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, October 2, 2013

The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct 1-15, 2013

  • Oct15-2013--over 5900 arrested over last forty days in karachi
  • Oct15-2013--CDGL seizes tomato trucks 150 of them imported by a PMLn mpa and sells them at reduced rates...
  • Oct15-2013--balochistan gets 11 new ministers in a total of 14
  • Oct15-2013--cases against asif zardari in numerous corruption references restart...the most important being his 6% receipt of commissions in teh SS-cotechna case...only in pakistan can a person so deeply involved in corruption become president...!
  • Oct14-2013--malala yousafzai who is attempting to play two or three sides at once is being called a taleban stooge by many while others regard her as playing a meaningless media game in the west...she can hardly come back to pakistan unless there is a government-taleban truce and getting shot again would obviously make it a difficult job as it is...education in pakistan is a personal matter for most and one can hardly go against tribal and area norms...although many regard pakistan as having a huge educational infrastructure which can still not apparently cater to the peoples needs as educated jobs are increasingly limited by teh governments reluctance to create jobs...the private sector too is not expanding as government privatizes and absorbs needlessly resources which could have gone into real new investments
  • Oct14-2013--11 ministers take oath in balochistan which is being dogged by allegations of an avoidance of governance...!
  • Oct14-2013--NAB to pursue cases against asif zardari and nawaz sharif teh two kingpins of two political parties...related to corrupt investments, corruption,loan defaults, kickbacks and using government resources illegally as well as suspicious allotment of lands...if decided honestly they could end corruption in this country...!
  • Oct13-2013--Imran Khan urges the TTP to accept basic law and teh constitution...killing people thru whichever method is considered a "makrouh action" and such mischief is actionable under islam...since teh tribal areas are almost totally autonomous barring the presence of teh army they donot work under teh constitution...basically teh taleban have to declare that they will not use any method to eliminate ordinary folk...in essence stop terrorism...for any peace deal or negotiations to succeed
  • Oct13-2013--baloch organization claims bomb blast in anarkali...many believe that blasts in lahore are seraiki orchestrated and still others believe that former PPP leaders aitezaz ahsan, gilani and mustafa khar have much todo with teh countries terrorism while still others believe that they are teh work of the three gilani brothers who escaped from islamabad
  • Oct13-2013--The chief justice and teh army chief both appointed by a military dictator who could hang for treason continue to joke with teh people...The army chief jokes that if i am satisfied than it is a democracy...with Nawaz Sharif locking the doors of parliament and making fun of teh people with non existent electricity subsidies and the primeminister unable to fill important military positions many feel that teh country might be moving towards a docile military controlled system with teh people only having teh taleban(malalaisation:is she a taleban stooge..!)to look after them......the SC chief justice mistakenly believes that nobody can topple an elected government or subdue teh judiciary...The Chief justice or SC on teh other hand jokes that teh state industrial system belongs to teh people and not teh government which thinks it belongs to foreigners and teh countries pathetic industrial class...the people ie. the ones who have jobs in PIA and wapda distributers think that they can use electricity and sell tickets to benefit themselves...in that case many feel that teh CJ should intervene to appoint a new army chief, wapda and disco's chiefs and PIA chief and decide an affordable electricity price of say Rs8 for everyone...and stop the use of free electricity by KP and wapda employees and free tickets by PIA employees...nawaz sharif also seems unaware that teh indians are totally anti pakistan and pakistan does not need such friends who will continue to fire across teh LOC with our army and government issuing understanding noises...many feel that pakistan should use its radar evading airforce to bomb the people firing on us from across teh LOC...the chinese and f-16 planes have been repainted with radar evading black chinese paint...
  • Oct12-2013--two soldiers die in a car bomb near wana...as indian shelling in teh LOC Nakial sector kills a boy
  • Oct12-2013--The pathetic Nawaz Sharif urges iran to build gas pipeline for them on this side as well...!
  • Oct12-2013--Nawaz Sharif has turned into a complete dictator as Nepra too without any hearings or requests from Discos reorders teh same highly inflamable electricity rates...in one statement Nepra had teh gall to suggest teh unbelievable that low end users were being given Rs.5 subsidies while those being charged Rs18 were being given Rs2...teh rates suggest no government subsidies of any sort and only high end users are paying for teh poor...the price of electricity is still around Rs.8
  • Oct12-2013--The new NAB takes off with opening off six zardari corruption cases
  • Oct12-2013--The timid pakistani army chief finally after months of indian cross LOC firing repudiates idiotic indian army chief for his irresponsible statements...one can hardly expect teh blind to abbottabad attack pakistan army to be so brave as to infiltrate and fight in occupied kashmir...
