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contains comments and daily news headlines with a twist and some photographs...all related to pakistans current politics,government policies and the grapevinePakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.comBlogger499125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-49851269084103973332024-03-17T21:05:00.021+05:002024-03-17T23:59:02.611+05:00The Daily Pakistan Politics( Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Mar16-31, 2024<p>May17-2024--imran says he personally ordered dubious anti Pakistan pamphlets distribution at the IMF office in Washington which the government is calling sleazy and anti-Pakistan and treason...according to imran anti-military sloganeering also took place...imran is calling for the stopping of IMF funds...while a new fund program may come after April 2025...IMF not going to back down at this stage...imran seems unable to understand certain words like mandate and audit...a tribunal could only check thumb imprints if there are severe or largescale problems...other form of audits could be to check for counting problems and rechecking each vote...checking the forms 45's is a very easy exercise...most of the voting generally has been normal with some problems only in Karachi and a few other places...a mandate can only be achieved when a sizable majority is achieved which the PTi only has in KP...therefore suggesting mandate theft is poppycock...The courts have already approved the denial of the symbol and the KP larger bench approved the refusal to SIC of reserved seats...senate seats are rarely fixed and the parties including the PTI have selected outsiders based on need...SIC and PPP should reap most of the senate seats unless a largescale rebellion takes place...article 6 may go against him rather than the supposed mandate thieves...imran generally seems tobe working for foreign interests intentionally...there would be a great difficulty to suggest that voting inefficiencies or problems could be treason but actions against the government/country can easily be considered tobe treacherous and in line with treason...as for his 30 million votes most went to a losing cause …even the religious parties got around 6 million votes but no mandate...total votes can be considered impressive but they do not automatically translate into any type of mandate unless u join a coalition. It was a fragmented mandate, and the people went with the main parties causing lesser fragmentation...No one at this stage wants a coalition with the unfriendly Sic…for a no trust he will need the PPP and he is not even willing to talk to them...!having too many a hang-up's about politics/political maneuvering is always counterproductive...and one supposes being in cahoots with everyone is better than being isolated like u know who...however there did not seem any open consultation between the caretakers, military, beaurocracy, police, ECP, judiciary, politicians...party delegations met the ECP regularly who was generally willing to take responsibility and stand up for himself...and things happened clearly and transparently...there are just too many institutions/issues and polling stations for everyone to agree to a pre-decided outcome...that is not how it works...</p><p>Mar17- 2024--two officers and five troops killed in North Waziristan blasts and clashes with the gul bahadur group...militants raided a mir ali paramilitary camp in the early morning...later in a clearance operation two officers killed one a Lt. colonel and another a captain...six militants also killed...</p><p>Mar17-2024--senate elections for the half that leaves every three years to take place on April 2...according to Dawn PTI to nominate hawks mostly those who involved in attacks on military installations such as Dr. Yasmin Rashid etc...The PMLn which can win a few in Punjab and Islamabad nominates administrator types such as Aurangzeb khan and Mohsin Naqvi and Ahad Cheema...Anwarul Haq Kakar to stand in Baluchistan while Faisal Vawda generally a PPP type is standing on a Mqm(p) ticket in Sindh...PPP trying for all 12 seats in Sindh...The general nature of senate elections causes some to cross party lines in voting.</p><p> Mar16-2024--1977 elections...probably because of the PPP sweep they were said tobe rigged eventually causing demos, military confrontations in anarkali, talks, military briefings, a coup and death of Bhutto by hanging...later the coup plotter also died in an air crash...black was the PPP...at that time independents were only in the tribal territory. Then the PNA view was that Bhutto had rigged 40 seats...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWYVYFF9gKZWzXPULKVUUpXAGaGVvTC76SRGjszSTGzyRXIagWgrVHiOJxwPbyp_LJiC1JAZqJpaywZnu6vSFIIC__4vLfNlLIidcX1wDvyx60oYVSFaDmPvBbazNelxBb4uvXBpWvj-WqR0JMTkRiSUm2MwfnIwxasri5oJwhyphenhyphenb3gBHdDrcCnugwpaE/s1218/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20134553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1218" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVWYVYFF9gKZWzXPULKVUUpXAGaGVvTC76SRGjszSTGzyRXIagWgrVHiOJxwPbyp_LJiC1JAZqJpaywZnu6vSFIIC__4vLfNlLIidcX1wDvyx60oYVSFaDmPvBbazNelxBb4uvXBpWvj-WqR0JMTkRiSUm2MwfnIwxasri5oJwhyphenhyphenb3gBHdDrcCnugwpaE/w640-h512/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20134553.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />the 1970 elections which broke up Pakistan...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lYyHLMbsLXEmT08e50k0es4A9ugpk1lmN3BDjHMiPNomVDXd51Aftyf9JKFyXKjEEQQYo5KsCPivC7yxTiHu8sfhOjBgjQCUAES_RTtVoeI7BvUEYLTWKWqhwjO-cik_8ifTjTkri7lhKJm2qDdlqLNann2C0AFP_He9t4fF_z8OECImkRDUNZQ563I/s676/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20135447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="676" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1lYyHLMbsLXEmT08e50k0es4A9ugpk1lmN3BDjHMiPNomVDXd51Aftyf9JKFyXKjEEQQYo5KsCPivC7yxTiHu8sfhOjBgjQCUAES_RTtVoeI7BvUEYLTWKWqhwjO-cik_8ifTjTkri7lhKJm2qDdlqLNann2C0AFP_He9t4fF_z8OECImkRDUNZQ563I/w640-h468/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20135447.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>PPP in black and Awami league in ferozi green...the above just for a historical perspective...<p></p><p>Mar 16-2024--The PTi trying to sabotage the image of Pakistan and its elections in every way possible way suggesting that the IMF has to promote fair elections and governance...as for democracy the iMF is giving $8 billion to military ruled Egypt and its job is to help fiscal problem ridden countries...with Pakistan going for it 25th IMF deal it apparently is always in fiscal ruin...needing the IMF dole...that is the motto of this government...Pakistan inflation to become near its average growth in 2028...!they had apparently $5660.13 in outstanding loans to the IMF in Dec2023...! Their position is "<span face="MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c2825; font-size: 16.128px;">Ms. Kozack: I'm not going to comment on politics. Only to say that the IMF stands ready, as I said, to send a mission after a new cabinet is formed, and we look forward to working with the government to ensure stability, macroeconomic stability, for the good of the people of Pakistan."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8POjh-MykonoEQ6bIicOwiE5MSUjem5k9GqAF9PGYQfLRE90PkNJqTcF2xLH2z5VkDeBHajVsKO0XDf-wxx28Zw_0dyfgsV2tVF7VW01mOdmw0ldl_H75a2HmZMQTOsVy1FA42aDdESSk0ugA_uFIVO2bbVbedJ2vHh3fXWNY_R9tTorpq4QQt-AD-DQ/s751/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20131142.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="751" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8POjh-MykonoEQ6bIicOwiE5MSUjem5k9GqAF9PGYQfLRE90PkNJqTcF2xLH2z5VkDeBHajVsKO0XDf-wxx28Zw_0dyfgsV2tVF7VW01mOdmw0ldl_H75a2HmZMQTOsVy1FA42aDdESSk0ugA_uFIVO2bbVbedJ2vHh3fXWNY_R9tTorpq4QQt-AD-DQ/w640-h404/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20131142.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheh8s8P4U7wC7i9K4vvYzcT97EAjC7DBr3vV70uoenojzgd4-6sTN9m57ZFHe-DAjQCwFNlY7d9Dn73NPwziElAjaKQnUPmmQ-4QR-DUEtLCrfugPmYypP8aXyuEuqvDhWgjsoz9S7igeYzm6m-kTAhiUcP9CL4ONF3Rq5bSslRNrZdpE8_F_kBgeJlvU/s719/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20131417.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="719" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheh8s8P4U7wC7i9K4vvYzcT97EAjC7DBr3vV70uoenojzgd4-6sTN9m57ZFHe-DAjQCwFNlY7d9Dn73NPwziElAjaKQnUPmmQ-4QR-DUEtLCrfugPmYypP8aXyuEuqvDhWgjsoz9S7igeYzm6m-kTAhiUcP9CL4ONF3Rq5bSslRNrZdpE8_F_kBgeJlvU/w640-h600/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20131417.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Mar16-2024--DSP and tribal elder killed in Sibi and Bajaur..</p><p>Mar16-2024--The economy and the country is going to be held hostage by IMF...everything apparently is on IMF orders...!and it is going to be IMF this and IMF that...</p><p>Mar16-2024--the PTi has reached a decision finally that there was no point really in joining the<i> sic. </i>A marwat comment had hamid reza howling ..saying that he had not asked for them...and that imran had requested it in a undercover operation in the parliament garage aka car park...the Pti seems to be frightened of being overheard given their anti pakistan suspicious dubious spying nature...now it seems that they are waiting on the ECP decision on the bat and if they get it the SIC will be dissolved in parliament and become PTI...since they are only for personal PTi insaf it hardly matters anymore as honesty is just not a PTi trait...they have even been assured of fair elections by the IMF...!technically after the PHC said that the ECP decision on women and minority members list was correct...they could have found some party that had filed lists for women and minorities...pre thinking is not a imran trait except on arson and military installation attacks...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-44585549019571744202024-03-01T10:05:00.206+05:002024-03-17T21:08:06.763+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Mar1-15, 2024<p><br /></p><p>Mar15-2024--The dynasties are taking over...as Zain Qureshi appointed parliamentary leader by SIC...the current joke is that the PTi has<i> sic</i> become SIC or sick...!</p><p>Mar15-2024--The frightened prime minister withdrew the nomination of Zafar Mahmood a former Wapda chief who was vehemently and nastily opposed by the Sindhis'...he is supposedly a supporter of dams like kalabagh...it is the dams that have regulated and increased water supply to Sindh ...the new ordnance whether passed or not is generally correct in providing Irsa with various experts apart from nominating the federal nominee as the chairman...it also provides Irsa with a secretariat and an office...a rotating chairman technically has no benefit...it would be like kicking out Zardari from the presidency after 14 months and bringing in a say rotating kp president and so on...the need for Irsa is because of dams and if dams are not constantly built a time will come when there will be no water to distribute...because of the problems faced the need for geological, hydraulic and remote sensing experts is necessary for the smooth functioning of Irsa...while a non kalabagh supporter can be found it is technically based on confused illogical childish attitudes...Punjabi's generally support the kalabagh dam while the Wapda position has been that the government has to decide...however six dams including kalabagh were approved in the musharaf era around 2006...</p><p>Mar14-2024--another issue has arisen as the Punjab government has stopped visitors to Adiaala jail on the basis of security threats...as usual the PTi filed a court case rather than consulting the Punjab government first...The courts must make it a prerequisite that that they have at least talked to the person in charge or even the CM or PM before initiating a court case...however some top SIC officials and relatives were allowed into the jail including Aleema...</p><p>Mar14-2024--credit card use is on the increase they say...about 100 million transactions on Rast based ID cards...amounting toRs.2.3 trillion...mobile app-based transactions increased 29% to 280 million and internet banking transactions rose 15% to 57 million compared to the last quarter...mobile banking rose to Rs11trilllion and internet banking to Rs5.4 trillion...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4GaBi7yJTUgVK0R1w0nWQG4cS1hS-YW-96qTXlqHflrKVTIkBIlbGS8n7KVK3nT5FHOn6IuOcnsKyOeSJ7oiO05rdar8Romjzgvod8efckgTeO2K2o6AL7uQu1kZq75mI3x_trskaoITu9kheBw1lMrqc76TLDx-gHi_I6pBx5lS3JtzsWI2nekrS6Y/s663/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20025911.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="663" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4GaBi7yJTUgVK0R1w0nWQG4cS1hS-YW-96qTXlqHflrKVTIkBIlbGS8n7KVK3nT5FHOn6IuOcnsKyOeSJ7oiO05rdar8Romjzgvod8efckgTeO2K2o6AL7uQu1kZq75mI3x_trskaoITu9kheBw1lMrqc76TLDx-gHi_I6pBx5lS3JtzsWI2nekrS6Y/w640-h356/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20025911.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar14-2024--a bedraggled looking KP CM Gandapur was seen in the Prime minister's office...it was supposedly the first meeting of top leaders of the Pti(<i>sic</i>)...it apparently came about because the KP is almost completely dependent on federal NFC and Wapda royalties...it is almost nearing the closing of the year and funds distribution must be upped to the provinces...the PM apparently assured funds distribution based on availability...gandapur had refused to attend the PM's oath ceremony</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-e5RFisCPJQAGK8Kawuy32HwoQxCLyUz4xX3SxLGQnN2K160glqf-j8DgaU6QcdKWN_oGngYAqQo9Rx_6BkzjJQZGf3U517DWoniv0J8VK9BkiUDpAcVN9VvbcGrvgVzUJWfPUhB7EdDsQrp2s12SUWAwBs1w7snYvRP7wmCsdg9u3wFKYqg7wzxxXY/s647/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20025101.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="647" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-e5RFisCPJQAGK8Kawuy32HwoQxCLyUz4xX3SxLGQnN2K160glqf-j8DgaU6QcdKWN_oGngYAqQo9Rx_6BkzjJQZGf3U517DWoniv0J8VK9BkiUDpAcVN9VvbcGrvgVzUJWfPUhB7EdDsQrp2s12SUWAwBs1w7snYvRP7wmCsdg9u3wFKYqg7wzxxXY/w640-h354/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20025101.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar14-2024--6 senate seats up for grabs today...vacated 23 national and provincial seats go to the polls on April 21</p><p>Mar12-2024--The new cabinet...a few new but unexceptional faces...Aurangzeb seems ordinary and had a netherlands citizenry...Dars promotion to foreign minister seems at best odd and unrelated to any diplomatic experience...mohsin naqvi to handle imran probably unless the military intervenes...!no particular reasons for qaiser sheikh(chiniot) and shaza's induction...the PMLn probably left their top females behind in punjab...!Shebaz seems tobe a bit unaware of things...there is no electricity subsidy for the elite...with rates at Rs70 while discos purchase electricity at Rs16...it is not the people who want diesel electricity production but industrialist and bussiness types...as for electricity theft what does he expect with such high tariffs...if the rich control 90% of the wealth than what is he going todo about it...privatization wont help the poor...but make the rich richer...one remembers bhuttos days when nawaz sharifs father refused to pay back loans...almost everything was nationalized ...!not taxing the rich more is unproductive and useless rhetoric...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_o52EMY6eiAmo8nu2fWiqc0Xzc8o6BH03atWYSRVil5l9d6USiZddSnBTmh4phiestgxRA0pmGsm1xPU_H2uTdnRn7thvk645rPRKkt0xar2UYYBEhkX-84CPF86CbepW2y16H0WehBhmTCxeaW4qx222HxAci9kuPEQaoI5W2znxhzXzs0JYBR7aXI/s584/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20171747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="584" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_o52EMY6eiAmo8nu2fWiqc0Xzc8o6BH03atWYSRVil5l9d6USiZddSnBTmh4phiestgxRA0pmGsm1xPU_H2uTdnRn7thvk645rPRKkt0xar2UYYBEhkX-84CPF86CbepW2y16H0WehBhmTCxeaW4qx222HxAci9kuPEQaoI5W2znxhzXzs0JYBR7aXI/w640-h602/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20171747.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar12-2024--The current joke is that<i> Anarkali</i> has been replaced by <i>Anar Kala</i>(imran)...</p><p>Mar12-2024--Gandapur says he will shut down all seminaries in KP if terrorism does not stop...they can move to other provinces/countries he says...</p><p>Mar11-2024--there are not many new faces expected in the PMLn cabinet...probably the only two maybe Aleem Khan and Mohd Aurangzeb the HBL MD... surprisingly caretaker chief minister of Punjab Mohsin Naqvi might surface as interior minister. Hopefully the PMLn might not go for wholesale inflation on IMF orders...!</p><p>Mar11-2024--two killed in supposedly botched suicide bombing in Peshawar. three involved...two seminary students and one former seminary student who ran a burger stand...police say these are not typical old known militant's type...but have visited Afghanistan...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28Hgo3fGN48BxIbsqcV6p7Gsu87j2kiS7uv72mW28-OLXI8-GOtxe_XReDit_C6kAL0ufM4Gv7huSSGs_RB5uuIKXlrAQyJW1K2VV26PTZ7wNHLwHSaKwmcKPphC3CtWeBJekz2zPUkEU8cV6XmPSKwQZVZuS4Xd6ab7oGxqdZd2kgfYt_6_7WsBQxyk/s963/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20114807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="963" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28Hgo3fGN48BxIbsqcV6p7Gsu87j2kiS7uv72mW28-OLXI8-GOtxe_XReDit_C6kAL0ufM4Gv7huSSGs_RB5uuIKXlrAQyJW1K2VV26PTZ7wNHLwHSaKwmcKPphC3CtWeBJekz2zPUkEU8cV6XmPSKwQZVZuS4Xd6ab7oGxqdZd2kgfYt_6_7WsBQxyk/w640-h394/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20114807.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Mar11-2024--elections are generally regarded to have been free and fair...no protests are allowed against election results. Any complaints have tobe made to the ECP and election tribunals only...PTi mean and nasty and jealous and with dirty sleazy malicious propaganda of others seats winning methods have mounted a dubiously rigged anti rigging protest...protests of small groups took place all over the place suggesting that apart from KP people not even PTiwalas...did not think elections were rigged...according to one unheard of before pollster in KP 74% people thought elections were rigged...how about the Pti dissolving KP assembly and holding new polls...!</p><p>Mar11-2024--Things are always costly in Ramazan ...retailers and vendors and wholesale sellers all trying to mint money from the pious rozadars...here are seen trucks of bananas in Islamabad usually from Sindh being auctioned to vendors. Bananas are a popular fruit along with imported apples, various types of local and imported dates and guavas and kinoos and oranges...melons are also in the market this early...bananas of various sizes retail for Rs150-200 per dozen...even green chilies now sell for over Rs.300...in the old days the vegetable sellers would give some dhania(coriander) and green chillies with every sale...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXM6OSQxlaBsgkjE4hLBm89YW7tS2EIyTBIHNNtSbHfj4B_O3Qqi6WPzqNmTi_nC4aJaVsSnLb-_5XMIP3oXVTdvq86uzjs768lZJnqq-0R9_GWFn5dHDEVd2rJFduYLW-jIhIVUUd0n5qdAlOCaJhjGRIcbO6lnEV3ELBGw_xNfjifagZiGSyuLO8kg/s987/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20111258.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="987" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXM6OSQxlaBsgkjE4hLBm89YW7tS2EIyTBIHNNtSbHfj4B_O3Qqi6WPzqNmTi_nC4aJaVsSnLb-_5XMIP3oXVTdvq86uzjs768lZJnqq-0R9_GWFn5dHDEVd2rJFduYLW-jIhIVUUd0n5qdAlOCaJhjGRIcbO6lnEV3ELBGw_xNfjifagZiGSyuLO8kg/w640-h380/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20111258.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar10-2024--the dubious sugar tycoon Asif Zardari becomes president again with 411 votes against Achakzai's 190 votes...Zardari visibly seemed to have gotten a carbon peel/foundation plus hair plugs...! although looks more ganja than usual...previously he was only a PPP president...hopefully he will change and become Pakistan's president(for sindhis that is a very difficult transition)...mostly previous governments have gone for a mohajir president apart from the PPP</p><p>Mar10-2024--In Pakistan women are frightened that even their newborn will be kidnapped from hospitals or will not be properly attended by nurses and doctors...see the photo below as mothers or attendants sit next to their newborn babies...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjtCzMYZ_4lbqt3Tf16fhBjQj4Cjq0kg3SydiIYx4BDKE4ku8P87HFouyJmL_MZTHPH1Z4PJw5rDfvV2P8yOvXkjvUW4HWzx3TSajNKCWAryIXNlyXOlBTK3N3nSnBR2keDFme8GVi0OREmDNjAVx-z4umehyphenhyphenv6tW-09PLWp55Fc46-2xHXqkJVCAthA/s657/Screenshot%202024-03-10%20111308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="657" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjtCzMYZ_4lbqt3Tf16fhBjQj4Cjq0kg3SydiIYx4BDKE4ku8P87HFouyJmL_MZTHPH1Z4PJw5rDfvV2P8yOvXkjvUW4HWzx3TSajNKCWAryIXNlyXOlBTK3N3nSnBR2keDFme8GVi0OREmDNjAVx-z4umehyphenhyphenv6tW-09PLWp55Fc46-2xHXqkJVCAthA/w640-h314/Screenshot%202024-03-10%20111308.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Mar 9-2024--prices of fruits and vegetables on the rise says Dawn...even though remittances rose 13% yoy...onions now at Rs250-300/kg. before 150/kg<span> --</span><span>out of 130 trucks 100 were exported in Karachi-</span> imports from Iran/Afghanistan insignificant ....Potatoes Rs80 from Rs.50...cabbageRs150 fromRs80-100...green chilies Rs320 from Rs200...capsicum Rs400...spinach unchanged at Rs.80-100...melon Rs150-200...green/red apples Rs.200-250 /Rs.350-400...Bananas small/big Rs120/Rs.200 Guava Rs150-200...wholesale prices are much better and there is more looting at retail levels. a home gas cylinder is being sold at inflated prices of upto Rs4000... i think that maryan nawaz should distribute free ramzan goodies to every house and probably give a home gas cylinder to the poor...! Given the inflation and tariffs situation ...The PTi has left KP in dire straits as upto 10 percent of KP residents need financial or food help... KP restarts the free health card... and reopens charity food kitchens...people dont like purple irani onions but prefer the orange swati/afghan onions...! </p><p>Mar 9-2024--provincial assemblies call for a martyrdom certification of zulfikar ali bhutto officially...though the SC did not cancel the death sentence or abrogate... it would be the first case of a martyr who had been hanged for murder of another politician. Martyrdom of politicians who have public opposition or support is a strange process...upto now there have been only legal military and police martyrs...while this case could lead to say the mqm and other ethnic groups also seeking official martyrdom for their dead...for example a minister died in a car accident(could have been done by the Pti) in Islamabad recently...maybe politicians will also than want plots and payments for their martyrs as is done in the military...one suggests that such things will make things look at best as odd...Zulfikar ali Bhutto made mistakes...for example he was a coup plotter(in the same coup cabinet was imrans uncle) and advised that the JI could handle the Bengalis...Benazir Bhutto who died in action probably more of a martyr as she went to her death willingly/knowingly...however in her first speech after becoming PM she had said " Bhutto Zinda he..." what that meant is unclear...some suggest that Bhutto's DNA should be checked from his grave as many say he was actually relocated to India…!</p><p>...this from a dawn piece on the subject:" <span face="Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">J.A. Rahim, one of the founding members of the PPP, was invited to dinner by Bhutto on July 2, 1974. Per</span><span face="Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a class="link--external story__link--external" href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1258546" rel="noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(147,197,253,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAwAAAAMCAIAAAGuEPsmAAAAgElEQVQYlXWQyxHAIAhEbVLv0oZebCsWl2xYB2Ri3gVZPgLpVpKbNOd8bSnFA+8r54yQiGwaTe+dDw9eiiirW1ZC4c6SxhguFQUtgkS/1srcxK5QOfKSAMvPP0oE3c5JrbXdXUm2CCTsyYV5Bk/i3whgTh6DZXau0MmwkX9P9eUBgstUonKpVTIAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-position: 100% 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-color: var(--gray-200,#e5e7eb); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #901f1f; font-family: Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px;" target="_blank">Stanley Wolpert</a><span face="Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">, when Bhutto failed to show up hours after the scheduled time, J.A. Rahim left the dinner saying, “You bloody flunkies can wait as long as you like for the Maharaja of Larkana, I’m going home!” When J.A. Rahim reached home that night, FSF thugs stormed into his bedroom, beat him up, and struck him with rifle butts.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(147,197,253,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: var(--gray-200,#e5e7eb); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">Masood Mahmood, the head of the FSF, once responsible for terrorizing Bhutto’s opponents and loyalists (on Bhutto’s instructions) would go on to become a key witness against him at the trial court</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(147,197,253,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: var(--gray-200,#e5e7eb); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">The SC did not come to a real verdict which should have been a retrial if due process and fairness were not met...However, the Court went on to opine that there were constitutional and legal lapses and a fair trial was denied to Bhutto. But they could not change anything or it was not allowed under the rules...since it was a special case the court should have over ridden the rules....</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(147,197,253,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: var(--gray-200,#e5e7eb); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">That is very normal even in cases these days...therefore in a martial law regime such things should be considered tobe normal...bhuttos lawyers made a serious mistake in not attacking the evidence and went for a political defence which generally fails...</p><p>Mar9-2024--The IMF has urged that elections disputes be resolved amicably or fairly...previously they wanted a similarity or a stability in economic policies...election disputes are resolved mostly in courts, and they sometimes do take time...It is not possible for Islamabad to intervene in the cases most of the time as the cases are usually sub Judice...It is odd for the IMF to intervene in these issues and it had earlier before the elections met leaders of the main parties to urge similarity of views on economic policies and general political stability...the PTI is probably reminding the IMF of those meetings even though the attitude in writing to the IMF is considered at best inappropriate and illiteracy prone...the IMF had at that time indicated that the pti maybe more militant than once thought which has come true...! the IMF has suggested a willingness to a new economic program although historically no major change has been seen in IMF policies...the government seeks to renew the IMF program after April 2024. The IMF seems to have it in for the populace usually especially in tariffs...supposedly timely adjustments have seen tariffs jump from Rs.15 to Rs.60-75 and almost double in the gas segment too...which is hardly sensible...there has been at best no /any change in social safety nets and inflation has been almost steady in the upper/higher levels... i think the IMF does not see things in real terms ...Donors in the past year literally cancelled all safety nets created in the medical industry to see that some people can get free treatment and hospitalization and operations...in historical terms political instability has never been on an equal to economic instability until this recent period...most political instability only effects economics for small durations...just as an example is foreign remittances which have always been on the rise but have started being unstable due to inflation in relatively affluent or rich places...some Pakistani western commentators have noted the relatively bizarre IMF oratory...and also noted the doubling in the commitment to Egypt to $8 billion which has a military ruler...!</p><p>Mar9-2024--reserved seats challenges have been made in three high courts with one stopping oaths while oaths have taken place in other two assemblies ...this could be a fit case for the SC-suomotu and compiling all the complaints in the high courts into one case...!</p><p>Mar9-2024--CJP regrets baseless criticism of the senior judiciary...this is basically shocking as most complaints have some or other basis and one must encourage criticism as there is no other channel for informing about /against judge's behavior in public life specifically which has come in for most of the criticism...purchase and having multiple properties seems tobe one avenue coming in for criticism...The CJ should be cautious in attempting to block criticism...since his wife was accused of having multiple properties in England and instances of tax evasion...than was the case of a previous CJ enjoying costly paid holidays in Europe and then the present case of Judge Naqvi...none of these were frivolous and the people must be encouraged to come forward with such issues of/about judges...!whether judges want to explain their conduct in public or not that is their own choice...!</p><p>Mar8-2024--PTi continues to pound the form 45 tampering while knowing that u cannot win on some problem in one form...there have been around three forms on the internet that may have been tampered...other groups have backed out of sheer embarassment...The ECP should ask its RO or polling officers to explain publically why that has occured ...otherwise the ECP can recount the numbers and redecide who has won...a few seats here and there does not matter much and such things could also have occurred in the nearly 200 seats won by the PTI...The ECp can easily go thru all forms and ask the polling officers to revize them if there are discrepancies...i saw one form on which there was a revized stamp...The PTi which is literally anti Pakistan and does not want to give up anything that is malicious and embarrasses the ECP or polling officers or Pakistan...!</p><p>Mar8-2024--The CJ refuses to back down from his stances and has now declared a retired judge mazhar ali naqvi guilty of misconduct...the judge had retired a day before the SJC took up the complaint...at best the government can forfeit the judges pension and perks as he had already resigned...five other judges were letoff in internal hearings while one judge was asked to file a response..the SJC has decided to look into about a 100 complaints against judges...mazhar had several complaints of a similar type about one property in which a developer paid 50 million for him...while two other complaints were that the developer gave his son pounds 5000 which was not returned and his children were given favours of lowered rent on properties...apparently the developer said that he owed the judge 50 million on acquiring his jhang properties...</p><p>Mar7-2024--Pakistan's army chief and Prime minister are usually on opposite sides of the desk as well as opponents in many a policy...The army chief had already ordered FBR reform a generally meaningless process...while taxes/revenues have increased dramatically government still wants more and more...The current PM seems to suggest that he will continue the policies of the caretakers being technically brainless himself...one would suggest that he take along the parliament in his economic policies at least...as he has scant regard for the populace going by his previous stint...apparently he/Coas wants Aurangzeb of the Habib bank as his advisor who being a expatriate wants a one window policy. A economist is usually better than a banker...expatriates find it difficult to run around and get issues resolved...!the governments generally demonstrate an inability to handle things economically such as privatization...one suggests that although the private sector does not show much praiseworthy expertise the government should sell military industries, the power sector and everything lying around that it cannot run...in recent times the government had a tendency to sell things like land and tourist hotels to the army...The army should go for bigger more difficult stuff like Discos's...or perhaps even an airline...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJCv6lK2umgl9Z3v7oF0acIiOJgmwQPKFms8euDf-DA0uDWeZxDB0nVwT_PME6PwrDy__RAzJ5YOXOh4GEjDPCdiIaREA6iq5YOldiceJrqe0uz2BCwzfkAcjzuTyZvo7SStY3Syy6k40m1e2pOH85ZN_NEkqekg-lU3DxApNd2tCzsxootQ8M6GzUyc/s992/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20132744.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="992" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJCv6lK2umgl9Z3v7oF0acIiOJgmwQPKFms8euDf-DA0uDWeZxDB0nVwT_PME6PwrDy__RAzJ5YOXOh4GEjDPCdiIaREA6iq5YOldiceJrqe0uz2BCwzfkAcjzuTyZvo7SStY3Syy6k40m1e2pOH85ZN_NEkqekg-lU3DxApNd2tCzsxootQ8M6GzUyc/w400-h193/Screenshot%202024-03-07%20132744.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar7-2024--Pakistans five refineries will reduce furnace oil production by 78 % and increase petrol/diesel production...pakistans requirement of peroleum products is 24 million tonnes of which 11.35 million tons is produced locally...petrol production tobe increased by 99%</p><p>Mar7-2024--Pildat a JI type outfit says that elections quality was a healthy 47% approval rating when the maximum was 57% in 2013</p><p>Mar7-2024--maulana fazlu says armies respect not as a decision maker...however army work is respected and in some cases it is better too...for example army lt. generals handled the covid organization and cleaning of karachi nullahs in the imran era...the two ie. army chief and isi chief routinely were found sitting in the sun on sofas at imrans banigala palace...! what were they doing there all the time...defending the country...!in recent occurrences fazlu and khawaja asif suggested that they were ordered to remove imran in a benign way...however even after the removal the generals arrived to meet imran at midnight on his leaving day...!however the no trust had been in the works for over two years which imrans spy fazlu kept reporting to him on...imran thought it was blackmail but it was only a difference of opinions until they agreed...</p><p>Mar7-2024--Imran says he only wants a audit in four seat cases and he mentioned only three...the PTI while saying that a whopping 90 seats form 45's had been tampered with but the tampering shown as examples did not suggest that the win or loss could have been changed by that tampering...actually form 47 defines a winner...The PTI has won over 180 seats but they could not even find one in which their own winners had been tampered with...!simply a matter of addition can be handled even by a lower court in a matter of minutes...only one form has been shown tobe tampered and not all form45's on a particular constituency...and in not even one case have they suggested the final total was changed due to the tampering..The PTI is prone to malicious propaganda on an international basis and they should check their winners too if tampering is so common...Imran suggests after getting bail in may9 that everyone involved and pictured should be sentenced...Imran himself had approved and had stated so that such violence would take place and one does not know why he has been given bail when he was behind the organisation of the violence and arson...eg...nobody believes a Pti lahore leader who said that "Dr yasmin the punjab pti president said burn the corp commanders residence" and two PTI mna's shot dead two workers at their residence while the lahore vice president of the PTI ran over PTI's own worker...it was reported that imran had asked the vice president to create some sort of issue...it is also necessary to explain that according to the law election results cannot be protested and any complaint has tobe made to the eCP or election triBunals...!</p><p>Mar7-2024--In a surprising decision the CJ said that ZAbhutto had not been treated according to the constitution in his death sentence hearings but they could not change the decision...theoretically a review of a case that took place in 1977-79 would only take place if there was new information...just saying that the process had flaws is tantamount to personal bias..the court did not rule if there was enough evidence... and why a new trial cannot be ordered...no clear constitutional flaw has been outlined even though many issues had not been dealt with in the trial...just as an example nobody really knows what was the function of the FSF or whether bhutto had ordered other murders too...!</p><p>Mar7-2024--The PHC a biased court orders stay of oaths for new reserved seat MNa's from KP..There was no reason for the stay as the court if it ordered so would have cancelled the reserved seats...there is no reason given why the reserved seats cannot be allocated to other parties when they are unable tobe allocated to SIC who did not file a list...!</p><p>Mar6-2024--The PMLn became the largest party in the national assembly with 123 seats and the PPP with 73...the JUIf now totals 11...the Mqm(p)--22, Ipp--4...of 99 independents 9 did not join the SIC...so SIC has either 89 seats with another three PTi backed...SIC candidates have got 91-92 votes...!PMLq has 5...</p><p>Mar6-2024--The military in a carefully worded rejection of PTI politics says that they reject even the notion of polls interference. They say the accusations against the military of political interference is unfounded and stressed that grievances should be resolved thru normal channels...instead of destabilizing rhetoric...they called the PTI a vested small political/social media segment and their allegations unsubstantiated and highly deplorable......this came out of the 263 Corp commanders conference...!They also vowed to bring May9 miscreants (mostly only from PTI) to book...