- Feb28-2015--another gas pipeline blownup in nasirabad, balochistan this time depriving many balochistan areas of gas
- Feb28-2015--and in GB two prisoners escaped from jail and a military trial while another was killed and one injured
- Feb28-2015--The PPP and PMLn can now safely be stated as awam dushman with the PTI moving fast to achieve that goal...all three want the parties to foist unwelcome candidates as senators...the PMLn and PTI want a show of hands election while the PPP does not even want a election preferring tobe elected unopposed...The PPP refuses to recognize that in most provinces it is now a nonentity since they refuse to even look for new supporters...thinking a zardari will be enough...The PTI is now moving to a position of attending assembly sessions when and if it pleases the lordship...one of the foisted senate candidates was ousted...raheela magsi was declared an illegal candidate by the ECP...!while the JUI-f traded itself to the PMLn in balochistan...while Chaudhry Shujaat called Nawaz Sharif a donkey trader...or called the provincial and national assembly members donkeys
- Feb27-2015--the egg throwing mqm greeting committee for Moeen Khan had to smash the eggs on their own heads in frustation at the pakistan cricket team as Moeen Khan slipped away on arrival at the karachi airport...
- Feb26-2015--three al jazeera journalists held for flying drones over Paris monuments...the way the west behaves when it is targeted is different from how it reacts to drone attacks in yemen, afghanistan and pakistan
- Feb26-2015--Punjab says that religion/sects are the problem while Chaudhry Nisar attempts to tame the west by urging that islam should not be blamed for terrorism...at the moment only muslims and muslim countries are involved barring the odd attack on mosques in the USA, Denmark and israel/india...most of the the issues stem from islamic history and islamic interpretations which create sects and animosities...while punjab refuses to restrict sects it says it will change syllabii and work against the hate speeches of a particular group refusing to consider everyone as responsible...most of the groups and sects have been around a long time and have problematic followers as well as views...however what has changed is that iraq and afghanistan have caused a change in thinking as small groups can now challenge bigger powers in conventional wars and create a lot of trouble...the west has continued to oppose resolution of conflicts in such places as israel, syria and iraq as well as afghanistan thus causing widespread discontent and support for rebellions and terrorism which is also a way to fight used previously only against repressive regimes and by liberation groups...!!! the selective nature of the western powers has been a major cause of the problem worsening and becoming intertwined with world politics
- Feb26-2015--PMLn frantic inits seemingly undemocratic attitudes in senate elections...mna's and mpa's while generally following party lines can vote against party candidates in senate elections if they feel strongly about it...that is the democratic way...however the PMLn wants to create a draconian system where the legislators would be embarassed to vote against their parties by a show of hands...The speakers would than be able to override any negative votes...however a brave legislator can still refuse to vote for the party candidate...at best the PMLn would lose one and the PTI one or two if there were a rebellion...restricting an individuals right to vote is an extreme step and the PMLn should prefer to convince its elected members and include their choice rather than foist a useless party hack...!The PTI has moved the IHC against two PMLn outsiders amongst PMln senate candidates...The PMLn wants to foist one from KP and one from balochistan as senators for islamabad
- Feb25-2015--while ordinary people are left to depend on god(ghuda ke asra per) an ordinance has been issued to provide security to military court judges, prosecutors and witnesses...military courts are tobe held in camera inside military garrisons...!!!
- Feb25-2015--ASWJ cleric shot dead in karachi...two blasts in quetta and chaman kill an FC man and a civilian...rocket attack on mosque in Kech...man killed in a roadside blast in Jiwani
- Feb25-2015--Waqar Younis's brother hired in PIA as a pilot on a fake degree...while chief selector who is considered responsible for bad team selections Moin Khan recalled from New Zealand after he was found wandering around a casino...
- Feb25-2015--Nabil Gabol resigns from the national assembly saying he was considered a misguided missile by the mqm.....many think he will leave the mqm and join the PTI...!!!
