The Daily PakistanPolitics Nov 16-30, 2014

• Nov27-2014--A pakistani bowling coach says that saeed ajmal has improved the bowling action of his off spinners and straight deliveries and should get the benefit of the doubt for his doosra due his slipped shoulder injury and an injury to his hand joint...he could be allowed to play domestic cricket until ICC clears his bowling action...many think...since he can bowl deliveries with a correct action he is likely to only be allowed to play in domestic cricket
  
• Nov27-2014--A seven judge SC bench to hear the nawaz sharif disqualification case which could unseat nawaz sharif from parliament or create a framework on how to deal with corrupting politicians...lying is one of the most minor of offences although it is clearly mentioned in articles 62 and 63 while parliamentarians are given freedom of speech according to article 66...while a member of parliament can lie about corruption, his assets, education and matters of state...some could be important and some not...The court if it decides clearly could see numerous cases against almost sorts of members of parliament...the court could disqualify Asif Zardari eg. for lying about a jewellry set or allegations against sadruddin hashwani or the other way around...many suggest that if the court is serious than it should ask the army chief and Nawaz Sharif to testify or ask the complainants to provide details and testify to prove their allegations...the court could in turn also disqualify many in the lawyers community from trying to get elected to parliament...after lying to the superior judiciary
  
• Nov27-2014--drone kills nine in north waziristan...four polio workers shot dead in quetta while 26 madressah girls recovered from a house in karachi...
  
• Nov26-2014--PML again has a dubious attitude to handling the Nov 30 PTI rally...if they get out of hand they will be teargassed...Imran Khan too should learn that protests and demonstrations are not an unfettered right and should be peaceful in intent and purpose..
  
• Nov26-2014--Gilgit court sentences Mir Shakilurrehman the crookish Jang owner to 26 years in jail for religious politicking
  
• Nov26-2014--20 killed in North Waziristan airstrikes
  
• Nov26-2014--The PMLn says industrialists on both sides are the real problems like Nawaz Sharif and Jehangir Tarin who are mostly sugar producers...Tarin produces a massive 60000 tons of sugar and apparently sells most of his sugar to the Trading Corporation of Pakistan...the industrialists care little for the solution of people problems...the sugar profits of political crooks fuel most of the violence and unreasonable protests in the country suggests the PMLn spokesman...
  
• Nov26-2014--Khawaja Asif casts reliability doubts on the animosity prone US attitudes towards pakistan and castigates them for being inherently unfriendly...like the fauj he lacks an understanding of the american phsyche...they only are troubled by the deaths of americans...pakistan can bleed and suffer...pakistanis can die left , right and center...it is without meaning for them...their attitudes are almost similar to those of the taleban and other animosity prone anti pakistan terrorists...anyway the results show that the situations in pakistan and afghanistan are little changed as they are not going after mullah omar who could many say be the central culprit in both countries problems...going after the small fry in pakistan's tribal territories can reduce terror incidences in pakistan but not solve the overall problem...there is an inherent error in the thought processes of pakistan, usa and afghanistan and perhaps india as well...
  
• Nov25-2014--Swiss say controversial corruption proceeds jewellry set belongs to Asif Zardari...PPP spokesman still blindly denies...
  
• Nov25-2014--while oil prices have fallen almost by 20-25% the PMLn only reduces electricity prices for October by 48 paisa a unit...pathetic..many say
  
• Nov25-2014--The SC to withdraw its judge from the ECP as Nawaz Sharif unable to decide on a reality based CEC...as they say there are unfortunately no angels in pakistan or even decent honest judges...one lawyer says the SC not authorized to withdraw its judge from position of acting CEC...it could serve the PMLn cause as the ECP would be rendered ineffective
  
• Nov24-2014--Altaf Hussein whom many accuse of of collaborating with the taleban in spreading terrorism says the minuscule JI is linked to alqaeda and the inaccessible IS
  
• Nov24-2014--ANP leader killed in karachi as the inconsequential afghan asfandyar wali tries to further ethnic politics by opposing the kalabagh dam...ethnic politics has done serious damage to pakistan...while dams are usually very good for the areas they are located in the ANP is used to just oppose meaninglessly even though the spineless government is not even willing to commit to building it...Imran Khan whom many thought would be an imaginative leader also fell for the PPP position on the kalabagh dam...asfandyar wali also says that pukhtuns are a peaceful people when 80% of pakistani militants are usually pukhtun...this as pukhtuns continue to daily pour across the punjab border in the thousands...it has also recently been exposed that the mqm is hand in glove with shiite pukhtuns resettling in karachi from sectarian conflict areas in Fata...!
  
• Nov24-2014--Three LI militants killed in khyber...
  
