The PakistanPolitics Aug27-Sep15, 2013

• Sept15-2013--in what maybe a repeat of his earlier disappearances ishrat ul ibad fled to dubai after relations deteriorated between teh mqm and government after altaf hussein utterances that teh mohajirs were facing a genocide after just a few raids on mqm offices...usually ishrat ul ibad returns although teh pMLn has a governor waiting in teh wings to take over...
  
• Sept15-2013--jail official shot dead in karachi
  
• Sept15-2013--The KP government announces phased withdrawal of forces from malakand beginning in buner and shangla...military called out in 2007 after mullah fazlullah launched a violent movement starting thru radio broadcasts ...The military quelled teh rebellion forcefully and mullah fazlullah apparently fled to afghanistan
  
• Sept15-2013--taleban set free seven wapda workers of teh gomal zam project
  
• Sep14-2013--The MQM or teh mohajir republican army seem to think that their workers can do whatever they want and only other groups have tobe dealt with...they are trying to stop teh rangers takeover of karachi after one of their dreaded sector incharges was arrested on criminal charges...The mqm offices many feel reflect teh elite rather than a downtrodden people with many of their offices showcasing their bhatta wealth that they have gathered...rangers and police have raided a few mqm offices...no other party dares to even open political offices in karachi..most people feel that teh karachi violence is caused by the immunity given to the mqm and other political groups
  
• Sep14-2013--eight Nato oil tankers gutted in Kalat after gunmen fired rockets at them
  
• Sep13-2013--three workers of a plant near Gwader killed while two kidnapped
  
• Sep13-2013--Nawaz Sharif to try and privatise 26% PIA shares...Instead of trying and running the state sector governments have been trying to privatise and reduce any benefits to teh overall population as seen in teh privatisation of banks, power sector and PTCL...The SC shot down the transfer of in inefficient aviation federal secretary...and threatened the government over teh appointment of a NAB chief...
  
• Sep12-2013--the peace process seems tobe onits way says Dawn as a prisoner swap between teh army and TTP is rumoured
  
• Sep12-2013--The mqm seems blind to its own criminality it seems as it tried to create a fuss over teh arrest of one of its sector incharges a position which many suggest is akin to a guerrilla commander...the person was arrested for killing two policemen and snatching their guns...!!...teh mqm seems tobe fading out as it could barely perturb karachi with the burning of a few vehicles and firing into teh air...however karachi shut down just out of fright as altaf husseins crooks looked for hideouts...the blowing hot and cold by altaf hussein and haider abbas rizvi who tried to raise teh specter of an earlier terrorism prone era when sector incharges used to go violent almost every day...many think that abbas haider rizvi is also deeply involved in rioting or riot-terrorism given his hot tempered nature...obviously things cannot be corrected in karachi if teh mqm's goons are not cornered or incarcerated...one will have to wait and see how tough are the PPP and chaudhry nisar/nawaz sharif...apparently teh mqm thinks that only the peoples aman committee would be targeted...!!!
  
• Sep11-2013--Nawaz Sharif who also prefers to complain rather than solve says PIA costs them Rs3 billion per month...while an airline is important to the countries image the solutions are simple...end 3 lakh free tickets annually and end subsidies to PIA employees and teh military...if there are excess employees fire them...as for good and bad airlines u cannot eat teh cake and say it does'nt taste like forty years ago...make teh food simple and tasty and stop halwa puri breakfasts...
  
• Sep11-2013--eight shot dead in karachi as rangers takeover karachi law and order...all intelligence reported miscreants tobe arrested
  
• Sep11-2013--Nisar says framework for talks with taleban ready...many question how they will deal with teh taleban demands of sharia etc., intermittent violence and whether teh first item on teh agenda would be a ceasefire...!
  
• Sep11-2013--government to free Mullah Baradar an afghan taleban leader within a month
  
• Sep10-2013--Ishaq Dar seems to lack basic economic sense as he says the falling rupee not caused by teh IMF loan...many feel that panic buying by teh finance ministry to pay for previous IMf loans is teh cause of teh rupee decline...
  
