The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct1-15, 2012

• Oct15-2012--islamabad's polio vaccine administrers to get police protection...islamabad generally a peaceful area barring terrorist incidents...574 polio teams to take part...taleban have not opposed polio vaccinations but are using it as a politically visible tool against american attacks
• Oct15-2012--Even muslim country leaders have avoided visiting pakistan since 2008...one has only noticed leaders of turkey, afghanistan and bosnia...
• Oct15-2012--The PPP working on an anti ANP alliance with teh PMLq and JUI-f...while ANP tries to shore up extremist religious support in peshawar area...
• Oct15-2012--Malala condition improving says ISPR as UAE reday to send in air transport for her evacuation...The killers of karachi or the karachi terrorists generally thought tobe teh mqm want teh army to wipe out the taleban terrorists...one incident should not cause a military invasion and teh killers thought tobe from the area should be apprehended...taleban terrorism can also be ended by asif zardari ending drone attacks...the JUI's fazlur rehman has if's and buts on the attack on malala...and says that attacks on seminaries should also be condemned...seminaries are usually armed while malala was not and the taleban too should realize teh difference...alataf hussein should realize that women carrying kalashnikovs are no different to men carrying kalashnikovs or mqm killers carrying pistols...
• Oct14-2012--Asif zardaris nomiminee for ambassador to china termed inexperienced and a motorcade handler by the foreign office...
• Oct14-2012--16 killed as car bomb rips thru darra adamkhel bazaar destroying 30 shops and and eight cars...taleban who are behind literally most terrorism in this country barring karachi say they did not carry out blast as they are against bombing public places and killing innocents...what is not a public place and what crime did malala commit... a college and a school have been named after her already in swat and karachi...as over 150 have been arrested all over KP for investigating teh malala attack...
• Oct13-2012--the dawn says that the 35 national assembly seats and the 124 provincial assembly seats of KP are almost all up for grabs with no party able to maintain a province wide appeal...the ANP has gone a long way to improve its negatively considered pro indian image and anti pakistan pukhtunism...It has also invested in education in its core mardan, charsadda , swabi constituency...however the PPP, PTI, MMA are said to be in disarray with the JI having some constituencies in malakand and dir..JUI-f probably has a wider province wide appeal with the PMLn improving its chances by bringing in a politician from shangla ...The PPP is now led by a middle of the road turncoat anwer saifullah...The PTI has no leader...The MMA unable to get together again and teh contest thus boils down to teh ANP, PMLn, PPP and JUI-f as usual with teh PTI an unknown quantity that can surge thru at the last moment..in the last election the ANP, PPP and PML's shared teh national assembly seats equally but the ANP led in the provincial assembly and has ruled in a coalition which has the PPP in teh back seat...In the center the ANP ministers were failures but have not worried teh PPP like the MQM's daily backbiting...one would hope that the KP's can make a clearer decision this time...
• Oct13-2012--The Supreme Court says that both provincial and federal governments have failed in balochistan leaving it only to the FC to deal with the situation...The SC can if it has teh courage remove teh provincial government and appoint a caretaker administration with the manifesto of just improving the situation...while it is only possible to improve teh situation by making real changes like creating new provinces in balochistan the SC can only at best appoint a well intentioned individual to police the province whose assembly has stifled dissent by including everyone in the provincial government...The national assembly wants teh failed political parties to form an all parties balochistan commisssion...a generally failed process in this PPP rule...
• Oct13-2012--the cowardly crookish asif zardari did not even accompany his group of crooks almost all involved in terrorism to one extent or the other to visit malala in hospital...The PPP has been a cowardly party during this tenure not even going after teh killers of benazir bhutto and even offering to get along with the taleban...with most politicians unable to praise the bravery of teh police and armed forces they have in malala a conveniently brave figure who opposed the taleban and suffered...the politicians must learn from her bravery and lead teh people on teh street, in dealing with problems ,in teh economic field and against teh countries opponents...most people associated with this government have spent more time hiding than doing any worthwhile work ...with altaf hussein types literally having run away from teh country for good...the taleban, the mqm, the anp too must learn that the people cannot be cowed down and that the involvement of both men and women is necessary for improving teh country and the process of education which has already been islamized to a great extent improves the childrens life and learning abilities...and killing people or individuals will not make much of difference given our huge population...
