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, July 16, 2014

The Daily PakistanPolitics July16-31, 2014

  • Jul31-2014--the imran khan protesting azadi march on islamabad on the day of celebrations ie 14th August is continuing its controversiality...many say imran khan is defiling almost the only day that pakistan has to celebrate..mqm says imran khan will soon withdraw the march while others suggest that he will rename it the "great IDPs walkathon"...the punjab chief minister whose government is most threatened is uneasy about the IDP's calling them a threat to pakistans survival...many confuse terrorism and dealing with it as a problem for pakistans existence...The courts takeup the article 245 army callout in islamabad issue on the 6th of August...with the police belittled by politicians and the judiciary the army is the only savior left for internal peace as well...as imran khan threatens a Tahreer square type protest...The PPP also backing out from allout support with khurshid shah urging Imran Khan to takeup the issue in parliament...The PMLn see's the march as an attack on its expensive lahore development orientation although many see their handling of the power sector as anti people as Ishaq Dar orders Nargis Sethi to increase rates further...!others mock the KP chief minister by saying that people who see the eid moon in their minds eyes can hardly agree on election reform which means different things to different politicians...the mqm thinks reform should ban the election of pukhtuns in karachi while imran khan thinks that reforms should mean a clean sweep for the PTI...!there is not much that can change in the election procedures barring technological improvements...and obviously we can not bring a chief election commissioner from england and returning officers from india...one can only bring election officials from the judiciary, armed forces or the beaurocracy...?many in imran khans camp regard the judiciary as controversial and many are asking that the ECP be headed by any educated person with an honest persona and working/management capabilities...meaning that a chief Election Commissioner can also be selected from the beaurocracy and army or in the extreme a worldwide selection process be initiated...and the anti punjabi sindh PPP ideologue sharjeel memon calling all elections in pakistan as rigged...!Not much that anybody can do in that case...there are now too many people for elections tobe a totally controlled process...
  • Jul31-2014--20 of 23 bodies recovered of people killed while visiting karachi's killer beaches...
  • Jul29-2014--In gujranwala three ahmedis killed in mob violence and burning of several houses after a blasphemy charge
  • Jul29-2014--As Eid day dawns the march controversy continues with a statement even suggesting that imran khan willing to wait till the IDP's go home...however conflicting views emerge in the PPP with khurshid shah unable to differentiate between a demo on 14th august in islamabad or a possible azadi square semi violent protest...with imran khan unable to explain whether it will be a peaceful day or a tumultuous few weeks the government unwilling to clearly allow or stop the protest march...rehman malik weighs in with support for an an army march as well as participation in the azadi march...14th august is generally a day of celebrations and the government mulling whether to let the marchers into the blue area or divert them to say the rawal dam turning...a jalsa khurshid shah must understand is an organised affair ending after the speeches while a protest march clearly can have other objectives if the government is seen to crumble against the marchers fervour and the police and the army start backing down...
  • Jul28-2014--two rangers shot dead by pistol wielding motorcycle killers as four militants are also shot dead in karachi
  • Jul28-2014--Cleanup of Mirali continues...army says it found a 5000kg IED...!
  • Jul28-2014--13 injured as bomb goes off in quetta bazaar
  • Jul28-2014--while the military has played a siderole during the previous and present government they have been everpresent in discussions and handling of the countries internal security situations therefore the PPP/PTI protests of calling in the army under article 245 seem pathetic...they are always called out in muharram and during elections and the paramilitaries are involved almost everywhere...The PTI protests suggesting it could be a defacto martial law attempt will only come about if the situation deteriorates during the march...the PTI would be pretty happy if the army like General kayani ordered a halt to the march although Raheel Sharif has stayed out of it as yet...Raheel could also ask his protege Nawaz Sharif to resolve the petty issues which the PTI is agitating about going to the extent of a few reelections...The PMLn too could also cave in and agree to ask the election tribunals to solve the issues rather than sit on them...!The PTI too could back out of a possibly deadly confrontation...usually one would not expect the PMLn to back out of an Azadi square type of confrontation although there are also reports of small groups of troublemakers... The interior minister says that only 352 troops have been recquisitioned and they will act in aid of the police and islamabads other paramilitary security system...He also said that the article had been invoked 11 times since 2007 and troops are fully functional in a cleanup in Fata...The PTI however says they are not backing out of the march...!The Army known not to like being made controversial or getting involved in political shenanigans although they have been acting more normally than before...
