The Daily PakistanPolitics April 16-30, 2017

• Apr29-2017--PM minister meets Modi agent in secret and does not inform national assembly of reasons behnd the secrecy. Many suggest that Nawaz Sharif will agin try to sell the steel mill to the indian crooks
  
• Apr27-2017--former taleban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan says that they were agents for india and afghanistan as Nawaz Sharif again pounds the doors for indian friendship..while the taleban and JUA are at best mercenaries they have lost a lot of support for their meaningless anti pakistan terrorism...If Nawaz Sharif releases Jadhav than it will be quite clear that the Sharifs are nothing but agents for indian terrorism...
• Apr27-2017--Imran's allegations that he was offered Rs10 billion by agents of Nawaz Sharif raises a hornets nest as a minister threatens to resign
  
• Apr26-2017--roadside bomb kills 14 in Kurram...Five jundullah militants killed in botched Rangers raid in the Urdu Bazaar area in karachi...also killed three of a facilitators family...four militants hanged in KP
  
• Apr26-2017--PPP launches its anti Punjab strategy in KP...KP says it has inked $24 billion CPEC contracts giving the lie to the Zardari claims...He also claims that Imran is a false Khan as opposed to the politics of fake bhutto's...while Zardari is a devious campaigner he must know that playing provinces against each other is a doubtful strategy as each province has its own preferences...there will be nobody new for KP to vote for in the next elections...KP assembly votes to send Nawaz Sharif home...!Zardaris claim of Nawaz Sharif being a zia prodigy is actually mild as he was a military prodigy in Yahya's time when Ittefak was a subcontractor for the Nishan jeep...!
  
• Apr26-2017--a young poetess from Bhalwal with one book to her credit dies after falling off the stage in islamabad
  
• Apr26-2017--Inzamam's team for the champions trophy probably contains sarfaraz ahmeds favorites as compared to the previous captains...only one left arm spinner is retained with the options shared between Imad wasim and and Fakhar baber...!...left armers are usually more successful in a one day tournament...the team probably contains what Inzamam things are their one day players like shoaib, sarfraz, baber,azhar and fakhar being the only hard hitter...hafeez could be better down the the order given his pathetic ability with the outswinger...the alternates for shehzad in the opening slot are several if he fails...baber azam could blossom although pakistans tournament record is at best absymal of late...however sarfaraz could make the players not stand around and play every ball...The fast bowlers are average with no brilliance...so pakistan could depend on three to four spinners...Shadab's alround credentials are limited while fahim and imad wasim might be the two alrounders playing...Sarfaraz does well to drop trouble makers of any sort...viz the captain...legspinners like Shadab can be hit around in one dayers if they bowl short or wide...Pakistan has to depend on whoever they think is in form although Umar akmal does have some ability lower down the order but he must restrict himself hitting in the air over long boundaries...!
  
• Apr22-2017--given the hindrance of a JIT and special court the primeministers best way politically is to resign however he may not have the guts or the intellect to do that...while the opposition has asked him to resign a bigger threat comes from the LHC lawyers who have given him a week to resign...!
  
• Apr22-2017--Retired general Raheel Shareef leaves for Saudia to take his position as head of a Saudi Defence Alliance..The precise parameters of the alliance are vague however pakistan has supposedly assured the Iranians that their perverse interests which are generally anti Saudi in intent will be looked into...At the moment the SDA looks more like a political advisory and the pakistani's will have to provide troops alongwith the egyptians..The Iranians have refused to participate upto now however they could participate at the Defence minister level...Raheel Shareef many suggest might have been handling the Panama case to gain political experience...however many suggest as the Nawaz Shareef position had weakened considerably the decision to give Raheel Shareef an exit visa was made after the Panama case...The first issues tobe faced by the alliance are obviously Syria and yemen and to some extent Iraq..all three with deep Iranian involvements and supposed shiite population interests...somalia, pakistan, afghanistan, libya, terror threats to the west etc. are other issues that could be considered needy of handling...apparently a few thousand troops from pakistan maybe asked for to defend the Yemen border with Saudia where Houtis have struck several times...however at this stage no pakistani troops are tobe deployed outside Saudia...so the alliance maybe in a quandary if they cannot handle things politically and mercenaries may the answer for them...The iranians have to understand that as muslims sunni-shiite rulers have to be treated similarly..iranians want shiites to rule shiites but not vice versa...Shiism has generated over the centuries from conflicts amongst the ruling syeds from mecca...it basically emanated from attempts to treat rulers and the people with the same sword...
  
• Apr22-2017--foreign CEO of PIA fired and on exit control list...!
  
• Apr21-2017--The SC in what can be called a crooked decision went by what was thought initially tobe the judges views...initially it was called 4-1 for Nawaz Sharif however it ended as 3-2 for Nawaz Sharif with some what you might call after thoughts...A JIT tobe formed on the basis of government employees who would hardly be thought likely to come up with new or other startling disclosures...It was the general view that Nawaz Sharif and family were at best crooked liars and Nawaz and his family were employees of the Qatari rulers...There was a report that Shahbaz Sharif had gifted cows and camels to the Qatari rulers apart from hunting permits...The Qatari rulers are well known tobe friends with the Taleban...Senior judges stoodup against the junior judges who could not decide what was the truth...The JIT and a special bench to monitor the disqualification of the rulers are a weak kneed response to avoid facing the truth...The judges and army might have avoided an election that they might lose and saw no point in replacing the crooked primeminister with his ally Khawaja Asif Safdar who is the son of an Ayub Khan era speaker...Nawaz Sharif and family were found tobe military contractors in the late 1960's and supplied to the zulfikar ali bhutto era military jeep "Nishan" which did not last long after american jeeps became available...The chief judge Khosa quoted a Mario Puzo novel "The Godfather" and stated that every wealth is based on a crime...pictures were moving around on the internet of a Marlon Brando lookalike Nawaz with more hair than the aspirant to the title...One wonders why the junior judges agreed to a JIT and special bench when they were convinced of the innocence of the sharifs...Asif Khoso seems to have simply ruled on the basis of the barrage of lies that were submitted by the Sharifs and declared him as not sadiq or ameen...and thus inelegible tobe elected as an mna...The actual charge was the Panama Papers which fell by the wayside
  
• Apr17-2017--three killed in tribal jirga shootout in qila abdullah
  
• Apr17-2017--paramilitary Rangers withdraw from karachi streets and will now apparently only assist the police
  
• Apr17-2017--The slain victim of blasphemy continues to make waves after his death...The blasphemy charges though not defined stem from a university debate...On the internet the killers and the victim are said tobe ANP workers...although even the university was investigating blasphemy charges!...In Zaida which is a famous town/village on the Swabi road to Mardan the funeral was small as people stayed away ...however now local residents have demonstrated and laid wreaths at the grave...two local clerics who refused to lead the funeral are also the subject of hate speech charges...The funeral was led by a non cleric...The funeral is usually quite simple in which partcipants pray to allah, praise the prophet and duas' for the marhum...the exact prayer has tobe remembered although some non clerical funeral leaders say they can just pray for the marhum and do darood and sanaa for allah and the prophet...numerous arrests reported of those involved