2018 Elections

2018 Elections
election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Thursday, February 4, 2016

The Daily PakistanPolitics 1-15 Feb, 2016

  • Feb15-2016--ISPR under the illusion that terrorists operate from fixed bases
  • Feb15-2016--police arrest a dentist on a motorcycle who was out to perform terrorism in karachi
  • Feb15-2016--The chinese finally agree to repair faulty underframe cracks in 16 railway locomotives after a whole year
  • Feb14-2016--10 killed in gunbattle with security forces in Sibi
  • Feb14-2016--IS magnification(ballooning) by the IB and ISPR are a complete nonsense says the interior minister and one must focus on incountry active terrorist organizations...The military wants to magnify small threat perceptions to show their loyalty to the US...The ISPR chief is trying to portray himself as an extreme anti terrorist in the image of taleban type spokesmen while in fact he is just an ordinary military spokesman...interior minister says he is in agreement with most madressah boards...the madressahs and even the tableeghis have pooh-poohed the idea of politicians controlling what they say in khutba's
  • Feb13-2016--PIA asks its employees to stay at their appointed places and only roam around after getting written permission
  • Feb13-2016--Pakistan foreign secretary under the illusion that he is incharge of poverty and development in the region...relations with india have nothing todo with poverty elimination or even development...poverty can only be eliminated with a just distribution of resources which the upper echelons of Pakistan soceity will never allow...
  • Feb13-2016--military crows about the arrest of 97 militants and three top men ie the LJ chief Ata ur rehman , his deputy and Karachi LJ chief Sabir Khan and Farook Bhatti deputy emir of the AQIS...militants were planning a Hyderabad jailbreak which houses several key militants...cracker blasts panic/annoy karachiites
  • Feb12-2016--Interior ministry secretary fired after he complained that the job is too tough for him
  • Feb12-2016--the foreign office says that there is no organized presence of the IS in Pakistan while the intelligence chief has pointed to news reports about IS support groups amongst existing terror and political groups...Pakistan comes under the IS acronym of Khorasan and there is an area chief...the army chief has pointed to local and foreign abettors of terrorism...probably the army chief is pointing to local abettors of the Dr. Asim type apart from some other financiers very few of whom have been identified...generally Pakistan and its army seems scared of sunni type groupings while treating Shiite terror/troublemakers mildly
  • Feb12-2016--PIA has issued notices to show cause to 165 strikers...many suggest that retired PIA employees were more active...JAC says that they will talk to the primemimister about it...while the PIA strike was declared illegal the mostly well paid PIA employees donot want to lose their jobs which are some of the most sought after in pakistan
  • Feb11-2016--Pakistan pick a T-20 squad of inexperienced undependable players for the India T20 worldcup ...barring baber azam and tried failure khurram manzoor the new options of rumman raees and mohd Nawaz donot inspire confidence...there is a team management of 12 for 15 players and the pretty old Intekhab Alam as manager who obviously does not know much about T20's...mohd amir, Irfan and imad are theoretically the wicket takers and baber azam, hafeez, umar akmal and khuram manzoor the possible batsmen who can produce results though one does not see any real fiery cricketers that other good teams have..the alrounders and iftikhar are at best mediocre
  • Feb11-2016--false terrorist alarm at Viqarunnissa womens college in Rawalpindi as tearful and frightened students are evacuated
  • Feb11-2016--given the armies inability to deal with foreign aggressors Raheel Shareef's insistence that terror is financed by enemy or hostile intelligence agencies becomes meaningless...The only option is to finance terror in those countries...
  • Feb11-2016--KP ehtesab chief resigns as Imran Khan eases up on the corrupt mostly at government level
  • Feb11-2016--while LNG is mostly for industrial use the Nawaz Sharif regime will force people to pay port charges of $403000 per ship thru gas bills
  • Feb11-2016--despite the IS group having no major presence the IB chief says their presence is emerging but is mostly as a support group as it is a military group and there is no fighting possibility in pakistan
  • Feb10-2016--SC stays execution of four military court convicts asking the government what had happened to their appeals to a military forum...!military cases are being held behind closed doors and no information is provided about the why, when and where showing the paranoid tendencies involved
  • Feb10-2016--PIA employees call off strike after what they say are credible assurances...many suggest that the PIA strike was becoming unpopular and they caved in after agreement on delaying PIA privatization by one year...many had suggested that ishaq dar was lying about IMF orders...TV reports suggest that PIA ticket prices are being slashed in an effort to popularize air travel...PIA air travel is restricted to commercial travelers and the upper economic classes..while international travel is popular amongst Pakistani expatriates and Pakistanis living abroad...
