The Daily PakistanPolitics Jun01-15, 2014

• Jun15-2014--poverty reduction of india's teaming millions cannot be helped by teh jovial remarks of nawaz sharif who is attempting to create a more poor pakistan in a continuous escalation of prices...teh indians on the other hand are not expected to giveup their military power and accusations against pakistan of this and that...so relations between the two N's may remain in teh domain of gift exchanges rather than reality...indian poverty can only be eased by indian policies and teh same is teh case in pakistan...however narendra modi's economic policies are only aimed at enriching teh rich...for example one indian minister wants peace on teh LOC...where there are more indian violations...peace can only help smaller countries develop better not behmoths like india...india also becoming a major terrorism exporter by turning into the regional insurgencies major weapon supplier who were earlier dependent on teh chinese...
  
• Jun15-2014--Tahir ul Qadri's IMQ involved in illegal political activities as it is not registered as a political party
  
• Jun15-2014--three die in bomb blasts in mansehra and mohmand
  
• Jun15-2014--jets bomb military hideouts in north waziristan killing five...newschannels have reported over a hundred deaths including teh karachi airport attack mastermind
  
• Jun15-2014--The government files an appeal against teh malafide SHC decision on allowing musharaf's name tobe removed from teh ECL despite his being involved in a unique treason case...musharaf has been arguing for several months that his mothers condition in Dubai is very serious...The court should order that musharaf and his mother be treated in teh countries military health facilities which are some of teh best in teh world...
  
• Jun15-2014--balochistan christian mpa shot dead by security guard
  
• Jun14-2014--PTI says its rallies not meant to topple Nawaz Sharif but to delineate its continuing strength for opponents to see
  
• Jun13-2014--The SHC in a strange decision orders removal of musharaf from teh ECL in 15 days...since musharaf is dealing with a treason case teh decision based on no laws looks odd...The government has teh prerogative of placing any crook, politician or under trial person on teh ECL to decrease its problems and stop accused from escaping sentencing or liabilities...!
  
• Jun13-2014-Gwadar airport also handed over to teh chinese...!
  
• Jun13-2014-purported drone attacks kill another ten militants in north waziristan...teh foreign office continued its condemnation of drone attacks despite the ending of all associated logic
  
• Jun12-2014--The karachi terror attack is being claimed by at least two organizations...!drone attacks which could easily be airforce planes fired at a vehicle and compound in dargah mandi in north waziristan killing four uzbeks...
  
• Jun12-2014-- militant attacks in swat, malakand,charsadda, bajaur, tank killed ten including levies men, an FC soldier, political activists and at least two militants
  
• Jun12-2014--IHC orders ARY anchor Mubasher Luqman off the air for ridiculing an SC judge
  
• Jun12-2014--Narendra Modi apparently made fun of Nawaz Sharif's suggestion that he would work "with" india to settle outstanding issues...while NS might have been referring to kashmir teh indian's noted a distinct tone of subjugation as he said that he would work for the interests of both countries and rectify the travails of poverty stricken indians...many have expressed surprise at the pakistani primeminister who should be serving teh interests of pakistan and its people...the reason is teh indian equipment used by the terrorists who attacked karachi airport...since only teh indian army has such weaponry it obviously comes directly from india's ordnance depots...obviously Nawaz Sharif forgot to tell Modi that supplying ammunition to terror groups here and organizing terror acts is not something that is included in his supposedly economic agenda to rid india of poverty...pakistan obviously cannot be held responsible for terror attacks on indian consulates in afghanistan given their pathetic control over terrorists in their own country...many feel that Nawaz Sharifs fright at pakistans positions on india makes him look pretty pathetic...
  