  • Oct12-2013--In one of its sanest decisions the Nobel committee gave teh nobel peace prize to the chemical weapons montoring agency(OPCW)...The political bid by malala and the media failed as she has no practical achievement and does not even work in her our country and her statements are similar to most ordinary politicians in teh pakistan...the pakistani governments runs a widespread education system having over 75 universities(government and private) and thousands of schools and colleges as well as teh private sector which has started to challenge in high cost education
  • Oct11-2013--compared to teh countries other trouble plagued provinces azad kashmir has only 150 policemen on VIP duties...!it is a heaven even compared to islamabad
  • Oct11-2013--the islamabad police trying to paste all suicide incidents on the kashmiri gang of terrorists related hamad adil...they have even gained knowledge of a failed attempt to suicide bomb karachi corp commander zaheer ul islam in late 2011
  • Oct11-2013--small terrorist incidences in three provincial capitals...Quetta's city police station was teh site of a cycle blast killing eight...lahores anarkali food street explosion left a man dead...three bombers on a motorcycle died as their bomb exploded in manghopir
  • Oct11-2013--Nawaz sharif regime issues shoot at sight powers ordnance for LEA's
  • Oct10-2013--Abid Sher Ali says that in peshawar's surrounding area 90 PESCO feeders have losses of upto 95% and PESCO faces losses of Rs157 billion because of which there is load shedding of upto twenty hours per feeder...that is the Disco that should be privatized or given to teh chinese to run...!
  • Oct10-2013--sindh destabilizes as six including two policemen are killed in karachi...khairpur shuts down over ASWJ mans killing...and in teh qambar area a tense calm after teh killing of eight in a chandio tribe firefight
  • Oct10-2013--The EC has come out with the ruse that electronic ink should have been used for thumb imprints...many feel that there is no such ink and in most places teh ink was teh local "dollar ink"...if teh EC feels that the complaints are justified than instead of explaining them they should call a new election in those constituencies...The PPP which was non existent in punjab during teh elections is attempting to suggest that election discrepancies clouds teh PMLn mandate...and their loss...they are not going to bounce back that way...although nawaz sharif attitudes might push teh PMLn votes their way although there is no evidence of that yet...however since this is teh first time that ID cards were used the resolution of teh process should be clear...in rawalpindi one does not feel that teh returning officers were at fault as multiple agents have to verify that a vote is not being polled again and again...The PPP has not as yet challenged any individual result given their paucity of votes and the withering of their support base in punjab...
  • Oct10-2013--baloch militants continue to attack relief efforts in awaran and teh reasoning of allowing in foreign participants/ngo's is meaningless in this situation as they would be at much greater risk
  • Oct10-2013--hakimullah mehsud suggests that the US departure from afghanistan will have no effect on their militancy...yesterday the TTP had suggested that teh afghan taleban were financing them...which obviously goes against teh meaning of any talks with teh pakistani government who he says wants only to talk thru teh press...he says he is ready to meet a government jirga but will oppose relations with teh US who are behind attacks on seminaries and teh kafirana nizam of governance...the politicians generally regard teh taleban as anti islamic given their mischief mongering
  • Oct10-2013--nawaz sharif is literally tumbling out of his pre election positions...becoming a fan of musharaf teh way he has in six months been given bail and literally running from his support group...he appointed an englishman as governor punjab..has been unable to appoint/select key military personnel and today somersaulted to appoint secretary foreign affairs as teh US ambassador...he appointed abdul basit as foreign secretary who is best known as a hairless former spokesman of teh foreign office...mohd sadiq, amabassador to afghanistan has been appointed secretary to teh cabinet committee on national security...observers see a shiite tilt among many of the new ambassador appointments. Probably the hussain haqqani-pasha gate affair ended any hope for the appointment of a political ambassador to teh US which probably was according to teh wishes of teh military...!
  • Oct9-2013--The mqm which is generally regarded as having sway over karachis elections has been badly mauled by teh ECP's suggestion that almost all teh votes in NA256 were fraudulent...in two karachi NA seats NADRA has been unable to verify more than a few thousand votes...many feel that that teh MQM rigs the elections by restricting opponents from voting but this observation shows that mqm also extremely dishonest/fraudulent as well as involved in criminal and terrorist activities...
