outside teh country like his ally altaf hussein who ran and did not come back...
  
• Dec5-2011--Ijaz mansoor created another controversy when teh whitehouse shot down another suggestion of his that haqqani and zardari knew about teh May 2 strike but did not inform the military...he also says that teh ISI's S-branch was out of control and involved in everything from afghanistan, haqqanis to internal politics however one doubts that teh ISI acts without government supervision...ijaz mansoor recently is supposed to have met teh ISI chief in london...
  
• Dec4-2011--a dissident PPP mpa says only around 50 mpa's out of 108 attended a recent punjab party meeting...
  
• Dec4-2011--Tariq Khosa a former IG and FIA Dg refuses to serve on teh SC memo commission
  
• Dec3-2011--chaudhry nisar suggests that asif zardari was a member of teh outlawed NAP which was a diehard opponent of pakistan and ZAB...
  
• Dec3-2011--eight militants killed in orakzai clashes
  
• Dec3-2011--On the other hand the army chief allowed border troops to respond immediately when under attack...many suggest that border posts should be given stingers or anti aircraft mechanisms in that case...
  
• Dec3-2011--in what is being seen as the continued mockery of pakistan its government and military the US continued to issue statements suggesting in one that the pakistan military had approved teh attack on the mohmand posts...although how they were going after militants at night seems pretty strange...similarly why the pakistan army did not retaliate when teh attacks went on for four hours is also quite strange...The military seems to have suggested that they did not have any troops in the area...on the other hand the Gilani administration started to suggest that beggars cannot be choosers and similar such nonsense...The PMLn also refused to attend an in camera session as the last time despite parliament suggestions they immediately jumped into the american lap again...This is the sixth US attack inside pakistan apart from over 300 drone attacks...when will it be...enough is enough...eh Gilani...!!
  
• Dec2-2011--The weak pakistanis with a military bristling with anger(read pampered,subdued and pacified while teh people suffer) suggests that the US punish those involved in the bombings of the mohmand border posts...apologies for what seems tobe US policy against pakistan are hardly enough...
  
• Dec2-2011--India and china lead the remmittances ladder with $58 and $57 billion with pakistan at number five below mexico $24 billion and phillipines $23 billion..pakistan followed by bangladesh, nigeria, vietnam, egypt and lebabnon
  
• Dec2-2011--The troubles in fata continued as the military pounded orakzai and killed nine militants while militant outfits slugged it out in tirah killing five
  
• Dec2-2011--In what many see as hopes of teh SC and PMLn of a watergate finish the SC appointed a former policeman Tariq Khosa to head a one man commission to investigate the ejaz mansoor memo to the american military chief in which he suggested that asif zardari needed help in removing kiani and pasha the dogged military duo who many see as the power behind the fledgling and weak PPP leadership...the military many say sees it as a success that unpopular leaders are ruling teh country..The SC also asked hussein haqqani not to leave the country...If haqqani and Asif zardari are found involved the country could see the first case under article 6...The PPP had attempted to do a runaround by not charging those involved and leaving it to a parliamentary committee which is obviously not an appropriate forum for anti constitutional behaviour...Theoretically the president can fire the army chief and ISI chief but teh last attempt ended in a coup and teh weakling Gilani is frightened of other lieutenant generals...
  
• Dec2-2011--The army chief who has led teh army by keeping top positions under his control now says the US will face retaliation if it attacks pakistan again...many regard kiani as a US stooge who does not have teh guts to order a quick retaliation...teh situation after the abbottabad and mohmand attacks suggests that the pakistan military leadership lacks the resolve to make quick decisions...many suggest that teh afghans traditional anti pakistanism is taking its toll on teh situation...coupled with US literally becoming an enemy...There have been two other attacks on teh pakistan border since the US army wiped out two border posts days ago...two other pakistanis were killed in afghanistan by nato forces and another group of pakistani workers kidnapped...
  
• Dec1-2011--There is not much to the US occupation of teh Shamsi airbase ...no airplanes or even drones...run by an absent UAe the PPP regime wants a show of supposed sovreignity returned to pakistan by an antagonistic anti paksitan USA...however the anti people PPP regime raises diesel prices to further fuel inflation...