2018 Elections

2018 Elections
election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Monday, July 17, 2023

The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jul16---31, 2023

Jul31-2023--five names shortlisted for caretaker primeminister says ppp minister

Jul31-2023--..shebaz says may9 designed to overthrow army chief...The current army act changes suggest that many retired generals were active in the movement against Asim Munir...some rumours suggest that many retired generals maybe in jail after being caught planning/suggesting  a coup...

Jul31...government frightened of anti china sentiments and gives two holiday during the chinese delegations presence in islamabad...CPEC  only exists in the minds of the government and the military...

Jul31-2023--Eu agency agency warns against planes flying low over karachi and lahore...

Jul31-2023-- bill on violent extremism dropped in senate as politicians worried  about its wide application...

Jul31-2023--over 40 killed as blast blows up JUIf convention in bajaur...while the security officials blamed afghan militants many  think that the pti maybe behind such acts of terror ..pti is always daggers drawn against the JUIf...such acts have increased after the division in the pTi into technically three components...militancy is common amongst imran supporters...

Jul30-2023--asad qaiser whose family now lives in england said propaganda against Pti must stop...one wonders if they listened to advice to stop propaganda against the pmln...he also says it has increased support for his leaderless party...if something increases support it must be good  say observers or isit...probably his few supporters cant stand it...a road blocker on may9...isnt that as criminal as arson...he does live quite close to where a an army shaheeds memorial was destroyed...

Jul29-2023--three terrorists killed in khyber,and south waziristan...

Jul29-2023--emergency declared in a dozen baluch districts as rains and floods intensify

Jul29-2023--the modi regimes suport for criminal intimidation and lynching of muslims is characterized in the following cartoon by satish acharya...i have not seen many hindus smile so dont take that literally...in pakistan beef used tobe a cheap meat in the old days but now its prices are upto  800 a kilo probably due to indian/shebaz pressure...!shebaz's sons sells chicken meat...!


Jul28-2023--an amendment to the army act of 1952 has been passed which restricts those working under the act to restrictions technically participation in politics and jail and restrictions...the army chief can apparently now approve of any army defamation...!imran of the dysfunctional pti has said apparently that former isi chief faiz hameed has thrust a knife in his back...since that has not happened will it be considered defamation since imran has been associated with sensitive information..!PTi senators snubbed their noses at imran and voted for the amendment...!it seems that this amendment focuses on retired military men specifically former iSi chiefs like pasha and faiz hameed..and other pti type army men like general tarik...now probably army chiefs, DG Mi and DG ISI, corp commanders etc. and probably others working in such organisations are restricted from political participation for five years...defamation that might also apply to civilians jail for two years...cannot take any job that is in conflict with the army..armies commercial activities now approved...

Jul28-2023--worst floods expected in ravi, sutlej...10 killed in kp and blochistan as rains continue

Jul27-2023--government tries to increase powers of caretakers

July27-2023--five killed in baluchistan as rains and floods continue

Jul27-2023--despite massive electricity tariff hikes discos continue the loot and plunder...ke/discos to charge an extra Rs2.81/1.81 for electricity used in june

Jul26-2023--policeman martyred mosque destroyed in jamrud bombing...

Jul25-2023--teenage maid severely tortured by judges wife in islamabad

Jul25-2023--contempt of parliament bill clears  senate...

Jul25-2023--the cruel shebaz government to increase electricity tariff by a hefty Rs7.5 per unit from Jun and other charges in June...no such system exists anywhere in the world ...in most countries electricity charges are static...

Jul24-2023--Kp interim minister resigns as he intends to stand against pervez khattak...

Jul24-2023--imf says government finance ministers responsible for delays as they refused to obey orders...

Jul23-2023--The anti people regime in power increases raises electricity rates to Rs50 per unit...people using 400 units to pay Rs7.50 more per unit plus other charges...people using 100 units will pay Rs16.48 per unit..the governments largesse is for industrial, agricultural and military users and while dumping most of the cost on domestic users...agricultural users cannot be regarded as poor and will have to pay about Rs24 per unit plus getting solar tubewells ...why cant domestic users get free solar installations...!

