The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 1-15, 2015

• Sep30-2015--The PMLn regime is at the moment charging about Rs 25 per litre as taxes on petrol...petrol would cost Rs48 per litre if taxes were removed...the government is already benefiting from lower oil prices...the price could also be reduced if taxes were charged according the rates in the budget...the PMLn has taken to adhoc new taxation without budgetry approval from parliament...lower crude prices directly help refineries and thus the petroleum levy at least should be scrapped alongwith unauthorized taxes
  
• Sep30-2015--44 Pakistanis died in the Mina stampede and most have been buried in Saudia according to general traditions..despite no responsibility the Pakistani government doles out peoples money to the victims families...
  
• Sep30-2015--The PMLn is using methods fair and foul to contain the PTI even when they are not doing too well...despite protestations they use the SC to suspend the Lodhran by election...The SC has already been sitting on the Khawaja Rafiq tribunal decision for five months...having used apparent dhandli the actions of the SC are at best controversial and show the SC's considerable bias..
  
• Sep30-2015--The PMLn appoints a cricket manager to the exalted position of FPSC chairman...Naveed Cheema has long been associated with PMLn politicians and does not have any particular experience of human resources
  
• Sep30-2015--Khurshid Shah says appointments in PPL in the PPP era without advertising the posts was trivial..in such cases the auditor general should himself declare the appointments illegal when politicians side with apparent corruption...
  
• Sep29-2015--a milk seller has been barred from participating in LG elections in Gujranwala for overcharging
  
• Sep29-2015--ECP to decide legality of PMLn's election hour Kissan package while PTI is refused an Oct 4 rally at D-chowk..the kissan package has no existence in the budget and at best is the illegal use of peoples money for political propaganda...the kissan community has just made billions from the sale of goats, sheep, cows, bulls and camels...at least a trillion changes hands during eid ul azha...bulls were popular this eid as many felt that goats were expensive and provided less meat than a share in cow, bull or camel...a kissan can raise cows and goats without much cost...about 300 billion is directly earned by the agricultural community by the sale of qurbani cattle while 30-50 billion is by associated traders...
  
• Sep29-2015--Mqm's Surjani town sector incharge arrested for the killing of over 200 people...!
  
• Sep28-2015--Mqm which had been warned against the forcible collection of hides claims hundreds of their trucks were confiscated by Rangers in Karachi, Hyderabad and sukkur...MQM is apparently the only political group that collects hides and matched the hides collected by the known charity organization eidhi...however their supposed charity organization KKF is also ethnically oriented and its activities are mixed with the subversive tactics practiced by the MQM..however thousands of hides were seen stored in one of their nazimabad grounds...The Rangers and police say that around 800 people were arrested for snatching or forcibly grabbing hides in Karachi majority of whom belonged to the mqm...The Rangers apparently think that they too should get their due share in hides as they supervise everything in Karachi now...!!The Rangers say that only illegal collection of hides were confiscated
  
• Sep25-2015--In what is something people felt would not be repeated after expansion of Saudi hajj facilities...haji groups initiated a stampede near the place where the stoning of the devil is carried out in Mina trampling over 700 participants to death... a suicide bomber killed twentyfive in a yemen mosque bombing...many feel that such incidents occur when sectarian feelings are heightened by conflicts in muslim regions...many blame iran for inflaming passions unnecessarily
  
• Sep24-2015--The head of the CPPA resigned...incharge of purchasing electricity...they buy it at an average of Rs6-8 and sell it to the people at around Rs14 including all the infrastructure losses...The industrialists want expensive LNG tobe paid for by SNGPL and CPPA while it benefits only them...meaning that benefits only to the rich at the expense of the people...
  
• Sep24-2015--Qasim Zia released from jail after he agreed to return the embezzled amount of Rs25 million
  
• Sep24-2015--peoples money has little value these days eg. salaries of government deptts are changed on a daily basis without approval of parliament...The interior minister gave all Nadra employees an eidhi of Rs10000 without being authorized by anyone...!he is also going to raise the Nadra salaries of hard working employees only...!!
  