• Jun11-2014--The Dawn says that Nawaz Sharif earlier a taleban afficionada who many had also started to claim had contained teh taleban is now faced with a repeat of the earlier status quo with no major way of enforcing his political or military leadership..his bumbling leadership has everybody attempting to plan his replacement or snubbing him in various ways ...earlier methods used to retaliate against terrorist acts by his so called friends were to go after teh TTP supremo who now is hiding in afghanistan...teh other way is to gun for local area leaderships with some who are more militant than others...leadership is also shifting from the south and north waziristan areas to Tirah, Mohmand and afghanistan thus attacking them becomes more difficult...some suggest a reincarnation of drone attacks as teh taleban have not toned down their attacks...teh military has attempted to acquire as a quickfix a chinese drone system recently developed...while teh quickest way would be to ask teh americans for a few more strikes...obviously the present method of using occasional aerial bombing of specific area's is not succeeding...One fix being suggested is fast and furious attacks on militant areas in karachi including aerial bombardments
  
• Jun11-2014--Dawn says that Khalid Khorasani is challenging the fugitive mullah fazlullah for the TTP leadership as various area commanders of teh old TTP adopt personal policies...khorasani developing a parallel countrywide organisation
  
• Jun11-2014--panic at karachi airport as some miscreants in karachi fire shots at an airport ASF camp...
  
• Jun11-2014--25 killed in Tirah strikes one of teh centers of the anti government taleban in north fata...many feel that former coup plotters are acting as TV security experts these days who routinely suggest that teh corp headquarters in karachi could be attacked too..... the only option left to teh government could be to bomb dissident areas in karachi...others suggest that there could be elements of an internal conflict within security agencies in teh karachi airport attack...with teh situation not as clear as it used tobe Nawaz Sharif is flailing around for some option to make teh people think that there is some governance left in the plodding PMLn which seems to only have teh policy of increasing taxes and not delivering on major issues...
  
• Jun11-2014--many feel that teh federal government was standoffish during teh karachi attack with both nawaz sharif and chaudhry nisar fast asleep...Chaudhry Nisar was also apparently denied the VIP plane to dash to karachi...!
  
• Jun10-2014--various rumours are making teh rounds on altaf hussein...he apparently told teh british police that he received the money to leave pakistan at a time when karachi was totally in teh grip of an insurgency...while he continued to fight from england many suggest that he is a failed revolutionary aka "hara hua jawari'...others suggest that he made a deal not to return to pakistan...The police told him not to hide money any more...!others point to his control over an ethnic group of karachiites who attempted to create a situation...!earlier he had suggested that he had won teh money thru betting...
  
• Jun10-2014--two FC men die in a blast on a convoy in Awaran
  
• Jun10-2014--three troops killed in suicide car attack on checpost near miramshah
  
• Jun10-2014--heavy exchange of fire on the iranian border
  
• Jun10-2014--Jirga and taleban shura attempting to avert military operation by controlling outside militants..it is obvious that foreigners not teh only source of problems
  
• Jun9/10-2014--late last night ten militants landed at teh karachi airport in a hiace wagon which escaped...the captured ammunition displayed by teh army suggests that it would be difficult to fit ten militants and so much ammunition into a medium sized van...others suggest that the military has sets of ammunition ready to display in such situations...in the ensuing gunbattles teh militants seemed poorly prepared and all ten were killed alongwith 18 others mostly airport security personnel...the cargo terminal was set on fire by the armies over eager retaliation...many blame altaf hussein while others point to teh flailing Nawaz Sharif regime whose pathetic budget makes no sense to anyone...the government also under some pressure from PTI rallies on its home turf...the indians too seemed to get a fair share of teh blame while the taleban as usual claimed that they did it...given teh situation in north waziristan where talks led no where the government would be happy to use such an event to launch a real attack on north waziristan...flights remained cancelled all thru teh night and morning...many point to the precarious nature of military thinking in pakistan and recent events that seemed pointed to a coup or change in government given teh PMLn support for terrorist anchors and newsmen of teh Jang variety...with at least two groups willing to function as fronts for teh army they would have no problems in getting support for a coup based on dhandli in teh previous elections or even some that seem akin to military touts or slaves...!many suggest that teh taleban are usually better able to plan and execute an attack and these attackers could just be people off the street...or from across teh border...!...or it might easily be friendly cooperative fire to stabilize an unwary government...!the taleban may have lost a lot of creative operational terrorist organisers but they have more ammunition now...handgrenades eliminated most of teh ASF who resisted teh entrance...the primeminister cameup with teh lopsided idea that the ten terrorists were out to sabotage pakistans aviation system/airports and airlines...such ideas are probably developed by his pathetic intelligence advisors...while pakistans security system might be pathetic and reactive it still can eliminate ten terrorists by using over excessive force...teh terrorists were standing right beneath several airplanes and could have destroyed them easily...The Dawn suggests that the terrorists did move into teh right places but were probably thwarted by the airports security staff and quick reactions from teh army...The ASF system generally guards teh perimeter and entrances...many suggest that security must be enhanced and vigilant around airplanes as well as all entrances...active checking at entrances and stoppage of illegal entrances by security and army type officialdom...in places like airports security is destroyed by people from teh armed forces, intelligence, police and other authoritarian types who refuse to accept security concerns and restrictions...
  
