2018 Elections

2018 Elections
election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Daily PakistanPolitics May 01-15, 2013

  • May15-2013--Pervez Khattak and Asad Qaiser jockey for the position of chief minister KP in the emerging PTI dominated KP assembly
  • May15-2013--JI, mqm men in seven shot dead in karachi
  • May15-2013--PMLf calls for sindh shutdown on 16th over election results
  • May15-2013--34 of 39 independents join PMLn in punjab assembly to enjoy a huge majority...
  • May15-2013--Sherry rehman who many blame for designing bad PPP policies for governance resigns as US ambassador...
  • May15-2013--polling on 19th in NA250 where the ECP suspended polling in selective polling stations
  • May15-2013--bilawal zardari to go with teh dumb approach of qaim ali shah in sind and refuse to accept that PPP policies and refusal to get rid of corrupting influences is teh reason for their defeat or wipeout in three provinces...Sindh has gone completely ethnic with only some inroads by teh PMlf, PTI, NP and PMLn...many see in those circumstances continuing turmoil in karachi where the mqm refuses to cooperate usually...it seems that sindhis enjoy turmoil in karachi and refuse to even acknowledge its existence...The PPP barely fought back in the last few months to keep their support in interior sindh and a repeat will surely mean disaster for them in future elections
  • May15-2013--Nawaz Sharif meets teh recuperating Imran Khan and suggests a friendly opposition...Nawaz Sharif had duped Imran Khan in teh 2008 elections and has not shown any electoral mercy...Nawaz Sharif has roped in seven independents and five PMlf seats would raise his tally to 135...if two PKmap seats are added than they will have 137...they probably can get to 150 seats with various fata members and getting teh supports of smaller groups and other independents...with about half the 70 additional seats they could form a comfortable government with 185 seats...at teh moment they have no alliance with the JUIf who is opposed in Kp but probably will end up supporting teh PMLn at teh center and balochistan levels
  • May14-2013--The PTi protesting rigging on various seats..some results were withheld for three days without reasons...The federal government expelled a New York Times reporter who they say had been assigned to organize after election protests
  • May14-2013--The Punjab governor who had been appointed to control teh seraiki elections resigned after the total failure of the PPPP...while the PMLn was selecting independents to achieve a majority at the center and even in teh provincial assembly where it is headed to a two third majority
  • May14-2013--Nawaz Sharif says he will be more open in foreign policy and wants meaningless trade with india... as India which is unlikely to move on a solution on kashmir which is teh only issue that makes india behave in a suspicious and conspicuously unfriendly manner with pakistan...many see it behind most of teh terrorist violence in teh country ie apart from the involvement of ethnic/political groups, parties and religious/taleban terrorists..with pakistans foreign exchange problems and possibly another IMF package and expected tax/price hikes...wasting funds just for teh fun of having trade with india is just going tobe counterproductive to pakistans industry as well as other producers...Sartaj aziz likely tobe teh foreign minister with ishaq dar at finance...India theoretically is the easiest thing to handle...only amounting to sweet talking and no results hardly matter...last time as vajpayee and nawaz sharif met teh security chiefs pointedly did not attend teh official dinner although the military is quite cooperative these days...teh difficult thing might be teh appointment of a new army chief who is due to retire this year and is regarded by many as a failure in improving teh internal security situation
  • May14-2013--In Sindh Owais Tappi emerges as the darkhorse after teh lacklustre performance of Qaim Ali shah...others being considered are Nisar Khuhro, Hazar khan bijarani, agha siraj durrani etc....
  • May14-2013--In KP PTI's pervez khattak expected tobe teh chief minister after he cobbles together a coalition...
