The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct16-31, 2014

• Oct30-2014--The Polio program which has successfully been run by the provinces despite the recent uptick in new cases...even in peaceful remote areas the program was quite effectively handled...law and order problems do not necessitate shifting the responsibility to the NDMA which is poorly equiped to handle the responsibility..The government should pay heed to other reasons for the propagation...management in problem areas needs tobe upgraded
  
• Oct30-2014--OGDCL employees protesting selloff of its shares are teargassed in islamabad...
  
• Oct30-2014--The SC CJ throws out appeals to declare the 2013 elections null and void suggesting that the SC could not interfere in the election review process...In NA-154 the ECP/Nadra for the first time found that despite problems with thumb prints most of the votes were genuine..and the allegation for dhandli can only proven if it can be decided who cast the bogus votes whether the PTI or PMLn...it is also alleged that PTI's Tareen was involved in bogus voting too...at best a re-election can be ordered by the election tribunal...only 20000 votes were found to not have a CNic...however a recount might not change much as there is no way to clarify whether a vote is bogus or not...the winner was an independent...
  
• Oct30-2014--The PMLn regime is frightened of approving PTI resignations as they are almost certain to lose most of the re-elections and face further apathy from an electorate already tired over their refusal to solve people's real problems..case in point...many point to the Rawalpindi Cardiology Institute who are turning away patients from an almost empty emergency suggesting that the building is just for show...apparently the expensive Hasnat team has started asking for money from patients to be treated at a facility which is supposed tobe free and have good emergency facilities...
  
• Oct30-2014--with oil prices having fallen by almost 25-30% there seems no reasons why the government is not reducing petrol prices substantially unless they have bought overpriced futures...
  
• Oct30-2014--The armies operations run into trouble as eight troops are killed in Bara operations alongwith 21 militants...the army spokesman says however they have cleared north waziristan areas mirali, miranshah, razmak and ghulam khan...no date on return of IDP's whom many now blame to have turned a blind eye to militant activities...if the areas are clear there is no reason for blocking the return unless too many are thought to have been directly involved...
  
• Oct29-2014--The pathetic finance minister has only one answer for the pathetic going nowhere economy...sell pakistan only good assetts to unknown crazy foreigners thru a non transparent process and raise electricity prices...the Nawaz Sharif regime has already sold balochistan's gas reserves and now wants to sell the hugely profitable OGDC shares..
  
• Oct29-2014--According to the arabs(kuffar e mecca) the muhajir can only be a muhajir during a process and when he is in an unwanted land or refugee camp...after that their true ethnicity is revealed as indian(anti pakistan) escaping hindu tyranny...!now all that the muhajirs can get is a sindhi topi and ajrak...that they will also have to buy...there are no other ights to living in sindh, pakistan...!altaf should learn to live with his own brethren in the refugee camps of karachi rather than with trying to live on their looted wealth with the english...
  
• Oct28-2014--33 militants killed in air strikes in north waziristan
  
• Oct28-2014--The pathetic PMLn regime again raises electricity rates by almost a rupee...with power generation companies earning massive profits Nepra and the government are obviously are not doing their jobs...all over the world industrial concerns work on 6-8% profits but here the government loots the people and gives them 25-50% profits...offering foreign investors unheard of profits is a clear animosity towards the people...with power supply problems not being resolved what does the nawaz sharif regime regime want to run new investment on...the country cannot resolve its problems by going overboard on excessive profits...
  
• Oct27-2014--PPP accuses Mqm of being one of the participants in the London plan to topple Nawaz Sharif and orchestrate a harsh military coup
  
• Oct27-2014--18 militants killed in airstrikes on LI hideouts in Bara
  
• Oct27-2014--nine suspected militants one of them allegedly involved in killing five rangers personnel shot dead in an encounter in karachi
  
• Oct27-2014--Ikramuddin father in law of Baitulalh Mehsud heads a tribal jirga to talk with various mehsud groups for an understanding with government forces and the military
  
• Oct26-2014--Altaf hussein who on cursory examination seems to have a negative and bizzare idea of religion and mohajirs...he in a strange statement has accused the arab khursheed shah of blasphemy for calling sindh's indian mohajirs--an insulting word...The prophet(PBUH)'s hijrat has no mention of the word mohajir and only the ansar madina were praised and in that context the hijrat was temporary and they all went back to mecca after defeating the kuffar e mecca...obviously khursheed shah was insulting the mohajirs in the context of their animosity to sindhis and having no affiliation to sindh...there obviously is no correlation between the prophets hijrat and that of the indian mohajirs who have developed no love for the land and country and just want to loot and plunder the sindhis..one mohajir even had the gall to suggest that they would loot the sindhis of all their land too...altaf hussein many suggest is almost a non muslim for fighting other muslims in pakistan...
  
