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, April 16, 2014

The Daily PakistanPolitics Apr16-30, 2014

  • Apr30-2014--Moin selects 36 players for a camp which largely consists of old players..only new player is atif maqbool an off spinner...taufiq umar, imran farhat, abdur rehman, mohammed sami, asad shafiq, raza hasan, ehsan adil, faisal iqbal, fawad alam recalled...most of these players donot inspire much confidence and only mohammed irfan could be said to have the ability to change teh teams fortunes...asad shafiq has failed a lot while only fawad alam can be said to have played well on teh domestic circuit...most of the middle order player players can be said tobe on teh decline and a few new upcoming batsmen for 20-20's should have been included...indications are that misbah could be dropped as one day captain too with probably shehzad ahmed or shahid afridi taking over teh reigns...not many players are known to have captainship qualities amongst these 36
  • Apr30-2014--IESCO reconnects electricity to several govt deptts including teh supreme court and parliament
  • Apr29-2014--Iesco disconnects power supply to over a 100 buildings in islamabad
  • Apr29-2014--the DHR which brings attention to missing persons in teh countries capital... protestors tried to sneak past teh islamabad police at a D-chowk protest who than thrashed them and arrested several including amna masood who were later released...
  • Apr29-2014--The government to follow its own agenda in taleban talks
  • Apr29-2014--three seminary students die in an accidental grenade explosion inside a class in karachi
  • Apr29-2014--The military attacked teh Bobar area of south waziristan in retaliation for teh killing of three soldiers a day earlier..the area is said tobe a hideout for several groups
  • Apr28-2014--officer, two soldiers killed in an IED blast on teh border of north and south waziristan
  • Apr28-2014--Gilani contradicts teh interior minister saying that kidnappers of his son did not want ransom
  • Apr27-2014--Balochistan PA wants motorway extended to Quetta
  • Apr27-2014--DHA Lahore offer 8 marla commercial plots for Rs40 million apiece...!
  • Apr26-2014--all balochistan towns to get gas supply infrastructure
  • Apr26-2014--a blast near a mosque in delhi colony, karachi kills six...a bus of of shiite children escaped teh atatck
  • Apr26-2014--The interior minister says that teh taleban claimed to have placed a bomb under Hamid Mirs car in islamabad in 2012..!
  • Apr26-2014--Interior minister says that a video has been received showing ali haider gilani asking for a huge ransom and stating that he is not in taleban custody...many have suggested that teh gilanis maybe playing a trick to get sympathy...
  • Apr25-2014--Najam Sethi forms a six man bits and pieces Selection committee headed by Moin Khan...Mohd Akram, Shoaib Mohammed, Ijaz Ahmed, Saleem Yusuf, Wajahatullah Wasti...Wasti is still a playing cricketer..mohd akram has been fired as the bowling coach and is supposedly getting a post at teh NCA as well...Waqar Younis is tobe teh head coach and one must suggest that he must insist on a bowling coach and a batting coach to help him as teh team seems tobe unable to grasp teh basics in both areas ...earlier teh team usually only failed in teh fielding deptt...!there is no point left in keeping inconsistent seniors in teh 20-20 team and new players should be tried...looking for a new wickekeeper should be essential as non of teh wicketkeepers can keep their positions after a series or two
  • Apr25-2014--Hamid Mir who is supposedly a brave journalist says that he fears teh ISI the most although according to his own statement teh ISI just informed him that he was on teh hitlists of apparently militants...the ISI modus operandi is close to teh disappearing kind and they usually donot trouble teh rich and famous...!teh views that he suggests cause the ISI to start its hatemongering campaigns are pretty normal and many prominent people and politicians have those views...however one would suggest that he makeup with whoever he feels wants to eliminate him...given teh situation in pakistan nobody really follows orders in teh intelligence, military and terrorist domains citing issues such as information gathering, security...and blowing teh cover of their operations etc...Internet commentaries suggest that Hamid Mir turns out tobe a bangladeshi agent or one of teh helpers of teh bangladesh liberation...!that alone is cause enough say teh fauji's...
  • Apr25-2014--apparently a Taleban suicide bomber kills a reknown anti terrorist policeman Shafiq Tanoli alongwith three acquaintances in karachi
  • Apr25-2014--Nawaz Sharif and Raheel Shareef cozyup as they say they are working together...!
  • Apr25-2014--On teh Taleban front dawn says thousands of foreign militants are making their way to Syria via Iran while the remaining hope for a safe passage if an agreement is reached
  • Apr25-2014--As the ceasefire ended teh military bombed the khyber agency specifically some Bara areas and the Tirah valley killing 35 militants and non combatants mostly of teh Tariq Afridi group who are being blamed for much of teh violence around peshawar and in islamabad
  • Apr24-2014--taleban talks on again as complaints are pushed aside...!
  • Apr24-2014--Sit in in Skardu for the ninth consecutive day against withdrawal of wheat subsidy in GB
  • Apr24-2014--Pemra forms three member committee to investigate charges against Geo...!
