The Daily PakistanPolitics July 1-15, 2016

• July15-2016--Raheel Shareef many say is more complicated than any other army chief...he has controlled terrorism to a very large extent and even got the taleban to release two top PPP kidnappees...he has released a brigadier jailed for five years...!he seems tobe behind a movement seeking his extension and some say imposition of martial law...has allowed Nawaz sharif to rest and recreate in Lahore and England for over 50 days...played Imran khan to the hilt of his toppling Nawaz sharif...and now the US says they would not like to comment on his extension...however republican John Mcain says he has implemented US policy in pakistan to the best possible degree...!The movement for raheel shareef has however run into trouble and pictures of raheel shareef have been removed in Punjab...it is illegal to practically promote an army chief in the streets...and supporting martial law even of the Raheel Shareef type runs counter to article 6 although the movement says they have a right to propagate their opinion...not so says the government and a case has been registered against them...!...The KP IG said it seems that they wanted Raheel Shareef to move to visit KP...funny...!!Nawaz shareef many say now probably thinks that it is now best to appoint a new army chief...many suggest that promote him to Field martial or give him a "nishan e haider and retire him...!!
  
• July15-2016--reports emerge that sindhi politicians behind kidnapping of SHC CJ's kid...Sial suggests that qaim ali shah behind most control measures in Sindh...!!
  
• July15-2016--has terrorism ended in Pakistan with the elimination of Umar nare...?PMLn has prospered under terrorism...!so they want Popa tobe extended...!
  
• July14-2016--six al Qaeda men killed in Okara...!!
  
• July14-2016--The Rangers picked up Asad Kharal in Larkana and questioned him after he was taken to a police station and than apparently released on the orders of the Sindh home minister...?
  
• July14-2016--The dour faced David Cameron has been replaced as british primeminister by the relatively still smiling Theresa May a vicar's daughter...In Pakistani terms that would be a maulvi's daughter becoming primeminister...!her cabinet contains more women and mostly senior conservative partymen some of whom were even disgraced in the past...Theresa May many suggest formed alliances quickly to literally kill all opposition to her primeministership...however she fired an opponent who had crushed the primeminister ambitions of Boris who is a former mayor of London...initially she seemed tobe willing to kill Brexit but is now willing to work to preserve the referendum vote and negotiate a better deal with the European Union...while the conservative party wanted to move slowly Europe wants to quickly rid itself of an unwilling member...the foreign secretary is Boris who is accused of insulting heads of other countries...most of his comments are generally mild however he won a limerick writing competition lampooning the Turkish president...eg...he supposedly made fun of the grey haired Obama by suggesting that he had part kenyan heritage...an indian women has been made head of the new ministry of DFID
  
• July14-2016--A US congress panel has viciously criticized Pakistan seeking the end of all aid to this pathetic client state...Sartaj Aziz riposted that the US congress complaints are totally baseless...However according to Dawn corp commanders studied how attacks inside aghfanistan could be stopped...!many suggest that the US congress is almost totally controlled by Indian lobbyists...the interior minister however says that he will not allow Pakistan tobe used for liberating occupied Kashmir...!The US congressmen called themselves chumps and patsies...The army chief also asked the world to recognize the liberation of kashmir as a genuine movement...Pakistan has been unable to stop attacks inside its own territory and movement in and out of Afghanistan is an uncontrolled process...and aghfani traders import arms and ammunition from all over the world...
  
• July14-2016--The Move Raheel Shareef parties Lahore office had some nasty visitors many say...the odd thing about the Raheel Shareef posters is that the major part is a Raheel Shareef picture...and this supposedly is the third time that such posters have emerged...many suggest that using the picture of the army chief in such a political way is illegal unless his approval has been taken...!Even than a serving generals pictures can be printed in a newspaper but hanging them in posters along the countries major roads is illegal...however apart from press articles nobody makes much of them...The ISI or even the ISPR donot react that harshly and nobody says that the perpretrators of such an act should be brought to justice...!however it does worry some political groups...many have now analysed that the armies general should at least file a case of willfully affecting his reputation in a negative way and seek damages...But the army chief is mute...reasons psychologists say that he is extremely narcisstic...that he likes seeing his picture posters hung all over the place...others suggest that it might have other reasons such as threatening the government...the army and Nawaz sharif have had a strange relationship...while they have met numerous times both usually sit with different flags behind them...many suggest that this is also illegal as the army chief is the head of a subordinate government organization and his seeking equality with the primeminister to say the least is odd...but apparently this satisfies the extreme narcisstic cravings of the general...!!
  
