The Daily PakistanPolitics Sept1-15, 2016

• Sept13-2016--Morgan and Hales two key players in the england cricket unit have refused to go to bangladesh...while morgan has been playing lacklustre cricket alex hales had a bad test patch but recovered...a debutant pakistani expected to replace Hales as Jos butler takes over the captainship in the shorter formats..a few players maybe called up from englands rampaging A-team probably Duckett...trevor bayliss was a coach of thesrilankan team attacked in lahore and eoin morgan has had terror incidents while on tour in india and bangladesh
  
• Sept13-2016--two military captains called up a unit of SSG after they were apprehended by motorway police for driving recklessly...The SSG dragged away a motorway inspector...the captains had tried to escape but were stopped by the chasing motorway police who than were subjected to beatings and the captains pointed a pistol at them until the armed SSG arrived...many suggest that a lameduck army chief is the cause of such incidents
  
• Sept13-2016--SNGPL says that mafia forcing it out of KP production and distribution facilities...many suspect that the mafia maybe the KP government which is refusing to cooperate with them...KP has a sizable production of 400mmcfd while usage in winter months is 1100mmcfd in KP+punjab...In summer it falls to 800mmcfd...while it has listed losses in KP as 3% only there seem tobe losses of as much as 50mmcfd...SNGPL still insists that its scada data is still correct
  
• Sept11-2016--with almost three and half years gone the PMLn/Nawaz Sharif has suddenly realized the need for new hospitals...while DHQ hospitals exist almost everywhere and could be improved without much effort the PMLn is going for 46 new hospitals in supposedly under developed areas...most of the 13 new hospitals 500/250 bed are located in the south of the punjab...with only two in sorgodha and rawalpindi catering to the north...three new ones are slated for islamabad...already the initial planning looks lopsided and obviously it would take a monumental effort to get international consultants,designs and construction completed in two years...!!and one did not see any budget allocations for 46 hospitals...a 500 bed hospital would probably cost upto 4 billion and a 250 one half that ie. 11x 4 + 35 x 3 = Rs159 billion approximately...and can they be completed in two years ...almost impossible...the government would not be able to complete 46 BHu's in two years...
  
• Sept11-2016--eight militants killed in Rajanpur operation...The Rangers are flailing about without being able to find anyone linked to the Quetta blasts...other reports suggest that Sindh which is opposed to CPEC could be involved in elimination of the quetta lawyer...
  
• Sept11-2016--The SC which had asked a chinese company apparently rejected for the Dasu dam on WB advice to talk to the WB...The WB however suggested that they wait for Wapda to announce its award before discussing the matter
  
• Sept11-2016--MQM not to collect hides but to challenge PS-127 election results
  
• Sept11-2016--Ghaus Ali Shah estranged from the PMLn that Nawaz Sharif has never completed a term yet as he does not know how to rule...he called Nawaz Sharif a cheat and possessed a manipulative mind...he accused Nawaz Sharif of hiding his Panama Papers involvement and being afraid to respond to the indian primeministers harsh language...
  
• Sept10-2016--Inzamam ul haq comes up with some questionable decisions in the A-team and the t20 team..he calls up saad nasim...?umar akmal...? and rumman raees?...but does not drop mohd nawaz who at best could just not hit the ball...In the A team he makes a multani failure sohaib masood the captain and calls up another failure umar amin with ehsamn adil...only a few in the A-team can be considered test material ...a young pacebowler ghulam mudasser coming up with 150 kph speeds was only added to the A-team while it was felt he was needed at the senior level
  
• Sept10-2016--air strikes kill eight militants in Rajgal
  
• Sept10-2016--PTI assault on Raiwind becomes questionable as other parties seem frightened...Nawaz has threatened to carryout a raid on Banigala...PTI should stand firm and protest at Raiwind which was apparently illegally acquired by shahbaz sharif
  
• Sept9-2016--countering government arguments tax revenues from fuel taxes rose by 6.85% to Rs321 billion...This is apart from sales taxes of upto Rs100 billion...the controversial unreasonable petroleum levy rose to Rs149.29 billion up 14% while GIDC went up by 40% to Rs79.77 billion...petroleum and gas prices thus can easily be reduced by almost 50%...Nawaz Sharif's stay in power is funded by a massive annual taxation of Rs3.66 trillion up 21.3%...both the projects for which GIDC and petroleum levy are supposedly meant have not even been started...
  
