The Daily PakistanPolitics June 16-30, 2018

• June30-2018--The LHC jailed a former PMLn mna and three others for one month for organizing an anti judiciary rally...The PMLn has taken a strident and at times nasty anti judiciary tone for disqualifying nawaz sharif and subsequent anti politician decisions...
  
  
• June30-2018--PPP's Shabbir Bijarani wins unopposed on PS6...two maulana's were disqualified as they refused to enunciate their assets...
  
  
• June30-2018--while Akram Pehlwan's daughter is recuperating in a london hospital.. Jhara pehlwans wife - daughter of goga pehlawan is the candidate for PP-149 from the allah o akber tehreek...she is a cousin of kulsoom nawaz and has a brother in law who wanted to fight on the PTI ticket
  
  
• June30-2018--The caretakers are ringing the changes...they recently transferred the IB chief and replaced him by the Nacta chief...however the information secretaries tranfer was cancelled on interference by the CJ
  
  
• June28-2018--The ECP has extended polling time by an hour after protests that it is too hot...however many suggest that it might be in the middle of the rainy seasons...yesterday rains in Lahore had water stagnating all over the city...
  
  
• June30-2018--Rumours have started spreading that the army chief has 55 million in his accounts and is trying to transfer it to his sons name after the CJ threatened to confiscate the assets of the countries high and mighty to pay off the countries loans...Apparently the army chiefs uniforms are also tailored in Italy...and numerous army supply contracts are directed to the generals personal company...The CJ has already requisitioned Rs5 billion from the Bahria Town...The IHC judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui during a case hearing castigated the CJ for disregarding dequorum and humiliating a lower court judge in court...The CJ has also ordered not to put cases against justice siddiqui and another SC judge...The lower court judge apparently submitted his resignation...apparently the caretaker primeminister owns a vast contractors outfit too...
  
  
• June30-2018--Former standin primeminister Shahid Abbasi was reprieved by the LHC and the appelate tribunals decision suspended pending a hearing...he has been one of the main politicians critisizing the courts...he had been propagating that his assets were the same as 1980...however suddenly he scratched in that he owned AirBlue and Pinehills hotel...however he was rejected or disqualified for life because he had suggested that the price of his house in islamabad was 3 million...Islamabad home prices are very high and even at the time of acquisition it must have been higher than 10 million...he reportedly is also the owner of an underconstruction hotel and has done nothing for his constituency apparently...
  
  
• June30-2018--Imran Khan chopping and changing his candidates...he discards women nominee on NA13 who refuses to withdraw in favour of an independent...In chakwal Imran falls prey to the PMLq and discards Ghulam Abbas for NA64 and nominates PMLn nominee who left the PMLn ...In PPP 23 the GA nephew was also discarded by Imran Khan...In Lahore he assured a protesting candidate that he is assured of a byelection ticket...reports suggest his elections coordinator has also fled to england after his supporters were dropped from several seats...apparently Imran Khan has rebuilt his lahore house walls to assure security...
  
  
• June29-2018--SC convicts Daniyal Aziz for contempt of courts and jails him till the rising of the court...consequently disqualifying him for five years
  
  
• June29-2018--a lower court AD judge in Sindh Gul Zamir Solangi resigned after being humiliated by the CJ who suddenly arrived at his court in Larkana...The CJ attitude seemed totally irrational and Solangi is probably the only honest man in pakistan...
  
  
• June29-2018--The NAB chief says that they are not targetting the PMLn which has been in power in the center and punjab and thus have more cases against them due probably to their strange methods...
  
  
• June29-2018--two persons named Mr and Mrs Zohaib Hassan were forcibly taken away from their home...he was a general manager at the NDC a defence complex...the abduction looks typically like the work of the intelligence agencies...they have not returned for six months...The IHC asked the ministry of defence who say they donot have them in custody...!
  
