The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug 15-31, 2017

• Aug29-2017--HBL shuts down its New York branch after being fined for money laundering...
  
• Aug29-2017--Such is the love for bigger cities that 20% now live in the top ten cities...In sindh 52% live in urban areas with over 14.9 million in karachi...population in peshawar, quetta and islamabad has doubled...generally the population percentages are the same with sindh at 23%...karachi saw an increase of 63 % while quetta increased by 144%...Sindh population is now 49 million...The most populous division in the country is lahore with 19.4 million...while malakand is KP's largest divsion
  
• Aug28-2017--Pakistan resisting any contacts with the USA after its lambasting of the pakistan army...Pakistan is now of no consequence to the US as they try other regional big fish...good riddance many say
  
• Aug28-2017--Pakistan's simplistic army chief has suggested border controls and intelligence sharing as a method to control terrorism...upto now pakistan has not found any successful method apart from running the terrorists into afghanistan and into graves...!
  
• Aug28-2017--The NRO has been implemented many say...Imran accuses collusion in Zardari acquitttal...many see an SC hand in quickly getting Zardari and asim hussein of the hook...while others say he has spent sufficient time in jail and has had his own wife killed...!!also allowing the sharifs to leave the country almost enbloc seems pretty strange...!although many see the hand of a former wife in the running away off hamza shahbaz...others say that it would have taken an even stronger JIT to uncover Zardari's assets abroad and even inside the country...As for the sharif money trail more information has emerged of hill company jeddah-Newyork-raiwind-Standard chartered money transfers which have gone on from 2007-2017...? HBL, New York has been fined 630 million dollars...! for its nawaz sharif money laundering involvements...
  
• Aug27-2017--The US's general in afghanistan says they are aware of taleban presences in peshawar and quetta...we too are aware of the presence of haqqanis and other taleban in afghanistan...maybe a realistic change is needed on the part of the US military...while they can barely handle taleban in afghanistan and are calling them to negotiations they want us to kill in cold blood any taleban in pakistan...!pakistan--army and government should tell the US to go to hell...The ISI which supposedly handles such killings should also stay out of it...
  
• Aug27-2017--NA-120 campaign tobe run by Maryam as Kulsoom and the rest of the sharifs convalesce in London...Kulsoom's throat cancer would probably require a minor operation if she is telling the truth...!however signs suggest that Maryam and Nawaz Sharif still want to control things and they have toppled Hamza Shahbaz who has run of to england too...!doubts have been expressed whether the PMLn would accept her as primeminister although she is considered more problem solving and probably more honest...she is regarded as having negotiated Nawaz Sharifs escape to Jeddah...she also has a pehlwan cousin running the security at Raiwind and is a celebrity in her own rite as a daughter of Goga Pehlwan a brother of Bohlu pehlwan...If she takes over as primeminister after winning against cancer and the NA-120 seat than her mild nature might be a problem for the PMLN...!
  
• Aug27-2017--Mqm london hitman Imran alias mama said tobe involved in killing 22 apprehended...another mqm hitman arrested in the killing of the KESC MD from interior sindh
  
• Aug27-2017--after Nawaz sharifs disqualification the accountability courts have quickly acquitted Asif Zardari...despite substantial evidence in the SGS-Cotechna reference and some say in the Ary gold case...the last case involved illegal assets in the country and abroad...Zardari who is largely considered a political crook has been able many say to foil the accountability system...others say he is living on Benazirs resources or in effect the 2000 acres owned by ZAB's first wife...!his friendliness with crookish contractors such as Malik Riaz is said tobe proof of his widespread indirect corruption involvements...!
  
• Aug27-2017--The supervisory Judge for NAB allows the JIT tobe interrogated/testify about the JIT volumes of information to NAB so they can be used as prosecution witnesses...Nawaz Sharif also files another review petition against the three judges...while there was sufficient evidence to disqualify Nawaz Sharif in the Panama references on other issues the court disqualified Nawaz Sharif on a simpler of issue of not disclosing that he was a salaried employee of a Dubai company...The sharif lawyers want the court to look at the non disclosure issue as seperate to the whole enquiry...as an error but not due to wilful dishonesty...However the courts has i think explained that a simpler issue was used to disqualify so that the criminal intent of other inquiries were not threatened...!the almost wilful dishonesty of the sharif clan is pretty clear and the court blamed nawaz sharif for the bad or negative intentions of the sharif family...many also feel that Nawaz Sharif due to old age had almost retired as a primeminister and was at best acting as a minister...!he also did not understand that his eyes had gone bad causing him headaches and problems with sunlight and reading...!Nawaz Sharif also seemed to suffer from dementia not remembering recent things clearly...
  
• Aug27-2017--The census numbers have surprised many politicians...population rose at a 2.4% rate to over 207 million or increased by 57%...the census is theoretically useless barring some aspects in delineating constituencies and the NFC award...theoretically around 50 more seats should be added to the national assembly...they suggest that over 10 million voters have been added to the punjab total thus allowing it to get more resources than sindh which has whopping population of 48 million...the difficulties of living in lahore and karachi are apparent in their lacklustre population growth many say...typically the most migration takes place from KP which many think should be completely empty by now...although just by looking at google the housing has tripled in areas like swabi which provides a large number of migrants!...there is also a very heavy visible movement to urban areas...the census was carried out under the threat of a gun...they asked me if i had a firearm...i said i had a stun device a defensive weapon...immediately a soldier with a rifle cameup...and they did not allow me to add my family members who lived in england...!