  • Apr24-2014--16 inch gas pipeline blows up near Dera Bugti
  • Apr23-2014--Blasts in Charsadda and Chaman kill one
  • Apr23-2014--Najam Sethi seems tobe turning into a rangeela as he now forms an advisory body based on PMLn supported cricketers and proposing Moin Khan as selector, manager and coach selector thus keeping in place causes of failures...both Zaheer Abbas and Moin Khan have been visible failures in teh last two tournaments...Waqar Younis now thinks he is fit tobe coach again after having dropped out due to a mysterious illness...coaches cant really create brilliance and it is necessary to have new players replace consistent failures...making a selector also a tour manager clouds clear thinking on selection
  • Apr23-2014--The Supreme Court seemingly on flimsy grounds suspended the decisions of teh ECP and an election tribunal declaring the runner up tobe successful and disqualifying teh winner...This in teh case of mullah ahmed ludhianwi head of teh ASWJ but who ran on teh ticket of a different party
  • Apr23-2014--In something that can be considered new teh defence ministry asked Pemra to take Geo off teh air for slandering teh ISI...Run by teh Jang Group that has both benefited from governments and been at the receiving end as well...while teh people donot listen much to news channels teh multitude of various channels causes rivalry and attempts to show bravura by attacking teh government, military and ISI...not many realize that teh ISI once a strong and powerful organization is now left with no sources of information especially in teh insurgent field...many suggest that the military and its officer class have become isolated from teh people and thus their sources of information too have declined drastically...all this because Geo aired apprehensions that Hamid Mir was shot at in karachi by ISI gunmen...!obviously the gunmen could be contract or even political killers and these days almost anyone can hire such desperados...
  • Apr23-2014--In related news teh MQM jumped into teh government once again...the timing seems odd and many feel that teh mqm has been shaken by teh crackdown onits organisational hitmen...!others suggest that both sides in sindh refuse to take responsibility and adopt a peaceful attitude...!the PPP has been seen as attempting to rule on minor issues and at times has been blamed for being unable to know what is happening inits own backyard...The mqm likes tobe in power but has been unable to create an image of trustworthiness depending mostly on its ethnic workforce to eliminate opponents and spew out propaganda against opponents which is lapped up by an almost illiterate people...
  • Apr22-2014--ANP and PPP senators indulge in ISI bashing of their own...while teh attack on Hamid Mir is not considered by many tobe an ISI operation teh ISI obviously cannot come out into teh open and say that it either did it or did not do it...in the past teh ISI has been considered trustworthy enough to investigate such incidents...!The ANP critisized ISI operations in afghanistan and occupied kashmir...while others praise teh pushing out of teh russians from afghanistan many consider the subsequent subjugation to teh US in afghanistan with suspicion too...Aitezaz Ahsan critisizes ISI operations during his era and manipulations of elections and coups...The army chief felt threatened enough to visit teh embattled ISI HQ and asked the the nearly retired ISI chief to hang in there...many feel Raheel Shareef should appoint a new ISI chief to suggest a change from teh Kayani era...!others suggest that the ISI chief is past his retirement date...?
  • Apr22-2014--six mostly policemen die in an attack on a police van in the badhaber area of peshawar
  • Apr22-2014--Tariq Fatemi suggests that Nawaz Sharif is more about commercial success than anything else...He suggests that development of Gwadar presently an empty port city is one of his foreign policy goals and they will disregard indian animosities and support for terrorism and insurgencies...The china corridor did not work in teh form of teh Karokarum highway...but many regard teh China corridor as just another road to china which might deter india from future adventurism as teh country hunkers down behind a wall of dollars...!however many regard building up the power infrastructure as beneficial for the future if pakistan can control use according to supply...he regards the relationship with teh USA in a new strategic phase(based on USaid advertisements) since pakistans client state, regional bully and military hardware source era's...although teh US will have little need for pakistan as it develops relations with china, afghanistan, india and iran on its own...he also derided teh pakistan foreign ministry as weak and ineffective
  • Apr22-2014--six bodies killed in execution style found near Thatta
  • Apr22-2014--In what many see as an over reaction three SC judges nominated to investigate gun attack on Hamid Mir...it also shows a mistrust of teh sindh government and police...
  • Apr21-2014--42 die in a truck-trailer accident near Sukkur
  • Apr21-2014--Hamid Mir has three bullets removed from his stomach as Nawaz Sharif asks CJ for an SC commission to investigate
  • Apr21-2014--In a further attempt at increasing provincial/ethnic polarisation Sindh asks for Nadra to check the identities of all people crossing into Sindh
  • Apr20-2014--Nawaz Sharif talks up Raheel Shareef to new military graduates at Kakul as many doubt teh militaries capabilities against insurgents, border attacks /violations and complaints of internal security mishandling..The military and government apparently want no discussions of teh militaries weaknesses and only prefer patriotic songs, feelings, unquestioned support and praise...many however question teh ethical values of teh military and their ability to restrain juniors from wrongdoing especially in teh human sphere..others see teh continuous refusal to change training methods and how to deal with new and emerging situations..many also suggest teh algerian/french doctrine to restrain insurgencies while teh ANP specifically critisize interventions in occupied kashmir and afghanistan...while aitezaz ahsan points to ISI involvements in manipulating elections and coups
  • Apr20-2014--talks between the interior minister and teh taleban committee did not take place
  • Apr20-2014--attention shifted to karachi as Musharaf rushed off to karachi under heavy security to get treatment for his spine while journalist Hamid Mir said tobe close to al qaeda was shot at as he emerged from karachi airport...his news channel raised a furore by accusing the failing ISI although many doubt whether teh ISI has any TT killers...probably an expert hitman as he hit teh target with six bullets out of nine...most TT killers are supposedly from teh political ethnic groups...although the presence of two motorcycles and a car suggests that it could be a political attack with observers which usually suggests taleban involvement...!
