The Daily PakistanPolitics July1-15, 2015

• Jul15-2015--fourteen militants killed in North Waziristan airstrikes
  
• Jul15-2015--Five zikris a controversial Shiite subsect die while walking thru a baloch dessert to koh e murad
  
• Jul15-2015--Iran and the US reach an agreement on sanctions and nuclear enrichment...after a thirteen year long negotiation...!while Sartaj Aziz says he cant negotiate directly with the Indians on Kashmir as it is very difficult...!
  
• Jul15-2015--cases registered against Altaf Hussein for waging war against Pakistan in various cities...alongwith PPP/PMLn corruption... Altaf Husseins extortionist nature... and why he lives in London(frightened that somebody would kill him if he goes back to Karachi) make the news...other reports suggest that IB money made it possible for Altaf to flee the country...a controversial ex police chief says Nawaz Sharif gave MQM 750 million in 1997 while Yusuf Gilani made off with 500 million of IB money...amongst other corruption related reports Dawn says that PMLn top leaders buildings being constructed in Murree despite a building bann...!that makes Altaf Hussein an employee of RAW, IB and probably MI6...earlier reports suggest that the Pakistan interior ministry was behind mqm's creation...so why is the Pakistan interior minister so interested in getting Altaf Hussein into british jail...apparently he refuses to obey orders...!
  
• Jul14-2015--much is being made of the demise of hockey in Pakistan..two of the many reasons is the nonexistence of facilities, physically weak hockey players, the hockey federation working under politically patronized old physically unfit hockey players..Islamabad is one of the best places one can play hockey...a popular venue used tobe the hockey ground at Aabpara which was turned into a weekend vegetable market...In Rawalpindi the army hockey stadium is shutdown as it is too near the GHQ..!so now Pakistan is said to have only a few hundred hockey players with limited talent or playing ability...The Pakistan hockey captain says money is there only problem and probably their only motivation...they probably need it to buyout other teams...!one remembers how hockey players used to return from foreign tours in the old days loaded with expensive foreign items...I think the team should learn to play hockey rather than run after money...!
  
• Jul14-2015--All the cases under investigation by a handcuffed NAB were referred to it by the governments since its creation...The Nawaz Sharif regime has almost destroyed the real functions of NAB and they are left to terrorizing government deptt's rather than investigating politicians or political corruption...recently three or four politicians have come out as pro corruption although in defence of their persons or parties...the speaker national assembly, asif zardari, a Nawaz sharif son and information minister Pervez Rashid have criticized NAB...many feel that the speaker if he feels that NAB is functioning badly should take the issue to court as NAB theoretically does not work under the government...the speaker is known as one of the biggest Railways contractor so he should be well aware of the functioning of corruption and its existence at almost all levels of the government and army...!!! Asif Zardari is also known as a commission mafioso and Pervez Rashid probably knows how the government controls newsmen and is probably reeling in the cash these days...!!!
  
• Jul14-2015--while the PPP has accepted the Rangers as necessary for handling Karachi the mqm continues its dubious anti army history by criticizing the Rangers activities...The mqm is deeply involved in Karachi's criminal activities and has only protested at the blindfolding and handcuffing of its workers...usually all those involved are called not our workers by the mqm..Altaf Hussein has also protested at the dubious charity extortions that he and his party live on as falahi kaam...with Karachi overflowing with mohajirs many doubt the protestations of innocence of people who don't know the difference between 27 and 37...!many regard zakat and fitra as indivual responsibilities and funding institutions should be the governments responsibility...politicial organizations should be funded by members and not the populace...
  
• Jul14-2015--many are calling the PMLn regime beghairat for still talking to the indians after learning of the Indians history of anti Pakistan animosity...Nawaz Sharif apparently seems to have killed talks on Kashmir just for chit chat with the anti muslim Modi...Kashmir will be degraded to track two talks which means that there will be nothing apart from the status quo...one wonders what Nawaz Sharif is upto...both the Norwegians and Russians apparently refused to participate in track II talks...The army chief is also coming across as a person with a dubious understanding of issues...
  
• Jul13-2015--The Apex committee in Sindh agreed to continue Rangers operations..Altaf Hussein who is now almost a useless speech maker continues his diatribe against the military from his London hideout...while Bilawal Bhutto initiates his relations with the military with a makeup meeting with the Karachi corp commander
  
• Jul12-2015--The IHC technically reinstates the NTDC MD who was fired in November and reinstated in April...The IHC said that only the NTDC board can make decisions and all governmental maneouvres declared null and void since...
  