• Sep24-2015--sons of slain Lal masjid cleric arrested as they were going to rojhan for eid..a licensed gun and a military uniform was found in the car
  
• Sep23-2015--a hanging had tobe put off as a condemned prisner has to walk to the gallows...the prisoner Abdul basit was paralysed and wheelchair bound
  
• Sep23-2015--General Raheel Sharif promotes four major generals...at least two the DG ISPR and DGMO seems tobe sifarishi's...the DGMO seemed unable to handle border violations on both sides while there was no position for the promoted spokesman...the corp commanders who handle the borders with india have all been removed or transferred
  
• Sep21-2015--Asif Zardari denies that he was behind the murder of Murtaza Bhutto...how an SP of police and SHO of Clifton can a organize a posse and waylay the primeminister's brother and fire and kill him is shocking...many believe that he was eliminated because of his involvement in Al Zulfikar a PPP terrorist organization which hijacked a plane and killed an army officer on board...Ghinwa Bhutto says she is still in the process of taking revenge...many believe that PPP(SB) has killed many policemen in this process..!with a PPP government at the center and in Sindh at the time... PPP(zardari) can obviously not escape culpability...
  
• Sep21-2015--five of the 14 attackers of the Badaber camp identified...interior minister suggest that releasing such information is tantamount to effecting the investigation...The Pakistan army has backed off from bombing Afghanistan despite afghan government involvements in bombing Pakistani areas thru drones and other means...
  
• Sep21-2015--Mqm appeals for mercy from the establishment but refuses to give up its wrongs...apparently they donot know what their criminal workers might be doing...terrorism in other parts of Pakistan and karachi, hiding in others parts of Pakistan and England, escaping to india and being trained as terrorists by the Indians...etc.etc apart from looting and killing the people of Karachi and enforcing one party on them...mqm is apparently bitter despite having been doled out housing and jobs and developing Karachi more than any other part of the country...the Baloch can at least complain of being deliberately kept in undeveloped poverty...one can barely even notice any festering wound on the well off looters of the mqm...the mqm did not forgive anyone and killed policemen and opponents at will apart from their own workers and threw their bodies on the streets in body bags...
  
• Sep19-2015--Rangers conduct a raid on the Taji Khokhar fortress near the Rawalpind airport confiscating a lot of small arms...Imran Khan will be pleased to know that Rangers frequently conduct raids in and around Rawalpindi...
  
• Sep19-2015--In what seems tobe a compound failure of foreign policy as well as the Zarb e Arab and obviously military defence preparedness Taleban terrorists snaked in to Peshawar and attacked the Badaber residential airforce base...apart from the 13 militants, 29 defence personnel and civilians(22 from the airforce) were killed...while Peshawar has been relatively quite terrorism wise the attack signifies the attitudes of the afghan government...many are pretty clear about the wrong thinking at the center...there is really no difference between the afghans, taleban and the indians viz their hatreds towards Pakistan...the armies inability to defend its borders is also clear as the indians, afghans and taleban tear our borders integrity to shreds...it shows the soft weak heads at the center government, foreign ministry and military think tanks...Pakistan should take the initiative and bomb Afghanistan and India wherever they attack us...there is now nothing to hide in their animosities...Raheel Sharif should dispense with his politics and get into the bunker...a television video shows Khalifa Mansoor alias Omar Naray as the prepretrator
  
• Sep19-2015--The airforce kills 22 in south Waziristan airstrikes...
  
• Sep17-2015--Imran Khan Jr makes into the T20 team after taking 16 wickets in the recent T20 tournament while Amir Yamin gets selected after a very bad performance...mukhtar ahmed gets dropped from the one day team after making a historic century while Bilal asif keeps his place after a pathetic performance...Imad Wasim has been preferred to better leftarm legspinners who can at least turn the ball...while good batsmen like faisal mubasher donot make it to even the A-team. Haroon Rashid seems to be a frontman for the sifarishi's...the recalls like Sohaib Masood and Fawad Alam also do not look that good
  
• Sep17-2015--after the PPP attacked the inability of the PMLn to handle the Nandipur power project and the PMLn defended..the petroleum minister termed the much changed nandipur power plant as a bad project and unviable and that the problem was the supplier and O&M contractor Dong Feng who is apparently the manufacturer, supplier, installer and O&M contractor as well...initially the project had three components a diesel power plant, a furnace oil power plant and a gas power plant...now the petroleum minister says it can only efficiently run on gas...!it seems that the PMLn is portraying that the country is incapable of doing anything onits own...the cost overruns include about $110 million paid to Dong Feng as well as Rs80 million O&M contract also going to the same company...In rupees that amounts to 11 billion plus the inflated costs of the plant of around 75 billion
  
