The Daily PakistanPolitics April 16-30, 2016

• Apr30-2016--An LHC judge challenges in the SC the SJC showcause for misconduct...
  
• Apr30-2016--The US congress has refused to subsidize the eight old F-16's that Pakistan intends to purchase...Pakistan will now have to pay around $700 million for the old planes instead of $270 million...while the Pakistanis can hardly do anything more the foreign military financing was at best a loan arrangement...either the Pakistanis should go in and bomb Afghanistan to smithereens...the planes are at best going tobe cannibalized anyway since the F-16 is now almost redundant apart from the requirements of of US client states...at $700 million the planes might seem tobe expensive and Pakistan can make 35 Chinese planes in the same cost...we would suggest that pakistan airforce cancel the deal unless it is very hard pressed for a few more old planes
  
• Apr29-2016--Nawaz Sharif who seems excessively paranoid is now blaming an anti government plot for exposing his families Panama leaks shenanigans...records show the sharif brothers as the only beneficiaries of the Panama Leaks scenario...most of the money went abroad in sharif suitcases which has then been returned as Panama Leaks profits...
• Apr29-2016--india depicting its paranoia is activating laser and infrared beams across its border with Pakistan...such measures are only utilized to protect highly expensive items and buildings...crossovers on the border are very low and normal policing methods would theoretically be sufficient...such rays can be seen thru special methods and according to film theories can easily be avoided...
  
• Apr28-2016--According to the PMLn regime Nawaz Sharif has disowned his children and all the suitcases that he has sent abroad...Nawaz Sharif's children are corrupt not me says Pervez Rashid the liar for the primeminister...one of the children is apparently the heir apparent Maryam safdar...!the idea that that his children only are corrupt after Nawaz Sharifs lifetime of political and industrial shenanigans is laughable at best...!obviously the government has regarded the panama leaks as fraudulent behavior of chakri rulers and decided to shift the blame to the children rather than the two who have benefited the most...what happened to the sharifs in the past can hardly absolve any present wrongdoing...the sharifs have suffered because of their own attitudes and involvement in coup plots, smuggling, tax evasion and refusing to repay loans...the sharifs had a minor factory at the time of nationalization and it was nationalized like everything else and there was no individual harassment of the fake mian's...!Pervez rashid obviously does not know any buzurg's as there are none in the PMLn nor was he ever seen alongwith his other colleagues sitting at the feet of his buzurg listening with apt attention...maybe Pervez rashid does not know what a buzurg is as the ones he thought of as a buzurg was a lifelong chakri and in and out of jail alongwith his children and grand children...!
  
• Apr28-2016--talks with india a meaningless exercize
  
• Apr27-2016--two DHA heads the corp commanders of Lahore and Karachi were demoted due to DHA scams...The DHA once limited to karachi has spread all over the country and as a result corruption has infused into the militaries otherwise no nonsense approach...in Karachi they have turned to luxury cityies and in Lahore the kianis(siblings of Gen kiani) and hammad Arshad (sibling of a singer)have apparently run off with Rs15 billion after buying land for 1.82 billion...the 13103 canals near SKMT should cost Rs14000 per canal but the DHA contractors charged the public 1.1 million each...still cheap by todays standards but who sold them prime property at such cheap rates...the corruption and more corruption has hammad arshad and the kayani siblings in trouble...!but to the moneyed there is always one solace ..more money...to the people General Raheel seems unable to control corruption in even the ministry of defence run DHA...how will he control the Dr. Asims, zardaris and sharifs...!
  
