The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct 15-30, 2015

• Oct31-2015--in what amounts to PMLn policy of forcing the people to pay for the governments excesses and losses three state firms ask for an increase in price of RLNG by 28%...?RLNG theoretically tobe used by billionaire industrialists with obviously little or no benefit to the populace
  
• Oct31-2015--ex PIA engineer arrested as financier of safoora goth
  
• Oct31-2015--mqm which made the karachi grievance committee controversial jumps out of the committee
  
• Oct31-2015--LG polls in some districts today as Imran Khan announces divorce...Rehm Khan is portrayed as a loser and many say she has been dumped for losing so many elections...others say she wanted a flat in the USA...!while still others suggest that the party forced the divorce on the basis that she was either a PMLn or mqm spook...!many belive she is the scapegoat for the PTI's current problems...and was a protagonist of a non aggressive approach
  
• Oct30-2015--iran wants trade while Pakistan warns that charbahar should not become a base for pakistan's enemies...
  
• Oct30-2015--eight killed in landmine and rocket attack near quetta
  
• Oct30-2015--a Pakistani handed over by Italy as a subversive released by Pakistan...earlier he was listed as one of the perpretrators of the Peshawar school attack
  
• Oct30-2015--amin fahim gets bail in a whopping eleven corruption cases while NAB arrests a former BZU vice chancellor for largescale corruption
  
• Oct29-2015--after failing to get the afghans to start talking Sartaj Aziz falls back on the Shiite supporting Iranians to mediate...Iran which is also a big trouble maker in the middle east has been asked to participate in talks on Syria where the big2 expect it to push Asad into oblivion...one would pretty much assume that iran would do its damndest to preserve the Shiite status quo in Iraq and Syria however with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah versus the USA, Turkey and saudia the decision making would be tough and the Saudis would have to accept some Shiite participation in the syrian government...the Shiites however should also be prepared for a major sunni role in Iraq...the Shiites in Iraq have been unable despite iranian support to stabilize Iraq...however if Syria somehow stabilizes than Iraq too can benefit...however the arabs might find it difficult to get the Iranians out of arab areas...Asad however has benefited from Russian bombings and may be able to create space for himself...
  
• Oct29-2015--The SC in a judgement which does not make sense sets aside the tribunal decision of educational disqualification of Siddiq Baloch and the finding of illegal and corrupt practices but orders a re election in NA-154 Lodhran...Siddiq Baloch had educational degrees from two different other provinces rare in Punjab and according to counsel could not read his own subnmission in English...it shows apparent bias and illogical thinking of the dubious natured judges...u cannot believe and also not believe a tribunal decision...many now think that selection process of judges which is now politically based and needs the CJ's support has caused a deterioration in the selection of able judges who are becoming subordinate to the political process...
  
• Oct28-2015--SC refuses to accept even without presentation of a degree that Siddiq Baloch seems tobe a fraud educationally...he only has a matriculation certificate and apparently has been educated in Lodhran, Karachi and balochistan...courts bending over backwards despite almost deliberate fraud by the PMLn...similar to the Kanju case in which a PMln murderer has been let off...
  
• Oct28-2015--seven Pakistani paramilitary troops killed in attack on a border checkpost near angoor adda...intense firing from across the afghan border...Pakistan army where is your locally produced drone... let them loose on afghan militants across the border...?
  
• Oct27-2015--another PTI worker killed by the PMLn in lahore
  
• Oct27-2015--villages in Afghanistan and Pakistan were leveled by an earthquake that seemed like a 8.1 but was called 7.7/7.5 by the US geological survey...however the Pakistani meteorogical deptt called it an 8.1...the initial quakes literally shook the earth...over 200 were declared dead mostly in remote KP hilly areas such as upper dir, swat and malakand...the Punjab cities tolerated the quake better and there were only minor reports of damage...however aftershocks were minimal...
  
• Oct24-2015--India refuses to reign in the shiv sena which disrupted a play staged by a Pakistani group in Gurgaon...Modi than let lose a firing salvo over villages in shakargarh killing cattle...damaging 50 houses and killing numerous cattle usually cows and buffalo's......
  
• Oct26-2015--dengue toll rises to 10 in rawalpindi...
  