  • May14-2013--the balochistan assembly elections threw up the PKmap 10 seats, PMln 9 seats,
    teh NP 7 apart from the JUI-f 6 seats, PMLq 4 seats, BNP-M 2 seats, independents 7 seats with three other parties getting one each...speculations as to teh chief minister would be one of mir jan jamali, sardar sanaullah zehri, nawabzada mir Changez marri of the PMln, or Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezai of the PKmap
  • May13-2013--the elections went according to a generally held widespread perception that teh PPPP was headed for failure...The PPPP lost almost in teh entire country apart from interior sindh...even losing a karachi seat to the PTI...The mqm showed its pathetic failure in interpreting democracy and its mandate which many regard as that of sitting in teh opposition...sindh only showed minor changes with teh PPPP sweeping in teh interior and mqm maintaining its hold on karachi and hyderabad...the rest of teh country apparently went national as to sindh's ethnic trend..in Punjab, Kp and balochistan major changes occurred with the PMLn gaining in acceptance and newer forces such as teh PTI, NP, QWP and PKmap emerging stronger alongwith the JUIf...The PMLn which apparently handled punjab better in the face of riots, power cuts and seraiki province manipulations of teh PPPP will have to formulate a countrywide policy at teh center to handle teh major problems such as electricity and terrorism...price hikes and tax enhancements are unpopular and central priorities should be effective nationwide as opposed to teh PPPP's sindh only or multan only approach...whether they can quickly handle teh electricity problems is unclear at this stage and teh people might not understand their pro industrialist approaches which were a clear failure in teh previous regime...job creation of a mamoth proportions are also considered improbable and therefore a more effective social security system that handles the poor and unemployed will have tobe implemented...The BISP methods are a clear failure
  • May12-2013--The pakistani elections literally kicked teh PPPP out of power as their leader Bilawal Zardari was referred too as teh most cowardly sindhi leader since altaf hussein...people were found saying that if PPPP leaders needed so much security they should leave politics to ordinary guys who could mingle with teh people and access voters...many said they had more P's than leaders...while others said that sindh liked load shedding while punjab did not...The peace and quite of two days without loadshedding was unimaginable with even teh dogs not barking as teh looters were defeated with a bang by teh PMLn...the only dhandli's were reported from teh mqm areas with teh PTI asking for re-elections in karachi where election staff did not arrive and many say the strongarm tactics of teh mqm were not checked by the ECP...however one constituency NA 250 will have a re-election in 40 polling stations...where the PTI was said tobe leading...The other surprising result was the emergence of teh PTI with fewer NA seats than expected but with a countrywide popular presence......however they knocked out teh ANP from teh largest party position in KP with 33 seats where a QWP party won seven seats...The PMln also reemerged in teh KP, balochistan and sindh as did teh JI in KP and teh national assembly...The JUI also seemed to do well in KP, balochistan and teh center...the balochistan scene was still confused while the PPP was knocked out of punjab,KP and balochistan...in the provincial assembly of KP the ANP and PPP had just 5,3 seats each...seraiki areas saw an almost complete sweep by the PMLn...In sindh the PPPP kept hold of teh sindhi mindset with teh mqm facing some problems in karachi...In sindh the PPPP won most internal sindh national assembly seats with five to teh PMLf,one to PMLn, two independents and one to teh PTI...PMLn even won two seats in teh sindh assembly where teh PPPP had a majority of 70...In punjab the PMLn domination continued in teh provincial assembly with over 200 seats...The PMlq was wiped out and there were 40 independents in teh punjab provincial assembly...At the center teh PMLn was leading with 128 seats and 27 independents with teh JUIf getting 11 and 18 others...many said teh independents would join teh PMLn although it still has a minor chance to get to teh figure of 137..The PPPP earlier in teh third place seemed to push teh PTI out of a second spot eventually...Nawaz Sharif teh expected primeminister gave a sort of family speech of acceptance and could be expected to go into an alliance with teh PPPP or teh PTI at the stage of the presidency election...if most of teh 27 independents join the PMLn it would have a majority of 15-20...In rawalpindi the PMLn lost three NA seats and a provincial seat to the PTI which could be said tobe a shock and barely saved NA54...however they defeated teh incumbent primeminister in gujar khan...In punjab most seats saw the PTI coming in second and one would probably have to say that inexperience and teh delaying of elections by teh PPPP caused teh PTI irreparable harm...commentators say that seeing the braying of teh hounds and teh fast track emergence of teh PTI the PMLn reacted by shoring up its support from teh PMlq and worked to show the inefficiency of the PPP and its purported corrupt practices which could not even complete teh new Islamabad airport and how it forced teh completion of the transport corridor and overheads in lahore....!!! Both previous primeministers of teh PPP have been knocked out and teh PPP has been left licking its wounds in sindh...PTI knocked out the PPP on a karachi seat and won one in Tharparkar
  • May10-2013--Former wapda chief in the 1980's who was living in exile arrested for corruption from bosnia..he faces allegations of making 267 million assetts and had 77 local and offshore bank accounts...
