The Daily PakistanPolitics Apr 23-30, 2013

• Apr29-2013--nawaz sharif says that teh PPP now only exists in advertisements as its head has run away to Dubai while teh corruption involved trio of amin fahim, gilani and raja ashraf are not tobe seen anywhere...!Imran Khan meanwhile said that he had hunted tigers and teh PMLn symbol should have been a cat...!
  
• Apr29-2013--Musharaf accuses Rehman Malik of irresponsibility in teh death of Benazir Bhutto saying over 1300 policemen were at teh rally...many regard Rehman Malik a low level undercover operative who teh PPP made teh FIA head and interior minister as teh defacto hangman of Benazir...many regard the killing as a complicated venture between teh military, taleban and PPP insiders...her handlers that included amin fahim, nahid khan, sherry rehman allowed her to irresponsibly standup in her pajero while leaving teh rally...while rehman malik is said to have left suspiciously early from teh meeting...others suggest that a religious man from sindh some say a pir gave teh orders for her elimination...but many regard teh involvement of teh men who benefited such as Gilani and asif zardari as conspicuous by their absence from teh rally...many also suggest that a long list of men have been killed by teh PPP in sindh for their involvement in benazirs murder...
  
• Apr29-2013--In sindh violence broke out when the bodies of two men belonging to the JSSM a seperatist organization were found in Dadu...The men had been picked by agencies on April 24 from Larkana...at least three were killed in teh violence...In kotri a train was fired upon and two vehicles were set on fire killing two while in hyderabad a shopkeeper was killed...railway tracks were damaged in blasts and there was firing on a market in ghotki
  
• Apr29-2013--KP/fata election violence continued with nine dying in bomb attacks on election offices in kohat, peshawar/khyber agency and firing on a rally participants in swabi...one died in swabi, five in kohat and three in peshawar...most of the dead were unrelated passersby...The taleban are said tobe attacking teh ANP but independents have also been attacked...low level violence continued in balochistan as a PMLn man was shot dead in Dadu..
  
• Apr28-2013--Like Nawaz Sharif and Yusuf Raza Gilani...Imran Khan also falls into teh new punjabi sooba's ploy of teh seraiki region where most of his leaders come from...many feel that it is an anti punjabi move for a few bahawalpuri votes...if new provinces are required than they should start from karachi and hazara which are older issues than teh seraiki area and what about teh huge unstable balochistan ...!Imran khan says that teh PMLn and PPP have ruled sindh and punjab five times each and teh PPP has been in the center at least four times while teh PMLn has ruled the center twice...he reiterates that they have not resolved anything during their long stints in power...methinks imran khan should continually focus on teh PPP and PMLn's consistent failures...zardari and nawaz sharif are just teh faces of teh parties failures and individually at least zardari has no huge levels of support..Chaudhry Nisar who many point at attempting to destabilize nawaz sharif with his divisive antics suggest that teh bat and arrow are aiming to divide the PMLn's support although many point to teh PMLn selections and rejections of candidates as achieving that aim...many feel that Nawaz Sharif could pick one of his loyalists to become primeminister and elevate himself to teh presidency if he has teh votes after teh elections...PPP continues to insist that extreme price hikes and electricity loadshedding are good policies despite affecting most of the poorer sections of teh economy teh hardest...
  
• Apr28-2013--In rawalpindi major shift in loyalties as Benazir confidant Raja Shahid Zafar plans to join PMLn and the Pir of Golra urges people to support the PTI...both have najor support groups in rawalpindi...
  
• Apr28-2013--MQM and PPP as usual play politics with small bomb attacks in karachi at an MQM office and a PPP corner meeting...three killed..hand grenade thrown outside a shiite mosque...The same politics could not resolve terrorism during five years and only encouraged terrorists..the small bombs and grenade attacks show that they are probably teh result of local feuds rather than any countrywide attempt to stop the reviled or rejected coalition parties of teh previous five years who showed no interest in the problems of teh people and kept on playing the politics of fear and personal aggrandizement...The mqm is on strike for teh last few days and since there is no government their attitude seems simplistic and childish...many feel the PPP and MQM should urge police to investigate things intensively and get to those involved even if they are their own men...in miranshah a blast destroys an independent candidates office...In Sibi a grenade thrown at JI office...In Chaman a customs checpost destroyed by a bomb...small bomb blasts have become routine since teh PPP government was removed with many suggesting that parties involved in government who are also disliked by teh taleban could be using teh taleban tactics to gain attention...
  