  • Feb10-2016--Dawn tips defence secretary Alam Khan Khattak as next governor of KP...various PMLn generals and even a major have been said tobe considered for the the post...
  • Feb9-2016--KP governor resigns...many suggest that there were personal reasons as well as government procrastination involved...he suggests that he wants to participate in the next elections for which it was necessary to resign two years before...various PMLn generals being mentioned as possible replacements...suggesting that Raheel Sharif could possibly want a military man in place
  • Feb9-2016--two militants killed in clash with Fc in Zhob
  • Feb9-2016--Sindh may not be able to control the Friday sermons of all mosques says the Milli Yakjehti Council
  • Feb9-2016--JUI-F, PTI and PPP form coalition in mansehra LG
  • Feb9-2016--US still opposing iran-pakistan gas pipeline...!
  • Feb9-2016--private airlines have ordered new planes such as Airblue which went for four Airbus 321's while Shaheen has ordered four A330-200's while Air Indus has fallen for a Boeing 737-800...taxes on airline tickets are upto 35% while domestic traffic is stagnant...around $50 million are required to lease a narrow bodied jet...!PIA would have greater competition in the near future but has a monopoly on largscale international traffic and can schedule large planes on domestic routes as well
  • Feb8-2016--government trumpets getting a few planes off the ground in PIA standoff...JAC wants arrested people released. Government issues a warning letter to strikers...airline fares go up as do railway ticket sales
  • Feb7-2016--suicide attack on FC convoy in quetta kills 10
  • Feb7-2016--Kabul-taleban talks expected by the end of next month
  • Feb7-2016--the US government is so paranoid about Pakistan that they circulate news about the nonsense on TV channels amongst government officials suggests one Clinton email...!
  • Feb7-2016--as passengers suffer...anger against PIA workers increases
  • Feb6-2016--Lal masjid spokesmen denounces Karachi based civil society leaders and accuses them of spreading hatreds against mullah Aziz and the ASWJ in line with shiite and government guidelines...
  • Feb6-2016--army guards shoot dead a motorcyclist for refusing to stop for checking at Malir cantonment gate
  • Feb6-2016--The infamous Bara bazaar near peshawar reopens after seven years
  • Feb6-2016--government backs down and the privatization head starts talks with the JAC...PIA flights still suspended with only very few international flights
  • Feb5-2016--The army chief says that their fits and starts anti terrorism operations can be used by other countries in trouble...when he offered that to the Saudis he was informed that the Saudis have a trained set of anti terrorist operatives with modern helicopters...the Saudis have been trained by US marines hired as contractors...although they do send trainees to the armies Pabbi anti terrorist training center...anyway every country has their own experiences and needs in this regard and has to learn as did the Pakistanis and it cannot really be taught...as is shown by the Syrian experience...they now have Lebanese and Iranians doing the ground fighting and the Russians carrying out almost 250 aerial sorties per day...the opposition being funded by the US, turkey, Saudis and other states...Raheel Sharif says the terrorists here too are funded externally while US has been carrying out drone attacks especially early on when the Pakistan army lacked the capability to puts it feet on the ground...the Pakistan army which has no realistic longrange overseas capabilities can hardly help out barring supplying a consultant or two...which it could do without any experience as well...tobe a real power one must have the ability to develop a power base beyond ones border...or simply have the ability to project power...the Pakistanis even refused to provide the Saudis a ship or two or even a submarine to patrol its sea based borders...
  • Feb5-2016--The Express Tribune says that the government maybe behind the strike as it wants to form a new airline with just 500-600 workers...It says it will acquire planes on wet lease with staff and run on all routes...all other services like engineering, ticketing, transportation, food etc. will be outsourced...while that is a good idea one doubts that the government can acquire say 20-25 planes of the latest genre at the same time...that would in theory mean that government would fire the entire staff of PIA and its planes would theoretically either be sold or acquired by the new airline...or PIA staff would be fired and only airline crews would survive who would than be leased out to the new airline
  • Feb5-2016--Mullah Abdul Aziz whose loyalties were divided even at the Lal Masjid clash stage when he escaped wearing a burqa has now turned turtle and said he forgives musharaf and other military antagonists(SSG) of the lal masjid siege and invasion...other lal masjid participants have however refused to accept the mullah aziz position...many suggest that the ISI might have succeeded in mollifying the mullah thru its known tactics of terrorizing and harassing specific individuals...others suggest that the mullah has always had a soft spot for the chakry rulers...or he might even be an ISI agent...at the time of seige almost half of the participants were said tobe intelligence men...
