The Daily PakistanPolitics Jun1-15, 2016

• June15-2016--five militants killed in quetta shootout
  
• June15-2016--after pathetically handing over Angoori Adda to the afghans , Gwadar to the Chinese reports of tax concessions on monitoring equipment to the americans in preperation of handing over Port Qasim
  
• June15-2016--the death of a major from quetta at torkham was suddenly announced.A standoff at Torkham where Pakistan is building its own gate..The afghans fired as construction resumed...Pakistan moving forward tanks and artillery...raheel shareef(who lost angoori adda another checpost) said he wanted to manage border crossings now...firing has been going for three days...many are calling raheel shareef an afghan agent for handing over Angoori Adda without any reason
  
• June14-2016--firing erupts at torkham after the Pakistanis started to build two gates on their side...traffic suspended and area under curfew... faujis and civilians injured...raheel shareef after giving up angoori adda now wants to manage the torkham border crossing
  
• June11-2016--the pathetic Raheel Sharif has done another uturn and now wants the US to drone mullah fazlullah...This while opposing US droning in Pakistani territory...The military has literally taken things into its own hands by handing over Angoor Adda without government approval which says a lawyer in the LHC is treason and the military act forbids handing over of Pakistan territory to antagonists...Raheel shareef suddenly after saying he had cleaned out the Taleban from fata says the border is problematic and their relations with Afghanistan are not on an even keel...he however says the US and Afghanistan and others had better understand Pakistan's concerns...The US is busy understanding India's concerns Mr.army chief...
  
• Jun10-2016--after the military ordered four ministers to the GHQ where a sidebyside group of generals met to discus the armies meritless support of the CPEC...concerns were raised as the military again tried to pullup the mqm by its bootstraps in giving them some material for their usual grievance orientation politics of being suppressed or pushed to the wall...however the mqm is fast losing support and will not get any support on the basis of pleas of victimization...there was much laughter after the phony state TV said that military and political leaders met at the GHQ...Khawaja asif told the generals that the Chinese would pay for improving the main train line as well connecting gas pipelines to iran...after coal failed as being too much trouble the government went in for around 2000MW of LNG whose high price will be foisted on the people while billionaires make the money on electricity...insiders say now gas generation is more expensive than furnace oil...however no major chunks of Chinese money have moved into Pakistan and the Chinese fobbed ishaq dar off with just a huge key to some double cabins given to the Islamabad police after he wanted to know when they would supply the resources
  
• Jun10-2016--Khawaja Asif refuses to apologize to shireen mazari who says he was abusing her and not all the hecklers...however he writes a letter of apology to the speaker..!women says khawaja asif want respect as well as equality which is not tenable...
  
• Jun10-2016--china to oppose india's bid to join the NSG...while John Kerry the mouthpiece of Narendra Modi says that india will not oppose pakistans application...John Kerry must be crazy...india has never helped pakistan
  
• Jun10-2016--Sartaj Aziz says the US has done another about turn in its relations with Pakistan as it tries to downplay Pakistan and upgrade india and iran in the region...Pakistan will not he says deal with one issue because of US grandstanding or obstructions on another
  
• Jun9-2016--with the USA almost in india's lap and mouthing modi rhetoric on LT etc and Mumbai attacks and pathankot... Pakistan issued a warning that not including it in the NSG groups will destabilize the region...Obama almost turning into a Trumpeter...In the region india has been able to coral Afghanistan and iran against Pakistan...Sartaj Aziz also mistakenly suggests that they have strategic depth in agfanistan that cannot be ignored...
  
• Jun9-2016--law college principal shot dead in quetta
  
• Jun9-2016--After Khawaja asifs lies on load shedding resulted in almost continuous heckling as is usual for him he started to taunt the opposition...comments like...ais buddhi nu chup karao...as tractor trolley rickshaw nu bandh karao...usdi awaz theek karao...and he supposedly also referred to her as a bad woman who had sold out...the opposition protested the lady's honour and the PMLn speaker backed out into his own corner mindful of a possibility even remote of being made primeminister if Nawaz sharif flounders...with the panamagate indicted Miriam safdar they say trying to look dumb and primeministerial lording it over ishaq dar in the primeminister house...Miriam safdar has been trying to make herself look important by meeting low level foreigners...!...yes papa is recovering etc...they have told him to exersize in his room and walk around...!Khawaja Asif may not know this but the power shortfall is still around 5000 MW and load shedding is almost unstable...!In 2018 even if generation is 30000MW the shortfall in summer will probably be the same...however the government says they came 900MW close to meeting electricity demand yesterday
  
• Jun6-2016-- Inzamamul Haq announces the squad to London which shows that he is under pressure from sifarishi's...with two specialist spinners he wants Iftikhar Ahmeds unknown offspin as well...an accomplished batsman might have been a better choice...and they have brought in a seventeenth member as a not very good wicketkeeper in Rizwan...hafeez and yasir who both refused to even exercise are in the side and many see a repeat of their injury prone behavior...in englands weather a wicketkeeper could hardly tire himself...many see the Punjabis and pukhtuns squeezing out the karachiites apart from a couple...others say even sarfraz has not performed after he became a permanent choice...
  
