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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

Monday, November 18, 2013

The Daily PakistanPolitics Nov16-31, 2013

  • Nov30-2013--Imran Khan paints teh PMLn as a stooge of teh USA and with a policy of excessive price hikes
  • Nov30-2013--Three punjabi taleban hacked down by drones near miranshah
  • Nov30-2013--Justice Nasirul Mulk becomes the acting ECP chief...he is the seniormost after teh CJ designate
  • Nov30-2013--The SC orders 19 FC men to appear before teh Balochistan police who are investigating teh disappearance of 35 men...
  • Nov30-2013--Raheel Sharif takes over as army chief as General Kiani goes home for good after an extended stay at teh top of teh military...General Kiani was politically mild and allowed the SC to literally beatup the PPP during a terror prone five years...the army lost over 3000 soldiers during his tenure and there was a constant retaliation orientation by teh army and TTP amongst other political, ethnic and tribal terror groups...His major failure was an inability to achieve control over north and south waziristan while other areas achieved a modicum of normalcy...After his term teh TTP seems to have emerged stronger and drones still rule the roost however the TTP's terror potential has been reduced...General Kayani believed in strategic depth until the last year of his era and was generally softly oriented towards good or bad politician governance..he was pretty much US oriented until teh US turned nasty towards him before teh Ossama elimination which was probably the low point of his career as teh people thought it odd that american helicopters were allowed to carry out an operation deep into pakistani territory and there were literally no government or military reactions...Raheel Sharif looks an even milder and softer personality and his first day in office saw teh appointment of a new hardnosed Lt. General Ishfaq Nadeem as teh CGS...most of the top guys in teh army usually have served as DGMO...The other aspect has been teh US insistence that teh indians not be regarded as pakistans sole enemy worthy of pakistans defence establishment...that idea that teh indians would be friendly in teh region has been overturned by their savage support of insurgencies in pakistan...teh refusal to resolve any issue barring meaningless trade and during his last days teh indians attacking teh LOC and pakistani borders with almost constant barrages of mortar fire...That ended any hope of pakistans army not being india india centric as teh other borders with afghanistan and iran though problematic cannot be as difficult as teh unfriendly nature of teh indians...that teh pakistan army with a history of insurgencies in east pakistan, karachi and balochistan was not trained for TTP led terrorism is basically a myth...there is nothing new in counter terrorism manuals apart from teh ferociousness of the assaults on selected targets that were not properly defended by teh local police and teh lackaidaiscal faujis...teh pakistan army still cannot deal with IED's and the thinking that forts inside pakistan are just as insecure as the pakistan borders with india...teh standard doctrine is still teh same as that followed by teh french and english...u have tobe there on teh ground and with teh people...one notes that teh french and british are still relatively successful even in iraq and afghanistan compared to teh US in afghanistan and teh pakistanis in Fata...
  • Nov28-2013--with the government running an uncontrolled economy and without any initiation of major projects teh dollar still kept falling in teh open market due to a total unavailaibility and its price was floating around Rs110
  • Nov28-2013--After sitting on teh files for quite a long while Nawaz Sharif finally decided to let Kiani go into retirement ending effectively teh long and disappointing consequences of his problematic musharaf appointment...his choice for army chief was General Raheel Sharif while Rashad Mahmood was appointed chairman joint chief's beating out teh Navy Chief...He also as was initially indicated let teh seniormost Lt. General Haroon retire or be superceded who although having handled logistics admirably in Erra and balochistan was found to have controversial links to the musharaf coup...haroon aslam is also regarded as a hero of the swat war where he had the mullah fazlullah group on teh run with precise eliminations of his commanders...it might also have been thought appropriate to consider that and not irritate teh taleban too much since Fazlullah now heads the TTP...However like General Kiani...Nawaz Sharif preferred the relatively mild subordinates rashad mahmood and raheel sharif who was characterized in teh Defence Journal as an officer who just did enough to be promoted...rashad mahmood it was suggested just avoided combat duties and could have lost the post possibly on religious grounds...while raheel sharif has supposedly never served in teh KP he has been teh head of teh Kakul academy and served in Gilgit...His training is more on the other side of teh border than the one that Kiani was fond of grappling with...however unlike Kiani he could be able to solve the problems on teh afghan border and Fata as he would have an uninvolved