  • Oct9-2013--in what maybe a surprise decision a serving secretary interior with extensive experience of dealing with the top strata is being appointed teh NAB chairman...In nawaz sharifs first stint in power he was appointed to three grade 20 posts at once...ie rawalpindi, islamabad commissioners and CDA chairman and was referred to as in grade 66...he was also ADC to Ziaul haq who was nawaz sharifs mentor...he has had several stints as interior secretary and even worked as a home secretary and has served in teh army for ten years...with many cases being dealt with by NAB including Nawaz sharif cases and possibly new cases against teh PPP he will have his hands full...many regard the acquisition of land in raiwind and building stainless steel palaces etc there during rule as chief ministers as corruption...the general understanding is that teh nawaz sharif factories donot function very well and they have long outstanding loans...others suggest that teh best factories were taken by teh elder sharifs brothers...others feel that he is a person who has let things drift in cases of senior politicos and if he can run NAB as a real organisation than that would be a major surprise...
  • Oct8-2013--A 30 foot section of teh main gas pipeline blows up near sehwan...
  • Oct8-2013--PTI wins PP72 faisalabad with just 23000 votes while PMLn wins PP240 DG Khan with tribal chiefs wife
  • Oct8-2013--two killed in a polio team attack in the badhaber area as police van blows up...
  • Oct8-2013--The slowness of teh PMLn regime is largely due to the failing intellect of Nawaz sharif many suggest as he is getting extremely slow at making important decisions...this is largely reflected by not having an appointment ready on teh retirement of teh chairman joint chiefs...that makes General Kiani teh all in all in teh military domain even though he too is retiring...Nawaz Sharifs slowness is largely due to his advisors having dissimilar views and he is frightened of appointing another musharaf...many feel that he should go via seniority but others suggest that someone who has three years to retire be appointed...this brings into play guys like lt general nasir janjua who are to retire at end 2015...most of teh senior Lt. generals are to retire by the middle of next year...a more youthful lt. general could overcome teh lethargy of teh aging Kiani team...many feel that teh conflict might be caused by the president who is creating problems in selection...others feel that teh appointment of teh joint chief's might be teh stumbling block as three or five senior lt.generals are generally well known...Admiral sandhila many suggest with his unkempt hair might be challenging for the chairman joint chief's position and he should probably have tobe closer and acceptable to the views of teh new army chief...thus the issue could be delayed by upto a month dealing a further blow to the credibility of nawaz sharif as a leader...It is also rumoured that Kiani's retirement decision was largely influenced by corruption allegations...!!while others suggest a rift with teh ISI chief
  • Oct7-2013--Iesco bills for a cooler september have been inflated substantially in the Iesco region says teh dawn...while most protestors are floored by teh high costs of electricity many say that meter readers are just estimating bills and not checking them that causes upto 400-500 additional units being charged
  • Oct7-2013--three soldiers killed in bannu IED blast...five bodies found near iranian border
  • Oct7-2013--amid rumours of a head on conflict between teh army and ISI chiefs General Kiani has announced his resignation from the post of army chief viz Nov 29...This on teh heels of teh comprehensive army failure over a decade in relations with india...india neither wants trade nor peace nor solutions...An army chief who is perceived to let things slide until a natural solution is arrived at(which he calls democracy)...with do nothing rulers like teh PPP he failed in both karachi and Fata and now on teh LOC...It might be a blessing in disguise for nawaz sharif who is slowly and steadily moving towards teh label of being an idiot ruler just like rulers in teh past...Kiani might also have resigned to not create two situations......one now and one in november...help out his proteges and possibly get an ambassadorship or even a senior military position or promotion to Field marshal...many suggest that nawaz sharif the king of do nothings advized kiani and teh ISI chief to resolve things between themselves...Kianis going will relieve teh army from getting stuck in a rut and allow teh natural change that takes place by teh replacement of army chiefs...Kianis supposed successor is literally a politician and has played his cards well suggesting a move from fighting towards diplomacy even as terrorism has gained strength in teh KP towards incidents that have more effect than the almost routine daily terror incidents...rashad mahmood is teh suggested new chief with haroon aslam going to chairman joint chiefs...the ISI chief, raheel sharif and tariq are still regarded as dark horses...kiani has forced Nawaz Sharif to make at least two appointment decisions...lets see if he can withstand the test...many feel that kayani turned teh army into an ISI enclave and point to the inability to deal with IEDs...military intelligence many say failed to contain teh taleban by being unable to assess their strengths, hiding places and constant ability to reinvent terrorism...and teh ISI known to have contacts with everyone became a useless paper pusher...The dawn says that Kiani's reputation was clobbered by teh abbottabad attack in which he apparently played the dumb warrior and literally had a falling out with his mentors teh americans...other allegations include family corruption...memogate and obviously not allowing an organisation to develop by teh normal change of leaderships...he however won praise for not backing out of a losing fight with teh taleban and being a staunch supporter of a terrible system of governance led by corrupt leaders which he watched over and advized but did not topple...he eventually turned into a narcisstic copy of teh real thing...getting hair plugs and getting facials, skin peals and changing new uniforms everyday...many feel that it will be a challenge for any tough military man who replaces him to sit around and watch political incompetence and not be able to do anything about it...