</p><p>Mar6-2024--Akber S Baber calls PTI elections a farce saying no new face has emerged...he asks ECP to declare all the members who joined the SIC as ineligible to vote or participate in intraparty elections and revoke their membership...</p><p>Mar5-2025--CJ winds up review of bhuttos death sentence...nothing substantial was brought up and the Cj quickly wound it up when someone wanted to know what was the FSF's function...The CJ seems to think that it was a matter of bhutto's dignity and not whether the state ordered a murder at the very top...many now think that Bilawal is the son and pota of murderers...!</p><p>Mar5-2024--the IMF little baby shebaz sharif takes oath as prime minister and orders again another meaningless episode of IMF...apparently they now want a $6 billion package...The government could easily have avoided that by remaining within the domains of its revenues/means and going to the extent of reducing provincial allocations/development and even if necessary pruning the defence budget of needless things like the DHA - delaying/reducing pensions to a minimum...there is already a spate of overproduction in elite housing...the government usually has no money for development or provincial allocations for which it takes Rs6 trillion in internal loans annually...The government should just limit itself to completing two main dams before starting any further outlays for which loans maybe required...Pakistan has become used to looking for foreign loans for its development needs...</p><p>Mar5-2024--The PPP agrees to a May9 commission although no innocents have been noticed yet in the PTI camps...a few months before May9 imran had indicated that violent protests had been decided for instance if he was arrested...</p><p>Mar5-2024--The PTI nominated a land grabber as its presidential candidate...Mahmood khan achakzai who represents pukhtuns in Baluchistan and whose father had been murdered apparently by Zia ul haq/ZAB...achakzai's illegal land grab was raided yesterday and his party protested that it was because of his nomination...</p><p>Mar5-2024--The ECP as expected refused the reserved seats to the SIC as it had not filed a list for it before the elections...however some saw controversy (which the PTI sees in everything) inits allocation to other parties...thus the parties in the KP assembly in the opposition may become normal looking with the addition of KP's reserved seats...both in the center and the province...The PTI should have joined a party which had filed a reserve list as there is no point now of having joined the SIC...still joining a party with a reserved list may get them the reserved seats...! ie possibly...!</p><p>Mar1, 2024--Speaker and deputy speaker of the national assembly tobe elected today...primeminister tobe elected on sunday</p><br />Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-28740156578814789882024-02-20T23:54:00.060+05:002024-03-11T12:28:14.471+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Feb16-29, 2024<p><br /></p><p>Feb29-2024--prehistoric drawings at Diamer bhasha dam site...tobe preserved after media scanning... cost Rs46.5 million...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8e9S0W5U4PPkhIC-11MrhNoXggnVvgxGGYiYD-yA14XqZS22r7TX4oETFKC1RoAT0azW7rQugCr8__60lTTtiAWBWQGaKbuhwxksoteX4bjTwP648dgAjgJpudlv2ywp7PwFL2Sc9pBhs9blhJGJE_Ir-QQ1MA8sZOoKsDSHqh2tx5cPS3RPaJmdbQQ4/s510/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20122619.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="510" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8e9S0W5U4PPkhIC-11MrhNoXggnVvgxGGYiYD-yA14XqZS22r7TX4oETFKC1RoAT0azW7rQugCr8__60lTTtiAWBWQGaKbuhwxksoteX4bjTwP648dgAjgJpudlv2ywp7PwFL2Sc9pBhs9blhJGJE_Ir-QQ1MA8sZOoKsDSHqh2tx5cPS3RPaJmdbQQ4/w640-h506/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20122619.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Feb29-2024-- Alvi calls NA session </p><p>Feb29-2024--Nawaz Sharif refuses to become prime minister probably due to health conditions and Bilawal criticism...shebaz not youthful either...had a cancer condition in the past...</p><p>Feb29-2024--KP assembly takes oath among shouts of <i>qaidi number 804</i>...a women mpa paraded around holding a watch---probably defining the imran corrupt nature in selling expensive gift watches...</p><p>Feb 29-2024--new monument to the constitution...near D-chowk...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr-6M-oJYymGIpVXAMeBcpEJj5GXM6ZHPOrCYGtdbWyLTnZXJFcLGUdZ-SG1T6U2KH7fSPZMJ2CxJ5b79fHRLCg43CwB-nFWfYuisPu9M9vNNw1vaIC7oNgicHDOQnCuabPFOJtEByyTh1PEWBjRJPtw4PuDEg5wIcReJF6HMQhJswynfUSMhyphenhyphengfYfg4/s971/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20120805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="971" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr-6M-oJYymGIpVXAMeBcpEJj5GXM6ZHPOrCYGtdbWyLTnZXJFcLGUdZ-SG1T6U2KH7fSPZMJ2CxJ5b79fHRLCg43CwB-nFWfYuisPu9M9vNNw1vaIC7oNgicHDOQnCuabPFOJtEByyTh1PEWBjRJPtw4PuDEg5wIcReJF6HMQhJswynfUSMhyphenhyphengfYfg4/w640-h394/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20120805.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Feb29-2024--floods in gawader...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8GTE6tZatOzGHMM0UmrpM-e-JlzPXZUjxlJWOog8CPRDlPnSY05cx8JvSycOK2YFB4MsZ3Lr9BMXGp9LErdeJ6KA8cf3-h7lH1KdtA_b91RVfXyNCEBiakzFMdr8Xj_ZHzHHUrI9uowkjhBXewHxIoG5kovmZavcIzCuNOCZS7HXKyqljL9Xwk0RgSs/s959/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20120723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="959" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8GTE6tZatOzGHMM0UmrpM-e-JlzPXZUjxlJWOog8CPRDlPnSY05cx8JvSycOK2YFB4MsZ3Lr9BMXGp9LErdeJ6KA8cf3-h7lH1KdtA_b91RVfXyNCEBiakzFMdr8Xj_ZHzHHUrI9uowkjhBXewHxIoG5kovmZavcIzCuNOCZS7HXKyqljL9Xwk0RgSs/w640-h376/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20120723.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Feb29-2024--The hearing of a reference of the death sentence of Zulfikar ali Bhutto seems more personal than in any real context of the law...in historical cases reopening is only allowed when there is new evidence...it was a different era and probably only a nascent democracy at best...Zulfikar ali bhutto had taken power from a martial power on the crumbling of its defences in east Pakistan from where the army had run away in abject surrender...he had probably setup the FSF in the context of the center having no protection from what is now called the establishment...technically he had setup the martial law from a election which he supposedly had rigged or his people did...!the amicus curiae like aitezaz ahsan are really not very honest or reliable...taking up a case where a death sentence supposedly hurt some peoples personal dignity is not a courts job...the judges involved like samdani, maulvi mushtaq and nasim hasan shah were probably not great jurists and judges were bearocratically appointed in those days, CJ anwar ul Haq had been DC in sialkot...The court should first decide whether there is a case of reopening or trashing the case and then study the evidence...Bhutto's lawyer had mounted a political defence as has been done by the present CJ...if the case is reopened than should it be tried in a sessions court ...probably no and will again be sent up to the LHC for hearing...todays judges are a bit different and some have judicial activism while others thing they are morally superior to police and politicians and rulers...but no real brilliance or difference has been noticed...so the case is based solely on the person being a victim or against the establishment and whether he ordered the FSF to carry out such a task...one can assign any reasoning or alignment for a previous evidence...was the FSF chief a bhutto opponent....did he manufacture evidence...it was one person against bhutto and they could not discredit masood mahmood...masood mahmood probably had no grudge against a victim who was not too prominent as a politician.and one should probably study the perpretrators who were military employees of a tank rebuild factory...so any reason for the death sentence arises from the judges belief that bhutto probably ordered the murder or even political sentiments against a upstart at times a brilliant politician who was aligned against the other parties which now exist as the PMLn, JI, JUIf, mqm etc...at that time the politics was something like the demagoguery of imran and similarly a country against one person at least in politics...That the death sentence served the interests of the bhutto clan goes without saying...Benazir had assured Bhutto of a respectful burial in a shade..so what the CJ has todo is to decide if there was sufficient evidence for the court decisions...is there any new evidence... and whether the decision should be set aside in its entirety or reopen the case ab initio...the CJ's bias is quite clear and many will wait to see what he does...even if he decided that the courts verdict was based on no real evidence...despite the FSF having no other reason for its existence...so the biased CJ can just decide that the decision might have been over and above and that the death sentence might be downgraded to a sentence of life which would be normal...there is also no real evidence even of threats of any real ordering of the decision by the military junta even though one high court judge ran away into exile ...even though zia ul haq supposedly kicked bhutto with his boots in jail after the judgement...the bias was not judicial but caused by the temperament of the coup plotter and probably the nature of the judiciary at the time...who had reasons to eliminate bhutto as it would end the only threat to the martial law regime...!a real investigation into various aspects might reveal more evidence that is at present not available.</p><p>Feb24-2024--<i>abbaji minu marde nen...te bushra bhi beemar rendi eh...bahadur mard bano...ke chun chun ka marabba bane huay ho...check keeta te bushra police waliyan naal crkit khel rai si...she complains that strange people roam around the yards of the house...</i>i think there is no reason for not sending her to adiyala..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aMKiP7NAaeLogFrvRipDWrZXItjn2vXIOWD-jnYwKSBoVXVvDTRd7GWSKLq1ykmxFkLe1FuYFWUov-DW9zfrH-MyhJBHa-zFTqU9-SWEag_SZqVsO620FtwvXm8guXhQsCDsSE4zmtsjTxZ1QYEICQCxZnhv6u8HdfuuhkFSWVZwcajsqLnwXk5IDlU/s844/Screenshot%202024-02-25%20002622.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="844" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aMKiP7NAaeLogFrvRipDWrZXItjn2vXIOWD-jnYwKSBoVXVvDTRd7GWSKLq1ykmxFkLe1FuYFWUov-DW9zfrH-MyhJBHa-zFTqU9-SWEag_SZqVsO620FtwvXm8guXhQsCDsSE4zmtsjTxZ1QYEICQCxZnhv6u8HdfuuhkFSWVZwcajsqLnwXk5IDlU/w400-h279/Screenshot%202024-02-25%20002622.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Feb24-2024--in more controversial news Mariam Aurangzeb has been apparently appointed Punjab deputy chief minister or PSO to Mariam Nawaz the probable chief minister...!or are these farah's in the making...!</p><p>Feb24-2024--In a first probably a PTi supporting journalist or anchor has been arrested for corruption...Imran Riaz who had landed from Canada in sialkot after a disappearing act after May9 was arrested with his father for getting a Dharaba lake(near chakwal) contract at throwaway prices of Rs.4 million ...the last contract was for Rs9 million...probably for fishing in a supposedly tourist type lake or just cleaning the streets around it...if u see someone like him cleaning the streets near Dharaba lake you will know what he has been given as a sentence...</p><p>Feb23-2024--The interim government announced the highest ever FCA electricity tariff for january 2024 of Rs7...!They also announced that that they would seek a $6 billion IMF line of credit...this probably being done to allow new government to ease in...the discos are getting electricity at Rs15 and selling it to the people at Rs40-60...horrendous...the reasoning with such a high tariff for a FCA is unclear. The caretakers have been announcing various increased electricity tariffs and addons continuously since June 2023...</p><p>Feb23-2024--malik ahmed khan and malik zaheer iqbal channer nominated by the PMLn for speaker and dy speaker...while SIC nominates ahmed khan bacher and malik moeenuddin riaz qureshi...</p><p>Feb23-2024-- apparently a Punjab assembly session has taken place where oaths were taken...there are 199 PMLn supporting legislators including 42 on reserved seats...while there are said tobe 116 pti backed independents who supposedly have joined the SIC..98 SIC members took oath too along with members of PPP 11 and PMLq-8. IPP 5 and others...20 of 23 non pti backed independents joined the PMLn...whether the SIC can get reserved seats is not clear...the date for filing reserved seats nominees has passed and the SIC did not file a list...that leaves another matter for the court or the ECP to decide...in punjab the SIC could be allotted around 25 reserved seats...technically it does not matter given the nature of seat distribution...there are 270 reserved seats countrywide...at least 50 pti backed independents are said to have joined the SIC whether in the punjab or center is unclear...the candidates have to join a party within three days of notification...The SIC was initially a Barelvi grouping opposing Deobandis...at the moment it is a seemingly a shiite led group close to another shiite group the MWM...they are led by iraqi/iranian seminary educated clerics...what happened to the barelvi organisations that initially were part of the SIC is not clear...The PTI is said to hold another internal election on the March 3...if it is approved than the PTI will get its symbol back...how the SIC will integrate with the new PTI or whether it can is yet tobe seen...</p><p>Feb20-2024--PMLn and PPP at odds in baluchistan on who will form government...PPP says it has 13 members and PMLn-11 and JUIf -11...no party has a majority and at least a three party coalition is required to form the baluch government which probably cannot be achieved without negotiations...the major portfolios of governor , speaker and chief minister have tobe resolved as well as how many ministries each party gets...there are 27 members who might like to get in on the coalition too</p><p>Feb20-2024--50 PTI independents have become members of the SIC a dubious supposedly shiite-sunni combine...that means that the PTI independents no longer exist...however the pTi has again initiated a court case in KP to regain its reserved seats and challenge the ECP/SC judgement onits symbol...since the PTI has joined the SIC the reserved seats will go to the SIC...what the PTI expects to play both sides is unclear...the maulana fazlur rehman statement on who was behind the no trust move has already been debunked...and the PTI itself delayed the no trust from Mar9 to April 6 alongwith the illegal hoopla of the cipher...removing a primeminister thru a no trust is a legal move as the PTI had been rendered a minority after its coalition partners stepped away from it...imran had been accusing his coalition partners of blackmail...</p><p>Feb20-2024--The SC has adjudicated that it cannot adjudicate on vice , morality, honesty or the qualities required in articles 62-1(d,e,f) and probably article 63 as well...what this means is that candidates can be good or bad but it cannot stop them from competing in elections...that states that the constitution is erroneous to the extent of articles 62 and 63 and they must be unconstitutional at best...it has not been difficult for the courts to adjudge on clear lines of criminality but they cannot say if a person is honest/good/bad even in specific cases that are brought before it...</p><p>Feb20-2024--The PMLn says they have more than 190 votes in the national assembly and can easily form the government ...!that is with the recalcitrant PPP who feel they have been hard done by the rejection of the benazir kid(baby bilawal)...many suggest a ambassadorship for Bilawal along the lines that an opponent is best kept overseas...!</p><p>Feb20-2024--the big news is that the PMLn might look further afield for economic advisors rather than Miftah and Ishaq Dar the two biggest PMLn failures...the people they are looking at work at the same bank... Habib Bank...one is the Shiite Ismaili supremo of the AKD organization and chairman of Habib Bank, and the other is the president of Habib bank...from photographs they look like stiff necks unable to accept change...but having good education and experience credentials...Allana has degrees from the ordinary Mcgill and Wisconsin suggesting that he might have been poorer initially...while Aurangzeb has degrees from Wharton school of business(Pennsylvania)...they might have a better reception with the IMF and world bank...and could explain to the army why they should not takeover agricultural land and attempt foolishly to run the economy too...further overseas investment into a battered structurally entity would not produce any gain for the people and bleed foreign exchange in profits repatriation...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SVwBhCYpWOJ1q6gA2rO-C2FyeWhpY68fDY0FKMMluYWHcafq5LY375XLdW2ZKmycqmkYiiZIGKHlIS7vvQDTLXDFZfor6j-E36vEKAim_M_KvptXe4tYLr3OQ47i1Rzo_06IqUkXDseDd1e8YRHxL1h-2YCW8GFe7VXchyphenhyphenioy60_W4hHWYNlDIrTz40/s784/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20131359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="784" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5SVwBhCYpWOJ1q6gA2rO-C2FyeWhpY68fDY0FKMMluYWHcafq5LY375XLdW2ZKmycqmkYiiZIGKHlIS7vvQDTLXDFZfor6j-E36vEKAim_M_KvptXe4tYLr3OQ47i1Rzo_06IqUkXDseDd1e8YRHxL1h-2YCW8GFe7VXchyphenhyphenioy60_W4hHWYNlDIrTz40/w640-h378/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20131359.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Feb20-2024--The elections are a mechanism of change...the political parties are the means as they make that change occur...according to our laws election results can only be challenged in the election tribunals...this the fourth election in which change has meaningfully occurred in two provinces while sindhis and pukhtuns have refused to accept the need to change...however the extent of the change and the results are similar to 2018...in baluchistan the BAP has been almost wiped out by three bigger parties...the status quo has been maintained in the other three provinces...the ideas that the PTi was pukhtun in nature and anti development/anti punjab reduced the votes of the pTI in Punjab...it also suffered when compared to the PMLn era of development...simple things like cleaning up Rawalpindi thru a efficient turkish company and building a metro ...the voters noticed that the PTI did no development in the rawalpindi area at all...they noticed that the PTI was generally corrupt in its rule of the punjab and that it forced the NAB not to indict PTI corruption in KP...!That the political parties succeeded in denting the PTi in punjab, sindh and baluchistan was unnerving to the pTI which swept the KP...!The PTI was a minority party in 2018 too and it was the nature of its 2018 coalition rule that it would have great difficulty in forming even a passable government majority in 2024...but it refused to even talk to the PPP or MQMp who might have given it a lifesaving governing coalition...and joining a 30:30:30:10 national coalition was thus totally out of the question...however the change was only marginal but effective nevertheless...and change is what a election is all about...that is not rigging...That the beaurocracy, caretakers, establishment(aka army), ECP and Judiciary were on the same page goes without saying...The May9 antics of the PTi in which military installations were attacked did not help its cause either...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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phsychopath and how could a commissioner be under the pressure of foreigners and social media...the ECP said that the district commissioner had no role in the elections...he even said that votes were being stamped even after 10 days which is technically not possible...The PMLn which caused a major upset in the division says that there were no unusual results, and most voting was quite close...the losing parties like the PTI protesting even losing eight seats in KP are quite shameful and horrid in trying to attack the elections credibility in which they won over 90 PK seats in KP plus around 40 NA seats...nobody is challenging punjab results barring the PTi while JI/PTI is challenging elections in karachi while baluch parties are challenging the victories by major parties in balochistan..GDA is also challenging sindh results...PTI could not mount a sizable protest in peshawar against the elections...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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while PMLn starts deliberations on picking baluch governor and possibly challenging PPP on baluch CM...</div><div><br /></div><div>Feb17-2024--two militants killed and a policeman in Tank...</div><div><br /></div>Feb17-2024--A petition in the SC to annul/stay the 2024 elections will come up for hearing on Monday..they also want a suspension of the process to form governments...currently tribunal hearings etc. challenging announced results have yet to take place...The ECp supposedly has to announce results in 14 days and the assembly has tobe summoned by the 29th...first speaker has tobe elected and than leader of the house...and probably independents have to join other parties by the 25th...!<br /><p></p><p>Feb17-2024--In further evidence in the SJC vs mazher naqvi another witness submitted evidence of buying a plot from mazhar ali naqvi...he again mentioned the Rs50 million cheque from smart city...apparently the developer who bought the plot says the money was owed to him by smart city for 600 kanals of land in fatej Jhang...The gulberg property previously owned by varda naqvi wife of the caretaker chiefminister...earlier the plot said tobe in cantonment near askari2..the property sold to judge naqvi who than sold it to Mr Khan...there are ten complaints against the judge for various land acquisitions...later the SJC heard of three plots bought from FGEHF...the ETPB told the SJC that the tenancy of an office space was transferred to the judges son at a lower than normal price at diyal singh mansion...The SJC said that it could hear complaints against other judges too...mazhar nqvi said that the SJC could not hear complaints against former judges according to article 209...apparently a court is already seized with issue.</p><p>Feb17-2024--at last imrans brain corrects itself and he decides to sit in the opposition...in the center and punjab...a big demo on the hyderabad motorway by the GDA against rigging in sindh...the Pti demo on the peshawar motorway was peanuts in comparision...GDA suggests that with the problems that the PPP and PMLn are having in various assemblies deciding things the next government may last from one to two years so everybody had better be prepared for a new election...smooth sailing probably only for the Pti in KP...Khurshid shah says that they will take the parliamentary committee chairmans...The PPP seems to think that they can benefit politically by their strange attitudes given that the PMLn has been dealt a blow at the top but ministries are important and probably the speakership at the center which the PPP wants and so does the PMLn...how the new government works out with the SFIC is yet tobe seen...military apparently trying to remain hidden but seemingly wants huge chunks of land...the only suggestion at the moment seems to be dividing government ...three years for PMLn and two for the PPP...ie if they last five years...PPP however reluctant to follow orders...!ones vegetable seller has some ideas...selling carrots for Rs.2 a kilo and peas for Rs.160 a kilo...to reduce inflation in the real sense u need to reduce tariffs and prices</p><p>Feb16-2024--In a continuation the SJC heard the details of the corruption reference against former judge mazhar ali naqvi...apparently the judge bought a property in the lahore cantonement area Sant jones park for Rs130 million in 2022...the amount was paid in two 50 million cheques and 30 million in cash...one of the 50 million cheques came from a company called Lahore smart city (pvt) limited...the properties worth in 2022 said tobe 270 million and 377 million now...and the deed was recorded at 106 million...a lot of wheeling and dealing for a judge of the superior courts...a superior court judges salary is around a million nowadays...if the judge just survived on daal roti than he could possibly save a 100 million...if the lahore smart city turns out tobe the property of the judges son in law than that could save him...!what can rhey do if they say it is corruption..!technically they cant do anything apart from referring the case to NAB or ACE..it might look good if they confiscated the property as a corruption proceeds...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-20203384734540106562024-02-01T16:39:00.288+05:002024-02-20T23:55:17.893+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Feb1-15, 2024<p><br /></p><p>Feb15-2024--two of the three nominated for top positions by the PTI are absconders in may9 cases including ali amin gandapur and mian aslam iqbal with mian aslam iqbal and another ex mna supposedly involved in killing two Pti workers...!omar ayub also on bail in may9 case</p><p>Feb15-2024--two killed in vote recount in Hub.</p><p>Feb15-2024--PMLn supporters unhappy with the price fixer shebaz foisted on them as a possible primeminister after fronting with Nawaz Sharif...PPP says it will lead coalition in Baluchistan...!reports of Asif Zardari contacting the Pti debunked by PPP's Kundi...surprisingly three names have surfaced for the sindh cm ie faryal talpur, nasir shah and murad ali shah....a PPP ploy to show that they have some democratic credentials and consider others besides the usual phsycophant...!PTI to name contenders for speaker and leader of the house later...!Gilani told not to resign from the senate...!things muddled ahead in the punjab as Maryam Nawaz becomes PMLn nominee for CM...reports suggest that shebaz and maryam will follow nawaz sharif orders...in sindh a PTI independent mpa from lyari joins PPP as well as one from bhakkar, punjab...JI supposedly loses mpa seats in KP on recounts...four mpas in punjab... three independents and one azad join IPP...10-15 more poised to join says aleem...on the PMLn front one more mna joined PMLn and eight mpa's...that is a total of three mna's and 16 mpa's...according to the PTi people donot like lota's but PTi policies of pukhtun-shiite-militants gath-jor also not popular...having to follow goher ali khan/asad qaiser etc. for five years is deemed tiresome...!PTi unable to quickly join another party to save itself from cracking into pieces...and maulana fazlur rehman says he will sit in the opposition and probably in the government in baluchistan...the maulana has not survived in KP after running into a bomb in bajaur and sort of becoming friendly to the Pti...The violence in his home area of DI khan also destroyed his power base...reports of TTP congratulating ali amin gandapur</p><p>Feb15-2024--There seem tobe few primeminister candidates apart from the PMLn where even Nawaz Sharif is refusing to join the deliberations...Shebaz not very popular in his first stint but was able to take along the establishment..The PPP backed out in exchange for both speakerships and all governors and president...The failure of maulana fazlur rehman who has a habit of siding with the wrong party to dent the PTi in KP has been a big problem for them...most parties apart from the PPP and PMLn are protesting the rigging even though it is illegal to protest against election results apart from going to the ECP and tribunals...the PMLn nominee has asked the PTI to show a majority which is impossible for the tongue tied inability of imran to get along with anyone but small sectarian /religious groups...a photo from the PTI website shows the possible coalition that might come to power who have plus 150 seats...they will get women seats in proportion to their provincial seats and minority seats in proportion to their total seats...The PTI is running into trouble in forming a coalition with the JI in KP...JI seems to think that alliances with seperate parties in seperate legislatures is not a good idea...and thus the PTI might be only in a coalition with the dubious pro iranian/iranian educated clerics -- Mwm at the center which will not get them any reserved seats...technically the PTi independents will have to join a small party...or survive as a independent group...Bilawals suggestion that they were not angst ridden and were not angry or dagger drawn against other parties lasted only for a few days as he blew up at the mqm...earlier he had spearheaded a dirty anti nawaz sharif campaign...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDzniXDUsz3La6dJKUGJAcoOMoSq5qIHWoNdU1h8-DLDXrgY6bP7b5q6XHuN_zsHk2fAVCHn6oupBeXDIG375g5pI4kt72ZK_19VbHbodjNGcXGFj0BoRrZk4EGXHm9UmjOL4HZ-KJHr1rLPrIDCz7BZdjXvrayKYcouTp3zCHyq9oAVi2OU-YQZSw9Y/s467/Screenshot%202024-02-14%20191942.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="467" height="628" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLvY88RQck2tadW9jo8bbVv5ahcyVTwU0PqiRRBT87fEomrZgBXT2d4yyHqCdQIj3lB-j_hb6zapfUAvEXjUunQUcP-wT3WIJ5OmESYOB5MgvXDlGolAeSPK3dwvij3X-4Hyi6mJyFwr7j0Q_8i-no9zJ_EBN9gYG4jXFglxCwuMobOhb7Vk6Df1qNHJI/w640-h422/Screenshot%202024-02-14%20191758.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>it might be a terrible idea for shebaz to again trust the anti people ishaq dar who knows nothing else but to raise prices and say that the IMF did it...if the PPP was not so anti punjab a person like navid qamar might have been a better idea as finance minister...</p><p>Feb14-2024--with the imran rejection of cooperation with the PPP, PMLn and Mqm a four party coalition based on shebaz sharif as primeminister is possible..with a three man committee deciding things..as the government at the center...sanjrani, aleem khan also in the press conference with shebaz, shujaat and zardari.....PPP technically refusing to become ministers but want the presidency and national assembly speaker position...many say that PPP unable to handle/take positions of responsibility...Nawaz Sharif apparently refused/refusing to become primeminister...Maryam Nawaz than is a shoo in for punjab chiefminister...jokingly they are saying that the PTi has landed in the assemblies with a <i>Chatri</i>..the symbol of the mwm is a tent and that of the Ji is a scale...!Shebaz is largely regarded as being unable to comprehend economics and some were happy at Nawaz Sharif becoming Prime minister...however the elder sharif seems slow and backs out of conflicts/opposition...</p><p>Feb14-2024--The PTI independents will join the JI in KP and Mwm in the center and punjab...no news on what they will do in sindh...PTi has named possible militant/arsonist ali amin gandapur as KP chief minister...some say he has been behind the sabotage activities in di khan...his most famous act was attacking the DIkhan university vice chancellor...!the JI will probably than be called PTi supported Ji and PTI supported mwm...technically that will be the end of the independents and the pti in the assemblies...there are about 80 indirectly elected women/minorities seats...ECP says that parties must give their preferred lists by the due date...</p><p>Feb13-2024--some strange things have occurred in this election...JI's naeem has given up his seat in sindh pa...while Ji chief siraj ul haq has resigned his position as emir and jehangir tareen too has resigned as head of the Ipp while 21 women candidates have won</p><p>Feb12-2024--The new assembly has tobe summoned by Feb29 and election of speaker and prime minister held on the Mar1 and Mar2..The PDM has offered top position in assemblies and presidency to the PPPP...however there are around 150 positions that have tobe doled out in the initial government period...the governors expected to remain the same barring a possible change in baluchistan</p><p>Feb12-2024--a new definition has come into being after these elections...Independents are supposedly PTi backed while azad are non pti backed independents...in a major upset for the PTi a lahore pti backed mna waseem qadir has joined the PMLn saying ...'that he has come home'...at least six azad(4 mna's)have joined the PMLn...PMLn leading in punjab assembly 138-116 and say they have over 150 supporters coalition wise...there seem tobe at least 20-22 azad members of the punjab assembly...supposedly ppp, Ipp, PMLq are in the PMLn camp...The ECP seems to have some difficulty in announcing the final result after which other aspects have to take place...The PTi supposedly will amalgamate with the MWM a one seat shiite group...They had better do it quickly otherwise they could lose independents especially in punjab as they might be irked by the PTi's anti punjabi/ shiite/pukhtun turn/tilt..!</p><p>Feb11-2024--PTI raising problems in PO/RO isssued forms 47 and 45...forms 45 are issued at polling stations while form 47 is a consolidated number...PTI despite having done quite well is disputing almost all results won by other parties...and even challenging results in KP...where it has literally swept the elections...before they used to say that form 47 or 45 not given...now they are claiming differences in 45 and 47...many suggest that the duped/mesmerized/hypnotized PTi pukhtuns did not learn to count...many suggest that Pti leaders should be send for phsychiatrist analysis especially imran and goher.......there was one pti wali in south punjab who was claiming victory even after having lost and suggesting that the PPP wala should accept defeat...nawaz sharif also seeking a recount in mansehra...</p><p>Feb11-2024--The army chief seemingly thinks that Pakistan has not achieved its potential and the country must move towards stability and away from chaos...he called for healing alliances...PTi's gohar responded that the military should release political prisoners and accept their mandate as the only healing touches possible...with the PTi refusing to ally with anyone but the Mwm(majlis wahdat muslimeen)(typical shiite organization run by clerics with an iranian type agenda)/JI...whether those parties have filed lists for women and minorities is not known... that leaves the pdm type parties who seem daggers drawn against each other too...zardari is ready to throw his anti punjab son into the sea for another jab at the presidency..bilawal rushed off to meet the US ambassador suggesting that he wanted either some push from the US or that he is back in line for the foreign minister...others suggest that the pdm may have suggested to the US to use its influence on the PTi...it is unfortunate but Pakistan has no major avenues/resources of economic advancement and the military and politicians must accept the status quo and the country must live within its means...Pakistan can only move slowly forward and there is no quick achievement magic wand...instability is bound to occur if economic conditions are not stable...current stability is due to the high salaries/perks in the fauj and beaurocracy...our imports increase because we face shortages in raw materials, machinery and good quality products as well as shortages in oil, gas, electricity, food oil,lentils, machinery etc...dollars are used to increase the wealth of the rich, currency traders, politicos, pukhtuns and retired generals...and other dollar hoarders such as exporters and expatriates and even foreigners...our exports go up and down with demand...the only thing that has kept pace is foreign remitttances which is almost the same as exports...but is now also going up and down after the increase of inflation worldwide...the fauj is unable to handle terrorists both regional and local and political animosity ...The country must limit internal and external borrowing...The country has serious problems in management being unable to run things like the railways, pia, steel mills, discos, power stations and even construction of things like dams and hydel power stations has tobe left to the chinese...even vegetables, like onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chillies have tobe imported...</p><p>Feb11-2024--The pti's gohar ali khan says that the president will invite them to form a government which may not last even a few days or a few months this time...they donot have the votes for a vote of confidence unless the PMLn/PPP allow them to rule with a minority...until they as in the past agree on a coalition move...</p><p>Feb11-2024--this is according to the dawn website...Independents leading with 92 seats, PMLn with 71 and PPPP with 54. Others 33 include eight non pti independents and 15 mqmp..on a possible coalition basis the PMLN/PPP/mqm/juif are in front...This is 253/266 results announced..In Punjab assembly PMLn leading with 138-145 seats to the independents 129-137 with no other significant party(according to various tv channels)...major parties have benefited from the situation where the top three parties have more seats even in the baluchistan assembly...sindh assembly almost a repeat with PPP at 84...kp overrun by independents...PTI after its independents getting a two thirds majority in KP assembly calls it state fascism...!