The Daily PakistanPolitics May1-15, 2014

• May15-2014--SC asks government to allow it to try armymen who are not being controlled by teh Army
  
• May15-2014--two rangers men shot dead in sukkur while two security men killed in Pasni and a Nato container driver was killed in Jamrud
  
• May15-2014--despite an MQm campaign which many see as PPP inspired the karachi operation to go on...the interior minister says that there are only many small pockets of problems in karachi while others see an avoidance to going after teh biggest problem in karachi...!
  
• May14-2014--The people see very bad consequences for issuing a pakistani passport to teh bodybag ethnic warlord altaf hussein who plans to flee england where he is almost certain tobe indicted for murder and money laundering...Altaf Hussein has ravaged karachi thru an ethnic war killing and terrorising every other ethnic community..earlier Altaf Hussein's only quest was to obtain teh red passport rather than teh green...teh situation has not changed much as teh mqm threatened pakistan that they would shutdown karachi for a month showing their terrorist orientation if altaf hussein was jailed or came to a dramatic end...starting out as an anti PPP anti sindhi party it now sits in teh PPP lap claiming to have fired on demo's on May 12 and creates problems for karachi while taking no responsibility for being in teh government
  
• May14-2014--ANP city leader shot dead in peshawar
  
• May14-2014--Polio certificates for international pakistani travellers a must from June 1....
  
• May13-2014--gas reserves discovered in lower sindh near Sujawal
  
• May13-2014--nato container set on fire near peshawar
  
• May13-2014--after living in england for over fifteen years altaf hussein who is a british citizen now wants a pakistani passport..Pmln queries mqm whether they want to submit to teh writ of teh state...ever since its creation teh mqm has been running an ethnic war against this group and that...killings, terror blasts, attacking demo's, creating nogo areas, riots, infighting with other mohajir groups...in fact doing everyting dirty to create a mohajir identity...and despite that they aspire tobe in every government in sindh whatever its nature and even want ministries at teh center...their duality as victim and murderer shrouded by their supposed mohajirism...and the attempts by other political groups to drag them along whatever they do....
  
• May12-2014--four die in a suicide blast in a peshawar mosque...IED blast hits army convoy in north waziristan as two Levies men killed in khuzdar..while four killed in karachis ongoing internecine violence including a policeman
  
• May12-2014--The imran allegation that teh 2013 election were full of dhandli's is generally regarded as a ploy as the ECP cannot prove its point due to teh inability of any automatic means of verifying thumb imprints...theoretically thumb imprints can only be verified manually by checking ID cards which are teh only requirement for voters...the voter's thumb imprint cannot be verified on a large scale unless it is done at teh voting stage...Imran Khan has demanded that the ECP be reconstituted and automatic voting machines be introduced to reduce teh power of teh PPP in sindh and teh PMln in punjab...apart from asking for deciding election complaints quickly and verification of voters in four constituencies...he also wants caretakers to not be given assignments immediately after elections...a new ECP formed by teh PMLn will hardly make too much of a difference..however imran seems to have lost teh yuppie/elite/women vote and gained teh rural vote in teh KP although the colorful nature of his rally was evident that he had not completely lost out on popularity...His support for teh failed ISI seems odd to many...many donot realize that teh countries problems are directly caused by teh failures of military run intelligence agencies apart from teh weaknesses exhibited by the police, rangers and army's functioning exposed by the taleban/ethnic/nationalist terror attacks...
  
• May11-2014--blast in peshawars kohati bazaar area
  
• May11-2014--the pace of deciding poll petitions by five tribunals in punjab is slow with 176 petitions...of around eighty petitions decided only eight were accepted or around 10%...The PTI has 43 petitions..records have been found tampered with and verifying thumb imprints is regarded as impossible...many suggest voting records be checked by ID cards and agent records
  
• May10-2014--Ishaq Dar teh rich peoples finance minister suggests there is hope for the people in supposed $200 billion pakistani accounts in swiss banks...not much has been gained from such tactics as teh Zardari's literally flaunted their swiss corruption and ran away with all teh money too...many doubt that teh rich pakistanis would keep such huge funds in swiss banks with almost no returns...most rich people in pakistan are known to invest and make windfall profits...like teh lohar turned industrialist Sharif's...
  