• Jul12-2015--four soldiers and eight militants killed in south Waziristan after an attack on a checkpost
• Jul11-2015--metro drivers go on strike in rawalpindi
• Jul11-2015--car sales over the last year jumped to 150000 from 118000
• Jul11-2015--Modi dupes Nawaz sharif once again...Modi agrees to solve issues face to face but than goes back to New Delhi and turns turtle and the firings start all over again on the border...
• Jul10-2015--KP minister for mining arrested for illegal mining
• Jul10-2015--an account holder raids a bank and kills bank manager and two employees and is later killed by police in lahore
  
• Jul9-2015--eversince the controversial iftikhar chaudhry left the SC...NAB has been just floating around letting off Nawaz sharif and Asif Zardari the key corruptible's of the 1980 and early 90's...now the agency says it is still investigating the likes of ishaq dar, chaudhry shujaat, Yusuf Gilanio and Nawaz sharif...recently there was a report about the sharif brothers trying to rip off state land...the loud mouth information minister termed it "pugrian uchalna"...NAB keeps trying to hook some smaller fry like those running utility stores, FBR and NARC...but now seems tobe floundering as it is unable to handle provincial corruption without being able to catch provincial politicians...
  
• Jul9-2015--The provincial government in Sindh buckles under and allows an extension of a month in the Rangers control of the seaside city which has been under pressure from violent militants and extortionist politicians...as well as numerous other trouble makers...there has been some reduction in law and order problems but the PPP and mqm who have been the main cause of trouble in the city had been getting upset at their inability to control the Rangers who were willing and able to interfere in all sorts of trouble making activities...The provincial government ahs to learn to handle the huge city and the police must be more proactive in handling crime and extortion which is almost endemic...The Rangers have been in Karachi since 1989 and many donot know how the police will manage with the politicians even buying their suits and weapons from extortions known commonly as bhatta...Altaf Hussain living in luxury in England on such extortionist funding called it falahi kaam...!
  
• Jul9-2015--afghan's meet in murree ends in the presence of pakistan, USA and Chinese officials who try to sort out things...the afghan and taleban were generally part of the same fight against the russians and divided into militants and governing groups...the taleban now want to oust the americans too while the governing group are hand in glove with them...the afghan government has been in contact in various ways but the taleban's militant ways are not easy to give up...and nor will those in government want to give up their power...The US underscored its power as a drone bombed the IS in Afghanistan killing a former TTP spokesman
  
• Jul8-2015--afghan deputy foreign minister Hekmat Khalil meets taleban representative Mullah Abbas in islamabad in the presence of low ranking Pakistan, China and US officials...the afghan delegation represents the various government blocks...with newer challenges emerging in Afghanistan from IS affiliated groups the taleban are only left with a decaying militant power as others emerge in the militant domain
  
• Jul8-2015--NAB tells the SC that they are still investigating 150 scams mostly associated with the countries dubious politicians
  
• Jul8-2015--Asif Zardari says the media has married a dubious PPP politician who visits him in Dubai but has never met his son...!!
  
• Jul8-2015--It is not advisable to create islands of electricity control like K-Electric...most of Karachi was without power after units tripped in port qasim and they had no way out to get standby power from load shedding prone NTDC...
  
• Jul8-2015--As the monsoon has gradually become more troublesome in Rawalpindi...the Leh flooded as did a nullah in Westridge killing several with almost no rain and now the famous metro stations also had leaking water from the roofs...
  
• Jul7-2015--Law enforcement is so poor in Pakistan that almost all the main accused usually disappear from the the country...the answer was the ECL a list kept at airports blocking the main accused from travelling...some like altaf hussain and asif zardari still can easily runaway but for many it is a life restricted to Pakistan...now the interior minister usually siding with corrupt businessmen says that the list will be reduced if deptts. donot provide new justifications every month...
  
• Jul7-2015--DJ Butt PTI's famous noise maker turns out tobe a paid employee and he inflicted a major puncture on Imran Khan's political truck by claiming crores in costs and fees...!earlier the PTI election commission led by a former chief justice had also tried to puncture Imran Khan's wagon
  
• Jul6-2015--there is a serious debate going on in Pakistan against the managing old DRIED OUT hockey players appointed by the PPP and the PMLn to the PHF after the team was literally thrown out of the next Olympics after they came eighth in the world hockey league...losing to teams like France, Ireland and Belgium...after watching the Belgium vs Australia match one can safely say that Pakistan does not know how to play hockey according to the current format...players younger than twenty should be trained and be fit to run around continuously...otherwise they will just wilt and fail...I would hire the Belgian coach and throw out all the samiullah's/islahuddins/shahnaz's and ayaz mahmoods and obviously all the others as well...they belong to an older time and donot understand the changes in hockey...
  
