The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 16-31, 2012

• Sep30-2012--The country has 8.26 million farms with 4% being abouve 25 acres while in total the large farms comprise 35% of the 53 million acres...It shows a diverse and healthy range of cultivable land....
• Sep30-2012--akhter mengal challenges the foreign hand concept of the PPP and suggests that there was no indian involvement in the east pakistan fiasco conveniently forgetting teh mukti bahini...he also forgets the hit squads of the teh liberation outfits and the sectarian killers in balochistan who are probably more active than the FC
• Sep30-2012--In a new poll conducted by teh IRI the PMLn leads with about 28% of the likely voters with PTI following with 24%, PPP-14% and MQM 3%...they suggest that the PTI support has fallen by around 5%...since february...
• Sep30-2012--nine newborns die in 12 hours at chandka meical hospital in larkana where despite senior staff upto four new borns die daily...they complain of a lack of neonatal equipment which and new beds can be ordered in a few minutes from suppliers in teh country...
• Sep29-2012--akhter mengal threatens pakistan that his six points are like mujibs if not implemented...with a government floundering towards its end it is unlikely that anyone can deal with issues of balochistan while the provincial chief secretary submitted to teh SC that there are no govt operated death squads in balochistan...many believe that government investigative groups might be torturing those arrested...with some thinking that the killed might have something todo with iran or iraq...while others feel that liberation groups and sectarian outfits run death squads openly which have not been dealt with by teh government at any level..
• Sep28-2012--akhter mengal comes from london to apprise them of his views on enforced dsappearances and presents six points urging an end to killings and death squads...
• Sep28-2012--Hina Rabbani khar in a change in government posture approves drone strikes...since most of teh alqaeda leaders are dead one questions the need
• Sep28-2012--one soldier and three militants killed n a cross border attack in upper dirli>Sep27-2012--two soldiers die in a roadside blast that hit a convoy near miranshah
• Sep27-2012--twelve shot dead in karachi in karachis ethnic war
• Sep27-2012--SC objects to ambiguity in swiss letter and urges teh government counsel to submit the revised letetr by October 5
• Sep26-2012--Kaira seemingly unaware that caretakers have tobe setup ninety days before elections and talks take some time...PPP many say bent upon delaying handing over power to an independent caretaker although many feel that they have already lost the next elections...Kaira says caretakers will not be setup before March 2013 and anyone can leave teh PPP...more opponents the better...
• Sep26-2012--wave of political killings in karachi..while many blame teh mqm and government for ASWJ killings with both having an anti sunni bent of mind the retaliations are usually against shiites and teh mqm...many say the zardari trip to the USA is to say his goodbyes which will probably see General Kiani follow to end his relationship and suggest a new COAS...
• Sep26-2012--The SC judges handling teh NRO case have asked for amendments in the swiss letter presented by teh law minister...many feel that since it regards generally financial wrongdoings by a contractor and a controversially crookish politician the swiss could quickly give teh judgements but even previously the swiss had backed down from ordering teh banks to return the money to pakistan...
• Sep25-2012--The PPP saw two of its gujerat families split.. chaudhry ahmed saeed and brothers of ghazanfer gul joined teh PMLn...both mukhtar and saeed could not run PIA...ahmed mukhtar a failed defence minister had earlier challenged his constituents that he does not care for them and they could elect someone else...with chaudhry shujaat breathing down his neck the PPP would need new kingpins to win even in areas like gujerat...kaira also looking like a has been...
• Sep24-2012--The ANP is being referred to as "karai de qatil" after its senior member and railways minister ghulam ahmed bilour offered 100000 dollars for teh elimination of the anti islam film maker...many see a behind teh scenes hand of former ANP member Asif Zardari as teh ANP earlier blamed the PPP for making them issue nasty comments about teh judiciary...many say teh pakistani government and armed forces are a firm believer in head money like teh USA...it is believed that teh ISI and army have collected the head money on several al qaeda small fry as well as ossama ben laden...!with many saying even teh army chief wanted to be paid teh 25 million head money on ossama ben laden..?
