The Daily PakistanPolitics Jan16-31, 2017

• Jan31-2017--The saudis after failing to build a coalition to fight terrorism headed by Raheel Shareef have apparently asked King Trump to head the anti terrorist fight in the middle east and work together on the iran deal...after the US ban on immigrants from seven muslim countries ran into trouble in the USA the saudis and trump agreed to setup safe zones in syria and yemen for would be immigrants...!Starbucks and Canada have pledged to help the muslim immigrants however there is some surprise at the meakness of Theressa May...!
  
• Jan31-2017--The SC chief justice lets Ayyan Ali go abroad..? apart from attempting to take abroad half a million dollars she is reportedly also involved in the killing of a customs inspector
  
• Jan31-2017--In lahore an Uber taxi driver shot dead while a LHC asistant registrar robbed...!
  
• Jan31-2017--PMLn lawyers tell the SC that underhand transfers of huge amounts are very common forgetting that such acts are called money laundering...from what one can surmise at the moment the PMLn wealth might have come from the nationalisation of their assets in the 1970's...The Sharif factory was returned free by general Zia something that can at best be considered a huge favor or largesse that no one else benefited from...That factory was apparently recently sold by Nawaz Sharif for Rs6 billion to settle loans from banks in the 1980's...!!it seems that Nawaz Sharifs father apparently did not trust his son's although he failed to evenly distribute his wealth amongst his four children...while the al-ahli money seems to have been returned seperately to the sharif children it does not seem tobe involved in the purchase of the london flats..there is also no explanation why sharif senior left all his money to nawaz sharifs son...?
  
• Jan31-2017--opposition returns to parliament after speaker allows a privilege motion against the lying primeminister...The PMLn which is generally overactive did not protest the lying charge...!
  
• Jan31-2017--Muhammed Zubair of the PMLn has been appointed the sindh governor..purportedly the son of a zia era loaneating general minister he is the brother of PTI's Asad Umar...he was shaping to aggressively implement unappetizing privatisation policies...He has spent considerable time in IBM and has taught at the IBA...he can be said tobe one of the new breed of yessir dubious techno-politicians that are usually encouraged by military coups...!
  
• Jan31-2017--Nawaz Sharif regime places JUD chief Hafiz Saeed and four others under house arrest to placate india...!The Sharif's have been unable to handle india and the former LeT supporters could have been planning some action...reports also circulating of two Trump administration terrorist acts in yemen and canada..!Trump has said he will fight fire with fire...In canada people inside a mosque were fired upon with several killed...In yemen a US assault team and drones attacked an alqaeda encampment killing a young girl...al qaeda has faded away since the ben laden killing and is hardly a terrorist threat to the USA...Canada while religiously peaceful has seen incidents against muslims such as acts reminiscent of hindu extremists...a pigs head was left at the gate of the same mosque earlier...apparently the timing suggests that new orders have arrived from the Nawaz Sharif masters...trump and modi...!
  
• Jan27-2017--In a new satire Hussain Nawaz refers to his mothers assertion that they had bought flats in London as hostels for their poor children as a lie...!he also refuses to accept that the flats that they had continuously used since 1993 were not the property of anyone in the sharif family and that the Thani's were so benevolent that they lent them almost $18 million for their bussinesses...!and he also wants us to believe that he gave almost 700 million as gifts to his poor politician father and brother...!At the minimum the judges should conclude that the sharifs are lying about the london flats ownership and that Rs700 million cannot be considered as gifts since Nawaz Sharif and his brother are both quite well off...one must remember that the Sharifs had ended the Nawaz Sharif chief minister era with almost twenty factories...! many are asking the court to ask Daewoo and some punjabi IPP's to state their relationship with Nawaz Sharif...Nawaz Sharif was the initial inventor of the IPP policy but was shunted out of office before he could implement it...both Daewoo and the IPP's are a result of early 1990 policies and could be involved...There were reports that the Sharifs owned the pakistani branch of Daewoo at the time...Imran Khan can hardly be regarded as animosity prone towards Nawaz Sharif after what the case has brought to the fore...!
  