• Jul6-2015--mqm says that it is reorganizing its militant wing to fight the Rangers and that there is no difference between the tanzeemi committee and the coordination committee...mqm has not given up terrorism thruout its history...in fact ameer khan was the head of the altaf military operations who now runs affairs from 90 which is generally regarded as the militant epicenter apart from the sector incharges who were always considered worse than the most terrible SHO's...
  
• Jul6-2015--one killed in a quetta explosion
  
• Jul6-2015--three workers from khanewal killed by a horde of motorcyclists near Pasni as they repaired a power transmission line
  
• Jul6-2015--The Indians animosity towards Pakistan was again manifested in firing across the Sialkot border...Chenab rangers says they retaliated similarly...
  
• Jul6-2015--twelve militants killed in Dattakhel in clashes with the military while four soldiers were killed...TTP however says soldiers killed in an IED blast...mortar shells fired from afghan army positions at a military checkpost on the border
  
• Jul5-2015--They say Nawaz Sharif and Altaf Hussein both just want to loot people one way or the other...with Altaf being Karachi's bhatta king and Nawaz Sharif looting thru higher electricity, oil prices and taxes...
  
• Jul5-2015--five militants killed in balochistans troubled areas in gunbattles with the FC
  
• Jul5-2015--was Zulfikar ali Bhutto also an egg laid by one military dictator ask many...there are no politicians in Pakistan who have not been patronised by the military in one way or the other...zardari too started out in a military era caretaker regime many say...politicians can barely manage anything troublesome and are soon seeking military help whether it be terrorism rural or urban...!various military produced eggs have been in politics against each other since the sixties...
  
• Jul5-2015--Reham Khan who was recently talked up by Imran Khan found no heat wave patients at the JPMC...they have all gone home or to their graves...!
  
• Jul5-2015--Islamabad's Centauraus has started to charge Rs.100 as an entry fee they say...with 25000-50000 visitors they probably make a daily of 5 million give or take a few...!
  
• Jul4-2015--The PHC suspends repolling at over 350 polling stations in KP LG elections two days before...
  
• Jul4-2015--The army says it is in control in the shawal mountains as it starts the final clearing process and return of the displaced
  
• Jul4-2015--the Poll commission concludes...the commission seems tobe confused as to what to do...allow a government to stay in power after numerous electoral faults or call a new election...while new ground has been broken parts of the voting process need to be done differently and some way has tobe found to check fingerprints...the best way is to check the fingerprint before voting...the commission could order a partial relection or even go to the extent of banning the sharifs from future elections for fraud...the sharifs are only nice on the surface and totally fraudulent behind the scenes say the opposition...a straight solution would suggest arriving at a rigging conclusion by the PPP and the PMLn and order a new election under specific guidelines of competent caretakers and honest electoral processes...but we have a weak chief justice who is not too keen to break a system to repair it...
  
• Jul4-2015--the railways says that the broken railways bridge near Gujranwala was perfectly alright however the diesel engine and gearbox broke lose and caused the train to fall into the canal...!the bridge seemed tobe weak as at least three parts collapsed into the river and was probably connected to the pillars loosely...
  
• Jul4-2015--a weakened mqm made it easy for Nawaz Sharif to literally slap karachiites with an electricity tariff increase bringing them on par with the rest of country which already pays for losses and theft...earlier people used to praise k-electric for not raising rates like the crazy disco's...but now they are being accused alongwith the Sindh government in heatstroke deaths in Karachi...earlier there were rumours in Rawalpindi that qaim ali shah had been arrested for allowing such lawlessness in Karachi where the mqm literally went around extorting money...or should that be for causing the deaths of over 1200 people...
  
• Jul3-2015--bilawal tries to get the PPP going in Punjab but may find that unless the leaders are personally attractive the gears will remained jammed...not many can suggest any PPP leaders who have a province wide appeal...so it has tobe revolutionary policies that can attract a huge populace...getting alongwith the status quo is just more of the same which the PPP is not good at...
  