• Sep10-2013--Electricity line losses in the Pepco distribution domain have increased to 26 % while NTDC losses are said tobe 28%...Billing losses are said tobe Rs30 billion...with the higher charges theft has been increasing on a daily basis with people bypassing meters or getting them slowed down...the situation depicts an unsoluble system with losses theoretically at 54%...most of teh losses are being recovered by increasing prices for the elite...no system in teh world is even close to teh pakistani system...most countries have a one price formula for everyone...
  
• Sep10-2013--three peace committee activists beheaded in Bara
  
• Sep10-2013--Pakistan may have become an indian surrogate after all as dawn says that one man man from indian occupied kashmir has been caught with four small drones...while three others escaped...many say action taken on indian intelligence reports
  
• Sep10-2013--two militants and a policeman die in an attack on teh kohat DPO's office...The TTP however agreed to consider teh offer of talks by teh PMLn regime
  
• Sep10-2013--after teh dumb F.Sc pass Asif Zardari who ruled on teh coattails of Benazir Bhutto's elimination a new president took over... teh shoe seller mohajir from Agra...Mamnoon Hussein...with an IBA degree he claims he will be a president of pakistan rather than teh president from a broken down house in nawabshah who also claims that they were fraudulently deprived of seats in punjab ala imran khan...with their support base in punjab having tumbled to single digit levels many wonder at the self deception or the avoidance of reality
  
• Sep10-2013--the APC concludes with many say leaders commiserating with shahbaz sharif on his daughter marrying a hindu from teh RSS...while others say teh sharifs rejected teh story...and some suggested that teh nawaz niece just attended an RSS wedding in chandigarh...The PPP downgrading to an ordinary provincial party was confirmed by amin fahim saying not much attention was paid to him...the army and ISI suggested that it would be impossible to talk to the taleban and its associated groups with their continuous warfare...talks of negotiations with all groups while the army suggestion that they should only talk to our own people...which might mean many things...teh taleban have turned to setting up small groups so that not much attention is paid to teh TTP leadership...with every leader having their own terrorist policy, area and intentions...if even small groups return to a peaceful existence things could start moving towards an end in teh terrorism sphere...however teh mqm complained in teh provincial assembly that rangers had a list of eight to ten people of teh mohajir republican party which supposedly is led by faisal sabzwari...rangers had apparently suggested teh arrest of faisal sabzwari as the person responsible for teh violence in karachi ...others suggested that a whole list of terrorists is in teh hands of teh rangers whose arrest could end terrorism for good...otherwise the PMLn wants tobe friends with everybody in teh region without any consideration whether they are friendly or not...pakistan has been known for some time to consider teh belligerent anti muslim/anti pakistan indians tobe prospective friends while teh indians run as fast as possible from their bearhugs...many suggest that teh indian excuses for refusing a kashmir solution are laughable at best
  
• Sep09-2013--Chaudhry Nisar says that the army was incapable of taking over karachi so they handed karachi to the rangers like teh FC in Balochistan...
  
• Sep09-2013--two policemen, a truck driver and a cleaner were killed in a bomb blast in quetta, firing at a police patrol in Loralai, and a landmine explosion in sui...
  
• Sep08-2013--seven taleban including mullah dadullah freed to facilitate afghan peace process
  
• Sep08-2013--another four killed in karachi
  
• Sep7-2013--ANP leader killed in Orangi by possible mqm extortionists
  
• Sep7-2013--mqm activist shot dead in tandojam, hyderabad...involved in numerous murder and criminal cases...trailer set on fire and armed groups trade fire...
  
• Sep7-2013--In peshawar's mattani area gunmen in cars fire on a wagon and two vehicles killing nine..motorcycle blast inside hashtnagri police station in peshawar
  
• Sep7-2013--with a subdued PTI, mqm and PPP in tow teh PMLn happily convenes an APC on security on September 9 although what they can achieve is hardly going tobe a surprise...the change has already taken place many say..that karzai can drone teh haqqani group and anybody else and imran khan will get his seperate meeting with teh army chief and the primeminister...The dawn suggests that the failure of key deobandi and barelvi leaders who were considered as links to teh taleban in teh past has forced the PMln and KP to look for lesser mullahs with direct contacts to teh TTP...most political parties and teh ISI/army now seem completely isolated from the rebellious and terrorist groups...with some like teh mqm, ppp and anp running their own lawless groups...
  