• Oct26-2015--police return 1260 motorcycles in raja bazaar which they impounded for pillion riding over the last few days
  
• Oct26-2015--three militants killed in the balochistan's washuk district.
  
• Oct26-2015--Naran valley has a heavy snowfall...transportation to the area suffers
  
• Oct24-2015--suicide attack on Shiites returning from a procession in a Jacobabad mohalla..22 killed...
  
• Oct24-2015--The US says it is not a global power viz the Kashmir issue...Nawaz Sharif who can at best be quantified as an indian apparatchik still tries to appease the US by apparently agreeing to eliminate the haqqani group and Lashkar e tayyaba. The US Pakistan policy seems to many as india orchestrated.
  
• Oct23-SC judge Saqib Nisar wants to impose an unedecucated politician on the people and wants to hear why he should not revoke a politicians disqualification for apparent lack of knowledge...a politician from the Seraiki areas had no knowledge what he had studied in school...!so an election tribunal declared him disqualified...now the supposedly educated judge wants to requalify him because he belongs to a certain political party...!
  
• Oct23-2015--The extremist indian defence state minister apparently refers to dalits(Christians mostly)in the same vein as dogs..this after upper caste Indians had burned to death two children...earlier he had refused to visit a Pakistan embassy get together...PPP calls for declaring the Shiv Sena one of Modi's most extremist hindu organisations as a terrorist and extremist organisation
  
• Oct23-2015--government claims another strike for its locally developed Burraq drone which many say is Italian inspired...the attack in south Waziristan killed 11 while another 10 were killed in Khyber air strikes...
  
• Oct23-2015--government says that they have arrested the last of the top LJ echelon from Dubai alongwith four accomplices...Haroon Rasheed Bhatti apparently led the generally anti Shiite actions around the Lahore area and was supposedly involved in over 24 terrorist acts killing at least 12
  
• Oct23-2015--The government fires Sartaj Aziz as NSA and appoints retired Lt. Gen Nasser Janjua...Nasser Janjua has made his name in controlling the Baloch insurgency and says the Baloch are now not frightened...earlier he had been recommended for army chief by the supposed Hizb Tahrir...Sartaj Aziz has pushed the Pakistani government towards an anti arab line which has led them towards a more pro Iranian/Russian position...
  
• Oct23-2015--suicide attack in an imambargah in Bhag, Bolan kills eleven...The balochistan chief minister had recently claimed that he had controlled sectarian terrorists...he now says terrorists have fled to remote areas......
  
• Oct22-2015--four militants killed in swabi area during a police area search
  
• Oct22-2015--US says that they donot know if Nawaz Sharif has given them indian terrorism dossiers...
  
• Oct22-2015--SC judge and PTI counsel both get riled up on comments on their case...The seemingly pro PMLn judge dislikes Tareen's comments while the counsel says everyone is commenting the case which is subjudice
  
• Oct21-2015--Shehryar Khan unable to understand Indians and their animosity prone attitudes...political controls in india are worse than in Pakistan and an old beaurocrat like him should have been able to think that out...BCCI is unable to even consider a Pakistan tour even in foreign territory
  
• Oct21-2015--the controversial muharam tensions are round the corner as the government in Punjab attempts to control clerics to ensure peace...40 ulema have been detained while 1160 have been told to restrict their movements...
  
• Oct21-2015--US at it again blaming pakistan for the taleban attack on Kunduz as the simple minded Raheel Sharif says that the nation has confidence in the army despite abbottabad and an inability to handle indians even on the border...raheel sharif seemingly falls into political mumbo jumbo and forgets the armies professional duties...he has mounted a filmy army afficionada propaganda campaign surrounding himself and not the armies role...the people do appreciate the armies role in internal suppression but have a considerable doubt about their real fighting abilities apart from missile led nuclear capabilities...... Nawaz Sharif many say wants a nuclear deal with the US but the US position according to Dawn is that they want security for india and israel against attack by short range(low yield) and longer range nuclear missiles...The indian army chief recently threatened a war with pakistan...Pakistan has no way to prevent the huge indian army from a conventional advantage in an instantaneous attack and can only stop them with short range low yield nuclear devices...Pakistan has developed short range nuclear weapons to deal with india's cold start threats...this is in sharp contrast to overlooking india's long range missiles which have a possible US reach and cooperating with them on defence development...Pakistan has been unable to develop its own nuclear power plants and is dependent on china and would like an open field to purchase what it likes...theoretically it does not need a US nuclear deal
  