  
• June28-2018--Adviser National Security Nasir Janjua resigns as caretakers wanted to bring in their own favorite a retired Lt general Naeem Lodhi who had also been defence secretary...he will run all defence matters
  
  
• June28-2018--Maryam Sharif has been shifted to Na127 from Nawaz Sharifs constituency NA125...which is suggested tobe more secure
  
  
• June28-2018--The SC is delving into the non building of dams meaninglessly...the court has been misled and there is only one large dam in India...such dams are like the three gorges project in china of which type there are no 30000 dams in china...the pro and against kalabagh dam activists are turning it into an almost political case...The court should decide that the government has to rise above political concerns in technical matters...the kalabagh dam is viable and easily accessible...only initial work has been approved for Bhasha...The WORLDBANK has caused funding tobe restricted causing problems in financing...pakistan has only china as a lender and builder..Imtiaz Ali Qizilbash is not a hydel expert as far as i know...pakistan needs one dam and despite the costs it should be built...Kalabagh costs should be around $20 billion while other dams maybe cheaper or expensive...pakistans development budget is just $6-9 billion...Wapda onits own can only build with chinese loans and expertise...
  
  
• June28-2018--In what maybe considered favoritism of the worst kind the CJP rescued the Bahria town magnate from a NAB investigation...while the contractor turned developer and builder is the largest after the DHA he is considered to have used suspicious means to get land alloted or sold or transferred to the Bahria Town...He is about the only one to have a latest airplane to travel in which he has used to dispense favors to Asif Zardari types...The SC in a strange decision asked the Bahria town chief to deposit Rs5 billion and to spend 80 % of the illegaly acquired money...! the court also accused him of land grabbing...however it seemed impressed with his charities...initially the court asked him to deposit Rs20 billion which he rejected...it seems the court is going to give a favorable decision despite the lower court banning him from all activities in the karachi land scam...many were impressed by his statement that he did not own even a house...!
  
  
• June28-2018--In a move seen as having wide repercussions the former standin primeminister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been disqualified for life for lying and doing nothing for his electorate despite being elected numerous times by an appellate elections tribunal...The court also stated that an election tribunal is a court of Law...he also disqualified PTI's Fawad Chaudhry from NA67 Jhelum for not providing tax , spending and income details...he supposedly has an income of 9.6 million but only has agricultural income and works as a lawyer...the court said lawyers cannot work as legislators...!they say he lied about opening an account in the constituency...Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had claimed stationary assets since 1980 first and than claimed ownership of Airblue and Pines hotel..however he was also building a hotel in Murree amongst other things...however the elephant as everyone knows has a small tail and huge feet and an extended nose...another appellate tribunal allowed him to contest from NA53...there the judge fired the RO who had rejected all four prominent candidates...
  
  
• June27-2018--The FBR chief has been shifted to the Statistics Division for lying about the Abbasi tax evasion scheme
  
  
• June27-2018--The Avenfeld case is coming to a close and the elder sharif and daughter are ensconced in London for right or wrong reasons...NAB also says it is going to Interpol to have Ishaq dar and two sharif sons and one soninlaw extradited...!
  
  
• June26-2018--Nasir Ul Mulk a dirty rich Swati seems interested in shifting loss making electricity feeders to private
  collectors and sharing any extra income 50-50 between the discos and the contractor...most of such feeders are 80-100% in loss...that would make the contractor earn almost Rs6-8 per unit...that is one of the most extravagant contracts imaginable...however the funny thing is that all losses are already recovered from existing electricity bills...They also want maulvis to issue fatwas against non payment of electricity bills...that is the height of a rulers infantile faculties or fantasies..!In Fata they would not even pay one rupee per unit...!most of the loss making feeders which are in the hundreds are in Fata, KP, Balochistan and rural areas...
  
  
• June26-2018--The chairman Saaf Pani company Qamarul Islam a PMLn candidate against Chaudhry Nisar in NA59 has been arrested by the NAB after he refused to appear before investigators...around 50 punjab companies have been found doing nothing but spending money...despite dealing with key issues...one culprit said he would pay for the NAB Office tobe bombed says the NAB chief...!
  
  
• June26-2018--The NA53 situation in which all four candidates were rejected by the returning officer...however all four prominent candidates have been reprieved on appeal...Mehtab Abbasi and Shahid Abassi are both from the PMLn while Imran Khan has a party loyalist turned enemy in competition too...a freakish tribal woman...! Ayesha Gulallai blames Imran Khan for having a bad moral attitude...!three of the four are pitted against Imran Khan...! Imran Khans wives have all been controversial...the first being a rich jew who phoned him to marry her...the second a divorcee who turned to oppose him...and the third a divorcee too although extremely religious who married him immediately after her divorce...!he also had an american daughter claim him as her father which was looked a bit farfetched...many thought...also recently someone claimed that Sita/Rita White too had made contributions to the PTI...like Jemima...!
  