• June9-2014--at least 23 shiites were killed in taftan hotels by five suicide bombers and subsequent firing near teh iranian border
  
• June9-2014--10 suspected militants killed in Dera Bugti says the FC...they belonged too the BRA and three hideouts also destroyed
  
• Jun8-2014--PPO lapses...as deadline triggers flight by residents of north waziristan... two soldiers die on teh border in bajaur due to IED blasts
  
• Jun8-2014--Known generally by opponents as the Mota Djinn Altaf Hussein has been released on bail and told to put together his answers and report to a police station next month...others suggest that the british are trying to show the violence prone altaf how things are handled in a normal law abiding soceity...at varying times Altaf Hussein has been called a stooge of zia ul haq, the interior ministry and the ISI...as well as an indian saboteur whose earlier terrorists were all indian trained...!others suggest that he is now dirt poor and will be living on british charity...many feel that altaf hussein does not know the meaning of justice...it is not teh same as in pakistan where his warlord status would get him off scotfree whatever he did...others also suggest that educated karachiites are now quite embarassed at his antics and his followers are generally the uneducated galli dwellers...
  
• Jun7-2014--Governor KP gives tribal elders 15 days to improve teh situation in north waziristan
  
• Jun7-2014--a big oil find in the Sakesar formation near jhelum in punjab...5500 barrels of oil perday outflow suggests it is the biggest oilwell in teh country although the reservoir is said tobe small at 22 million barrels
  
• Jun7-2014--After medical tests proved that altaf hussein was only trying to get out of being arrested...police took Altaf Hussein into custody for questioning...many suggest that teh criminally inclined altaf could prove tobe a treasure trove of information...while others suggest that police may have found further money hidden in various parts of altaf's house which has reportedly been sealed as evidence..others suggest that PPP and PMLn leaders might also be involved in altaf hussein's money ripoff's from karachi and hyderabad...still others think that altaf hussein has refused to answer questions as they would embarass and criminally incriminate him...others suggest that he should be questioned in camera and not in the presence of MQM's spies...
  
• Jun7-2014--In what many see as a mild decision Pemra suspends GeoTV for 15 days and fines it Rs10 million
  
• Jun6-2014--two killed in a blast outside an Orangi mosque
  
• Jun6-2014--30 BRA men killed in clashes with the FC in Dera Bugti with eight hideouts destroyed
  
• Jun5-2014--many feel that the hospitalization of altaf hussein for just a sugar test which takes a few minutes seems a ruse...the mqm already knows that altaf hussein can be jailed for his crimes and barrister farogh nasim and Dr. faruk sattar both seem tobe getting ready for the succession battle...altaf hussein might not be acceptable as a jailbird...people in pakistan are critisizing teh mqm for its unhealthy anti pakistan attitude and Imran Khan has publicly done so while the PPP and PMLn seem tobe cuddling up to teh mqm despite its negative meaningless behaviour...obviously pakistan has little to do with british behaviour/actions and shutting down karachi will hurt the karachiites teh most...karachi apparently almost in a stay at home behaviour as anything could happen if altaf hussein is jailed pending a court case...i would suggest that the mqm send a team to talk to Nawaz Sharif to use his contacts with David Cameron to get their fugitive/criminal warlord off teh hook...the british police obviously cannot worry about what they do in karachi...
  