• Apr27-2016--the development theme that Nawaz sharif is trying to propagate to douse the sharif's outright corruption that has surfaced in the panama leaks is also just as much a lie as anything else...about electricity generation the latest bulletin by the electricity authorities... demand 15000mw...generation 11000 mw...no bloody movement on lowering prices...my last electricity bill...15000...reduction due to lower fuel costs...5000...additional surcharges...5000...taxes 22% or Rs3000...petroleum prices are down but not one item has become cheaper...not even transportation...india has not budged an inch despite Nawaz sharif literally being in the indian pocket...so asto the panama corruption ...it is upto the PMLn parliamentary party since both Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan seem uninterested in the commission hoopla...Imran Khan has said that the KP logging timber mafia is more corrupt than the primeminister...200 billion to say 20 billion...what is imran khan saying...with SKMT rigmaroles he cant afford to go after the fat primeminister...one wonders at our politicians and their open intransigence...who is going to deal with the corrupt loggers and corrupt primeministers Imran Khan..?...and who is going to the kick the primeminister out of power...!duping the people is the only function of the Pakistani political system...!The army chief...he sells out for a measly foreign trip...!! he too really cant handle even the corrupt Lt generals and major generals what to talk of corrupt colonels and brigadiers...!!
  
• Apr26-2016--The Panama leaks certainly have the Sharifs entire family linked to corruption...usually it was one or two sharifs who did the chakarbazi of bank loans and importing industrial plants as iron scrap...most of Nawaz Sharifs paper and sugar plants were imported that way and they had to spend years just installing and making them work...however Nawaz Sharif has never done an honest day of work
  
• Apr26-2016--PTI minority activist held for killing Soran Singh...who was killed in a motorcycle attack
  
• Apr25-2016--As the USA again advocates the baseless Haqqani theory the pakistan armed forces go and bomb 30 hideouts in Tora Cheena between Darra Adamkhel and Orakzai...and gun down five militants in mohmand...the army it seems is defending itself against meaningless US accusations
  
• Apr25-2016--some sort of pre decision might have been reached in London many suggest as the PMLn pushes a lightweight judicial commission at the PTI while the PTI accuses Nawaz Sharif of fathering criminals or the corrupt...The PPP suggests that they really don't want to kick out Nawaz Sharif as he is their best bet to make some sort of a comeback...PPP has been unable to galvanize the country while Imran Khan suggests that if the government does not straighten itself out they may occupy Raiwind in the countries first corruption only political movement...Imran Khan needs to occupy Sindh in the next elections to make any sort of impact...mqm attempts a sitin outside the CM house for its lost ethnic war workers suggesting that they are willing to be PPP's babes or even the PTI's as Mustafa Kamal starts to frighten them...!!Mustafa Kamal should remember that LGs should not look like an ethnic dictatorship or karachiism at its worst and be multi party and people oriented rather than mohajir oriented only...at least in looks, intent and purpose...federal government can only be based in islamabad and karachi can have a mayor or an administrator only...many suggest that after anti terrorism was regarded as their basic job thus earning them no public appreciation the army chief too wanted to move into the anti corruption quagmire as demonstrated in Karachi but he too probably balks at going to the PM house and throwing out or dragging out the corrupt lohar...the PPP too dislikes anti corruption while mqm dislikes anti criminality...many suggest that the PPP is unwilling to let go of Nawaz Sharif thinking he will push his vote power to bring them into power rather than the PTI...
  
• Apr24-2016--without the CJP and a hesitant acting Chief justice the Panama Leaks probe is on hold with no consensus and how to go about it...many suggest dragging Nawaz Sharif out of Islamabad by his plug grown hair...!!it seems the Safdars and the Sharifs are all living off the Panama leaks...The sharif's panama duo have bought the safdars a condo in Dubai while Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz have received over a billion from the Panama accounts...so one does who is more corrupt the sharif kids, safdars or the sharif rulers...many have even suggested that the "mian" which is supposedly a Mughal honorary title is fake as the sharifs were not businessmen before pakistan...
  
• Apr23-2016--PTI mpa quits and joins the PSP...earlier this month a PTI candidate for NA-245 withdrew hours before the election and joined the MQM
  
• Apr23-2016--the luxury minded Pakistan army orders six Cessna aircraft for starting its own medical safari service...these are surveillance and medical evacuation/transport aircraft and can carry upto 14 people...usually they can evacuate one person and are generally of little use in larger military problems such as disasters and terrorism incidents and therefore will probably benefit special cases...
  