• Oct12-2012--In only the second drone attack in orakzai eighteen supposed afghans were killed...while another eight died in a bomb blast in a bus stand...
• Oct12-2012--In balochistan two bomb blasts killed 14 in sibi and dera bugti while a policeman was shot dead in quetta
• Oct12-2012--malala shifted to AFIC rawalpindi although still unconcious...she got a boost politically from a 50-mullah fatwa suggesting that education of women is not forbidden in islam and that the taleban have transgressed the normal hadood in retaliating against a young girl...
• Oct12-2012--PPP raises electricity prices by another rupee for january 2013
• Oct12-2012--the kidnapping of a retired brigadier from rawalpindi and the malala attack have caused teh militaries reserve to crumble and a sort of ceasefire with the Taleban leadership in north waziristan is coming to an end and a full blown attack by the army leadership which is under moral disarray with general kiani thought to be over the legal age limit of 60 is now considered possible...The military will have to go for the top taleban leadership who have kept their heads underground...the brigadier who is into land deals and travels in a prado may just have been kidnapped for ransom...
• Oct11-2012--PPP finally manages to write teh swiss letter and asif saeed khosa approves teh draft...The primeminister now has to sign and send the letter and issue a notification to restart all NRO cases...The court hopes that the swiss will allow the return of teh money while asif zardari hopes that the swiss will refuse to restart the case...
• October 11, 2012--nine killed in ongoing karachi violence
• October 11, 2012--In one of teh biggest jokes in pakistan wasim sajjad tells LHC that teh Zardari led PPP is not involved in political acticities...zardari who is at best considered a president of teh sindhi PPP has been holding meetings in karachi almost every other day to handle teh mqm and political decision making in sindh...he suggests that the PPP(parliamentarians ) rule pakistan...many feel Asif Zardari should resign from all party offices of any kind and be an executive president rather than the president of sindh...The PMln which is punjab based also prefers that he stay out of their hair...The LHC has issued an order of expecting Asif Zardari to stop participating in governmental and political activities which are not his responsibility
• October 11, 2012--government coalition partners the ANP and MQM protest teh malala shooting even though they literally participate in killings and have been unable to develop any system to stop terrorism...both mqm and ANP leaders are abroad... many feel that teh involvement in terrorism of key government parties and their literal inability to control armed groups in Fata, karachi and balochistan is a contradiction in terms...The government in teh senate and national assembly showed its inability and heplessnss to control violence and many blamed it on american attitudes which use violence to get sympathy and change attitudes just like the taleban...
• Oct11-2012--five killed in mirali drone attack
• Oct10-2012--The PPP has started to lose support in interior sindh as two minor bombs wentoff at PPP residences while four others were defused showing that the PPP could have insider information...PPP in sindh known to play all sides of teh political game...but its division of sindh in support of mqm's karachi like LG agenda has not gone down well...many feel that all sindh districts should have metropolitan corporations but teh PPP fears the mayors could destroy them by building up local support...
• Oct10-2012--dawn says that the military's intelligence agencies divide those picked up for questioning into white, grey and black...black they kill while teh grey are handed over to teh courts and teh white released...about 25 dead bodies have been found in peshawar
• Oct10-2012--Raja ashraf not willing to talk to seperatist elements in the balochistan imbroglio...
• Oct10-2012--15 die in khyber agency in inter militia fighting
• Oct10-2012--the government sponsored malala yousafzai who campaigned aginst taleban atrocities and restrictions on girls education in swat was shot while going to school...taleban claim attempted assassination...the bullet passed thru teh side of her head and was embedded in her shoulder which has now been operated and removed...with both teh taleban and PPP regime support at an all time low it could be teh work of the nefarious rehman malik also involved in benazirs assassination...both sides have used children in their ugly political propaganda campaigns against each other...
