The Daily PakistanPolitics June 16-30, 2013

• Jun30-2013--three people found shot dead in a quetta graveyard and two shot dead in kharan
  
• Jun30-2013--a UK general points to key handling problems in afghanistan by saying we should have started talking ten years ago..The taleban in pakistan have not toned down terrorism despite teh election of preferable governments in KP and at teh center...while many now point to teh involvement of teh PPP, MQM and ANP
  
• Jun30-2013--The sindh rangers a military border force used primarily for provincial trouble spots searches the karachi jail and recovers six mobile phones something that probably can be easily smuggled in...there are key LJ and other killers located in teh jail
  
• Jun30-2013--pakistans economy is in dire trouble and like teh PPP the PMLn wants 5 billion from the IMF that it can keep as a buffer from real trouble...pakistan is still returning teh last 8 billion taken from teh IMF
  
• Jun30-2013--while india is not known to help pakistan or benefit it any way nawaz sharif is sending his power minister to study how india is selling cheap electricity to its people...the last time pakistan tried to purchase power from india was in the nineties when it did not make any headway...pakistan still needs around 3000-4000 mw on an emergency basis and can only rely on possibly india or iran...both mean natured economically but possibly willing to make a fast buck from a country in deep trouble on the power front
  
• Jun30-2013--many feel that david cameron has flown in possibly to discuss the increasingly apparent involvement of altaf hussein in the imran farook murder and possibly utilization of money laundered funds to purchase million pound properties...many politicians are known to have purchased properties in england thru money laundered via south america...!...others point to the possible elimination of key figures by altaf husseins organization in pakistan and the possible involvement of justice nizam killers in an attempt to eliminate a shiite judge in karachi who could possibly become sindh's chief justice...the judge also has mohajir credentials and could have been attacked by a shiite sunni rift in teh mqm...
  
• Jun29-2013--bypolls on 37 seats on August 22
  
• Jun29-2013--In what is being seen as a loot the people and pay teh IPP's move teh government agreed to pay Rs260 billion of IPP and oil company debts...that will theoretically bring on some extra power into the grid but it is not clear...newspaper reports suggest around 1500-1700 mw...some four companies will shift to coal based power...The ishaq dar budget has little to show in teh peoples column and only shows meaningless increases in taxation, advance taxes and price hikes...there is also no notable effort to increase power generation or even start foreign purchase's of power...obviously the old looking power minister will have to move around faster to get things moving
  
• Jun28-2013--the national assembly approves budget which had no inputs from teh people or the mna's and contains meaningless tax hikes, advance taxes and electricity /gas price hikes...many feel that the government is already depicting an attitude akin to firauniat that resulted in teh demise of the PPP
  
• Jun28-2013--On the punjab provincial scene the government announced income taxes on people with 50 acres and 80000 in income...and their selective implementation of house taxes on posh 5 marla houses in three cities...many feel that the government should tax the enriched DHA's,askari's, bahria towns and model towns rather than teh low end 5 marla houses...the only posh 5 marla houses have been also noticed in the DHA's......the government does not see the cantonments, bahria towns and DHA's as posh...many say teh government should apply income taxes on agriculture across teh board like say Rs.2000 per acre...some people make lakhs from just an acre of land...
  
• Jun28-2013--Riaz Pirzada who has been in and out of parties has been made a federal minister without even being consulted on a portfolio
  
• Jun28-2013--PMLf wins PS81...!
  
• Jun27-2013--In the swiss cases teh SC was told that teh PPP regime wrote a letter to a law firm asking it to explain its position to teh geneva attorney general...teh nawaz regime hopes to have teh cases reopened or tried in pakistan at least
  
• Jun27-2013--In Bannu a roadside blast killed a chief of a peace committee..while an SHO was shot dead in peshawar...an FC man dies in a roadside blast in awaran
  
• Jun27-2013--government orders FIA to inquire into musharaf treason case essentially the sequence of events which led to his emergency of November3, 2007 under article 6..this should lead to the formation of a three judge treason tribunal
  