• Sep24-2012--100 policemen fall ill after eating stale food
• Sep22-2012--widespread demos and riots in major cities across pakistan with heavy people participation saw banks and cinema's being burned in karachi and peshawar while atm's were looted and police vehicles set on fire...relatively controlled demos in lahore, rawalpindi, islamabad and other punjab cities...23 killed mostly in peshawar and karachi...the widespread anti american feelings burst to teh fore against teh relative ease with which the western world treats anti islam utterances, films and cartoons...such demos and riots which are comparable to the power riots earlier would cause governments to collapse but teh rigid and non participatory unconcerned PPP regime is hardly bothered...with its attitude of almost complete US subjugation teh PPP regime almost sits around watching with little concern as its responsibility almost ended by teh amendments that it has brought about...many feel that internal security should a be federal concern as provinces have only a lightly armed police force already busy with terrorism, sectarianism and ethnicism...with governments having no worry of being toppled by teh army any sort of public anger, riots and terrorism has no effect on a government that has shown the least concern for the people in pakistans history of bad governance...The incompetent interior minister had mobile phones switched off but that had no effect on anything...
• Sep21-2012--The SC fired 11 legislators having dual nationality...there are many pros and cons to this...one is the concept of representation which is challenged as foreigners with dual loyalties and responsibilities are never very faithful to their constituents...and could be easily controlled by foreign agencies..rehman malik not included but teh SC called him a liar and a fraud...
• Sep21-2012--The SC judges stopped teh AG from prosecuting riaz malik for contempt after he called the CJ as a witness...many feel that teh judges have started to protect their own like politicians...others suggest that teh CJ had himself felt that his son was creating problems by taking money from the bahria town chief and might have investigated his son personally..The apparent insinuation is that the money was paid too arsalan for controlling cases against teh bahria town to their benefit...many feel that the abrasive AG may have gone too far in calling the CJ and Gilani as witnesses...others feel that if teh CJ's family had gone on foreign tours on bahria town money than teh allegations of contempt could only be for a generally negative attitude adopted by riaz malik while alleging SC corruption...newspaper allegations suggest that the bahria town chief may have also facilitated a surreptitious meeting between Gilani and teh CJ...suggesting collusion between teh PPP government and teh CJ
• Sep21-2012--protests against teh christian attitudes of seeking tolerance but continuing to insult islam has caused widespread protests in pakistan and teh muslim world...In islamabad protestors got close to teh diplomatic enclave despite teh use of containers to block roads and police and teh armed forces to tear gas and shoot at protestors...many feel that teh US does it deliberately to cause problems in the muslim world
• Sep19-2012--rallies and protests continue about anti islam film..government announces friday strike in protest
• Sep19-2012--Rehman maliks inefficiency knows no bounds..after every terrorist attack he says there was information about attacks..so...what did u do about it...than the very next statement is that they received training in waziristan and our monitoring caught them coming from waziristan...but he has never yet been able to stop any attack...also his deptt. of passports has a backlog of 250000 passports because he is refusing to pay the printers...passports now take two months for ordinary and two weeks for urgent...
• Sep19-2012--In balochistan a shiite bus coming from iran was bombed killing three
• Sep19-2012--six bohra community members died and an ice cream vendor from rahimyar khan as karachis sectarian war attacked teh bohra community thru two bomb blasts...in karachis political and ethnic war teh JI and MQM-h called a strike to stop mqm-a's killing spree as three mqm men were shot dead amongst the six killed today
• Sep19-2012--In what is being termed as a major turnaround teh PPP now ready to throw asif zardari to teh wolves...many feel that the PPP's do nothing rule is now almost over and they should be grateful to Benazir bhutto who created the conditions for their pathetic misrule...What seens like a careful orchestration of trying to oppose their corruption infested reputations raja ashraf told teh SC that he had ordered the law minister to take back teh letter written to teh swiss by a former AG and in effect restart teh swiss cases...The SC would be informed on Sep25...That leaves it to teh swiss courts or swiss judiciary to decide how to proceed...theoretically there is no bar to restarting teh swiss cases immediately and even if Asif Zardari protests he should be free to appear before teh swiss courts by September 2013...That leaves raja ashraf as the only PPP leader with some clout and who could theoretically lead the PPP to victory in teh punjab if he does something about the sindhi/mohajir attempts to break punjab into pieces...The PPP has yet to restart the thousands of other NRO cases...the dawn today suggests asif zardari still thinks he can weasel out of returning corruption payouts and many say bilawal zardari also seems worried where is future spending money will come from...or whether teh zardari's will last till the next government...!
• Sep18-2012--seven killed in karachi...as two are killed in a train crash...while one is killed at teh american consulate by police firing...one killed in jamrud as nato trailer runs into a roadside bomb...