• Sep16-2015--PPP defeats the JI candidate in Upper Dir...In KP most parties are too small to survive without effective coalitions
  
• Sep16-2015--Punjab politicians also worry what would happen if the Rangers took over corruption duties in Punjab...Chaudhry Nisar the Rangers behind the scenes controller says the Rangers are not authorized to handle corruption...The situation in Karachi is compounded by sindhis and mohajirs wanting to end each others influences......!
  
• Sep15-2015--Imran Khan who is running into a bad patch electorally forcing him to literally sell seats to his opposition..he now calls for a military led anti corruption drive in the punjab...!
  
• Sep15-2015--Generally people like anti corruption drives which root out entrenched politicians or even embarrass them...The PPP however finds the Rangers led anti corruption drive disconcerting as it attacks their top leadership...The mqm however is opposed to the anticriminal and anti terrorist Rangers campaign which attacks their money minting and people killing politics......!
  
• Sep15-2015--a major and five militants killed in the shawal..Pakistan army continues to show its inability in handling cross LOC firing by the Indians...
  
• Sep14-2015--navy lieutenant stabbed to death in bizarre attack by an old women in raja bazaar Rawalpindi...
  
• Sep14-2015--14 militants killed in shawal air strikes...two security personnel killed while fetching water in
  south waziristan
  
• Sep14-2015--accidental blast in multan caused by an accident of a motorcycle and rickshaw..ten dead
  
• Sep14-2015--eleven Pakistani dead in Makkah construction crane fall
  
• Sep14-2015--Sindh which has been choking gas supplies to Punjab during PPP rule protests that it has to use LNG while Punjab uses its gas...they suggest that center is not allowing them to setup wind power projects which have a high tariff of Rs9 when they use no fuel...Sindh too had scuppered power projects in Punjab during PPP rule...Sindh which wants its poor quality lakhra coal used when it should be theoretically be setting up solar projects...PPP is trying to focus on the inability of the PMLn to run the Nandipur power project which supposedly had three alternate fuel power plants and was conceived in another older era...and should be usable in the current environment...during the PPP era the machinery was lying at the Karachi port and than the Chinese trebled the cost price to Rs75 billion...!!!
  
• Sep13-2015--another 125 girls faint during a dengue spray in a government school in Domeli...an earlier incident occurred in an Attock school...the diesel based thick smoky spray seems injurious to human sensitivities and is designed for plant based areas...
  
• Sep13-2015--The thick headed Indians agree not to fire over the fenced working boundary...smugglers and intruders can hardly get across unless they remove the fence...
  
• Sep13-2015--the Pakistan SBP reduces a key interest rate to 6% showing the lack of interest in big loans...Pakistan does not have any industrial and commercial expansion potential and bigger projects are usually unable to handle the huge loans required...some banks are seen loaning to government projects as the private sector has a mean restrictive attitude towards investment...
  
• Sep13-2015--recent government actions portray the PPP and mqm as directly involved in ethnic terrorism...Bilawal accuses the PMLn of only helping their friends and relatives and says they are friends of terrorists...The PPP on the other hand rarely gets out of its circle of a few families whether it be corruption or terrorism...
  
• Sep12-2015--The Indians who are not respecting the ceasefire they negotiated with musharaf now say they wont fire the first bullet in a future ceasefire...The Indians who are dominated by Pakistan phobias apparently even start firing when a bush starts to move...this wont stop anybody crossing over from some unmonitored point...the Pakistani general pointed out to the slow witted Indians that even if a bush moves it cant jump over the double sided electric fence...most of the northern border with Pakistan is heavily fenced by india with lights on during the night...india which has little or no terrorism kills a few kashmiris when ever they want to accuse Pakistan of injudicious involvement in Kashmir...
  