  • May10-2013--Fire in LDA plaza's seventh floor kills five...
  • May10-2013--violence continued with three killed in attacks on two PMLn candidates in nasirabad and turbat...two security men were killed in an exchange of fire and a passerby at teh other incident...In multan two were killed as a son of yusuf raza gilani was kidnapped from a corner meeting...in mirali a bomb killed one at teh office of a south waziristan candidate...a bomb blast in mansehra killed four including two policemen...a blast at a cricket ground left one dead in bajaur...two blasts occur in swabi one in front of teh BISP office and one in front of an ANP office..an anp office blownup in charsadda...taleban to carry out attacks on teh 11th says the daily dawn
  • May10-2013--the campaign came to an end with a big rally by Nawaz Sharif in lahore and smaller rallies in rawalpindi by sheikh rashid, PTI in D-chowk, islamabad, JI in islamabads hockey ground and PPP in teh ouskirts of rawalpindi...The PPP showed that they were totally frightened and raja ashraf refused to attend teh bara kahu rally by Nawaz Khokhar...both teh PPP, bara kahu and PTI rallies were addressed by video link with imran khan in bed after a nasty fall and the cowardly Bilawal Zardari from a hideout in Dubai...the trends in pakistani politics show that the portly 67 year old Nawaz Sharif maybe headed to the primeminister house and security really cannot be provided to each and every politician...Bilawal Zardari who had become used to being followed by each SHO from karachi to larkana is obviously not a politician attuned to teh pakistani situation...leaders like him will have to join altaf hussein another frightened ethnic desperado who has been in exile for 14 years...Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have teh personalities to rule pakistan and also being shown some respect by teh taleban teh supreme terrroist desperados in pakistani politics who are kept at a distance by even teh armed forces and teh ISI...
  • May09-2013--the pro PPP Herald gives a hopeful 24.89 % of seats to teh PPP...34.89% to the PMln and only 12.11% to the PTI...the highest possible for the PMln they say is 44% of seats...44% amounts to around 144 seats which makes it very easy for them to form a government with a probable coalition partner being teh PTI with about 40 seats or even smaller pukhtun, sindhi and baloch groups...The current coalition could still challenge but many donot see them in a very strong position as the PPP is doing very poorly in the punjab...The herald see's the PPP leading in seraiki popular support but the PTI and PMLn are also very strong in that area...as there are strong punjabi votebanks in south punjab as well...Imran Khan with substantial pukhtun support could do very well in KP and balochistan
  • May09-2013--A dawn comparision of the last three elections in punjab shows that teh PPP has steadily improved from zero seats in 1997 to 46 in 2008...in 2008 many believe that teh benazir factor helped teh PPP...probably vote wise this is the worst election for the PPP with the PPP almost invisible in punjabs urban areas...The PPP secretariat in rawalpindi opened recently also seems to have been closed down...The PMln however has an upside down record with 109 in 1997 ..14 in 2002 and 62 in 2008...going into the elections the PMLn was regarded as teh strongest party in punjab however many regard teh PTI as having recovered lost ground...The PMlq which emerged in 2002 has steadily lost seats from 62 in 2002 to 28 in 2008...In 2008 the vote percentage of The PMln, PPP and PMlq was similar around 29%..Theoretically teh PMln and PTI should split the punjab seats with a few going to independents, PPP and teh PMlq... each...while many believe that substantial PMLq votes will move to teh PMln a lot of PPP voters will vote for teh PTI or stay at home...