mindset ...The situation is very appropriate for teh new General as he will immediately get to appoint three lt generals and promote several major generals...The vacancies are in teh GHQ including the COS and he could if he is inclined to give a new direction to the countries internal security situation and teh way indian transgressions and negotiations are handled...The ISI chief and Tarik Khan could be headed for teh GHQ...Nawaz Sharif and Kiani have off late followed all american orders and even tried to woo teh indians despite their intransigence on most issues...combined with that is teh delayed appointment of a defence minister who is going tobe teh same as teh much ridiculed minister of water and power khawaja asif and the new chief Justice Tasaduq Hussein Jilani who only is to serve into teh middle of next year before retirement...Jilani has handled teh ECP without troubling teh PMLn too much which Nawaz Sharif probably finds more appropriate than anything else...however many suggest that Jilani had virtually disappeared during teh Iftikhar Chaudhry reign of terror...!...Raheel Sharif's most important credential might not be his name...but that his brother was a nishan e haider recipient...It might also be said that after a long time teh ISI has been excluded from top position as also teh SSG and armoured corp...both top appointments come from teh artillery and infantry...many feel that appointing a former ISI chief as army chief has created many of teh problems and an elongated internal security situation...while teh ISI has been important in running teh country they have failed miserably in recent years...many feel that with the change in methods of war army chiefs should be from teh missile and nuclear fields as infantry and artillery are just mere mechanisms but unimportant in a real war...and for teh first time we see an FC commander the fully armed provincial paramilitary as an also ran in the field...The military has a changing role and its importance has declined as a fighting force as it is unable to project its force and has more importance in internal security and protecting teh government..many feel that Kiani reccomended teh ISI chief but had a falling out before his term even ended
  • Nov28-2013--two drone missiles fired over miranshah , north waziristan
  • Nov28-2013--even teh taleban support misbah says teh dawn as the media pushes for the enemies tendulkar
  • Nov27-2013--In what many think maybe surprising instead of going for a quick completion to bhasha nawaz sharif seems tobe following teh nuclear route with teh untested chinese 1100MW nuclear power stations announcing two for teh karachi area and two for teh punjab
  • Nov27-2013--government releases three more afghan taleban leaders
  • Nov27-2013--six policemen gunned down in karachi and hyderabad
  • Nov27-2013--200 lawyers from rural divisions attack teh SC at teh delay in setting up divisional benches of teh LHC
  • Nov25-2013--two soldiers kileld in roadside explosion near miramshah
  • Nov25-2013--The ANP which has been wiped out of politics sees teh re-emergence of teh aging Nasim Wali khan who was sidelined by her step son who suggests that she will retire Asfandyar and Ameer haider Hoti from politics...she accuses them of selling jobs and becoming zardari's ie is opposed to teh very basis of teh parties founding spirit...she basically wants to takeover teh ANP after teh failure of Asfandyar...The ANP is the resultant of anti pakistan pukhtan politics which has been negated by afghan politics, terrorism and teh emergence of mainstream political parties and a religious change oriented streak in most pukhtuns...the death knell was probably teh renaming of nwfp to KP which is not much of an identity and teh taleban terrorist politics that refuses to abate...becoming just a province from a pukhtunistan image has not gone down well for ANP supporters...and a former ANP worker zardari becoming president od pakistan also served to kill the image of a revolutionary anti state ethnic image...
  • Nov25-2013--The moderate government oriented mulahs want teh shiites to work within teh framework of a code of conduct that would have their majalis and processions devoid of armed participants...with teh shiites just as violence prone as sunni extremists and used to going around shooting opponents...while teh sunnis generally have no problem with their chanting, sadistic funeral depictions and ashura's they do have a problem of image when shiites shoot dead people at a mosque just because tehy cannot tolerate a usual mode of friday prayers...shiites many suggest are not a really tolerant type of people and are just as violence prone as sunni extremists...what is probably needed is an end to teh culture of training murderers on both sides...since teh shiite and sunni ideologies despite being teh same religion are literally opposed in concept and application and most cannot accept a similar application in even matters of zakat...The sunnis try to accept teh basis of shiism that is it's perpetual annual mourning, majalis and ashura's despite having no basis in islam but individuals and even clergy have their own interpretations more often than not on a myriad of issues that continue to cause an almost stepladder increase in violence...