• Sep7-2013--In what many see as a mockery of teh pathetic nawaz sharif regime and teh do nothing pakistan army... a JUD rally opposes US and indian hegemony of our armed forces and government...The army chief many suggest seems unaware that it is not the enemy that causes despondency but a weak army that barely moves when enemy attack helicopters cross into pakistan...and the economic policies of the mad ruling elites that cause only price hikes and price hikes...and the dams are full but load shedding goes on and on...u get IMF loans and huge revenues but still u increase taxation and prices...maybe teh the army chief needs some phsycological advice on what causes a nation to become despondent...terrorism only causes people to become aware and cautious but when we have a powerless government and cowardly enriched armed forces than people become despondent...many see the overloading of teh IMF agreement with anti pakistan measures such as the most favored nation status for india as largely pathetic...others suggest that wee need more 1965 type faujis than teh subjugated general kayani variety...
  
• Sep6-2013--in a repeat of teh PPP regimes problems at the hands of teh judiciary the SC orders teh appointment of a NAB chairman by teh 13th...apparently no one is above board or apolitical these days apart from a few old men...fakhruddin ibrahim or some retired old fauji are probably teh only options as the parties cant even agree on a retired judge unsure of whether he will turn activist or go to sleep in his office
  
• Sep6-2013--Nawaz Sharif allows full retaliation for LOC attacks and teh manufacture of longer range nuclear missiles...many feel that pakistan should cross the LOC to stop indian firing formations...
  
• Sep6-2013--four killed in drone attacks in north waziristan after government starts supporting drone attacks again..!
  
• Sep5-2013--another twelve shot dead in karachi
  
• Sep5-2013--after a pathetic (we are weak -- sartaj aziz) response to indian firing across teh LOC and a nasty anti pakistan indian propaganda campaign the command and control authority meets to consider whether teh americans can see everything from teh air...teh country apparently has still not decided on what types of missiles it needs...many feel that short range nuclear options plus teh cruise option is what they want to do...but who will pay for it...others feel that what teh heck when u cant stop the indians from firing across teh LOC than a missile or two should be accidently fired...
  
• Sep5-2013--navy captain shot dead in karachi as teh interior minister announces a committee of the sindh prosecutor general and farogh naseem of teh violence prone mqm to run the karachi rangers operation...teh only significant change has been to shift teh cities cameras to teh police from teh KMC...!
  
• Sep5-2013--As usual the government has been unable to control teh economy and is left with around $5 billion of reserves after teh payment of teh previous IMF loans...It has again taken another 6 billion of IMF loans and as usual teh costs have been shoved onto teh people...with gas and petroleum taxes already at teh Rs500 billion level another Rs100 billion in gas taxes will be announced...26% of PIA will be privatized without its liabilities and around 7000 employees will get teh boot...almost any idiot would be willing to buy PIA...and teh above 200 unit electricity users will again have to pay for the free loaders below 200 units to teh extent of a 30% tariff hike...The railways will become a company...there will be no more SRO's and a change will be made in the NFC award to reduce massive provincial handouts...hahaha...maybe ishaq dar should go sit inside or outside.. teh IMF offices...rather than announce expensive unwieldly programs and than say teh IMF will pay for them...!
  
• Sep4-2013--eight killed in karachi
  
• Sep4-2013--with the PMLn expected to show their strengths again in teh watered down local body polls...teh PTI, PPP, JI and PMLq to form a devils coalition to counter the extraordinary strengths of the PMLn...many feel that teh PTI has not been playing its hand properly and is now considered as a sort of ordinary political party unable to handle things without imran khan...with the PPP votebank slithering further downwards the PTI's huge votebank could only expect some support in the south punjab regions and areas where there is a JI votebank...The PMlq many regard as having lost its appeal as its leadership has been unable to change or renew itself...some feel that teh PTI votebank could divide as many are supporters of teh PTI because of their rejection of teh PPP/PMLq...In the punjab a partyless poll requires diehard vote gathering and candidates need tobe experienced at projecting an image which can pull votes out of teh bags of others...
  