• Jun5-2014--Judges refuse to accept that Justice jawad s khawaja could be biased due to family pressure despite known jang/Geo attitudes to buy information and support...the judges say that they will act against a brother judge too...That has not been teh case upto now...The judges hearing a case against propaganda against one judge being spewed out continuously by anchor mubasher luqman...many feel that a judge with such close family ties should stand down from a case...it really has nothing todo with conscience...as a family matter usually takes precedence in pakistans intellectually poverty stricken administration and judiciary...
  
• Jun5-2014--another seven soldiers died in attacks on Bajaur military posts from across teh border...The pakistani regime blames the taleban but many doubt that afghans are not involved
  
• Jun5-2014--just days after a Tv anchor Dr. Masood urged teh taleban to bomb punjab a suicide bomber attacked a military vehicle near Fateh Jhang killing two military officers and three civilians in rawalpindi...Dr. Masood also a Jang byproduct...!
  
• Jun5-2014--The mean and nasty Nawaz Sharif regime thrashes teachers and clerks protesting teh budget in islamabad but allows teh anti pakistan secessionist natured MQM to shut down karachi...!ishaq dar is being called a fake illegitimate economist when he does not know teh basics that salary hikes should be in tune with GDP changes...!senior military men and some economists being given 20-40000 payraises which at best seems silly and stupid...he also seems to call a dept in his ministry corrupt...The FBR would be efficient if it checked teh income taxes of millionaires like nawaz sharif and ishaq dar...some discriminatory taxes such as teh hikes in airplane tickets also being called stupid as it hurts more people needlessly since more than 95% people donot file tax returns...most of them are not taxable and teh government is being extremely discriminatory and harsh as they have no way to get back their advance taxes...also charging sales taxes at both manufacturing and sales levels seems odd and harsh...some SRO's will effect teh sales of clothes and shoes which already are slow moving and expensive...if their tax exemptions are withdrawn...
  
• Jun4-2014--eight militants killed in FC operation near sindh border in balochistan
  
• Jun4-2014--in a blast in a pickup in central Kurram eight people die...
  
• Jun4-2014--an airforce plane crashes in karachi with teh killing of two officers and two civilians on teh ground...what a plane carrying two relatively senior officers was doing training over karachi is unknown...many seem to think it was deliberately shot down since it blewup in teh sky...
  
• Jun4-2014--In what can be said tobe the death of teh PMLn... ishaq dar who hides his wealth overseas presented what can be said tobe a withholding tax budget...literally destroying genuine non tax payers as well teh illegally wealthy...a tax hike of over 23.5 % will have tobe faced by teh people thru various measures including a 10% hike in electricity and gas prices...The PMLn seems to only want the support of government employees whose salaries were illegitimately and needlessly hiked by over 10%...many are already preparing to read teh last rites and are seeing no real utility for teh sharif brothers anymore ...many question teh need for the FBR and the finance ministry in teh face of the numerous overwhelmingly indirect methods of taxation...the government is only complicating things and will probably force more of the illegal wealthy underground...the defence budget which apparently was hiked to 700 billion under teh threats of a coup seemed totally unnecessary...the provincial governments which seem tobe doing nothing to get over Rs1.8 trillion...health and education generally regarded as failing to deliver despite widespread expansion in teh education sector also avoided in funding...there seem tobe no new development outlays despite teh chorus over money...
  