  • Nov25-2013--The US accepts a reduced enrichement non nuclear iran which stops further enrichment installations and the plutonium reactor that it is trying to build...and everything would have to monitored...while iran gets some sanctions reduced for teh next six months...irans exports mostly oil related have been halved as countries even like india have stopped importing oil due to teh financial sanctions...while iran supposedly has a large enrichment infrastructure and u just have to enrich uranium ore a few times to achieve weapons grade material...However it is supposedly a slow process and needs a consistent government support mechanism to achieve teh final objective that is a nuclear weapon...However while the middle eastern countries are opposed to teh US and iran getting into bed teh US would like to interact with iran as it is politically/startegically a bad state in relation to middle eastern matters where it is destabilizing states thru its shiite proxies and opposing arabs in liberalizing syria while teh US seems to be ending up on teh same side as teh alqaeda in some areas...while teh agreement means that teh west accepts a second grade nuclear iran rather than a full nuclear power...The iranians are militarily stronger than teh regions nuclear powers and interfere in more countries than teh US and israel...The israeli's see teh agreement as a tacit approval of iranian attitudes and it would eventually be accepted as a nuclear state if it becomes a normal state ie working on supposedly similar strategic aims as teh US
  • Nov25-2013--shoot down teh drones..Kiani..shoot teh drones ..nawaz...says teh JI...they obviously seem unaware of government and military diuplicity on teh matter...Kiani and nawaz sharif are teh epitome of the rubbery natured leaderships that paksitan has...teh government and army are literally frightened of even going to look for teh drones which teh tribals say spend two-three days in an area looking for their target which are usually controlled by teh CIA from washigton...apparently teh pakistan airforce cant see teh drones on their radar's although even an old iraqi mirage is known to have shot down a drone...KP's PTI has already started to stop container traffic and check their papers on teh various routes in and out of afghanistan...The daily newsweek joked that imran khan spent most of his life in teh tribal area of Zaman Park...
  • Nov24-2013--two armed men killed by FC in Sibi...a seminary student shot dead in possible sectarian attack in karachi
  • Nov24-2013--In response to the PTI blockade of Nato traffic the dubious natured PMLn says it wants no confrontation with any enemy of pakistan and Imran Khan should first refuse US aid...
  • Nov24-2013--TTP claims blasts in karachi were attacks on shiites retaliating for attacks in rawalpindi...police say targets not clear
  • Nov24-2013--Imran Khan blocks nato traffic thru KP until drone attacks are stopped...KP government stays away...while four teachers and three health workers kidnapped in Bara after a polio vaccination in parts of rural Bara...kidnappers apparently teh LI
  • Nov23-2013--The NAB chief also ran for cover and went on long leave as he was held responsible for teh musharaf era NICL scam by teh SC...!
  • Nov23-2013--two arrested in gujerat which has seen militancy especially attacks on the military recently and sectarianism
  • Nov23-2013--two blasts in karachi kill seven...with teh religious group holding a demo against teh destruction of a mosque in rawalpindi teh only ones who could carry out blasts would be teh mohajirs or sindhis...
  • Nov23-2013--Nawaz Sharif apparently will continue to lie to teh public on drones as he has given up whatever restrictions that were placed on teh americans in that regard...he suggests that he wont even describe/discuss his policies in the name of enlightenment...he is suggesting that he has support on electricity price hikes and drone attacks which he could reap teh results off in teh LG polls...remember teh musharaf policy in which every thing was an enlightened move...upto now we have seen little if any policy from his government apart from distributing teh entire budget on IPP's and eating out of Obama's hand...!...he has to realize that industrialists and bussinessmen are already extremely rich and do not need teh governments help...one also wonders what he will do with teh huge useless beaurocracy after privatisation...recently teh entire EPI officialdom was found out of teh country...!
  • Nov22-2013--suicide blast at torkham customs office
  • Nov22-2013--Three labourers gunnned down in Kech who were from Buner and Gilgit...while two bullet riddled bodies found in Khuzdar
  • Nov22-2013--despite teh earlier hair raising rises announced in electricity prices by teh Nawaz Sharif regime teh people were delt another blow by announcing a 73 paisa unit rise in prices for October which should theoretically be in a period of high hydel generation and is considered unfathomable...!
  • Nov22-2013--Three blasts in balochistan in quetta, chaman and kuchlak kill five
  • Nov22-2013--In what many feel is a dastardly attack secretly condoned by Nawaz Sharif and teh army chief a US drone fired a missile at an afghan refugee camp in the settled area of hangu killing five afghan militants regarded as haqqanis...earlier teh haqqani's were considered off limits as they functioned inside afghanistan but it seems that Nawaz Sharif has allowed attacks against anyone and anybody while his henchmen protest at US attacks Imran Khan says he is ready to stop nato traffic thru KP while it can carry on thru Balochistan...Nawaz Sharifs new found friendhip with teh afghans is probably reflected thru teh drone attacks and recent actions against teh Haqqani's...where Hamid Karzai has been agitating for teh US to retaliate against possible pakistani aggression which would be inevitable if such acts continue from afghan soil...this can also be seen in the light of the recent burning of a seminary in rawalpindi and teh killing of nasiruddin haqqani in islamabad
  • Nov21-2013--General Kayani on his way to retirement claims success in teh war on terror although it has not reached any conclusion...