• Oct9-2012--Talal Bugti says get rid of the FC in balochistan which has a similar image to bhutto's FSF...the FC which along with the ISI and MI is the de facto police force in balochistan, Fata and karachi with powers to kill...In balochistan they have become deeply entangled with local politics and the government does need to allow politics to develop on its own even if it beomes controlled by a few sardars...
• Oct8-2012--seven die in attack on PPP meeting near khairpur
• Oct8-2012--PTI rally stopped at border of south waziristan by administration ...imran meekly ends march with a speech and threatens long march on islamabad...islamabad which mildy opposes drone strikes wants drones tobe provided to pakistan so that they can kill the people in fata themselves..reports from the US suggest that pakistan used to provide feedback on proposed drone attack targets...
• Oct8-2012--Suddle summons arsalan to record his statement in SC graft case
• Oct7-2012--the disqualified Gilani leaves teh presidency where he was holed up after differences emerged with zardari and raja ashraf...Gilani who had refused to cooperate with teh SC feels that his son should not have been arrested for drug smuggling when hussain haqani and the bahria towns riaz malik were not...others feel that raja ashraf has mocked him by quickly making beaurocratic changes...many feel that asif zardari has turned the presidency into a safe haven or rest house for failed politicians
• Oct6-2012--cross border attack from afghanistan leaves soldier and six militants dead
• Oct6-2012--SC objects to swiss letter detail and gives law minister another five days who said that he is not an independent on teh issue and has to consult asif zardari
• Oct5-2012--SC makes the presidency a part of the case in which the army chief and president distributed funds amongst politicians... a cell in teh presidency run by notorious figures such as roedad khan, ijlal haider zaidi distributed 140 million amongst politicians for elections under ishaq khan and army chief baig and isi chief asad durrani...
• Oct4-2012--The PPP which has a long history of hiding people from teh law now is hiding tauqir sadiq wanted for financial wrongdoing in teh lahore governors house...earlier asif zardari had hidden hussain haqqani in the presidency after he had written to teh US military asking for general kayanis removal...
• Oct3-2012--Nawaz sharif says he will keep teh balochistan pot boiling and PMLn will vote for baloch parties to bring them into teh mainstream...he asks PPP to withdraw army from baloch streets if teh baloch want that...although there is little or no police system in balochistans tribal and even urban areas
• Oct3-2012--The national assembly refuses to collect dual nationality affidavits for the election commission...It is quite clear that pakistanis residing overseas donot have teh same attitudes towards law and order and economic problems in pakistan and donot represent or are unable to be true representatives of pakistanis...paksitanis living in teh USA still think things here are cheap not considering teh economic differentials...like earnings, poverty and availability...
• Oct2-2012--In a combination of ethnic terrorism and corruption Asif zardari subjugated again by karachi's ethnic warlord altaf hussain on local bodies...provincial assembly nullified in five divisions of sindh while rural sindh will have to suffer teh PPP...altaf hussain has organized a war of terror in karachi and even is involved in murders in teh rest of teh country...asif zardari has no answer to teh mqm's subjugation and control of mohajir minds in sindh and is going to depend on them to win in sindh at least...while he is expected to support teh PMLq in punjab where he has all but been eliminated from teh race...
• Oct2-2012--three die in north waziristan drone attack
• Oct1-2012--Akhter mengal falls afoul of the seperatists amongst balochistans supposed revolutionaries...one has to function within teh system to achieve anything and stopping disappearances and murders when the killers are on all sides is all but impossible...the SC has tried but it has not blamed anyone but the FC which is theoretically subordinate to teh chief minister, interior minister and also teh army chief...no one is going to soften up lest they lose their slot in grievances and politics...The government has been unconvincing in suggesting that teh intelligence system, army and FC is not involved...The murders by teh seperatist groups are all announced...as a start both sides need to announce a ceasefire and talk it out although Asif zardaris talks with teh indians and the baloch have gone nowhere...the government must clearly see a difference in terrorists and political and seperatist dissidents...many suggest that asif zardari is behind teh baloch leaders exiles and many also feel that teh sindhis direct line to teh baloch extremists has been wasted by an inexperienced negotiator...