• Jun6-2016--while a poor pukhtun would be writhing on the floor with heart pain Nawaz Sharif rushed himself off to London without even a phone call...many suggest that Imran Khan maybe right when he says the culprits of Nawaz Sharifs heart attack maybe his children...many suggest that while Nawaz Sharif expects to get off scot free his children could land in jail...Imran sees the government delaying tactics on panamagate as helping the PPP who want out of a corruption corner and getting a decision near the elections...however as long as the sharifs delay it could backfire by making certain that they are considered very corrupt...!many others say Nawaz Sharif may have been running from the countries military or the Taleban...others suggest that raheel shareef is more loyal than even a pet cat...and he refused to allow Nawaz Sharifs temporary removal...
  
• Jun6-2016--The government overspent last years budget by Rs 261 billion...some of the unallocated amounts went to ministers for TA/DA...The foreign office spent Rs822 million on 35 unspecified security vehicles...judges had their houses refurbished and the intelligence agencies could not stay within budget... last few years have seen unallocated spending of 65 billion, 139 billion and 102 billion...showing the scary trend todo whatever the government wants rather doing what is budgeted or planned...
  
• Jun4-2016--Hamid Saeed Kazmi sentenced to 16 years in jail for a hajj scam...he apparently also provided a Gilani son with a bullet proof pajero but the gilanis got off scot free
  
• Jun4-2016--a lackluster pathetic budget barely moved the populace...main policy seemed tobe massive subsidies to the countries wealthy sector and tax the relatively lower middle economic classes...the countries revenues are based on indirect taxation but there is nothing in the budget for the people...the main sectors to benefit seem tobe the textile industry, sportgoods makers, fertilizer industry and the agricultural sector which contain the countries richest segments barring a few commercial establishments...In fact taxation on say the textile manufacturers is almost zero but they they have the countries biggest segment of billionaires...most of tax hikes are based on an illogical system of advanced tax deductions which no one can get back...the government can hardly explain its policies as there is almost zero direct taxation giving free billions to the richest segments of the economy
  
• Jun3-2016--in what should make the governments job easier the national assembly passed a 22nd amendment which allows them to appoint a technocrat to head the ECP...a beaurocrat should be more cooperative theoretically than an active SC judge
  
• Jun3-2016--In another illogical statement the army chief suggests that zarb e arab attacks are being intensified as it comes to an end...when a project loses steam or comes to an end than the actions should slowly wind down rather than go up...while the army says that it has cleared a wide area in Fata there are is still a huge no mans land with most Pakistani taleban ensconced in Afghanistan and able to mount cross border attacks
  
• Jun3-2016--The army chief again meaninglessly defends the CPEC...The CPEC is at the moment a meaningless road meant for a few chinese trucks a month...The Chinese last year only provided 500 million against the expected 6 billion and even cancelled one coal power plant in Pind Dadan Khan...just for two roads the Chinese need to provide around $6 billion but the costs of Rs700 billion will probably come from Pakistani pockets showing some of the reasons of hostility especially in Sindh where a Chinese carrying bus was bombed without casualties...the Pakistani people are not expected to benefit from the CPEC even to the extent of a few rupees...the army chief seems used to issue propaganda statements of no value..the army chief also wrongly misinterprets the reasons for charbahar...it has nothing to do with CPEC directly as the Chinese wont use it and it is generally meant for the three regional countries to mock Pakistan...at best the Indians could destroy some Pakistani trade to Afghanistan...however the strategic impact of charbahar if the Indians use it militarily could effect the Pakistanis weak naval strategy...The army chief seems to have a childish mentality and needs to focus on serious issues rather than an impactless CPEC...
  
• Jun1-2016--Nawaz Sharif undergoes multiple bypass surgery and will be out for about three weeks plus a month of rehabilitation...Most people suggest that a replacement primeminister should be elected in the interim as stress has tobe avoided during the recovery period...The army chief has also skipped off on a foreign tour...!pretty irresponsible people these politicians and generals...widespread reports that Nawaz Sharif went for a quick sudden surgery as his reputation plummeted and reports of taleban and an uppity army actions mounted
  
• Jun1-2016--two FC men killed in bomb blast in mohmand
  
• Jun1-2016--Mullah Shirani's edict that husbands can lightly beat their women is coming in for some harsh treatment...earlier Al Azhar university and shiite ulema had issued fatwa's that women can be lightly beaten with a stick...!while some husbands suggest that they can slap their women...married women obviously are not treated with utter callousness and most women have good relations with their husbands