• Jun27-2013--taleban attack a judges car surrounded by policemen with a remote bomb in karachi...judge maqbool baqar a shiite survived while nine died including six policemen, two rangers and teh driver...judge had been provided 15 policemen and four rangers for security
  
• Jun26-2013--IMF finds fault with ishaq dar's figures as teh man in teh street feels the price hikes being caused by attempts at hiking tax revenues...many feel that instead of increasing taxation teh government should substantially reduce spending...instead of Rs1500 billion for the provinces Rs1000 billion is more than enough ...military spending can be reduced by a 100 billion and old programs like the wasteful BISP should be handed over to teh provinces thus saving another huge chunk...
  
• Jun26-2013--"the good son of india" syed pervez musharafuddin almost certain to stand trial under article 6 as teh government will apprise the SC on how to setup a treason court...many suggest that musharaf should also be tried for treason for the military coup which he apparently discussed with an indian army deputy chief on his visit to sri lanka just before teh coup took place..the trial has tobe conducted by a three judge special court which cannot be interfered with..many feel that teh government should investigate musharaf for the possibility that he was an indian mole...
  
• Jun25-2013--In a possibly half baked move the nawaz regime apoints najam sethi as teh interim chief of teh PCB...he immediately orders the selectors chairman that they must take responsibility for their decisions...the selectors have been dragging along older players who no longer perform...and players like abdur rehman who are selected but not played...many feel that under nineteen players like sami aslam who have dependable batting abilities should be elevated as teh older batches are no longer capable of brilliance...
  
• Jun25-2013--three killed in karachi attacks while three die in peshawar terrorist incidents
  
• Jun25-2013--British police have arrested one iftikhar hussein possibly related to altaf hussein after his arrival from canada in teh investigation of teh murder of imran farook
  
• Jun25-2013--The PMLn national energy policy finalised with some new aspects such as massive imports from iran...and small imports from india and central asia...they also envisage building oil supply lines to power stations which seems a difficult venture as furnace oil is at present delivered by railway wagons and tankers..it also ennvisages reduction in price to around Rs10 per unit and increase in capacity to 26800MW in three years...while one would advise fast track imports from iran and india...central asia at the moment seems a non starter...the huge increase in capacity seems unrealistic given the average cost per MW of installation being upto 3 million dollars...Unless government arranges huge levels of financing as in teh IPP deals the private sector will be a non starter...focus on production thru gas, nuclear, wind and coal...solar units can be introduced at the lower levels by designing affordable home models of 16-20 kw and agricultural pumps which are already available in teh market
  
• Jun25-2013--Nawaz Sharif announces that he will sent musharaf to trial for anti constitutional behaviour under article six for treason...many say musharaf is a fake muslim and he is actually a jain hindu and even his property in india had not been allotted to anyone...being an ex army chief he has had the support of subordinate natured officers like general Kiani and the PPP senior echelon who allowed him to run from teh country and enjoy his illgotten gains...others say senior PPP politicians were acting as his advisors...the mqm which gave him whole hearted support also mildy supported the move suggesting that others also be tried who had served in his governments
  
• Jun24-2013--six insurgents killed in encounter in dera bugti after they attacked a security checpost
  
• Jun24-2013--In another terrorist attack around twenty possibly gilgiti's killed 10 foreign climbers who were at the nanga parbat base camp and vanished in the area where theoretically it should not be difficult to locate them
  
• Jun23-2013--five killed in aerial bombings in darra adam khel area
  
• Jun23-2013--Zahid Hamid a musharaf era law minister removed as law minister from teh nawaz sharif cabinet...why he is still in teh cabinet is a show of teh obtuse nature of nawaz sharif...who despite ridiculing musharaf and his rule has kept a musharaf era man in a key position
  
• Jun23-2013--Ishaq dar who has shown an inability to understand public concerns withdraws many poorly construed tax measures but refuses to end new taxes on mobile phones and sales tax which effect teh most people...government continuing meaningless policxy oif increasing tax revenues without any real any change on how money is spent...advance taxes just show teh failure of teh FBR and are a very bad way to collect taxes as most people cannot get back illegal advance taxes...
  