</p><p>Feb10-2024--the PTI may join the MWM a shiite party backed by iran/created in afghanistan and supporting the PTi... they have a seat in parliament...gohar ali khan says they dont want to align with PMLn or PPP...although reports suggest that PMLn interested in coalition with PPP while other reports suggest that Bilawal's only chance is a coalition with the PTi and is supposedly meeting imran in jail...other reports suggest that Gohar ali khan or Omar Ayub maybe the primeminister if they can work around the rules and who probably donot have any establishment problems...establishment problems are like opposition by the army or involvement in May9 cases...so far 212/266seats have been announced at one in the morning and the PTI has 82, PMLn 64 and PPPP forty...supposedly the mqmp/JUIF/IPP reportedly will have 26 seats...PPPP set to win about 50 seats...so a PMLn/PPPP coalition maybe ahead of the Pti unless they can arrange to get women and minority seats...that makes a supposed PPP/PMLn coalition getting around 145 seats....with the PTi ending up with around 120-125...The PPPP-PMLn also may have a new man in charge although others suggest that nawaz/shebaz/zardari could head the coalition if they agree on the basics...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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expenses...no salary hikes, no development and only dollar, petrol, gas and electricity hikes...and probably no provincial funding...the provincial funding of Rs. six trillion causes the huge domestic debt...the provinces can fund themselves thru their own taxes...!<p></p><p>Feb9-2024--The 2024 elections generally have gone the same way as 2018--The PMLn have shown better results but have been unable to stamp their mark on things...The PTi have swept KP and JUIf has disappointed in Kp suggesting that they again voted PTI...The ANP again emerged in KP...while the PTI independents are the largest single group at around 110 in the NA where they will have to join some small party to not lose reserved women seats and form a government...They can do that in three days and there are several small parties who would be willing to bag them...!...The PMLn's coalition with smaller groups will get them at around a hundred...their only chance is to join up with the antagnostic, nasty PPPP and some small parties to equal the independents huge total...The IPP and PTIp have disappointed..The PPPP show better results in karachi and punjab and KP to shore them up in third place.The loss of internet almost all day put the ECP in a difficult spot and their new result system collection again failed to function...nine lives lost in violence reported from di khan and kharan..22 explosions/grenade attacks in gwader, kech and panjgur..armed men attacked sixteen places in gwadar...five cops killed in DI khan, two more die in a previous blast in khanozai, three bodies found in tank......balochistan results not yet clear but as usual no major group has emerged..barring the sindh and KP provincial governments the other governments are still up in the air... whether the PPP and PMLn can break off large chunks of independents is anyones guess with the independents and PMLn neck and neck in the punjab provincial assembly...the PTI independents cannot form a government in the center unless they join a small or large party...around 170 needed to form a government at the center...in the present shape u could have two parties with a hundred plus votes each...or a remote possibility could be allowing the PTi a minority government...</p><p>Feb8-2024--The PPP which has suppressed everybody in karachi and sindh now suggests that they only have anger left for the sharifs with whom they were always daggers drawn...Bilawal has been unable to show any difference in his attitudes towards Punjab and Punjabis and many see that as having helped Nawaz Sharif pick up the pieces and become the only viable candidate...viz Punjab...however as the PPP double dealing image has fallen by the wayside the election has given the independents a big chance given Bilawals anti PTi/PMLn attitude and his experience in breaking up the PTi group in the karachi LG polls...he has tried to make the Pti think that their voting is useless...however any chance that bilawal has rests on the independents winning big and than becoming allied to the PPP...however the media again suggests that some sort of zardari-PMLn alliance may govern with a PMLn primeminister and PPP president...the PPP and bilawal himself think that Bilawal is largely unimportant in the PPP context...if a consensus primeminister is required based on results than the parties may look at someone from south punjab like tareen who is largely a more sensible person than Bilawal...KP might be unable to provide someone though it could vote Juif /PTIp to bring the maulana/khattak some chance...so if the pMLn does not make a large enough win it could be anybody barring the anti people price fixer Shebaz and softy developer Nawaz Sharif…Baluchistan too can throw up a candidate if they vote for one group...Shebaz killed his own chances by suggesting that he would still be going to the IMF...the people however have been programmed to think that voting for the PMLn might be the only option they have given their attitudes to completing projects and favorable development in areas they dominate in...however the people are known to throw up some surprises and this election could throw up the most unlikely of scenarios too...</p><p>Feb8-2024--another blast reported from Qila saifullah...JUIf election office hit... 10 reported tobe killed...JUIf has many opponents including the shiites and PTi as well as afghan Taliban/TTP factions...Juif's hamdullah also came under a a gun attack</p><p>Feb8-2024--blast in Pishin election office of independent kills 14...some new or previous organization going around carrying out daily grenade blasts and other blasts...it might be just organisations trying to bat each other out or even trying to get the sympathy vote </p><p>Feb7-2024--government says internet to be stopped in areas where there is trouble and police will be patrolling while the army can be called in and even army rapid response teams are on standby...various police mobiles will patrol from 7-9...second tier response will be rangers/FC and third tier will be QRF of the army and further platoons in case of rioting and sabotage...</p><p>Feb7-2024--PTI files review petition...against SC upholding ECP's bat decison...the PTi thinking is seriously compromised as actions in various cases against the party were going on for several years...things like the parties illegal foreign funding, intraparty elections issues are several years old...PTI was unable to show whether there were multiple nominations , collection of fees and any record of the elections which it said had been deleted... the objections were filed by known party members who had not probably been allowed against party nominated candidates...The PTI also has no known system of countrywide voting...however the PTi insists that the eCP is biased and is not treating other parties similarly...suggestions rejected by the court...however the party insists that it should get the benefit of doubt on freedom of association and disenfranchisement...however at this late stage the judgement would have to take into consideration that elections are tobe held tomorrow and even if the SC overturns its own judgement which is a rarity new elections would have tobe organized in 90 days since it covers both provincial and national elections...The PTi habit of complaining and complaining and appealing and appealing has no particular admirers apart from its mesmerized/duped rank and file...recently one old PTi hand said that the pti candidates were generally independent anyway...as far as interfering in the processing and filing of nominations the pTi has more candidates around than other parties...it's independent candidates are standing on 246 seats which are more than any other party and are challenging the other main candidates albeit on different symbols......since the party is now not an authorised party it cannot be allowed to hold meetings and rallies and jalsa's...the other matters of police interference in gujerat and lahore also relates to May9, candidates and families infighting...no particular decision was announced on the foreign funding fiasco...</p><p>Feb7-2024--nine grenade attacks rock baluch towns</p><p>Feb6-2024--last minute development work on roads in Rawalpindi...! some anti-development parties like the PPP object to this as helping their opponents...The RMC says that these projects were approved in Dec before announcement of polls and would be completed before Feb8...most of the work seems tobe in Na-55</p><p>Feb6-2024--terrorist incidents continue in Baluchistan. Six Grenade attacks on election offices and polling stations. Over last few days at least 40 grenade attacks at election camps in 10 districts of Baluchistan...At least 15 blasts also reported...</p><p>Feb6-2024--Police raids continue on offices and homes of the illegal PTi in Lahore, Multan and Gujerat. A major drama has been the divide in the Zahoor Elahi camp between Shujaat and Pervaiz factions who have ended up in the PTi and PPP camps after reportedly starting an agreed infighting drama...The PMLq which was earlier in a seat arrangement with the PMLn broke off after the PMLn only agreed to give them four seats...now Chaudhry Shujaat's sons/brothers and sisters are in different camps...</p><p>Feb6-2024--ten policemen martyred as more than 30 terrorists attack DIkhan police station from three sides and occupy it using hand grenades...a two-and half-hour gun battle ensued...six militants killed...two other military operations in DaraZinda and kolachi killed 21 militants and two soldiers. One policeman died trying to defuse a device near Panjkora river that exploded...</p><p>Feb6-2024--Elections round the corner...the PPP floundering even in Karachi with nothing solid for a long period of provincial government in Sindh...Karachi might see the most change as the PTi, MqmP and wafa parast(mqm London) battle the recent gainers in support the JI and PPP...last time the Pti had 21 seats in Karachi but are now literally hanging onto the grass...which is rare in Karachi...the Bilawal rally to PPP areas seemed tobe poorly supported with more cars than people...on the countrywide front a more open contest with the Pti trying to keep its support in KP and theoretically losing it in the Punjab...imran is technically racist in trying to keep the leadership in the hand of whites as he savors the pleasures of jail...and... iddat...recent attitudes in governance reflect the PMLn attempts to surge the country forward in roads, transport mechanisms and power availability...Nawaz Sharif even claims to have started the health cards in Islamabad...Shebaz crashed the economy and increased everything...prices, tariffs, dollar rates, wheat prices, inflation, petroleum prices, pharma prices etc...that policy of high inflation has continued under the caretakers...bringing it down to reasonable levels may only be possible to some extent unless they can free themselves of the IMF...The PPP only offers Sindhi politics...Imran whatever his real intentions barely scratched the surface in development(continued some PMLn projects) and some also... only in Islamabad...his health cards were successful in KP but have been pulled down by donors and subsequent economists...south Punjab seems relatively more developed than on the surface...controls the Punjab electricity scenario...some universities in south Punjab are more developed than many in upper Punjab...development and political power are two different things...also does not have one political group...with support spread out between the IPP, PPP, PMLn and PTi...KP might see more of the PTi and the rest of the spoils going to the PTIp, JUIf and some PMLn and might be some ANP too...That puts up a three way divide between the PMLn - PPP - independents...nationally...with whoever else can scramble votes here and there...the situations in Baluchistan and who does well there and KP might have some limited effects...however what happens if the independents win big and who they ally with or not is the major question...however recent suggestions from mainly Punjab suggest that if they want development on the local and federal level than the PMLn is the only party with that manifesto or mindset...on the local level development ended with Nawaz Sharif and they have not been able to start any project in Rawalpindi at least since...In Islamabad Imran's projects on the periphery and to Bahria were not completed and the caretakers/Shebaz have struggled to complete anything...Shebaz came flying in and tried to complete the flyovers over Park Road and a bypass to Barakahu......the PPP manifesto has nothing for the Punjab...whom they seem to dislike as much as they do the mqm...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="744" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0l5dCZd-M3pciVZiLjaX6P_n388eAGfMzvW0gAw5mk0lTsHOfoHWnzd07ftk3oJwxb1OrlDA39IJmS25SckPn_wujHBArxKYk6aL490_iLZcqgU0339rJ7qZIzqyCVA7x34hzUG3xihw-J_6Dd5MnH31bnG1zRcu2ua2xvbvkhSvfqxN3gjdSIZJ3NWw/w640-h498/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20134724.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>the above showing the changing residents of the Adiala jail...<br /><p>Feb2-2024--Pti looking for ordinary proxies to preserve strength in national assembly...apparently the choices are limited such as JUIf sherani or the iran backed MWM...the PPP trying to attract them as they are unlikely to form a government by themselves..the PPP which has a deep hatred and dislike for everyone not even able to get along with the JI, Mqm, GDA on its own turf...attempting to stand upside down to attract/fool the generally blind to everything PTi walas...primarily ...by insulting nawaz sharif...methinks Jehangir Tareen only has normal attitudes and generally supports decent politics...</p><p>Feb2-2024--The caretakers seem on the take as they raise prices of 146 medicines...! and fail to complete projects such as the holy family hospital renovation and the islamabad expressway...</p><p>Feb2-2024--ten bomb attacks in various areas of baluchistan...one killed...on Cpec road...attacks seemingly meaninglessly directed...many suggest that they could be PTi associated or iran or BLA or might be even Dr. mahrang associates...or opposing elections...just for whatever reasons, liberation, subjugation, military opposition, various militants, religion, sectarianism or just utilising leftover ammunition(bombs)...</p><p>Feb1-2024--the police took over a PTI office in islamabad for security where the pTI held a meeting and made Omar Ayub the chief organiser and Rauf hasan the chief election commissioner...they will now hold intraparty elections Feb5...given their problems with the substance of democracy one doubts their ability to hold credible elections with multiple candidates and credible voting all over the country...</p><p>Feb1-2024--the general situation...PPP refuses to take any responsibility and runs into trouble...Bilawal wanted a debate with none other than the PMLn supremo Nawaz Sharif...he was offered a debate in islamabad with a provincial figure but refused...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="798" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdIvOabzQcwihWWkqtQChQ1U1a9fYBbeI5kRc9ef4jC8EaMxodhmtjHyaY4Rz7yTu7wX3gitJjwgzRhy-EF5QW-0bvkitRdnwRye3mwhy87xFGYYiAgOh9-zNAobPzVhUn3xQs25N9dT2MBVSLL197_rtW35wS6mrjtBIlY5og-uFiZoXdkkvZ2UoTMg/w400-h271/Screenshot%202024-02-01%20163327.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Feb1-2024--one killed in a blast in quetta...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZWQw7GJekw4LDa6hnPpqReSx6o7VZj998oUk7YgHI3fiEtdNclHFIigq46lSmyKog4l7pFyNgWnr8CrVlIhRv1BAN44RcaUOojf7xcIbMd80uhPXqyadE-hIVV2O9KP0xLRerQ2TNjcTKEC6ZkzzafBSWwiPJWhkOlwAvp-84tIqbo_DHfIYz-4QAdc/s445/Screenshot%202024-02-01%20163157.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="426" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZWQw7GJekw4LDa6hnPpqReSx6o7VZj998oUk7YgHI3fiEtdNclHFIigq46lSmyKog4l7pFyNgWnr8CrVlIhRv1BAN44RcaUOojf7xcIbMd80uhPXqyadE-hIVV2O9KP0xLRerQ2TNjcTKEC6ZkzzafBSWwiPJWhkOlwAvp-84tIqbo_DHfIYz-4QAdc/s320/Screenshot%202024-02-01%20163157.jpg" width="306" /></a></div> a former pti mna and now a pti dissident candidate killed in bajaur...imran unrelenting seemingly...!<p></p><p>Feb1-2024--situation in Mach normalizes as terrorists/BLA eliminated...train service suspended due to damaged track...40 hours of battle over three days with electricity off...nine terrorists killed says ISPR while jan achakzai says 24 killed...</p><p>Feb1-2024--ECP studies security situation in KP and Baluchistan </p><p>Feb1-2024--petrol price raised...to 272.89..caretakers could have waited for the elections...</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-5761742308056190242024-01-16T11:39:00.296+05:002024-01-31T20:54:50.498+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jan16-31, 2024<p>Jan31-2024--four killed in Sibi ...three of them from the PTi when a pTI leaders election rally hit by a roadside bomb asit was passing thru the town..a pti candidate also shot dead in bajaur</p><p>Jan31-2024--PPP suggesting that the PTI will be sidelined for the future and voting for them would be a useless exersize...</p><p>Jan31-2024--imran and his dubious controversial wife sentenced to 14 years in toshakhana case and fined Rs787 million each...while imran had set out on a anti corruption platform he quickly turned turtle and decided to make as much money as he could...with some rumours saying that he would "take his hissa"...more damaging was perhaps the farah gujjar case who ran away with a billion in extortion collections...however even in that rumours suggest that he took his share...most feel that imran and his lawyers were unable to present any rebuttal...others suggest that he could retain gifts and selling them for paltry sums was an insult to the state...!</p><p>Jan30-2024--in the cipher case imran and shah mahood qureshi sentenced to ten years each...initially he started waving the supposed cipher in speeches and than sent them to other actors of state and than used it in a assembly drama that led to his removal from office...he said that the american official donald LU was responsible and not him..Donald Lu had apparently said that relations with pakistan would sour if imran was not removed in the no trust ...however the pakistan embassy in the uSA said that Donald Lu was very friendly and used to chair their proceedings regularly.....apparently he/nephew/niece sent the cipher to 1200 persons worldwide...shah mahmood qureshi apparently edited the cipher and would produce new versions everyday...however imran was charged with stealing the cipher and revealing state secrets...</p><p>Jan30-2024-- coordinated terror attacks in Mach town...railway station, central jailand police station attacked...shootout between terrorists and security forces...one policeman killed...</p><p>Jan28-2024--The PTI has asked its candidates to come out on the streets today at 2 and hold rallies and street meetings...already there are reports that clashes occurred in Karachi as the party had not sought an NOC from the authorities...otherwise the PTI candidates are campaigning well and their banners are visible all over the place...the party has to realise that canvassing thru banners and door to door is the way...social media is just not that accessible when too many people access one site...the pti voters need to know the symbols of their candidates as their party and symbol are not listed...<br /><br />Jan28-2024--Some facts about Nawaz Sharif --</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxvtE4qoaSug9qnv3QUtinsBkC8OyJ-Te5oZKdiLOrKNxg25eBYs0vhHWxFqfkuTvcVHnnGjiqgXGyTVrVwffTzNIKMK59LwH6oW_ednAuTDmhe9Ohc3laUtmuOph7BePSTWi9Qb38RghnjaaVrIswtpVrc6fuUtM0uhvQCInm0NSTZwYblZyqVOkRKiY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="960" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxvtE4qoaSug9qnv3QUtinsBkC8OyJ-Te5oZKdiLOrKNxg25eBYs0vhHWxFqfkuTvcVHnnGjiqgXGyTVrVwffTzNIKMK59LwH6oW_ednAuTDmhe9Ohc3laUtmuOph7BePSTWi9Qb38RghnjaaVrIswtpVrc6fuUtM0uhvQCInm0NSTZwYblZyqVOkRKiY" width="320" /></a></div><span face="knowledge-regular, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #404040; font-size: 12px;">Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looks out the window of his plane after attending a ceremony to inaugurate the M9 motorway between Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan February 3, 2017.</span><p></p><p><span face="knowledge-regular, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #404040; font-size: 12px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKw75EZmCCAnQnn_LNEfgsFTPaTCK62MWKmAfh4_QJyCiDVyLpQEHlwn4ib_9J6mOYj7oYwvs-Qj32C4fnO36doeQEER0_qx4oNc7qaIJ_xZ2sBZP2sZqC9GU6MurEg04er5uqf1DXCJ0K5yILxbJIwyO0huJ4-fwvVO7BKHubUhMQm4ZZlG2fjNXartU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="972" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKw75EZmCCAnQnn_LNEfgsFTPaTCK62MWKmAfh4_QJyCiDVyLpQEHlwn4ib_9J6mOYj7oYwvs-Qj32C4fnO36doeQEER0_qx4oNc7qaIJ_xZ2sBZP2sZqC9GU6MurEg04er5uqf1DXCJ0K5yILxbJIwyO0huJ4-fwvVO7BKHubUhMQm4ZZlG2fjNXartU" width="319" /></a></div><br />an old foto of nawaz sharif...he has a tendency to sneer and squint..probably allergic to sunlight...still has a motorway complex...<p></p><p>Nawaz Sharif was born in 1948 to an immigrant lohar family from east punjab... has a law degree and joined his fathers industry...Mian Sharif in his early years was a contractor and apparently whenever he visited a government office for his contracts he used to give every employee 8annas(than known as a athani)(that is said by many tobe the early form of corruption)...supposedly Nawaz sharif went to study at George Masons a law university in the USA but dropped out--the courses were too difficult...?..he joined politics in the mid seventies when zulfikar ali bhutto nationalized his father's industry...initially he was in exile in the UAE ...he returned when Zia ul haq took over after a coup de tat in 1977..the MI general who was punjab governor made him punjabs finance minister and returned his father's industry...<span face=""YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-size: 22.16px;">He supposedly was the cause in the rapid rise of his father's industries from one to 20...later on the industries were distributed between his father's brothers and nawaz sharifs family got three or four industries...he later setup three sugar mills, a textile factory and a paper mill...he had to face many cases about his industries setup and his loans but was eventually exonerated...he was however forced to sell his father's main industry to repay 6 billion in loans that he had acquired as chief minister punjab...his three sugar mills which he had shifted to south punjab illegally were closed down by shebaz sharif... </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: left;">Nawaz Sharif, 75, did not complete any of his three terms as prime minister in 1990-93, 1997-99, and 2013-17. He was removed as premier by a military-backed president in 1993, ousted in a coup in 1999, and disqualified by a court in 2017.</div><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Nawaz Sharif was born to a family of industrialists(at that time small bussinessmen) in Gawalmandi, Lahore, made his money in steel rerolling and wheat harvestor manufacturing and grew the family-run Ittefaq Group. He apparently also made parts for the military's jeep project "Nishan. Also made moving belt systems to move luggage in airports...Maryam Nawaz also married into a contractor family who got some contracts in the new islamabad airport building...</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">He entered politics in the late 1970s and was picked as finance minister of Punjab in 1981 as a budding military backed politician. Most of his problems related to loans and financing of family industries and periods when he was in exile...</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"> His father and eventually Nawaz Sharif were known to have close ties with generals specifically Zia Ul Haq and the ISI of the time impressing them with policies that spurred economic growth in Punjab and was groomed by military dictator Zia ul-Haq. With the generals' backing, he became the chief minister of Pakistan's most populous and prosperous province in 1985. After the death of Zia ul Haq he created the PMLn and won an election under the banner of the IJI which was said tobe ISI backed</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.385em;">I</span>n 1990, Sharif won a general election and became prime minister for the first time, succeeding Pakistan's first female prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, whose government was dismissed by the then president on charges of corruption.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In 1993, Sharif ran afoul of the then-president who dismissed his government on charges of nepotism and corruption. The Supreme Court later restored his rule, but Sharif and the president failed to reconcile, and both resigned.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In a 1997 general election, Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) rode to victory and he became prime minister for a second time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Pakistan conducted its first test of a nuclear weapon in May 1998 under Sharif's leadership, in response to arch-rival India which conducted its second nuclear weapon test just days before.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Sharif was also prime minister when Indian and Pakistani forces battled, between May and July 1999, in Kargil, in the disputed Kashmir region.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">He fell out with the then army commander, General Pervez Musharraf who he tried to replace while on a journey to sri lanka where he supposedly got too friendly with indian generals...in late 1999 he was ousted in a military coup. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment and went into exile in Saudi Arabia. He returned to Pakistan in 2007.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In the 2008 elections nawaz sharif had a good chance of forming the government but had to back out when benazir was assassinated before the polls...</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Sharif fought a bitter contest with rival Imran Khan, the former cricket hero turned politician, in the 2013 general elections and won, becoming prime minister for a third time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Attempting to normalise relations with India, Sharif launched trade talks in 2014. The following year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with whom he tried to be chummy/friendly...visited the Pakistani city of Lahore to meet Sharif.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">In 2017, Sharif was removed as prime minister through a court verdict following a corruption investigation related to the Panama papers revelations. In July 2018, Pakistan's anti-graft court sentenced him to 10 years in prison for corruption.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"> In December 2018, Sharif was convicted on graft charges in a separate case and sentenced to seven years in prison. He denied any wrongdoing and said the charges were politically motivated.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"> Sharif was released on medical bail in October 2019 and left Pakistan weeks later, but he remained minimally active in politics from London while Shabaz Sharif took control of the party, </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">he returned in late 2023 and in most of his cases the sentences were overturned and his assetts returned...</p><p>Jan28-2024--In another incident in Iran nine pakistanis were killed in Saravan...apparently by three armed men who fired on them in their residence at an auto workshop where they worked...three others were injured...apparently this could be the work of a baluch militant/liberation organisation...however such actions in the border areas are usually conducted by irans security forces/IRG/border guards probably under political orders under the present conflict like situation between the two countries...the car mechanics hailed from south punjab and had work permits...the map indicates the sistan area in iran which is quite poverty stricken and underdeveloped as shown by the pakistan bombing area below...given pakistans subjugated approach they targeted ordinary or even vacant areas to bomb...they should have gone for irani radars or short range missile sites...to have an effect on iran...some suggested that nobody was killed in the pakistani raids and the iranians killed the pakistanis falsely killed in the air raids...!Irans conflict with sunni's is the basic reason for the iranian actions...otherwise Pakistan would by now be another houthi type state...the regional subjugation policies followed by iran in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria are similar in nature...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="775" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT4-HHlFQlSnUuC1OAhnRXXVphO01lhUgbRwIoccLl9pr2J_aOLV6HKbgWzzSyvWCS2Zxk9S-SuIBwDV_cbM8lqEbLq21-XcvUD21LKSj1eEXjltyqiW7lJqOlikuxUBlCgENFTnFONuW34WKvICzAhI50oPVF8bwykOgMvuCpr-KdVilhG1cHXswNBOM/w294-h400/Screenshot%202024-01-28%20130225.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><p></p><p>Jan27-2024--The BYC received a good welcome on getting back to Quetta after a month long sit-down in Islamabad where they were harassed by Islamabad police and the federal government forced them to go back...while Dr.Mahrang Baloch had a different tone there than in islamabad...she referred to Baluchi's being treated worse than Bengalis and that in Islamabad their veils were torn of their heads...here she had been praising Punjabis…Jan Achakzai the Baluch information minister said that amnesty international had been duped by <span face="Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">“unverified claims, biased sources, and demonstrably false narratives” created by separatist elements with vested interests.</span></p><p>Jan27-2024--The PMLn has released its manifesto finally forcing the PMLn's nawaz sharif to stand against the price fixers in the IMF, army, government, bussiness and industry...with some catchy slogans like "pakistan ko nawaz sharif do" and "pakistan ke liye""sher ko vote do".." awam ke liye" "pakistan ka - pakistan ke liye"...their advert also features a vastly developed Pakistan that they left behind in which roti was Rs4...!you can find their video ad on youtube named --in se naam roshan karen:pakistan ka--pakistan ke liye <span style="text-align: center;">ن سے نام روشن کریں: پاکستان کا—پاکستان کیلئے!<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CgWBNUTrFM">clickhere</a></span></p>Jan27-2024--The elections are moving towards a three man race between the independents, PPP and PMLn with the IPP, TLP, Juif , baluch players, JI, mqm and PTIP playing support roles...?<p></p><p>Jan27-2024--The PPP is trying to play the spoilers role in a contest between the independents and the PMLn...? Bilawal bechara with a father and grandfather involved in murders is trying to ensnare the PMLn and PTI vote and fool sindhi's...(with whom he wont even shake hands because he is an elitist trying to keep his dynasty going--does not want to get his hands dirty shaking hands with ordinary slum dwelling commoners--with a nawabi tabeeat")..he seems to suggest that the arrow looks like a bat and can kill while the bat can only smash heads...getting the independent winners into his coalition might be a difficult job given the imran mania of the independents...the PMLn suggests that babies and children should stay at home...or in the provinces...so will it be the 'goons from nawabshah' or Qilla Gujjar Singh or nobodies independents...! some suggest that whoever can run away with the independents to "Changa Manga-- (a resort or local tourism spot)" might be forming the government...! any of the top three maybe leading in the vote numbers...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBN1u1IhFtzVWWm0_JGFu_SbTFBU-AFuqDKMjFRfrLjP5ykWZZuW3BCcvyYT8vqVcqkNJl7uSbN51UpDxnl7ftvPWXmMyZGGncJUZG4pcm_TnlIDOqLvMh7h7jpYWQ0oPKzTeWAC5OmZEFbtydnjh3wDii3FAaoGoDQJNvS8qbGQlL0Kd1yo_qQXdDq54/s782/Screenshot%202024-01-27%20154106.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="782" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBN1u1IhFtzVWWm0_JGFu_SbTFBU-AFuqDKMjFRfrLjP5ykWZZuW3BCcvyYT8vqVcqkNJl7uSbN51UpDxnl7ftvPWXmMyZGGncJUZG4pcm_TnlIDOqLvMh7h7jpYWQ0oPKzTeWAC5OmZEFbtydnjh3wDii3FAaoGoDQJNvS8qbGQlL0Kd1yo_qQXdDq54/s320/Screenshot%202024-01-27%20154106.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Jan27-2024--The SC in appeals in three benches allow several dubious characters of the PTI to participate in elections overriding the RO's and high court tribunals. The SC seemed to suggest that they are the RO's for the PTI with PTI supporting judges even suggesting that that there are no rules for denying an election participant...this is a clear denying of obvious constitutional provisions and rules that RO's have to follow...there is than no justification of denying imran participation when an absconder clearly in the may9 cases is allowed...another dubious rich man was allowed to buy plots from jail and not mention that in his election documents...This sort of SC judgements clearly suggest that everyone can apply to the SC rather than ECP for running elections and nobody has to follow any rules etc...no need for RO's at all...hopefully they will not come in to judge the vote numbers too..whatever they are and decide that they cannot override their judgements and they will decide whether they have won or lost...</p><p>Jan27-2024--candidates for the national assembly...the PTi has most candidates 246 followed by the TLP 223...the pti has transformed into a dynasty type family approach where the candidates have wives and sons or daughters contesting...many candidates are standing in upto three seats like Sanam Javed on three seats in Lahore...it seems odd as the PTi has no shortage of candidates...and extra seats have tobe given up anyway...the most candidates on a seat are 46 in NA255 and NA263 and the lowest are 8 on NA8, 10, 14...a few PTI candidates have been rejected while some like Sanam Javed are contesting on three in lahore from jail...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-K10LAs-inZNS7olAVwPMUgvauN58fCpsKvydijsHs8qSJEhjr1ImLPU3MDQJkB1ZJ1UNXH0N2K7ZmGAetH0v6njMHkdCYXFsb5CfRIvcNY61T5LPOhVW0MKyGC9qlFbsDcogX9wWRRkfaO3_Hs5p1G0QYYx2EjnnKrEDIKRmr_Q2B5hrQDu3tm_pCM/s544/Screenshot%202024-01-28%20234909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="357" height="984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf-K10LAs-inZNS7olAVwPMUgvauN58fCpsKvydijsHs8qSJEhjr1ImLPU3MDQJkB1ZJ1UNXH0N2K7ZmGAetH0v6njMHkdCYXFsb5CfRIvcNY61T5LPOhVW0MKyGC9qlFbsDcogX9wWRRkfaO3_Hs5p1G0QYYx2EjnnKrEDIKRmr_Q2B5hrQDu3tm_pCM/w646-h984/Screenshot%202024-01-28%20234909.jpg" width="646" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Jan26-2024--troops to guard polling stations from outside while sensitive stations will be covered by the mililtaries riot control group which have several vehicles and even a crane for emergencies headed by a senior military officer...</p><p>Jan26-20240--The PTI founder dupes country when he says that political engineering by institutions cannot be controlled by politicians...what we have seen in these last three governments has been effective control by the political governments...In the PTI era fawad chaudhry statements showed that the PTI government was aware of what the NAB was doing and no cases were made against the PTI even though there were creditable allegations in matters such as the Peshawar metro and billion tree programs...they could not even stop the corruption in appointments with reference to usman buzdar/farahgujjar...who ran off with 1 billion rupees in corruption proceeds...however as is apparent that the government controls cases against its own party and allows a free for all against the opposition or former rulers...Thus the institutions clearly are doing what the government wants whether ordered todo so or not...</p><p>Jan23-2024--Army gets 50000 acres in Sindh for corporate farming... i.e. for not troubling baby Bilawal...apparently the military is taking on the role of tenant(mazare) and everything they earn is for Sindh or development...military earns a lot from Corp businesses and DHA 's and its industries but never have they ever given anything back...!</p><p>Jan23-2024-- seven terrorists killed in Zhob...</p><p>Jan23--2024--Pakistan's Houthi government(Iranian orderlies/sympathizers) apparently ready to push everything under the carpet for Iran...some even suggest that they just want to move on...it is like this... tell us in future of your dubious intentions/intrusions into our territory and we will control our reactions...meaning slap us with your slippers(<i>joote maro)</i> and we will not flinch...apparently trade corridors open along Iran border while they have been closed at Torkham until truck drivers get passports...apparently the logic they follow is that Iran also bombed Iraq and Syria and they were unable to retaliate as they are under Iranian occupation...!...?</p><p>Jan22-2024--the huffing and puffing of Bilawal (basically trying to vilify Nawaz Sharif) whom many call the Pota of a killer and who is apparently here to kill us in our homes. He apparently responded that even his father has killed two or three...! while he seems tobe the only campaigner around many doubt his capabilities...he is also poaching on resources of other parties and wants to take PTI independents to Larkana...! while Nawaz sharif is the only campaigner who seems satisfied whatever happens win or lose and the PTI's nobody(Gohar alias buneri talibani) who is apparently an alcoholic...! since he is not even a chairman now plays the threatening underdog zakhmi(PTI <i>walon</i> ko bahut <i>dard</i> <i>he</i> logon <i>ke </i>vote ka) while imran has been accused of fornication technically sex w/o marriage (PTi <i>walas</i> respond that he has been having sex since age 12)...innuendo has it that apparently in two marriages imran had sex before getting married...the PTI has independents on all seats and they have advertised their symbols...while the ECP has done nothing to stop their ads suggesting that they are members of the nonexistent evil PTI...Fawad Chaudhry has apparently boycotted the elections...sheikh Rashid has tears in his eyes in jail probably as at long last he will lose the elections......! while PTI's independents are confident it can be anybody's election technically based on the choice of the people...what happens if independents win is any bodies guess...The PTi should prepare for somebody tobe the leader who is acceptable to the establishment...! somebody who can quickly get the support of the independents (<i>Independents Inc. International</i> aka III) and form a group...forward blocks could be the other answer which normally form coalitions with other larger blocks...! getting approval for another dubious intraparty election could be difficult...