  • Jul28-2014--The Sindh PPP which never lodged even a minor protest against under development of sindh or loadshedding during its own rule launches protests in several cities of sindh literally endorsing their sindh only status as the Zardaris runoff on a sarkari junkett to the USA
  • Jul26-2014--The Election tribunal ordered a reelection on PS-114 after the mqm alleged that Irfanullah Marwat beatup their candidate(quite funny given that it is the mqm that is the nasty component of karachi politics) and resorted to firing into the air to frighten their voters......Nadra as usual could not verify many finger prints...many suggest that finger prints be recorded electronically and be verified by the returning officer before a vote is allowed...theoretically only an ID card is required for voting...
  • Jul26-2014--K-Electric the wapda of karachi failed to handle the situation when most of its feeders over 205 tripped at once..electricity was not available all day in most areas...many say it could not restart its system because of an unavailaibility of backup power...K-Electric said that NTDC link supplying 605 MW had tripped...but that could not have been a day long problem...there seems tobe a definite lack of technical expertise when pakora sellers take over power distribution...say karachiites...
  • Jul26-2014--In a move seen as being linked to the imran khan march into islamabad the interior minister invoked the constitution article 245 and asked the army to defend islamabad for 90 days...it could also be asked to do the same in provincial capitals...given recent experiences even ordinary events can create disastrous situations and if something bad happened in islamabad imran khans men could be out on the streets in most cities...if the pathetic islamabad police fail than the army would have tobe ready to defend the red zone...while the fright is caused by possibilities linked to the islamabad march the interior minister said they are still wary of the taleban...!
  • Jul25-2014--Nargis Sethi and Mussadiq malik sure have the wrong perspective on the energy crisis...musaddiq says that they are now trying to solve it by hook or crook and are varying feeder loadsheddings from 3%-23% based on theft,losses, bill payments, underbilling and elitism...he also accused industrialists of theft of around 3%...30 feeders steal 64% of all electricity...underbilling is another problem where meter readers allot specific units for personal payments..Sethi still blames circular debt and low prices when the maximum electricity prices are at around 24 cents. When load shedding costs losses of Rs630 billion than subsidies a mere 2% of GDP or 15-17% of revenues they say are not sustainable...when there is a major energy problem in the country than such spending by the government is sustainable and necessary until the problem is solved...the issue of subsidies also needs tobe cleared that they are not paid to the consumer as almost 70-80% of consumers are already paying prices higher than base cost of electricity and infact about 50% are also paying for the systems losses...one wonders if only 30 feeders steal 64% of all electricity what the huge infrastructure sitting around in offices is doing...the governments policy and propaganda is clearly misguided and it has not changed the situation from the time that electricity cost just one cent a unit in 1983...
  • Jul25-2014--first it was the son who came out to insult Imran Khan by suggesting that he was incapable of rule because he had not acknowledged an illegitimate daughter...!the supposed daughter anyway is not under Imran Khans guardianship...as the attack seemed to fail in waded the former chief justice with a Rs20 billion defamation suit...a former chief justice who has been castigated/critisized/lambasted like no another army era chief justice apart from Anwarul Haq and LHC 's nasim hasan shah...Imran Khan forgets that after all iftikhar chaudhry was an army era chief justice despite some attempts at honest political adjudication...what probably hurt the CJ and his son was the charge that the ex-CJ had sold his integrity for a small post/cheaply for his son...he was also lambasted as a crooked "indian umpire" for his almost undying loyalty to Nawaz Sharif in the elections and before...!since he is no longer a CJ he can be critisized for his actions as he seems to have become a behind the scenes manipulator/budding politician...as he himself ruled a CJ's judgements can be critisized...many feel that the chaudhry clan is still fighting for Nawaz Sharif...while the loss of integrity(DID'NT HAVE ANY) is questionable the judge can rule that some mental agony might have been caused...as a retaliatory move Imran Khan too can serve a defamation notice on the iftikhar chaudhry family...that they caused him immense harm and agony by rigging the elections and attempting to file insulting lawsuits...or he could try to explain what he meant by "indian umpire" and "selling himself cheaply"...he could also declare in the islamabad longmarch that iftikhar chaudhry, arsalan iftikhar(selling lawsuits for his father) and fakhruddin Ibrahim plus his infamous returning officers led the election rigging mechanisms...!!