• Jun23-2013--hand grenades thrown at jail in karachi
  
• Jun22-2013--twin sisters killed in their home in north waziristan after retaliatory firing by security forces
  
• Jun22-2013--The budget which many believe is another exercize in looting teh people and does not contain any measures to solve teh energy crisis...while teh interests of small self interest groups like government employees is protected the people have to suffer at teh hands of FBR and additional taxes which solve nothing...The judiciary made a mockery of teh uninformed finance minister who had immediately initiated taxes that had not yet been approved...the SC stopped teh collection of new taxes until after teh budget
  
• Jun22-2013--another bloody friday as a suicide bomber blew himself up in a peshawar shiite mosque killing 15...suicide attackers also shot dead a policeman on entry...In karachi an mqm mpa and his son were shot dead after coming out of a mosque after friday prayers...resulting in typical mqm violence...several people were brought to hospitals with gunshot wounds...many believe that it is related to the ongoing imran farook investigation in which mqm men or altaf's security guards were said tobe involved...in other violence in karachi another eleven were killed in sectarian/ethnic/political killings
  
• Jun21-2013--13 shot dead in karachi in various political and terrorist incidents
  
• Jun21-2013--police in london searched two homes associated with mqm desperado altaf hussein who is in hiding in london...altaf hussein thus appears to own two homes in london obviously bought with his loot and plunder of karachiites...the killers of imran farook many say were ordered by teh coordination committee and sent from karachi...they came back via sri lanka and apparently disappeared in karachi...
  
• Jun21-2013--while the PPP had been doling out rangers to its frightened ex primeministers the PMLn interior minister tried to contain the budget damage to the PMLn by ending rangers use as security guards for frightened politicians...a politician should get out of teh bussiness if he or she is frightened of teh people or the taleban...the PPP which had continually raised electricity prices finally got of teh price hike band wagon by walking out of teh senate on electricity price hikes...many say the rubber stamp Nepra should be wound up...others suggest that rolling beads will not help teh embattled and anti people finance minister
  
• Jun20-2013--another five shot dead in karachi
  
• Jun20-2013--The useless Nepra again raises power prices for May...consumers who are already paying more than teh base price of Rs7.7 are getting sick and tired of the government trying to fool the people again and again...
  
• Jun20-2013--six troops die in ambush near peshawar
  
• Jun19-2013--three shot dead in karachi as seven die in militants clash in darra adamkhel
  
• Jun19-2013--the senate moved to restrict meaningless tax hikes by teh PMLn as many called teh politicians crazy for thinking that government employees are poverty stricken...government salaries have doubled over teh last five years and giving them further enhancements many says is a lack of sensible control on spending peoples revenues needlessly
  
• Jun19-2013--On the day that teh afghan taleban opened their office in doha a suicide bomber attacked a funeral near mardan killing 29 including a PTI mpa imran mohmand...suspicion immediately shifted to teh PPP and ANP as suicide vests these days are said tobe available...terrorist attacks in the mardan area many say are carried out by local opponents...
  
• Jun16-2013--In karachi a cracker and remote bomb attack killed one at the kati pahari checpost...cracker attacks are said tobe teh work of mqm's terrorist wing
  
• Jun16-2013--In islamabad the PMLn unsure of what its agenda was and teh consequences started chopping and changing teh budget...adding a meaningless salary raise for teh mostly useless government employees..it also backed down on teh BISP name and teh PMLn claimed that benazir had joined teh PMLn...!The budget many say is just an insult to teh people especially such measures as raising domestic electricity prices which are already teh highest and increasing sales tax, and adding many meaningless advance taxes...there was no major investment in increasing electricity resources and a status quo was announced...
  
• Jun16-2013--In meaningless baloch violence the BLA bombed the quaid e azam residency destroying a pakistani icon in balochistans ziarat area...The Baloch LJ also carried out a womens university bus bombing and suicide attacks on a hospital killing 14 girls, a deputy commissioner and eleven others in quetta...the dead included four armed assailants, two FC personnel and four nurses...some doctors were also said tobe missing