• Sep4-2013--nawaz sharif calls for extraordinary measures for karachi...ie operations tobe conducted by rangers...with sindhs top two administrators regarding teh situation as normal as murders rose to 2174 in 2012...on any average day the murders in karachi number anywhere from 1-10...dawn says that there are eight main trouble spots...with lyari and teh orangi-kati pahari area being teh biggest these days...many believe that all political parties maybe involved in extortion as well as murders...while teh pukhtun/sindhi lobby is blamed for land grab's and drug mafia's..the MQM is said tobe the biggest extortionist and terror group while teh taleban and other religious/sectarian groups are blamed for a number of teh killings...bombs and cracker blasts are also blamed on teh main political groups
  
• Sep3-2013--In the recount of PP-150 delays occurred as bags of votes were not found...initially many votes were found that had no stamps or were double stamped...
  
• Sep3-2013--The Judicial commission reccomends that justice maqbool baqar who has teh hooded eyes of a drug addict and who is still recuperating from a motorcycle blast that eliminated his driver and police/FC guards...as teh next chief justice of sindh...
  
• Sep3-2013--nawaz sharif goes to karachi with his entire cabinet to carve out another operation in karachi...he has also invited teh provincial government leaders, mqm leader, ISI and army to design something that can be handled permanently by teh rangers and police...The system at best is "who should we kill next in karachi"...teh minorities and PPP are usually not targeted...and that leaves fringe groups and teh street groupies like teh mqm and anp...if everybody is on board than "the system becomes entangled in that is my man and that is yours..." wrangling that leaves teh rangers and police dumbfounded or stalled...also teh government will have to realize that allowing teh killing of one side and not their opponents does not solve teh problem...basically they have to incarcerate all the ringleaders and teh killers...they have to monitor each and every street and not allow teh motorcycle killers to get away...that is teh only way to calm things down...and they must warn teh participants that they cannot go around killing teh police...the best way is usually to appoint a tough operation commander who can handle all aspects...decision making, coordination and obviously teh teh operations"...
  
• Sep2-2013--roadside bomb kills nine troops near miranshah...ASF policeman shot dead in dalbandin
  
• Sep2-2013--Shams Qasim Lakha an aging ismaili educationist and Dr. Mujahid Kamran(punjab university) in the run for teh HEC top job with teh controversial Dr,.Leghari still regarded as having an outside chance...HEC has a Rs.56 billion budget which is more than what teh steel mill, pia and railways get...
  
• Sep2-2013--sarin bombs used in syria says John Kerry...Obama many say has referred the matter to congress to delay teh process...that way he can reinforce his forces in teh mediterranean and red sea and also take a decision with or without teh support of congress at any time and also decide to teh extent of his involvement...Obama can initiate a war for 90 days without approval of congress...congress meets on Sep 9...That also leaves syria, russia and iran enough time to take measures to remove teh regime in syria and replace it with an interim more acceptable leadership
  
• Sep2-2013--Chaudhry Nisar says that talks with teh taleban have not yet been initiated although contacts may have begun with some groups that are thought to be favorable to teh government
  
• Sep1-2013--rehman maliks three german dogs found dead in islamabad
  
• Sep1-2013--an imambargah trustee killed in karachi
  
• Sep1-2013--grenades thrown at akhter mengal's house in quetta
  
• Sep1-2013--an operation being planned for karachi say government sources...1
  
• Sep1-2013--seven militants killed in FC counter attack in an ambush on an FC vehicle in Mand, Kech area near iran border
  
• Sep1-2013--petrol to sell at Rs109.14 after price hike
  
• Sep1-2013-five dead in gun attacks on two clinics in karachi's landhi area
  
• Sep1-2013--US drone attack kills three in an attack on a hafiz gul bahadur seminary in mirali, north waziristan
  
• Aug31-2013--DG Rangers tells the SC that 19000 arms containers had been brought into karachi by a former minister of ports and shipping who usually belong to teh mqm...!
  
• Aug31-2013--altaf hussein teh mqm's terrorist mastermind says he wants the allegation of teh MRA investigated...many feel that teh attorney general was referring to teh mqm and only using it as a pseudonym...it seems that teh mqm has hidden leaders who control violence while ordinary frontmen run politics...altaf has admitted to horrendous acts of violence such as killing and throwing people on teh streets in bodybags to frighten teh people of an area and may have even had people in his own organisations eliminated thru a 3000 man "altaf army"..thus he has created a subjugated organization where any opponent is sidelined, thrownout or killed...the interior minister has backed away from supporting teh attorney general on this issue...most government intelligence on teh mqm comes from its own leaders many of whom are bugged...
  
