The Daily PakistanPolitics Feb1-15, 2015

• Feb11-2015--trials in 12 military courts have begun which are being held in camera most in Punjab and KP...the SC has formed a full 17 judge bench to hear complaints against the 21'st and 18th amendment...The 18th amendment has literally destroyed the federal governments power while the 21st has allowed military courts...The primeminister has a few duties left but is unable to handle them appropriately as well...the court under the amendments has taken over almost all powers to appointments in the top courts...if the courts accepts these uncharacteristic amendments than parliament can change other things too like abolishing parliament or the judiciary and the government structures...The court has given back powers to appoint officials but the Nawaz regime has been literally hampered with having no technical experts to appoint...The court could strike down several parts of the recent amendments and give back some more powers to the primeminister who just seems like a person with no knowledge or experience looking on at what happens...experts suggest that the SC usually disagree's with anything that effects its jurisdiction while it is aware of the total pathetic expertise and jurisdiction of the federal government...The government has failed to handle almost everything that it is allowed to do ie. law and order, military and intelligence, power, gas and petroleum problems...and even foreign relations are being taken over by the military...This should leave the court no choice but to strike down the related constitutional amendments...
• Feb13-2015--The army says that it has arrested or eliminated people involved in the army public school attack...apart from those killed the afghanis have failed to apprehend the taleban leaders...the army identified 27 of whom six are still at large with 12 arrested and nine killed...non of the key taleban leaders have been located as yet...another seven killed in Tirah airstrikes...
  
• Feb13-2015--The PPP which apparently has no opponents in interior sindh has had a falling out between son and father and father and previous kingpin or former sindh interior minister...Asif Zardari who apparently wants a zardari dynasty has failed to make major changes after failing in the previous elections...he did not replace Faryal Talpur who was a complete failure nor did he replace the failed leaders identified with corruption in the punjab...his relations with the bhatta and murder groups apart from destroying the PPP support base in lyari are seen as key to disagreements apart from his deteriorating relations with his own son...
  
• Feb11-2015--The Balochistan FC runs into trouble with militants killing 15 in a clash and losing one in washuk near Khuzdar
  
• Feb11-2015--The PMLn regime seems bent upon creating a rift with the saudis whose minor handouts to seminaries seem tobe troubling pakistans shiite natured politicians...a few millions can hardly create a terrorist outfit which in any case is totally contradictory to saudi beliefs who prefer mild docile governments...obviously any funding thru informal channels in pakistans largely cash economy is easy for the western intelligence agencies as well as UN/government advocacy programs and obviously the rich saudis as well other suspect natured groups such as the indians as well as the indian government and its agencies...the opposition to only the generally sunni help to muslims maulvi's and seminaries seem pretty suspect to even the pakistan populace and one can trace some degree's of jealousy among pakistan's rich shiite type political classes...
  
• Feb11-2015--The PTI and Mqm playout a round of what can at best be described as 'Nura Kushti'...Altaf Hussein has had a quality of teflon as he deflected responsibility for karachi's violence...however he has had to back down as the Rangers attacked with a Stinger and brought him down as Imran Khan attacked from the wings accusing him of continual violence and murders...he also had to admit that he had talked dirty about women...Altaf hussein has a particularly nasty habit of trying to destabilize pakistan and karachi every few months...however the country has become used to his bad natured attitudes and nobody even feels it anymore...However the PTI's backing out was uncharacteristic...since even Ayaz Sadiq too could have been forgiven...given that he is a nice person although an evil railways contractor as well...!!!!Altaf whom many regarded as a man of the mohajirs grass roots admitted that he did not know any mqm workers...and defacto admitted that the mqm seton fire the baldia factory and killed numerous people for bhatta and politics...islamabads street politician knocks out karachi's vulgar murderous warlord...!on the other hand Imran Khan inducted another alien runaway Chaudhry Sarwar to give some punjabi flavor to his pukhtunish alien looking lineup...The scot was refusing to follow the east punjabi chief ministers orders...land mafia's are really not a peoples thing...who cares if someone runs away with elite properties...!The former governor had better learn that the people in pakistan are essentially poor and middle income and donot really wear suits...!he should attempt to gather support from central punjab which has been a particular weakspot for the PTI...
  