• Apr23-2016--while Nawaz Sharif left with his dollar packed suitcases after the musharaf coup some in the PMLn said that suitcases have come and gone on a regular basis since than and the last suitcase could be ready too...Nawaz Sharif would in effect be ready flee/ or leave the country even if the possibility of an opposing decision are reached......even during his present tenure he has made almost 30 visits to England not all for health reasons...many think he was going to check his panama investments and during three years he has received over Rs700 million from England probably all from his panama empire...others suggest that money came from illegal foreign accounts of his mother and father...but the payments were only made to Nawaz Sharif and shahbaz sharif...others suggest that the payments came from his partymen and even the zardari empire in exchange obviously for something spurious...Nawaz Sharif should realize that reputations and character cannot be cleaned like hands with just a soap wash...In a democracy resignations are the way...if criminality is proved than he should be heading to jail or court...foreign sources of money, accounts and businesses of politicians upto now are considered major corruption pathways and the SC cancelled the sale of the Steel Mills to someone in the Cayman Islands just for that reason...Nawaz Sharif is known to have linked up with indian steelmakers thru the Caymans...!!!...Nawaz Sharif has announced a three judge Panama Leaks commission...Nawaz Sharif obviously does not have the presence of even Ayub Khan whose monthly speeches were listened too with attention...he has answered personal allegations of involvement in terrorism/weaknesses in handling Punjab and panama leaks thru speeches which no one has listened to for obvious reasons...The CJ who is on tour is a mild pro government/PMLn type character and having him on the commission is meaningless...anyway the CJ should be available to act on commission decisions even if they by chance reach a decision of guilty and there are known tougher judges available on the court
  
• Apr23-2016--PTI minority mpa sardar soran singh shot dead in Buner
  
• Apr23-2016--after the PMLn was found inherently dishonest the decision on the formation of the judicial commission was left to the CJP who will take the decision after he returns...the politicians have been unable to find a viable system to investigate their own shenanigans...The musharaf era NAB has been shackled and judicial commissions at best have never been able to deliver...
  
• Apr22-2016--police kill three TTP militants in karachi
  
• Apr22-2016--according to the ECP Nawaz Sharif is an ordinary billionaire although he has been receiving millions(over 200 million) annually from his son in England ...earlier last year he repaid a Rs6 billion 30 year old bank loan by selling his Ittefak foundry...he also has textile, paper and sugar assets which seem tobe underpriced...!alongwith agricultural property...his son in law a mansehra resident has 235 acres in Rajanpur...!his wife has properties in the hilly areas and his nephew has assets of Rs325 million...!if that isn't a "khaobatair" group than who is...his father when he came from jato umra in 1947 was a lohar..!the lohar in waiting Maryam Safdar apparently only owns panama companies...!!!
  
• Apr22-2016--apart from the Baloch FC generals who might have been booted out due to indian connections the case of two Karachi corp commanders demoted to major generals after retirement for DHA shenanigans raise questions of what the military is training its generals to do...DHA made the headlines for going into luxury orientation rather than keeping itself to utility military plots and affordable housing...obviously there was more money in that for the corp commanders who head local DHA's...how military officers are going to afford multi-million rupee plots is something many wonder about...these are some of many avenues that the military is wrongly following and wasting money apparently just for perks...and making corp commander land /business empires
  