  
• June25-2018--The PTI indecision about Sikander Hayat Bhosan shows the problems of late entrants into a supposedly worker based party...first they refused than took back the Bhosan NA ticket and gave him two PA seats and than took them back as well...The PTI should keep its wrangling out of teh public realm...!On the other hand the manekas former relatives of Bushra Imran Khan got two NA seats from the PMLn...
  
  
• June25-2018--Chaudhry Nisar was again upended by Shahbaz Sharif...after literally begging saying that his opposition to Nawaz Sharif was only political not personal...he will now have to fight it out with PMLn candidates as well as the PTI...which should be favourable to him althought the PTI has shown popularity in his areas...many sugest that he finds the possibility of a female primeminister an embarassment and almost abhors Maryan Nawaz who seems to shaping up as the PMLn primeminister tobe rather than Shahbaz Sharif...
  
  
• June25-2018--Karachi now seems to have more assembly seets than ever before...21NA and 44PA seats...so attractive is the proposition that the PPP, PMLn and PTI would also like to share the seats rather than offer them to the still ethnic minded mqm factions...The PPP is in a better position to gather upto four NA seats in Lyari, south and malir...the delimitations might favour them in ethnic divisions in the PA seats as well...Asif Zardari was an ANP loyalist and upto now has only won a seat once on his own...however opposition in the sindhi minded interior is still almost non existent barring a few Thar seats...So the present sitution might end up with the PPP having more seats in sindh but none in the rest of the country...!
  
  
• June25-2018--pakistan army soldier killed on afghanistan border...while citing better relations relationships between the two countries...on the border things seem tobe getting worse...!
  
  
• June25-2018--The Judges might be getting crazier than we thought...while dealing with a popular issue like corrupt politicians which was appreciated the judges are now delving into issues that are almost impossible to solve...the tv or media shows that taps in karachi have much greater water pressure than anywhere else...despite two huge water projects the karachiites keep complaining...they should talk to their government representatives as mere airing of speeches or judges declaring a problem is hardly beneficial or capable of providing solutions...karachi desalination of water is the only solution...there is no water around karachi apart from the sea or irrigation water all in the control of their governments...The judges are airing political positions on various problems rather than dealing with the problems associated with problem ie governments and officials...karachi also needs to realize that it needs to change its politico's on a wholesale basis...otherwise karachi is much better developed than the rest of the country...taking the examples of the wealth of CJ's like Nasir ul mulk and chaaudhry iftikar and generals and politicians the CJ should not ask the people to contribute more or expect them to offer themselves as qurbani ka bakra...it is the wealthier segments of soceity like judges, generals and politicians plus bussinessmen that should be made to give qurbanis's...!The CJ who might be thinking of himself as a godlike in current circumstances that he would ask the people soon to give more qurbani...that is the most odd think coming from a CJ...
  
  
• June24-2018--The cheap LNG or the abbasi LNG cost has come in at a whopping $2.2 billion...it is money that will come out of the peoples pocket not the industrialists...The anti people Nasir ul Mulk thus raised gas prices for consumers drastically...he is interfering in the economy in an anti people way...It is meaningless to make the people pay for gas utilized by useless industries/industrialists...imports are cheaper...import cost of pulses is $487 millon, tea is $527 million and palmoil is 7.2 billion...mobile phones $1.4 billion...overall annual foodproducts import is $22 billion, oil imports $39 billion plus machinery $10.6 billion...
  
  
• June24-2018--Mufti Noor Wali an experienced militant takes over as the new chief of the tribal TTP...
  
  
• June24-2018--The DailyMail calls Nawaz Sharif a "penthouse pirate" or an "upper class lootera" saying they have over 21 properties in england...!
  
  
• June24-2018--The CJP in a fit of anger pickups a lower tier judges mobile phone and throws it on the table as he chides the judge on unjudgely practices...
  