  • Feb5-2016--PIA remains grounded as planes only seem tobe taking off at night from rawalpindi...The government seems tobe reading the situation correctly as the people have no personal interest barring passengers who cannot fly...there were reports that AirBlue was cashing in and offering tickets for as high as 50000 for an internal flight...many see the government as biased as AirBlue owner Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is known as its owner...the government is exploring options to trash PIA completely and forming a new airline inits place...Ishaq Dar is also seen as one of the biggest culprits...however Nawaz Sharif says that they are losing around 100 million per day...The Rangers also refused to take responsibility for killing two airline workers...however PIA was attempting to make alternate arrangements for PIA ticketholders on inland and international routes...Airblue and Shaheen should be picking up the slack and taking over the rush on domestic routes as are trains and probably some long distance bus services
  • Feb4-2016--PIA grounds to a halt as strike worsens
  • Feb3-2016--Imran Khan calls the ragtag PMLn a result of cohabitation/nurturing by military rulers and says they only use force to solve all issues...with ministers lacking intellect the country is being dragged into a quagmire of construction and almost 5 trillion in additional loans
  • Feb3-2016--An apparently chastened Raheel Sharif said the use of force only yields destruction and suffering but still praised successive governments for attempting a policy of reconciliation although visibly the use of force seems to have been the only weapon used...he said that balochistan was a hotbed of proxy wars...mostly between ethnic and political groups as well as international geopolitical strategies
  • Feb3-2016--two or three PIA employees die in a violent protest outside the Karachi airport as shots rang out...PIA chairman Nasser Jaffer who comes from the countries dubious private sector resigned...most of the bad management of the privatization attempt was his doing as well Nawaz Sharifs who said he was refusing to back down...the PPP supporting strike chairman blamed the Rangers for using excessive force...
  • Feb2-2016--PIA employees now donot have the right to strike under the Essential Services act 1952...while PIA employees are some of the most highly paid in the country they are essentially troublemakers...They are striking to stop government privatization of PIA which would see many of them fired or held in a no work holding company...privatization has thruout been controversial and has in essence produced no results with the countries debt rising even faster...case in point privatizations of PTCL, HBL and MCB which are at best controversial and badly managed...things like ghee and cement plants were sold off to toadies of the governments in power while ABL was sold off to employees who paid by getting loans from bank itself...while people now have no benefits from state owned companies employees would in essence land in trouble if say PIA was privatized...the UAE model is that only essential people like pilots, engineers and stewardesses are kept while everything else is pawned off or handed over to third parties...that reduces an organization like PIA to essential staff with say one or two top managers...most even have third party engineering and food suppliers...with even ticketing becoming an internet exersize...most of the costs of an airline are due to fuel and purchases of planes and spares...employees become non essential and are sidelined.one PIA employee pointed out that they are hampered by arab money which runs arab airlines with over a 100 777's and will have upto 50 A380's...That leaves PIA grabbing for customers as well as an excessive scheduling of a small fleet...PIA which is overburdened by excessive staff and subsidies such as excessive free tickets to employees, marketing and the armed forces...some say they dole out over 3 lakh free tickets annually and give numerous upto 10 1o% tickets to employees...management is hampered by employees and sometimes overbearing military officials who want unrestricted access to walk in and out of airports...it is common for stewardesses to selloff their free quotas of tickets...employees are also said tobe involved in drug smuggling and bringing in say 100's of mobile phones per trip
  • Feb2-2016--in what maybe a PMLn maneouvre to get the MQM back into the game due to the upstart PPP attitudes in Sindh...Altaf Hussein has been letoff the charge of money laundering despite money flowing in and out of altaf's house without banking interventions...the PPP has been perturbed at some of their kingpins being nabbed in corruption, ethnic warfare and gangs in karachi...they have tried to malign the Rangers although a similar handsoff has also been arrived at on that issue as well...
  • Feb2-2016--FC soldier and two militants killed in clashes at a border checkpost in balochistan

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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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