• Sep12-2015--a huge untethered crane fell over in a rain storm in mecca killing more than a hundred in the Kaaba...construction has been going on at the site for some years now and cranes dangle dangerously overhead as pilgrims pass around below...the construction work is apparently handled by the Saudi Bin Laden group
  
• Sep12-2015--In what maybe direct government interference the State Bank orders all banks to provide information on four suspects held by the Rangers in Karachi including Dr. Asim and Shoaib Warsi...what is surprising is that the Rangers are accusing them of using state funds to support terror activities...The army a couple of days ago wanted the state to control funds of seminaries and religious terrorists as well as keep their mouths shut...the intent generally seems tobe to subdue sunni's while allowing all sorts of freedoms to Shiites and other minorities...not too long ago the army too was a suspect in this regard..
  
• Sep11-2015--The army urges provincial governments to act against seminary financing...they also seem to understand hate speeches as those that are against army activities and shiites...a mufti kifyatullah arrested in response for agitating against security institutions and praising malik ishaq
  
• Sep11-2015--Sindh PPP mpa jailed and disqualified for ten years for selling land to government and later claiming it was theirs thru forged documents
  
• Sep11-2015--the Karachi police arrested eight mqm affiliated men for target killing
  
• Sep11-2015--sales of locally made cars which are now of a relative good quality rise 77% in the first two months of the year to 29168..they are considered relatively cheap for the moneyed groups in Pakistan and financing is available from almost all banks
  
• Sep10-2015--The NCA which is headed by an indian duped politician and consists of beaurocrats who do not speak clearly about indian threats decides to maintain nuclear parity with india which thoretically means that they should have more than 2000 warheads with at least a few hundred deployed and ready to fire...initially as the joke goes Benazir agreed to a ration of 1 to six...the army chief has also shown indian tendencies in attitude by refusing to deal forcefully with cross border firing...The army now has adopted the Indo-US attitude of cooperating on terrorism as the only issue that the indians want to consider
  
• Sep9-2015--KP forces another 35 billion out of the peoples pockets by doubling increasing hydel electricity rates
  
• Sep9-2015--BLF chief Dr. allah nazar during security operations says the Baloch government
  
• Sep9-2015--showing the poverty of PMLn rule the corp commanders discuss how to solve relations with Kabul and deter the Indians from attacking the countries borders...the frightened Indians apparently even start firing at moving bushes...!many consider the armies involvement in the countries politics and counter terrorism as a distraction from their real duties which they have not handled efficiently in deterring Indians from firing at border villages...
  
• Sep9-2015--The 23 day CJP on his last day overruled the LHC and barred the government from directly convassing in the by-elections...he also ruled that urddu which is a difficult language be used in government offices according to article 251 of the constitution...only 7 per cent people claim Urdu as their mother tongue although most can speak or understand it...
  
• Sep5-2015--one minute silence tobe observed on the 6th at 9:29 am for 1965 war martyrs...
  
• Sep5-2015--The CPEC has already faced numerous security problems due to to the areas tribal and political volatility and pakistans inability to provide a security setup apart from the army...the army which has a huge budget than asks for more funds despite using the same forces...so the people have to pay the armed forces twice...so while the road may eventually become a dud the army is set to raise a 10000 man force to protect the few or occasional Chinese trucks that are eventually supposed to use it...but obviously Pakistan needs an alternate seaport with the volatile Karachi politicians and dangerous Indians looking on like vultures...The sic indian army chief now wants a war...Pakistan had better be prepared to quickly move strike forces in the air and artillery spheres quickly into place especially in the regions that the inidans are creating trouble in...
  
• Sep4-2015--for the first month of 2015-16 exports fell 17%..they also fell about seven percent over the last two years...many feel that despite steady currencies from other regional exporters Pakistan has not been diversifying or improving quality...Pakistan seam quality or machine sewing is terrible..Pakistan has only maintained a steady growth in exports due to its rapidly depreciating currency and product availaibility...now other countries produce the same or better products and have a better range than pakistan
  
• Sep4-2015--Pakistan must have a lot donkeys as it placed a bann on export of donkey hides...Rs44 million and Rs135 million earned from donkey hides exported to china in last two years apart from bones...a donkey hide can earn upto Rs20000...
  
