The Daily PakistanPolitics May1-15, 2018

• May15-2018--In other news Pakistans NSC also allowed the US embassy colonel who killed a motorcycle rider to leave the country...It had been hoped that the government could stand upto US shenanigans...but to no avail...
  
• May15-2018--The NSC casts doubt on the state of Nawaz Sharifs mind suggesting that he is a habitual liar...a charge that he has been contesting since the SC judgement disqualifying him...!A TV media report suggested that ' Abbasi halqaan ho raha he denials kar kar ke"...!after the NSC denied any role in slowing down the case suggesting that the indians hurriedly buried Ajmal Kasab and thus denied pakistan a lot of information...due process was thus interrupted...The primeminister than came out and denied that Nawaz Sharif had said anything accusing pakistans politicisized military of proxies...he had said that they could be called askari or non state actors...only one of the bombay raiders was supposedly a pakistani while the others were said tobe bengalis and indians...the NSC said that Nawaz sharif had misconceptions or said it because of some grievances...the other politicians were not so sweet on Nawaz Sharif and clearly accused him of lacking patriotism and being a ghaddar...!Nawaz Sharif who clearly did not spend much time on the issue during his tenure is also accused of destroying pakistans foreign policy even to the extent of ridiculing pakistans key ally Saudi Arabia...he was the foreign minister and destroyed all of pakistans international support base...Rehman Malik said that India had hired the nonstate actors...others have accused Nawaz Sharif and an indian steelmaker tobe behind the attacks to benefit the BJP elections...the bombay attack was purportedly organized by "Abu Jindal"...!
  
• May15-2018--Pakistan which already has a passive non aggressive military posture in the region many think should change its attitude and allow its military to retaliate with full force against enemies...because of this attitude pakistan is forced to use proxies for the last four decades causing insurmountable problems...in matters of defence pakistan should be willing to stand alone as no one will come to defend pakistan...Pakistans stupid forner primeminister says he does not know what has been happening in pakistan and accuses security organizations of attempting to curry favour with india...Nawaz Sharif known for his Modi friendly attitude is known to have suggested that Modi come and rule pakistan to find how difficult it is...!recently he has again accused the security organizations of having been involved in terrorism in pakistan and the occasional act in india...he says eg. I donot know who started terrorism in pakistan...His pro indian submissive attitude is quite clear to everyone and it is not a commission that should be formed but a case under article 6 say the PTI...Pakistan cannot survive as an indian proxy in the region or even become a Finland when its supposedly friendly enemies are prone to firing across its borders...Nawaz Sharif is now accusing the militaries proxies of being involved in terrorism in pakistan which generally does not seem tobe the case...Nawaz Sharif seems frightened of accusing india, USA and afghanistan while television views of pakistans military dominated cabinet shows senior military officers cringing and avoiding taking the lead in the serious security situation that has emerged...The puppet primeminister suggested that Nawaz Sharif was being misquoted...!!!All other reviewers suggest the exact opposite...! It is quite well known that the Taleban and military were always sympathetic to Nawaz Sharif while Asif Zardari recently said that the pukhtuns have been on our side(in terrorizing pakistan)...and Nawaz Sharif is about the only politician to have survived since the 1970's...!!!
  
• May13-2018--Pakistan refuses to allow the USA to pick up a US diplomat who rammed a motorcycle and killed one...A US plane had come in and waited at Nur Khan airbase...Pakistan has been distancing itself from the USA after Trump's accusations...recently both countries restricted their diplomats to the capital...Since the diplomat has immunity Pakistan cannot arrest him...!Upto now the Pakistan military has been following US orders in the region...However they now are trying to follow their own course and getting along with other tyrants in the region...!
  
• May13-2018--Rain and windstorm batter Fata and KP...14 dead...
  
• May13-2018--In the SC...Justice Isa is becoming a black sheep...he questioned the SC's Human Rights director for issuing orders...hospital waste is a public importance technical health issue...The objectionable attitude of Justice Isa caused the CJ to kick him of the bench...He is now complaining that the CJ acted improperly to exclude him from the bench...Justice Isa is accused of having personal sympathies for Nawaz Sharif and seems to want that the SC not be aggressive and proactive on political/administrative issues...
  
• May13-2018--karachi needs new politicos and a new pro country agenda say politicians deriding the altaf hussein controversial legacy of trying to separate karachi on warlord ethnic militant grounds...!The MQM groups will rue not cleaning up dirty spots in karachi...most of Karachi's affluent areas are clean enough...what seems tobe happening is that Karachi might be shifting to the PPP and the PTI as the MQM is at best ineffective and prone to flailing in the wind...Bilawal mocks his parties views as he was happy to get PTI support in the senate elections but now calls Imran Khan the Banigala terrorist...he also blames all Sindhi problems on Nawaz Sharif despite being the second richest province and PPP ruled for at least a decade...PPP just does not know how to clear itself of blame specifically of siphoning off government funds and what they did in the province apart from some free cardio centers...!everyone of the major parties is also allied against him or his party he says...The major parties have found Karachi tobe a fertile political arena...Imran Khan is fond of points...after his 12 point national agenda he says he has a ten point Karachi agenda and wants to spend holidays there as he did in his childhood...The politicians all hark back to the 1960's which were really almost 50-60 years ago...!Things are actually much better in Karachi...you can go from the airport to Keamari on a signal free road...along which invest Karachi's affluent business and industrial biradri...the well developed DHA's populated by retired army officers and karachi's rich...has a beach of its own and Dolmen plaza... however the road along the other seacoast from Keamari is terrible and taxi cabs do not know how to get to one of the old beaches that Karachi was famous for...Sandspit, Hawkesbay anyone..!people talked about a French beach but it and the entire area the Rangers said was theirs...!!!The new military backed Pashteen group also allowed to hold a jalsa...!however some say their guys have disappeared or are not allowed to travel to karachi...!
  