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-PN2-ivHysUSBw35ZI9Xw77Q2LPYSUE_TGrly5kUFyo_jGN_ElL_zobQLFXmPrZbHdPFwtcD9FjmxW8aWABisKneJ_b_MJWO_UXM_WbpygccMew3YwL4Qd0LwjZhPyXGiWKxacVfH5XjuFkGI-Q28IeyGIUkcZH2MBRgcn_9u6OJtz9pUW-_4qUcwzY/s769/Screenshot%202024-01-22%20180023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="769" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-PN2-ivHysUSBw35ZI9Xw77Q2LPYSUE_TGrly5kUFyo_jGN_ElL_zobQLFXmPrZbHdPFwtcD9FjmxW8aWABisKneJ_b_MJWO_UXM_WbpygccMew3YwL4Qd0LwjZhPyXGiWKxacVfH5XjuFkGI-Q28IeyGIUkcZH2MBRgcn_9u6OJtz9pUW-_4qUcwzY/w640-h462/Screenshot%202024-01-22%20180023.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Jan21-2024--CJ requests SJC opinion on complaints against 100 judges...</div><div><br /></div><div>Jan21-2024--five more bodies found in the north Waziristan area Mir ali...earlier three weeks ago six barbers from DG khan were killed there.</div><p>Jan20-2024--senior polio official shot dead in Bajaur a doctor at the local DHQ</p><p>Jan20-2024--Zaka Ashraf fired by the Kaker government as PCB head...he was trying to get himself elected as the PCB boss...his team to play New Zealand fared poorly...even players like Baber Azam getting out flailing at deliveries above their heads...and the openers never lasted most then a few deliveries(they say Mohd Rizwan ordered them to hit out on the third delivery)...some of the players selected had terrible T20 records...Azam khan 10 matches for 27 runs...haseebullah has a terrible record too...why u need three keepers is not understood as yet...Abbas Afridi and Zaman khan performed creditably...</p><p></p><p>Jan 19-2024--Iran's internal politics has long affected the very lowly populated Baluchistan border areas and the region and at times the world......while militarization of the border has continued Pakistan has kept a relatively low profile despite Irani threats, drone incursions, incursions and missile attacks...in the shah of Irans time Iran was the dominant power in the Persian gulf and famously gave us the use of his F-104's during the 1965 war with India...however the Iranians have generally been a closed country ever since the Islamic revolution(generally starting out with a liberal Bani Sadr it has become a tightly Shiite controlled conservative ideological state concerned more with strategic control over its population and other Shiite areas and becoming deeply embroiled in anti-USA/anti Sunni confrontations) ...however Iran has continued to expand its control into Lebanon, Syria and Iraq over time. A few years ago an Irani drone was shot down by the Pakistani Airforce over Baluchistan...its control over the Houthis in Yemen troubled the Saudis and that destabilized Yemen...the Houthis and Hezbollah have become sort of front men for Iran...while Saudis has disentangled itself from involvement in Iraq and Yemen...Yemen recently fired missiles at ships in the red sea in support of Gaza causing US retaliatory bombings...however Iran has had problems with Kurds and Baluch internally which have spilled over into Pakistan...recently the wave of rebellious Kurds in a women liberation movement have caused Iran to tighten local police/social controls causing tensions/bombings/protests that could have external links...one of those bombings was claimed by the Jaish Adl a relatively shadowy Sunni Baluch group based along the Baluchistan border...the following dawn article details some history of the problems on the border...</p><p>have not heard of 30 cobra helicopters sent by the shah of Iran...however Pakistan has been relatively cooperative even allowing their hooded military men to attack militants in KP to get released their captives...Pakistan had a relatively healthier relationship with earlier Iranian foreign ministers...the Rigi brothers were from Sistan...as far as Chabahar is concerned the Baluchistan governments were fully cooperative and even offered/arranged for a road tobe built from Chabahar to the Baluchistan border...! Irans assault on Panjgur villages is not unprecedented. Earlier Pakistan generally backed down...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKzMWVUOVpMt8kRJTxJmkixSydv6sDimPHzFbtJEUoZtp8DOtAAyZCy194sppAZcd3lwMH0K3VXe7gu1_6DT0Xu5wiUAk3Z5B9gyKwWQyeWVzgB8UpNBflqxwR5MFUUQD9i4_eoMWsy23z3hkyDZMx50zcpJ0Gd83PhC0SeWAxQvb40Sh3n4z1h8xWBE/s1117/Screenshot%202024-01-19%20160017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1037" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKzMWVUOVpMt8kRJTxJmkixSydv6sDimPHzFbtJEUoZtp8DOtAAyZCy194sppAZcd3lwMH0K3VXe7gu1_6DT0Xu5wiUAk3Z5B9gyKwWQyeWVzgB8UpNBflqxwR5MFUUQD9i4_eoMWsy23z3hkyDZMx50zcpJ0Gd83PhC0SeWAxQvb40Sh3n4z1h8xWBE/w594-h640/Screenshot%202024-01-19%20160017.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6U7UBGzjnAYWdzMTQlDHK5nZI6KMz_jKjyRJQySwRyGBS41CrCoIqllLnxbr52k14-IWm9NA93yA7kGg8m4jBbVqctLZ-V8A4IaNUrsSaPHLbQ27FF9JIu-tPR3KdVmYriZFYLxOh8EV5NlxA8V37rWP-WEK1mEEHVDRwG8GP_jI4oImSpNuvouAT40U/s1150/Screenshot%202024-01-19%20160328-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 18px;">Iran on Tuesday had </span><a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1806404/iran-attacks-militant-bases-in-panjgur" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #901f1f; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">launched attacks</a><span face="Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl in the border town of Panjgur in Balochistan, Iranian state media reported, prompting strong condemnation from Islamabad and downgrading of diplomatic ties.</span></p><p><span face="Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Iran stressed that it differentiated between “Pakistan’s friendly and brotherly government and armed terrorists”, adding that it considered the security of its people and its territorial integrity as a “red line” and called on Islamabad to prevent the establishment of “terrorist bases”.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">In response to the iranian assault on border villages the ISPR said hideouts used by BLA and BLF were successfully struck in the military operation in border areas of iran namely saravan... adding that “precision strikes were carried out using killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons” while maximum care was taken to avoid collateral damage.“The targeted hideouts were being used by notorious terrorists including Dosta alias Chairman, Bajjar alias Soghat, Sahil alias Shafaq, Asghar alias Basham and Wazir alias Wazi, amongst others,” it said.</p><p style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">“Pakistan Armed Forces remain in a perpetual state of readiness to ensure the safety of Pakistan citizens against acts of terrorism and cross border attacks,” the army’s media wing stated.</p><p style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">There were reportedly nine casualties that iran said were all foreign nationals...both sides stressed their national sovreignity and security concerns...relations that were sliding downwards yesterday saw the iranians saying they were trying to reconcile the damage that iran had caused by its actions...iran has to realize that pakistan is neither israel nor the usa and they must address pakistans concerns thru talks..if they cross the border militarily than there will be obvious retaliation...</p><p style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">Jan18-2024--Pakistan breaks of diplomatic relations with iran after irans border assaults...sends iranian ambassador packing</p><p style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: rgba(44,92,202,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,/*!*/ /*!*/); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(238,238,238,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px auto 1rem;">Jan18-2024--In Gilgit Baltistan wheat price increases have caused protests which are in the 22nd day..the caretakers need to pay attention to such problems...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGcwbl_gX0Olis2_qk7u-G3zfwLbTVsxCTGrC-cUuGlbg8TIJBe3oFBNtFg8X43aPo4U5e24Y0O5eE2gZ04TaKROYYvncUwvf2apGgtgwm4DkHhRRsK4Ca9gcThUp_rjjizFlVZVgCgzVjVyA6IAZcrp0WFj8UXNH2krQeHjD467STj4t6_Aum4T1_9o/s974/Screenshot%202024-01-19%20011650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="974" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGcwbl_gX0Olis2_qk7u-G3zfwLbTVsxCTGrC-cUuGlbg8TIJBe3oFBNtFg8X43aPo4U5e24Y0O5eE2gZ04TaKROYYvncUwvf2apGgtgwm4DkHhRRsK4Ca9gcThUp_rjjizFlVZVgCgzVjVyA6IAZcrp0WFj8UXNH2krQeHjD467STj4t6_Aum4T1_9o/w640-h382/Screenshot%202024-01-19%20011650.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Jan17--2024--The problem of delimitation when done without legislation to increase seats according to the 33 million increase in population in the latest census is very problematic...The ECP has done very haphazard re-adjustments to absorb the population by swelling/bloating various constituences and in some cases enlarging/reducing other constituencies by huge margins in area...delimitation when it was inevitable and the population increase known should have been accompanied by legislation to increase seats...a PDM failure as it was done at the last moment probably in the anticipation of delaying polls...since the seats were 266 they should have kept them unchanged until legislation could be arranged...that is to keep political priorities as they say on a level...however the changes says Dawn benefit various groups and politicians...while there is no evidence of political manipulation directly the ECp could have some internal polarizing views that were applied haphazardly or unevenly...they say that they tried to work on the district level populations ie try to keep a district together...</p><p>Jan17-2024--insurgency or terrorism has been increasing in pakistan mostly in KP and baluchistan with some anti chinese actions in baluchistan, karachi and kohistan...most terrorism in KP is said tobe an offshoot of PTI activism...terrorism/military operations usually in the kp's former tribal regions have shown a spurt in southern areas of late</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Dhi2ZuN_XuPohDvduwIy0VyljN06sRzvV8355SInIg7Iow7WK5w-5al9Pau4uTeNgsL0KDjwWzatYpPUfywZ_4nArvf559PBFsH1nBOMSADFrD5YHkRdlfQMCZ-5xzMO9iJHi-Nrj1I2kQNDQfx_Anr2fCIAG5A4ATJQoWhFLk80TdnL6UpAxV2NI-U/s1914/Screenshot%202024-01-17%20184826.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="1914" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Dhi2ZuN_XuPohDvduwIy0VyljN06sRzvV8355SInIg7Iow7WK5w-5al9Pau4uTeNgsL0KDjwWzatYpPUfywZ_4nArvf559PBFsH1nBOMSADFrD5YHkRdlfQMCZ-5xzMO9iJHi-Nrj1I2kQNDQfx_Anr2fCIAG5A4ATJQoWhFLk80TdnL6UpAxV2NI-U/w640-h344/Screenshot%202024-01-17%20184826.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The map of KP shows that terrorist actions took place all over the province barring hazara-kohistan and dir/chitral upper...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdtFaYPF2RZNfPf21fA1rPkAUWHbcdY0YPDmBbzVquOgOdn43vmFdn87exoFp7qIZej8yhmePNIKeJwrUENrEMky8_dW7Gb3zVBnFKkNxHbTg-x2xpYb7FCxF4cOs8P2jTLfbRBUGNAKLwVGARwMQyEy_V6v2DquWILrmEadaImSeu0_uqKHKb2fVSFI/s1039/Screenshot%202024-01-17%20185728-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="957" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdtFaYPF2RZNfPf21fA1rPkAUWHbcdY0YPDmBbzVquOgOdn43vmFdn87exoFp7qIZej8yhmePNIKeJwrUENrEMky8_dW7Gb3zVBnFKkNxHbTg-x2xpYb7FCxF4cOs8P2jTLfbRBUGNAKLwVGARwMQyEy_V6v2DquWILrmEadaImSeu0_uqKHKb2fVSFI/w590-h640/Screenshot%202024-01-17%20185728-2.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Jan17-2024--Pakistan's Houthi foreign minister should resign after being chummily childish with the Iranians who retaliated by bombing two places in Panjgur saying they were Jaish Adl hq's...the foreign minister had assured Iran of help in dealing with its terrorism only recently...Pakistan condemned the cross border attacks calling them terrorist in intent and recalled its ambassador...residents of the small village where a mosque was bombed says drones were seen flying near the border after the missile attack...what are we...pliable puppets that everyone can bomb...Pakistan's military and government have failed to realize the nature of the Iranian regime and its intentions, attitudes and behavior...the Indians, Afghans and Iranians are technically similar in their attitudes to us...Pakistan too should bomb an Iranian outpost which many say have been organizing insurgency and blasts in Pakistan...!the Jaish Adl is similar in name to the PTi..the Iranians said to have bombed Iraq, Syria and Pakistan at the same time...Pakistan would find it difficult to bomb a mourning remembrance...Iran flailing away in meaningless retaliation...inside Iran they blamed the Isis and Israel...Iran upto now has been relying on cross border incursions...The border is poorly managed and Pakistan despite fencing it in some places has been unable to control Iran inspired insurgencies and smuggling...The Jaish Adl is generally Sistan based and not very active...the blast that the Iranians seem tobe retaliating against was blamed by the Iranians on Isis, Israel and the USA...Iran technically a militaristic police Shiite ideology type regime has been reeling recently against internal protests against its extremely conservative ideology...Iran fits its views on whatever target/logic/strategy/reasoning possible. Iran bombed Iraqi Kurds, a place near the USA consulate in Erbil, and supposedly Isis in Syria and Pakistan probably just for fun...i suppose we should not regard Iran as very friendly strategically/politically despite Shiite emotionalism...</p><p>Jan17-2024--ECP makes 647 million from election nomination fees...as for the PTi they can remain individually independent inside the parliament or join some other party in the first three days...technically PTI cannot have them disqualified for not following a party line...however they can act as a group or become a party...remaining independent has many uses as they can vote whichever way they want or go where the money is...other parties could make a bee line for them if they are willing to join them...in fact their size could determine how much influence they have...a very fragmented parliament usually ends quickly and goes for a new election...!Imran's plan C is probably " i don't know what to do" yet...the best way is probably to organize a creditable intra party election or register a new party ...PTI-2 and get the independents to join it after the parliament comes into being...with Imran generally ruling the party dictatorially he will probably find it difficult as independents are not orderlies usually...Imran says they were slaves and the courts have given them independence...!</p><p>Jan17-2024--government has formed a JIT to investigate anti judiciary campaign...the PTi generally inside the court behaves like a sheep dog or paltu billy of the judiciary while outside they spread all sorts of rumour and innuendos and malicious views...</p><p>Jan17-2024--15 confirmed cases of new Jn-1 covid variant announced</p><p>Jan16-2024--imran continued to lament on the umpires being against him as usual...something that is not quite clear in this situation...he should realize that he is not a batsman/cricketer and playing cricket by now....he seems mentally slow in becoming a politician...probably he is still on a PCB pension...there are possibilities that qazi faez isa could have some bias as imran was clearly behind instituting corruption charges against him however he would need two pukhtun judges out of three to get a favorable decision...imran has clearly dug his own fate/grave by mounting a needless front against the ECP chief and backing a ineffective pukhtun nobody as temp chairman...nawaz has obviously waited it out...The PTi says it is going for a review in the SC ECP-bat decision...they are already claiming that their followers are corrupt or will be corrupted...many think that they should work to hold a credible election or get a new party ...PTI2 registered or select one small party to join after the elections...given their usual behaviour they are unlikely to reform/prepare substantially...so that will leave their independents in a quandary...will they join the established other parties or join a smaller party eg. PMLq...rah e haq or even the army favored PPP etc...</p><p>Jan16-2024--a possible coalition at this stage...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFec-b4Y9j-LFSoBiCHbc7mW2YMGlR2VYbqXbwqUm0JxDlZSZXaIoZPXyQnM9DeKPAPjVu6M4Oe5DOc9NnrCdljJRz6UG6L3FC7ZB90dCaTRMZOYclV0ezTmSBxMNohvkITB_8tmQhN-EAbRTbbL_KSYMSTeHgyZXFKy1So2-rwPZmDKc7z8wMPc5LR1M/s392/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20115758.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="392" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFec-b4Y9j-LFSoBiCHbc7mW2YMGlR2VYbqXbwqUm0JxDlZSZXaIoZPXyQnM9DeKPAPjVu6M4Oe5DOc9NnrCdljJRz6UG6L3FC7ZB90dCaTRMZOYclV0ezTmSBxMNohvkITB_8tmQhN-EAbRTbbL_KSYMSTeHgyZXFKy1So2-rwPZmDKc7z8wMPc5LR1M/w640-h192/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20115758.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>i have not included bilawal the militaries actual ladla initially who can be a foreign minister again...Bilawal technically anti PMLn and allying with religious zealots...he is also trying tobe a jiyala when he wont even shake hands with sindhi PPPwalas..jiyalas are always trouble historically...!.The situation if independents and/or Pti-p win big can change...The independents ie former PTI walas may probably have no option given PTI's refusal to accept reality...to join IPP or Pti-p or some smaller party like the PMLq or PPP...interesting situation anyway..however possibility of another changa Manga is there...!<p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-51557090297791318912024-01-02T18:29:00.136+05:002024-01-16T15:03:10.674+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jan1-15, 2024<p>Jan15-2024--PMLn finally released from the pressure of courts says that the PTI symbol was actually danda rather than bat with which they tried to beat up the state...with the court cases over the PMLn can move in to electioneering..with the PPP edging up it is going tobe a difficult election..in the last three elections there have always been major changes..what happens in this one is open to interpretation and the probable forecast is a three way divide between PPP, PMLn and the PTI independents...with the spoils also up for grabs for the Juif, IPP and PTI-p... whether the Mqm can sweep karachi or not with the JI/PPP stronger...how the independents fare is questionable and whether the PTI has a party ready by than for them to join...in the following map of 2018 elections... PTI - orange..PMLn grey..PPP ferozi...black majlis amal...light brown-BAP...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEnQxnZ2GJmoBvSRbrXn5pUb_X_jwTNQKiub3RS6IEfi8Ymo63RsMz3ooGtzTj64Aq-tr42RnGMO00l3yJFKj3cA4VUD8ltqZcEdpaF4k00YA9OK_tfRKb2svv06qT_SjmJElr-Q6tSn1BeRSwlXnm8DHuGu_iFapjdHtXKOZS5ViJLBu4oPOc_SPaF4/s1800/15132237b18d9b2%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1684" data-original-width="1800" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEnQxnZ2GJmoBvSRbrXn5pUb_X_jwTNQKiub3RS6IEfi8Ymo63RsMz3ooGtzTj64Aq-tr42RnGMO00l3yJFKj3cA4VUD8ltqZcEdpaF4k00YA9OK_tfRKb2svv06qT_SjmJElr-Q6tSn1BeRSwlXnm8DHuGu_iFapjdHtXKOZS5ViJLBu4oPOc_SPaF4/w640-h598/15132237b18d9b2%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div>election positions of parties in last three elections...2008-2013-2018.......below plus legend for above map...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKLIjXxe_TEDt4mxqfX4Mq2r-4ETZw6K3f85pp4jhr_ZF0VHoFjW6xYfk3_alvf3k3ZmOKL0Zvjd7_FaATCBbivJyvzxPcjwqNWA_ekscJ8Bnqme4vQYLjpXfh6lOIHHQ8H8zlvZHmWsXCd7rkrKbcyB-4oeV0gIIgkTaxMCNE08iyiiOCsN3y4zpO3Lc/s1440/Screenshot%202024-01-15%20215559.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1440" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKLIjXxe_TEDt4mxqfX4Mq2r-4ETZw6K3f85pp4jhr_ZF0VHoFjW6xYfk3_alvf3k3ZmOKL0Zvjd7_FaATCBbivJyvzxPcjwqNWA_ekscJ8Bnqme4vQYLjpXfh6lOIHHQ8H8zlvZHmWsXCd7rkrKbcyB-4oeV0gIIgkTaxMCNE08iyiiOCsN3y4zpO3Lc/w640-h493/Screenshot%202024-01-15%20215559.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCujLgrabkfViz-6y-ko_WaPNbHsftf1VUIyBcBabXqgVkd7wZYeAxoFkvT0VPvWPEyEqJsfGx9tHVvdTM56Q1Kgid6DkX6A4RTNcr4DfKpXi1ABQHr2W_Ee0Zz9z3zuV3LhsnCkah4mizi3JhIETc4RgO4zk8lL3t9j9nEaQFe1Zs5SSScgV2SYoRKo8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="320" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCujLgrabkfViz-6y-ko_WaPNbHsftf1VUIyBcBabXqgVkd7wZYeAxoFkvT0VPvWPEyEqJsfGx9tHVvdTM56Q1Kgid6DkX6A4RTNcr4DfKpXi1ABQHr2W_Ee0Zz9z3zuV3LhsnCkah4mizi3JhIETc4RgO4zk8lL3t9j9nEaQFe1Zs5SSScgV2SYoRKo8=w640-h486" width="640" /></a></div><br />The above describes the economic condition of the people which saad rafique of the PMLn describes as better than the one before...both the pmln and PPP think that electricity tariffs and inflation are a big problem followed by problematic healthcare..PPP suggests 300 free units for everybody and solar power stations in all districts...<br /><p>Jan15-2024--Pakistan lose second t20 match to new zealand..problems are in the opening batsmen and the failure of azam khan/usama mir to score a reasonable number of fast runs...they have an alternate keeper hasibullah, and two other spinners...sahibzada farhan is a steady opener and they can ask saim ayub to slow down... and hasibullah can open too..the two other spinners are also experienced...Pakistan should realize that new zealand have capable batters and bowlers...chasing 10 or above per over from new zealand could be difficult if they donot improve their batting...</p><p>Jan14-2024--three policemen killed in quetta and one in lakki marwat </p><p>Jan14-2023--US-Britain carry out air raids on houthi sites in yemen with over 150 attacks on 30 sites....houthis have been attacking shipping in the red sea..turkey called the US retaliation disproportionate...</p><p>Jan14-2024--five soldiers killed in Kech IED bomb explosion...in NW-DI khan operations four militants killed</p><p>Jan14-2024--ECP say that PTI not tobe allowed to stand on Pti-n tickets..as it is not allowed to represent two parties...standing as independents is not a difficult task...</p><p>Jan14-2024-- during the SC hearing the police raided the reside<span>nce of Gohar ali khan in F7..police later said that it went to the wrong address...reasoning ..to look for PO's...!five policemen suspended...</span></p><p>Jan14-2024 --In a landmark decision the SC decided that the ECP is a regulator of political parties and conducter of elections and overturned the PHC decision on the bat symbol and PTI intraparty elections...The judges were concerned about the malafide intent of the ECp but the pti lawyer could not provide any details on bias...and whether an intraparty election had actually taken place..The pTI could produce no record or of payment by candidates..There might also have been a drama of the gohar ali khan residence being robbed and possible negative pressurizing of the CJ...the CJ also mentioned that the PPP symbol of sword had been taken away too..with symbols being given tonight the PTI has no time left for a review..Their plan B of the PTI-nazriati letting them use their symbol also seemed in trouble...that leaves the pti candidates running as independents and the pti issuing lists of their independents and candidates making sure people know who is the pti candidate...This shows the very bad risky stance of imran of continuing to attack ECP chief sultan sikander raja needlessly...who looks like an ordinary innocent guy being browbeaten by the head of a powerful macho party...!there was also the propaganda that gohar ali khan was just a nominated front and all decisions came from imran..PTI should now hold a regular intraparty election where nominations are made, voted on and announced publically...give the 840000 members of pti the right to vote...in intraparty elections first...!generally this could benefit the other parties mainly the PPP and to a lesser extent the PMLn...pti could study shifting their vote bank to other pti offshoot parties...or even directly to the PPP...The judges said that they take the work of constitutional organs very seriously...some said that it was a guilotining of the pti..many remember that the pti wanted to guillotine nawaz sharif during its dharna on parliament...!as far as fundamental rights go many doubt that a party has any ...while people's right to vote for a party is affected to a certain extent independents do win elections all over the place...the candidates can/should get leaflets featuring their name/picture/symbol into each voters hand...!and since the pti is out of the picture they could give pti-nazriati whatever they want to use their name and symbol...! In the longterm this is a consequence of what happened on May9...</p><p>Jan13-2024--The dictatorial nature of the pTI should be considered a threat..while the bat symbol or batsmen or any symbol is of no consequence to other political groups...however holding intra party elections thru party nominations is a fraud on party members who are not allowed to stand for even party chairman...and a nobody politically and in the party is made chairman...The pti ruled dictatorially and is also behaving similarly out of government...</p><p>Jan12-2024--The courts supporting one party in an uncontrolled scenario could lead to a worst type of dictatorship like the one faced in east Pakistan...in any event it could lead to a martial law type scenario say some as well...</p><p>Jan12-2024--The IHC has cancelled the defacto provincial government run by the chief commissioner islamabad and asked federal government to take over administration of Islamabad...this to discourage the DC on the issue of arrest orders under MPO</p><p>Jan12-2024--proceedings in the SJC against Justice Mazhar to continue..the former judge has filed a detailed response to the charges and witnesses will be called to testify..some say that the bandial clique has been broken up. While a senior counsel said that a purge is taking place...while another called it a national witchhunt...PMLn's Maryam Aurangzeb demanded that Justice Ahsan must be held accountable...she said that he could not be exonerated from terrible actions against democracy and the constitution...she said he called the PMLn a sicilian mafia and put together gems of his choice in the JIT on panama papers...she added that the top court would be strengthened...while the PMLn may have nothing todo with current fiasco the former infighting under Bandial may have a lot todo with it...both may have been part of the PTI cartel in the court...</p><p>Jan12-2024--another senior SC judge ejazul ahsan has resigned from the SC..he was tobe the CJ later this year...this leaves the way clear for Justice Mansoor Ali Shah. Justice Ahsan had run into trouble with the CJ on various issues including the proceedings in the SJC on Justice Mazhar, judicial independence and not attending meetings on friday as he jetted of to lahore before office close...it is yet not clear whether the proceedings in the SJC on Justice Mazhar will continue or be ended...Justice Esa is more liberal and has no problems with recent laws made by parliament and has also suspended the justice ahsan led decision on military trials. </p><p>Jan11-2024-- plethora of judicial reasoning is coming to the fore and probably more is on the way...one particularly heard the disqualification clauses being called not self-executory and guidelines for the people...people rarely read the constitution and they actually guide courts and the ECP..Now Justice Ayesha has come out with the reasoning that ordinary citizens should have a fair trial...this in the May9 mayhem and their trial in military courts...obviously this would not have happened if the SC had been attacked and burnt down...these days there are courts for terrorism, narcotics and accountability...are those courts based on the concepts of fair trial...usually they are based on the views of the government or Nab or public opinion...one thing is very basic that Justice Ayesha and Afridi think that military trials are not fair trials .That means that we do not give our military men fair trials. If it is a constitutional right than trials under the military or army act are unconstitutional for everyone and should be done away with...That is not correct. Military trials have everything that is needed for a fair trial and can be appealed to the army chief...victims or accused are represented by military officers/lawyers and can produce witnesses...there is also oversight by the judge advocate general...it is not open and shut...civilian courts are also intertwined with the executive in one way or the other. There is no such thing as an ordinary citizen. And if a magistrate gives a verdict for a military trial...! In normal protests people are let off within days...but these were not ordinary protests but attacks on military infrastructure almost countrywide...and according to imran conducted by his personal army according to party orders...</p><p>Jan11-2024--a IHC judge says that a time will come when intelligence bosses will face trials for enforced disappearances...if u take this in regard to the Baluchistan missing persons than the involvements of liberation/terrorist organizations must also be considered...overall the fauj, MI, ISI, Levis, police, FC and in some cases, corp commanders and police chiefs...missing persons have recently been found from as far away as karachi and the baluchistan border in may9 cases...some even escaped to canada and england...or disappeared in sialkot...</p><p>Jan11-2024--poll candidate killed in north waziristan along with two others...GDA leaders car rammed in dha karachi...PMLn candidate in Na 258 aslam buledi critically wounded in turbat...JUIf candidate injured in rawalpindi while a sunni leader shot dead...tribunals allow almost everyone to contest even those absconding in May9 cases...</p><p>Jan11-2024--musharafs death sentence for treason upheld posthumously as SC overturns LHC verdict...</p><p>Jan11-2024--three cops and two soldiers killed in KP...a police checkpost was attacked in kohat killing four(one civlian)...two soldiers and two militants killed in exchange of fire in lakki marwat</p><p>Jan11-2024--in a second overrule of its own judgements the PHC reinstated the PTi's bat(chimgadar) symbol and its sham fraudulent elections /nominations...many say the PHC is new in this field and does not know what it is doing and does not have authority in the rest of the country...others say it is the manifestation of a pukhtun party..ECP studying its response..it could go for an appeal in the SC and the SC too could hear the case after the elections or quickly decide the issue...</p><p>Jan10-2024--a supreme court judge facing an SJC show cause has resigned saying he was not being provided an opportunity to defend himself. He was accused of cancelling the musharaf death sentence which was recently reinstated...in contrast to a reference to study the death sentence of a former primeminister...the former primeminister was accused of using a federal agency FSF to eliminate political opponents from Kasur using army soldiers...the judge mazhar ali naqvi is also accused of amassing a staggering amount of wealth and involvement in audio leaks..no details of the wealth have yet emerged...it shows justice ejazul ahsan in a poor light who supported the judge and is supposedly to be the next CJ...previously the SC has avoided going against SC judges in various cases including the present CJ whose wife had three houses in england...and a former CJ accused of getting free paid holidays with his family in monaco/lichenstein amounting to 300000dollars. That CJ had three terms as CJ ...however a supposedly right wing IHC judge was removed who accused the ISI of interfering in his court cases.</p><p>Jan10-2024e--Imran a former prime minister has been arrested in a dozen more cases in the May9 violence including the Rawalpindi GHQ attack..he and his wife are also accused of running away with most state gifts at throwaway prices..imran apparently made over 300 million during his stay in power about ten times his earlier wealth...he says that he is being victimised for reigning in the powerful quarters...meaning that he attacked the GHQ to control the powerful military...!generally he and the military/ISI were very friendly and "literally hand in glove"... until the PDM orchestrated a divide between him and the military chief on the appointment of a new ISI chief and than the bilawal orchestrated no trust removed him...he seems to have been in power to make wealth...he apparently collected millions in donations ...16 billion annually and further billions in party funding from dubious sources.</p><p>Jan9-2024--accountability court freezes assets of Malik Riaz and his son as well as several PTI leaders in a 190million pound corruption case</p><p>Jan9-2024--six cops killed in Bajaur on polio duty after a blast targeted their vehicle...one soldier killed in north waziristan...</p><p>Jan9-2024--The SC overturned a previous judgment/judgments disallowing a lifetime disqualification under article 62(1)(f)..technically a disqualification now can be for five years ...the court seemed to suggest that people are allowed to stand in elections and elect whom they choose...despite the various qualifications needed under articles 62(1) f, d, e and g which are therefore just guidelines for the voter until further amendments clarify the matter...court literally acting against its former activism...it would be enlightening to see what it says in the reference on ZAB's death sentence...where the CJ has pontificated that the court can reopen cases where a injustice is proven...the PPP points to a Nasim Hasan Shah interview that the judgement was given under pressure. The courts always are under some sort of pressure in Pakistan..That suggests that the court could allow the LHC to rehear the case..That would be a major judgement..i suggest that the court should ask the president to pardon Zulfikar ali Bhutto...whatever the faults in the judgements/sentencing and the administrations maneouvering...!That Zulfikar ali bhuttos defence was faulty goes without saying....</p><p>Jan8-2024--the pti suggests that internet blocking took place around 6pm... during which they conducted a telethon to beg for alms...imran has enough funds personally...his wealth apparently increased tenfold while in government...i personally did not feel any blocking...The pti has a general policy of howling unfair treatment about everything...The ECP says that 76% of PTI's election applications had been accepted...most rejected had also been accepted by tribunals...in the national assembly 598 of 843 applications have been accepted...that is about two applications for every seat...The pti thinks that it can fool the people, administration, fauj, judiciary and police all the time...</p><p>Jan7-2024--careakers to probe May9 incidents...</p><p>Jan7-2024--the maulana is important politically in Baluchistan and KP...while the BAP resolution in the senate is non-binding it is important to study the rationale...that some areas in Baluchistan and Punjab maybe snowed in... the cold weather should have eased up quite a bit by February the 8th...however if conditions are difficult in some areas the elections can be delayed in those specific areas. however, the maulana is in Kabul and could help in easing the situation in the tribal areas viz the TTP...some say that the maulana has shifted towards the Pti recently...a delay of a few or upto three weeks would generally not make any difference however there always are some who benefit more than others. Many would see it in the light that the BAP would like to stay in power longer viz Kaker Kuker...!others suggested that the Taliban might be interested in twisting the maulana's arm to support imran...the Pti would like him as a imam but not as a leader in KP...he is said to command majority support in many areas barring Hazara...the TTP or militants have been attacking military infrastructure in his area of DI khan which is outside the main tribal areas of KP...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVFJsB314J60NaAgjKBVH7mmW4ZmhEdLiAe2aV7nkorPYNZ69POBkjxZiKwxy9cf6iqqk2iy9qiN-Yik_qQUkAT1hXA0Pg4vxT16zTimVy5qGl-GEFgbQnhPQoloV7P8rQZDfoIbPb-X3SwTl1VgNl7ljyjwrh5W1ameGxNrJCYB4PgJ5L34yyaSjKtM/s1013/Screenshot%202024-01-07%20215438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1013" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVFJsB314J60NaAgjKBVH7mmW4ZmhEdLiAe2aV7nkorPYNZ69POBkjxZiKwxy9cf6iqqk2iy9qiN-Yik_qQUkAT1hXA0Pg4vxT16zTimVy5qGl-GEFgbQnhPQoloV7P8rQZDfoIbPb-X3SwTl1VgNl7ljyjwrh5W1ameGxNrJCYB4PgJ5L34yyaSjKtM/w640-h458/Screenshot%202024-01-07%20215438.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p>Jan2-2024--power went on and off in rawalpindi yesterday all day stabilising some what late at night...disruption apparently due to a blast and fire in a guddu switchyard which tripped the power plant...which tripped three 500kv and 220 kv lines...effecting a place literally in the north with numerous power plants lying shutdown is some sort of a record of inefficiency...