  • Jul25-2014--television reports suggest that the PMLn has joined the azadi bandwagon started by imran khan and they plan to spend the month of august celebrating and making people raise the pakistani flag on an individual level and being strong on the azadi theme...there will be azadi trains, parades and flypasts...although it seems odd that the military parade will be on teh evening of teh 13th...PMLn trying to usurp the azadi day from imran khan...Imran Khan however seems to suggest his azadi is probably from the clutches of the lohar dynasty...Imran Khan says nothing will happen or might happen in islamabad and that his long march will continue...many feel that Imran Khan getting close to the politics of "by hook or by crook" practised by the muslim leaguers and the sharifs...!
  • Jul24-2014--The JI emir Sirajul Haq has quit the KP government...he is said tobe uneasy at the Imran Khan attitude combined to the backdoor attempts of the Qadri-chaudhri clique...
  • Jul24-2014--violent demos erupted in lahore and multan against almost continuous loadshedding...the government has hardly made a dent in the problem despite an almost 25% increase in prices of electricity...the dumb rulers should look into shutting down industries during extreme weather next year as the weather should start getting cooler during rains and the approaching cooler months...
  • Jul24-2014--The military continued to bomb suspected hideouts in the shawal and claimed to have killed 20..they also claim to have found an ammunition factory in mirali and 30 IED making places in miramshah...the ammunition depots seem to have been quite substantial and could have lasted the taleban for another decade...
  • Jul24-2014--criticism is mounting the sharif's fake inauguration of the nandipur plant which was to run on gas and diesel..its installation had been stalled by the previous PPP regime......however the first unit was also shut down after five days as it was said tobe converting to furnace oil...the other three units have not yet completed installation despite the plant having been lying at the karachi port for several years...there is usually enough gas available in the summer months
  • Jul23-2014--The Dawn points to a report on the formation of a national unity government in pakistan with others suggesting that Nawaz Sharif is an uninterested ruler who does not work for the people in any regard...Dawn suggests that Asif Zardari has escaped to the USA just as other leaders also jumped ship...Imran Khan running off to the UK and Nawaz Sharif to Saudia...however no report has appeared in the major newspapers although Dawn says that there is a mention of even the members of such a government...The PMLn has been trying to turn Imran Khan into a hanger on or yes man which is not Imran Khan's style...rubber stamping the government's views whether right or wrong is not what democracy is all about...It seems that the idea might be military supported who apparently have given an undertaking not to coup for three governments after the NRO...since Imran Khan is back it means that the idea might have floundered as a non popular government would find it even more difficult for people and politicians to unite on innocuous ideas/views unless they give away free electricity and food...!!however Nawaz Sharif could support an innocuous primeminister in a three party coalition as he is considered to be unable to handle pressure and tension...many feel that the government lacks the confidence to rule as it is generally making people unhappy...and suggestions that they did not allow the dollar to fall further is just the anti people thought process that governs the nawaz sharif government...he will not straighten out ishaq dar who ordered nargis sethi to find ways to increase the basic price of electricity when it is already at a high of almost 23 cents...!
  • Jul23-2014--Imran Khan says he is going to attempt to remove the powerless monarchy(the lohar dynasty...?)(ie. apart from spending unimaginable revenues) thru his march and urges the KP government to ask for the less popular in punjab (royalties and no electricity load shedding)..that obviously means looting punjab more than KP...!