• Jul3-2015--two ANP and PMLn leaders killed in charsadda and swat while in khar and bajaur two pro government tribal elders kileld
  
• Jul3-2015--The military formally ends the Khyber operations which saw widespread fighting with organized militant groups in areas like Bara, Tirah and Orakzai...however suspicions remain on whether the areas have been thoroughly cleared
  
• Jul3-2015--PMLn insists that widespread electoral irregularities and control over the punjab beaurocarcy does not equal a rigged election in the judicial commission...many insist that the commission will have to give a ruling that covers the problems...as a minimum measure it could announce reelections on dozens of seats or carry out a thorough inspection of records and election bags pending a final decision
  
• Jul3-2015--PTI picks up more PPP leaders from various Punjab areas
  
• Jul3-2015--17 die as a troops carrying train from Pano Aqil plunges into a canal near Gujranwala as the bridge buckled...railway bridges are traditionally weak and donot seem tobe anchored firmly while loose fishplates are said to cause problems too...
  
• Jul2-2015--Modi who has been fighting muslims tooth and nail ever since he came to the primeministership thinks pakistan will be foolish enough to allow him a TAPI gas pipeline even if snubs them on everything including kashmir...
  
• Jul2-2015--aitezaz ahsan also plays the form15 card in the PPP's closing remarks to the judicial commission...the commission chief seems to think that individual action against returning officers is not possible while he also seems to think that the PTI has not made a case for alleged PMLn organized rigging...while the muslim leaguers are known as having a lot of experience in handling polling since they have been at it since the sixties the PPP especially did lose most of its support...Bushra Aitezaz is known to have pleaded for visits by Bilawal saying otherwise they had no chance...however the commission has been given sufficient evidence of irregularities in many constituencies...so while there might be no case against the PMLn the commission could ask all parties to be allowed to file cases in election tribunals based on new information within say a month which could be quickly decided...or it could just advise new regulations on how polling officers have to act...!!If the commission does not do anything and simply closes the enquiry saying there is no evidence of generalized rigging than it could be a coup for Nawaz Sharif...It will than depend on what the army thinks...
  
• Jul2-2015--afghans fire on a Pakistani post in angoor adda
  
• Jul2-2015--motorcycle killers opened fire on a welding shop in quetta killing three Punjabi workers
  
• Jul2-2015--Punjab where the PPP is regarded as subjugated or almost sindhi slaves lost a few more semi prominent leaders to the PTI in Okara's Samsam Bokhari and Ashraf Sohna as well as Javed Dogar from multan...with the PMLn still strong in Punjab the PPP is seen as having little or no chance to make any inroads in the near future...coupled with PPP's childish wadera policies and resistance to change leaders will be making a bee line for other parties mainly the PTI or try the independent route...the PPP is restricted to its old supporters while the PTI and PMLn are attracting newer support...Samsam's wife had already joined the PMLn
  
• Jul2-2015--Nawaz Sharif who got to to Karachi after the weather had improved finds no fault with the Qaim led Sindh government or the Sindh health ministry...while Qaim says the hospitals didn't have any problems either...how so many people died in specific karachi areas while only six or seven died in interior Sindh where the weather is usually much more harsh...the primeminister met social help ngo's such as chipa, eidhi and other's and urged them to help the people quickly with the usual slow responses of provincial governments...hospitals should improve their mortuaries and urgent help and mobilisation of information is essential to save lives in emergent situations
  
• Jul1-2015--in what many regard as quite funny the Pakistani government which has upto now been pro Modi now wants to complain to the UN about Indians intervention in east Pakistan and other Raw activities including funding the Mqm...They are however unable to understand that many senior politicians work for the Indians...many also suspect the sharifs of receiving funds from suspicious foreign sources
  
• Jul1-2015--The primeminister lied to the army chief that they had reduced electricity prices by Rs5.32 ...The army chief gets free electricity while most army personnel get electricity at Rs8... he probably thought that he wont quit trying to fool the people...There has been no change in tariff...only in one month electricity prices were reduced by around Rs4...!!The next month the reduction was withdrawn...This despite oil prices still being in the fifties...?impossible to UNDERSTAND...!!!in fact the sharif government has increased electricity prices by reducing slabs to the highest two...
  
• Jul1-2015--13 suspected militants killed in balochistans Awaran district...those killed include a brother of Dr Allah Nazar the BLF chief
  
• Jul1-2015--British police say that alleged statement of mqm's tariq mir not a police document although they also say that airing such documents will make their work more difficult...