• Jan27-2017--The PMLn and PTI traded blows and insults in the National Assembly...According to reports the minister for petroleum came up to Shah Mahmmod Qureshi suggesting that Nawaz Sharif should now be let off...After the PTI responded with taunts of thief and lutera's fist fights broke out
  
• Jan27-2017--ISPR as usual cannot explain how Raheel Shareef got 90 acres of land allotted on Lahores Bedian Road a commercial and upcoming rich mans area...The land according to a newspaper is worth around Rs. 1 billion...army officers usually get it for a pittance...The army as usual is referring to it as a case of army bashing...while one has not heard of any constitutional provision for such largesse the army spokesman says that it is being done under the army act..!!while if land has tobe allotted it should be atmost around 1-4 acres and in the past such allocations have usually been in remoter areas...!one finds such allottments as outlandish and beyond any rhyme or reason...land allocations were initially started in the 1965 era and most shaheeds were allocated agricultural lands..however eventually the people being allotted land started to turn out tobe Lt.Generals while initially they used tobe colonels too as all Ayub Khans friends were colonels!...!why such largesse only benefits military officers is beyond understanding...According to Raheel Shareef the land price was around 80 million...if Raheel Shareef could afford to buy land for Rs80 million two years before retirement than we ordinary people should walk upside down...!
  
• Jan23-2017--army general cancels chinese company contracts in Wapda's Dasu project
  
• Jan22-2017--In an almost typical replay of the situation during the Raheel Shareef era a bomb placed in a vegetable market in Parachinar killed 25 and injured 87...while the bomb seemed to have been placed in a container two banned organizations claimed the blast with one saying that it was a suicide blast...police say that body parts were found near the blast...This has come on the heels of a LJ killing spree in the punjab...Parachinar is one of the sectarian conflict zones and the TTP said that they had avenged the eliminations of malik ishaq, noor al amin and asif chotoo...this comes after a peaceful space had been created by the removal of Raheel Shareef however the eliminations in punjab obviously challenged the tribal terrorists including the LJ-Al alami, TTP(shehryar) and TTP(khorasani)...
  
• Jan21-2017--The primeministers speech in parliament now being regarded as non article 66 material and lawyers also looking into Nawaz Sharifs continuous defiance of his oath of office...while the panama issue raised initially has become a minor part of the Sharifs shenanigans...!many are suggesting that Nawaz Sharif may be an employee of his son which is a serious violation of his oath of office...!
  
• Jan21-2017--The Orange colored president takes over in the USA saying he does like two suspicious looking blacks ie Barrack and Michelle...The US has never considered any country above itself and putting america first hardly matters...!!he suggests that he will revive the dustheaps ie industrial plants largely rusting and obsolete who have nobody to run them...most of the factories now have replica's in china which are cheaply run and have no manpower problems...!to solve that problem he will have to reduce electricity rates, industrial taxes and provide cheap labour...!or provide non returnable government handouts...he can do that having a huge tax base but it will largely be a waste given cheaper imports...Obama had distributed $17 trillion to america's big corporations when he took over...!if he provides that to the failed industries he can solve the problem of jobs and idle rusting heaps of metal...!however as he has indicated he will tinker with milder problems like Obamacare and fighting islamic terrorists worldwide with the implied risks of retaliations from terrorist fodder...!rebuilding infrastructure while a worthy objective will prove almost impossible given the size of the USA...he can however modernize rail systems in a country that does not even have bullet trains...!
  
