The DailyPakistanPolitics May16-31, 2018

• May29-2018--Maryam Nawaz has to realize one does not suddenly become the owner of companies in Panama for fun and owners of expensive properties in england and steel mills in jeddah and dubai with israeli contracts...the panama cases have quite clearly outlined corruption...if Nawaz Sharif did not own the properties than how did the two brothers receive shares of of Rs125 million each from the defacto owner...Another of Shabaz Sharifs corrupt beaurocrats Ahad Cheema had his Rs11 million Prado and Rs14.5 million in cash confiscated from a dealership in Lahore...Ahad Cheema is charged with massive corruption in the Ashiana scheme a Rs 14 billion punjab government scheme...Ahad also had 90 canals of land and Rs400 million in a lahore housing soceity...He apparently is also claiming that his wife owned the wealth..The corrupt Maryam Nawaz are always hand in glove...while the pathetic Mian Sharif was known as " Mian Chawani" Maryam , Nawaz and brothers company is in cahoots of millions...Mian Sharif at least did do an honest days work while sharif's children & company have never worked in their lives...!
  
• May29-2018--Shahid Abbasi attempt to raise presidents salary from Rs133333 to Rs856550 considered pathetic...the PMLn wanted the president a pathetic person and position to have a salary of Rs1 more than the CJ...Shows the PMLn's pathetic mentality...Shahid Khaqan abbasi must be pretty corrupt as he wants a debate to critisize the military, NAB and judiciary...NAB and the judiciary have worked properly most of the time while the military is almost independent and cannot be legally critisized
  
• May29-2018--In a sudden change of wind patterns the army chief turned turtle on former ISI chief Asad Durrani whose book the army chief said contained untruths...the army chief also did not like the former chief becoming friendly with a Raw chief...Thus Asad Durrani will be court martialled with a serving Lt. Gen serving as the administrator...Things are pretty funny as Nawaz Sharif was claiming kinship with the Asad views...thus he Cyril almeida and Maryam Nawaz could also face a military enquiry into their unnatural hobnobbing with a indian anti pakistani Modi and airing controversial thinking unnecessarily...Zardari and his cohorts refused to accept Bilawal orders to kowtow to the establishment and again said that they were neither against or for the establishment...!That leaves Imran Khan and Bilawal Bhutto hanging onto the military for dear life...! and becoming candidates favoring the military...!
  
• May29-2018--Instead of negotiating on a new caretaker primeminister Shahid Abbasi apparently started to play brinkmanship and virtually floored the Zardaris and the opposition leader...he also refused to accept the Khurshid suggestion on the caretaker primeminister...he apparently informed them that the PPP could fall as low as the MQM on around 29 seats if he did not cooperate..he also offered them another 25 seats in the punjab to accept Nasir Ul Mulk as caretaker...with the PPP frightened of a coalition with the PTI the two than sealed a possible coalition and accepted Nasir Ul Mulk earlier thought to be a dark horse...Nasir Ul Mulk is a recent retiree as CJ SC and was only proactive to a relatively minor degree...However the PTI and the PPP issued accolades for Nasir Ul Mulk who is a from Swat...The JUI nominee for KP caretaker Manzoor Afridi ran into trouble while in the Punjab Nasir Khosa became the caretaker designate...The PTI had better beware as this could ensure the PPP 50-60 seats...although getting the PMLn to vote for the PPP could shift the vote banks to the PTI...!The politicians are these days all joining the "sub acha he brigade..." with Imran Khan claiming that Fata had no need to become a province...why south punjab and not karachi becomes the first new province is also beyond understanding...many claim that Murad ali shah was throwing 'laanets' at the south punjab supporters which included imran khan and bilawal zardari...!Nobody else has even uttered a word on supporting any other new province... Many others suggest that the PPP has been bought by the PMLn and may have even been given several key appointments of their choice made recently...
  
• May28-2018--The politicians have no inkling to what the people think...In that context the KP assembly passed the Fata 25th amendment bill as KP police thrashed JUI protestors...Thus the machiavellian KP government enlarged itself by absorbing Fata and their representation in teh national assembly grew by 10 seats...The same politicians would also like a south punjab province but are frightened to even talk on a karachi province...hence the unease amongst the people...Fata now loses the FCR and will probably function under Pata regulations but that has probably yet tobe enacted...Fata was federally administered and will now be provincially administered......not much of a difference really but they had probably get ready to see policemen rather than gun toting tribals beating them up..jirgas could get them shot and the FCR could throw them out of their houses...so they might be heaving a sigh of relief in some aspects...
  
• May28-2018--The number of minorities have shot up by 30% over five years...even ahmedis have increased to 167500 from 115966...the christians at 1640105 procreate faster than hindus and are just behind the largest minority hindus at 1777347...
• May28-2018--two traffic policemen shot dead in quetta as a falcon squad fires at and kills the two assailants
• May28-2018--Shahid Khaqan abbasi made an expenditure of Rs25 billion by giving federal employees a three month pay bonus...the SC had already said that primememinister cannot do this without cabinet endorsement...also 25 billion would have tobe allotted by parliament and no such thing was in the budget...!On the other hand provincial employees and the armed forces are looking to get such a handout...government employees have really not worked that hard or made any improvements...even so a one month bonus would have been enough...The punjab chief minister doled out appreciation bonues to his blue eyed beaurocrats totalling Rs20 million...The people are surprised at the government largesse as it is they who suffered load shedding and government pathetic attitudes
  
• May23-2018--PPP says PTI 100 day plan is prepoll rigging and meant to incorporate in peoples minds who will be the next primeminister...the people obviously are not voting for the PPP if Imran Khan is going to win...!
  