• Aug31-2013--government says it is in talks with at least two taleban organisations...it is not clear whether that includes teh TTP or only smaller pro government organisations
  
• Aug31-2013--US moving towards a limited action against syria
  
• Aug30-2013--further enunciating teh centers control over karachi's law and order the interior minister told teh SC that teh ISI, FIA, IB, Nadra, Rangers, karachi corp were to help teh province in handling karachi and they had been told to identify teh leadership of teh criminal elements which are almost many say identical to teh leaderships of teh ANP, MQM and teh PPP in teh region...they also expressed concern at certain organizations playing divide and rule in landhi...they say a new organisation teh mohajir republican army has emerged which might be teh phsycological mindset of teh mqm...the SC expressed concern at the disappearance of 19000 arms carrying containers...for teh last five years the political parties involved in karachi were the same as that at teh center and no effort was made to resolve any issue as long as their political domination was ensured...in fact for most of those five years barring some period at teh end there was little or no police activity...unless teh associated politics is controlled there is no hope of any solution...many say the mqm might be threatening a continued armed conflict thru the MRA on teh pattern of balochistan where teh government is willing to create a free port which was one of teh initial idea's in teh context of karachi as well...
  
• Aug30-2013--nawaz sharif suggests a third airport specifically for islamabad near rawat connected thru a modern high speed thoroughfare...the government probably thinks that teh out of teh way fatehjang airport should handle teh wider area, teh present airport going to teh airforce and a new airport for teh islamabad government
  
• Aug30-2013--After teh hoopla of teh mqm suggesting an army takeover of karachi which was firmly rejected teh mqm and ANP protested over teh arrest of their workers who are knee deep in karachi's warfare ridden zones...many feel the PMln government might be able to control the unruly ANP, MQM, PPP and associated religious conflicting groups...and the killers which also many say are connected to all religious, political, regional and minority groups including shiites and local christians...
  
• Aug30-2013--In what might be a sop to the JUI-f the PMLn appointed their minister akram khan durrani who relatively ran a MMA government in nwfp with a lesser conflict profile viz the fata and taleban...
  
• Aug30-2013--Policeman or former ASI linked to teh kharotabad case gunned down in quetta...retrial of Ossama related Dr. Shakil Afridi ordered
  
• Aug30-2013-- Asif Zardari who literally ran teh PPP into teh ground in three provinces and karachi tobe kept in politics says teh PPP...Asif Zardari has little political acumen barring an interest in the still unresolved issue of mqm...even in government he spent most of his time in dubai or england and had little time for country issues apart from hiding in teh red zone...
  
• Aug29-2013--PMLn rejects army rule for karachi and decides to consult to come up with an effective strategy against teh political , religious and ethnic perpretrators of terrorism/violence in karachi...the police seem powerless against motorcycle killers and bombers who generally are thought tobe mqm controlled as well as by teh religious and sectarian groups
  
• Aug29-2013--Imran khan downs teh SC judges on contempt charges as they did not want to go into the meanings of "sharamnak" and whether returning officers of teh electoral commission should be judicially respected...
  
• Aug29-2013--bookshop owner killed in karachi and a lawyer in lahore ...apparent causes sectarianism
  
• Aug28-2013--The PMLn might not achieve stardom but that cannot stop them from thinking about it...they now want a railway line to murree whose road link is always clogged these days...earlier they had suggested an underpass as well near barakahu...
  
• Aug28-2013--mqm demands unpalatable army rule for karachi...many feel that since teh demand originates from teh mqm it will be rejected..otherwhise teh mqm apparently hates teh army and police who subjugated them almost two decades ago by eliminating there than armed wing, nogo areas, death and torture cells...!many suggest that just ban teh mqm from politics and eighty percent of karachi problems will be solved
  
• Aug28-2013--two soldiers, four militants killed in south waziristan's sara rogha area after an attack on a checkpost
  
• Aug28-2013--UAF a faisalabad university sets up a 3.8MW solar power station at a cost of Rs.800 million
  
• Aug27-2013--government to start teh Dasu hydel power project before bhasha which they say can be online earlier
  
• Aug27-2013--To honour Akber Bugti Pakistan railways announce renaming teh Quetta express as teh Akber express