  • Apr20-2014--three militants shot dead by the FC in Panjgur while chief minister says situation improving
  • Apr19-2014--The Protection of Pakistan Ordnance which supposedly is to cover internal security handling blocked in teh senate although it is already in play as an Ordnance
  • Apr19-2014--The Shahbaz Sharif regime suggests that they have busted a gang of LeJ killers who had started to sow terror amongst lahore's shiites...the gang apparently belonged to teh malik ishaq group
  • Apr19-2014--while mna's are supposedly allowed to say anything in teh national assembly apparently they cant critisize teh army...Khawaja Asif says the brouhaha is about an old speech of his and he respects the army while Khawaja Saad rafique wanted the cowardly musharaf to behave like a "mard ka bacha' which brought on teh ire of teh supposedly soft hawk Raheel Sharif...!The Dawn suggests that the treasonous and treacherous hidden in teh CMH had a plane ready at chaklala airport to flee or go see his ailing mother...!The treason court rejected a musharaf assertion that teh prosecuter was biased and teh SC rejected opposition to the NAB chief suggesting that it was immaterial whether he was a Zia Ul Haq protege and close to Nawaz Sharif...
  • Apr19-2014--Chaudhry Nisar to meet TTP negotiators as the taleban turn on the war again...a soldier is killed on peshawar's outskirts as a an IED hits a convoy while a military ammunition dump blows up in landikotal...even though the PMLn leadership is considered soft on teh taleban, military and mullah's(according to teh Dawn) talks have little chance of success in such circumstances..The taleban wanted teh release of 300 and a safe haven...!
  • Apr18-2014--MQM holds demo protests against arbitrary arrests, interrogation and at times elimination of karachi's terror suspects...while only a few mqm men have apparently been picked up the mqm generally approves of action against everyone else ie other ethnicities/groups thus leaving everyone in a quandary as to their attitudes and bias's
  • Apr18-2014--PPP's Faisal Raza Abidi who would not quit his anti PMLn/iftikhar chaudhry diatribes resigns from teh senate
  • Apr18-2014--The PMLn tries to pushup Bilawal Zardari suggesting that they will provide him security everywhere probably frightened at having to deal with teh innocuous Asif Zardari even in teh future
  • Apr18-2014--Wapda chairman resigns and teh PMLn appoints zafar mahmood...wapda which now deals with just teh hydel sector has been slow on some projects and given teh lack of financing has not moved fast enough on teh bigger hydel schemes...however wapda has been funding and handling most projects themselves
  • Apr18-2014--The government convenes teh National security committee to discuss teh rift in military-government ties but nobody touches teh issue which has been a major rift in military relations with most governments...others suggest that teh military should quit its elitist attitude after achieving everything that teh peopel are denied...musharaf had promoted an attitude of insolence and many feel that teh verbal achievements of teh military are more than those in teh field...however after the taleban ended their ceasefire the government will deal with each issue with an apparent toughness rather than promoting a soft laxity which many suggest promotes adventurism...however talks are expected to continue
  • Apr17-2014--government prosecutor says that there is no evidence against any abettors in musharaf's treason trial...!
  • Apr17-2014--taleban end ceasefire as their power seemed on the wane but to continue talks...many suggest that the taleban factions had become embroiled in internal squabbles on teh issue...!
  • Apr17-2014--Asif Zardari many say pushes aside teh immature Bilawal Zardari who still seems scared of touring most pakistan areas and meets nawaz sharif who does not seem to realize the militaries mixed up attitudes..however they now seem to agree on opposing military adventurism and taleban talks...!
  • Apr16-2014--The new governor of KP suggests an amnesty for teh taleban's militants suggesting that they too are in dire trouble...at the moment teh government not even agreeing to a safe haven
  • Apr16-2014--helicopters bombed militant positions after an IED injured a soldier going to collect water near teh afghan border
  • Apr16-2014--Islamabad bravely clears katchi abadis in I-10 and H-10...katchi abadis in islamabad have a long history where people come from far and wide to setup in teh capital..mostly they have been minorities, afghans and pukhtuns...they survive by doing odd jobs and small bussiness but they mar teh beauty of teh capital and these days security concerns override any charitable instinct...but many have noticed the katchi abadis turning into concrete structures and to many they seem like usurpers rather than poverty stricken migratory people in need of a place to put up a tent

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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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