• Oct25-2014--Mqm cut a sorry figure in the sindh provincial assembly as it sought a new province carved out of sindh for themselves...While the PPP has no qualms about trying to divide other provinces it refuses to even consider the solution to the sindh ethnic issue in such a way...similarly altaf hussein has an unsteady nature changing positions daily on the issue and than bargaining away the position...
  
• Oct25-2014--The SC to takeup pleas to declare the 2013 elections null and void on the 29th October..while there have been the usual and new aberrations these are the first elections using ID cards...There are no clear provable allegations of dhandli and there is no law to decide what is and and what is not a lawful election...According to law nobody can challenge the authenticity of an election barring an election petition to a tribunal on an individual seat
  
• Oct24-2014--two die in quetta as a suicide bomber attacks the bullet proof vehicle of maulana fazlur rehman...while jundullah claims responsibility many blame the PTI, mqm and anti deobandi groups like the shiites
  
• Oct24-2014--in a firing incident at a market in quetta eight hazaras shot dead...four motorcyclists jumped aboard a bus and opened fire
  
• Oct24-2014--In the third incident in quetta an FC vehicle targeted with a remote bomb killing three civilians...all three incidents could be the work of different organisations
  
• Oct24-2014--In another corrupt practice it is alleged the DISCO's are installing meters which run 35% faster and their speed is adjustable...such meters can be easily checked but the Disco's/(PMLn regime) nowadays are almost totally aligned against consumers...meter readings are being concocted on the basis of last years readings and one never sees a meter reader...readings generally show that they are a week ahead of the date shown on bills...
  
• Oct24-2014--in a startling move the controversial Jang judge Jawwad S Khawaja claims he will decide for all times the qualifications and disqualifications of an mna...under article 62 and 63 and make any immunity that parliamentarians routinely claim totally redundant...while no evidence has been presented in the case the SC theoretically cannot disqualify nawaz sharif without calling the army chief as a witness
  
• Oct23-2014--The appeasement orientation of the nawaz sharif family bodes well for the illiterate phsychotic killer types of the BJP who keep killing innocent border dwellers...india is using the cowardice of pakistan's rulers to further subdue pakistan's supposedly brave forces...members of the national assembly also called for a verbal assault on the mean and nasty natured indians
  
• Oct23-2014--The PMLn which ruled punjab says that Rs113 billion was wasted due delays in the Nandipur project caused by the anti punjab PPP regime...how that is possible when the machinery was lying in karachi...most of the losses were caused by chinese escalation in pricing...Why the PMLn could not ask the zardari regime to complete the project is incomprehensible...The project badly designed on old lines is now almost obsolete...it has three power units that use diesel, gas and furnace oil...and is almost unusable
  
• Oct23-2014--two soldiers, a supposed militant and four civilians killed in ongoing mayhem in the khyber agency
  
• Oct22-2014--The countries is wasting tremendous resources on training medical doctors...however almost 50% of female doctors who get seats in medical colleges because of their intellect donot work...male premedical students are generally less hardworking and unable to beat their female counterparts in exams...similarly only one out of four students reach class ten...dropping out for various reasons including getting in line to earn early...while one sees more female doctors in hospitals the males generally dominate the senior positions...for the first time a male only medical college is planned in Sindh reversing the generalized trends...
  
• Oct22-2014--With the provincial government in punjab in total disarray Dawn suggests that governor Chaudhry Sarwar might be on his way out and might be shifted to minor beaurocratic assignmeent...Nawaz Sharifs two main appointments ie the punjab governor and the countries president are major failures unable to get along and handle real political responsibilities...their major allies seems tobe bussinessmen who at best are the countries richest people and have as such no real problems vis a vis the people...Sarwar apparently attempted to become a technocrats primeminister many say and was unable to handle shabaz sharif who is now considered worse than many of the smaller provincial chief ministers...starting out shabaz was considered the main problem shooter until he shot himself in the foot..many say..
  
• Oct22-2014--At least thirty militants killed in airstrikes on north waziristan
  
• Oct22-2014--The PAT chief winds up his dharna in islamabad conceding that it is useless and that he will now focus on electoral politics and rallies...rallies are easier and probably cost less...his pro violence politics probably ended any hopes for his french revolution type coup in which politicians would have been hanged outside and inside parliament..his politics was a repeat of the countries coup history and the generals are doing just a bit too well to want any part of such nonsense...The PTI still has hopes of some divine help which could help catapult their campaign into government..They have inflicted a serious defeat on the PMLn in multan and that is their best hope... of early elections and sweeping the PMLn from the punjab and perhaps the Mqm and PPP from sindh...The harsh languages used and their attitudes of attacking the politically and physically weak police force and still failing to occupy parliament which was defended by a few soldiers ended an attempt at political supremacy thru street violence..The major setback was not being able to get to the primeminister house in the face of a barrage of teargas...that eventually shifted both the PAT and PTI back to the path of self righteous electoral rallies...
  