• Apr28-2013--teachers in balochistan refuse todo election duties in 11 sensitive districts
  
• Apr28-2013--Rangers raid PPP Aman committee offices in Lyari
  
• Apr27-2013--The caretaker ministers decide to inject 45 billion into the electricity system to get another 3500MW up and running in two weeks that should reduce load shedding by 75%...the PPP regime used to say that they are injecting 20 billion...!electricity protests in sheikupura(grid station attacked by rioters) and bahawalpur teh countries hotter regions
  
• Apr27-2013--politicians continued attacking each other in karachi as a possible retaliatory bomb attack hit an ANP meeting killing 11...The concept that the ANP, MQM and PPP are liberal democratic parties seems a bit farfetched as they are mostly are based on extreme ethnic/religious orientations...and that bomb blasts will stop or change them from their cherished political aims(always wanting tobe in power and than destroying teh country and its economy)...not having beards does not mean they are liberal or democratic in any way...in balochistan there were bomb, grenade and rocket attacks on rallies of teh JUI-f and NP
  
• Apr26-2013--four militants and two policemen killed in clash in karak
  
• Apr26-2013--internecine rivalries between political groups surfaced as a grenade was thrown at a PPP office in Nushki killing one while a motorcycle blast near a closed mqm office killed six...while in hyderabad a rangers sepoy was killed in firing on a rangers post...many feel that this could be the resultant of two opposition offices being burnt a few days ago...many feel that these could be orchestrated by teh PPP and mqm who do not have much to show for their lacklustre governance apart from electricity problems , extreme price hikes,strikes, closures and corruption...Bilawal skipped off to Dubai again for some more rest and recreation as teh PPP said he would not venture out of sindh...elswhere imran khan's rallies seem to be better populated and teh PMln said tobe doing well with most of its steady voters not shifting loyalties barring a few and imran khan support starting to show on teh street which is a new phenomenon...many feel that teh choice is between teh PMLn and the PTI although diehard PPP supporters are trying to show that they still exist although in smaller and smaller numbers...on teh other hand chaudhry nisar ali khan seems antics prone and forcing the PMLn to put up relatively weaker candidates in teh rawalpindi region...
  
• Apr25-2013--Imran Khan calls shahbaz sharif..."showbaz sharif"due to his mela antics orientation" and suggests that they will solve problems in teh overall context which have been avoided by teh PMLn(only lahore) ,PPP(multan and gujar khan), MQM(karachi and hyderabad) and PMlq who only want to develop gujerat...PTI's advertisement on education suggests that they will solve teh problems of teh majority rather than create another elite system as in teh PMLn's danish schools and earlier cadet school schemes and the more recent upsurge of private education schools...at least teh delivery methods, syllabus and books should be of teh same standard
  
• Apr25-2013--The punjab ombudsman doubles the pensions of those over 75...while there are numerous social security measures for the ill, young and rich(agriculturists and bussinessmen) those for the old aged have not been sufficiently developed...
  
• Apr25-2013--16 hurt in three further quetta blasts as tuesday death toll from blasts rises to eight
  
• Apr25-2013--The mqm, seraiki and bilawal campaigns are all being run on teh mazloom theme which does not evoke much interest these days given PPP and mqm history...one would think that teh baloch and tribals were mahkoom and mazloom but the sindhis , well off mohajirs and seraikis hardly fit teh bill...The PPP is being considered teh worst as they now want punjabis to be considered disadvantaged which has never been suggested by anyone else before...many regard it as quite funny with the development in multan and bahawalpur...they even have a medical college in DG khan although rajanpur might qaulify as backward...
  