• July12-2016--Yusuf Gilani has personally visited the army chief to thank him for his sons release...while the son had suggested that his captors wanted the release of some alqaeda women...in such circumstances the taleban usually end the kidnapping violently...some skullduggery is therefore very commonly suggested...many have suggested that Yusuf Gilani and the afghan president were both involved in the kidnapping which supposedly had political overtones...others have pointed to the release of an army brigadier from jail said tobe associated with Hizb Tahrir...he had been jailed during General Kayani's times many say for suggesting that Lt Gen Nsir Janjua(r) now incharge of national security be made army chief...The release did not coincide with the release of the two PPP captives but many point to it as a quid pro quo...!!
  
• July12-2016--In what seems tobe a repeated exercise banners erupted in major cities of Pakistan urging Raheel Shareef to move on, declare martial law and impose a technocrats government...this was supposedly done by a little known group of businessmen...others point the finger at pakistans dubious ISI and ISPR who supposedly have the job of creating a reputation for an otherwise mild raheel shareef...obviously if the army is involved than so is the army chief...many point at the army being pretty happy with Nawaz Shareef out of the country so that Raheel Shareef could control and go on foreign trips without any chances of interference...!others point to attempts at putting across or of attempts at promoting Raheel Shareef to Field Martial and appointing him as Chairman Joint Chiefs with a stooge such as the ISPR chief as a subordinate army chief...although army chiefs usually donot remain subordinate for very long...The key political groups have suggested that this is all hogwash and a competent army chief will be appointed as Raheel Shareef as already given his intention to retire gracefully...others have pointed to the pathetic presidency which they see as a very fulfilling retirement present for Raheel Shareef while still others suggest that his liking for travel will make him a good foreign minister
  
• July12-2016--In occupied Kashmir indian policy collapsed as they killed Burhan Wani and protests erupted which the Indians(supposedly democratic) have put down violently...Pakistan which has under Nawaz Sharif been dubbed an accomplice in the occupation of Kashmir protested indian orchestrated violence verbally...Nawaz Sharif has usually avoided even criticizing indian excesses but Pakistan policy makers have lost as indian intransigence continued in any hopes of realistic talks and solutions...Pakistan had tried tobe the indian apologist for the last decade but the Indians have resisted even talks on key issues...others suggest that kashmiris in England had suggested to Nawaz Sharif that they get out of the way..any hopes of talks even taking off have ended and the kashmiris would be realistic in taking things into their own hands and fighting the Indians tooth and nail...
  
• July12-2016--Pakistan finally gets the US to drone two of its key opponents in afghanistan...Umar Naray and Qari Saifullah..Umar Naray supposedly behind most of the terror incidents carried out by afghan infiltrators while Qari Saifullah considred as a key suicide bomber trainer...by urging droning of TTP militants in Afghanistan Pakistan destroyed its decades long opposition to US drone attacks inside pakistan
  
• July6-2016--CDA has thirteen water tankers and 12 are out of order...!!
  