</p><p>Jan2-2024--Buner is a very hidden place in the hilly mountains near swat...it was a place where the TTP literally fought the pakistan army and there were burned out tanks on the hillsides after the TTP fled...that is the home of the new chairman of the PTI...apparently he had been given the task by none other than imran to burn down a military installation in Buner...after searching he could not find a military installation so he burned down his own home saying it was a hideout of the secret police...as a reward he has been made PTI chairman...apparently he has received his bullet proof kevlar coat already...!he is probably one of the secret commanders of imrans personal army...</p><p>Jan2-2024--some are raising a ruckus on the number of rejections by the RO's..the maximum in the NA rejections are 45% in islamabad with an overall 13.70%...In the provincial assembly an overall rejection rate of 11.99% with a maximum of 21.59% in baluchistan...The trouble makers mostly from the PTi and its supporters said that the RO's are generally malicious and biased against them. however there are more GDA rejections in sindh while overall the PTI leads...many regard it as their lack of experience and ineptness given the nature of their troublemaking arsonist bitter leadership...Gohar ali khan the buneri said that they have stopped issuing statements against the army after he took over...however most of their nobodies (followers) continued making dubious and strange allegations against the army with even a judge yahya afridi saying that the army was responsible for the arson attacks because they did not fire on the trouble makers...according to some only firing in the air was seen at the iSI residences of Ojhri camp...as people thought about it and did not congregate their...many have questioned why the army did not protect their infrastructure and instead ran from places like the corp commanders residence in lahore...election tribunals will study the final decisions on appeals by jan12...there are various issues like sheikh rashid not mentioning his 3 marla plot in some village...he responds that he has mentioned 1200 canals of dubiously acquired land and three marla's hardly means anything...shah mahmud qureshi rejected in sindh for not paying water bills...!others have been rejected based on various theories of non payment of bills, conviction, not appearing in person and absconding from the police etc...a few have been questioned on disqualification...The PTI had filed over 2000 applications for 40 na seats and 90 provincial seats so they do have leftovers on all seats...The anti pakistan nature of the PTI was apparent as they even started their propaganda campaign in england against the RO's rejections..it is the process and RO's make decisions by themselves as well on complaints...</p><p>Jan2-2024--The chinese leadership meaning Xi has purged the armies leadership. Senior officials have been removed on the charges of corruption which can mean anything in China..many regard it as Xi's anger over failures in frightening Taiwan, policy in the south china sea, producing new missiles and lack of equipment and spares...while China has a greater political outreach its military is restricted to the taiwan strait and the south china sea having a shortage of aircraft carriers and aggression oriented warships...many suggest that the military leaders must have been discussing and critisizing Xi's economic failures...!</p><p>Jan1-2024--happy new year and best wishes</p><p>Jan1-2024--infiltration bid foiled as 3 militants killed in Bajaur...one soldier killed in another attempt to cross over in north waziristan...there was also exchange of fire in spinwam on the night of dec31...</p><p>Jan1-2024--five terrorrist killed in Awaran operation</p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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(aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Dec16-31, 2023<p>Dec27-2023--Zartaj Gul a imran cycophant has had her application rejected by the LHC in NA -185 DGkhan after an RO objection...the court said she did not appear and she said that she would be arrested...there have been no particular high profile arrests on filing election applications...there have also been no major objections to top level candidates...yet...objection applications have tobe filed by the 30th...!The PTI which has a devious anti pakistan mindset has waged a struggle to undermine the courts, beaurocrats, ECP, police, army and degrade elections in whatever way possible...they are now left with dozens of crookish senior lawyers as their leaders...imrans lawyers have pushed everyone aside even Bushra the dubious pirni...!</p><p>Dec27-2023--the countries technologically backward ISI and superior court judges donot know how audio recordings surface...they are usually not eavesdroppings which can be blamed on spys...however most recordings are made by the ordinary mobile phone and persons standing near u...it is technically neither illegal nor an affront to anybodies dignity...if u say something than u should stand behind the quote</p><p>Dec27-2023--The PHC suspended the ECP judgement on the bat symbol and dubious nature of PTI's internal elections...No law was cited by the PHC...It is the ECP responsibility to regulate electoral groups...others suggest that people should wear garlic garlands to avoid the evil nature of the PTi's bat(chimgader) which is also regarded as having spread covid and killed thousands in Pakistan...The PTI has continued its fake news and many suggest that they have themselves been snatching applications from their candidates...no difficulty has been faced by thousands in filing election applications...no charges have yet been filed by any PTI candidate for a tribunal hearing or the ECP on this matter...some ordinary PTI candidates have filed as many as three nominations...the symbol is due to the lack of education in the bygone eras...now people are aware of their parties candidates and generally can read...</p><p>Dec23-2023--PMLn finding seat adjustments difficult..apparently IPP wants 40 national and 70 provincial seats on seat adjustment while the PMLq wanted 14 seats and was offered three...the IPP might be offered around 20 seats many think otherwise it would be a free for all and everyone would contest on all punjab seats...!technically the PMLn should offer seat adjustment to a few top IPP leaders such as jehangir tareen and abdul aleem and those that supported them...it is a difficult process as those rejected often participate as independents...why parties donot participate on all seats without adjustments and depend on the people is unclear</p><p>Dec23-2023--Islamabad police get a dressing down from IHC and government...after they attempted to arrest Baluchistan protestors who had walked all the way to Islamabad...Baluchistan government should make a list of those who have been disappeared...the government should also make clear that nothing special happens when protests are brought to Islamabad...most have disappeared or been killed over the last decade in Baluchistan's internecine conflicts apart from those who went overseas and participated in Afghanistan and the Baluchistan government should decide on a clear cut process of finding or compensation...</p><p>Dec23-2023--ECP decides that PTI elections are unconstitutional according the elections act and PTI rules 2017...That means that PTI will not be accorded the bat <i>aka chimghadar</i> as its symbol and is no longer a registered political party...!PTI did not allow anyone to contest and only its nominated were declared elected without opposition...!technically it can be called throwing mud onto the ECP...!Omar Ayub who technically headed the PTI in the absence of imran and now has been declared an absconder in KP was reassigned as a central secretary general...while a nobody from Aitzaz Ahsan's Islamabad office brought in as chairman...the ECP extended for two days the filing of election papers on the request of the PMLn...!</p><p>Dec23-2023--The SC in what can be called digging up the free and fair or level playing field technically decided the cipher case and made unfair and dubious judgements about various things related to it ...while the case has yet tobe heard by the special court the SC went ahead and literally trashed the case saying there was no evidence and gave bail to the two accused...imran had aired a classified cipher in public and raised an international hullaballoo about Donald Lu...the PTI is said to have sent the cipher to 1200 people worldwide...including some say Donald Trump and an online newspaper...!the SC seemingly wants free and fair but not reality based elections..many suggest that those involved in May9 violent acts should not be allowed to contest however most have condemned the PTI and joined the PTI offshoots...about a few hundred are under arrest while a dozen or so are absconding...</p><p>Dec22-2023--in what can be called unfair a PTI contender Munawar gill was arrested by police and not allowed to get application papers and released after the offices were closed...an IHC decision rejected imrans petition against the conviction in the toshahkhana case</p><p>Dec21-2023--after imran looted his wife (warghla kar(duping in english)) and he was arrested/bailed in a case of occupying graveyard land in Okara...Khawar Maneka came out fighting ..the first husband of bushra imran said his wife had been introduced to imran at the islamabad PTI sit in by UK based sister maryam wattoo...he accused imran of visiting his wife at odd hours and causing trouble and intimate involvement in his home...he says that it caused fights with his ex wife and he had to force imran to leave his house on one occasion with the help of his employees....he says that for 25 years he had a blissful marriage and his wife never expressed any grievances...he claims that despite his mothers warnings his wife continued her overnight conversations with imran on a phone and sim provided by farah khan...he says he would call his wife and his calls were not attended while imran would come and sit in his house without his permission at unconventional hours...he says she started arguing with him when he expressed concerns about imrans visits...imran has upto now been saying that she was his spiritual guide or pirni...he says his wife started meetings/visits to imran frequently in islamabads banigala area where he had a home...after her return from islamabad he says he noticed certain changes in bushra's behaviour and she than shifted to her mothers place in pakpattan...he says months later he visited pakpattan and sent divorce papers on Nov14, 2017...he say later imrans cycophants made him change the date on the divorce papers causing the iddat controversy...he denied any relations with ahsan jamil gujjar...farahs husband who had claimed to be the guardian of his children...he also denied any role in the frequent changes of DPO's at Pakpattan which were blamed on bushra/ahsan gujjar/CM...he says he was not frightened of the one case against him but was frightened by phone calls from imrans underlings like zulfikar bukhari/farah...imran and bushra appear tobe mean nasty individuals...!</p><p>Dec21-2023--The<i> phaji tooti PTi </i>which has its leaders leaving in droves as this lawyer rejected by other parties joins it...the most recent absconders asad umar and humayun akhter khan...what to talk about fawad chaudhry and others...The courts in KP working overtime for the PTI and order release of asad qaiser who blocked major roads/highways on May9 and may have been involved in breaking a military shaheeds memorial...omer ayub declared absconder...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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reserved its decision on the dubious fraudulent nominations that the PTI made in the guise of elections...the Lahore gymkhana is a small hotel cum golf course and the PTI a supposedly popular political party which could not find many members to vote or play golf...!...u can hardly nominate candidates in a few days and the PTI has no way to get its rank and file to vote...if such a huge party can have elections without opposition than it must be some sort of communist party...</p><p>Dec21-2023--former primerinisters have a dubious recall of their achievements and relationships with the army ...imran says he was obeying Bajwa orders(sic)...!now Nawaz Sharif complains that the voters in karachi not noting his achievements in bringing peace to karachi mainly a MQM and PPP stronghold...in recent local elections the PTI, JI and PPP took a stranglehold on karachi while the PTI than refused to vote for the winner JI in the mayor elections...after agreeing to do so...typical of the PTI to renege on committments...however asto bringing peace in karachi it was a long struggle mainly fought by the Sindh Rangers, karachi corp commander and fauji intelligence sometimes referred to as the ISI...finally altaf hussain escaped to London with his loot and the division in the mqm brought peace back to karachi pakistan's most developed city...Nawaz Sharif should focus on the much less developed interiors of Sindh and Punjab apart from Baluchistan and KP..Baby bilawal many say should focus on his own province and his dubious collapsing primeministerial aspirations as there are enough parties that can run punjab...Zardari might have the votes for president if the PMLn and other parties cooperate but it is doubtful if baby bilawal who characterizes the PMLn as dictatorial but sat in their recent coalition...can win the primeminister battle given his hatred for the punjabi power brokers...The PPP many say has small groups in many constituencies that rarely win elections in punjab...</p><p>Dec21-2023--The SC takes over the safeguarding of Feb8 elections and says complaints on delimitations banned after the announcement of the election schedule...candidates have started being issued applications forms and two days are earmarked for their filing from tomorrow......</p><p>Dec20-2023--The army chief who does not interact much with the people at home is apparently enjoying a US visit and going around meeting expatriates without reason or need...with a plethora of multiplicity in industry and bussinesses expatriates even if loaded with money rarely get going in bussinesses here...</p><p>Dec20-2023--Sindh caretaker chiefminister has a dubious troublemaker confusion over gas supplied to karachi...karachi is receiving gas from baluchistan since 1955 and takes substantial share of sindh fields so much so that industries use it for even gas irons...industries should be urged to use electricity while gas can be spared for the domestic and other special uses such as electricity/fertilizers..why industries need gas on closed holidays is unclear......!caretakers should not raise controversial issues that defy solution and lack a basis in reality...gas pressures are problematic over all over the country in winter and karachi which is warmer has lesser problems...</p><p>Dec20-2023--dubiously negative lawyer associations attack delimitations/ECP chief without concrete reasons...jhelum has always had two seats and hafizabad one...and the ECP chiefs home seat is sorgodha NA82..they also attack rawalpindi seats viz gujranwala...parties without a real base in punjab attack seeking a level playing field or free and fair elections...these issues are not based on any realities...and are mostly the figments of confused and muddled anti pakistan minds...when u donot have a support base in punjab than you can hardly measure up to the heavyweights...</p><p>Dec20-2023--Pakistan announce new look t20 team against New Zealand...many players like Aamer Jamal, Abbas Afridi, Saim Ayub, Haseebullah Khan, Azam Khan, Sahibzada Farhan, included apart from former top stars. Azam Khan a burly big hitter included after a dubious national t20 performance. Azam Khan and Haseebullah Khan are wicketkeepers but are probably included as batsmen. The burly Azam Khan was not too successful when previously selected but has a supposed ability to hit sixes and fours...Pakistan's failure in the one-day world cup saw the ouster of dubious Mohd Haris and failed spinner Shadab khan. Mohd Haris a supposed big hitter could not deliver...the top T20 wicketaker Shahab Khan not included. Pakistan's one day failure was supposedly due to failure of top fast bowlers and batsmen and innocuous spinners. Fakhre zaman was inconsistent with one good innings and tuk-tuk in the rest...spinners seemingly lacked ability and were not as aggressive as Australian and Indian spinners...Abrar Ahmed was successful in the previous New Zealand series...apparently budding/performing players also invited to a camp to train the selected team. Players should realize that they have to perform at the top level...</p><p>Dec18-2023--PTI tries to revive its social media influence on its supporters...especially w.r.t. to KP and holds a dubiously successful mega social event thru youtube...</p><p>Dec18-2023--a blind team director that does not see the writing on the wall and still thinks that the Pakistan cricket team can match the Aussies...on one side he did not play a spinner and on the other he did not consider some of the emerging batsmen in domestic cricket like Huraira and Yousaf...the Pakistani top order was a flop as was the rest of the team..they played three similar type of pacemen while keeping in reserve the two better pacemen...i think he should call up a few emerging batsmen and a fast bowler too. His liking for Sarfraz also failed to deliver...</p><p>Dec16-2023--The CJ SC again intervenes to support the tottering Feb 8 polls from a possible LHC induced delay...the Dec13 judgement of the LHC was suspended as many questioned the PTI's court antics which amounted to a deliberate delaying of the elections......The Court also questioned the imran relative who requisitioned the LHC on the matter to explain...on the SC orders the LHC decision and subsequent LHC full bench were also suspended and the ECP was asked to issue the election schedule immediately which it did...many rejoiced at the PTI's biases against the armed forces, ECP, other politicians, Donald Lu, other countries, military bosses, beaurocracy and its inherently antipakistan bias's coming full circle...many now regard the PTI as having a demented self serving mentality with no common sense...</p><p>Dec16-2023--In another important case the SC issue issued a notice to the former ISI chief to appear before them alongwith others in a case of the removal of a high court judge...the judge had accused the ISI chief of interfering and ordering him and decisions of his court...</p><p>Dec16-2023--five police and FC officials killed in KP attacks in tank and khyber alongwith five militants...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-57375445117756636202023-12-02T21:05:00.058+05:002023-12-16T21:24:08.819+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Dec1-15, 2023<p>Dec15-2023--Influenza vaccine disappears from the market</p><p>Dec15-2023--cipher trial which deals with imran revealing a secret communication to all and sundry as well as the world again goes in camera...</p><p>Dec15-2023--February 8 polls hit a snag after the LHC suspended a ECP appointed RO's and DRO's from the beaurocracy...the judge failed to realize that their was mischief behind the PTI petition...The courts have already refused to provide judicial officials...instead of suspending the order the LHC should have simply ordered the countries high court CJ's to make available judicial officials as required by the ECP...There is technically no problem in appointing beurocrats as that was also done in 2018 and is according to the law...</p><p>Dec14-2023--Baluchistans caretaker information minister in a tweet on X that he deleted later urged the government to restart US drone bases as there was no other method to control terrorist groups inside afghanistan...he also suggested reprisal attacks inside afghanistan...he supported current policy of special targeted operations, air strikes, border closures, return of afghan refugees and anti TTP /TTA opposition gatherings in islamabad that must be considered...he must realize that there were supposedly 1.5 million afghans inside Pakistan and not that many are returning...Pakistan has previously experimented with a US drone base in dalbandin...while it supposedly usually targeted positions in afghanistan it also mainly targeted returning taleban comanders and TTP top leaders here. However after a nato operation against a pakistani forward position killed 22 soldiers it was wound up...he said after the SC decision the law will take its course and deal with those who spread chaos...the baluch minister is probably suggesting an extreme position which is difficult for the liliputian pakistan army and government...however the visit of the army chief could be to discuss options of either Pakistan buying a few military drones or a US drone base or in the extreme a military coup to deal with the situation...earlier drone attacks were said tobe approved by the US president but in actuality they were approved by a pakistani major general pasha and nato and us officers in a three man committee. That military officer now works for the PTi and could be behind the may9 attacks and supposedly terrorism of the TTP...others suggest that the army chief maybe on a farewell visit as his policies have completed failed to dent terrorism and the governments antagonistic anti people policies...the afghan government has however said that it would investigate the TTP attack in DI Khan...Pakistan is in danger of looking like a wobbly afghan client state rather than vice versa...</p><p>Dec14-2023--CJ Qazi faez issa is running into problems from other judges..one of the senior judges objected to the two senior judges setting up judge panels without him...isa retorted that judge ahsan usually runs off to lahore mid friday to spend his weekend...another judge up for a SJC hearing says the courts should treat him like issa was...he said if Issa's wife could buy three houses in england than he too could invest in properties worth billions...he should go with the procedures if he wants tobe absolved of billionairing...and get a letoff..it is probable the court should at the least set guidlines for wealth accumulation of senior judges..anyway making millions is the prime function or objective of lawyers and now judges it seems...!maybe the judge should show that he has been paying due taxes on the properties or billions in earnings/investments(sic)...!</p><p>Dec14-2023--A large six judge SC bench suspended the courts short order declaring the pakistan army act unconstitutional for civilians or military trials of civilians...in times of war the military is the sole judiciary for any sort of violent acts against the state or military...the imran led PTI went on a rampage(war) against military structures/state and one does not know why destruction of military properties via arson or destruction cannot be considered terrorism...it was a imran led war against the fauj's COAS as his statements make clear...the suspension however did not go far enough and said the military courts cannot acquit or sentence the 103 military antagonists at the moment...May9 was in no way a democratic expression or even a demonstration in any kind of interpretation...colonels and majors do head military trial courts and only a more senior officer heads the trials when the under trial is a senior officer...the military trials are usually decided by the judge advocate general who must be heard by the court...one also does not know when in a previous instance the PTI a new and uncontrolled/unrestrained political entry into politics opposed military trials of civilians...? the only opposition came from a pukhtun women judge mussarat hilali who did not know how they could stop a court short order...the court generally does not oppose a court final order but this order was conflicting with the actual situation when all the militancy was against military structures barring the burning of the radio pakistan office in peshawar...while the court has found the blocking of one highway and roads obnoxious in the context of the TPL faizabad demonstration they said nothing when the shiites blocked roads thruout the country...or even the PTi blockage of major highways on May 9 and earlier...the PTI designs obviously were militant and terrorist in nature...however giving a late January date for hearing the case suggests that they want to delay as much as possible so that the people or administration may start to think that this was usual in political/judicial antics...</p><p>Dec13-2023--25 soldiers and 27 terrorists killed in various incidents in DI khan...</p><p>Dec12--The SC to settle lifetime disqualification issue after the Election act was amended to a maximum of five years disqualification...There are a list of issues that can disqualify a politician...The SC seems more concerned with a few issues that cannot cause disqualification...The present SC seemingly more reasonable to assist politicians and stop interference in governance matters..The third member of the committee seems to oppose the formation of benches by the two seniors...The court has also dug up and a 2010 reference that wants the court to declare ZAB innocent of murder charges and declare the verdict flawed...Imrans lawyers continue to bamboozle the courts...imran generally filesone court case for every two initiated by the administration...Zardari says imran elected on the backs of illegal afghan voters...while that may not be true totally imran had the support of pukhtuns spread across the country as his campaign was based on their semi terrorist violence prone nature</p><p>Dec11-2023--SHO of Khuzdar killed in magnetic bomb attack on his vehicle...a previous SHO khuzdar was killed last year in a similar explosion...</p><p>Dec11-2023--Nepra continues it arbitrary authoritarian anti people increase in tariffs and FAC's and now wants discos to increase connection charges and charge 14% interest on bills paid in installments...this on the back of a 13% drop in consumption...and there are 350000 connection applications pending..</p><p>Dec 10-2023--- everyone plans to have candidates in punjab...ie is outside forces such as the PPP, Mqm-p and the juif...the PPP baby bilawal continues to harp on nawaz getting selection as everyone snubs their noses at him...the PPP technically will be second or third depending on how the PMLn, PTI, IPP and PTIp and JUif , MQMp, BAP fare...with the PMLn trying to build a coalition there is not much of a chance for the PPP where the father and son are both claiming tobe PM candidates...Nawaz sharif claims to have had better ties to india as he says two indian PM's visited during his government and that musharaf removed him for his opposition to the kargil war...however others say that Nawaz personally approved the kargil venture in a meeting at the GHQ...there are also rumours that modi suggested that he takeover in islamabad and Nawaz retorted with the ZAB euphemism 'idher hum udher tum"...others say that the indians were closer to zia and musharaf who visited india for talks and failed and than visited jaipur and agra instead...</p><p>Dec10-2023--Britain increases earning levels for family sponsors and also increases costs of various type of visa's</p><p>Dec2-2023--The ECp has decided that the election schedule will be announced 56 days before the date of the elections ie mid december... ..they say that they have already started making personnel arrangements and shipping out electoral rolls...!</p><p>Dec2-2023--the other issue coming up is the PPP baby Bilawal complaining that he should be considered for primeminister...if the PPP was slated for a win lets say 80 seats than that would be possible...at the moment the PPP can only be said to gain 30-40 seats plus any they win in south punjab...the problem is that making children primeministers is more problematic than bringing an experienced oldtimer...at the moment the precise outcome is not clear and maybe most parties will come out in around the 30-40 mark and a coalition of at least three bigger parties may happen...at the moment the situation of the army chief herding around the caretaker might be the future scenario too although Nawaz is probably more likely tobe less controllable than others...anyway a senior elder statesman is probably going tobe the PPP choice in the difficult to think of a PPP coming out tobe the biggest party...</p><p>Dec 2-2023-- Dawn says that the entire PCB selection process is tainted...with the likes of salman butt, kamran akmal, rao iftikhar anjum and wahab riaz having spot fixing allegations...while salman butt was a top batsman of his time he was not allowed to play again...wahab riaz apparently loaned his jacket to cover tainted money and kamran akmal probably dropped catches because of technical inadequacy...however kamran akmal was a big hitter and played well later in his career...wahab riaz while one of the top fast bowers did not stake his name to real fame...The spot fixing took place on a tour to england in 2010...the money apparently was for betting rather than the allegations of deliberate over stepping...while australian ball tamperers though having bigger reputations played after only two years...pakistani spot fixers should have cried on public television like the australians...wahab riaz has probably gained some backbone/expertise after his stint as sports minister...</p><p>Dec3-2023--in an affront to democracy PTI supposedly nominates gohar ali khan as party chairman....The lying lawyer did not even allow a token opposition and the ECP should reject the sham election as nobody else was allowed to vie for the post and supposedly an unknown panel also brought in without a vote...that is imrans probable agenda on how democracy should work...nominations not elections...apparently the crooked lawyer immediately asked rickshaw drivers from buner to attack others...Imran technically is now history as he has sold the PTI to his lawyer...to pay his bills...many say he is still a member of the PPP and works for aitezaz ahsan anyway...!</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-21127718803026418962023-11-30T10:45:00.014+05:002024-01-10T22:34:39.961+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Nov16-30, 2023<p> Nov30-2023--The PTI turns two faced or three...gohar ali khan a PPP lota appointed caretaker chairman of PTI as the PTI goes for mock party elections as well as taking the ECP to court for cancelling their previous intraparty elections...The ECP supposedly to use it to refuse the bat symbol to the PTI...the bat symbol is controversial as the PTI used the bat for nefarious purposes such as killing 30000 people with covid...the bat (aka chimgadar) or also called a bat in cricket should be discarded anyway...i propose the cricket ball..and the bat should also be renamed as the cricket bat...!imran used to shuffle into line and play his sleeze shots...his bowling however was terrific swinging in from way outside off...now in jail he is learning to toe the line...gohar is supposedly one of three lookalike chairman...bushra had declared herself first...and now gohar and the convict imran...gohar a aitezaz company lawyer is flat faced and looks like a typical chakri pukhtun lawyer from Buner...he contested on a PPP ticket in buner and lost in 2008...Imran might be warming to the idea of a coalition led by the PPP baby Bilawal...gohar has been imrans lawyer and also that of the money minter land developer aka corrupt crook Riaz malik..bushra seems to have been sidelined...another puktun sher afzal khan marwat has been supposedly making waves as most PTI leaders are in hiding...probably imran wanting to dent marwats rise in KP...police have only arrested around 8000 pti workers off 20000 named in the PTI arson riots...sher afzal khan marwat..deplores propaganda...!the pti has relied on dirty social media propaganda against opponents such as calling them thieves and hinting at bilawals GAY - namardi...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-44769019323759395242023-11-03T22:38:00.109+05:002023-11-30T10:44:33.757+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Nov1-15, 2023<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nov15-2023--In what seems tobe a prepared instant reaction to baber azams exploits of almost total failure the PCB fired baber azam as captain from all three formats after he supposedly resigned...Shan masood a doubtful selectee made test captain..this had been talked about during new zealands last tour...Afridi made t20 captain and all coaches transferred to the national cricket academy if they want...bowling coach resigned...mohd hafeez barely out of his playing days made director of cricket...no one appointed to the one day captaincy...the PCB probably prefers failed spinner shadab khan or failed wicketkeeper batsman sarfraz who dubious cricketer mohd hafeez said he liked playing under......however one thinks they are too close to the reasons for failure and they might look at the possibilities of mohd rizwan, fakhar and imamul haq...!shadab khan is also a niazi and could have the same destructive anti pakistan arsonist ideas as the other niazi imran ...The PCB should look for a more brilliant spinner and probably brighter middle order players..one blames baber azam despite his steady innings as he was just not as blazing as indian players, warner, quinton etc...Baber Azams record seems a mixture of wins and losses and clear failure in big tournaments...his win percentage as captain is less than 50%..probably only a slightly better captain in t20's...</p><p> Tests played 49-wins 10-lost six(wins losses as captain)(as captain played 20)</p><p> Odis played 117-wins 26-lost 16(wins and losses as captain)(as captain played 43)</p><p> T20's played 104-41 wins-lost 23(wins and losses as captain)(as captain played 71)</p><p>Nov14-2023--This not a crime review...baber azam would only be indicted for a crime if he sold out to bookies or virat kohli or bet against his team...if baber azam is too young than he should gain experience as a player first...it is not that there is just one mistake ...he just did not analyze the other teams properly and whoever wanted to... thrashed pakistan at will...maybe he should retire and open a tire shop whose ads he is appearing in every day...!...sic...just for example if u look at where shubman gill plays all the balls he hits are almost above the same level...so it would be appropriate not to bowl short at him...that sort of thing is researched by the coaches and Baber Azam was obviously not given the benefits of a specialist batting coach...!The job of coaches is not to watch the match and wince and frown but to work before the matches...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTs_eLwwcjNfYBns6kmW03jjj0XtqXnbNnp_qtVUKjMySsY82bWice7eQsBBP_YzxMuovZe3uBiEcJ5QvE_YSD3n4uLu_05c8WSBuWV674J2FU-mUCP0ZibJci5i66S5EWTABP4QygxP7qQOE_gtWYPS7Hnf8_TzFFjuNNutCZYgKIDtTLe6KWAaQUO48/s292/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20202758.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="292" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTs_eLwwcjNfYBns6kmW03jjj0XtqXnbNnp_qtVUKjMySsY82bWice7eQsBBP_YzxMuovZe3uBiEcJ5QvE_YSD3n4uLu_05c8WSBuWV674J2FU-mUCP0ZibJci5i66S5EWTABP4QygxP7qQOE_gtWYPS7Hnf8_TzFFjuNNutCZYgKIDtTLe6KWAaQUO48/w400-h255/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20202758.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>now in this photo baber azam looks like a jailbait...but not a criminal... how abdul razzaq quizzically suggested that it happens when Aishwarya bears a virtuous child...!what razzaq meant was that there is always some bad intention/intentions somewhere...! eg being a pakistani u like virat kohli than there is something anti pakistan in intent at least...<p></p><p>Nov13-2023--Butler survives despite a poor one day worldcup...stokes goes for an operation and malan/woakes/adil rashid also dropped despite a goodish record...it seems that there was some controvery between the english teams senior players bringing on a laikadaisical nature at times... mark wood one of the fastest bowlers did not like being dropped whenever ...england probably needed phil salt and ben duckett...to stir up things...as both openers dropped or rested...england also suffered from reece topleys injury...and stokes injury...harry brookes/moeen ali also did not deliver...</p><p>Nov12-2023--today dawn comes up with the view that Nawaz does not want the ladla tag...everyone likes being a ladla......apparently the situation seems that bilawal maybe a ladla in sindh but we are the kings in Punjab...Bilawal obviously does not know his history...zulfikar ali bhutto(a ayub khan minister and tashkent rebel) exiled the sharifs first after nationalizing their sole factory and when the coup came nawaz sharifs father called him 'puttar fauj agaye he wapis ajao..."...the fauj returned his factory and the rest is history...however he still blames them from delaying pakistans and his industrial/lawyer(he dropped out of george mason) destiny...the hostility towards the sharifs is historical in the bhutto's or PPP types...than the activist punjab judiciary and ziaul haq hanged bhutto...since than sharifs collaboration has been almost continuous leading to the IJI coalition and changa manga after he made his fortunes in punjab politics...but the ups and downs have been their alongwith two exiles, coups and constitutional topplings ending with benazirs assassination... a period of calm ensued with the prominencof a dubious judicial activism that was directly against politicians and primeministers... which ended with the PTI riots in May2023...the animosity and chagra with nawaz sharif may have ended and probably the fauj now seems comfortable with nawaz after the imran imbroglio...the fauj does not want to mix governance or its control with arsonists and typical anti fauji attitudes but who will tell that to the pti supporting judges...while primeministers always get into some trouble with the fauj and the iSI... Nawaz hopes to smoothe his way into some sort of power...however the ladla's always need the peoples votes...and Nawaz will have to work on his core group supports which were upended by the pukhtun afghan anti sharif coalition...probably a different election and Bilawal probably lacking zardari's experience might be looking at the anti fauj vote in the PTI ranks and attracting his supporters/ lotas back from the PTI... which i suppose several parties want to attract and divy up...i dont think that the PPP can gain much support opposing/ridiculing Nawaz Sharif and taking punjabis for fools...they have seen the pukhtun dynasty crumble and probably a new situation will eventually develop and if Nawaz Sharif succeeds... he'll be the kingmaker or primeminister again...!The contest at this stage is between Nawaz and Bilawal and it remains tobe seen what happens eventually in terms of the PTI and imran...