- Feb24-2015--The government seems to have no idea of the powers of the judiciary or the need of a constitution after its knee jerk reactions to court challenges about recent constitutional amendments...The three judge SC court have asked the absent CJ for a full court to handle the issue...while the current judges are not of the hardnosed type they need to make hard decisions just for credibility if nothing else
- Feb24-2015--while the election commission has had problems recording and verifying thumb imprints the countries five mobile firms have had no problems doing so...
- Feb24-2015--another APS terrorist arrested
- Feb24-2015--The pathetic PMLn wants senate elections held by counting hands rather than a casting of votes...The PMLn lost a lot of credibility amongst its own by eg. bringing in candidates from outside the areas concerned...while senate voting has been problematic in the past the concept of the individual vote should not be tarnished by such methods
- Feb23-2015--gas supply pipeline to Pirkoh purification plant blown up
- Feb23-2015--Ishaq Dar this countries poor finance minister has transferred $4m to his sons in Dubai...usually it is the other way around with nawaz sharif receiving Rs100 million from london!!! legally u cannot transfer more than $10000 out of the country...!!!
- Feb21-2015--army major and eight militants die in dattakhel and khyber clashes
- Feb21-2015--much is being said of some sort of underground initiation of talks between the afghan taleban and the afghan government...some suggest that saudi princes have gone underground in the garb of hunting houbara's in balochistan and the army chief has conveyed the taleban softening to the afghan president..however both the taleban and the USA say no qatar reengagement at the moment...the afghans must openup to each other with their hearts and minds and could thus also eventually solve some of pakistans problems in terrorism...the interior minister says that pakistan's relations with afghanistan are the best since the taleban were in power in the early nineties...
- Feb20-2015--six mqm men have been put on the exit control list for setting on fire a textile mills in karachi and killing hundreds...!!
- Feb20-2015--The contrast in how the elite, terrorised and people are treated in this country is making headlines...The KP government allocates 15 million to treat 35 injured in the APS attack by the Agha Khan hospital in karachi...while the primeminister who has probably never been inside PIMs allocates Rs100 million for the treatment of a gunshot victim PIMs cardiologist in england...the primeminister's mother sent of to england for a sore throat...nawaz sharif, shahbaz sharif and asif zardari got their stents installed in england and dubai while poor chaudhry nisar had to go to the CMH for that...and karachi was shut down when altaf went to hospital in england for a stent...??..!!contrast with that doctors on strike in rawalpindi...no foreign treatments for the rawalpindi poor...!This malalisation will serve the country badly and the government must give free high grade medical treatment to the many of whom die without proper treatments..!!
- Feb20-2015--In a country that is driven by honesty and competence a government would have no problem in finding a governor for the punjab...However the strange decision making followed by the Nawaz Sharif system sees weeks going by without a governor being appointed despite the position having almost no responsibilities...Dawn suggests Raja zafar Ul haq, Chaudhry Jaffer Iqbal, Chaudhry saud majeed and Tehmina Daultana as amongst those that want tobe considered...Raja apparently wants to see if he can make senate chairman while a woman has not been given a key responsibility yet by the PMLn MC's in these troubled times...!
- Feb20-2015--Obama does not understand the terrorist nature...mostly the cause is subjugation of muslims worldwide usually by nations such as the USA as well as by their own governmments...lack of progress caused by the USA in muslim regional disputes...why the Huthis are allowed to takeover a country but not the IS...one doubts it has anything to do with extremists on the internet or how the various media are handled as truths and attitudes cannot be hidden except by extreme propaganda...the opposition to regimes by terrorists is a mirror of the suppression in various soceities...even terrorism is used by regimes nowadays to suppress criticism...mostly it is also related to the rejection of people needs by governments...nowhere in teh world is good governance opposed by terrorism...It is the terrible nature of how things are handled in the third world that causes most of the rebellions...a violent rebellion or coup is not very different from ordinary terrorism...however it is the success of western governments that now terrorism is mostly directed at muslim countries whether or not it is their governments or their people that are targets
- Feb18-2015--four polio workers found shot dead near Zhob after disappearing a few days ago..One FC man shot dead near Panjgur
- Feb18-2015--Nepra finally cuts electricity prices by a small Rs3.2 per unit for a month after petroleum prices had fallen by almost 50%...!