  • Oct6-2013--five shot dead in karachi
  • Oct6-2013--Pakistan has informed india of its involvement in balochistan violence
  • Oct6-2013--two held in nanga parbat killings case ...police cordoned off chilas for 30 hours and carried out a door to door search
  • Oct5-2013--Malala moves into the lead for the nobel peace prize...usually it goes to people with some practical work or inputs...but it would be easy politically to give it to Malala who has developed a worldwide stature although it is not possible for her to do any work practically in her home country
  • Oct5-2013--Government issued photographs suggest that teh military is trying its best to distribute food in awaran despite militant attacks...The federal government as usual has backed out of supporting teh provincial disaster relief despite not having any other program to fund...The CM Balochistan has issued an appeal for international reconstruction aid...a team of punjab mpa's said that they would help out teh baloch government...
  • Oct5-2013--Nawaz Sharif's indian friends fire across teh LOC and kill a young child in teh Kotli sector...
  • Oct5-2013--In what is being attributed as a major change in teh nawaz sharif attitude of moving towards dictatorship rather than ruling thru public support or assembly approval...the FBR instituted a new 2% tax on manufactured products which are already quite expensive...this has not been approved by teh national assembly or the cabinet...this seen in the context of teh withdrawal of teh illegal nawaz sharif notification on raising electricity tariffs suggests that nawaz sharif is now a dictator willing to do things illegally...The SC has already warned teh government that it cannot order an increase in tariff...The process is for Discos to approach nepra and suggest that we are getting electricity at these rates which is around Rs7 and these are the rates they want to offer...nepra generally accords approval without any calculation or hearings...theoretically rates should not be more than Rs10...
  • Oct5-2013--Nawaz Sharif maybe backing out of appointing new military generals from senior personnel...the situation became visible by teh appointment of a major general as a DG ISI(additional)...this reported in teh Daily Times...todays daily times suggests that general Kiani a visible failure at handling teh taleban insurgency maybe appointed Chairman joint chiefs committee with teh additional powers of military appointments and handling teh taleban insurgency...That suggests that nawaz sharif has no confidence in teh top military generals and that could also open teh way to teh appointment of the ISI chief as the COAS..that could also suggest discord amongst the top generals in teh handling by general Kiani of military appointments and the taleban insurgency
  • Oct4-2013--after saeed ajmals candid reactions that an expensive foreign coach was really no good...moin khan states that the hafeez test career maybe over...while there are no automatic suggestions for new openers misbah supported farhat and taufeek umar were not considered...they plucked shan masood out of nowhere and many feel that teh new political players including the rishtadaris of najam sethi maybe coming into play...saeed ajmal also seems to turn on and off and teh coach needs to literally be able to talk tough to players under performing...and doing that in english to pakistans matric pass players is obviously not going to help much...higher fees to players who lose to zimbabwe are obviously a no no with most famous players getting substantial ad and equipment payments...it is sometimes surprising that pakistans best players donot know which bat to play with...pakistans foreign coaches have always failed and just keeping teh players physically fit is not a coaches only job...pakistan maybe going into the SA tests with zulfikar baber as teh second spinner...
  • Oct4-2013--In what could be teh role of teh taleban in teh future...! taleban attack and kill 13 of mullah nabi hanafi's men thru a suicide attack in orakzai...the mullah is accused of killing/having killed a PTI mpa farid khan and belongs to hangu(JUI)...the taleban could be seen as becoming a part of the countries mindless security apparatus...and working on government orders already...? Mullah Barader has been unable to coax afghan militants to meet him in peshawar and now is headed to hajj to have a possible meeting there...teh taleban say that he was still escorted by security personnel
  • Oct4-2013--The PMLn shows its poverty of imagination by suggesting that for a loan of 5 billion payable after three years they are ready to sabotage or mortgage teh countries economy without thought...many feel that the punjab consumers should not be made to pay electricity bills either...the present hiked power tariff means that consumers in punjab and karachi will have to pay teh countries electricity bills...The power minister said that in KP only 3-20% electricity bills were paid in various areas...!The PMLn should remember the fate of teh PPP which turned against teh people...Nawaz Sharif seems unable to understand basic economics as Ishaq Dar fools him into saying only 33% to pay the countries entire electricity bill...The rich these days comprise a mere 5-10%...people who pay more than Rs8 per unit are being overcharged and teh SC should look into that...development charges and subsidies should come out of teh government budget and not out of the pockets of electricity consumers...