• Jan20-2017--The government lawyer suggests that the initial issue of panama companies owned by the sharifs is not an illegality in itself...if that is so than why companies owned by the sharifs have been hidden for so long and why such a furore arose when those companies were denuded...!whether PIA owns hotels thru offshore companies or even planes is a completely different matter as PIA is a know entity and its ownership has not been hidden for unexplained reasons...the sharifs could also register a company in pakistan with foreign assets...why they did not is because politicians owning foreign assets directly is considered a source of corruption..and generally it is perceived as illegal...while the court can declare such companies legal there are still serious money laundering and tax issues...!most damaging is how the primeminister has been receiving funds from such companies of an unexplained nature...!many now agree that Nawaz Sharif may be in the employ of the CIA or even MOSAD or RAW...!the intelligence community owning such a high profile asset would regard it as an achievement worth paying
  
• Jan19-2017--The governments continuous attempts to eradicate the LJ since zia ul haq days continue...They have now gunned down the new head of LJ called Asif Chotoo in lahore along with the KP head Dr. Shakir and Khalid Pathan...This is the second LJ shootout in the sheikhupura area...Asif Chotoo earlier was regarded as the head of the Balochistan LJ...punjab police has strange methods...it is used to going on joyrides with its terrorist prisoners and than runs into gunbattles...usually its prisoners are the ones found dead after the puls muqabila...!
  
• Jan19-2017--The opposition provides further fuel to the fire of corruption by rejecting the plea bargain ordnance in the senate which had banned the corrupt from being elected for life...! the PPP leaders may have some surprising reasons for their opposition...!...just like Nawaz Sharif and his houbara hunters..plea bargain...!
  
• Jan19-2017--concerns about the primeminister lying had not ended as well as concerns about hiding wealth thru offshore concerns as new information emerged that the crookish Hussain Nawaz had given to the primemimister as much as Rs.544 million in gifts..while that is not a normal channel concerns about the primeminister accepting such huge bribes have risen...could the primeminister accept such abnormal gifts if provided by the indians or proctor and gamble or the army chief...?...the government lawyer wont even accept that such gifts are questionable and cognizable...!just tax on them could amount to hundreds of millions...it is therefore quite appropriate that the court decide that such gifts are not normal and can be confiscated...The PMLn probably wants to suggest to Imran Khan that he give such huge gifts to his sons drawn from the KP treasury or his millionaire friends...!Nawaz Sharif has a serious phsycological problem here of being a slavish beggar...!there were reports that he had asked bussinessmen from sialkot to give him such funds...who had in turn suggested that he ask Khawaja Asif who is the only person from sialkot that he had appointed...!it is like meeting the proctor and gamble chief in Davos and suggesting that i am helping u sell your shampoos...!Nawaz Sharif is a person who will take credit for anything...The judges should invite him to court to ask for his real version on things...!like the reports on his Davos visit...This time he had not even been invited but rushed off at the last moment as Raheel Shareef was invited...!
  
• Jan18-2017--The SC categorically states that the primeminister does not have absolute immunity and it was studying whether the primeminsiters speech can be used as evidence...
  
• Jan17-2017--In an almost a clear cut admission of guilt the Nawaz Sharif lawyer says that what the prime minister says in parliament is protected by article 66...while members of parliament have freedom of speech it is almost sacrosanct that at least the primeminister cannot lie to parliament as serious matters have tobe addressed otherwise he would lie to the country about indians and going to war...!the freedom is that u can talk about anything under the sun...it does not mean that that u can lie and disseminate lies...since the primeminister was addressing parliament on a personal matter it does not have legal protection...eg if u lie that i did not buy the flats in london in 1993 than that does not mean that you did not own that property thru whatever subterfuges until 2006...!!or if u lie that some property is yours when it is not you donot start legally owning it...what is at the center of things is that the primeminister lied which has tobe looked into under seperate but much more sterner constitutional provisions...as is well know that one constitutional provision does not take precedence over another...even than the court cannot convict you of lying and send you to jail but can exercize the provisions in article 62 and 63..it is almost a similar case to that of a former primeminister Yusuf Gilani...The position of primeminsiter is also in theory above and seperate from parliament and he can be tried for lying and hiding facts as is being done in the panamagate case...The concern and involvement is about a primeminister and his entire family lying which is the reason that the SC is looking into the issue...even if the court has qualms about delivering a judgement against the primeminister there are several other members of the family involved as well...!
  
• Jan16-2017--Saudia to buy five corvettes or warships from Spain...