The Daily Pakistan Politics Mar16-31, 2014

• Mar31-2014--KP minister Siraj Ul Haq elected JI Emir
• Mar30-2014--girl dies in a rickshaw blast near an FC vehicle in quetta
  
• Mar30-2014--government and TTp committees agree to extend truce
  
• Mar30-2014--Pasni radar station attacked...guard killed
  
• Mar29-2014--Saleem Shehzad who was earlier thought tobe teh head of teh mqm's terrorist wing says that several members of teh mqm were involved in extortion killings and smuggling...his membership ahs been suspended
  
• Mar29-2014--a driver was killed in an attack on nato trailers in balochistan
  
• Mar28-2014--TTP wants a peace zone with freedom of movement and teh release of 250 non combatants
  
• Mar27-2014--government-TTP meeting takes place in Orakzai agency
  
• Mar26-2014--The government wants to try two military officers involved in enforcement disappearance sin balochistan under teh army act...of 33 missing the FC was accused of picking up 19 eight were picked by intelligence agencies(MI) and the remaining six either police or levis...
  
• Mar25-2014--The Mqm which has no policies apart from ethnic differentiation and troubling teh local populace thru bhatta and violence again attempting to join teh PPP coalition who do not seem to have learnt their lessons yet
  
• Mar25-2014--ISI chief told to appear in court after another man disappears apparently arrested by by teh ISi in Khushab...many believe that most of teh people picked up had personal disputes with ISI personnel
  
• Mar25-2014--despite terrible experiences of the past nawaz sharif still insists that teh US intervene in kashmir...earlier teh US had turned into an indian puppet on the issue despite having advised pakistan to occupy as much territory as possible in 1965
  
• Mar24-2014--JSQM hold freedom rally in karachi
  
• Mar23-2014--36 killed in a four vehicle crash near HUB...some vehicles carrying iranian fuel caused a fire which charred all teh bodies beyond recognition
  
• Mar23-2014--government agrees on venue for next round of taleban talks
  
• Mar22-2014--The KP assembly passes a bill to support teh hazara province and others pass a bill to change the KP name to Hazara Pukhtunkhwa...with various majorities in teh senate, national assembly and provincial assembly of KP the matter is just being politically sidelined as an impossibility...
  
• Mar22-2014--the country goes along its merry ways as rangers and police shot dead three suspected gangsters...two killed in quetta in a drive-by shooting..protests in sindh as two bodies found in a burntout car near naushero feroz turned out tobe leaders of teh JSQM who threaten secession...most of sindh forcibly shut down and parts of karachi while in moro and larkana a police van, four trailers and a college bus were set on fire and some government offices vandalised...
  
• Mar22-2014--in what many see as a pathetic move nawaz sharif lines up with altaf hussein who lives in a foreign land representing a tiny fraction of sindhi's and refused to send troops to help troubled muslim countries while even refusing to critisize teh incursions into other sovreign nations by hezbollah and teh iranians...however many suspect that teh pakistanis may have offered to surreptitiously sell guns and related materials or provide military training and planning services...pakistan has long been involved in bahrain thru providing retired faujis and appointing retired lt general's as ambassadors...however others suspect that teh pakistanis have counselled against further incursions into syria which is ruled by a harsh shiite community..talks as many know usually meander along while states like syria bomb and bully its people...The shiite leaning PPP also seemed opposed to the $1.5 billion provided by teh saudis ostensibly for acquiring small arms...The PPP has had pretty bad relations with teh middle east and supported teh harsh suppression of the syrian people
  
• Mar21-2014--The Supreme Court virtually cancels LG polls for a whole year...It directs the federal and provincial government to legislate powers to teh ECP to carry out delimitations...The ECP to complete process in 45 days and enable teh holding of LG elections by November 2014...?
  
• Mar21-2014--The Dawn suggests that teh frightened Nawaz Sharif trembles at suggestions that he would allow pakistans armed forces to work against troublemaking shiite forces in other muslim countries...pakistan has a verbally tough armed force unable to control insurgencies at home or help weaker muslim states against teh militant troublemaking by iran in other muslim countries...iran has been directly interfering in teh affairs of other muslim countries like lebanon, syria, bahrain, afghanistan and has even threatened pakistan...pakistan has had problems in teh area or region as it is barely able to defend itself in teh region and is frightened of projecting its force into regional countries like afghanistan even to defend itself...apparently teh iranians tried to buy teh shiite leaning PPP with its leaders and even their wives going to iran to get commissions and handouts...!The inability to project their armed force in the region has turned pakistan into a regular punching bag for teh iranians,shiites, indians and afghans...
  
• Mar20-2014--After new allegations surfaced that teh ISI knew where Osama was hidden the army again said that it did not know...reports have already surfaced which suggested that both teh US and pakistan's military intelligence knew teh whereabouts of Ossama and that a senior military team was on hand to monitor the abbottabad attack...In fact it is suggested that teh ISI chief was in washington to provide or sell teh information...however he was told that they did not require teh info and that he rushed back to pakistan after learning that an attack on Osama was imminent...still despite all that teh US was aware of teh location around two years earlier while some suggest that teh info was provided to them as early as 2003...others suggest that teh falling out between Kayani and teh top US military leadership was on the same issue...the information which comes from a book by a NYT corespondent also suggests that military generals and musharaf discussed teh attack on Benazir Bhutto and that two suicide attackers arrived at the haqqaniah maddresseh in akora khattak a day before teh attack and were escorted to rawalpindi...they also suggest that Benazir died due to a vehicle caused head injury due to teh blast...while they say that benazir fell into Nahid Khan's lap others suggest that she fell onto teh seat...many feel that teh pakistan military was frigtened of carrying out an attack on Ossama and teh US eventually took teh matter into their own hands...many feel that military officers monitored teh Ossama home from a distance...
  