  • May09-2013--In peshawar four killed in terrorist attacks while one terrorist arrested...in bajaur two ANP activists killed while five Levies men kidnapped in kalat after blowing up their checpost..three killed in suicide attack on bannu police station..ANP guard shoots dead two passersby in charsadda
  • May09-2013--Imran Khan has suffered nine fractures in his backbone and chest...according to Dawn one stress fracture is serious with a compression of 40% in height...according to one doctor imran khan should rest for four weeks...according to sheikh rashid his sisters will probably attend his May9 rally in rawalpindi
  • May08-2013--seventeen of balochistans 30 districts plunged into darkness last night as two 220KV power pylons supplying balochistan were blownup near Dera murad jamali in an area that has become a hub of terrorism of all sorts of politics...in other acts of terrorism a hand grenade was thrown at the home of zubeida jalal in mand a musharaf minister and now in teh PMLn...and a school was blownup in kohlu
  • May08-2013--two mqm workers shot dead in a probable retaliatory attack at a korangi office...
  • May08-2013--Dawn says at least three supposedly brave leaders of specifically ethnic groups...altaf hussein, bilawal zardari and Asfandyar wali running campaigns from hiding, in england, dubai and islamabad...for a pukhtun like asfandayar that is probably the greatest humiliation and cowardice...Bilawal Zardari obviously is not as brave as his mother who travelled all over pakistan with minimum security...
  • May08-2013--In what maybe retaliatory terrorism from liberal groups 14 killed in three terrorist attacks in KP...a JUIf rally hit by a suicide car bomb killing eight in Hangu...In lower dir a convoy of PPP supporters hit a roadside bomb killing five while a minor candidate's rally fired upon in swabi killing one...
  • May08-2013--In a major development Imran Khan while climbing to the stage on a forklift in Gulberg,Lahore tumbled off along with four guards from a height of around 14 feet..he suffered apparently severe injuries to his head and back...he was recovering after stitches and treatment in hospital...he would have to rest for a couple of day's and many say his campaign would now have tobe run from hospital as he recuperates...many say his group of personal guards destablized imran as they also clambered onto teh forklift and caused the literally head first fall...It could not be called a dive when one throws a cricket match but it could effect his reputation and confidence as his opponents were probably smiling at his severe predicament...
  • May07-2013--Imran Khan says he expects to win but will look into possible coalitions if required...For Nawaz Sharif a coalition could be difficult...many expect surprise results that could reorient politics although teh favorites remain the PTI and PMLn with other groups either turning into onlookers or possible coalition groups...
  • May07-2013--many are calling Bilawal Zardari crazy after one political advert... Bilawal Zardari who is in hiding almost comes across as a suicide bomber offering his head and his life...nobody needs your head or your life but they need politicians to work to resolve problems that plague teh country...
  • May07-2013--one pmlf worker killed by mqm gangsters in karachi...
  • May07-2013--A Pildat release suggests that teh left right alignment in politics has ended and now politicians use whatever methods(called reactionary politics) they can to outwit each other...The left leaning PPP's emergence in teh late sixties and its socialist program was slowly brought to an end by right wing military rulers and the general capitalist orientation in teh country..teh PPP was taken over by rich landlords and other political groups like teh muslim league by pirs and industrialists...the religious groups relied on traders and bussinessmen...thus teh peoples orientation in politics ended and the only ideal was to achieve governing power...The recent PPP example shows the disorientation even of an old party and its inability to satisfy teh people...The military which was regarded as the governors of last resort also lost teh peoples confidence and teh intelligence(MI, ISI, IB)failed to control growing violence and terrorism...The police became a reactionary force from a situation where they controlled politics and areas...The countries politics became host to terrorism, sectarianism, ethnicism and to some extent nationalism...teh PPP failed its countrywide popularity and turned into a sindh only party while other parties emergence was based on ethnic marginalisation...bigger parties emerged in teh punjab like teh PTI and teh PMln but will possibly have to rely on smaller groups from other provinces...a major blow to teh PPP was its failure in dividing the punjab thus institutionalising its power base in governance further...and making people realize its anti punjab animosity...parties now just want to come to power and try to last as long as possible with no real agenda's on how to resolve problems in teh countries various sectors...teh countries economy is stuck in a groove with high revenues and substantial external aid but no real ways to channelize the money into improving teh country...or solving its problems...thus teh people have come to realize that a new ruler possibly a new party are teh only hope for some improvement as it will not have teh same enthusiasm teh second time around...