</p><p>Nov12-2023--in what could provoke a constitutional crisis the KP chief minister has passed away...no clear method on how to appoint a CM in a caretaker setup...azam khan made a career out of the caretakers setup...the previous appointees are now out of government...</p><p>Nov12-2023--Asad Umar who has been treated with kid gloves by the establishment has retired completely from politics...he had been kicked out of the pTi by imran after resigning as the PTI secretary general..he says he disagreed with the policy of confrontation followed by imran...asad umar was at odds with imrans attitude in the past too...</p><p>Nov11-2023--court orders unfreezing of Nawaz Sharif and his families assets...his assets include shares in four companies, eight accounts, a landcruiser, two mercedes, two tractors, properties in murree and changla gali and agricultural land in sheikhupura and lahore measuribg 88 kanals and 105 acres...PPP's latent hostility against the PMLn comes to the fore with Bilawal labeling it as the kings party and wants a level playing field...probably it shows the desire for the backing of the establishment...technically only one party and smaller support groups are supported by the powers that be...it is just like the PPP wont allow the PMLn into interior sindh and the PMLn too has the desire to safeguard Punjab as its turf...</p><p>Nov11-2023--Justice Mazhar Naqvi objects to composition of the SJC even the Cj as chairman...apparently the judge is also involved in audio leaks and is being investigated by a CJ Isa led audio leaks commission......There are a whopping 29 complaints against the judge and he also complains that the complaints have not been provided to him...! the composition of the SJC is a constitutional setup which include CJ SC , one or two seniormost judges and two provincial high court judges...</p><p>Nov11-2023--Solangi says that future governments will have no options to change things...something similar to what shebaz sharif wanted...!however if u look at the recent three governments all had different policies...just look at afghan policy...so a new government has to follow its own thinking...</p><p>Nov10-2023--PIA whose problems just go on increasing is supposedly going to be privatised... ..something that was planned over and over again...PIA whose net worth is almost zero seems unable to even pay for fuel...most of its planes are old and the rest are on lease...its schedule uncertain ..government supposedly will take up its debt and useless employees will be let go...nobody has any sympathy left for around 20000 employees...so if its other units are seperated than its just some old planes and buildings...the new owner probably wont need the buildings too..so if u ask anybody for a bid they might look at u in surprise as most arab airlines have over a hundred newer planes ...even Egypt Air has 67 new planes...The name PIA just means failure...most airlines have their own international network and that only leaves PIA's domestic setup...best sell it some local airline if they can manage...china air and qatar airways could do it as a charitable act...other options include fauji foundation...or might be muslim commercial airways...!airlines like turkish airlines and thai air fly to almost destinations daily...</p><p>Nov10-2023--health minister in two ministers and the center are a bit dubious in intent..in sindh the health minister cancelled the contract for robotic surgery systems for three government run hospitals..the chief minister a dubious former CJ type said he he knew nothing and went off to the SIUT to find what sort of robot did surgeries...the health minister said he was interfering in his deptt...in punjab which has two health ministers they ran a charade in which a dubious cancer injection was injected into the eye and more than sixty patients went blind...the centers health minister trying to reinvent the bHUs by repairing numerous BHU's which were lying unused or in disrepair or had no staff... with the intention that islamabads two hospitals would be relieved of their burdens...this is an old theory which failed repeatedly...the dispensary type bhu's were either lacking staff or basic medicines..unless BHU's have basic things like blood testing, x-rays, ultrasound and most important a couple of doctors and ample medicines they will fail again...he also wants to charge the affluent at government hospitals...while the health minister in kp has withdrawn private hospitals from the sehaat card...</p><p>Nov9-2023--CJ Qazi faez isa backs down on a complaint against loot and plunder by Faiz hameed ex isi chief and redirects the complainant to the army institution and lower courts......complainant accuses faiz hameed of malicous raids and occupation of his housing soceity with Rangers and iSI men involved and looting cash and 400 tolas of gold in iSI raids...!in another complaint a women said that the complainant had looted her properties...one wonders when a fundamental right can be invoked...only when imran and the PTI are involved...!when the countries supposedly top class intelligence agency does bad things to an individual does not that violate the citizens fundamental right of security...!Isa seems tobe on dubious grounds on this one...</p><p>Nov9-2023--Kakar leaves no doubt that he is on the warpath with afghanistan as well as the people of Pakistan as terrorism has grown 60% in two years..He terms afghan leaders remarks on deportation as threatening. He is attempting to deport illegal afghans in Pakistan and setting up holding centers...afghans term the pakistan process as cruel but they are not controlling supposed perpretrators of terrorism in Pakistan supposedly the TTP...</p><p>Nov8-2023--mirpur observes complete strike against inflated power bills...as caretakers health ministers anti people venom lands on affluent patients in govt hospitals...who will be charged...real affluent people dont go to government hospitals..many regard the peoples problems are mostly related to three or four groups...Discos, pharma companies, Nestle and the hospital system...</p><p>Nov8-2023--PMLn and mqm-P agree to cooperate and form an alliance after the polls...MQMp says at the moment it is just a seat adjustment...PMLn looking at alliances in provinces as the PPP/PTI and grumble about the situation...specifically the PPP wanted an alliance with the PTI while the PMLn wants to avoid the iPP/PMLq...JUIF, PTIp could come out in front in KP with the PTi as a third force..the PTi looks badly positioned in sindh and Punjab too while many think that the IPP and PMln could fight for the spoils in the Punjab...</p><p>Nov8-2023--two more cops killed in DI khan when armed men attacked a camp office of an oil company</p><p>Bov8-2023--Kakar turning Discos into terrorist looters and plunderers as he gives them powers to loot and plunder the premises of electricity thieves and impose fines equivalent to five years consumption...</p><p>Nov7-2023--The PPP's general animosity against the PMLn has started to become apparent..PMLn says it should stop crying and face it in the polls...on the one hand bilawal seeks a level playing field and on the other says he will win in all provinces and the center...a contradiction....many have suggested that the army favors bilawal however nawaz sharif seems to have some control...too</p><p>Nov7-2023--Army colonel killed in fierce gun battle in Tirah with three terrorists.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsFRQae-9gpAHJBLhRufc3CN5cMcEdlbVcaSCdocZimu65RBM9w0vWL4-BQunHYyd-bDjUCMgjq9MVQBnI-dXBSRpmoHtvoD7zgCY4zCHOkHJL4Hq_bOtU3vdfe6f2DDeV1rjEei38VwaG6LJ4L58zk9V1wWUFUw0mPZ_1cj6BaJ28HzoSRu0DGceeFA/s849/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20232335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="849" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsFRQae-9gpAHJBLhRufc3CN5cMcEdlbVcaSCdocZimu65RBM9w0vWL4-BQunHYyd-bDjUCMgjq9MVQBnI-dXBSRpmoHtvoD7zgCY4zCHOkHJL4Hq_bOtU3vdfe6f2DDeV1rjEei38VwaG6LJ4L58zk9V1wWUFUw0mPZ_1cj6BaJ28HzoSRu0DGceeFA/w640-h484/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20232335.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Nov5-2023--nine terrorists killed in cleanup of attack on mianwali airbase with some damage to junk aircraft...attack claimed by a TTP affiliated outfit TJP...</p><p>Nov4-2023--In a gawader ambush militants attack two security vehicles killing 14 soldiers...almost in a wave of terrorist incidents at least 17 soldiers were killed in baluchistan and kp...incidents included a remote controlled bomb explosion in di khan, gawader militant assault, a security operation in lakki marwat and remote blasts in di khan that left five dead...</p><p>Nov3-2023--ECp announces a Feb8 election date after consultations with SC and president...major political parties call for a unclear level playing field...free and fair elections...elections can be open , transparent but everyone has to depend on the votes they get...there can technically be no fairness in that...Bilawal Bhutto tries to cozyup to the PTI as their punjab members look at a possibility of a coalition with the leaderless pTI...specifically the punjab is going be a tough place to contest for the PPP ...IPP holds its second meeting in hafizabad after jahanian and suggests a 50000 wage, subsidies on electricity, and reduction in petrol prices...this technically the second public electoral gathering after nawaz sharifs jalsa in lahore...most parties have problems with cases in courts and nobody really knows who controls the processes ie the courts, police or caretakers...or the army aka establishment..what the PPP is asking for is unclear as they have less problems than others...but they probably will have more problems getting votes in Punjab which is not a controllable phenomenon...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwX91X2tzhqRAFF8ElHxc_uvwSXT8cFocvg60t0FiirjXNGpEnwWmYpXi2ZPRua7yVI8t-az-P40jV_Bo_u7EIPtRMScOUFvlcXDZT-2vGvJi-JGcBkBGSs5yN4rVdDnQscSfu7LLuQacFRNDCjj2oCqKKTNMvHG8TkOtOWVWLKRgIHZFteFIsHo10CA/s426/Screenshot%202023-11-04%20204046.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="426" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwX91X2tzhqRAFF8ElHxc_uvwSXT8cFocvg60t0FiirjXNGpEnwWmYpXi2ZPRua7yVI8t-az-P40jV_Bo_u7EIPtRMScOUFvlcXDZT-2vGvJi-JGcBkBGSs5yN4rVdDnQscSfu7LLuQacFRNDCjj2oCqKKTNMvHG8TkOtOWVWLKRgIHZFteFIsHo10CA/w640-h392/Screenshot%202023-11-04%20204046.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> Nov3-2023--Pakistan go into their crunch match against New Zealand who have lost their last three matches and have two top bowlers matt henry and lockie ferguson injured apart from injuries to key players kane williamson, Mark chapman and james neesham..they have called up Kylie Jameson also returning from injury...Pakistan had a tough time playing kylie jameson the last time they played him...not much should be read into pakistans victory over bangladesh who have lost six of their last seven matches...both new zealand and Pakistan have a poor recent record in india...but new zealand have consistent top three batsmen...while Pakistan need to win their last two matches New Zealand , Australia and afghanistan need to win one to stay ahead of them...afghanistan have won four of their last five matches but have to play top teams australia and south africa...pakistan might play four seamers and go with iftikhar ahmed to open with his off spin...pakistani pacemen have taken most of the wickets upto now...however they could post a good total and make New Zealand chase...lately they have made a hash of that...the new zealand batting lineup is top heavy and they can only get going if they play aggressively...their middle order is injured and they might have to depend on spinners to make up the team...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-83893691246377202672023-10-17T08:56:00.151+05:002023-11-03T22:26:21.549+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Oct16-31, 2023<p>Oct31-2023--emerging controversies in the cricket worldcup suggest that players not paid for five to six months despite having been given huge pay rises..contracts were despatched to india for signatures suggesting that players were not willing to sign earlier...Inzimam ulhaq a key culprit has resigned as chief selector....while the team is generally thought tobe selected on form some thought that a couple of new youngsters should have been included instead of a sifarishi or two...some suggest that inzimam might have been asking for a bigger share of the pie and some players were miffed at being paid less...players have generally gotten out to low scores and had problems playing spinners...inzimam said quizically that he would never select the the top indian spinner kuldeep yadav...!Inzimam is said to have problems of conflict of interest as he is a director of a company along with mohd rizwan that manages most of the cricket team and is based in london...!another controversy erupted when a WhatsApp message of Baber Azam was aired on a television show "stating that he had not made any phone calls" to the PCB big shots...the main problem with the team is that they have a problem with big hitting that is displayed by the other top teams..mostly that they can rarely hit sixes consistently...with that that in mind they should play steadily going for ones and twos...than their top hitter Fakhre Zaman having a good record could not get going at all and they had no real replacement for that...Baber and rizwan and some others got out to poor strokes...baber has a habit of playing in the air/giving catches to short midwicket and short mid extra cover..babers assessment of other teams seems to have been badly off the mark and u need a spin playing expert as a coach. The fast bowlers are also steadily improving and were not fit enough earlier...one is flabbergasted at the England team which is now at the bottom of the standings..probably treating the worldcup as a holiday or the players have lost the desire to win...some players get out they say when they think they have done enough..that should at least be when they have scored a hundred...Pakistan has gone in with a T20 type team or players that might look good in a test team...in a one day team u dont expect bowlers to bat...</p><p>Oct29-2023--Pakistan cricket team director arthur thinks that blaming the cricket coaches , captain and selector is a witch hunt...it is obviously their fault if baber azam thought so poorly of other teams that he thought they were a sure shot for the top four...than he lost to afghanistan after as usual playing a poor stroke in the air...Mickey Arthurs only job seems to sit around making faces...nobody had previously heard of bradburn...Inzimam is also to blame for not selecting up and coming century makers...most of his batsmen are typical 30-40 makers...no effort was made to find and develop a better spinner who could have been effective...a better alternative keeper who could thrash the bowling around i think was also available...if present form continues than there is nobody else to blame but the team heirarchy...the one aggressive batsman in the team was as usual for top competitions out of form...</p><p>Oct28-2023--we don't know when Pakistan will ever be able to win a world Cup with this mindset...ICC should make it difficult somewhat for batsmen...anyone who has had hair plugs should not be allowed to play...it gives them too much confidence...or something like it is a six only if u hit it from inside the crease Or only one six is allowed per over etc....South Africa controlled things right till the end and won with the last pair in...Pakistan as usual despair from being able to hit sixes like Warner. Their openers and the wild Rizwan decided they had done enough...and Osama came in for the tired Shadab...as a replacement and took two wickets...!Shadab's spin is useless and he should only be considered as a lower order batsman...Pakistan fast bowlers seemed to have gotten their protein fixes and bowled somewhat aggressively although Haris Rauf still got hit...Pakistanis hit a six each but u really have to go after the bowling to win...Baber Azam should sit it out if he and Rizwan cannot hit fast big scores...Pakistan, England, Nederland's and Bangladesh have lost their four matches here...if either New Zealand and Australia lose their next three matches and Pakistan wins their next three than they might squeeze into the semifinals as can Sri Lanka...but on form and substance that is impossible...England and Nederland's could catch up too...!</p><p>Oct25-2023--China expels former foreign minister and the present one from the cabinet...two other ministers also expelled...difference of opinions on the USA said tobe the reason for one...</p><p>Oct25-2023--in what shows that the UK is now literally a third world illiterate country as it expels a citizen of Bangladeshi origin for going to Syria and living with the ISIS...almost a hate crime as the women went as a wife and had nothing to-do with fighting...saying a woman who was having children in Syria is a security risk is definitely near the definition of madness or cruelty...</p><p>Oct25-2023--the ministry of defense run PIA nearing its end as 322 flights cancelled over ten days...mostly due to fuel unavailability as PSO refuses supply over unpaid bills and financial risk </p><p>Oct25-2023--Nawaz Sharif working his miracles. Apparently he seems to suggest that foreign recuperation is a miracle cure...he sure needs some help getting going..the jal kukars PTI/PPP in flames...I think Nawaz can/will sweep Punjab...against the arsonists and sindh only PPP...both deeply antagonist anti Punjabis...</p><p>Oct25-2023--Pakistan has lost three of five matches in the worldcup...afghanistan upstaged them as a debutant spinner took three wickets...with several difficult matches remaining it is hard to imagine them making it to the last four..problems...failed spinners...many think its baber azams captaincy as most of the time he is looking around for advice in a daze...unsure...tell me what to do !..playing spin..how much they had to score against afghanistan...they should think like south africa who always target scores above 300...and than their failure to hit sixes...rohit has hit 17...quinton de coc 15...when baber attempts a big hit it turns into a catch...usama mir supposedly a big hitter...could not clear the fence even once..iftikhar has hit a few sixes..but those were never enough...a replacement captain...! shaheen/haris rauf/imamulhaq are the obvious choices...a replacement spinner they have one in the reserves...someone must advize haris rauf where to pitch and how a bouncer whizzing over the right/left shoulder can help... haris rauf is regularly being hit for six when he bowls around 150k......replacing the batting coach...these english/south african/foreign coaches are not working miracles...according to Dawn the wicket is always difficult for Pakistan and than it eases up...i say let the batters to play according to their skills...saud shakeel is short and should not attempt big hits...replace baber azam at number three...fakhar zaman...? if he can play his usual aggressive shots...</p><p>Oct24-2023--in a mind shaking event afghanistan easily walked/ defeated Pakistan in the worldcup...There was no initiative from the captain apart from his deliberately getting out...Baber Azam has been losing the strategy of getting his best fast bowlers going...The spinners were abysmal again ...ossama mir seems so innocuous that nobody had any trouble playing him...they must rope in their reserve spinner..the first twenty overs went for 120 runs with the fast bowlers refusing to set a proper field...pakistan must probably go for four fast and one spinner...haris rauf and shaheen afridi are failing to get the wickets that they used to. Maybe it is time for baber azam to call it a day as captain...shaheen should stand in for the rest of the world cup...might be the players thought afghanistan will stop anti Pakistan terrorism now...In Dubai afghan fans had attacked pakistani spectators after losing...!Baber azam supposedly favours the PTI...and has confused patriotic views..!probably he now realizes that playing in india is not the same as playing in Pakistan as Saud Shakeel said that we miss our fans and flags...a policeman walked up to one spectator a pakistan fan and said u cannot say 'Pakistan Zindabad'...!!!Inzamam ul haq(supposedly an indian) probably trying to captain from outside as Baber Azams brain gets fuddled/fried..Rizwan should also realize that this is not a T20...</p><p>Oct24-2023--In a controversial judgement by dubious minded judges a SC five judge bench has declared that the PTI has a constitutionl right to attack GHq's, military airfields, topple military statues, attack military graves and set corp commanders/army welfare offices on fire and the military cannot arrest them or try them under the Pakistan Army Act and their cases should be referred to criminal courts...The judges did not invite the judge advocate general to hear the military side of it...this is a political judgement favoring the judges personal political party...the PTI can now look forward to bail for their arsonists and possibly getting off the hook in the dubious civilian courts...it is nowhere said that attacking military infrastructure is a fundamental right of any sort...the judges have left open trials under a special court setup for offences against the military institution...it seems that the judges prefer the underhanded military intelligence/operations handling by disappearing the accused for various anti military acts/views...under the present rules the government can appeal from a different set of judges...!</p><p>Oct22-2023--nawaz sharif has maintained his party leaders support but he might be deficient in ordinary peoples support, like ordinary punjabis, or people who vote for the obvious winner...so he will have to work on the popular/populist angle somewhat...if the party still wants an anti peoples program than they should leave it to shebaz/ishaq dar types...given the situation nawaz should work on getting the maximum punjabi seats with some small numbers from Baluchistan, Seraiki areas, KP and might be even a few seats from karachi...and than rope in some coalition to make up the numbers...raking in the JUIf and even the mqm or one of the new ex PTI parties...in the extreme they could have a new PDM too if the PPP is amenable...onits own the PPP and its politics is just a sindhi party...a new party/think tank type of politically sidelined dissidents might also be in the offing named controversially "reimagining Pakistan" if Shahid Khakan Abbasi has the guts...shahid khaqan abbasi's father a airforce officer was a saudi military contracter and his wife is the daughter of a zia era ISI chief...!his father was killed in the Ojhri camp blast...he is also known as the former head of Air Blue an airline...many also think that Kakar might be a possible choice for a military coalition or even coup/setup...</p><p>Oct22-2023--apparently the employment situation is so bad that more than 450000 pakistanis left for attempts at jobs and education abroad during the first quarter of 2023...they say also daily passport applications have almost doubled to 45000...whether all the leavers are just seeking jobs or also going as tourists or for other reasons is unclear...there are few countries that allow visa on entry to Pakistan and i hear that Saudi arabia, Turkey and Azerbaijan are the favourite countries for Pakistanis to visit...shiites prefer visiting Iraq and iran...!</p><p>Oct22-2023--nawaz sharif arrives to a smooth welcome from exile...whether he can handle his cases by january is anybodies guess...the jalkukar lobby was clearly on show too...Dawn(shiite lobby), PTI, PPP and company...revenge creates an emotion that has been good for the lower castes in politics like the PTI (he said that nawaz wanted a money laundering case against jemima and wanted to jail him)...that caused enough gali galauch from the PTI worldwide...anyway i would advise him to exile two generals and two former CJ's...they could officially setup a exile jail in Dubai...housing faiz hameed, bajwa, and cJ's saeed and nisar..Nisar already tried to run away in the PTI era...nawaz too should live in reality and avoid shebaz advice/IMF...!rumours(from anti PMLn lobby) on twitter that maryam nawaz's son has divorced ...!PMLn has a had lot of problems after nawaz's father and wife passed away.. our condolences...otherwise nawaz sharif would say...'abbaji se pooch lete hen" he was so dutiful a son...</p><p>Oct21-2023--In a slightly controversial move the FIA moves to interrogate former army chief Bajwa's brother in law Sabir Hameed alias Sabir Mithu for money laundering...he and Bajwa and his daughter are accused of suspicious money transactions and building a plot dynasty of more than 30 dHA plots. Plots controversially/supposedly given by military commanders it is rumored. The dubious crookish Punjab caretaker chief minister gets 114 teachers arresting for protesting his policies...at least show some respect to teachers.....teachers boycott classes in Punjab for fifth day...many are suggesting that Shebaz was a stand-in in for imran and that Nawaz sharif maybe already tinkering with government policies...Nawaz sharif should be wary of difficult advice from Shebaz as many regard him tobe in the Imran-Fauji camp...</p><p>Oct21-2023--nawaz sharif the only brave kashmiri left in pakistan to land in islamabad after four years of exile...this was nawaz sharifs third exile which was initiated by the imran cabinet..after staying in islamabad for an hour or so he is to proceed to lahore for a jalsa...it seems to have been arranged to not create a problem at the lahore airport which was troubling the caretakers...!while nawaz sharif seems to want to avoid a lahore welcome the PMLn locally wants a big show so that they can again at least wave their flags...other parties regard the evil shebaz as having snuffed out all their support and making them irrelevant although they are worried that nawaz sharifs return or even that of shebz maybe the janaza of the PTI and PPP and to a lesser extent the PMLn in Punjab...!nawaz sharif who had at one time became the standard bearer of punjabi nationalism has become quite mild and many think he won't even go for a NAB ordnance amendment for accountability of the big shots in the army and beaurocracy forgiven by imran for whatever they do...it is said that elections are in January or later hopefully to see the end of Nawaz Sharif's cases and possibly those of arch anti military criminal arsonist imran...nawaz who has often critisized the military wants their accountability possibly in a more muted way...whether he will want national reconciliation of any sort is doubtful with imran the known spoiler of any reproachments...with a judiciary that is in a new phase too he may be looking at alternates as well like shebaz and maryam nawaz or some younger alternate to stand in for him if the courts go the wrong way...shebaz has created opponents that he did not have before and many think of him as evil and a devil in disguise the way he handled the IMF created inflation...to the detriment of the people...one cant be a generator of anti people politics to say it mildly and come in at a difficult juncture economically...</p><p>Oct20-2023--terrorism goes on unabated six terrorists in former KP tribal territories in two operations and three soldiers..we pray for the dead soldiers...</p><p>Oct20-2023--in an expected announcement the IHC, accountability court and NAB gave nawaz a pat on the back and four days to appear before the courts...PTI and PPP now look worried...PTI bat symbol controversial as a bat(chimgadar alias imran) was identified as the key source of covid in which imrans inefficiency killed thousands while his ministers enjoyed special treatment and injections only imported for imran...many suggest imran should apply for either the ball or wickets or pads or gloves which he needs for his defence..from numerous actual cases such as illegal foreign funding, cipher treason, ordering his parties arsonists and attacking military installations...instead of complaining every step of the way he should stand up as a brave defiant lying taliban supporting afghan...he first complained about attock jail and than he did not like adyala either...!many think he should be shifted to kot lakhpat where the older politicians including zulfikar ali bhutto were incarcerated..!</p><p>Oct19-2023--PTI floundering in imrans cases wants a national reconciliation but more with the fauj , ECP and judiciary than other political parties...if they want to they should contact the PPP, PMLn, PTIP, IPP, JUF rather than the curiously dubious solangi of the caretakers... u should read fauj with a capital F...i suppose...</p><p>Oct19-2023--Nawaz Sharifs return nears as people wonder how he will stumble to his iqbal park venue..his lawyers have filed for some relief from the iHC..today i read about the chainsaw plan of argentinan political aspirant Milea...pakistan needs a similar economic plan rather than wasting money on industries and inflation...or dubious economic wasteful expansion...nawaz still has dreams of the industrial supremo that he wanted to become...he should realize that he is a weak politician in a country tottering on disastrous policies...of the past and present</p><p>Oct18-2023--Kakar went to China and asked for solar parks and know how to set up industrial parks and special economic zones..things Pakistan has been doing for decades...chinese have allowed each of their 35 provinces to set up similar industries and ordinary farmers lug wind turbines to their farms...while pakistan has setup a similar system with low level industries/industrial zones/plots but with five of ten plants usually shutdown...kakar also apparently thinks that he is an israel type ally of china...israel gets 10-11 billion dollars in grants annually from the usa..many think biden/blinken ordered the attack on the palestine hospital...they did such things in afghanistan too including bombing weddings...apparently dubiously he thinks that CPEC has caused the geo economic landscape from gilgit baltistan to deepsea ports transformation , infrastructure upgraded and it is a catalyst for job creation and helping the less privileged from remote areas...one is actually dumbfounded at the lies although mean pukhtuns(the poor and under privileged of remote KP)run things everywhere from kiryana shops to naan shops, trucks, transport(buses) and restaurants and get all the state jobs...CPEC has mostly invested in the power sector and transport systems..roads and ports usually meant for the Chinese( who else needs to travel from the chinese border to gawader)...the power system after its upgradation has fallen back on daily multiple load sheddings and a slight storm shuts it down and now almost half the country cannot afford electricity...solar systems are easy to build...Tesla built a solar system in australia in a wall in a month...all u need are solar panels...tell discos to improve their systems, create redundancy, ability to bear storms and build a solar power station a month...we well know what has happened in Gawadar where people are protesting for water , jobs and sustaining their lifes...Kakar must be from some place in the affluent suburbs or dha's..some say he runs a dubious lootmaar type NGO...baluchistan does not know what he is talking about...they have to smuggle diesel because they cannot afford electricity or petrol or even a daily piece of bread and only 50% pay their electricity bills...The chinese must ask why he cannot build simple solar parks himself...or why people cannot afford electricity, lentils, sugar, tea, fish, mutton, vegetables, petrol, diesel, naans, cooking oil etc. etc....</p><p>Oct17-2023..many are wondering whether Nawaz will win and than be a weak pliable pitiable IMF oriented kakar or a strong people oriented leader...whether he can stop the IPP loot maar under the guise of high tariffs and capacity payments...whether he realises that ordinary people even those getting salaries cannot afford the high tariffs and expensive wheat...and basic naan...many think he should boot the IMF and kick them out of ordering policy of an anti people type..they go to the IMF even for just calculations...!...there are no qualms at reducing budget deficits with reduced development or even no development...whether he understands that huge provincial handouts will always have tobe paid thru 6 trillion high interest loans from banks...whether he can reduce the fauji budget , provincial handouts and payment on foreign loans to make ends meet...he should straight away say that he will not go for more foreign loans and reduce spending/salary hikes to zero if necessary...provinces and fauj should understand that...but his wrangling with the judiciary/NAB have either tobe put on hold as people see what he can do...NAB now is dominated with fauji officers from the top down so nobody can work without a deal or a new NAB ordnance...people donot want a primeminister who is in and out of jail...whatever the level of cases he faces...many wonder if he can in dubious circumstances rule thru a puppet primeminister...!The fauj had been earlier interested in a tryout for Bilawal but he wanted fauj tobe a sleeping giant without any foreign visits/connections and out of the corridors of power...current circumstances dictate that any development work at the center is not possible with private contractors and the FWO and NLC have tobe depended upon..people might have to realize that a vote is the only handout they can get...case in point imrans houses for the homeless..it got mired down as even street cleaning women with four houses wanted one and that got it bogged down into non existence...In sindh 10000 constructed houses could not even be allocated...!In islamabad attempts at building houses and cleaning out katchi abadis could not get off to a start even though several sets of buildings were constructed...the country should not have tobe held hostage to dollar price hikes, petroleum prices, electricity tariffs, imaginary industrial development and dubious economic expansions etc. Electricity monthly hikes now are trying to coverup fading bill payments by people who have always paid their bills...Discos should get rid of a huge do nothing employees burden and idiotic MD's whose only job is to order another FCA or quarterly adjustment...they now order FCA's for operation and maintenance / retirement payments/pensions/employee salaries cost already paid for...!privatisations of discos is a total failure when u compare KE and other Discos...there is almost no difference even on the quantum of load sheddings...Nawaz sharif should at least attempt to get more gas in the shape of LNG shipments and perhaps even the iranian pipeline...The USA continues to make deals with iran so what is stopping us...probably the hints of iran getting control of our tottering economy and whether iran has extra gas..they too face winter shortages...i thought china has e4lectricity over production at night that can be transported to pakistan...the gas/electricity minefield is littered with problems...Nawaz Sharif will be unable to rule with just homilies...others however say like Panda ...handle kar le ga..!</p><p>Oct16-2023--petroleum prices fall while discos continue their almost daily loot maar...apparently petroleum prices work only one way for them ...many say their is a marked increase in non bill payments causing the almost daily FCA's...</p><p> Oct16-2023--As nawaz sharif's return nears the PPP worries whether they can win/stay relevant or do anything in punjab what with the ex PTI party and a dubious PMLn which might be just an orderly of the IMF and fauj too..the PPP and PMLn as well as the PTI should realize that the fauj is usually helpful if they donot sit on their butt all day like Imran...who used to party daily with the army chief and iSI chief sitting in the sun all day on sofa's...the fauj is always there and Bilawal should learn to keep it in his pocket rather than make them a political advisory which they like to do if the government has no vision...The fauj on the other hand has to realize that daily tariff increases and dubious economic expansions paid for by saudi's are not what the people want...the government is creating fat cats with solar and putting people at the mercy of a dubious set of idiotic looting Disco MD's who donot know what people can afford or not...Nawaz sharif will have to deal with the courts even with a cooperative CJ..he should immediately reissue the shebaz NAB ordinance as otherwise NAB stops governance...an amendment to the Shebaz ordnance that allows the senior fauji officers and top beaurocrats tobe also brought under the purview of financial accountability..shebaz sharif who muted NAB provisions like imran earlier was on the right track..however politicians should keep their fingers out of the financial pie as they are usually very well off now ...there was the example of a PPP politician Chan i think who shut down his old cold storage due to high unpaid electricity bills and opened a new one...the disco apparently shut down both...