The Daily PakistanPolitics Mar01-15, 2017

• Mar12-2017--Mullah Nawaz Sharif whose religious leanings are considered doubtful with some even calling him a communist ahmedi collaborator calls islam a religion of peace...since muslim nations have almost been fighting one way or another since creation that is a doubtful label...if you cannot fight than there will be no you eventually...he asks a seminary or mosque in lahore to change the terrorist nature of their narrative...something difficult for me or you to understand...since civil soceity is so against mullahs i doubt they can understand it too or change terrorist behaviour...Nawaz Sharif speaks the language of foreigners...the extremist narrative has been successful in fighting a foreign invador and has created a power base for mullahs of an extraordinary strength...while terrorism comes to a stop eventually it is definitely not for a few mullahs to control it...Our army which has shown a weakness in fighting for islam and the countries enemies will have to change...too...they will have to protect the people of pakistan and not their fellow officers, DHA's, government politicians, judges and chinese or some route...The government too will have to change and become humble and live at the level of the people...The police will have tobe freed from protecting only the evil elite...!The mullah's who are close to the terrorist narrative are well known and Nawaz Sharif should talk to them on how some mullah in Tank can send a terrorist to Lahore...!the terrorist narrative means nothing really apart from protecting someones religious feelings...and maybe he should approve the 22 billion for NACTA although how money can generate good intelligence is difficult to determine...it is only deep embedded intelligence assets that can generate the required information...The country cannot be used to protect a few minorities at the expense of an unprotected majority...
  
• Mar05-2017--In mocking the PSL final in lahore the Quetta gladiators foreign signings ran away however the peshawar Zalmi foreign players were confident that the terrorists usually being KP pukhtun/tribal types would not attack them...!the gladiators however arranged for lesser know african and west indies players as a backup for their dependable foreign players like rossuw and kevin pieterson, tymal mills and luke wright...however the terrorists are known tobe frightened of dogs and the police/rangers have arranged an additional detail in sniffer dogs...most information suggests that there will be no terrorist incident at the PSL final as all key components of pakistans security system ie army, police, punjab government and pukhtuns are involved...!!there has been no international cricket in pakistan since the sri lankan team was attacked by the LJ during a test match in lahore at the same venue...the PSL is a pakistani venture and cannot be regarded as an international match...and to put things in perspective the entire leadership of the LJ has either been hanged or gunned down by the punjab police and military courts...!
  
• Mar05-2017--The PPP unable to get a consensus on military courts and to present its own draft...many point to the meaningless record of military courts and why the army chief gets to approve death sentences when the rubber stamp president has never quibbled over signing a death sentence...others suggest that a tv recording of the military courts functioning should be maintained...many also mocked the Rangers takeover of lahore suggesting that Rangers only wanted to protect military interests in DHA and military officers...now they say a police pickup is accompanied by a Rangers pickup...!!others were also laughing at the army chiefs statement that pak-iran defence ties serve regional peace..iranian forces routinely fire across the pak-iran border and iran serves shiite interests and is an indian friend and has opposed pakistani interests in afghanistan...!there has never been any real interaction between the pakistan army and the iranian revolutionary guards as far as we know and the pakistan army has voiced concern at iranian interference in arab countries...!some also say that iran funds sectarian militant groups!
  
• Mar05-2017--IHC banns parties with similar names from registering and only allows it after an existing party gives consent...IHC seems however to allow teh multiple parties having similar names that already exist...apparently there are 20 ' Muslim Leagues' and 10 'People parties'...!
  
• Mar04-2017--while the government and army has generally been working at eliminating specifically the LJ and sunni type extremist usually at the urging of shiite type politicians the Nawaz Sharif regime now says that it will eliminate all type of terrorists...!The army chief apparently recently also approved the invasion by a US drone from afghanistan which fired at a motorcycle and killed two...
  
• Mar02-2017--The saudi king has started to vist Jakarta in what looks like a snub to the anti saudi pakistani government...The king also to holiday in Bali...This is the first saudi king visit to indonesia in 47 years...this has happened after relations between gulf states and pakistan soured after Nawaz Sharif's continued negative attitude towards the saudi's...many think the saudi's may also be trying to fill the USA vacuum created by the pathetic Donald Trump...!usually south east asia has been the bread and butter of US overseas diplomacy over the decades...!
  
• Mar02-2017--with the government decision to hold the PSL final in Lahore there seems tobe repercussions...The famous foreign stars have all opted out..as has the TV broadcaster...!however suicide bombers have also decided to take a rest...although if quetta gladiators try to win they will blow up a khumba(power pole)...Darren Sammy might be the only foreign star if Peshawar Zalmi win thru against Karachi Kings who apparently knocked out islamabad united...in what seems like a stage managed exit...!PSL now trying to bring in some retired or ordinary foreign stars...!without the foreign stars the PSL teams might look pretty ordinary...!