• May10-2014--In one year teh wasteful sharifs have added $15.3 billion to foreign debts without any visible development
  
• May9-2014--interior ministry allows imran khan's dhandli or rigged elections rally upto D-chowk...no infants or arms or clubs tobe allowed...PMLn starts to fire back on teh issue...The SC asked the EC to respond to teh imran khan allegations...it has already been proved that thumb imprints are not verifiable even if they have a record...imran khan also raised concern about the broader aspect and nature of electioneering...for thumb imprints tobe useful they have to be verified on teh spot but the system either attacks the confidentiality of a vote or its verification...many feel that imran khans agents must have been pretty inept to allow large scale vote rigging...!
  
• May9-2014--two killed in a quetta bomb blast
  
• May9-2014--In response to the generalized complaint that the steam has run out of teh PMln power wagon Nawaz Sharif starts work on a coal plant in karachi and a solar plant near multan...without a policy of sustainable energy use the electricity problem cannot be solved...teh government will have to shut down industries, CNG etc. and stop teh elite such as DHA's etc from using teh available electricity for upscale housing and commercial projects such as huge plaza's...the rich already own multiple housing units as do military officers and teh country must make a decision not to expand needlessly at teh cost of the people and existing facilities...industries too must exist on a sustainable basis...
  
• May9-2014--nine faujis killed as a convoy runs into a roadside blast near the afghan border in north waziristan...military pounds teh area in retaliation
  
• May8-2014--FC men killed in khyber and balochistan border
  
• May8-2014--driver of a military truck carrying US made APC's for teh pakistan army killed in an attack on a sindh highway near Moro
  
• May8-2014--US spy arrested at karachi airport with knives and bullets
  
• May8-2014--five taleban killed in infighting
  
• May8-2014--PTI says it is not interested in mid term elections which are teh only solution to a rigged election
  
• May7-2014--while travel is not common to people in Gadap, fata and other pukhtun migratory locations it is teh top elite who will fear losing their future loved ones if teh polio vaccine does have such an effect...pakistan could ensure that all people leaving pakistan are fed teh polio vaccine...punjab says they have been polio free for a year as does balochistan...
  
• May7-2014--another 16 killed in intra taleban fighting between the shehryar and said sajna groups...
  
• May7-2014--The interior minister tells teh iranians to talk to teh FC if they have problems on teh baloch border...others suggest that the iranians ease up on their anti sunni quest in Sistan
  
• May7-2014--losing the energy to deal with persistent problems and lacking a revolutionary will akin to teh PPP nawaz sharif throws in teh towel and says that the electricity problem will be solved eventually...! as teh PTI suggests that teh PTI as well as teh nawa-i-waqt could be behind teh shooting of teh bengali liberationist hamid mir...?the PTI also points out the numerous Geo appointments made by nawaz sharif...!!!
  
• May6-2014--seatbelts mandatory in islamabad...!
  
• May6-2014--500KV power pylon blownup near badabher
  
• May6-2014--After 59 polio cases were reported from non travel related areas of Gadap, Fata, Peshawar WHO issued a polio vaccination certification as essential for regular pakistani travellers in the last 4weeks-12 months and have a certificate...
  
• May6-2014--gunmen attack Nato truck in jamrud killing two drivers
  
• May6-2014--The two man disappearing commission says another 1864 have disappeared since 2011 while they traced 27 last month at various internment centers in KP
  
• May6-2014-- 10 militants killed in clashes with FC in Panjgur
  
• May6-2014--the governments problems with teh ISI and raheel shareef while not of any real magnitude seem quite substantial in discussions on teh media...teh PTI tongue in cheek suggested that teh PMLn was essentially an anti military political group and that teh culprit Geo had several appointments in teh nawaz sharif regime...many feel that teh appointment of a new ISI chief and slapping the Geo-Jang group with sanctions such as a ban on government ads are essential steps...most politicians generally of teh slavish nature amongst them mullahs and teh PMLq have suggested a childish mentality of unreserved support for our weak military armed force...others suggest that teh military is being encouraged to another coup to bring in yes sir military supporters...the imran khan attempt to needle teh PMLn into admitting to electoral dhandli is a step considered dangerous in this regard...however others suggest that teh SC use its suo moto powers to urge teh EC to decide all electoral pleas...that could force teh PMln into a coalition with teh PTI or teh mqm or mid term elections...?
  