  
• June24-2018--As a new leader takes over the TTP a south waziristan operation kills six militants as well as two soldiers...
  
  
• June23-2018--IHC dares to tell ISI to clear the Aabpara road in front of its office...The office based ISI are really not intelligence agents or even spooks...The frightened ISI has literally covered all the road and pathways around the office with concrete blocks...!
  
  
• June23-2018--One of the few mixed race children of bhutto... has married...Azadi Hussein a sindi-punjabi-seraiki has married a gora...she is an actor and blogger...!other children of Murtaza and Benazir are unmarried...!
  
  
• June23-2018--The caretaker primeminister has already interfered in key matters such as approving the Abbasi Amnesty Scheme...appointing a new Attorney general...however he fired a PMLn loyalist to bring in a PPP loyalist...he also fired Marvi Memon who was trying to hang on...!
  
  
• June23-2018--Imran Khans electables are causing him problems...candidates such as sikander hayat bosan, Aun Abbas bappi, Nazir Jat and Ayesha Jut and Jamshed Dasti...while the women do not like each other anyway or the women nominations...!They say Imran Khan approves all nominations and there are only 20-30 problem nominations..SM Qureshi says he is not in a contest with a person already disqulified...Tareen too could use the Abbasi tax amnesty to get a new lease of political life...!
  
  
• June23-2018--Chaudhry Nisar says he is does not believe in character assassination and would never hurt the PMLn...Nawaz Sharif is supposedly one of most longterm expert practitioners of character assassination...The PMLn goes as far as placing undercover women agents as wives...!Nisar many say must be quite dumb if he did not know of the PMLn tactics...given the almost daily Imran Khan character asassinations for the last three years...! maybe he has received another offer of continuing his PMLn charade...!
  
  
• June23-2018--The Abbasi Tax Amnesty Scheme apparently has uncovered 5000 billion in investments abroad suggests the FBR...!It was supposedly started for Nawaz Sharif to legalize his Avenfield apartments...and kill the major case against him...might be he is in the UK legalizing his billions...The caretaker and the SC have assured that there will be no later investigations...! while this might be government propaganda to extend the amnesty scheme the FBR says they have already collected Rs21 billion and expect to collect Rs100 billion......while this is peanuts it would benefit the financial crooks...! why the government is extending the begging bowl is unknown in general terms...they have also let the dollar price rise substantially and suddenly which is also meant to bring in dollars...the expatriates send in money regularly but the government wants the financial crooks usually bussinessmen and industrialists to bring back their wealth...The SC has been told that $15 billion has been sent abroad in a year legally...!most goes to support children and properties abroad...that is one of the main practices of army officers, upper middle class and government officials and politicians...many suggest that the army might be asking for extra money to fund its illegal activities...!the government should know that this is at best money laundering of the worst kind.
  
  
• June23-2018--According to the Dawn...Benazir Bhutto who most regarded as a pauper politician left Bilawal Zardari more than Rs 1.04 billion which he loaned to suspiciously named companies...ie to make the money disappear...Benazir also left substantial or lets say 20 investments in the UAE..nobody knows who runs these companies...Dawn suggests that the Dubai investments are greater than the Bilawal holdings in Pakistan...Dawn has also lowered the Imran Khan wealth from Rs1.38 billion to 0.38 billion
  
  
• June22-2018--There are many projects that the PMLN forgot to implement such as the train to murree, the bullet train, the ravi waterfront project, apart from 50 others run under companies...two hospitals in rawalpindi still under construction for over five years...and the upgradation of islamabad schools...422 schools and colleges...reports of bad workmanship and stoppage of the project after most work on first 200 schools...The FDE ordered first 70 school buses but they had many defects...in the second stage they ordered 130 buses and paid for them in advance Rs800 million...NAB investigating...nobody buys pakistani buses as chinese yutong buses are now more popular among top transporters...! the expansion of the islamabad expressway to Rawat was also forgotten...!
  