- Feb18-2015--The Apex committees are a very funny system...Nawaz Sharif and the army chief attend one in karachi and quetta...karachi also attended by the governor and Zardari...Punjab's apex committee not attended by Nawaz Sharif but had at least five Lt. generals sitting around who were thanked by Shahbaz Sharif for not supporting a coup/kicking him out...however the terror prone KP has not had an apex committee yet..The government has to realize that small talk does not solve anything...just like when no one is responsible no coal plant has yet even started construction work...responsibilities must be assigned and work monitored at all levels and problems rectified...
- Feb18-2015--balochistan and KP up in arms at the change in route of the China corridor
- Feb18-2015--five die in a suicide attack including two policemen near the police lines Qilla Gujjar singh, Lahore
- Feb17-2015--Pakistanis of the upper strata invested over Rs430 billion rupees in dubai properties over the last two years...that is almost the entire development budget in pakistan...Dubai has benefited from the troubled environments in muslim countries and is almost bleeding them for funds as tycoons, beaurocrats, political and government leaders create a safe haven for themselves as escape routes from their troubled countries...
- Feb17-2015--The appointment of a PMLn governor from punjab creates troubles in Gilgit baltistan...Birjees Tahir is a federal minister...The sitting governor a PPP man says that he has not been removed...anyone can be appointed a governor by the federal government and there is no ethnic or regional right...no problem has been solved by having for example an mqm governor or a foreign governor in punjab...or local governors elsewhere...The PPP rigged the GB elections and now the PMLn wants its people in power there...
- Feb17-2015--The problems in law and order in karachi are mirrored in what is termed an apex committee...The PMLn has formed these committees many say unconstitutionally to satisfy the army which now has its representatives on the committee alongwith the main troublemakers and the provincial government heads...The baldia fire in which hundreds were killed is a case in point where mqm workers are the main accused..karachi has been a focus point in sectarian, ethnic and regional problems with the terror component included...
- Feb17-2015--In a major change in policy the interior ministry will close down 41 places which include mosques and imambargahs near the March 23 army parade venue for a week..
- Feb16-2015--two 220KV power pylons blownup in Nasirabad on sunday and friday...widespread power supply problems in balochistan which many attribute to government actions in maintaining supplies to more populous areas
- Feb16-2015--Usman Kurd who was regarded as the leader of the Balochistan LJ was killed in a shootout with the FC in a hotel in the sariab area of quetta...he is regarded as one of fiercest anti shiite LJ leader and is said tobe behind most of the anti shiite terrorism in balochistan apart from those carried out by the anti Iran Jundullah...
- Feb16-2015--It was almost panic stations in team selection as the pakistanis dropped two catches in losing to india...Yasir Shah did not live upto his promise and pakistan had no defensive plan...The wicket was dry and straight and an extra paceman should have been the choice...Ehsan Adil who bowls straighter might have produced a steady spell...however Younis Khan who at best plays strange shots was introduced as the surprise opener in place of many say the wicketkeeper Sarfraz whom many thought could have gotten the innings going...what point is there in calling up an established opener in Nasir Jamshed and than finding out that he was not in form...If Younis cant find a place in the middle order than it would be best to drop him...The other batting stars also failed barring the usual innings from misbah ul haq...who probably should stand up to the bigwigs a bit more since he has already retired...maybe ehsan adil and sarfraz should replace Younis and Yasir shah unless the next match is in sydney...two spinners should be enough unless u are playing zimbabwe ...and the new oldie sohail khan seemingly dragged in with five wickets for 50 and the indians still got to 300...ireland will probably roll over the pakistanis in this form...
- Feb16-2015--ASWJ holds protests at the 18th murder of their men in rawalpindi and islamabad...the government is turning a blind eye to the killers who should be easy to find in a such a small city...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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