• May13-2018--after allegations of transferring $4.9 billion to India Nawaz Sharif has committed what seems like a blunder...many question why he does not just shift to india or is he a paid indian agent/slave...!he says pakistani militant organizations organized the bombay blast...he also questions why the case has not been decided...theoretically the case has not been decided because of a lack of evidence...even one of the bombay plotters had said that he only once saw the mullah hafiz saeed who supposedly heads the LT at a friday sermon...one also doubts that the guys accused had any real knowledge of the hotel involved...!!many however accuse the PPP primeminister of the time of not monitoring the...! or even ordering or rehashing an old plot...!Nawaz Sharif also does not understand the issue...nobody asked you to sacrifice your soldiers or your people...!they die in battle because they are poorly trained and donot take normal precautions...!
  
• May12-2018--CJ laments killing of Hazaras in Quetta who are not locals and are of iran-afghan descent..they were forced out of both iran and afghanistan...!many feel that apart from generalized security issues the Hazaras would seemingly like tobe continuously compensated...many feel that they should solve their supposed problems with their killers...Just being shiite is probably not the reason for the attacks...The CJ should study the problem between the groups and try to solve the basic issue...Just providing area guards wont solve the issue as they have to leave their areas at some time...!
  
• May12-2018--commuters to new airport stuck in long ques...as NHA tollbooths and ASF security checks too slow...
  
• May12-2018--Mullah abdul aziz not allowed to lead friday sermon at Lal masjid
  
• May12-2018--The portly and childish defence minister also becomes foreign minister showing the paucity of capable people in the PMLn...!
  
• May12-2018--motorcycle blast kills one in Bannu
  
• May12-2018--24 pilots i pakistani airlines have fake degrees...!
  
• May10-2018--The CJ has visited two mental institutions in lahore and peshawar..!he has not however made any comment on their operations or competence...!
  
• May10-2018--explosions at two girls schools in north waziristan...!
  
• May10-2018--The PTI and south punjabi rebels have joined hands...suggesting that a south punjab province could be formed in 100 days...!while the PTI might look a bit more robust the south punjabis say they could drop out of the coalition after a 100 days of government since forming a new province just in punjab looks pretty impossible at the moment...They would need the support of the three major parties to accomplish something like that...!
  
• May10-2018--with the way Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Abbasi reacted to NAB's suggestion that they were investigating Nawaz Sharif sending $4.9 billion to india does suggest collusion of some sort...even if untrue just the suggestion that the government is involved in such a huge transfer to an enemy state is worth investigating...Nawaz Sharif has just gotten off the paranoia of attacking SC judgements and judges and now he wants to attack the NAB chief...The SC could take up the issue suomoto...at the moment they are only getting along with the subordinate and almost pathetic army chief...who was having celebrations at getting a Rs45000 salary raise...!the suggestion by Nawaz Sharif that the NAB is discriminating against him can also be studied by the court...!
  
• May10-2018--The Pakistan Army thinks that pakistani politics is childs play...
  
• May10--2018--The CJ suddenly realizes the high taxes on mobile topup...the PMLn should realize that the people do pay taxes and discriminating on taxation basis is illegal...The CJ should also study the high taxes on mobile bills, electricity bills and petroleum products...
  
• May10-2018--South punjab province questionable venture for PPP and PTI...basing their desire on development in lahore does not make sense...what they should consider is equitable fair development...legally the PTI would need a two thirds majority in the punjab assembly and the national assembly
  
• May10-2018--NAB reports that Nawaz Sharif involved in shifting $4.9 billion to India being questioned by the State Bank...PMLn primeminister also unreasonably upset at the charges which are based on a World Bank money migration report say newspaper reports...NAB should investigate the charges as they are serious enough...WB says that they have not mentioned any names or mentioned money laundering...however money does not travel onits own unless they are just trade proceeds...trade with india is dangerous for pakistan
  
• May10--2018--reports suggest that Balkh Sher Mazari is making the phone calls to legislators to switch loyalties...
  