• Nov23-2014--the indians escaped bombay terrorist is also based on afghan-fata border say the indians... the indians are generally blind to their own subjugation of minorities and other liberation movements
  
• Nov23-2014--The 70 Elder's Jirga calls for allowing the IDP's to return...The pukhtun politicians of various hues have generally been sidelined by their dubious concerns during the terrorist era dominated by the also pukhtun Taleban...
  
• Nov23-2014--After the minor (military supported) PMLq started to suggest that they too are a major political party and the PTI foray into interior sindh and strong showing in northern and southern punjab...calls for new elections have been revied but the PMLn regime rejected outright elections before 2018...Nawaz Sharif who is already being written off by many because of his industrial only policies...many suggest that he could throw his political weight behind some other party in the next elections to avoid his opponents getting elected...The dubious looking american ambassador also called on the PTI leader...many had previously suggested that the PTI was funded by the ISI with american funds...The USA in the past has allocated around US$30 million annually for political funding of a dubious nature purportedly to fund the democratic process...PMLn makes fun of the reclusive Imran Khan meeting the chinese and US ambassadors and question his reasons for doing so...Chinese and US leaders have been avoiding pakistan like the plague...!
  
• Nov19-2014--Sadruddin Hashwani who owns several famous hotel properties accuses Asif Zardari of bomb attacks on his properties such as Mariott after he refused to sell them... in his book...The shady nature of the PPP in sindh is becoming apparent after Hashwani's book was forced off the shelves in karachi.A beneficiary of military coups like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif he was handed over the Pearl Continental Hotels by the Zia ul Haq military
  
• Nov19-2014--Despite a general lack of interest in the PMLn type of shady non competetive privatisations...key state sectors are being parcelled off to PMLn supporters or arab/indian types...the discredited Muhammed Zubair of the PC says the government will continue benefiting its supporters by handing over shares in the Steel Mills, Allied Bank and Habib Bank at cheap rates despite the entities being some of the best in government coffers...The government has backed off from doling out OGDCL and PIA shares for the present
  
• Nov19-2014--seven militants killed among eleven in goevernment bombardments of the khyber agency and tirah regions
  
• Nov19-2014--Another conflict situation could emerge in relation to the the PTI's Nov30 gathering in islamabad...Imran Khan seems to have an abivalence to police and judicial action although his men did participate in PTV occupation and attempts to occupy the national assembly...Imran Khan's stance that despite his aggressiveness and militancy he should not be painted in the same corner as Qadri...whether the police can act on an ATC courts decision without the approval of the government is unclear...Imran Khan has called for doing away with police and the judiciary...many suggest that anybody doing anything criminal will be gunned down under an imran khan dictatorship aka the taleban style...!
  
• Nov18-2014--Nawaz Sharif refuses to travel in an indian car on trips to kathmandu and a special car is tobe flown in from pakistan
  
• Nov18-2014--10 LI militant leaders surrender in Bara
  
• Nov17-2014--Three armymen and 34 militants dies in gunbattles and bombings in dattakhel
  
• Nov17-2014--Government deliberately causing load shedding in winter despite high tariff rates by providing available electricity to the failed textile industry and shutting down numerous power generation plants
  
• Nov16-2014--Saeed Ajmal has apparently failed to overcome his bowling problems after testing in england where some say he was bowling with a 30 degree arm bend although he is said to have been bowling at a 41 degree arm bend before...!!
  
• Nov16-2014--With Imran Khan continuing to increase his influence in the punjabi heartland earlier dominated by the PMLn...he breaks off talks with the government as an ATC court attempts to cause his arrest for violent activities in the islamabad dharna...while many doubt the PMLn courage to arrest him given their dharna handling it could further the PTI cause since many say the dharna seems to have developed a nurakushti aspect
  
• Nov16-2014--six LI militants killed in clashes...
  
• Nov16-2014--while afghanistan continues to allow drone attacks into pakistan ashraf ghani promises a karzai less future which could have promising overtones and government signs the TAPI gas pipeline deal to supply gas to india
  
• Nov16-2014--The military claims to have cleared 90% of north waziristan and cleared most of its ammunition depots while admitting that many of the terrorists have escaped..They claim killing 1198 and losing 197 soldiers...and setting up 250 checkposts around main towns...IDP's to return after clearing of IED's and mines
  
• Nov15-2014--The Supreme Court which many now identify as being in the Nawaz Sharif camp has modified an earlier decision of the SC making it easy for the Nawaz Sharif regime to make key appointments..earlier the court had asked for the formation of a commission which has been done away and the government now only has to deal with making appointments on merit...! obviously merit is not based on education marks but on experience, education and seniority
  
• Nov15-2014-- The gun happy police of Qaim Ali Shah gun down another seven TTP men on the generalized charge of terrorism...a police man is also killed
  
• Nov15-2014--In the Bolan area the FC gun downs six militants
  
• Nov15-2014--while gas is almost unavailable to punjab's domestic consumers in winter nawaz Sharif sitting in London orders full to availibility of gas and electricity to punjabs textile industry