• Sept9-2016--PPP has won the karachi seat PS-127 by 6000 votes from the mqm...the seat had been vacated by the PSM party...while voting was low the PTI got 6000 votes in contrast to the PPP's 21000...strange things never stop happening...The MQM's internal wranglings can be said to be the cause as teh PSM did not participate...The mqm has suffered as the government literally has caught them involved in large scale terrorism and other financial crimes...such as ripping of local government funds to send to altaf hussein...
  
• Sept9-2016--The SC to take the NAB chief to task for using supposedly illegal voluntary return of state moneys to let off beaurocrats and other officials of the state...such methods have also been used by the SC in letting Nawaz Sharif and family of the hook in cases related to huge loans while being in power...Obviously a beaurocrat who is so let of the hook would go back to again acquiring illegal wealth...Nawaz Sharif has thus been able to keep his entire industrial and raiwind estate thru such bad decisions of the courts...The PMLn has literally turned the NAB into a laughing stock as it now does not dare to accuse or bring the top politicians to trial...NAB while formed by the military had the admirable aim of ending the corruption orientation of acquiring wealth by top politicians...generals have still not been brought into the net...thus u can safely say that the entire corrupt network has been let of the hook
  
• Sept9-2016--Imran dubs the ruling party a threat to democracy as its recent moves suggest it is moving towards a state orchestrated police state...it even forced thru a suppression oriented cyber bill and has threatened the vocal television media...khawaja rafik as opposed to his parties leader has dubbed the PTI as inconsequential
  
• Sept9-2016--The FO spokesman lambasts india as the only terrorist in south asia...while the USA is also regarded as having agents everywhere india is considered tobe behind most terrorist incidents in pakistan..india has also not avoided using even teh militant talebans pay for a bombong service which is available all over pakistan and afghanistan...india is now considered tobe almost an agent of Obama in the region closely followed by iran and russia...raheel shareef who had almost jumped into teh Modi lap following Nawaz Sharef has tried to extricate himself by blaming teh USA for destabilizing the region...The USA has tried to enforce an indian hegemony in the region to decrease the pakistani role and avoided even helping the kashmiris despite its worldwide support of liberation movements
  
• Sept8-2016--PTI does not know exact location of Raiwind...maybe they will end up at the tableeghi center for which Raiwind is famous
  
• Sept7-2016--The mayor of islamabad has also become chairman CDA...CDA usually handles islamabads contruction, land, water supply, sewage and maintenance activities...some 23 CDA deptts had been handed over to the mayor which now becomes meaningless if CDA is one of the mayors deptts. PMLN has generally been privatizing waste collection in major cities of punjab
  
• Sept7-2016--The country has 17 public sector medical colleges and 27 in the private private...for the 7000 seats in medical colleges around 56000 sat in a UHS test...There also around 1000 dental college seats ..apparently those getting 82 % marks overall will get admissions...
  
• Sept7-2016--CEC and Speaker national assembly have both jumped into the Nawaz Sharif lap it seems...while the speaker regards the daughter of the primeminister owning panama companies as meaningless he regards the transfer of property between husband and wife as terrible...!
  