• May9-2018--South punjab Mahaz to join the PTI
  
• May9--2018--Donald Trump ends the US part of the iran nuclear deal...iran has adopted an aggressive attitude and has refused to leave Syria or Iraq and is continuously supporting the yemen rebels...The ending has come on israeli reports despite the urging of Trumps european allies...There are also reports of the pakistan army chief having personally delivered some spare parts to iran...!while Iran has russian and chinese missiles it was aggressively attempting to make its own missiles...it has the chinese silkworm sea missiles and the russian SS4 surface to air system...To attack israel Iran would need ballistic missiles or at least cruise missiles...!Russia to continue engaging with iran while pakistan will probably not see its gas link completed...!sanctions will deter pakistan from further getting into the iranian-russian bear hug..while iran probably has gotten back its foreign reserves and is financially comfortable...how its purchases of commercial aircraft work in the new situation is probably problematic...Iran had severe problems in the earlier sanctions to the extent of getting payments from india for oil exports...
  
• May7--2018--Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal shot at in Narowal...motive apparently the PMLn's suspicious Khatme Nubawat attitudes..This follows on after the attempted murder of PTI lawyer Naeem Bukhari in London where he was pushed onto the rails from the platform...some had reported that he had also been attacked outside a london Pub and was drunk...than there was also was the firing at the residence of a judge...most attribute it to PMLn subversive attitudes...however Naeem Bukhari has rejected that he was attacked and says he fell onto the rails because he was drowsy...!
  
• May7-2018--Judiciary has asked courts not to issue stay orders on CPEC related projects...while there has been only one stay order on the Orange Line it was based on substantive issues...!...The chinese have run into numerous labour/management related issues mostly because of attitude and language problems...giving the chinese carte blanche judicial protection seems unjust...
  
• May7--2018--Nawaz Sharif who is disqualified from participating in politics and elections continues to hold rallies in out of the way places. He now wants a huge mandate to end his disqualification...most people now realize that Nawaz Sharif was corrupt but are still willing to vote for him given the mostly ethnic opposition...however a huge mandate in the national assembly wont solve his problem...he thinks like most deaf and dumb politicians that the people have not accepted his disqualification...many feel that his paranoia on his personal disqualification will cause him to lose the elections...however the PPP and PTI are picking up steam and could give him a real fight...
  
• May7-2018--The PPP wants to play hide and seek on the issue of the caretaker primeminister...mostly non prominent people are usually considered who are usually in the background...Only the PTI suggestions are known which many say are linked to the musharaf era...many feel that the PPP has been unable to decide on a choice and wants to delay so that the party does not oppose them...given the situations retired judges are usually at the forefront...some suggest Kaiser Bengali a sindhi economist...they are probably waiting for ISI advice...!
  
• May6-2018--The standin says he is unaware of the meaning of Nawaz Sharifs "khalai mukhluq..."...whom he blames for the desertion of 30 parliamentarians from PMLn/punjab...while most were former PPP and PMLq types...the south punjab mahaz has been unable to show any discrimination to south punjab...atmost they might have less universities...however most key indicaters suggest greater development in the southern areas eg in power generation...they have a new multan airport...a new metro...a governor and a punjab finance minister with at least ten ministers in the center...two nuclear power stations being built...are a key sugar production area, they have a modern cardiology center in multan as well at least three universities and several medical colleges...also they are a center for cotton growth...generally that is more than enough for a desertified area...even the new solar power plant is in bahawalpur...Anyway politicians usually attribute things they cant understand to the dubious natured army and ISI...however others suggest some pir, zardari and chaudhry shujaat...etc.etc...after the nasty nawaz sharif/PMLn attitudes towards the judiciary he says that they respect the judiciary...maybe they dont know the meaning of the word...!
  
• May6-2018--19 coalminers die in two coal mine blasts in Balochistans marwar area 60 miles from quetta
  
• May6-2018--In March in multan...On March 20 an undertrial prisoner hurled a shoe at a judge...in a fast moving judicial system he was sentenced to 18 years and a fine of 200000 on May5...another accused hurled a show at a judge near Sorgodha yesterday...seems part of a PMLn anti judiciary campaign...
  
• May6-2018--Like previous military failures the current army chief is also dumb enough to attempt to suggest negotiations with india and joint maneouvres with russia and china...India currently refuses to negotiate on any issue and two former army coup plotters have suffered extreme humiliation in visits to india..The army should realize that there is no sanity in the indian nature and they are not going to negotiate...Unless the pakistan army can subdue the indians on the kashmir LOC the indians are not expected to budge...the army has a watch the indian firing on the LOC attitude with an occasional retaliation...while india says they are fighting pakistani infiltrators...?
  
• May6-2018--Chaudhry Nisar says he has been friends with musharaf and shuja pasha...he suggests that he could have left the PMLn with 45 mna's which many regard as a doubtful claim...he says that he advised against Nawaz Sharifs anti judiciary tirades...he suggests that the standin has suggested that the elections will be conducted by the aliens aka the military/ISI...although he is still waiting for their advice on the caretaker setup...
  
• May6-2018--MQMp revives muhajir politics and mocks PPP for its Papa, Phuppo and Putar politics...while muhajirs have learnt of the negative conotations of such ethnic politics they have no other legs to stand on...The PTI however bravely rejects any future coalition with the PPP after the elections...many suggest that Zardari clearly fooled Imran Khan by getting two diehard PPP supporters elected as the Senate chairman and deputy...but others suggest that he had no way out as the PMLn was hardly friendly...