• Feb10-2015--In what many suggest is a surprise recall Nasir Jamshed was included in the worldcup side...others had hoped to see a younger aspirant such as baber azam, imamul haq or sami aslam...however the cricketing demise of mohammed hafeez who has had a troublesome time as an opener but whose bowling was regarded as successful...others looking for a way back into the team include saeed ajmal and junaid khan...with pakistan's suspect lineup of bowlers...batters will have to standup tobe counted...probably the first casaulty could be to drop the wicketkeeper for umar akmal...however 50 overs keeping wickets will probably dryup umar akmal for batting purposes...maybe grant flower can work some wonders out of nasir jamshed who had started out promisingly but than failed tremendously...
  
• Feb10-2015--military pummels Tirah region killing 12
  
• Feb10-2015--Saudi Arabia reacted to shiite propaganda about their funding of religious groups and seminaries by accusing the pakistani foreign office who they suggested had been clearing and approving the quality of recipients...
  
• Feb10-2015--The mqm has finally met the maker so to speak as they fell firmly into accusations with some basis that they were involved in setting on fire the baldia factory in which hundreds were killed...alongwith that the PMLn, PPP and army chief are being accused of protecting the biggest political crook in the country...The PMLn was behind the meaningless suggestion that the PPP and mqm form a coalition again while the PPP's Asif Zardari an acknowledged crook himself has sent altaf hussein a message that he would protect him against all the vile things he has done including throwing dead bodies on the streets in body bags...The accusations came from an mqm worker who also said that one of their sector incharges was involved...mqm sector incharges are notorious for eliminating opponents and bhatta gathering...Imran Khan said that he would take altaf hussein to court in mild natured england and made the media spew out mqm rhetoric that it was vile language...altaf is not really a nice person...!one must at this juncture suggest that the baldia fire incident is serious enough to bann the mqm and all similarly violent ethnic organisations...the mqm is also accused of the zebunnissa street blast in the late eighties which is still acknowledged as the worst terrorist incident in the country...The mqm since its inception has been the cause of almost 1000-3000 deaths annually since the 1980's...It is only the karachi police, rangers, ISI and army that have acted as a bulwark against the independence seeking mqm...Initially the ISI was blamed for creating the mqm like other political organisations to act as a bulwark against the than violent, uncontrolled and untamed PPP...since than the PPP has been turned into a tame cat and literally jumps on the crookish mqm's desire for being in government...every time the mqm has joined a different coalition and left each and every one of them until they became totally useless with the PPP finally winning more seats than needed in sindh...
  
• Feb10-2015--After altaf hussein said dirty things about PTI women Imran Khan slammed the djinn lookalike warlord as a killer...who goes to teh extent of using shiite philosophy to kill his own workers to keep rank and file in line...the mqm had little to say in return...others say that imran was perturbed at the mqm refusal to participate in the dharna despite agreeing to it at a london meeting...others are pointing to chaudhry sarwar as the trouble maker who had earlier started to develop links to altaf hussein...many are suggesting that imran khan has a weakness for PMLn men whom he appoints to head the party like javed hashmi...chaudhry sarwar had earlier tried to pull down the PMLn regime and now is looking around for another nesting place...
  
• Feb7-2015--The blasphemous governor trial judges want to know whether the governor was a blasphemer as he called the blasphemy law a black law...while the government has arrested over 10,000 people for apparently just hate speeches does the blasphemy law look black in that context...not long ago a CJ wanted to apply the blasphemy to other religions too even though muslims generally donot disrespect other prophets...many point to the fact that the police generally kills killers only occasionally opposed by the mqm who are now accused to have killed hundreds by setting a textile mill on fire...!!!
  
• Feb7-2015--The pakistani cricket selectors seem tobe either orderlies or they donot seem to know what they are doing as Rahat Ali becomes another inexperienced fast bowler inducted into the one day team...the team now has more inexperienced bowlers than any in history...while sohail khan and wahab riaz have good domestic records they are not yet regarded highly while Mohammed Irfan seems tobe the only one who can bowl unplayable deliveries...Shahid Afridi seems tobe improving his bowling and the team will have to depend on twenty overs from him and Haris Sohail...despite sohail tanvir being an experienced oneday bowler he and the left arm spin of Zulfikar Baber were ignored...the team in despair can however now call on the newly approved spin of saeed ajmal and there is still the possibility of mohammed hafeez being approved if his test is held before the world cup...the team now has three left arm fast bowlers in wahab, irfan and rahat...while rahat has improved at test level he only occasionally bowls brilliantly...given the situation pakistan would have to play four bowlers and seven batsmen...the team at the moment has no offspinner but has two legspinners
  
• Feb6-2015--Chaudnry Nisar calls himself a "fasli batera..." and only talks when there is apparently something to eat...and is usually not around when something happens...he says he is on the trail of a shikarpur kingpin...eg. nobody was tobe found when the karachi airport was attacked...! where was Chaudhry Nisar...apparently getting his heart artery stitched in a military hospital...and he forgot to even tell Nawaz Sharif...!
  