  • Jul23-2014--the general behind the general ie. abdul qader baloch says that things might not improve if IDP's are treated improperly even though destroying militant infrastructure is not that difficult...the situation is vastly different from the human tragedy of the 2005 earthquake and people see it more as an internal security situation in which the IDP's were directly involved and the difficulties though visible are not comparable...It is more how the army handles the aftermath of IDP return and administration that will turn the wheel...many feel that the military must administer the area and not allow militants to regain control...!The governments turning PTV into a propaganda machine against the PTI is looking odd--many feel that PTV funded by direct people taxes should be administered by a parliamentary committee...it is the governments responsibility to handle disasters, dengue and IDP's and not Imran Khan's who left the country after rumours of his arrest started to come out of government circles..Nawaz Sharif is using a ramazan umra to play politics with religion..this after their propaganda against the PTI failed to have any effect and the dhandli attacks became more frequent from the PTI , PPP and even the lost gnomes--the chaudhris...the effect of the PAT riots started to even out some what and qadri already looks like a has been...
  • Jul23-2014--many feel that Ban ki moon and Sisi are complete idiots...the pinpricks of rockets is not comparable to inhuman bombings of houses, hospitals and mosques in the gaza...israel is coming across not as a victim but an inhuman violator of human life...ban ki moon should resign his position if he has not seen rockets being fired before...if israel cannot tolerate rockets than why should gaza tolerate their bombings and killing of so many human beings...apart from their earlier crimes...!
  • Jul20-2014--gas pipeline blast in dera murad jamali
  • Jul20-2014--The PPP seems to have been working behind the scenes for the PTI alongwith a suspicious advisor agha murtaza poouya...as they came out strongly for recounts on only four seats...many suggest that the PTI should move the SC for a decision under article 90 if they have the evidence...The PPP is now starting to suggest that the PTI islamabad march will be a damp squid...In and Out...all sides think that it will go ahead without any problems...that could be something new for the trouble prone PMLn...and an obvious feather in their soiled hats...!
  • Jul20-2014--While the PTI continues to blame Nadra and the election commission they also seem to regard their suspect work results highly...case in point thumb imprints checking of six polling stations in PP-147: thumb imprints of 1590 of 4726 votes could not be verified due to bad quality...696 Cnic numbers were bogus...1000 votes were missing...earlier the PTI could not tell a tribunal why they wanted recount/s...In PP-147 a PTI man lost by 6000 votes and the PTI says it is the same constituency as NA122 where Imran Khan lost...while there is no info on whose votes were bogus there is a case of at least visual/physical checking of all the votes cast in PPP 147 and NA122...
  • Jul20-2014--FC man amongst three killed in khuzdar blast
  • Jul20-2014--Drone kills another 15 in dattakhel...as dawn suggests that the military will have to work harder as they move towards dattakhel and beyond...!
  • Jul20-2014--The crazy Ishaq Dar-Nargis Sethi combine will prove disastrous for the people...despite the high cost of electricity which is around Rs.23 they still want to continue the same old failed policy...reduce losses..no change in last twenty years despite losses being socked to the people...and attempt to further increase production costs to raise electricity rates further...!!!They continue to blame and extort from consumers despite one report suggesting that electricity consumers have given the govt. a free gift of Rs.144 billion for Neelum Jhelum(hydroelectric project)...!and if there are say 10 million electricity consumers they pay Rs.250 million for PTV every month that nobody watches...total loot and plunder..
  • Jul19-2014--two references are to be filed by their opponents against imran khan and nawaz sharif with the speaker national assembly...the references for imran khan are a repeat while those against nawaz sharif contain a wide range of allegations...
  • Jul19-2014--residents of tirah, bara and orakzai shivered and started to gather their belongings as two attacks in the khyber and peshawar regions killed eight soldiers, four policemen a civilian and four militants...policemen were attacked by a car at a peshawar restaurant while FC men came under attack in jamrud as their convoy came under fire...many believe that militants from north waziristan may have shifted to the volatile khyber agency and orakzai areas...
