The Daily PakistanPolitics Jul 1-15, 2014

• Jul15-2014--The JI amir is uneasy at the military operation in NW and said that the tribals knew how to defend themselves and the federal government should provide much better care to teh IDP's......most information suggests that the taleban were not checked by the tribals and they had literally been subdued into subjugation...huge taleban ammunition dumps have been found...and there was no way to clear the areas without moving teh population out of the way...
• Jul14-2014--It seems that the PPP is lying about a deal with musharaf and probably had to go along with teh militaries relocation of musharaf to england at state expense...he obviously should not have come back like altaf hussein...The PPP has strange ideas about democaacy and shows tolerance for military dictators and has been known tobe subjugated by army chiefs even in the past...!
  
• Jul14-2014--jets continued to pound Mirali...as administrators said that the IDP family numbers could come down yto 45000 from 83000 s thgere was duplications in registration...Punjhab announces Rs6800 per family as long as tehy satay in camps...
  
• Jul13-2014--Khawaja Saad Rafik makes fun of Nawaz Sharif by suggesting that the PMLn has no one like Chaudhry Nisar and there will be no changes in the cabinet...However many say that Nisar is lucky to get back in as reports suggest that he was working with musharaf while being in jail for the PMLn...!Chaudhry Nisar known to change sides with the tide was stuck with the PMLn while his constituency went over to the PTI...others suggest that he has started to smell like a "coup ke baqiat..."
  
• Jul13-2014--PTI says they are not backing off from the Zarb Azadi long march while PMLn says they are not going to allow it...the troublemaker Qadri keeps saying 'revolution revolution' and some say he should be admitted to a phsychiatrist ward while teh LHC Judge from iraq studying the PAT rioting case has received death threats...PMLn says that Tahir ul qadri is primed to fly to canada...
  
• Jul12-2014--Nawaz Sharif again runs into SC opposition ...this time in appointing a supposedly shiite ex judge to head the PCB for elections in a new Board of Governors(BOG)...many suggest that the teams selected by the Najam Sethi board were not liked by the PMLn...The SC reappointed Najam Sethi and said the government should wait for its orders on previous cases on PCB head appointments..others suggested that the selection of failures such as Wahab Riaz, Asad Shafik, Abdur Rehman and lawbreaker Umar Akmal were a bone of contention while removal of mohd hafeez from tests has been praised...the fast bowlers selected for the teams are said tobe ordinary as are the wicket keepers
  
• Jul12-2014--The karachi operation says the Dawn is in trouble as their intelligence reports have fizzled out with the change of officialdom... although things seem to have improved considerably...U see Altaf Hussein calling up the Corp Commander and Rangers DG to get released his unit incharge-troublemakers as well as informing against his own men...and many suggest that since both Qaim Ali Shah and Altaf Hussein were running rings collecting Bhatta they want the troubling Rangers to back off...with charges of money extortion a change of course as well as military leadership could be necessary...Nawaz Sharif too has waded in with an expensive metro bus system for karachi tobe built at a fast pace...although many warn Nawaz Sharif that money spending is just wasted on the karachi political phsyche who seem to prefer ethnic trouble makers and bhatta gatherers...
  
• Jul12-2014--The Dawn reports on a Haqqani den in North Waziristan that trained suicide bombers in a two month course...
  
• Jul12-2014--the cowardly PPP says the Army did not follow orders on north waziristan and that they allowed musharaf to leave the country and gave General Kiani complete freedom...obviously the argument does not hold much weight as the SC asked the government to initiate proceedings in the musharaf case and there was no mention of PPP immunity for treason before this...!they also seem to accept the fraudulent-4% referendum for electoral purposes...General Kiani was seen continuously consulting the PPP leaders and being completely submissive and subordinate...and the PPP gave him an unheard of three year extension as well and there were also known Asif Zardari orders not to trouble north waziristan if the PPP leaders were not attacked and the SC also kept releasing militant prisoners...
  
• Jul12-2014--Altaf Hussein considered to have failed in a recent jalsa(as reports of his hiding money and recent arrest sank in)given the go ahead to raise unnecessary ethnic tensions in karachi as government tries to divert attention from a PTI islamabad long march. Nawaz Sharif who literally occupied sindh(especially karachi)and announced a a metro road project and water supply from the beleagured Keenjhar lake as the Sindh Government sat onits Rs600 billion pile doing nothing...since the mqm is involved in all karachi problems they will be arrested and questioned...their suggestion that Rangers only arrest urdu spekers for extorting money seems far fetched...Altaf Hussein would be more successful if he worked against all riff-raff and trouble makers and for all karachi inhabitants instead of a well todo ethnic group...nobody can be given immunity in a troubled area even though known mqm gangsters and terrorists have been continuously spared...
  