• Apr24-2013--three killed in rangers shootout in lyari..The mqm says they were killed in 1986 in the hyderabad qilla massacre but teh sindhis say that the qilla was illegally occupied and Benazir had said that teh army had armed teh mqm with weapons which caused an operation...!
  
• Apr24-2013--six killed in LJ's bomb blasts in quetta...
  
• Apr24-2013--The mqm again plays cry baby cry as one of their poll offices was hit by a bomb in north nazimabad...two killed...this after earlier two offices of teh PTI and JI were set on fire in karachi...altaf hussein who only likes beating up his opponents calls for a day of mourning although he never cries for anyone else...maybe he should teach his goons to respect others...
  
• Apr24-2013--The IHC orders action against IG islamabad for aiding musharaf's getaway from teh court premises after arrest orders...nobody these days thinks of charging teh actual culprit who tried to escape......while retired generals came out in support of musharaf as did the coalition partners mqm teh courts moved slowly to indict musharaf for what are real serious crimes alongwith constitutional aberrations...pakistani's love a commando but not one who cant protect himself and needed six official commando's in england and FC protection in islamabad...and his running from teh court that ordered his arrest with teh help of police showed that he is quite frightened although he perhaps has not noticed the mild changes in governance that have occurred after him...teh courts can work and should...!
  
• Apr24-2013--an explosives laden car nabbed near musharaf's farmhouse raises teh stakes...as the behind teh scenes Bilawal talks about qurbani's...again?...many say teh PPP done it since they were so soft on teh taleban...?apparently he dislikes sastoi roti but likes six fold increases in wheat prices..what many ask was his south punjabi primeminister doing if teh cholistanis had to walk for water...many suggest had gilani been alive to teh challenge rather than going after extortions and only trying for a multan overhead rather than drinking water schemes for Bilawals hardship stricken poverty stricken south punjabis the situation would hav been different...now due to PPP policies people can neither afford roti or electricity...The PPP inflicted one of the worst price hikes during any government that has ever ruled pakistan...did teh PPP know what teh masses wanted and did they go after teh killers of their own and the numerous more who died under his PPPwala's rule...maybe he should look at what his people have done whenever they are in power...And this PPP which started out with""anna roti and daal mufat""
  
• Apr23-2013--in contrast to the mazloom zardari campaign imran khan offers a an islmic welfare state in Dir and Nawaz sharif offers low interest loans to youth in tando allahyar
  
• Apr23-2013--The caretakers refuse to take teh trouble to try teh couplotter for treason...!however teh courts order that he be included in teh Benazir murder case...!he cant get off scot free is my opinion...what with the coup, lal masjid , benazir and akber bugti, emergency, uniform, jailing a whole judiciary etc......he just cant plead i did'nt do it...!many suggest that he is worse than teh bhuttos and zardaris with an aging mother in dubai...
  
• Apr23-2013--Imran Khan challenges teh plodding Nawaz Sharif to a TV debate...could be interesting as Maryam Sharif says Imran Khan ran away from a contest against Nawaz Sharif in lahores NA-120...!it could turn out tobe cricket Vs. the Motorway...i suggest that Nawaz Sharif offer free healthcare for cancer patients and setting up of cancer hospitals all over teh country and contest the high charges at imran khan's hospital...in fact teh highest in teh country...could Imran Khan still bowl with a suspect shoulder and having had recent cancer treatments as well...?..many would contest teh way he collects resources for his hospital but that could make him look like a martyr...?
  
• Apr23-2013--LHC overturns CJ SC's instructions that constitutional provisions regarding electoral candidates should be adhered to...LHC says article 62 not be applied by tribunals and RO 's...Raja Ashraf who looks like a crook when looking at rental projects and teh fairwin case survives...if midway raja Ashraf is indicted would he than be disqualified...The courts have backed out after suggesting that the RO's did not apply known disqualification conditions...
  
• Apr23-2013--the government seems to have been doling out money to unknown journalists for unknown reasons...mostly from sindh and from unknown publications
  
• Apr23-2013--ten killed in karachi including two policemen