  • May07-2013--a blast at a JUIf rally near parachinar kills 25...a JUIf lawmaker the taleban say was their target...in balochistan grenades were thrown at an NP convoy...there were poll related attacks in kharan and panjgur while four government schools and a rural health center were blown up in mastung and barkhan
  • May06-2013--In Bhag, Sibi... FC cordons of a house and kill 13 outlaws as two FC men are killed
  • May06-2013--three PTI supporters gunned down by PMLn men in PP-51 near faisalabad...In takhtbhai a PTI rally ran into a roadside blast...Maulana Fazlur rehman calls imran khan a foreign agent as teh PTI vows to purge mosques of politicized clerics
  • May06-2013--23 militants and two soldiers killed in tirah clashes...
  • May06-2013--The frightened and cowering PPP starts distributing video messages from Bilawal Zardari who apparently has been told by Asif Zardari to stay out of teh fray and produce at least two children...
  • May06-2013--the convoy of the Dhomki grandsons of akber bugti attacked by a roadside blast...four killed in firing exchange
  • May06-2013--Nawaz Sharif in interviews with foreigners claims that teh army seems tobe following the governments orders although the army chief seemingly is handling teh taleban activities mildly only retaliating when directly attacked...and seems tobe in control of relations with teh USA and india...nawaz sharif implies that he will handle things himself rather than the PPP's shying away from ordering around teh army and teh ISI...!
  • May06-2013--Imran Khan meanwhile stumbled from exhaustion at a jalsa in faisalabad...however he recovered quickly...while imran khan is probably quite fit he is probably developing arrythmia's like asif zardari, nawaz sharif and shahbaz sharif...with nawaz sharif already said tobe fitted with a pacemaker...
  • May06-2013--Nawaz Sharif calls for a full mandate saying he will not find it easy to eke out a coalition...he calls his opponents...khilari, anari and zardari...making fun of imran khan, teh child star as well as the PPP's advertisement campaign against him...teh PPP's child star apparently is another altaf hussein in teh making feebly campaigning from hiding...apparently he has already offered his head in exchange for notoriety...that leaves only imran khan and nawaz sharif with teh guts to campaign themselves as even ordinary level PPP leaders are in hiding...
  • May05-2013--JI reaches a seat adjustment with the JUIf in karachi
  • May05-2013--Imran Khan wings thru KP's pukhtun belt on his helicopter attacking the JUI-f...as Nawaz Sharif makes light of the PPP's nasty advertisement attacks on teh PMLn...saying that during his tenure loadsheddings of upto sixteen hours and almost continuous terrorism did not exist...The PPP unable to defend its terrible five years in power...PPP leaders suggest that they hope BISP beneficiaries will vote for them in at least two constituencies...The PPP tried to turn a supposed social security safety net into a PPP mothers and sisters and workers income or bussiness support system...literally all women(mothers, daughters, wives) supporting teh PPP applied for bussiness loans...