• Feb6-2015--Afghans kill eighteen militants including pakistanis near pakistan border
  
• Feb6-2015--NawazSharif suddenly realizes that the kashmir issue has tobe raised even though the opccupied kashmiris are going into a coalition with the mad hindu nationalist who does not want to even talk on kashmir...Nawaz Sharif has refused to even whisper anything against india whether they fire and kill across the borders or threaten terrorism...
  
• Feb5-2015--Either our judges are illiterate or they donot read newspapers...a judge asks in the Mumtaz Qadri appeal against conviction how a policeman can decide to kill a governor for blasphemy...terrorists and policemen kill all over the place in this country for the right and wrong reasons...but killing for a generalized religious belief of a governor who went against a generally held view in stark opposition to what can be described as a majority of the citizens...The country allows all sorts of things against its basic religion...twisting beliefs and supposed right to do things just because they want to...this is not generally something that is within the law and religion and the country obviously does not have a french law that allows killing for a passion such as love and religion...So what is the judge doing...trying to avoid being killed himself eventually or trying to avoid making a decision...and than there is the mqm...while one of its politicians threatens to eliminate the IG and AIG of sindh while altaf hussein threatens to kill the army, rangers and ISI...there is no sanity in pakistan yet...
  
• Feb5-2015--After every terror strike the military goes for further bombing of Fata's terror hideouts..another 25 killed in anti terrorist bombings and and clashes in khyber and south waziristan
  
• Feb5-2015--a pakistani diplomat expelled from Bangladesh for meeting a politician from a former pro pakistan party...Bangladesh has been crushing pro pakistan parties on indian instructions...
  
• Feb5-2015--polio vaccination team policeman shot dead in Quetta...one wonders how armed people are shot dead
  
• Feb5-2015--The governments coal policy is dead...long live LNG...recent press reports have suggested that no one at present wanted LNG for generating power...what happened is that the government has been unable to even start one of its projected coal power stations...so after three years there are no new power stations to fill the ever going void...the private sector and the chinese have failed almost continuously...maybe it is time to go back to state funded generating units...the state can build and sell them immediately...there seems no other way...one does not see how they are going to fulfill power needs in summer even though generation can rise when the dams are full which is hardly for more than a month although demand will have risen to above 20000MW's...Abid Sher Ali is correct that there is excessive theft of electricity in sindh areas and even nwfp...however the premise that electricity is available to people where there are almost 100% recoveries is false as is the case of islamabad and rawalpindi where there are at times almost 110% recoveries...
  
• Feb4-2015--The first or second mild reactions to the governments struggling NAP...!four soldiers among seven dead in taleban/militant/insurgent attacks in Fata...while a recently elected Gwadar UC chairman shot dead...and the SBP says that india circulating high quality fake pakistani banknotes or afghanistan or iran perhaps...!while in karachi mohajir students frightened of even cracker attacks...altaf hussein has to realize that he is responsible for karachi's situation not the federal government...! most of the students in karachi's schools are mohajirs or punjabi...Dawn says that the Qadri worshiping phenomena is worrying the government as flowers were thrown on ambulance's carrying hanged terrorists in karachi...! Sunnis revere the prophet while the shiites revere the slain grandson Caliph Hussein or the Caliph Ali
  
• Feb4-2015--The pakistan army of IRP calls for blanket actions against terrorists...!!!government seems able to arrest only poor khateebs for shiite identified hate speeches...shiites not very honest one must point out to the befooled government...they have not yet found any real terrorist...! and to top it all no military courts have started functioning...that is really slow...!! already government policy is becoming a shiite-sunni fightout...with the government almost taking orders from Qom...! or New Delhi..!
  
• Feb3-2015--anti shiite terrorism not as popular with the government as peshawars school terrorism...sindh's shiite politicians blast nawaz sharif for not visiting shikarpur...government which is already in bed with shiites cant get too cosy as it has already opposed sunnis in the NAP...sindhi politicians must take as much responsibility as possible but they are wary of shiite machiavelism and the bad reactions to imran khan's mild attempt to show some participative fervour in the KP...both altaf hussein and qaim ali shah seemingly shiites are not known to take even mild responsibility for their populaces bad behaviour...
  