• Sep18-2012--fresh torrents from sindh enter balochistan as there is heavy rain in rawalpindi
• Sep18-2012--SC to decide whether teh AG can prosecute teh bahria town chief for contempt...defence says that even dr. arsalan's lawyer had worked for bahria town as well as some judges...many say teh initial investigation against dr. arsalan was carried out by teh CJ thru his registrar who was supposedly also concerned about teh funds that his son was receiving and there was a serious conflict of interest which Malik Riaz said was extortion and blackmail...
• Sep18-2012--protests at teh insults to teh prophet intensified thruout pakistan...two killed...roads around teh american consulate in karachi blocked
• Sep18-2012--raja ashraf to appear in SC in a do or die effort...!
• Sep18-2012--In an escalation that leaves in no doubt the mqm involvement in karachis political murders a JI town nazim is shot dead by motorcycle killers
• Sep17-2012--sindh government to cull 21000 australian sheep that were rejected by qatar are said to have infections
• Sep17-2012--roadside bomb blows up dir van killng 16
• Sep17-2012--eight militants kileld as armed forces pound orakzai areas
• Sep16-2012--while teh PPP government covers it head with ignorance teh UN missing persons delegation met balochistan chief/home secretary who said that 83 were missing and 53 recovered...The foreign minister said that the SC is dealing with the issue...The voice for baloch missing persons presented a list of 1341 missing persons and were preparing another list of a thousand persons...The BRP said 12000 to 14000 were missing and presented a list of 2652 people of teh 4262 killed...the BBA presented a list of 150 persons..the HDP told teh UN that over 700 hazara's had been killed over teh past few years...the baloch seem to disappear without rhyme or reason barring those killed in violent activities...
• Sep16-2012--The PPP followers are awe struck by teh dumb nature of PPP politicians...eg...their position on dividing sindh...we cannot even think of dividing sindh but can divide punjab...nobody in punjab has ever thought of dividing punjab either barring chaudhry nisar, the ppp and shahbaz sharif...now they dont believe that Benazir Bhutto ordered Dr Qadir Khan teh lowly KRL manager to help the iranians and north koreans enrich uranium...according to generally perceived information pakistan setup the iranians building P2 machines and later versions and also setup a enrichment facility in china...teh north koreans were supposedly way ahead of us in missile technology and bomb making by 1991..however they probably received a few machines in exchange for missile technology...I dont know how dumb farhatullah baber is but Benazir Bhutto never tolerated insubordination and an army chief was also involved in the process...Benazir Bhutto as primeminister made teh decisions and was not as weak as raja and gilani...farhatullah baber should apologize to Dr. Qadeer Khan if that means anything...PPP policy used tobe to standup and apologize for everything under teh sun...
• Sep16-2012--Accountability court suspends sharif cases as LHC adjourned cases sine die in 2001 while LHC studies present situation...according to teh PPP they are political victimisation cases which involve the undue exercize of political power and were started by the musharaf regime in the year 2000 based mostly on PPP propaganda and teh supposed undue use of governmental power by teh sharifs in appropriating land and loans and obviously not returning teh loans ...The sharifs had struck a deal with teh military authorities in which they were required to pay their loans in exchange for political exile...and had to divide their industrial empire between their fathers brothers
• Sep16-2012--In the bahria town contempt case teh AG submits a list of witnesses including teh CJ, SC registrar, gilani, iftikhar arsalan and salman ahmed...
• Sep16-2012--US not very interested in economic development in pakistan and its interests are limited to handling terrorism...since there is no terrorism in teh USA it means that teh US wants to deal with pakistan related terrorism...drone attacks that means are handled on pakistans orders whatever teh government might keep saying about them...
• Sep16-2012--balochistan appeals for federal and international assistance specifically in transportation of relief goods to flood ravaged areas
• Sep16-2012--SC inits detailed COCA judgement says that it can evaluate executive actions and overturn legislative actions that are unconstitutional specifically in areas that affect the courts powers and the equality of citizens or their rights...The state is thus in effect an organ of teh court in matters of execution of judgements and orders...many feel the court should clearly adjudicate on immunity which now is supposed to mean that teh rulers cannot be sent to jail for bad or illegal decisions but have to face trials for rectification...in matters of contempt the court says article 90 overrides article 248..
• Sep16-2012--The ANP after using teh PPP to increase its influence does not want an election alliance...nor does teh PPP...while mahmood khan achakzai becomes teh second politician to refuse teh offer of being made a caretaker primeminister as such figures usually than have to disappear from teh scene...that almost knocks out teh PMLn baloch strategy...