• Oct21-2014--The Supreme Court seems to be giving judgements without any basis in law in the OGDCL selloff case...the PMLn is selling the countries strategic assetts without any real need or transparency...The objective of the SC seems clouded in a doubtful logic where the final decision is given even before it decides the case...theoretically when 10% shares are sold as history shows in other privatization cases it means that it is a sellof...The SC should not try to blind itself behind smokescreens which are the very antithesis of an honest judiciary
  
• Oct21-2014--The mqm which is on shaky ground anyway finds it unappealing at being told that sindhis's regard the word 'mohajir' as an insult because it refers to people ejected from one land and living in camps on mere handouts...they left the sindh government and walked of teh national assembly...!once the mqm leaves a government usually towards the end of its tenure the end is regarded as near...the mqm is about the only party in pakistan which get on with no one...
  
• Oct20-2014--In what is regarded as the heretical nature of karachis crooks an Eidhi center and residence is robbed of cash and gold..possibly a former employee, police guard or one of the eidhis is involved...or Eidhi spent the entire amount which are stored with him as a sort of personal bank...!
  
• Oct20-2014--eight poultry workers from punjab found killed near Hub
  
• Oct20-2014--Mqm quits the sindh government over Bilawal Zardaris characterization of the terrible nature of their twenty year karachi rule which is basically one continuous story of eliminating opponents and bhatta khori
  
• Oct19-2014--Raheel Sharif has to realize that appeasement of iran, afghanistan or india will not work as it just encourages adventurism...with iran raiding balochistan..afghanistan firing drones into Fata and India firing unopposed across the LOC and sialkot boundaries suggests that the timid cowardly Nawaz Shareef's regional peace is obviously a pipe dream...
  
• Oct19-2014--Bilawal Zardari calls the PTI the Mqm of Lahore...!he has little else to offer the people...at a big rally in karachi he threatens to throw the Mqm out of karachi in 2018
  
• Oct18-2014--PAT which is moving towards an exit strategy from its dharna will leave the PTI upset and exposed which wants to continue its uneasy stay in the dharna as Imran Khan continues his rallies with one in Sorgodha...the protest has become almost meaningless and there is not much hope in the PTI strategy apart from keeping its workers energized for possible relections once the resignations are accepted
  
• Oct18-2014--Nargis Sethi the aging blue eyed beaurocrat fired in a reshuffle...With ever increasing tariffs and no movements in electricity generation the experienced beaurocrat is being seen as unable to handle the huge electricity setup...some other new secretaries also named...For any real change Nawaz Sharif will have to kick out inefficent ministers...
  
• Oct18-2014--FC man killed by iranian firing rocket launchers in Mand, Kech...while the area is seen as a smugglers zone the iranians could also many suggest be sending in saboteurs...in another incident iranians barged across the border and raided a house
  
• Oct18-2014--twelve militants killed in the militaries Bara operation
  
• Oct18-2014--PPP camps in lyari forcible removed after Bilawal rebuffs Lyari elders committee
  
• Oct17-2014--The LHC upheld the death sentance for blasphemy awarded four years ago to Asia Bibi a christian ...at that time the governor met Asia Bibi in prison and was later shot dead by a policemen
  
• Oct17-2014--The judges donot know the meanings of the words sadiq and ameen mentioned in the constitution observed a SC judge saying they have no explanations for them...these words are not too commonly used anyway...many suggest the judges are seeking excuses to avoid asking the primeminister and army chief to come to court and testify on what happened between them in the context of the armies purported offer to help mediate between the dharna's and government...others suggest that the legislature does have immunity from being vilified by the courts over what they say inside an assembly...Articles 62 and 63 obviously have tobe treated seperately from immunity of parliament from prosecution...The judges could ask the primeminister to again explain the issue for the understanding of the illiterate litigants...Apparently the military chief failed as Imran Khan refused to budge from his resignation demand thus ending hopes of the mediation...
  
• Oct17-2014--21 militants killed in khyber airstrikes
  
• Oct17-2014--Amir Dogar formerly of the PPP and an independent candidate defeats Javed Hashmi of the PMLn in NA-149 Multan...The PTI backing proved crucial as generally the voters stayed away...The PPP again lost heavily as its leaders have no personal votebank...with around 6000 votes the PPP politics is definitely in need of new leaders and quite obviously new policies...Amir Dogar despite winning was already calling into question the loyalties of the polling staff and alleging rigging...the PMLn vote was second best and one must suggest that it is a repudiation of PMLn policies rather any fault of dharna's...although many suggest that the PTI votebank was energized by a huge rally despite human bodies being paraded in front of dias...many donot identify Imran Khan with a rabbit...