  • Jul19-2014--fauzia kasuri has been named "Pakistan's funniest politician"...she claimed that she had been the victim of internal PTI elections...a politician who does not know the meaning of losing an election needs to shift to china or the soviet union...!other PTI women members said that she had lost fair and square...!
  • Jul18-2014--In what seems like an attempt to cowe down imran khan... nawaz sharif was given a briefing at the GHQ on the operation...with the north waziristan terrorists on the run terror incidents have not ended as four children died in roadside explosion in Hangu...some lawyers also filed a contempt petition against imran khan for spreading hatred against a former CJ in the SC...many feel that something dramatic could take place before 14 August...others suggest that the PAT rage has petered out after reports of a conspiracy between Qadri and the chaudris in england and the deliberate rioting by PAT supporters in model town and at the rawalpindi airport...in other parts of the equation the limping PPP tries to look as if it exists while the ridiculed CM of KP starts a wheat supply to the poorest segment of the populace
  • Jul18-2014--In what seems like a puls muqabila an intelligence officer supposedly raided a terrorist hideout near lahore at midnight and was killed...his body was not recovered...police on information raided in full force and took ten hours to kill two terrorists in a single house...
  • Jul17-2014--As the government picked up 500 people of banned organizations under the PPO the JI challenged the PPO as ultravires in the SC...The PPO is a hodgepodge of illegal actions designed to protect the illegal work of military intelligence...banned organizations usually refer to anti indian and sectarian organizations plus the taleban
  • Jul17-2014--The military continued air strikes in the shawal mountains killing 35 as it backed out of a new operation in the mamond tehsil of bajaur...a US drone also killed 20 in teh dattakhel area
  • Jul17-2014--Imran Khan and the PTI maybe getting paranoid about the last election results...their latest accusation was that Nadra was running a secret election cell...It turned out tobe a printing cell where electoral rolls are printed for the ECP...Nadra also clarified that the place is also used to digitise thumb imprints of 36 seats which have been ordered by the tribunals...the thumb imprints verification is done in the presence of an election tribunal representative and the election material than returned..verification of thumb imprints on 26 seats has been completed while ten are pending...
  • Jul17-2014--many feel that the PTI is getting perturbed at having to go it alone on the election dhandli march as its major ally the JI has refused to participate...it is now looking to the dubious PPPP to come along on the march..it could be a visible outing for the corruption oriented PPPP and Asif Zardari could be looking to back out from the PMLn corner
  • Jul16-2014--The PMLn which is unclear asto how to deal with the situation backs down again and allows the Imran Khan Azadi march while holding a government function as well...The Imran Khan march supposedly to reach islamabad in the evening...Imran Khan has been changing his tactics...starting from recounts on four seats to electoral reforms to replacing the entire Election Commission and now he wants a total recount on all seats...obviously this is not similar to a recount of a two man afghan election and nobody really knows who will decide these things...many suggest that it is the job of teh CEC or the SC to accept or reject teh IK demands...IK now also wants a mid term election and dealing with those involved in vote tampering...The PMLn backing out came after the PTI said their rallies or jalsa's have always been peaceful...many had suggested that a military parade at which all the countries leaders could be present could a peaceful resolution...
  • Jul16-2014--The inconsequential PPP visibly angered over the PMLn projects in karachi comes out in favour of recounts on four or forty seats...!
  • Jul16-2014--Army moves into Mirali after clearing miranshah and starts evacuating Mamond of bajaur area...Army says the taleban leaders were already hiding in afghanistan...taleban leader adnan rashid arrested as six more killed in Mirali...about 447 have been killed so far...88 hideouts destroyed, 21 surrendered and twenty-six army personnel lost their lives...
  • Jul16-2014--In the karachi operation five suspected militants killed in an operation while a policeman killed..an mqm killer was also in preventive detention under the new PPO for 90 days

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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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