• July6-2016--people usually remember their dead on Eid and almost 30000 kilos of flower petals are sold in Rawalpindi and islamabad
  
• July6-2016--Even the pro Sharif Dawn is getting irritated at Nawaz Sharifs refusal to return on Eid...the new date many say is July9...many others suggest that the army at least is happier without him and Raheel Shareef is getting ready to appoint a corrupt stooge as army chief...also making the headlines is the entire sharif families exit from Pakistan which is being called Pexit
  
• July6-2016--Mqm critisizes Rangers for not allowing it to collect fitra and zakat on eid which are generally considered donations for needy individuals...Altaf Hussein who many regard as giving orders from London for hit and run attacks has criticized the Rangers in his secret speeches as well as industrialists who give donations to the SKMT...MQM says that it feeds the poor but there has been no evidence of their charity...most of the funds people say end up in England which has recently suggested that altaf has a company with funds of upto 75000 pounds...many also criticize Imran Khan for getting free treatments at the SKMT
  
• July6-2016--Nawaz Sharif has refused to return to Pakistan for Eid even though he has been shown running around the empty streets of London
  
• July5-2016--Pakistani suicide bomber linked to Jeddah blast
  
• July5-2016--SC says police lackadaisical in handling SHC chief justice's kids kidnapping...maybe the judges donot know which country they livein...shadow managing police handling is a misinterpretation of SC's functions...administration and management of police is the function of the provincial government and the judges are only meant to handle cases presented to them...
  
• July5-2016--ten more bodies recovered from chitrals flash floods
  
• July5-2016--The PMLn seems worried about Panama it seems...with Imran being a lightweight they want some ilzamat of the surrey mahal type to weaken the case against the sharifs...they can bring up the issues when the cases are presented...Asif Zardari fits the bill...living it up in Dubai and with bhuttos having lived in London since ZAB times...the judges could have a good time dealing with the riff raff at the top of the political quagmire
  
• July4-2016--flash floods wipeout a hamlet in Chitral..29 die..29 missing
  
• July4-2016--as a scaffolding fell three Chinese were among six workers killed at a tarbela power station construction site
  
• July4-2016--Pakistan is a poor country even by swiss standards...they have only SFR 1.5 billion in swiss accounts and are ranked number 69...many are suggesting that even the last two army generals have kickbacks amounting to millions in a swiss bank Julius Bear...a foreign accounts/offshore companies judicial commission could have a lot of fun...
  
• July4-2016--three security men killed in mastung
  
• July3-2016--many are blaming Hasina Wajids policies against the jamaat islami for the blood bath at an upmarket foreigners bakery...violence has steadily increased after hasina wajid killed several top jamaat islami officials possibly on indian insistence...one of the terrorists who are described as educated and nice to Bengalis was the son of Hasina Wajid official...the terrorists blamed the violence on western anti Islamic ways
  
• July3-2016--the army chief told a visiting US delegation that US attitudes and actions were contrary to the situation on the ground...The US which thinks that mentioning the Haqqani network will spur the Pakistanis into action seems unperturbed that mullah Mansour was returning from a visit to their new ally in the region...The US tried to assure the Pakistanis that their closeness to the Indian views was not meant tobe troubling to the region...Pakistan has been shunned by the US in trying to promote the Indians in the region...Pakistan had earlier been willing to assist in making the US more friendly to india but it has resulted in a one sided US pro india stance on all issues...
  
• July3-2016--The Punjab provincial government now wants to tax vacant plots which is a bit freakish as the plots in theory do not come under any head...The government should in that case also try to tax large pieces of unused land...governments should have a consistent policy based on income/profit based taxation...eg. they should tax all the billionaire sugar and textile barons which at least would bring some realistic cash...most of the countries billionaires are sugar and textile and other factory owners...owners of vacant plots should only be taxed if the value of the plots rises above Rs.10 million and that should apply to all areas including the wealthiest DHA/Bahria's etc.
  
• July2-2016--Imran's sister and her two kids were harassed by a protocol security car and guns were pointed at them...this is the second such incident in Lahore...most people blamed Mariam safdar's security protocol who in this backward country seems tobe acting as an acting prime minister
  
• July1-2016--Three militants killed in clash with the FC in queta's sariab road area
  
• July1-2016--PKmap chief mahmmod khan achakzai adopts the indian views and says that KP also belongs afghans...most pukhtuns in KP as well as balochistan are emigres from aghfanistan...That does not seem tobe true...as a 1930 picture of Torkham shows just one british soldier standing at the border with not a single vehicle or person around...! KP was formed out of Punjab in 1909