• Sept7-2016--while the army and its chief critisize every aspect of governance they regard critics as opponents apparently trying to create a dent between security and intelligence organizations...the huge system that supports the army consisting of soldiers ,officers and their huge families and most of the countries contractors also spends a large time in creating anti civilian propaganda blitz on the media of all sorts...in fact the country was almost destabilized by a pro army chief propaganda blitz and anti Nawaz sharif proponents of martial law...This has also been aggravated by a pro india tilt by the americans and the armies participation in political propaganda of a meaningless nature regarding CPEC...Raheel shareef and Nawaz Sharif had almost jumped into the Modi lap before current events created another somersault in the pakistani policy
  
• Sept7-2016--The army chief these days seems tobe turning somersaults at an alarming rate...one day the zarb-e azb is successful...the next threats persist...The armies attitudes of evaluating the same thing over and over again shows that they are the army of a weak and small country unable to handle any defence or internal threat...mostly the airforce and army capabilities are designed for internal warfare as they can barely handle any strategic interests or even any cross border ability...This is alarming as most threats come from overseas...evaluations can only really be handled by an independent organization as perceptions and attitudes color thinking and reports...while the army of 1965 and airforce were praiseworthy since they were people oriented even than they have not been able to handle the evaluations of the 1965 war to any realistic level...These days the army seems only tobe willing to die meaninglessly and lives on a different level from the people and is relatively hiding luxuriously behind walls, barbed wire and defence colonies...they are almost the only people who are protected to the best of anybodies ability while people die in the difficult environments that they live in... even though more civilians have died in the internal rebellion...we donot expect soldiers to die since they must be properly trained to handle most situations...anyway despite everything the army has been given more resources than anything else in this country...The army these days has its own schools, colleges and universities...its own factories...it now markets milk and butter as well as breakfast cereal...!i dont know whether they grow tea or produce eggs...!!!reports suggest that they even tried buy a south african holiday resort and wanted the egyptians to give them a share in a cellular company...!!!Apart from that they have an askari , AWT or FF stake in each and every industry or bussiness including bottled water and producing fauji cement...It is a small wonder that they donot want to fight any enemy but only want to gurad their internal stakes in industry and politics...!
  
• Sept6-2016--The speaker of teh national assembly who had upto now seemed to keep his reputation has suddenly turned turtle...while referring an anti imran khan reference to teh Ecp he has refused to refer teh anti nawaz shareef petitions ...theoretically teh speaker does not have any judicial powers and cannot adjudge the decision before it is sent to teh proper the authority...teh decisions seem simalr to that of teh SC chief justice who thrown out anti panama references at teh registrar level...teh registrar too does have any judicial powers but eh has labeled them frivolous petitions even when the entire nation has been gripped with teh almost criminal Nawaz Sharif family shenangans going back to the 1950's...
  
• Sept5-2016--The National Assembly speaker refers Imran Khan on a minor technicality to the ECP for disqualification but only refers Nawaz Sharif for information purposes...nawaz Sharif had forgotten that his daughter owned flats in London thru a Panama company...?
  
• Sept1-2016--Navy inducts an ATR a multi propeller aircraft and says it will improve their capabilities...!
  
• Sept1-2016--An SC judge has apparently approved corruption upto 4 lakh rupees and asked NAB why it is wasting time on such small amounts...while corruption knows no boundaries even 10-15 lakhs are small amounts given the budget of trillions...
  
• Sept1-2016--The army is one of the worst propaganda organisations in the pakistan political sphere...case in point...a Rangers colonel told the Senate that a non existent foreign organisation had approved/endorsed the karachi Rangers operation...!!!
  
• Sept1-2016--A US flight commercial flight from Florida lands at a cuban airport for the first time since 1961
  
• Sept1-2016--opposition and government to present bills for the Panamagate probe after teh Supreme Court turned turtle suggesting that financial wrongdoing is not inits domain...because of the courts refusal to challenge the status quo in the financial quagmire ie banks, loans, government spending, overseas money laundering etc. that has made all textile mills owners billionaires while the poor and middle class are taxed to the limit...without being provided any proper services...the rich like Nawaz Sharif and Imran have their own hospitals but still jet of to London for medical treatments of an ordinary nature...It is rumoured that Nawaz Sharif actually went to London for the treatment of sciatica but said that he was getting a heart bypass...!