  • May05-2013--two blasts leave three dead near mqm HQ in karachi...look like tit for tat attacks...MQM h and MQM a clashes leave one dead in landhi...in turbat a FC convoy runs into an IED blast...three bodies found in different towns of balochistan as JI and PPP offices grenade attacked in quetta and Hub...In KP a PTI office blown up in peshawar...12 militants killed as jetfighters pounded the upper orakzai area
  • May04-2013--In the 2008 elections 22 candidates won as independents in Kp and than joined teh governing coalition...most were ANP and PPP supporters whose constituencies are not supportive of teh parties...they did not win any important position in teh government...this time teh JUif, PMln and PTI are expected to pose a greater challenge to the KP established parties
  • May04-2013--punjab generally records teh highest voter turn out in teh country around 10% higher than teh national average which was 59.8% in 1977 fell to a low of 36.1 % in 1997 and recovered to 44.4% in 2008..the lowest is in balochistan around 20% below the national average
  • May04-2013--BNP-M comes out with a positive manifesto aimed at normalising relations between nationalists and teh center and ensuring development in balochistan
  • May04-2013--12 militants killed in attack on security checpost in south waziristan
  • May04-2013--new gas reserves discovered in teh Kirthar range by ENI
  • May04-2013--government prosecutor in Benazir case shot dead in islamabad..his car also ran over and killed a women passerby...Chaudhry Zulfikar was teh government prosecutor in several cases and many point to teh involvement of the ISI, musharaf, army chief and the mqm who have recently shown sympathy for the new involvement of arch criminal musharaf in the benazir and bugti cases..others point to teh possible involvement of teh PPP who have been unable to explain their docile attitude towards terrorism and the slow moving benazir case despite no other unknowns other than musharaf's involvement...many suggest that teh PPP's child leader maybe behind such incidents and is possibly hiding in islamabad...Dawn says that the TTP have claimed responsibility...one can hardly see any reason why teh TTP suddenly goes after a public prosecutor at this juncture unless they were pushed by musharaf and teh mqm...!!
  • May04-2013--ANP candidate for NA-254 and son shot dead as they come out of mosque...killing a four year old shows teh inhuman nature of teh killers...many believe that teh mqm is eliminating possible winning candidates
  • May03-2013--Musharaf says he did not abrogate teh constitution...one would like to know where in teh constitution it is written that an army chief can takeover power or become a president in uniform or jail an entire judiciary or even jail an ISI chief at brigade HQ's...or even take six serving commandos and live in england...musharaf tobe interrogated in the bugti case as he faces teh courts in the Benazir case as well as declaring an emergency, incarcerating an entire judiciary and challenges his disqualifications by RO's and the PHC...no military usurper of power has ever tried to remove an entire supreme court although zia ul haq did manage to make a judge flee from teh bhutto case
  • May03-2013--Another missing baloch turns up dead in karachi
  • May03-2013--nawaz sharif vows to takeup the PPP left behind development projects in thatta...keti bunder, motorway between karachi and hyderabad via thatta ...a thatta ghorabari double road and end load shedding a subject he hardly mentions in teh punjab...in punjab shabaz sharif has promised electricity only to industrialists but not to teh people...the caretaker government has made clear that solving teh electricity crisis is a matter of the will and priority of a government
  • May03-2013--government hastily agrees to boots on teh ground as 70000 soldiers to be ready and in patrolling status to deal with election day violence as teh government orders load shedding a major irritant in summer days tobe stopped on election days...
  • May03-2013--two polling station schools blown up in naseerabad , balochistan...blast in a mosque next to an mqm office in karachi
  • May03-2013--A dawn map shows that election violence is mainly centered in areas of tribal conflicts, low policing and ethnic and political hatreds...with politicians even fighting it out with underground liberation organizations and vice versa...many see most of the violence as politician generated and many are also talking about terrorists for hire...some new areas such as hyderabad have emerged as the mqm pushes against teh sindhi heartland...an area of ethnic conflict but where terrorism has not been endemic...many see teh areas running from teh ends of teh country thru a narrow central portion connecting teh countries main areas of conflict...74 have been killed in election related violence although teh government ays that some of teh violence is not election related
  • May03-2013--Imran Khan vows to confiscate teh properties of teh plunderers of teh state...many see it as a reference to jati umra and bilawal houses that teh zardaris did not even build with their own resources...many would include the farm owning generals, aitezaz ehsans, amin fahim's, raja ashraf's, gilanis, swiss looters and musharaf's in the list as well...musharaf apparently ran of with teh earnings of a book written on MOI and military orders...general kiani too is apparently being built a sizable estate...!