  • Oct3-2013--beaurocrats jump into teh lead as possible NAB chiefs...chaudhry rauf and shaukat durrani maybe considered if Nawaz Sharif does not take teh consideration of meaningful consultation as being over and appoint a person not rejected by teh opposition...politicians now feel that beaurocrats have been sufficiently subdued to not attack government leaders and are more amenable to political advice...
  • Oct3-2013--will it be teh tough commando haroon aslam or the meek navy chief asif sandhila...as teh chairman joint chiefs...many feel that haroon aslam would be better able to plan and handle teh taleban insurgency as army chief viz teh status quo oriented general kiani. Many suggest that teh mild work oriented raheel sharif as better suited to teh position of joint chief...it is thought that the more political rashad mahmood is considered a favorite for the position of army chief...
  • Oct3-2013--bomb blast at chaman border post kills six including one Fc man...suicide bomber walked in from afghanistan with a donkey cart..two soldiers killed near mashkay in earthquake zone by a bomb attack...in karachi two TTP men killed in a shootout with rangers while four other militants killed in a shootout with CID police on Hub river road...the four fron TTP mohmand apparently had been picked up several days ago according to teh TTP...
  • Oct3-2013--The PMLn regime which apparently lacks the ability or courage to implement pro peopel policies is finding out that its thoughtless raise of power tariffs and we dont know how to run PIA but a few industrialists do is causing almost open mockery...The SC which seems to be backing out of defending teh rights of teh people mildly told teh minister that they had better reconsider what they were doing...
  • Oct3-2013--continuing on the dehati aurat scenario manmohan quipped that nawaz sharif also does not look like a dehati elder and he should go and deal with PIA being from a small country rather than think of being a world leader...!!!many are suggesting that nawaz sharif was advising manmohan on how to rush thru pakistan to help his faltering karzai in afghanistan...!! he apparently suggested that i built the motorway just for u...the indian army!!this as teh indian army chief suggested that he is handling 30 infiltrators from pakistan with great difficulty...
  • Oct2-2013--The governments misconceived tariff hike for domestic consumers comes in for flak from teh SC which suggested that teh government recover dues rather than order an inconsiderate price hike...government already recovering any losses even six months old as FPA...most of the hikes are being used to subsidize the lower ranks of customers and pay for governments inefficiencies which teh government should be doing from its own resources...most of the higher slabs are already paying upto 100% over teh price that teh electricity costs the Discos...the government in one go has suggested an increase in costs of over 400-600 billion which seems tobe beyond anyones understanding
  • Oct2-2013--the indian primeminister continues his negative tirade against pakistan despite having hanged ajmal kasab for teh bombay attacks...all teh others involved have been from india or the USA..pakistan also blamed india for arms smuggling and training baloch saboteurs...but pakistan only wanted india to stop its flagrant violation of teh LOC ceasefire and teh indians actions against LeT leaders which accusations according to pakistan are baseless and without any evidence
  • Oct2-2013--mqm activist arrested for murder of a senior lawyer and eight others while mqm protests recovery of indian arms from an mqm office and arrest of a few mqm hitmen...the mqm becoming largely inconsequential as it refuses to support teh operation to eliminate all hitmen from karachi which it used to lament all the time...!
  • Oct1-2013--In what can be called a massive increase in electricity prices which is unprecedented and sees people using over 300 units getting bills of over Rs.6500...subsidy now only remains for people using less than 50 units or 1-100 units...all other slabs will be charged at 100% over teh electricity rates charged to an electricity company...the maximum rate jumps to Rs.18...with reduction in slabs to one rates will jump for the top consumers...rates for 300-700 have jumped to Rs16...many suggest that this is teh biggest injustice with teh people of pakistan and many are calling for the removal of nawaz sharif as primemminister...prices of petrol raised to around Rs113.50
  • Oct1-2013--drone attack kills three in north waziristan
  • Oct1-2013--rockets land near balochistan chief minister on visit to awaran
  • Oct1-2013--moderate Ulema call on teh taleban and PMln to stop fighting
  • Oct1-2013--twelve shot dead in possible sectarian and political attacks in karachi as two bank robbers are gunned down
  • Oct1-2013--controversy continues over whether nawaz sharif derided manmohan singh as an idiotic village woman...which some says is translated as a village hag or nicely a dehati aurat...teh BJP a traditional anti pakistan hindu party was up in arms over teh issue and said it was an insult to india...manmohan singh said that he expected more pro india actions from nawaz sharif...nawaz sharifs attitude of blaming his military has not gone down well in pakistan...

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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

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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