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-45364694654023730282023-10-10T10:49:00.023+05:002023-10-17T08:55:20.991+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Oct1- 15, 2023<p> Oct4-2023--pakistani cricket presenter says she left india after becoming frightened of indian social media...there is nothing in pakistan-india relations apart from cricket and the indian team would be hanged in Tihar jail if they lost...Pakistan batting first ..can they emulate south africa and new zealand who scored over 300 in their attempts...batting first and a big score could make the match easy for Pakistan despite a strong indian batting lineup...with so many matches to play it does not really matter...i say we forget cricket and invade khalistan...!pakistan have weak spinners and no real backup bowlers...india dropped their better spinners for an aging experienced ashwin...and packed their batting...and no sikh this time barring shubman gill...who might be a punjabi...!</p><p>Oct10, 2030--Pakistani cricket presenter evicted from india after hindus attacked her over her past tweets/comments on social media...i am reminded of many indian tweets and comments on Quora about attacking Pakistan and occupying kashmir and Sindhu or doing a fast strike over areas of Pakistan...i think Pakistan too should think of occupying khalistan as india is embroiled in the worldcup and resisting even a few Pakistanis travelling to see a match...other Pakistani commentators were seen in a horrific defraggled state as they were denied hot water and had to sleep on the street after their hotel rooms were allotted to others...rush and traffic congestion was seen at visatronix offices as pakistanis waited for their visas...India routinely takes upto three months for a visa like english and spanish embassies...</p><p>Oct10, 2030--IHC calls up a former chief of army staff and ISI chief for their comments in the media..Bajwa had responded to a months long idiotic campaign of attacking the army chief by imran on several issues...this comes after nawaz sharif had dropped his campaign of accountability for former army officers and several retired CJ's</p><p>Oct10, 2023--Justice Ijaz ridicules parliaments attempt to regulate hearings under 184-3 by giving powers to three top judges to nominate judges and decide on whether a 184-3 matter deserved to be heard...CJ Isa did not seem to have any problems with sharing responsibility..Judge Isa seemed to suggest that the full court hear all cases of the SC like the american system where there are seperate appelate courts and jurisdictions..most cases come to the court as final appeals..and cases directly heard by the SC are usually about constitutional problems and 184-3 which now cannot have appeal..usually appeals on SC judgements are treated as Reviews which usually are rejected...The SC Practice and procedure act does not interfere in cases or how judges make decisions and only changes administration matters... which otherwise would have tobe filed as cases for the court to change its old archaic administration system in which the registrar is seen as a fixer/selector of judges and who can reject cases.....There were problems of the CJ and registrar selecting judges and fixing dates and deciding cases in internal meetings..The CJ seemed also at one stage tobe forcing recusal of judges opposed to his views..In that case the whys of internal meetings become a part of the process and can be questioned in court...</p><p>Oct10-2023--a major and a non com killed in Zhob operation..forces unable to stamp out military incursions and terrorism..five terrorists killed...</p><p>Oct10-2023--World bank like the ill advised IMF wants increased taxes...taxes/revenues( accrue from taxes) have increased from 50 billion in 1991 to 9 trillion in 2023..IMF seems to want an almost daily increase in electricity tariffs/dollar/petroleum price variations...It all makes no difference to the economy but just increases peoples misery and ability to live...if u increase taxes on agriculture incomes it will just raise prices...electricity prices have increased from Rs1 in 1982 to Rs50 in 2023...i just donot know how this translates into any economic betterment ...the major impact is on inflation and the peoples ability to live a normal life...The government goes on as usual...with almost the same type of problems/governance......GDP is an imaginary figure and the world bank should look at real figures...agriculture lets say is 24% of the economy..if u tax it lets say u achieve 2 trillion more in revenue...the effect on inflation will be terrible just like the effect of increase in petroleum prices...lets say u use an indirect method like an increase in electricity tariff and diesel fuel prices...nothing will realistically be achieved...in 1964 prices people were happy and contented...now they are worried and unhappy...the difference...people could eat mutton in 1964 at Rs4 a kilo and naans at four for 25paisa...!obviously now salaries have increased multi fold but still there is decrease in affordability and effects peoples lives negatively...in 1964 a grade one officer got Rs250 per month...but he still was able to construct a house ..a mason charged Rs7..a bag of cement was Rs 9 ...a labourer charged Rs3 per day...In 1951 revenues were 200 million but the government wanted more taxes/collection than ...as it does now...we should start beating up economists and WB officials and the taxmen like the government beats up electricity defaulters in Punjab though not in balochistan...The dollar price was Rs3 in 1947..The country could solve its problems by reverting to the 1947 price</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-2240553218922924072023-09-19T12:07:00.093+05:002023-10-01T00:58:08.277+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Sep16-30, 2023<div>Sep30-2023--a suicide blast killed a DSP amongst 53 other participants of a rabbi al awwal rally in mastung</div><div><br /></div><div>Sep29-2030--In AJK anti electricity protests gain strength as people torch bills and throw them into rivers...</div><div><br /></div><div>Sep29-2030--caretaker fM says over 200 TTP men arrested in Afghanistan</div><div><br /></div><div>Sep29-2030--Farukh Habib a PTI anti police/army leader alongwith his father and brothers arrested in Gawader from they were expected to go into iran for exile...he is supposedly from Murree...probably on the run since may9</div><div><br /></div><div>Sep27-2023--A colon(breast /urinary/bone etc.) cancer injection Avastin(monoclonal antibody) Swiss manufactured has been administered by our generally technically deficient doctors to 68 diabetic eye patients all over Punjab who have developed varying degrees of vision loss/blindness. Government has allocated beds for them in three major hospitals for treatment...the manufacturer says that it is not designed for diabetic eye problems. A senior Pakistani doctor who is the health minister in Punjab says it is non-conforming/off label use and only 1.2mg is injected or infused into eyes...the use is now banned...they say the small quantity injections are being repackaged here...Dr Javed Akram (specialized healthcare) and Dr Jamal Nasir (primary healthcare) Punjab ministers are heading a 10-member committee...</div><div><br /></div><div>27-Sep-2023--the disappearance of a television anchor has been resolved after four months...seemingly he might have been kidnapped/taken by two PTI workers who are as yet unknown...it was generally believed that he might be in police custody, but police say he willingly left leaving jail in a vehicle...The courts must apologize to the police if the disappearance was a willing process to evade being accused of arson activities...apparently the judges were threatening the police and their patience was wearing thin...</div><div><br /></div><div>27-Sep-2023--Kakar now says that he does not know who will be minused in the elections. Imran and Nawaz sharif both will/can probably have situations where they might not be able to participate...Kakar first said that he did not know whether Nawaz sharif will be handcuffed and that would be the police responsibility. Usually only the FIA is present at the airport...Now Sarfraz Bugti the dubiously short interior minister has said that he would be arrested on arrival as no trouble could be allowed at the airport...That places the Nawaz sharif position in a quandary given the different voices in the caretakers, judiciary and PMLn...technically he has to surrender to the courts...who can grant bail/send him to jail...the situation is different from the past returns of politicos...that leaves the army with the position of taking any position wrt to the two...The army chief has reiterated that nobody would be allowed to take the law into their own hands like the PTI...!</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPqnnd_8FnBBVRwZIdFoPj6qjrnaZxwz7kVoHk-LBEeVp0-5eVbsPSLYySNpcYQyXG-0PMBi1qXVZYolMKouxJpVuEFih_z7pL7Qgur2lYt0-3zZcRVTtFS4jXBtT8wTV1ixTQquidy8uekZcR0tLl5xxlMTcQ8v8S1wmkvmbiVtCjbrbgqz-7-KWJLI/s372/Screenshot%202023-09-25%20234925.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="372" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPqnnd_8FnBBVRwZIdFoPj6qjrnaZxwz7kVoHk-LBEeVp0-5eVbsPSLYySNpcYQyXG-0PMBi1qXVZYolMKouxJpVuEFih_z7pL7Qgur2lYt0-3zZcRVTtFS4jXBtT8wTV1ixTQquidy8uekZcR0tLl5xxlMTcQ8v8S1wmkvmbiVtCjbrbgqz-7-KWJLI/w640-h454/Screenshot%202023-09-25%20234925.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div>26-Sept-2026..a judge who has previously declared several judges referred to the SJC as honest has sent his opinion to the CJ on ten complaints against Justice Naqvi...who is accused...apart from certain observations made in a judgement he also set aside the treason judgement against musharaf..he is also accused of manipulating his tax returns and selling properties to legalize other dubious incomes...something that seems typical among judges and lawyers...!<div><br /></div><div>Sep26-2023--a dubious caretaker Kaker NAB case according to them closed on merit..the case was about corruption and corrupt practices in a baluchistan nGO...!<br /><p>Sep26-2023--Khawar maneka the former husband of imrans wife has been arrested for illegally building 26 shops and a marriage hall on 4 canal land of a graveyard, haveli lakha and renting them out for 26 million and not paying any taxes and municipal dues...!he also tried to leave the country but was on a no fly list...</p><p>Sep26-2023--The PMLn narratives fight is confusing as they are on all sides...</p><p>Sept25-2023--all their(baluchistan) gas or most of it has been going to karachi since 1955...</p><p>Sep25-2023--Kakar in response to american queries came out a bit and said that those jailed for arson and other offences such as cipher etc. could not make an election unfair..it is the general idea that imran will have to contend with several sentences...but with a SC which has his supporters he will probably go into the elections with cases sort of pending...he also reiterated that the ECP chief was imrans appointee even though he does not have to follow anyones orders...he even ridiculed thoughts of military interventions in elections...</p><p>Sep24-2023--there seems some unease in Nawaz sharifs demand for accountability in ousting him by bajwa, faiz hameed who mounted an anti PMLn campaign also in the imran era and crooked CJ's saqib nisar and asif khosa...they point to what happened to musharraf who was also put up at a flat in london..even if he could get them into exile that would be a success...the army chief already has faiz hameed under isolated house arrest but is supposedly friends with bajwa...The CJ's were imran men or opposed personally to nawaz...a full fledged military team was sending in questions and responses to...the cases concerned...but thats what generally happens in Pakistan</p><p>Sep24-2023--Solangi predicts lower oil prices while ejaz gohar says dollar to fall to 250 as the army chief fights economic terrorism on the borders...!oil prices however inching towards $100...</p><p>Sep24-2023--CDA seeks subsidized plot for ECP chief when he has already received one plot..Kakar on his way to London supposedly to meet Nawaz Sharif to discuss handcuffs...!</p><p>Sep23-2023--as expected the cruel Kakar increases electricity tariff by Rs3.28 for six months without any adequate reasons</p><p>Sep23 Shebaz sharif on a sudden visit back to London to straighten out brother on issues...he had just returned</p><p>Sep23-2023--continuing on the IMF theme of tax the rich and put everyone on BISP...many think that nawaz sharif, shebaz sharif and the fledgling Kakar should be held in contempt by the people for the electricity tariff mess..Nawaz Sharif started the IPP's and created the biggest problem in capacity charges...shebaz sharif increased electricity charges to Rs50..and the new suit everyday Kakar introduced the meaningless quarterly charges..charging the three under NAB would be a big day for consumers...many think the rich power producers should also pay their share and capacity charges should be reduced by 10% every year...new agreements should not include any capacity charges...that should bring some relief to rich and poor consumers...others think that Sajjad Ghani, all Disco heads and the Nepra chief should also be charged under NAB for dereliction...still others think that the armed forces and power sectors salaries be reduced by 10% to pay for the electricity tariffs...!and we should put up the IMF people at B&B's...</p><p>Sep22-2023--The Election Commission has defined a possible election schedule of 54 days sans a election date...why everyone is afraid of a date is unclear...apparently Jan28 will be the possible election date in that scenario...The ECP has left the whole months of Oct/Nov for complaints/objections against delimitations as the preliminary delimitations list will be published on Sep27......if everyone just accepts the delimitations the elections could be held two months earlier i.e., end of November i.e., almost within 90days...! or objections to delimitations could be held simultaneously with the election schedule or be dealt with after the elections...</p><p>Sep22-2023--The IMF chief apparently told the dumb Kakar that she wanted him to tax the rich...he responded u mean Punjabis...!he has only mounted a electricity theft campaign against a few people in Punjab...here in Pakistan they i.e. the establishment and rich politicians regard everyone as rich barring four or five million people(Pakistan's population is around 225 million)...we would be happy if the IMF chief could come to Pakistan and define who she thinks is rich...below is the luxuriously rich IMF building in Washington...!There is none who is poor inside the IMF building...so i must say that the IMF has no idea about real poverty ... there is only a poor classification in Pakistan... those who use less than 200 electricity units(before it was 100 units and before that 50 units) and those who qualify for BISP...She should be more clear in her classification of who should be taxed...There is also a classification of filers and nonfilers (people who file for income tax and who do not...nonfilers are taxed more). Generally many regard 30-40% people as below the poverty line...the people would be very happy if the government policies were reflective of aiding people in the general poverty bracket...there is another classification that recently emerged those earning Rs.40000 a month do not need free atta...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUryL8g_sR0qDZwVKj3Jjner0EJ0Ekt5rnztgfArcoqMHIRzwgy60B7FEyq5z2EwLV0OxtFd4GQ_d4URXaU4xY8fLSrTkdIBq2WPhqpDwdgLkfHInBEBj_NGcJ2wRMXZWY5MPYjRGcZpvnyFwp4mAmRMqs0pYJe4QJW5sQTn0wrOpzgkiBO29CGCyJ2Q/s688/Screenshot%202023-09-15%20170013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="688" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUryL8g_sR0qDZwVKj3Jjner0EJ0Ekt5rnztgfArcoqMHIRzwgy60B7FEyq5z2EwLV0OxtFd4GQ_d4URXaU4xY8fLSrTkdIBq2WPhqpDwdgLkfHInBEBj_NGcJ2wRMXZWY5MPYjRGcZpvnyFwp4mAmRMqs0pYJe4QJW5sQTn0wrOpzgkiBO29CGCyJ2Q/w640-h540/Screenshot%202023-09-15%20170013.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Sep20-2023--Discos despite the massive tariff hike and 74% of power generation from cheap fuels seek Rs1.83 in FCA in Oct bills..This seems clear cut fraud ..many think the discos are using the FCA for whatever they want even massive bills non payment which many think is expected to increase...</p><p>Sep19-2023--The supposedly Putin run PTI came out of hiding to protest selling of munitions to Ukraine by Pakistan to get desperately needed IMF funds with US help...The Intercept story a popular place for PTI propaganda denied by Pakistan foreign office...PTI says they want strict neutrality...similarly many point out that the buying of russian oil would also aid the russian war effort...The ukrainians are not in need of pakistani type small arms and bullets etc....as the fight is more in the realm of drones...however indians <span style="background-color: white;">say Pakistan<span face="Segoe UI, SegoeUI, Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> Ordnance Factories (POF) is all set to send 159 containers of 155mm artillery shells, M4A2 propelling bag charges, M82 primers, and PDM fuses to Ukraine...</span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: SwiftNeue, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Pakistan is known as a production hub for the types of basic munitions needed for grinding warfare.</span>..PTI has again started its anti US campaign targeting Donald Lu..many think that the pTi is an almost anti US communist agent...Ukraine has a long history of ammunition/military sales to Pakistan..Pakistan acquired 300 T80UD tanks from Ukraine thru Poland and they also supplied us tank engines...apart from the ammunition sales the pakistanis will also repair ukraines T80ud tanks for $86 million...in exchange pakistan will also get knowhow to repair MI17 transport helicopters...the intercept story points out that because of all this Pakistan could delay elections and rough up the PTI...</p><p>Sep19-2023--Qazi Faiz Isa took over as CJ of the SC in place of the much reviled Bandial who was not even allowing judges to dissent...he went straight into a 15 judge full court on the Practices and Procedures law aired directly on television...while 15 judges looked too much for the simple law its opponents said that it reduced the authority of the CJ and only the CJ could make the rules.....the judges seemed to fade as there was not much to wrangle about on the case and seemed to suggest that it has more todo with the CJ than the court...however it seemed that the judges started to support the law as time wore on...the opposition kept insisting it was not a law and ridiculed the suggestions of the legislature in cutting the CJ down to size...however the new CJ seems to have no problems consulting senior judges on admin matters and consulting on initiating 184(3) and giving a right to appeal to its judgement on suo motu...lets see where this goes...a more open court that is not authoritarian in nature is a good idea...Isa thought the full court would interfere with normal cases.. they could easily wind it up saying there is no reason to challenge the law on fundamental rights or for other reasons...</p><p>Sep19-2023--LHC issues non bailable warrants for Islamabad IG </p><p>Sep19-2023--ECP says that delimitation maybe complete by Sep26..a new monitoring system to take care of complaints and transmitting results put in place to replace 2018's RTS...voters, candidates and others will be able to make complaints and candidates could be immediately disqualified...!results could be transmitted via online, offline or hardcopy ...!..</p><p>Sep19-2023--Nawaz Sharif and his supporters should straighten out their views on the interim shebaz sharif government...reducing the population to the level of paupers and than saying they were doing it for this and that reason is totally unethical...The people too can shift support when they are going to be subject to the same sort of policies...the people can no longer wait for four years or ten years...suggesting that they will kick their supporters in the butt tobe in government seems tobe a silly point of view...The people should realize that Nawaz Sharif will run the same type of IMF run price escalation government like shebaz sharif...as dollar moves towards $100 whoever comes to power will prove tobe a another Kakar. or even worse a shebaz..fighting the demons of the past like asif saeed khosa, saqib nisar, past isi chiefs and army chiefs will prove counterproductive...the people hardly care about fighting military and isi chiefs as imran has already found out...and there is not not much u can do about past SC chiefs...</p><p><br /></p></div>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-45742452324213232882023-09-01T12:49:00.033+05:002023-09-19T12:06:36.727+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Sep1-15, 2023<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Sep14-2023--Nawaz Sharif set to return to Lahore Oct21. a new CJ would have taken over who supposedly wants a greater role for senior judges in administration...whether he can ride rough shod to help him like Bandial did imran is something that i do not see happening...!Nawaz Sharif however thinks they might go easy on him...The pro Imran Bandial who cancelled the NAB amendment made sure that politicians would not have an easy life....</p><p>Sep14-2023--The president has suggested under an article of the constitution that elections be held by Nov6, 2023. The CEC cites article51(5) under which a new census requires a new delimitation...and quotes the elections law under which the CEC functions as stating that the CEC /ECP is solely authorised to announce elections...even than the president can only announce elections to the national assembly...the president also urges the CEC to approach the SC for a final decision...</p><p>Sept12-2023--Right from the day Bandial interfered in the matters of the national assembly as imrans controlled men on his orders decided that a no trust could not be held against a serving primeminister and that the no trust was based on a foreign powers advice or orders...at that point imran should have taken control and held the notrust which he could have won....whether having won a notrust a ordinary legal maneouvre imran would have announced elections is something many consider dubious...however imran and his party chose to walk out of the assembly and the no trust was passed and than began the period of instability especially the SC's interference in legislation and some say even rewriting the constitution...The SC gave decisions against party members becoming dissidents or opposing the some say cruel, ruthless, authoritarian primeminister...The primeminister attacked them in their homes, government resthouses and even the punjab assembly...That problem has still not been solved as the election date and when they will happen have started to create more confusion ...whether a person who has been a lawyer all of his life and head of the SC can make innocent remarks seems like saying he was really an idiot and not worthy of being a CJ..maybe the next CJ an equally combative person can decide the many contentious matters...</p><p>Sept9-2023--The SIFC which started out as a government projects support unit has started to behave as a overall economic supervisor giving decisions on tariffs and ordering people to pay bill and running campaigns to cut electricity connections...generally they have a negative attitude towards people and their problems...they think mistakenly i think that raids on currency outlets will bring the dollar down...!the army chief also seems mistaken about FDI and loans to government by donors or other's ..He apparently thinks that 62 billion in FDI came into Pakistan in 2015-2020...FDI is usually very small amounts in a few millions...if u want to delve into the economy than u must be clear what your objectives are and what u are talking about...the army chief also wants to privatise saying that over a trillion is spent on organisations like PIA and railways...Privatisation of entities like PIA, railways and pak steel has already proven tobe difficult...earlier they were talking about 25 billion in investments from UAE/Saudi...privatisation of railways in the UK showed that ticket prices qudrupled...nobody will buy PIA so it should be just wound up and the planes given to the number of private operators who can easily use them to run domestic services...railways and PIA both suffer from subsidies to the employees and to the army and students...</p><p>Sept5-2023--kakar and the IMF will surely go to hell for threatening the economic lifeline of the pakistanis...this caretaker is threatening non bill payers while discos in quetta and peshawar recover only 50% of bills...why does he not start from baluchistan...the government should be careful that punjab and karachi may also stop paying bills...one can remember the long history of bill paying...people standing in long ques and worrying about having to pay late fees...those times are over as bill paying is now not difficult and time consuming. However when caretaker primeministers threaten people and army chiefs suggest that they will explain to bloody munafa khor traders how the dollar is evaluated or just keeps rising...even countries like nepal can control the dollar or the UAE which has a fixed dollar rate for the last forty years...but not Pakistan ...we might have crazies in power whose economic thinking is terrible to say the least...if they have to seek approval for spending Rs15 billion than they should at best go home...loot and plunder in the sugar bussiness also continues as it was selling from 190-230 in various places...</p><p>Sept4-2023--recently the costs paid to IPP's were increased by Rs4.68...even though the iPP's were not making losses...wind turbines charge Rs.9 per unit when they have no operating cost...the biggest problem recently has been the dramatic rise in LNG costs which now work out to Rs.50 per unit...capacity payments are another loot and plunder...the country should only generate hydel,natural gas, solar and nuclear to not waste money on expensive fuels or even the environmentally bad coal...the west and china are giving up coal but here they are starting to use it...!..that maybe possible in 2030 when hydel maybe 50-60% of generation...upto than costs are only set to escalate...despite massive tariff hikes the government announced FCA for the next two months...as to the percentages of what people are paying for losses of the power sector that maybe a colossal 25% of the tariff...free electricity maybe 1%...army bulk purchases are at Rs8 per unit for which people might be paying an additional Rs.5...people had to pay another Rs4 for operation and maintenance cost of power stations...so in overall thinking Nepra is just a tool to loot the people...the government can easily setup a few 100 mW in solar power every month...giving subsidies and tax relief on domestic solar connections may save more electricity too...when going down the motorway one sees all agriculture having solar tubewells...the government needs to do the work and not only on the tariff side...the government could also pay to have solar airconditioners...which have recently come onto the market...in california solar cells are provided free...</p><p>Sep4-2023--Dawn analyzes the PMLn leaders rest and recreation in London and imrans escape to a jail......while Nawaz Sharif has legal problems forcing him to stay in London...shehbaz many say is nearing a decision to retire from politics...their short stint in power suggests that they are unaware of peoples problems and thinking...all they can think of are fiscal problems and imran...the peoples protests in the electricity tariffs maybe political but the problems are real and their effects are all anti PMLn...Khawaja Asif suggests that they live in their constituencies and contest the growing anger and frustration of the people...have not seen anybody from the PMLn at grassroots level in Rawalpindi barring Maryam Nawaz doing some organizing in KP...many think it is the right time for the Sharifs to resign from politics and leave their tottering empire to Maryam Nawaz or some other senior leader...the country worries about tariffs, IMF and price escalation...things that are not in the rich mans mind...the people had no problems with default as the situation has not changed...but they do have problems with paying much higher electricity bills, buying atta, medicines etc....naan prices are all over the place and one avoids buying a milkpak for 270...literally going to shop is a harassing deal as prices of everything including medicines have tripled..and the governments are flinching at supporting even the sehat card...apparently 90000 people were rejected in Rawalpindi at hospitals for sehat card treatment...from everyone being allowed now only Bisp types probably can get treatment...eye operations have stopped as they say the lenses used are of low quality...with imrans 'me-me/vile influencer' approach the PDM government only thought about IPP's, agriculture landlords and Discos...they have no interest in the people...the people should also look into other parties that have emerged...</p><p>Sep1-2023--</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqDF6fxjshcG0OHuKRdQoPr5qRRgmK5GJCkYMO1DhwS6w-2t07eoIA2s31_P6gyh-Gevt8WNXIx-F7QtIZWU5HftaM1P_wO7kFIZTmC8c0REg6dKsr_OdlWueqdXPawE08mm4Em1f5d_WC_N_AKA96yA50v086wcLS51Hxto-plG9b-pF4Axr0vRfIRY/s999/Screenshot%202023-09-01%20124631.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="999" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqDF6fxjshcG0OHuKRdQoPr5qRRgmK5GJCkYMO1DhwS6w-2t07eoIA2s31_P6gyh-Gevt8WNXIx-F7QtIZWU5HftaM1P_wO7kFIZTmC8c0REg6dKsr_OdlWueqdXPawE08mm4Em1f5d_WC_N_AKA96yA50v086wcLS51Hxto-plG9b-pF4Axr0vRfIRY/w640-h494/Screenshot%202023-09-01%20124631.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The dumb judiciary...they have just decided a case that should have been decided six months ago...it is not the poor that are protesting electricity prices but people who thought they were well off...with judges earning a million to 1.3 million a month they probably donot have the problem...the government in such cases says that the issue is subjudice...somebody should light a fire under the judges so that they can decide the case tomorrow...<p></p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-75460741657109572382023-08-16T17:00:00.086+05:002023-09-01T12:48:43.991+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Aug16-31, 2023<p>Aug31-2023--The SC is still trying to be a duped dove sitting with its eyes closed with a wild cat sitting nearby...,they say elections should be held in 90 days despite those elections having not been held and the SC could not do anything about them...the national elections are about tobe delayed again and the SC will not be able to do anything about them too..90 they say can be interpreted as 200 or any other number of days...nothing is written in stone any longer...</p><p>Aug31-2023--The caretaker regime also says that it will try to fool the people on the matter of electricity bills...saying it cannot do much to end subsidies in PIA and power companies apart from free electricity to other non essential people as the army chief, judges etc....they also say that the only relief they see is payment in installments which is already available...they also say that they will continue to hike tariffs despite the massive hikes by the previous regimes...thus the only way available to people is burn bills or not pay bills in future especially if they cannot...if the people want they should make the september2 shutdown memorable and refuse to pay bills in future...some relief they say is envisaged for those using 400 units...the protestors are not low end users but those whose bills are above 50000...the government should shift the burden from the people to the richer segments of army, agriculture, industrialists,textile mills, exporters etc...small bussinessmen are already protesting...the government should realize that only essential imports are necessary...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1020" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg62cdf8wMBN3cF2sYu7WImEHc-kNfN_O5vj_u9Tj97M8B1vcgFhvPGWWT5YmyWRpLhpTyIFaNJ3pqAKqzoNpK3BoJj9419pgM2FQZDCjlkWyktUD3A7whWkPeVAaZDOLZB4uY-ApzJ9yeNjwE_tDvQTj62ToU0C1e3JipX1vOb9_fRq42PZa0oQjlfAbg/w400-h300/Screenshot%202023-08-31%20123426.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Aug29-2023--The inexperienced caretaker regime which has a stocks and bonds man as power minister trying to deal/tinker with the power tariffs/power protests/inflation...rumours abound that overall electricity unit cost is Rs.2 a unit however despite supposed good intentions the caretakers are not willing to take drastic measures frightened of the IMF and finance ministry...tariffs should be dropped to Rs15 as before the disastrous imran-shebaz experiment in dubious IMF type government...imran had reduced slabs from three to one thus increasing the costs drastically to the lower to medium income groups...from Rs.24 in the imran era... shebaz the rich devil may care evil ruler increased tariffs to Rs50...giving enormous benefits to IPP's of Rs4.60 per unit..The caretaker regime should de list power stations that lie idle all year and take 60% non use capacity benefits...The policies of the 1990's should be done away with...or power costs should be reduced to 2 cents as than envisaged...caretakers envisage some relief such as a one slab benefit, reduction in 18% tax and payment via installments which already exist...bills can already be paid in two or three installments...stopping free units to power companies employees/retired employees are not implementable just as PIA /railway subsidies to the military/students and pia/retired employees cannot be stopped...protestors taking protests to Discos and blocking motorways which show no respect for humanity, bakra mandi grid station surrounded...people would love it if the army chief pays his own electricity and food bills...just stopping free petrol to officials and judges and military officers would also save a lot...it would also be beneficial to lets say provide free solar panels or free installation of solar systems to homes...There is no real need for a quarterly increase of Rs5 per unit or even a monthly increase in fuel costs(FCA) or the petroleum levy...with dams full hydel generation should be maximised...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjudfb4wPdUw_9WkbXDqTIIYv59QrPwUCPpnl2rzEBioLjWfn-WdYjiMfmtXGLRXLDkQF-BbkAIim2yNoUxS4nAhYIHNtsVqCgRW2AMI7covHc8CkXVqX3wdysCf4JnIIDOGzkAZ1ZovRO4jTefeEbGSZnYdxA7GtsqXnfnUedpMXs1LNsWLnEDJvpNy64/s960/Screenshot%202023-08-29%20133912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="960" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjudfb4wPdUw_9WkbXDqTIIYv59QrPwUCPpnl2rzEBioLjWfn-WdYjiMfmtXGLRXLDkQF-BbkAIim2yNoUxS4nAhYIHNtsVqCgRW2AMI7covHc8CkXVqX3wdysCf4JnIIDOGzkAZ1ZovRO4jTefeEbGSZnYdxA7GtsqXnfnUedpMXs1LNsWLnEDJvpNy64/w640-h438/Screenshot%202023-08-29%20133912.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>the caretaker PM is behind tinkering in the power tariff without making real changes and stands resolutely behind the SIFC which apparently means army firms get islamabads construction projects...<p></p><p>Aug29-2023--two elite cops killed as police patrol comes under fire in lakki marwat...</p><p>Aug29-2023--with imran in jail terrorism incidents have reduced..he enjoys jail too eating fruit, nuts, chicken and mutton in desi ghee...will he be re arrested if the pro imran iHC releases him...in the money looting toshakhana case...PTI seeking unconstitutional steps from the SC in polls date...</p><p>Aug29-2023--obviously the finance minister is still in a hands off approach as the dollar reaches Rs.320 in the open and above 300 in the interbank...petroleum prices rise forecast..,the government should not have a singular IMF theory and use its own thinking as well...</p><p>Aug29-2023--Sutlej flooding continues down stream..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaCprKuD3SKWLchVBUDpN2bpHd33OISAfkt2PQCOt1ZfPQOlSIOHvqHreRSr0lAa0loAXEeZhyF-re138OoRW0v19cIejEQpvZqO0-uTOmtnxbvBixEUwV7FyuYZsSOKiZ-hwxY8aopUYSG7efSP9EXY4Vi1GTvMDCTGchuBvlPfb8kqrdoSeV7E_rzFQ/s847/Screenshot%202023-08-29%20131617.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="847" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaCprKuD3SKWLchVBUDpN2bpHd33OISAfkt2PQCOt1ZfPQOlSIOHvqHreRSr0lAa0loAXEeZhyF-re138OoRW0v19cIejEQpvZqO0-uTOmtnxbvBixEUwV7FyuYZsSOKiZ-hwxY8aopUYSG7efSP9EXY4Vi1GTvMDCTGchuBvlPfb8kqrdoSeV7E_rzFQ/w640-h514/Screenshot%202023-08-29%20131617.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Aug28-2023--Sutlej floods bahawalpur</p><p>Aug27-2023--Sutlej flooding continues to cause problems</p><p>Aug27-2023--with the peoples anger rising Discos are facing open threats against their vehicles and buildings...Iesco, Mepco have asked for police protection while Pesco has removed its official number plates...Discos should work on a people orientation rather than work for dubious governments, Nepra and IMF..Nepra has not even once rejected a tariff hike...while tariffs have been hiked massively the almost continuous monthly hikes and daily load shedding's are becoming almost unbearable...almost everything including losses/operations/fuel/maintenance/theft are included in the tariff still the government insists on increasing tariffs every month...the government should move to use all types of power stations barring diesel/LNG and stop the 60% non use payments to IPP's..it might have been needed initially but it is now just meaningless...government should instead ask them to move to natural gas or discontinue functioning...</p><p>Aug27-2023--ECP maybe running into trouble after some parties support a new delimitation while the PPP and PTI want elections in 90 days...The PMLn wants delimitations and electoral lists completed by early december so that elections can take place in February or March...historically delimitations and electoral lists completeion have taken much longer and recently the exersize was completed in 2022.