  • May03-2013--Sarabjit Singh an indian terrorist in a pakistani jail since 1991 was apparently battered to death in jail and is to receive a state funeral and three days of mourning in india...many here feel that it shows india's duplicity on terrorism and pakistan's weakness in attitude...two muslim terrorists(one a pakistani and the other an indian) were hanged in an indian jail and one did not even have teh required evidence while and teh other cooperated fully...but the indians still hanged them and did not even hand over teh bodies...many see it as a pseudo hanging in reaction to teh indian attitudes...
  • May02-2013--In what might be teh only radical thing that he does Imran Khan promises to end the balochistan operation
  • May02-2013--The caretakers are so pathetic that they have even handed over the National crisis management cell in teh interior ministry to teh ECP...
  • May02-2013--Some things are very funny these days the ANP--a pukhtun only party says it is being targeted by terrorists because it is liberal...while altaf hussein an ethnic warlord is claiming tobe a moderate...teh ANP, MQM and PPP have been involved in a killing war in karachi...
  • May02-2013--There were several election related bombing incidents in sindh and balochistan...a grenade was thrown at teh office of PMLn's nawabzada lashkari raisani in quetta while a suicide bomber blew up near the car of a NPP candidate in shikarpur...in harnai ten rockets were fired at a JUI-f rally..an explosives laden car blew up near a dera murad jamali bridge as an independent candidates rally was near...a qaumi watan party candidate was kidnapped near mirali, north waziristan...it seems that the terrorists are no longer very precise and are not doing much damage...
  • May01-2013--most sindh towns shutdown on a JSQM call as two PPP men are gunned down in Lyari..
  • May01-2013--SC freezes development funds that raja ashraf had distributed to PPP associated legislators at the end of his term to teh tune of Rs42 billion...The government also says that Rs4 billion is needed per day to reduce load shedding to bearable levels...
  • May01-2013--An independent candidate and two workers shot dead in jhal magsi
  • May01-2013--sindh calls for immediate deployment of armed forces in karachi as electricity prices are raised for march by Rs1.34 and petrol prices reduced..caretakers also increase petroleum levy
  • May01-2013--the army chief who many say was behind setting up musharaf in england with commandos for security is said tobe perturbed at teh teatment towards a former military chief who teh PHC says has shown no respect for the constitution as well as other individuals and who would not be able to pass thru the narrow compass of articles 62 and 63...Upto now the SC has treated very lightly those guilty of occupying power or corruption in high places personified by raja ashraf, yusuf raza gilani, asif zardari, amin fahim, moonis elahi, arsalan chaudhry, moosa gilani and what to talk of teh bahria town chief...therefore one should suggest to teh army chief and other retired military officers that it is time that teh courts take cognizance of military excesses in governance as well as corruption...
  • May01-2013--In a major judgement The peshawar high court banned musharaf for life in petitions aginst teh rejection of his candidature...The court felt that teh PPP has made article 6(2) ambiguous and it needs tobe amended to clarify teh process as well including in teh ambit of treason parliament and teh executive that endorse teh decisions of a dictatorship...they suggest that such parliaments and individuals should cease to exist that endorse or follow a dictatorship...
  • May01-2013--The army chief who has doodled around unable to go for broke against a taleban... who back down, rebuild and come back at them..in the process creating new outfits or rebuilding older ones.....Whether it is our war or teh USA's or india's is hardly the issue when u cant defeat them...if u have not succeeded in five years than there is definitely something wrong...either u donot have teh ability or u are unable to defeat the taleban politically as well as at war...teh taleban have consistently created a reputation suggesting that they are going against political opponents who are really not very good, lack popularity inherently and have as narrow a public support base as the taleban and they have the gall also to suggest that the politicians are not very good pakistanis as they are mostly fronts for teh USA...The general and teh politicians have fought the war by protecting themselves fully and letting others die...ie teh soldiers and teh people...that is not how a war is fought...if Fata cannot be defeated with current tactics than u need a change in leadership as well as tactics...military and political...

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debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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