  • Nov21-2013--two die in three blasts in quetta
  • Nov21-2013--four militants killed in attack on Swabi police checpost
  • Nov21-2013--suicide bomber attacks a FC checpost on Bannu-Mirali road killing four FC men
  • Nov21-2013--Sartaj Aziz says Obama wanted to get out of the drone mentality but that did not apply to hakeemullah mehsud...!although the USA was now willing to stop drone attacks but there are no talks so...!
  • Nov20-2013--seven militants killed in a blast near mirali as their vehicle runs into a suicide vehicle
  • Nov20-2013--shiite gujerat university administrator/professor shot dead
  • Nov20-2013--the top generals get Lt general Sajjad Ghani out of their way and post him as Corp Commander karachi from QMG which position goes to Engineer in chief najibullah Khan...
  • Nov20-2013--The government approves three names for teh musharaf treason trial judges...justice faisal arab, justice tahira safdar and justice Yawar Ali to form the first treason trial court under article 6...surprisingly he is not being tried for subverting teh constitution in plotting to overthrow and taking over the government but in proclaiming a state of emergency and suspending teh constitution in 2007 and eventually jailing the entire superior judiciary...!many suggest that teh nawaz sharif regime probably feels that the coup charges could bring up discussions of why teh military took over and teh conflicts between teh military and nawaz sharif on kargil, his supposed attempts to make himself teh emir of teh islamic state and the approval by teh courts of a three year military rule...whether teh case is going tobe a coverup as have other cases against musharaf is yet tobe seen...teh government could also be attempting to keep a possible adversary locked up for a few years by initiating case after case...
  • Nov19-2013--Najam Sethi critisized for grilling Misbah on television while he is acting chief of teh PCB...many feel that Najam Sethi is playing a nefarious double game while inducting a sifarishi Umar Amin whom he wanted to step into Misbah's shoes despite a lacklustre debut and is also running an anti Misbah media campaign..
  • Nov19-2013--pharmaceutical industry also wants an 18% price hike...!
  • Nov19-2013--secretary defence's contempt trial to go ahead
  • Nov19-2013--two policemen shot dead in karachi as police operations knock out another three lyari gangsters
  • Nov19-2013--a driver was killed in an attack on a Nato truck in nasirabad
  • Nov19-2013--FIA to investigate 1990 poll funding in which the army chief and president funded directly numerous politicians all over teh country as teh SC CJ asks high courts to nominate a judge each for teh musharaf article 6 treason trial...while this is a serious matter teh special court is formed by selecting three High Court judges
  • Nov19-2013--the reverberations of the rawalpindi sectarian incident are being felt around teh country says maulana sami ul haq where a mosque was attacked by gunmen and nine seminary students killed and a cloth market gutted...in a demos in kohat two more were killed as several shiite shops were gutted..maulana sami ul haq calls it an international conspiracy when only local shiites were involved..while some suggest the hand of teh TTP who have always been willing to playup sectarian feelings
  • Nov18-2013--two policemen killed in attack on swabi checpost...as four are killed in lyari operations
  • Nov18-2013--In other news teh government tried to divert attentions from its sectarian mess by announcing that it requested the SC to appoint a three judge panel to hear teh article 6 treason case against musharaf for constitutional transgressions..while other coup plotters would remove a judge here and there to control teh countries courts he tried to fire teh entire senior judiciary and even incarcerated them...
  • Nov18-2013--after three days of curfews rawalpindi opened up today after teh namaz janaza's of three apparently KP seminary students were held in liaqat bagh...the government had been resisting teh holding of janaza's in rawalpindi as tensions increased...however as participants poured in from KP teh government backed down and allowed sunnidoms senior mullahs to hold teh funerals...teh ashura violence blamed generally on shiite processionists/miscreants in which they attacked a mosque in raja bazaar where preperations for friday prayers were going on...ten people were killed in teh ensuing voiolence...the government which lost both national assembly seats in rawalpindi was a silent spectator as curfew was imposed to contain teh reactions to teh violence...many blamed teh losers PPP and teh PMln who had suffered at teh hands of pindites...however many saw the government actions as a reaction to their political losses in teh area...teh governments pampering/tolerance of shiite's has created a seemingly armed political monster which does not respect any aspects of religion in teh name of remembering centuries old historical events...teh reactions have been that seminary students have become more and more militantly trained and usually are only from teh KP...while rawalpindi is not known for sectarian violence teh sectarian divisions are just as similar as in more violence prone sectarian areas...while teh government had generally been able to contain sectarian tensions by a massive security operation countrywide one serious incident caused tensions to reappear and there were problems in multan here teh army was called out with one dead...many feel that shiites too should show respect and tolerance for other communities and sects...who generally regard shiite actions as anti islamic and meaningless in their intentions...sadism and meaningless depictions of mourning/pain will not improve teh lives of pakistanis in any way...

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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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