• Feb3-2015--many wonder why the pakistani cruise missile is colored red...!most missiles usually adopt a camouflage coloration
  
• Feb3-2015--The army to again have a March 23 parade after seven years...the trouble of getting tanks and trucks to islamabad and the damage to roads and the armies losing image had stopped a regular March 23 parade which used tobe popular when held in rawalpindi...but it became out of place in islamabad which even refused to build a modern pentagon type GHQ...!
  
• Feb3-2015--if u go around the rawalpindi streets these days u see all sorts of bearded bedraggled pukhtuns and wonder whether they are the next bombers or terrorists...!The government+shiites apart from students and schools are claiming that they are the only ones victimised apart from Malala and her heirs with some new peshawri versions as well...others suggest that mixing secularism , sectarianism, anti maulvism and terrorism causes the government to lose a whole lot of support...it makes nawaz sharif look like the ahmedbadi or gujerati Modi...sectarianism can easily be handled by reducing government projections of shiism on television and ending muharram holidays and shiite jalsa jaloos apart from treating shiite terrorists just like the LJ...!many wonder if the army chief and Nawaz Sharif are that secular they should be sitting in india most of the time...sucking Modi's thumbs...!The government while pro shiite realizes the divisions and problems that the shiites create...The country has had an ongoing shiite war even before the taleban arrived on the scene in the early nineties...
  
• Feb2-2015--Nobody claimed that the recent sectarian blast in shikarpur was a failure of NAP with shiites trying to capture NAP for themselves suggesting that they are the only victims in this country...however many did blame the mqm, ppp and nawaz sharif government on calling religious differences terrorism too...while peshawar's terrorised students were heading off to china and england tobe malalalised......shikarpur is a former outpost of the PPP and mumtaz bhutto usually tries to win seats there...many suggest that it might be a mild reminder from the taleban that the government failed to include interaction in the NAP plan...and that the country is a wide open place for terror...others suggest that the government has not shown any real movement rather than harassing the countries maulvi's...and NAP is being sincerely applied in Affendi colony, rawalpindi my hometown...of the four schools most have put up barriers and classy barbed wire...the poorest the government girls school just relying on a few strands of old style barbed wire...
  
• Feb2-2015--when a government increases taxes by 10 percent on petrol without approval of parliament what does it mean...it generally means that the economy is in trouble...taxes on petrol are now a whopping 27%..why because the government refuses to pass on to the people the benefits of falling oil prices...the people never did support unidirectional Nepra and Ogra but now even the finance ministry says that it can handle such things..!...now this is the brainchild of the information minister and acting finance minister who used to say that the economy is in trouble during the dharna...It seems that Ishaq Dar after failing to rectify the economy is now looking tobe made the chief political wrangler replacing the failed shahbaz sharif...with gas and electricity outages of massive proportions and pipeline, school and sectarian terrorism... can the economy improve...!Nawaz Sharif however is falling into the traps of sectarianism and ethnic warfare in sindh...he and the army chief tried to prove the other day that the half baked punjab police elite force(cant even stand straight) could handle terrorism too if the army chief attends their passing out...usually they are supposed to protect the sons and daughters but all of them now live in dubai or england...recently making the escape(pilgrimage) to england are a former governor and the first mother...!apparently Nawaz Sharif said "ammi raiwind chaudhry sarwar nu de deayi...zamin mangda ronda hua gaya eh..."...!!The government is now comparing itself to landlocked and indian oppressed Nepal where electricity prices are Rs.10 and petrol prices Rs.102...however Nepal has to buy high priced petrol and LPG from India...!!!After a zardari and Mrs zardari picture surfaced on the internet people in rawalpindi are finally praying fateha for Benazir...RIP...according to one version the son is living with an english girlfriend and the father with a sindhi one...!!!
  
• Feb1-2015--Ishaq Dar could not tolerate another price cut on petrol and wanted a 10% tax as well...how a major tax can be increased without parliament is a quite a surprise...according to the PTI the petrol price now works out to Rs50 per litre...Rs.20 being eaten by ishaq dar to pay for his buildings in dubai or nawaz sharif's sons in england...some rumour even the army chief has enrolled his children in england...the price of school terrorism otherwise the reputation of Apsac's(army schools and colleges) was growing!...!The PMLn walahs are just mean and nasty people...hope they get jettisoned in the next polls...!