Jul23-2023--devastating rain in upper/lower  dir and masnsehra, GB ..nine dead..

Jul22-2023--three injured in bajaur IED case...as JIT finds imran culpable in May9 case..he says he only planned peaceful protests...the PTI not known for peaceful protests..it is quite clear that his lahore leadership and others were giving orders for arson and attacking military infrastructure...shah mahmood qureshi, fawad chowdhry etc...

Jul22-2023--The government almost subdued by CJ  in the army trials case..The government has assured the court that there will be no death sentences..it has also asked for one month to consider allowing the defendants to appeal mechanism in the superior judiciary..but that this will require legislation...the government also says that military trials will not begin without informing the CJ...!that is like saying i will lay down and u can kill me...

Jul21-2023--elections tobe held by oct11 depending on when the govt calls it a day...

Jul21-2023--imran deliberately created the donald lu controversy to show his anti americanism and attempted to use it to save his tottering government...this coming from a confession by imrans principal secretary...

Jul21-2023--nine policemen and three civilians killed in late night firing on a peshawar police station and official compound in bara...apart from Afghanistan the militant PTI is also still active after imrans sudden collapse in KP..two bombers killed in khyber after they entered a tehsil hq in bara..police engaged them and one killed while the other blew himself up.....

Jul20-2023--heavy rain in rawalpindi inundates roads and the leh nullah which takes lives as well as serves as a major rain drainage outlet in the entire rawalpindi-islamabad...the leh nullah is usually a stream. the area authorities try their utmost to keep it clean and remove a lot of sewage from its banks but the people and sewage workers still empty their trucks and baskets onits banks...it meanders its way thru islamabad and rawalpindi usually uninteresting but for the rains when its gets center of attention...



Jul19-2023--migrant routes from pakistan and afghanistan...recent international migrants have come from the middle east..for latin american countries the objective is the mexican border.....pakistani migrants love greece,italy and england..the richer immigrants head for  the Usa and canada..countries fed up should just ship the migrants back..but most know that if they get there they are made for life...u can see cities like jhelum and mirpur who have been immigrating since the 1940s and 1950's...mirpur is almost empty of men and they say only old men totter around...while jhelum has empty houses and almost every house has some immigrants somewhere..now it is gujerat and AJK on the run as well as KP...in between middle east jobs had taken over but now it is back to europe again...


Jul9-2023--11 killed mostly labourers as wall collapses in islamabad...the 11 foot tall wall of a sprawling military depot on the outskirts of islamabad fell on sleeping workers of a underpass construction site...there have been many construction disasters here and in pakistan as underpasses, bridges and overpasses are constructed at a fast pace...most of pakistans development work is related to roads...underpasses are deluged all over the place...what an ultrachemicals tank is storing in the military depot/or construction compound is unknown...the thick nicely made wall just collapsed probably because its underground part was not done properly....


Jul19-2023...in a thermal power colony near muzaffargarh a soldier affected by PUBg slit the throats of his three young sisters and threw them into an empty quarter...!

Jul19-2023--six FC soldiers injured as suicide attack on FC convoy in peshawars upmarket hayatabad...many suggest that only suicide bombers and TTP types left in KP PTI..while ANP suggests that the PTI has vanished in KP...

Jul18-2023--possibility that elections will be held in ninety days and not sixty days has emerged...if the the PDM resigns a few days earlier than the end of its term the  ECP can announce elections in ninety days..political parties need extra time due to the complicated situation emerging...only PPP which is sindh based has few things to work on as their opposition in sindh is limited to a few small parties with the PTi almost splintering in its karachi base