• Sep4-2015--Lightning hits a rickshaw stand in Peshawar turning the stand and 19 rickshaws into ashes...five others die in rainstorm
  
• Sep4-2015--PMLn seems tobe like a weak livered governance system which backs out just by speeches of the escaped asif zardari...Qasim Zia in Punjab who headed the PHF not long ago was arrested soon after the Pakistan hockey teams childish display in Belgium recently while in karachi the Rangers operations had the criminally oriented mqm worried as the government put the brakes on their destruction of Karachi...The hands up despair of the Sindh regime was focused on by the Rangers and they moved in to end long time bhatta collection and criminal controls specifically by zardari cronies like Dr. Asim...old time crooks like amin fahim and yousuf gilani only suffered warning shots...The entire zardari family had run off to Dubai when supposedly the first reports about the Rangers anti corruption crusade surfaced...Now the PMLn is thinking about some anti corruption actions in its domain of Punjab where only the militants are suffering...in suspicious shootouts in jungles and batapur...!while the mqm has consistently opposed the PMln the PMln is still negotiating an unconstitutional committee to discusss Rangers actions...many feel that unless the mqm cooperates in clearing Karachi of the criminal element it is best if it is sent back to the street where they cannot claim any political mileage from an arrest or two...
  
• Sep4-2015--Mqm pulls out of talks as it like other parties wants complete freedom to loot and fool its followers...The PMLn willing to create a cover group to discuss Rangers handling of Karachi but not willing to allow the mqm to literally turn Karachi into a mohajir colony for only its followers...The mqm has little or no support amongst other political groups and many donot see any reason to allow it special freedoms such as collecting hides, bhatta gathering, zakat looting which it calls welfare and charity...most of such funds sre fed to overseas units and other behind the scenes troublemakers...they also want freedom to air Altaf Hussein speeches in many of which he calls for terrible terrorism such as throwing dead bodies on the streets and issues calls for indian invasions...he has also troubled his own party colleagues by literally disrupting them and replacing them at will and issued calls for disobedience of government and his party...many now regard his speeches also as troublemaking in which he makes calls for the elimination of party and other figures in Karachi...the mqm is one of few political groups that has enjoyed all freedoms but has never cooperated in bringing peace to Karachi...many yearn for the liberal Karachi of the seventies when people could enjoy life without threats, executions and bhatta..many donot see any reason not to accept the resignations after clearing of all doubts about the mqm's elimination of Imran Farook
  
• Sep3-2015--PMLn now attempting a "bottoms ethnic committee" of mohajirs to handle complaints against the new Karachi rulers "The Rangers"...Mqm are threatening to resign as there will be no bhatta left if the Rangers complete the task and the suspicion that Altaf Hussein is being funded and run by the PPP mafioso Asim Hussein...!Mqm attempting to suggest that they will recommend honest technocrats for the committee like an ex judge Nasir Aslam Zahid whom they previously tried to make the caretaker chiefminister as well...!what will happen when the Apex and bottoms committee are in conflict and what are the chief minister and provincial assembly supposed to do...!unconstitutional is the verdict...!
  
• Sep3-2015--The doubtful Imran Khan is told by a dubious CEC that ECP appointments are constitutional and they will attempt not to repeat the 2013 mistakes...
  
• Sep3-2015--The PTI police in Peshawar show their true colors as a PTI lawmaker accuses them of eliminating a suspect in cold blood...this after three policemen were killed in a supposed encounter
  
• Sep3-2015--The Modi duped Nawaz Sharif terms LOC indian firing as a threat to world peace...which other nation is going to standup and fight for Pakistan is unknown and Nawaz Sharif must perhaps be termed a patient of dementia...
  
• Sep3-2015--The military still at loggerheads in the Khyber and North Waziristan as military air strikes knock off another 31 militants
  
• Sep3-2015--The army chief endorses five more death sentences...nobody knows anything about the military trials or cases or the victims...their only "Kasur" is that they belong either to the LJ, TTP or LI...!
  
• Sep2-2015--while the terrorists have no great political power in the matter of votes ANP chief suggests they are being marginalized because of their opposition to terrorists...they have been losing the public vote for a long time because of their feudalistic nature and being unable to produce results and not having anything new to offer apart from trying to protect their corrupt and in the case of the ANP the changing dynamics in the region has busted the pukhtuns who now live more affluently in the all the other provinces...barring the mqm that has kept its voter base due particularly to having no opposition in their areas the other two are now bereft of the leaders that produced and ran them...Their present leaders have no country wide appeal and one has noticed their recurrent attempts to protect their old corrupt leaderships...
  