  
• June22-2018--The PMLn had its first brouhaha in its stronghold of Lahore which it controls thru family MNA's when Zaeem Qadri a faithful defender of teh shraifs was denied a ticket ...he said he would contest as an independent...after Chaudhru Nisar and teh south punjab defectors another major defection...Nawaz Sharif had rejected Chaudhry Nisar after he had advised him to go back to Lahore via the motorway as a safer option after being disqualified and toppled by the SC...a petty matter but he never liked Chaudhry Nisar who like Shahbaz were usually more loyal to the army chiefs...
  
  
• June22-2018--Rawat and Gatti 500KV grid stations need upgradation says the Dawn with higher capacity transformers and replacing old ones at Gatti...these two especially Rawat cause major disruptions in the distribution system...many feel that the lower voltage system below 220kv should also be seperated from Discos who seem unable to handle the faults specifically of distribution transformers leaving Discos only with the jobs of bill collections...The Matiari 850KV Dc line could possibly balance the system on a north south basis
  
  
• June21-2018--Rangers and capital police takeover security at Imran Khans residence...where around 700 party workers have been protesting...!
  
  
• June21-2018--four militants killed in mastung opertion...to CTD officials killed in retaliatory operation in quetta
  
  
• June21-2018--Imran Khan declares Rs3.8 billion in assetts and becomes the richest politician...he declares an income of 47 lakhs from 12 properties, bank accounts and salary...while Bilawal is the biggest beneficiary of inheritances and gifts following close behind is Maryam Nawaz who has assets of Rs785 million with almost no known sources of income...DHA properties are cheap many suggest with Asif Zardari having bought a plot for Rs850000...known prices of DHA plots are said tobe in the range of Rs10 million...musharaf has no properties in pakistan apart from two 2008 SUV's while his wife has five plus five vehicles...he now has a Rs90 million apartment in Dubai and two vehicles...he has Rs21 million in banks in pakistan although his supposedly substantial dollar holdings have not been revealed...
  
  
• June20-2018--In NA53 all four well known contestants rejected including Imran Khan who also could not make it to the Mianwali constituency
  
• June20-2018--The wealth shown by the caretaker punjab chief minister, caretaker primeminister , Bilawal Zardari and the corrupt Asif Zardari makes me think that we must literally be ants around these looters and wealth gatherers...Bilawal Zardari has 20 properties in pakistan and 20 properties in Dubai and the UK, two villas in Dubai and 50 million in the bank...and still only totals Rs1.5 billion...he probably does not know property values...probably earns 50 lakhs from his 700 acres (inherited from ZAB's first wife)...All the Bilawal wealth is inherited...!Asif Zardari who has no known source of income says he has accumulated land and properties of Rs750 million and has 280 million in the bank...he supposedly has 7500 acres of land on lease...and a 100 million plot in dubai...!and they say they are doing people politics and not money politics...Asif Zardari walks into a poor mans house in Nawabshah and says that you better leave the electoral contest...!and he owns six bullet proof vehicles worth over 10 million each... The former chief justice(caretaker primeminister) has accumulated wealth almost like a general who accumulates plots...he has 45 shops in swat...!100 millon in the bank...two villas and two plots in islamabad..and another one in bahria enclave...an atta mill and two CNG stations...his wife who does not look singaporean has almost two million dollars abroad in wealth...Do we the people have anything to live for...!non filers mostly poor people cant even buy a car or land...!with such wealth these people really should not be judges or politicians...!
  
• June19-2018--Nawaz Sharif says he is not coming back from england as his wifes condition is critical...
  