Jul18-2023--In a major shock to the weakened/dwindling PTI base former PTI leader Pervez Khattak announced the formation of the PTI-P with 57 mostly mpas of the former PTI...it included Sultan Mahmud who was laughingly mocking imran or khattak...the PTI members were generally concerned at imrans lies and his interpretation of may 9 as peaceful protests and his workers as TTP agents...The PTI-P said that they opposed imrans anti national agenda specifically with reference to May9 events and attitude to the army...they said imran was personally responsible for the May9 mayhem...This has created another major group who has the ability to win elections and are very experienced wrt to KP...Khattak laid claim to all the KP based Pti developments. The PTi seemingly shocked and brainwashed were referring to the monsoon and the growing of weeds and thanking the deptt of agriculture...? seemingly unable to gloat and mock everyone which had been their usual attitude upto now...they could not explain /put forward any agenda or reasonable explanation...it seems that imran may now not be enough to win...they had expelled khattak on wednesday...Imran has been unable to control defections everywhere even in the karachi council, GB, AJK, Punjab and now KP...Pervez Khattak was a senior leader and he should have gone and met him when his intentions surfaced...This turns some thinking upside down and there are too many P's around...now if the PPP were to sweep sindh they could emerge as the largest party ...with the pTi now only existing in central and northern punjab they... the IPP,  PTI-P, PMLn and PPP could share the punjab spoils...with some religious groups taking the odds and ends...The PTI will now have to fight their own former party mates  as well as the JUIf in KP with the PMLn and PPP sneaking thru on some seats. They are probably left with asad qaiser in kp and some minor soldier/worker types...whether the PMLn can put up a good show is the only question mark with their lack of understanding of electricity, petrol, wheat, dollar and other prices...a 20kg  bag of atta  was being priced at Rs.2800 whereas it was 600-800 before...electricity at around Rs.56 where as it was at Rs15 at the beginning of PTI rule...and 24 when imran ran out of steam...Imran only has to make sure that he has a majority in central and northern punjab...central punjab upto now has been PMLn 's fiefdom/home ground so that leaves the north of punjab and north KP to the PTi with probably a seat here and there in south KP and Hazara. The PMLn has been left to leaders lower down on the ladder in the punjab and it remains tobe seen how they will create a agenda to win...the Military probably thinks that everything becoming expensive and looting ordinary people is economic revival...!

Jul18-2023--The army chief and the corp commanders seem upset at the taliban allowing the TTP to gain strength and modern arms and letting them attack positions in Pakistan...if the M16 rifle of 1964 vintage is so good than the Pakistan Army should get it from the USA at least for operational and defensive positions...The US now uses M16/M4(cost $700) varieties and its future gun  is Sig-MCX ...M16 and night vision goggles are common in afghanistan as the americans supplied them to the former afghan army and the corp commanders must really be lacking basic information as to it being a new thing...its length makes the M16 more suited to longrange shooting lying down...and technologically it is not that great...complaining never solves problems and the army should have everyone in KP and Baluchistan ready and on their toes  to defend against terrorists...The taliban say it is their own internal weakness in defending against at best troublemakers like the PTI and the TTP...positions from where they are sneaking across the border must be identified and strengthened...the army should focus on its own job rather than the economy and agriculture...the LHC allows the transfer of 45000 acres to the army...methinks the army should have tried out their corporate theories on 5000 acres which would have been enough to set an example..anyway since agriculture is a provincial subject they should have asked the punjab government to set up corporate farms..when the main objective is not kept in sight than weaknesses/slackness emerge and encourage terrorist natured politicians as well as other terrorist types..as u see below everyone is uneasy at a visit from the defence minister to kabul some time ago...pakistans relations have surely deteriorated with kabul other wise some direct link should have been used to air pakistans security grievances...otherwise pakistan should identify a safe haven near the border and order  an aerial attack....verbal statements are usually meaningless...even though it would exacerbate  problems between the two countries...just as a joke ..some people suggest that Khawaja Asif suggested to mullah baradar that he come and help them in Pakistan...!




Jul18-2023--on the soan bridge a fauji foundation dumper carrying cement crashed into four cars literally crushing them...the soan extension bridge pillar had collapsed recently during construction and there is usually a rush...police say the driver must have been asleep which seems a dubious theory as he escaped...


Jul17-2023--elections could take in Nov if the pdm exits a few days earlier...!

Jul17-2023--LNG becomes costliest source of power...

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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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