The Daily PakistanPolitics Jan1-15, 2018

• Jan12-2018--In Balochistan Mir Qudoos Bizenjo is nominated by the PMLn dissidents for chief minister who they say have 40 votes...Bizenjo comes from Awaran said tobe the home of liberation terrorists and won by securing only 550 votes... two other candidates got 95 and 18 votes...!
  
• Jan12-2018--Imran Khan has a unique system of selecting his wives and the way he marrys them...He says he never involves his family in the arrangements, selection or offer of marriage...while generally in pakistan the family arranges the marriage he seems tobe the exact opposite of pakistani behaviour...apparently he has never met or even seen her and is only interested in her spirituality..he says she observes purdah and is conservative...something that seems out of character...!The current hoopla was generally raised by a journalist and even Nawaz Sharif objected to Imran Khans style..even though some say that he has been looking for girlfriends himself...!However one must say that Imran Khan wastes no time...offering marriage as soon as he learned of her divorce...!he says that at 65 he has been married for a total of ten years...!His interest in being married has increased with his political involvement...!
  
• Jan12-2018--apparently the dubious natured army chief who had earlier called for US recognition of pakistani services is still talking to US defence chiefs...!While the US attitude has been one of continuous nasty procastination it seems to the public that the army seems tobe senseless towards the US attitude...the army seems unable to recognize an opponent...who though a supposed ally only takes its own views(indian and afghan views) into consideration and is imperious towards pakistan... it seems pathetic that the army still wants to cozy up to the US...who ever the pakistan army attempts to befriend turns nasty at one stage or the other...The pakistan army insists that their operations have wiped out any major safe havens...!
  
• Jan12-2018--The situation in Kasur remained tense as protestors attacked and set on fire the homes/cars of two PMLn Mpa/mna...The embattled punjab chief minister visited the Zainab fanily home at 4am...!two protestors who had been killed in police fire were offered 3 million each...The funeral of Zainab was led by the Tehreek Labaik chief who had recently battled police in Rawalpindi...Kasur meanwhile remained shutdown...Rangers have been called in..the father is a supporter of Tehreek Labaik and many suspect that it could be the PMLn settling scores
  
• Jan11-2018--COS tells foreign envoys that recent attack in quetta was afghan inspired..in contrast to US views he says that sanctuaturies in afghanistan are the problem which are not tackled by US invaders...!
• Jan11-2018--violent protest erupted in Kasur over the rape and murder of a girl who was buried wednesday...two protestors were shot dead by police..many are blaming the PMLn and chief minister Shabaz Sharif for the problems...this appraently is one of many such incidents in the area...
  
• Jan6-2018--The crisis in balochistan seems tobe worsening and upto 26 members are said to have joined the opposition to the chief minister...!The PMLn is pushing the case for a JUIf chief minister if things go awry...!
  
• Jan6-2018--The SC bench that refused to reopen the Hudaibya Reference seems tobe a PMLn affair...The Judge Qazi faiz isa is the son of a muslim league leader...many are pointing to that as the reason for the SC 's about turn...many thought that there were sufficient reasons for reopening the case including the confession of money laundering by Ishaq dar...! The judge literally copied the PMLn arguments in the judgement...Since that was the only case against Nawaz Sharif he has gotten off scotfree..many are also referring to the Nawaz Sharif kissing the hands of Prince Mohammed as another reason...apparently the saudis have no love lost for toppled leaders and they literally tried to start supporting Shabaz Sharif who needs a lot of religious support to get off the hook
  
• Jan6-2018--The US spokesmen suggest that stoppage of the security relations should not be seen as a final cutoff but as an incentive...however pakistan's studying the US actions suggest that the US does not want to interact any longer...The area that the Haqqanis work are in provinces on the pakistan border which donot effect the US occupation forces in afghanistan...It therefore seems that the actions are intended to shoreup their afghan and india relations rather than force pakistan to do something specific that the US will now have to pay for upfront...pakistan is still a conduit i think for US military supplies and petroleum products and pakistan should immediately shut any US military transportation thru Pakistan...Pakistan is thus being used as a scapegoat for Trumps failures in other arena's...while the military scenario prior to this was similar as the US paid for actions or operations after they were completed...as for military supplies they are usually paid for in advance and anything in the pipeline will have tobe supplied by the USA...The US aid at best is insignificant...Pakistan can now shoot down any drones that intrude into their territory and restrict any military activities out of the US embassy including communications...The pakistani military is now being referred to as the biggest coward in the bussiness after its uneducated ISPR chief referred to the USA as still friends...It is the general consensus that pakistan cannot do much as the Haqqanis active in afghanistan are not usually at home in pakistan...If the USA has not been able to deal with the Haqqani's upto now than there is not much that they can do...many refer the situation to Nawaz Sharifs pathetic Nationl Security Policy and silly idiotic policies with afghanistan and india...recently he wanted to straighten out pakistanis and its mullahs...!and according to some wanted to suspend the Jadhav death sentence...So the cowardly nature of pakistans politicians and military is directly the cause of Trumps insults and US policy being termed as an incentive rather than a cutoff...!Pakistan however seems tobe backing off and was willing to let the US have its way on stopping all funding to the JUD and MML...!The PMLn seems tobe frightened off the fledgling MML and does not want it to have any chance to get anyone elected to the NA...The US wil have to understand that our interests are not the same as the USA and never have been...we have our wars and the US has its wars...on some we can look the other way but not all the time...USAID and military assistance in terms of helping pakistan say purchase old F-16's and paying for US utilizing pakistans military and conduit services has steadily declined since 2010...the military aid was slated to be a total of $320 million and a grand total of $743 million in 2017...given the US attitude pakistan should also cutof all security related relations...working for small amounts piecemeal seems tobe pretty pathetic and immature on the part of the military establishment..Pakistan was also supposed to receive some discarded military equipment...a dawn report suggests that pakistan's total aid might be as high as $1.9 billion but many doubt the figure...The US has constantly increased its nastiness year to year since the Abbottabad incident...The incongruity between pakistan and the USA has constantly deepened and pakistan was already trying to play both sides cozying upto the Iran-USA-qatar group as well as the US coalition...however the change in the US attitudes in the region have left pakistan quite isolated with pakistan militarily more dependent on china and trying to easeup with iran and russia...pakistan due to this is also in an uneasy relationship by playing both groups in the iran-saudi tussle...