• May23-2018--Shabaz Sharif was alone on the stage in chistian as he started to feel the heat of MNA's and Mpa's leaving the party
  
• May23-2018--Bahria university students told to maintain six inch distance between males and females...!
  
• May23-2018--Shahid Abbasi and Khursheed Shah fail to agree on a caretaker setup...The PMLn has reccommended Nasir ul Mulk and Shamshad Akhter...the PPP has reccommended a couple of Jilani beaurocrats and PTI another Jilani judge..no word on provincial setups either...
  
• May23-2018--The rawalpindi bound Green Express crashes into a couple of lose bogeys in lahore...
  
• May23-2018--PMLn ramzan bazaars pathetic in lahore and rawalpindi...In rawalpindi there are no chicken and mutton stalls and mutton is being sold at Rs1000 in the rawalpindi market...
  
• May22-2018--A former hardline Indian spy and ambassador suggests that the indians should invite Bajwa the pakistan army chief over for talks...many here however think that Bajwa is too simple a person to handle the hardnosed indians...However given past experience both Ziaulhaq and Pervez Musharaf tougher and more able to talk failed in budging the indians...talks have stayed at the samjotha stage of the 1970's...making moves only on border transportation and trade...Bajwa has called for meaningful talks which is something that the indians dont understand...Pakistan has a low level military posture viz india and that makes india bolder and more tougher to handle...Anyway talking to Modi will be like talking to a hard wall...!
  
• May21-2018--While nobody believes in his south punjab agenda Imran Khan could do some of the things that he plans...one wonders why they like a new province only in punjab...!it will really not create more resources for the smaller provinces or even water...Bilawal should study the increased agriculture production in sindh...they now even grow wheat and sell it in punjab..!he might however get accomplished things...like reconciliation with baloch exiled leaders...merger of KP and Fata, package for karachi etc...he will however have to either win the election outright or form a coalition with the PPP and Mqm...!The do nothing PPP would be willing to sit in the government for five years...however to punjab it seems that Imran is mere talk and no substance...The PMLn however is angry at him as he thinks that he can win as well as snub them into the ground...In KP Imran Khans agenda was a cancer hospital which he has built...!he has some strange agenda items...revitalizing the federation...ensuring national security...economic growth... he seems to want development only in karachi...karachi is pretty much a developed city...lahore and karachi only places which can be called developed...!he also still has dreams of 6 million overseas pakistanis coming and developing the country...they cannot if the 200 million here cannot...The money that they send home is quite enough...!education and health not much of a priority anymore...!many regard some of the ideas as those of coup plotters and fauji thinking...it is best to concentrate on actual problems...one agenda would suffice for the next five years...build two big dams...! Tourism is not a great idea...it was mooted by the Bandung conference in 1954...however pakistan is no match for India or even Nepal or the Maldives..tourists like programmed resorts...and pakistan has none to attract the diehard tourist...the world has seen tourism being easily trashed in Egypt, nepal, bali...and our people like holidaying in europe...really no billions of dollars can be achieved from tourism...The PMLn programs in the pipeline will stymy the next government...
  
• May20-2018--NSC taking over as the cabinet and approves the Fata-NSC merger as Shahid Abbasi cant handle his lameduck cabinet
  
• May20-2018--a former deputy emir of the JUI shot dead in Quetta...!
  
• May20-2018--Shahbaz Sharif wants to politicize police, supreme court, NAB, FIA, army, JIT...everyone believes JIT's function adequately with military and MI officers looking on apart from the Sharifs...
  
• May19-2018--Secretary power division goes on leave after massive countrywide power shutdown...with the government reaching an end it does look strange...many wranglings between secretary and minister on various power sector issues...
  
• May18-2018--while people are now able to reach the new islamabad airport...there are scenes of massive mismanagement...the cleaning crews are not efficient and things are at best haphazard
  
• May19-2018--SC summons 222 beneficiaries of loan writeoffs...!
  
• May19-2018--pakistani budget now Rs5.25 trillion
  
• May19-2018--Three children among six killed due to indian shelling...no state funerals for them however...!
  
• May18-2018--motorcycle suicide bomber rams into military truck in nowshera
  
• May18-2018--the IHC is studying whether the senate chairman can legally be an acting president since he lacks the age qualification...that suggests that he is also an illegal senate chairman...!
  
• May18-2018--After the PMLn now apparently left with 121 parliamentarians wary of Nawaz Sharif's anti country tirades Shahbaz Sharif blamed the arranger of the interview as the culprit...Apparently the three times primeminister still had no control over anything (government activities)...!
  
• May18-2018--Afer Nawaz Sharifs unseemingly pathetic tirade against the military akin to ghaddari(Modi worshipper) the minority sect primeministers attitude was considered too simplistic(Nawaz Sharif puppet) and the CCOD reappointed the two generals to handle internal security...With an undecisive CCOD the secretary foreign affairs quickly allowed the killer american colonel to leave the country...with the military looking odd what happens are terrorist incidences...and on que two took place...in one they apparently killed a colonel, two suicide bombers and a LJ balochistan chief Salman Badini(involved in killing 100 hazara's and policemen(hardly believeable))in Killi Almas...and in the second an attack(scenes of devastation) on an FC office killed five militants(afghans) in quetta..!There are suggestions that the colonel was killed in dubious circumstances or friendly fire as no explanation was offered...Bilawal jumped up to praise the colonel and support anti terrorism operations...!
  
• May17-2018--Major power breakdown cripples electricity supply for an entire day in KP and punjab...Electricity authorities did not realize that there would be a shortfall of 3000 MW as the summer heats up...causing a 500KV line tripping in the south..The entire north generation operations than tripped within a minute...!Bhiki only causing problems many say...rawalpindi loadshedding worse than ever
  
• May17-2018--The Orange line train went on a 9km test run suggesting that the railtrack had not been fully completed...!