• Apr22-2016--As the "khaobatair" or "botoxyPM" started another round of investigations into his own corruption scandals the army kicked out senior army generals for corruption...earlier a chief justice had been indicted for a Bahria paid Rs.300 million Luxembourg vacations and even General Raheel Shareef spent a three week family holiday in "Sun city"...Our poor system of controlled investigations renders the corrupt almost free to ply their wares...earlier the NAB had verified and supported corruption by just asking officials to return the amounts...that excludes the millionaire billionaire type of corrupt which includes Nawaz Sharif, doctor asim, iftikhar Chaudhry and asif zardari...!!!The case of the corrupt generals relates to a confiscated sports car by the FC in balochistan..two other officers were killed while testing the sports car...!!!The car had apparently been given to the FC chiefs son...!!!while military officers are notorious for receiving commissions and going on paid tours funded by suppliers they are never usually indicted for corruption..they usually get fired and than reemployed in AWF and FF...routine corruption is also common among the administrative and supply divisions and corps routinely collect bussiness payments which are spent for spurious purposes...in the old days the corps used to make and sell their own drinks as well...military officers are routinely involved in over land smuggling from various points in Pakistan while smuggling arms has been going on from balochistan by military police since the 1970's......earlier this year according to sources raheel sharif and family spent a vacation in Suncity while others say he had just gone to scout the vacation city for the future...!many suggest that with the high level of medical care available in Pakistan many are shocked at Nawaz Sharif's visit to England for a medical examination...others say he had just gone for another round of face fillers (botox injections)and a nip and tuck...at least one industrial minister made fun of the primeminister's apparent corruption by sitting at his meeting with eyes closed...army corruption can only be ended by the widthdrawal of all types of perks...earlier the last army chief had literally allocated all defence commercial areas in Rawalpindi to kayani's...!while raheel shareef has allowed some investigations into the misdeeds of kayani's and come NLC officers there has never been any wholesale corruption challenge to army officers...earlier apparently an ISI chief appointed only kayanis thruout his army tenure to whatever position he could in the ISI...The refusal of the ISPR to tweet on the matter is quite surprising since he had been tweeting even on serious policy matters...maybe he too is on the take...!
  
• Apr21-2016--seven policemen shot dead in Orangi Town area who were there on polio duty...
  
• Apr21-2016--five apply for the job of PCB cricket coach..mickey Arthur, dean jones, tom moody, stuart law and jimmy saddle
  
• Apr21-2016--The irresponsible Pakistan army wants a whopping Rs920 billion for the next fiscal year apart from all the CSF funds and 1 billion dollars a year for Fata as well...the threat perceptions that it cites it is already capable of handling and it should use corp earnings and substantially reduce unnecessary perks and investments in upmarket DHA costs..if the army which is now usually coming from well off families is worried about housing for its retired officers than the askari style is more than sufficient and restrictions should be placed with one plot or house during a career...DHA which is too expensive for officers anyway should be wound up or privatized...
  
• Apr20-2016--The army which has effectively failed to root out terrorism now also wants across the board accountability...surprising for the army that its chief wants that...the military has always wanted praise even for just doing its job...many have wondered how the Abbottabad commission report was never published...why open and shut corruption cases against the likes of zardari, Nawaz Sharif and Iftikhar Chaudhry disappear into thin air...it has always been the military that protects its hired angels...Nawaz Sharif the corrupt angel now also wants to investigate the funds collected by Imran Khan for floods in 2010...while that might be necessary too why he remembers it now when he is the one facing the current charges...he only needs answer the charges against himself and his lohar and pehlwan family...!!!it clearly reflects his personal involvement in chakri financial deals and receipt of suspect funds from panama sources
  
• Apr20-2016--suicide attack on tax office in mardan one killed
  
• Apr20-2016--chotoo gang surrenders in rajanpur
  
• Apr19-2016--after its plans for a watered down commission failed to excite anyone the PMLn now wants a parliamentary committee to get the PPP to support it and wrangle some laws thru the senate as well
  
• Apr19-2016--Inzamamul haq already afraid of cricket czar role as he shys away from even dictating the team selection saying he will cooperate with coach and captain
  
• Apr18-2016--The Chotto gang on the backfoot on rajanpur islands as SSG commandos, helicopter gunships and family arrests complicate their survival...with air superiority and surveillance there is little chance for the gang
  
• Apr17-2016--while David Cameron is being referred to as "Dodgy Dave" due to his links to the Panama accounts many think Nawaz Sharif has outlived his utility and should be referred to as the "Chakry Sharif"...both Cameron and Sharif have listed huge contributions from their equally chakry parents...which many regard as corruption payments
  