• Jul10-2014--peak electricity demand rose to 22500 MW says the daily Dawn...and the government would have to get 10000MW to solve the energy problems...an impossibility even by 2025 many say when demand will have soared to over 30-40000MW...a few coal plants wont be enough...!
  
• Jul10-2014--after another episode of the balochistan super employee Arsalan Iftikhar the PTI also decides to challenge Nawaz Sharifs qualifications under article 62 and 63...Nawaz Sharif is still under a NAB probe as are other politicians...while being a failed industrialist at home he still apparently had millions abroad...!both sharifs got around a 100 million each before the elections from UK sources...many suggest that if Nawaz Sharif is cornered judicially or otherwise he may jettison the failing Shahbaz Sharif...while Nawaz Sharif is not reported to have girl friend problems there are some disconcerting news about shahbaz sharifs multi weddings and children marrying hindu's...while nobody else's jalsa's concern the PMLn they seem to worry unnecessarily about Qadri's and Imran Khans jalsa/jaloos...IK apparently is remote controlling the mischief makers Qadri-chaudhri's...and many say that Benazir also failed to convince people about dhandli's and ISI controlled elections...
  
• Jul10-2014--Imran Khan announces the 1.4 million "Zarb Azadi" long march to the citadel of the Sharifs...he hopes they will crumble and be mincemeat for his workers...reports of 15 kalashnikovs confiscated as they headed for Bani Gala...others suggested Imran Khan aiming guns(practising) at killing poor policemen for hurting his haloed workers...!...from his bullet proof Pajero which will be hoisted onto a large stage...The PPP did fire bullets at the Qadri-Padri in his dabba...many suggest he is aping a christian pastor...yelling hellfire and damnation...!While the sharifs have gone soft while enjoying their millions/high life not many suggest that they could be pressurized into running for their lives to saudia again...!they suggest that the army is friendly enough to come out under article 245 since the poor policemen will hardly be able to control anyone if they cant fire at them...all they say for checking ID cards before the next elections...they can check that on computers these days...getting even two lakh people into Azadi square would be problematic and for two weeks or a month...!
  
• Jul10-2014--The army says that they have cleared miramshah the hub of terrorism just 17 miles from the afghan border but alas the militant leaders have again escaped...many suggest that the leaders could be among the IDP's too...enjoying the free food...miram shah bazaars have been humming with militant activity for the last ten years...
  
• Jul8-2014--retired CJ Jilani who is close to the shiite minded PPP and considers himself a minorities crusader might become a consensus CEC says the Daily Dawn...!he could be acceptable as according to himself he decides things quickly and without too much gobbledygook...his term as CJ was uneventful and there was not a single conflict with the PMLn regime and other political cases were also downplayed...no suo moto's either...!
  
• Jul8-2014--The Daily Dawn reports that in July the electricity demand increased to over 20815MW while average generation has only improved by 100MW to 14539MW..however a maximum generation of 16170MW has been recorded
  
• Jul8-2014--In what looks like a judiciary response/PMLN's to his removal from the balochistan government Iftikhar Arsalan retaliated by suggesting to the ECP that Imran Khan was not entitled to being an mna as he had not mentioned a daughter by a former girlfriend...His father i think had already ruled that articles 62 and 63 are meant for the ruler and not everyone and is generally considred unapplicable in the pakistan situation...many suggest that he should file the complaint in a court of law as he is not a person aggrieved in the sense of imran khans approval as a candidate by the ECP...others suggest that it is a matter almost known to everyone...the totally corrupt nature of Arsalan Iftikhar right from getting admission in a medical college on sifarish..getting a government job in FIA on sifarish...collecting almost 300 million in no time...!!!spending vacations in monte carlo on his fathers cronies accounts and getting a house building loan without even having a plot...many suggest that iftikhar chaudhry wants a political dynasty too...!!
  
• Jul8-2014--The estranged interior minister who has been behaving at best oddly might also be looking for other avenues or making the sharifs work for a living....others suggest that he had an angiography in hours unlike altaf hussein in days...many point to the sharifs problems with governing and like the PTI think that elections could again be around the corner...Chaudhry Nisar could be preparing himself tobe the caretaker in punjab or at the center..others suggest that he is running in fear from a suicide attack...!while some say he is being prepared as a replacement for shahbaz sharif while shahbaz will move tobe nawaz sharifs deputy at teh center...many also suggest he wanted tobe made the senior minister too...people also suggested that such a long R&R looks more like being under house arrest...Nawaz Sharif also might be looking for an interior minister who could take care of things rather than run from them...he is also seen as failing in the taleban negotiations where his problems might have begun...he is also seen at odds with a democratic hanging of musharaf and an inability to handle upsurges of anti government feelings...apart from many say losing his constituency to the PTI...possible replacement could be a retired baloch general who seemingly handles the interior ministries public relations...!
  