• June19-2018--Since around 1988 the Mqm despite being militant, extortionist and violence prone has been able tobe the dominant second party in sindh and at times a key player in the formation of a center coalition...They key reason has been a complete antagonism between sindhi's and mohajirs which is still the same...however the MQM has split and has weak unpopular uneasy leaders compared to the killer Altaf Hussein who tolerated no dissent or a share in his bhatta...but he is now out of the picture and the bhatta gathering has declined and the roughnecks have been almost eliminated in karachi...so the mqm might not get all the provincial seats or even all the national assembly seats in karachi and PTI and PMLn leaders are contesting in karachi...karachi needs a peaceful change in elections...whether that happens or not is yet to be seen...If the punjab splits twoways or threeways than the mqm and PPP sindh winnings will become important...If the PPP loses all the punjab seats and say some of the sindh and karachi seats than it will become a nobody...Mqm's 12 or so seats than could be important at the national level if the PTI wins lets say half the punjab...!if the PTI gets around a 100 seats it could end up with 130 seats and make a coalition with Fata and the mqm or a worst case scenario with the PPP...otherwise the PPP would be seeking tobe a part of a PMLn-mqm coalition as well...at the moment everything is almost up for grabs and the PMLn could pullback on a mild sympathy vote for Kulsoom Nawaz...!PPP almost seems dead in the Punjab and KP but could have an ally win seats in Balochistan..One puts the PPP at around 45 NA seats and everything will depend on how KP and punjab votes...Mqm could divide two ways or even an odd seat for the MQM-london and lose a couple to the PTI and PPP...In the sindh assembly there could be more pukhtun seats and probably less MQM seats but that hardly matters as the PPP should still be on top...KP has always swung but they have nobody new to vote for and might cling to the PTI...Balochistan is always a hodge podge unless the BAP swings the voters...!Punjab is however the key...if i were the PPP i would bat in punjab and even call for the kalabagh dam tobe built...PPP cant win on RKM slogans and will have to ensure proper and full development for the punjab...usually the PPP is unable to do that...!!!that is the situation now...it could change with key court decisions or...!
  
• June19-2018--while no independent information is available Kulsoom Nawaz is on a ventilator after suffering a cardiac problem...In some pictures she is shown tobe quite weak...she is unconscious or sedated and probably things will become clearer after she is taken off the ventilator...which is dependent on doctors views in england...
  
• June19-2018--Chaudhry Nisar says that he is reaching the end of his association with Nawaz Sharif...before that he had been in the PPP probably leaving because he could not get along with Benazir Bhutto...he says that he did not setup any factories while being a subordinate cog in the wheel...although supposedly his wife is from an industrial family and he was given preferential pharmaceutical licenses by the US...!Chaudhry Nisar's brother was a Lt. General and also secretary defence...some suggest that while in jail he might have developed or favored a coup plotter...with Nawaz Sharif in exile he did run the PMLn for some time after being released by the Musharaf regime...at the moment the PTI has Ghulam Sarwar a key taxila politician on three out of four seats being contested by Chaudhry Nisar...many had thought that Chaudhry Nisar a key shahbaz associate had hoped that as a senior he would be considered for punjab leadership but that hope has probably waned...he could however become a consensus PPP/PTI choice if the PMLn comes in third or even second...The PPP and PTI must assure the people that they will continue development works and not stifle the punjab...to improve say the police...The PPP especially is known to slow down the development process...
  
• June17-2018--The ECP would like everyone to know that they are actually checking nomination forms...while they have found hundreds of defaulters...Mrs Mirza a former NA speaker has defaulted on a Rs260 million sugar mill loan...obviously there was no sugar mill...our bankers must be crazy... the other curious item is double nationalities...60 from the British Isles...and 24 each from Canada and and the US apart from some others..one even from kazakistan...beware the crooked foreigners too...!The ECP has however not intimated whether the defaulters will be rejected...!
  
• June16-2018--The Swat dynamo/demon Mullah Fazlullah who rose to fame as 'Mullah Radio'has been eliminated in a drone attack say the afghans...apparently the present TTP chief was blownup a few days ago...also there have been skirmishes on the afghan border in which three soldiers were killed...No news yet on who will replace Fazlullah...
  
• June16-2018--The CJP recalled his previous order to allow Musharaf to file his nomination papers if he appeared in court...Musharaf is disqualified for life and the CJP orders were seen as pretty strange suggesting that Musharaf was going to be requalified...!
  
• June14-2018--The SC has come out in support of the amnesty scheme which was seen as an attempt to regularize panama type crooks...The scheme is currently a failure...The SC has guaranteed that amnesty seekers will not be questioned...! pretty strange...!
  
• June14-2018--The caretaker minister for power has been accused of being a PMLn stooge...while Nawaz Sharif had only claimed to increase generation to around 20000MW he said that available generation capacity is 28000MW...The country could not handle a demand of around 24000MW with the gap being upto 6000 MW...Rawalpind was seeing loadshedding of 8 hours while usually in the bad times it had load shedding of upto four/six hours...