• May5-2014--soldier killed in firing across afghan border in bajaur
  
• May5-2014--Ishaq Dar said he would not go to dubai to talk to teh IMF but the villain is sitting in dubai telling them he will raise taxes by increasing electricity and gas prices further next year
  
• May4-2014--In DI Khan protestors setfire to a sugar mill whose effluent killed 10 people
  
• May4-2014--FC soldier dies in IED blast in bolan
  
• May4-2014--The SC lets off killers of hakim said at times assigning illogical reasons to police methods...it is obvious that everyone cannot be accused at teh same time and there is no logical reason given to reject a fingerprint...
  
• May4-2014--The mqm regarded as a sarkari creation anyway likes to side with the governing party and wants tobe in teh government in the center and teh province...it is still waiting tobe asked by nawaz sharif as well
  
• May3-2014-- While teh Taleban maulvis are crowing at their success at stopping major terrorist activities the interior minister says talks cannot go on amid rhetoric...while teh army chief surprisingly says that things are quite cool in Fata where there is almost a daily incident especially on teh outskirts of peshawar
  
• May3-2014--PTI boycotts jang-Geo for being a PMLn stooge
  
• May3-2014--the militaries villain Khawaja Asif sys he refuses to control loadshedding...!many suggest that an emergency be declared and CNG stations be shut down
  
• May2-2014--A JI tribal jirga wants the Taleban ceasefire restored
  
• May2-2014--In a surprising decision teh IHC said that the governments amnesty scheme for high priced smuggled vehicles was legal despite there being no approval from parliament...The court gave teh surprising explanation that a vehicle that had changed several owners could not be considered smuggled or apprehended although it would not be very difficult to find the original smuggler...The nawaz sharif regime helped out teh rich smugglers even more by reducing duty on such smuggled vehicles...
  
• May2-2014--The aberrational behaviour of teh mqm continues...just after joining teh government abruptly they called a karachi wide strike on unexplained killings of four workers...a bus was seton fire while their workers killed another two to enforce teh strike call for friday...since they are now part of teh government they are striking against their own leadership...many fear that teh mqm could have been possibly behind teh attempt on Hamid Mir
  
• May2-2014--the chief of waziristan shot dead in an attack on his vehicle in north waziristan
  
• May1-2014--most sindh towns shutdown on JSQM call to register an FIR of two of their leaders found in a burnt out car
  
• May1-2014--four bodies found near memon goth on teh superhighway in karachi...memon goth alongwith surjani town, manghopir, gulshan e maymar and gadap city are places where numerous bodies of ethnic outsiders including balochis have been found...!
  
• May1-2014--Army chief says that militants will have to submit to teh writ of teh state...The Martyrs days was celebrated with a greater resonance as the ISI was accused of attacking a journalist...he praised teh media for delivering and propagating teh armies issues...
  
• May1-2014--six militants of teh said sajna group killed in an IED blast in south waziristan...TTP sources suggest that military has continued to bomb teh Bobar area for teh last three days and has suffered casaulties in clashes
  
• May1-2014--Khawaja Asif tries to shore up opposition support as his ministries are under attack from qaim ali shah/nisar khuro and teh army...Dawn suggests that teh army has asked for his removal as defence minister...In that case Nawaz Sharif who is seen as handling teh army chief could be reappointed as the defence minister..his state minister for power has also run into trouble as he plans to reduce kunda's in KP and sindh which are at the forefront of electricity theft although most of the defaulted payments are by teh provincial governments and other government deptts...