• Mar19-2014--countries having problems with iran's control over shiite populations and trouble mongering in the middle east landing in pakistan where a pro shiite nawaz sharif is expected to help them out usually in matters of weapons and tweaking teh iranian ears...the latest arrival is teh bahrani emir who has had constant problems with his shiite populace...bahrain has generally been dependent on pakistans retired faujis(an abundant and available commodity) and probably maybe looking at direct military aid in matters of personnel...Nawaz Sharif also went into an intermediate mode by creating a National Intelligence Directorate under NACTA which would coordinate with teh ISI on matters of terrorism and insurgencies...At teh moment everyone is all at sea on how terrorists operate in teh country and who they are...The ISI has theoretically been teh biggest failure as they have been unable to stop organisations like teh Taleban, MQM, lyari gangs, religious groups(shiite, sunni and others) in almost an open war against teh state and each other...as these groups nowadays work under teh radar teh ISI has no direct influence left and is wary of infiltrating them...anyway most people regard the ISI as only having any abilities in normal times...and have more of an interest in advising on politics rather than catching or infiltrating terrorists
  
• Mar18-2014--while pakistan can barely get along with the shiite iranians they seem to have teh best of relations with teh saudis who have recently given them a grant of $1.5 billion...even though it does not fall into teh saudis usual suggestion that it benefit teh people...teh pakistani shiite groups are perturbed that teh pakistanis are now openly opposed to the shiite syrian rulers and want their removal...with the anti asad fighters now almost stalemated with teh pakistanis, turks and qatari's wanting a peaceful resolution the syrian army supported by hezbollah/iranian/regional shiite fighters are knocking them back...the old and stuttering foreign ministry advisor sartaj aziz is stumbling around with teh supposed aim of getting along with both iranians and teh saudis who are usually on opposite sides of most issues...with teh iranians literally funding/arming shiite militant groups and involved in fighting inside syria against groups that want syria liberated from teh shiite allawites there is no real middle ground between teh pakistanis, iranians and saudis...with teh pakistanis and saudis pathetically wanting a regime change thru talks one can only see a stalemate with groups that have some area control holding their positions and teh syrians clearing areas that trouble teh israeli's and thus teh americans on teh lebanese border...teh lebanese which have dominant shiite area's are involved on both sides in syria
  
• Mar18-2014--The TTP negotiators suggest that it is not a militant tactic or ploy...the taleban suggestion that a safe haven for them be created in makeen and ladha which can be called teh heart of talebanistan...at teh moment the withdrawal of teh military from these areas and allowing a free wheeling armed taleban into these areas seems difficult...however if teh taleban agree to leave their weapons behind and agree to everyone in these areas tobe disarmed than a start can be achieved...where talks can than be held eventually with top taleban leaders who are said tobe hiding in different places...a general amnesty has also been suggested by one of teh negotiators but with teh taleban unable to control their indian groups a general amnesty would be problematic...government waiting on taleban info about ahrarul hind...!
  
• Mar18-2014--pakistan attempts to buy US vehicles designed to absorb IED blasts from their afghan excess materials which they could sell and thus not have to ship back...around a total of 5000 vehicles which are theoretically not needed elsewhere could be offered to pakistan according to their needs
  
• Mar17-2014--negotiators say that government has not attacked any TTP position in recent attacks...the taleban have asked for release of women and elderly while teh government side has asked for release of PPP prisoners and a vice chancellor...government says it has no women and children from taleban in military custody
  
• Mar17-2014--In balochistan PMLn and teh NP chief minister near a falling out
  
• Mar17-2014--Hindu properties attacked in larkana
  
• Mar17-2014--The missing Malaysian 777 plane apparently changed course and was lost to radar while heading towards an area covering bangladesh, nepal and india and could also have headed to thailand or china and remotely to pakistan..it is now thought most likely that it disappeared into teh sea somewhere near teh indian occupied andaman islands unless some other radar finds that it crossed their path...!many now agree that any country like malaysia, india, thailand, vietnam and china could have shot down teh plane while most are suspicious of teh indians and teh malaysians...the malaysians could have shot it down after it changed course and teh indians in teh andamans could also have shot it down since it would not be regarded as a regular flight when its transponder was off...others suggest that the plane either exploded or was shot down at teh place its transponder turned off...!
  
• Mar16-2014--The american CIA agent Dr. Shakil Afridi has had his prison term reduced by 10 years to 23 by a tribal court
  
• Mar16-2014--Musharaf seems unaware that since he was making teh final decisions and it was not constitutionally anybody elses than any treasonous act is completely his responisibility not that of any of his advisors whether former primeministers or former army chiefs unless he can give any evidence that he was forced to make any treasonous action...it is generally believed that musharaf made all teh decisions in eliminating politicians and teh emergency and incarcerating teh superior judiciary...many also believe that he asked teh indian army for support in his coup as well as a US army commander...others also believe that teh indian primeminister calling him a good son of india and his families house in india not being allotted to anyone is quite enough to suggest that he was an indian mole as well...many also believe that he disappeared from duty(went AWOL) during teh 1965 war while stationed at the indian border...
  
• Mar16-2014--11 kidnapped by Bara militants from Peshawar as teh government talks to TTP on a talks venue...government wants talks at Bannu airport while taleban want talks tobe held in miranshah