• Sep2-2015--suicide attack outside jamrud political admin building...four killed
  
• Sep2-2015--Susan Rice mounts a drone attack in North Waziristan five killed...
  
• Sep2-2015--Rangers arrest a senior SSGC official Shaoaib Warsi for funding militants...eight other top managers go into hiding leaving only the managing director...I doubt that the SSGC officials would be funding the taleban and the terrorist organization is most probably the MQM...!
  
• Sep2-2015--Lahore police kill another three suspects in a suspicious encounter...the three who were in the custody of the CIA apparently found dead after an encounter near the indian border...
  
• Sep2-2015--Rana Sanaullah and Sindh chief minister protest the Asim arrest...Rana says corruption should be handled by NAB alone and Rangers should deal with terrorism...!
  
• Sep1-2015--five PPP and PTI councilors swithched sides in the mansehra nazim's election...The NA byelections in Lahore and Lodhran tobe held on October11...eight TTP militants knocked out in karachi
  
• Sep1-2015--afghan taleban say that the death of mullah omar was not announced strategically...Shiite followers have protested against the naming of an unknown in mullah mansoor...many believe that mullah omar could have died recently or even been relocated...Mullah mansoor is praised as having unique leadership qualities and for wearing loose clothes and listening...others point to the PMLn negotiations with the TTP as having occurred at the same time and the recent meetings of the taleban with pak-afghan-Us-china could just have been to inform them of mullah omar's death...
  
• Sep1-2015--The government probably in its first attempt at correctly calling the US views on the Pakistan border situation pathetic criticized Susan Rice for wrongly and ineptly calling for further action against the Haqqani network...the US has refused to even criticize india on its border violations but asked Pakistan not to go to war...many believe the Pakistan army is quite cowardly in not retaliating for months of indian border violations...the reduction of drone strikes is quite a good indicator in showing that Pakistan has literally shutdown the Haqqani network...
  
• Sep1-2015--In what can be regarded as the worst possible economic management the PMLn raised electricity prices, gas prices and only marginally reduced petroleum prices...Only kerosene was at around Rs57 which is close to the actual oil prices...petroleum prices were kept at a higher level of around Rs.70 due to additional taxation...gas prices are based on petroleum prices and increasing them when oil prices are at record lows is unexplainable...the government also initiated new surcharges which have been levied on electricity bills...the government despite assurances also increased domestic gas prices
  
• Sep1-2015--while Asif Zardari was generally regarded as the end of the Bhutto saga he apparently will not giveup the chance of a zardari dynasty too...having exited the country on Jun25 during what many regarded as a coup scenario alongwith Shahbaz Sharif he is now attempting a boxing match with Nawaz Sharif over the arrest of controversial figures like Dr.Asim Hussein a supposedly crooked hospital owner and behind the scenes mafioso and Qasim Zia a former head of the Punjab PPP and hockey fullback...Qasim Zia is now a chakarbaaz stockbroker and Dr. Asim maybe a newly discovered fundo for Altaf Hussein and someone who knocks off anyone he dislikes...!Asim owns around six or seven private sector hospitals in Karachi and is also accused of land grabbing to expand his hospitals...Shabaz Sharif came back after the Punjab police knocked of the LJ supremo...however the Karachi Rangers attempts to rid Karachi of a corruption mafia mainly consisting of Zardari cronies has Asif Zardari up in arms from the usual foreign shores of England and Dubai...The PPP leaders have been running off to Dubai since Nusrat Bhutto's times...he also wants the PMLn to arraign its own corrupt men such as ishaq dar and rana mushood and be responsible for the PAT fiasco in model town...he also accuses Nawaz sharif of running off to Jeddah after apologizing to a military ruler...while the PPP may not have apologized they also kept running off after negotiations...musharaf and Benazir also became friendly after meeting in Dubai...many however suggest that Bilawal Bhutto has kept his relations with the Rangers on an even keel and the supposed owner of an airline Faryal Talpur has also returned...!!!