• Jul5-2014--two die in karachi suicide blasts as two motorbikes crash into each other
  
• Jul5-2014--Justice Nasir Ul Mulk takes over as CJ as usual with a lot of gobbledygook...The judiciary many feel can be a pillar but should not act as a government...a lot of judges will be different in different cases...one will not allow privatisation of the state steel mill but nobody feels hurt by the selloff of 25% of our gas resources to gods know who...!it is bad if a beaurocrat or politician is corrupt but not a son of a chief justice...so there is no universal justice and for gods sake it is not the peoples rights that judiciary is adjudicating on...the judiciary has not helped the people in any way yet...The government cannot provide security and neither can the judiciary...judges need bullet proof cars and the people need armed security guards...the police and state organisations cannot function if the courts fire chief executives en mass and can we provide inexperienced foreign educated PHd's to head every organisation...since judges head the judiciary those who have worked all their lives in any organisation should be allowed to lead them...the judges if they fire an executive should look at alternate arrangements immediately rather let the country drift...judges should not look at other religions as myopic...even if he is a minority crusader...!most government problems deal with a lack of proper administration...politicians lack of understanding of proper methods to come into government and most of all terrible economic policies and everybodies sense of always being individually discriminated against...most people behave like minorities in this country or have to live like them...
  
• Jul4-2014--Arsalan Iftikhar who has more experience in collecting judicial debt's fired as deputy chief of Balochistan Investments for lack of experience
  
• Jul4-2014--The PMLn which is making much of the rehashed lahore - karachi motorway approves the extension multan-sukkur...the motorway project is more than twenty years old and is inching itself towards karachi...
  
• Jul4-2014--Shahbaz Sharif in torrid waters over firing at PAT rioters meets the estranged Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for the second time at his home...Chaudhry Nisar opposed the ineffective budget and has for the last month been out of action due to a heart problem...!...many think Shahbaz asking him to order the arrests of the revolutionary(sic) qadri-chaudhry team on the basis of attempting to unconstitutionally topple his government...Nisar insists that his authority is over islamabad and shahbaz must take action himself...Nisar has requested the appointment of a new interior minister so that he can retire while shahbaz offered him angioplasty in teh UK...
  
• Jul4-2014--The PMLn which surprisingly won approval for the controversial PPO finds many think it odd that it allows a grade 15 official to give firing orders and allowing the arrest of anyone...Even in the older dictatorial period magistrates or deputy commissioners were given such powers...altaf hussein sitting in the safety of london also opposes despite the approval by his senators and mna's...the same altaf hussein however does not oppose such actions against militant mullahs and opponents in karachi
  
• Jul3-2014--five militants gunned down in karachi
  
• Jul3-2014--Justice Nasir Ul Mulk tobe the new CJ of teh Supreme Court resigns as acting CEC
  
• Jul3-2014--The PPO a controversial Bill aimed at gunning down militants gets thru parliament...for two years almost anyone can be arrested and apparently gunned down...
  
• Jul3-2014--The military found at least three ammunition factories in NW including a training center and IED/suicide vest making places
  
• Jul3-2014--Government runs into flak on the absence of chaudhry Nisar from parliament who apparently was sitting in the Punjab House meetings mna's...the constituency less Chaudhry nisar might be on his way out...
  
• Jul2-2014--Military says they have killed 376 militants in the NW operation as they start a ground offensive...pictures of possible ammunition factory although cylinders shown are not in popular use by taleban...Mullah Fazlullah offered the taleban his base in afghanistan however teh Haqqanis the military say went elsewhere as they are in conflict with afghanistan...
  
• Jul1-2014--The one man tribunal refuses to put the punjab CM on the ECL list suggesting that it is not the proper forum...a lawyer presented witnesses who said that a policeman shot an injured woman in teh face in the PAT HQ
  
• Jul1-2014--The military launched its much vaunted ground offensive into NW saying that only terrorists will be left inside now...already 15 killed in house to house search...
  
• Jul1-2014--In the PAT attack one man tribunal rana sanaullah says he only approved the removal of barriers...he says he only learned about the problem from TV and told the CCPO to control the situation...Dr Shah said he heard about the firing at the scene at 1130...shahbaz sharif it seems now is acting as a disabled VIP unable to handle real situations
  
• Jul1-2014--two policemen shot dead in karachi..five others also killed