• Apr17-2016--PMLn trying to form a commission on the damaging Panama Leaks which have clearly shown the corrupt financial nature of the sharifs headed by a judge whose wife is a PMLn worker...PTI wants it headed by the CJ while the PPP is seeking a parliamentary commission headed by Raza Rabbani...in a democratic system elected officials found involved in corrupt practices usually are supposed to resign
  
• Apr17-2016--many feel that a selection committee of acknowledged successful cricket players like inzamam and mohd Yusuf is better than selectors headed by failures like Haroon Rashid...however the mentality that a team cannot function with regular changes will have tobe changed as failures need tobe replaced by emerging successful players...England became successful after they brought in known t20 players with both bat and ball...however they too failed when they thought that full length deliveries could not be hit for a six...at that stage a fast bowler who could bowl bouncers at the chest was the only possibility of success or bowling way outside the offstump...Stokes failed when he decided to bowl on the legstump...Eoin Morgan made the mistake of not changing a strategy even though he was faced with a player who could bat and bowl...and they had not seen his end ball heroics before...Braithwaite was the complete t20 player...a fast bowler who had also opened for the west indies and luckily wanted to play for the west indies as a country...it was noticed how top order batsmen came out and slogged away...even the staid indian openers were willing to step out and hit...only the big hitting sides survived to the last four...Pakistan had no such batsmen...tobe successful on the Pakistan scene inzamam will have to take over coaching and management as well and become another moin khan...Shehryar Khan should accept failure and retire peacefully or be ready tobe picked up and thrown out of PCB headquarters by u know who...!
  
• Apr16-2016--Inzamamul Haq who early on did not know how to take singles or run between wickets being considered for chief selector...while inzamam has been successful with Afghanistan as a coach his success as a selector is unlikely as he rarely looks for new talent and prefers dragging a team along...most Pakistani selectors look amongst the smouldering deadwood for replacements rather than bringing in and training new talent according the requirements of various types of cricket...it is not just selection but forcing the players to play according to the requirements of various formats...In the recent PCL all the captains are retired...however the burly inzamam who once took a bat to beat up indian spectators will obviously not be interfered with in matters of selection or sifarish...
  
• Apr16-2016--The SC supporting anti PPP forces allows secret polls tobe held for LG top positions...that would allow some government opponents tobe elected...In a secret ballot u could theoretically even buyout the mqm in karachi
  
• Apr16-2016--The brave toungue wagging clapper army has finally descended on the dessert plains of rajanpur to bomb out what can at best be described as rural or katcha area dakoos who were apparently mishandling the police...pictures show that rajanpur islands seem tobe open space uncultivated islands and can hardly hide dangerous terrorists or dakoo's
  
• Apr16-2016--The chakry PMLnwala's are trying to appoint Sarmad Jalal Osmany one of the many controlled Sindh judges from the retired pool to a one man weak commission to investigate the financial wranglings of the sharifs...recent revelations showed that Nawaz sharif, shahbaz sharif, Maryam safdar, the sharifs mother, the sharifs sons are all involved in financial irregularities viz the Panama leaks and 200 million level gifts to the sharif brothers...how a Pakistani industrialist who rules Pakistan can have such wranglings in panama and England and how Maryam can send over crores of rupees which she gets from committees...!!according to one source she and other industrialists have setup 300 crore rupee committees...!!!many feel that a one judge commission is too inconsequential and a three man serving judge panel is essential to investigate the sharif family chakar's...according to one source Nawaz sharif was seen on his hands and feet begging for a favorable commission...!while judicial commissions usually push things under the carpet...example the Abbottabad commission report as yet unpublished...there also should be an across board power to the commission to initiate judicial proceedings on all controversial and illegal activities of the sharifs financial activities in England...be they hedge funds, sister loans, English bank loans or gifts from their mothers and fathers...panama accounts, multiple residential estates and supposedly a high rise apartment complex...!on the local level how Maryam committees run into crores of rupees and how the money is transferred abroad...?