• Oct20-2015--India behaves like a pathetic third world backwater as india Pakistan cricket talks blocked by shiv sena attack on BCCI hq...ICC also withdraw top Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar from india-SA series...recently the Indians killed a muslim just for transporting cows and bulls
  
• Oct20-2015-- a bomb attack on a bus kills ten on quetta's famous Sariab road which has seen numerous terror incidences...
  
• Oct20-2015--three militants killed in a shootout in Panjgur Fc operation
  
• Oct20-2015--MQM trying to shutdown opposing TV channels in karachi say the Rangers
  
• Oct20-2015--an IED attack on an FC transport kills two security personnel in Harnai
  
• Oct19-2015--PMLn uncertain about changing Dr. Malik with Sardar Sanaullah zehri in balochistan apparently due to security setup's opposition
  
• Oct19-2015--Ishaq dar is pathetic in telling the IMF that consumers will have to pay for LNG despite no benefit rather than the industrialists who benefit
  
• Oct19-2015--Imran Khan suggests that the mqm grievances committee is at best an unconstitutional forum and an attempt to form a government within a government...he warns against providing the terrorist natured mqm sensitive information
  
• Oct18-2015--The Punjab home deptt has received reports about RAW preparing attacks on the primeminister and hafiz saeed...earlier in a book a former foreign minister revealed that he had told the Indians that if they tried to attack Muridke... Pakistan would retaliate within fifteen minutes...however given the situation in Punjab where they are directly killing people like the LJ chief one would find it difficult to even think that the Pakistan army would be able to react in such a situation given their pro indian and and pro US tendencies and Abbottabad history of shamefaced collusion...it would be seen as the government eliminating hafiz saeed and they retaliating by eliminating the primeminister...Pakistan has a history of cowing to indian and US pressures and Nawaz Sharif is like an indian controlled dove at best...one would doubt that the Indians would attack a literally indian controlled primeminister who has never even issued a statement against the Indians...it should be seen in the same light as Nawaz Sharif attempting to jump into the Russian and US laps at the same time...pakistan many believe falls into the US and indian traps by not making its views clear and generalizing everything...although the Russian dole of two billion for an LNG pipeline is seen by some as indirect Saudi funding or spending the money the Russians get from the Saudi's for bombing the IS and Syrian free army...many however also suggest it might indicate shahbaz sharif or asif zardari getting tired at playing second fiddle...according to the Abbottabad theory the Pakistan army is apparently playing a dumb adversary or being in bed with the enemy...the collusion of of the army and government has been clearly documented...
  
• Oct18-2015--eight killed in police encounter in manghopir, karachi
  
• Oct17-2015--In a change of heart Pakistan gives Russia an uncompeted LNG pipeline building contract...in an exchange for a $2 billion loan...Pakistan has been doling out contracts to china without competitive bidding...LNG is controversial as the people will have to pay for the industrialists use of the expensive fuel
  
• Oct17-2015--in what amounts to creating another unconstitutional forum the government announces a judges committee as an mqm grievance committee...there is no other party included apart from one mqm official and the Sindh interior secretary...the committee has no modus operandi and who it will report to...supposedly it will study grievances against all government bodies, police and army or mqm complaints which are usually political in nature and one does not know if other parties can submit their complaints...in that aspect it becomes unconstitutional as it does not apply to everyone..
  
• Oct16-2015--In what amounts to sheer negligence police raided a house in dhamial, rawalpindi and and killed a family of five including two women and two children ...one commando was also killed ...supposedly there was one suspect and a women lobbed a hand grenade at the police party from the first floor killing an ASI and the suspect...she than killed herself and three others with a suicide vest
  
• Oct16-2015--In what probably anounts to the highest possible salary for a government employee the new head of PSO to get around Rs5 million per month...!!The function of PSO is tendering, receiving shipments and transporting petroleum products to petrol pumps and power stations...It will also import LNG...hardly a difficult job...