• Jun4-2014--after much hoo-haa teh british police finally arrested altaf hussein for money laundering...under suspicion for murder, spreading criminality, terrorism back home and money laundering after police found over 400000 pounds hidden under teh floor in his house...The mqm who had made threats to close down karachi seemed pathetically to have forgotten todo so after everybody was pretty clear that altaf was a criminally minded politician linked to apparent money laundering aka corruption or trying to hide illbegotten funds...?The police however said that a sitin at Numaish chowrangi and the setting ablaze of thirteen vehicles including three fire tenders could turn into something serious...while teh british police has carefully monitored altaf hussein it could still release him if he can realistically explain how he has been living in england for twenty years without any real income and issuing almost regular threats to individuals and governments in pakistan...other options would include a plea bargain with information provided on his criminal attitudes and his accomplices....altaf hussein is at best a chamelion changing almost daily from robber, terrorist, bhattta khor, killer, peacemaker and anti corruption crusader while secretly looting almost anyone he likes or dislikes...!
  
• Jun3-2014--seven men mostly baloch and pukhtuns found shot dead in a wilderness near Manghopir, karachi...!...two shiites also shot dead...
  
• Jun3-2014--The anti people of pakistan Nestle has increased prices of powdered milk by Rs100 and that of its juices by Rs30...in the old days they used to raise milk and yogurt prices by Rs5...The dubai buildings owner Ishaq Dar to raise at least 30 taxes...it does not matter to me he says as my sons own buildings in Dubai...!
  
• Jun3-2014--The government seems to have very mixed up priorities and attitudes towards teh people...Generally thought tobe pro rich teh Nawaz Sharif regime seems unable to understand that a largely poor population needs subsidies and not higher salaries, higher taxes or even withholding taxes...The government budget seems tobe only for the baboo's sitting in islamabad and teh armed forces...reducing subsidies by say 50 billion and raising salaries by a hundred billion hardly project any reality...one would only reccomend salary hikes for the pampered faujis who now are teh richest segment of pakistani soceity...however they at least attempt to do their jobs properly and are needed to prop up teh government which otherwise could be shoved over in a day......nor does taxing teh poor thru further hidden and indirect measures serve any purpose...if u see teh electricity bill there are are at least ten taxes which amount to more than 20% of teh bill and with a 16% sales tax teh idiotic finance minister still wants to increase taxation beyond that...The meaningless development attitudes of teh government in teh last year have also been at best ordinary...no project in the energy or housing field has yet been able to take off...teh social security sector which at best is ripped of by pro government NGO's is set for an overhaul...The youth in teh country it seems are much better off than teh older people as teh government schemes have not worked with only about 5000 getting youth loans said one newspaper report...most of government earnings increases next year are tobe forced thru electricity and gas price hikes..otherwise there will be no major change as useless salary hikes will probably eat up any new earnings or supposed savings...the economic gobbldygook that ishaq dar will spill out is only meant to fool the uneducated assembly members who in the slow moving KP will be looking to a Rs200000 salary hike...!!!also electricity subsidies said one Disco chief are a myth...
  
• Jun2-2014--Nargis Sethi who has been doing the rounds of top cabinet positions usually gets kicked out with each change...this time her husband took over her job as Secretary Economic Affirts while she has been demoted to the lowly problem opriented Secretary water and power...
  
• Jun1-2014--Ishaq Dar should realize that teh salaried tabqa is a small proportion of teh country and there is no point in wasting money on them barring teh police and army...at teh moment teh salaries of the government sector are better than teh private sector and realistically teh beaurocracy does nothing for teh people...the salaries were almost doubled by the last pathetic government and the results of their misguided rule are more than apparent. The sales tax are the only safe haven of tax collection and reducing them in minor or major ways will help no one...the government should also forget about trying to make teh rich pay more taxes...that process has never been successful...teh government should stop extortion in the name of prepayment/advance taxes as it only hurts those that who are non taxable...increasing shoddy mechanisms to collect wealth information are also meaningless since they have never been able to increase the tax net which has steadily declined......if by now teh FBR does not know who is not paying taxes than even God wont be able to find out...
  
• Jun1-2014--PMLn lawmaker kidnapped in sheikhupura...!
  
• Jun1-2014--Army posts attacked from across teh border in Bajaur...16 militants killed...
  
• Jun1-2014--Many feel that teh government should polio vaccinate foreigners too especially teh diplomatic and UN community at teh pakistani airports on entry and exit...!