</p><p>Aug27-2023--FIA grills Imran over lost original cipher...The PTI edited the cipher continuously and it is suspected that they sent it to the Intercept website and other foreign leaders like donald trump...</p><p>Aug27-2023--as power protests erupted in many cities over higher electricity bills the caretaker government and discos are taking the people to be stupid and foolish...with no political party in power people have started protesting and burning bills..the discos and caretaker government think that people will take things lying down...however the caretaker governments continuation of IMF policies which sees the dollar slide and despite massive increase in electricity bills again invoking additional fuel charges for august and september alongwith increase in sugar and atta prices...the bills are stoking anger in the middle income group of people..after such massive electricity tariff increases the government should at least not have increased electricity tariff costs for at least a year...The caretaker government plans to stop power subsidies which are even given to retired electricity officials and retiring primeministers and presidents and retired and serving SC judges..the army chief also given free electricity and obviously those working in the electricity infrastructure are free to loot and plunder...</p><p>Aug20-2023--with shebaz sharif gone alvi alleges that he did not sign the secrets act or the army act...he recently said that he did not did sign the intelligence officials act and that his staff did some mischief or faked his signature...however the laws are now official as he did not return them...</p><p>Aug20-2023--Sutlej faces worse flooding in three decades...over 6000 rescued from 72 villages in kasur and chunian...100 buffalos from one farm swept away...</p><p>Aug20-2023--13 labourers killed as their transport runs over a landmine in north waziristan...</p><p>Aug19-2023--Ali Mardan Domki becames baluchistan caretaker...</p><p>Aug19-2023--ECP defends move to delay polls which could be possibly delayed to May...!this is another vacuum in the constitution of what happens when polls are announced...are they tobe conducted on the status quo or delayed until the completion of other constitutional parameters...</p><p>Aug19-2023--major reshuffle in beauracracy on ECP orders..Sindh caretaker opposes accountability...hasaan Niazi handed over to military for trial in attack on corp commanders house...B<b>ushra the supposed pirni says her husband maybe poisoned to death and wants him shifted to Adiala with home food and a personal physician... The govt says he is already being provided seperately cooked food under the surveillance of a doctor...</b><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p>Aug19-2023--Shah mahmood qureshi, imran khan and asad umar being investigated in cipher leak...while imran was leaking the cipher via speeches ...shah mahmood qureshi was apparently editing it every day...the present issue that the secret cipher was leaked to Intercept a US news site...intercept said that the pakistani military leaked it however the information here is that imran sent it to trump who leaked it to the press to help him out...others suggest that some lower PTI leaders might have done it...earlier the cipher was about a page but is now four pages in length...it seems to suggest that the US supported verbally the no trust although others suggest the US concern was the dancing imran waltzing upto Putin on tv and urging him to attack ukraine...!shah mahmood and asad umar have been arrested and is leading to more arrests as shah mahmood seems to have fingered some more culprits...a clandestine meeting was held at banigala on Mar28 where they decided to use the cipher to bolster their fading support...the military has said that they heard of the cipher on Mar12..when imran said that it was probably nothing...!</p><p>Aug18-2023--baluchistan caretaker pick might go to the ECP as the parliamentary committee members are not in the same place..</p><p>Aug18-2023--Imran refuses to stay put in jail and moves SC to stop his political victimisation...is May9 political victimisation or toshakhana or the billions looted from a thekedar or even the Farah loot and plunder from appointments...or the pervez elahi loot of 200 million in kickbacks</p><p>Aug18-2023-- in what may seem tobe a deliberate exersize to delay polls the ECP announces a new delimitation process to be completed in early december...after which a synchronisation of electoral rolls to the new census which might be carried out simultaneously...this leaves the poll date somewhere in February or March...while this has been rumoured by the outgoing government there was some hope of the ECP disregarding the new census since it was not a complete census and just a digital census...the PTI they say is incensed and to move the SC today...there seems no constitutional way out apart from the SC suspending the announcement of the new census saying there were suspected irregularities and holding the elections on the status quo situation....new voters could be facilitated by just the presentation of their id cards...</p><p>Aug18-2023--kakar announces a hefty cabinet of strange and new faces...several ex federal secretaries a retired airmarshal , a dubious lt general and an admiral make the list and some dubious sindhi type tv wallahs...ahad cheema of the PMLn makes it to SAPM establishment...shamshad akhter the most famous probably makes it to finance and maybe overruled by a SAPM a former finance secretary...some see as usual the influence of the military, PPP and PMLn...and some strange baluchi names like sarfarz bugti and khalil george and murtaza solangi...generally domination of military and PPP seems tobe clear...there is nobody on food and agriculture and people concerns of power and petroleum tobe handled by a non expert of a former SECP chairman</p><p>Aug17-2023--The railways workers unable to straighten out the Rawalpindi station railway lines despite working daily...probably need some modern methods...mishapen railway lines are always clearly visible...they probably should attempt to lay new lines with heavier sleepers...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BowhJH8DmKlL1y8tbze2KJTmA2C558TfSRobvrAUITzB6LmkzOKoHZeMAxBq3eUATdDmPNnF_VDqNP8dE6mz4uB8IyaztO5e1zZEB33PpkZ5TxaO5QezCnIC4jb6ZbUi2-CMvm1Cac4dGLIsRizCq7lg6rJIi563PAP4ywDISlpknokkcrAgTm8QHY8/s513/Screenshot%202023-08-18%20131159.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="513" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BowhJH8DmKlL1y8tbze2KJTmA2C558TfSRobvrAUITzB6LmkzOKoHZeMAxBq3eUATdDmPNnF_VDqNP8dE6mz4uB8IyaztO5e1zZEB33PpkZ5TxaO5QezCnIC4jb6ZbUi2-CMvm1Cac4dGLIsRizCq7lg6rJIi563PAP4ywDISlpknokkcrAgTm8QHY8/w640-h420/Screenshot%202023-08-18%20131159.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Aug17-2023--two militants killed in north waziristan</p><p>Aug17-2023--railway fares hiked by 10%</p><p>Aug16 -2023--multiple churches vandalized in jaranwala over blasphemy allegations and houses burnt... </p><p>Aug16-2023--Kakar goes one step further and raises petrol prices to a phenomenal 290...per liter</p><p>Aug16-2023--PTI continues its dirty tactics of harassment and galli galoch/insults individually...in england they harassed judge dilawar and PMLn leader hina butt...and in attock two of their lawyers when obstructed... beat up jail warders and their clothes were torn..earlier the PTI chief ordered gherao of dissidents and attacks on their homes and government hostels ..these incidents are carefully choreographed by imran and his retired generals and majors and are not individual reactions</p><p>Aug16-2023--Shehbaz sharif says changes in official secrets acts necessitated to protect intelligence officials..</p><p><br /></p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-38422786416800178632023-08-04T08:38:00.046+05:002023-08-13T20:34:08.670+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Aug1-15, 2023<p>Aug13-2023--Shehbaz sharif says he has always had friendly relations with army chiefs...recently he seems to have gone all in for the establishment and even brought in the army chief to a central role in a new financial forum the SIFC..a reporter questioned if the finance ministry had also been placed under the GHQ...there are questions as to nawaz sharifs role and whether he will come back after the SC killed the parliaments right to allow legislation on a review on suo motu cases... a review is a normal process on SC decisions and there is no reason why it should not be allowed on a suo motu decision...the SC gave bad reasons saying it is beyond parliaments jurisdiction and the founding fathers views cannot be changed...not something heard before...the present constitution has major changes from its original..many think bandial has gone bonkers</p><p>Aug 13-2023--baluchistan assembly dissolved </p><p>Aug13-2023--Anwarul haq kakar appointed caretaker primeminister for elections...apparently the name came out of nowhere and surprised the governing coalition...Raja Riaz the opposition leader says he had proposed the name while sanjrani is said to have used his influence too..he has been active in baluch politics in the recent past and initially stood and lost on a PMLq ticket in 2008 from qillah saifullah..he than joined the PMLn and served as spokesman for sanaullah zehri..he than rebelled and led a no trust move against sanaullah zehri who was replaced by abdul qudus bizenjo...he than became an independent senator and was instrumental in making the BAP whose the leader was said tobe saeed ahmed hashmi..the BAP won the 2018 elections in baluchistan...he was the chief spokesman/leader in the senate for BAP until a recent reshuffle...supposedly close to the establishment and was recently getting on friendly terms with the PMLn and ex cm jam kamal...seems to change loyalties quite regularly</p><p>Aug12-2023--sindh assembly dissolved</p><p>Aug7-2023--government has refused to repair the sixth road metro station that the PTi burnt down on may9. It requires around Rs.140 million and the government has asked the MTA/bus service to repair it on its own...so the station is out of service for three months...things like the elevators, lift and some machines probably need tobe imported...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Bf_cP2TRtJrxu10E5_ST6-Wbe7XfZ1RZRhOhJBWJ2PgqEyCDSBlRbG0oa4NoLbaSNFMp_7ApBc5t8iRCLPASc-CCp3SFP31-bdpxwGCL-gkUEp9g5vf87chIfxPgb0Embg_gMjUZBd51cWJ4_p_mYSJgFkxDEDs-DAOatvDahrt8OXwQvwoIFmN64pM/s508/Screenshot%202023-08-07%20132854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="508" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Bf_cP2TRtJrxu10E5_ST6-Wbe7XfZ1RZRhOhJBWJ2PgqEyCDSBlRbG0oa4NoLbaSNFMp_7ApBc5t8iRCLPASc-CCp3SFP31-bdpxwGCL-gkUEp9g5vf87chIfxPgb0Embg_gMjUZBd51cWJ4_p_mYSJgFkxDEDs-DAOatvDahrt8OXwQvwoIFmN64pM/w640-h420/Screenshot%202023-08-07%20132854.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Aug7-2023--pakistan to play cricket in india despite security concerns...pakistan play their first match in the ahmedabad 130000 stadium on Oct15...most teams are playing much better and india specifically has a good team with almost everyone performing...pakistan relys onits top bowlers and batsmen have some dubious emerging batsmen</p><p>Aug7-2023--islamabad judges wife arrested for severely torturing maid...</p><p>Aug7-2023--Imran given b class in the somewhat smallish looking attock jail...he can meet visitors one day a week...just as a joke he has been assigned to clean the jails chicken coop...his lawyers waiting to file an appeal for temporary relief...or even retrial...his lawyers had refused to appear so the judge gave the judgement and went on foreign leave to attend a course...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEino08JRaMIWSAUh4coAp2YZWBGFJCixYKSUyXEVjHCVbqx3slqstVi2BSF0ZNACj_2U13z_tT0OUHjaSrqd9NrIdc9wh30VCVOudKgpgEgYBz6KsnMFc3XOjTHYlr2q2CU3MRVrmbQqHtQU8-EkoU0fh7mEb0y6uvq4H_SRTMmRY_aw0EyBnLvlQQ8sR4/s771/Screenshot%202023-08-07%20130849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="771" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEino08JRaMIWSAUh4coAp2YZWBGFJCixYKSUyXEVjHCVbqx3slqstVi2BSF0ZNACj_2U13z_tT0OUHjaSrqd9NrIdc9wh30VCVOudKgpgEgYBz6KsnMFc3XOjTHYlr2q2CU3MRVrmbQqHtQU8-EkoU0fh7mEb0y6uvq4H_SRTMmRY_aw0EyBnLvlQQ8sR4/w640-h426/Screenshot%202023-08-07%20130849.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Aug7-2023--the government looking for an economic expert as caretaker even though there is nothing much to decide in a IMf run system...hafeez sheikh a sort of PPP man in the lead followed by a retired judge...elections which have been made doubtful are now an eCP concern who according to the interior minister can delay them for 120 days if required...the ECP can do the homework quickly and get the wheels moving even if delimitation is required...the ECP could move the SC to suggest elections under the previous census..and even an ordinary citizen could but the SC has quibbled in the past and has tended to downplay the ECP control and power over elections suggesting recently that it is not a constitutional body and just a forum...however if the ECP cannot decide than it is left to the caretaker government , army and SC to take a decision...The PPP says it will take a stand if elections delayed but they have no power under a caretaker setup...</p><p>Aug7-2023--train derails near sanghar causing the deaths of 30 people</p><p>Aug6-2023--Toshahkhana decision...imran jailed for three years and fined Rs.100000...the judge said that imran guilty of corrupt practices and concealing acquisition of the gifts in tax/ecp statements...imran arrested and shifted to kot lakhpat jail...the IHC had sent the case back to the session court for a decision...after imran filed various or upto six decision obstruction cases...imrans defence was weak based on what other politicos had done...he had accused maryam nawaz for taking a pineapple from the toshahkhana gifts etc...while other leaders have also been gifted cars and watches and taken them...but they did not do so in haste or in the public eye and probably tax records were not that important in the time frames...in appeal to a favorable SC he might be let off despite clearly being shown tobe avaricious and guilty of acquiring wealth(loot and plunder) in haste...and at the peoples expense..imrans money mongering in acquiring billions in party funds and loot of SKMT funds and his inability to get along with various stake holders is the main reason for his problems...things like the $3 billion he doled out to rich textile type magnates at 5% interest under expectations that they will fund him heavily...</p><p>Aug5-2023--ppp comes out against new delimitations...however new electoral rolls have tobe prepared thru nadra records and the housing census that will ensure everybodies participation.</p><p>Aug4-2023--reports suggest that nawaz sharif has the names of the caretaker possibilities and slow coach that he is... is taking his time to decide...PPP also recomends three</p><p>Aug4-2023--The digital census has gained importance..however many worry that the electoral rolls may not be ready on time...there are only a few categories that need tobe updated..mostly those who have reached voting age and those who have shifted to the area or were not listed before...the only ones complaining about the census are the MQM and JI in Karachi who feel that they have lost power or votes..mostly census do count all the votes and there are no complaints from anywhere else...they need a fast track system to add the new voters to the electoral rolls...you take the census and the old rolls...compare and update...i only remember one voter in lahore who ran around shouting that he had not been listed...!so the mqm and the ji can run around on election day looking for someone not listed...karachi is a very developed area and has problems that also exist everywhere like water and electricity..however nobody complains like the karachiites...</p><p>Aug4-2023--Toshahkhana decision coming up..Imran has been disqualified in the case..the appeal will probably go to the dubious higher courts...The apparent haste of imran and bushra to loot the toshakhana gifts is astounding...numerous expensive watches sold thru third parties and gifts worth over 150 million bought or taken for 10% of their value...it looks very much like a corruption mart for the dubious duo...imrans seems tobe sharing his corruption not with the people but his supposedly religious wife...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv27fRAgoy4umDmfZO2FP3bHP2SexkWd4QCF0aFVf3Zid3JSk1jWCo7GTGfOTUNW7Wl-XceX_AsXV4KVdsWLCPjy_qFK4vAsAYwgBQIkn6b5Oaa-TZ0sr70p6LApAehjm8-G1Hi4d8Pdabv6AIeDGfu8EMcXFSRu-WvO3Ga6-G19qkoPMbsX2aSGXwCr4/s875/Screenshot%202023-08-04%20090445.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="875" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv27fRAgoy4umDmfZO2FP3bHP2SexkWd4QCF0aFVf3Zid3JSk1jWCo7GTGfOTUNW7Wl-XceX_AsXV4KVdsWLCPjy_qFK4vAsAYwgBQIkn6b5Oaa-TZ0sr70p6LApAehjm8-G1Hi4d8Pdabv6AIeDGfu8EMcXFSRu-WvO3Ga6-G19qkoPMbsX2aSGXwCr4/w640-h420/Screenshot%202023-08-04%20090445.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>some of imrans state gifts including a golden kalashnikov...the bullets look copper...<p></p><p>Aug4-2023--government going on Aug9 so elections presumed in 90 days... </p><p>Aug3-2023--The shebaz suggestion that elections will be held under the digital census suggests a quick delimitation exersize by the ECP..given computerized maps this can be quickly done..however dividing the votes and seats can change things on the ground...also the ECP may decide to leave the delimitation as is and everyone can vote in the same constituency unless there are big changes in population...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYn4IoD-rWj2m_5VvGQbNvKWj0Z88mBD8QzIOUco8_m5SUHjPH5z6VK6tGK7mpPo2SAbjCZGyXcrbrz4e6c3r6sxHyl4I1zaZtLkUrnN-gNWPaiQ7eaCdmZh1nDNlRKOyjI-M3YryygZL96YcZ7kdqiHkVlj3vtpr3tXZtZTT5AkuZnGpbfrpJVNA436k/s998/Screenshot%202023-08-04%20085149.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="998" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYn4IoD-rWj2m_5VvGQbNvKWj0Z88mBD8QzIOUco8_m5SUHjPH5z6VK6tGK7mpPo2SAbjCZGyXcrbrz4e6c3r6sxHyl4I1zaZtLkUrnN-gNWPaiQ7eaCdmZh1nDNlRKOyjI-M3YryygZL96YcZ7kdqiHkVlj3vtpr3tXZtZTT5AkuZnGpbfrpJVNA436k/w640-h332/Screenshot%202023-08-04%20085149.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Aug 2-2023--the german speaking safari suits afficionada shebaz says he has always been able to take along the establishment and has never worried about being too close to the military and peoples views that he might be a establishment stooge...he says his consultations with the military were always within purview of the countries interest...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-36312943616772491522023-07-17T22:53:00.107+05:002023-08-01T00:10:19.024+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jul16---31, 2023<p>Jul31-2023--five names shortlisted for caretaker primeminister says ppp minister</p><p>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...</p><p>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...</p><p>Jul31-2023--Eu agency agency warns against planes flying low over karachi and lahore...</p><p>Jul31-2023-- bill on violent extremism dropped in senate as politicians worried about its wide application...</p><p>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...</p><p>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...</p><p>Jul29-2023--three terrorists killed in khyber,and south waziristan...</p><p>Jul29-2023--emergency declared in a dozen baluch districts as rains and floods intensify</p><p>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...!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhAmpXRSnKm3oD0zmjzC89rvTA-QgwmQbu7KRZNRJtmzswnhdR6X5Gy5-tKLv6Wy2G6gqISo3I4nOU6RWfAnsDwg1Crf8RKJX_BoU2JjmTrYvB264uQMWVa171IixxRpAGJ_OLKUAMLY4tJBznDXmrmcxMIoQtGEyCfiffswPKMm0iUAEtxbb6yPlIZE/s773/Screenshot%202023-07-29%20234626.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="773" height="416" 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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...</p><p>Jul28-2023--worst floods expected in ravi, sutlej...10 killed in kp and blochistan as rains continue</p><p>Jul27-2023--government tries to increase powers of caretakers</p><p>July27-2023--five killed in baluchistan as rains and floods continue</p><p>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</p><p>Jul26-2023--policeman martyred mosque destroyed in jamrud bombing...</p><p>Jul25-2023--teenage maid severely tortured by judges wife in islamabad</p><p>Jul25-2023--contempt of parliament bill clears senate...</p><p>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...</p><p>Jul24-2023--Kp interim minister resigns as he intends to stand against pervez khattak...</p><p>Jul24-2023--imf says government finance ministers responsible for delays as they refused to obey orders...</p><p>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...!</p><p>Jul23-2023--devastating rain in upper/lower dir and masnsehra, GB ..nine dead..</p><p>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...</p><p>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...</p><p>Jul21-2023--elections tobe held by oct11 depending on when the govt calls it a day...</p><p>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...</p><p>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.....</p><p>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...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQTN8HMAEzzxfBLv3D48zb_QMTEc6Kd7yQKWAMGQdCgunDjR8fcK2jtmSjHgeybFjPHOuAzQL0PZqiA1dbLwTinDufkaSg1BiBGJDQgsQs8dEooEvv9chDFEArJBWZhNGpPDNWCzEFLmf4xhwJOgrHyWprQW3_ScIakPgO2A5KbYFCW4_YCwTbeu6eAcA/s673/Screenshot%202023-07-20%20111734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="673" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQTN8HMAEzzxfBLv3D48zb_QMTEc6Kd7yQKWAMGQdCgunDjR8fcK2jtmSjHgeybFjPHOuAzQL0PZqiA1dbLwTinDufkaSg1BiBGJDQgsQs8dEooEvv9chDFEArJBWZhNGpPDNWCzEFLmf4xhwJOgrHyWprQW3_ScIakPgO2A5KbYFCW4_YCwTbeu6eAcA/w640-h368/Screenshot%202023-07-20%20111734.jpg" width="640" 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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...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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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....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizHuGqnkcZJTXkFsCdNyFlOg_WWk_KYid7s19NlOP46FW0AdEVeekOHaYllqr6n1QoxHPjyVncEIl4mFXi30rbcVEB6LJMlUtfATnwuOTN8pzTfRHgjLhnb4_dDUSwfDvF65ovZkvdv0_u2QTnCEAV6BvdhIT92nlS7Da9YFz2egy2ZN_VHPNOIq0_BxE/s994/Screenshot%202023-07-20%20114239.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="994" height="428" 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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</p><p>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...!</p><p>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...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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In the past FDI had more money going out than coming in...a whole lot of investments in car manufacturing seems tobe also going bad...foreigners are not going to give their dollars to the government and in most cases they will also be looking at local loans and to avoid taxation...</p><p>Jul9-2023--seven hour rain spell in kasur...below ndma rescues students from inundated school...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZiXohloF_KiSBwCN7ooGIwOM-DxTsNhzbNmLn541kiRVHGUCGzSO0URJa-jrMSPX4b0zMeqwN7p9b-Mqj6Js_I0371gekLSnwzz0IDUPODqqx_5NSK2zzxBThDzOluqlH6Wrs4kXzVXZRUOg9a-p-Zjo8aPo0MGtTShmlGaxIDXdoWuxPJzpa0MZ_Kc/s1644/Screenshot%202023-07-09%20132412.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1644" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZiXohloF_KiSBwCN7ooGIwOM-DxTsNhzbNmLn541kiRVHGUCGzSO0URJa-jrMSPX4b0zMeqwN7p9b-Mqj6Js_I0371gekLSnwzz0IDUPODqqx_5NSK2zzxBThDzOluqlH6Wrs4kXzVXZRUOg9a-p-Zjo8aPo0MGtTShmlGaxIDXdoWuxPJzpa0MZ_Kc/w640-h358/Screenshot%202023-07-09%20132412.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Jul9-2023--shebaz condemns pTi orchestrated vile media campaign to assassinate army chief...the pTI has a history of anti army campaigns going back to the balochistan helicopter crash..than the imran campaign against former and current army chiefs...than the May9 arson attacks...the army chief is a soft target for them..their influencers are lying idle and their vulgar anti pakistan campaigns are well known...one dubious influencer suggested that asim munir had not developed like his father wanted who was a government school mathematics teacher and being a hafiz quran is not a great achievement...etc....</p><p>Jul9-2023--domestic debt rise by Rs.6 trillion</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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More than $4 billion in import consignments require clearance when government reserves are around that...consumption of petrol has fallen drastically. Government talking to Islamic development bank to maximize its $4 billion portfolio to sustain low foreign exchange reserves...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HZBsDU8FEKDFHCbGSNhLut76d8BDeUdLLxFtE3wJZW-PDPEJE9A3ONUQT9FvUFpGwz00w6VEE53u90mAzSMPOkk5bbdqWZnrhFTgMbBQGPKuiHAo8XDgUQ2oFNBqjeoNVjhCHm0pL6fFd4LA4RDrKmJ3UjBqRXCeBc--HE0gNp3qrDoQVbopQ3WQnmw/s698/Screenshot%202023-06-10%20220152.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="698" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HZBsDU8FEKDFHCbGSNhLut76d8BDeUdLLxFtE3wJZW-PDPEJE9A3ONUQT9FvUFpGwz00w6VEE53u90mAzSMPOkk5bbdqWZnrhFTgMbBQGPKuiHAo8XDgUQ2oFNBqjeoNVjhCHm0pL6fFd4LA4RDrKmJ3UjBqRXCeBc--HE0gNp3qrDoQVbopQ3WQnmw/w640-h414/Screenshot%202023-06-10%20220152.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: 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social sciences showing that projected inflation will possibly come down to normal in 2025-2026 and u can see the sudden sharp rise in 2024 budget outlay...which is probably due to higher interest payments...</p>Jun23-2023--technically estimates suggest that there were 209 pakistani passengers aboard the immigrant ship that sank...<p></p><p>June 23-2023--The differences between the SC judges surface again in the petitions against civilian trials under the Army Act...two judges rose from the nine member bench...Isa said that the nine member bench was not a proper court ...Bandial who has tried to stamp his authority on the court has found it difficult ...going against Isa on a number of issues...under a new law the trials under 184(3) have to be first presented to a three member senior bench...The Army Act has been in force since 1952 and declaring it invalid for trying civilians will be difficult since civilians have been tried under it before ...in the present case the PTi juggernaut deliberately attacked specific military installations in a planned manner..they even had a propaganda saying that a policeman bit a women when she attacked the GHQ...women were not specifically seen at the GHQ site...!imran also stated in his usual lies that PTI women were raped in the lahore jail which was denied by the women activsts...technically they would have to declare the Army Act unconstitutional as everyone has a similar right to trial so it cannot be differentiated between army men and civilians...</p><p>Jun22-2023--Justice Qazi Faez Isa to become next CJ in September...he has a different mindset to Bandial who has been unable to paper over differences between judges and the government but probably will follow the law more than others</p><p>Jun22-2023--Shebaz says that the SIFC will be tasked to raise FDI to around $5 billion which is now at $1.32 billion..most FDI comes from china...and usually more flows out than in...since most of the FDI goes into stocks it does not generate any real economic activity...Pakistans economy is hampered by huge tariffs for domestic users and subsidized to industry, army and agriculture...cotton production is temperamental and growing of things like lentils and oilseeds should be encouraged...export of milk and milk products could be encouraged...</p><p>Jun 22-2023--government trying to get central asia countries to somehow use Gawadar for LNG shipments...getting the gas to gawadar would be a huge exersize and only pipelines could solve the problem..otherwise LNG rankers transporting thru afghanistan would be problematic anyway...building pipelines in the area has been a big failure upto now...</p><p>Jun22-2023--The LHC scraps move to hand over 45000 acres to the army for supposed corporate farming...the military prone to grabbing land for military enrichment processes...the military methinks should stop building needless elite Dhas and go for vertical construction...</p><p>Jun22-2023--Taking a cue from the misguided PTI jamia hafsa female students blocked roads as police tried to arrest maulani aziz who was illegally leading the zuhr prayers at lal masjid...in a scuffle maulana aziz fired his kalashnikov at the CTD officials and escaped to jamia hafsa...police say they just wanted the maulana to answer some questions...</p><p>June 19, 2023--eid ul azha on June 29...</p><p>Jun19--2023-- greek boat tragedy of illegal migrants attempting to move to europe...hundreds have died in which 400 are said to be pakistanis...FIA which has a fully staffed section dealing with illegal migration/human traffickers arrests some sub agents saying main agents maybe in europe...at least 12 pakistanis survived..the boat/trawler was probably out of fuel and water and as they say dead in the water and nobody came to the rescue from the greek side at least for six seven days...reports that payments of upto 2.5 million each made by each migrant seem exxagerated...most pakistanis came from kotli, mandi bahauddin and gujerat and were concentrated in a few villages...The FIA which is otherwise very active should have been able to block such migration...they should ask banks to inform when huge amounts are withdrawn in rural areas...or those prone to migration</p><p>Jun19-2023--Mna ali wazir again abducted after having been released earlier this year after a two year detention...</p><p>Jun19-2023--the IMF does not what know it is doing while Ishaq dar continues explaining something else...dar has not announced a tax or money whitening amnesty which the IMF says is against its guidelines...</p><p>Jun19-2023-- most PTI walas are unable to stomach being in jail including imran the big bad wolf...one of them an afridi character says he is being kept in a death cell similar to the one in which he kept rana sanaullah...PTI seem to have a misguided notion that they are better than others...!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br />Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-53004557780644684372023-06-02T05:45:00.096+05:002023-06-19T19:35:24.932+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jun1-15-- 2023<div>Jun 15, 2023--all the projects that started under the PTi had come to a complete halt due to planning problems says the primeminister...however Shebaz and CDA have succeeded in completing at least three of them...the seventh avenue overhead and IJ principal road expansion were the major roads inaugurated...</div><div><br /></div><div> Jun 15-2023--there are cases against against seven journalists and you tubers for inciting violence from the Pti side...journalism is depicting what happens or at best analysing the causes...but these journalists were actively spreading hate and inciting the followers to violence...</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun 15-2023--IMF says that they are against tax amnesties...even though the budget does not apparently have such measures...Pakistan regime however bent upon trying to get last tranche somehow...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgwjPdRMAgrObmXw3iOfqsA6-AMBRGUa8ALXFbEsEvxXGeDg7p7GnRFRQ3O0lMF2MD_-YEKyhwxY72Hzy8mWknG9uJqHNsRfhC-hX3zVodVHcWdKvvX9azvfNSNBftVvu8rROa1dyAxVmnymrIJEVeQPF6GvnhgBD2BAmzmbvcbbYJPhg0VFtfkGE/s1021/Screenshot%202023-06-15%20202604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1021" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgwjPdRMAgrObmXw3iOfqsA6-AMBRGUa8ALXFbEsEvxXGeDg7p7GnRFRQ3O0lMF2MD_-YEKyhwxY72Hzy8mWknG9uJqHNsRfhC-hX3zVodVHcWdKvvX9azvfNSNBftVvu8rROa1dyAxVmnymrIJEVeQPF6GvnhgBD2BAmzmbvcbbYJPhg0VFtfkGE/w400-h299/Screenshot%202023-06-15%20202604.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Jun15-2023--at a recent JIT imran said he had no evidence against Maj gen Naseer, rana sanaullah and the primeminister on the firing at his rally in wazirabad...however he said that if he had been allowed to file a FIR against them something could have been concocted...in due course...despite having a deep seated animosity against the army imran still wants to have talks with them saying they are the actual decision makers...his retired military sponsors pasha and tariq have been said to be contacting the military heirarchy without much success...all the military would be able to say was ''Learn to obey orders" whichever way they go...methinks the military will not be a little red riding hood again tobe stalked and beaten up...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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/></div><div>Jun15-2023--Biparjoy nears the coastline...but moving away from karachi</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun14-2023--Nadra chairman resigns blaming interior minister who says there was no pressure on Nadra chairman and people involved in army chief leaks of data had already been dealt with...it is strange how people cannot work under pressure when they are expected to...</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun11-2023--charter of economy useless..Pakistan has no avenues to increase exports and have to rely on foreign remittances...unless the peoples needs in tariffs, dollar rate, prices and inflation are strictly controlled...</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun11-2023--shah mahmood qureshi himself a deserter says that the Pti arrived dead on May9 and they were barely able to recover thru the IPP..which is expected to become a vibrant party...as opposed to the festering wound on pakistan soceity the Pti...shah mahmood qureshi left the PPP after his padded travel bills were rejected...the doctors diagnosed the Pti as afflicted with saboteurs and arsonists and the corrupt plus a few murderers..i can assure u that <i>mooch nahin te kuch nahin...</i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdvjd2IeGJtgPFszkdGkaD7P25TxI7RJ3qWvc87VBig5HdUOeJJ5fTksxZtb-8WgmW26MyHXEsFrDi6zjfULPLvakNpAT-osQcu6PMCcvEnosWEvxvGwGsbcu2itA-1pHs-LQbFnZ9XZfDfxAaVnqVXiBGGebeX64149O9CzpXkN_xMPlyv15EMqf/s1028/Screenshot%202023-06-11%20104636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1028" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdvjd2IeGJtgPFszkdGkaD7P25TxI7RJ3qWvc87VBig5HdUOeJJ5fTksxZtb-8WgmW26MyHXEsFrDi6zjfULPLvakNpAT-osQcu6PMCcvEnosWEvxvGwGsbcu2itA-1pHs-LQbFnZ9XZfDfxAaVnqVXiBGGebeX64149O9CzpXkN_xMPlyv15EMqf/w640-h504/Screenshot%202023-06-11%20104636.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The Pti's support base in south punjab will be runover by the IPP and PPP...with central punjab dominated by the Pmln that leaves the dubious north punjab up for grabs...The Pti will have to face a tough time in KP and their support in karachi has already been exposed...</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun11-1023--heavy rains in lakki marwat, bannu, karak cause 17 deaths</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun 10-2023-- fauj withdrawn from islamabad and punjab as PTi threat evaporates...</div><div><br /></div><div>Juln0-2023--generally anti people nature of government continues... the budget increases salaries by 30-35%..half earmarked for debt repayments...no improvement in tariffs, prices, availaibility expected peoples wise...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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still want another program...the general availaibility of energy...prices and availaibility was problematic</div><div><br /></div><div>Jun8-2023--in what seems tobe a general trend Jehangir Tareen picked up the endorsements of major defectors from the PTI...Imran has been unable to deflect the criticism that he and shah mahmood qureshi being senior leaders were behind the May9 mayhem...if this trend continues than the "Istehkham Pakistan Party" maybe leading in the next polls in Punjab with the other contenders PPP, PMLn and PTi...following...The party name is heavy and difficult however the initials IPP are simple although some say it might suggest that they are with the PPP...while the Pti has lost upto a 100 leaders it was top heavy and it could make imrans job of bringing in new blood easier...The toughest contest is most likely in Punjab while KP might still divy up between PTi and the JUI-F..imrans job maybe easier if he does not get disqualified/sentenced as he now has two murder cases too...Khadija Shah says that they were not mistreated and made an apparent bid to take over the punjab PTI women leadership...some suggest that shah mahmood qureshi might have have delivered a message to imran to move on and that he will handle the party...!The general insinuation is that if imran retires the party may come together again...!The army would be happy if imran moves on and they can lockup the identified troublemakers in the May9 incidents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTPILU-vJrZydjOnBChr3P_yuvvpIAH5FL4K-hDJjiHRgpA0soNpU4b6vsU_X3gsb6A7lB7RoTPdg2fdCohevhCVoCEweGOc4jkIUc1eLzhIUHtc4i_wrwL15abz0bobvOOaZ1J4wr4bVF6j8KRLhs99U6PZ_V9KkRgG1G59SfkFRReVOhBPpzx-I-/s998/Screenshot%202023-06-08%20155819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="998" height="406" 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/></div><div>Jun5-2023--On the sidelines of the national chaos and PTI disintegration the karachi city council situation shows a divide of PDM 175 seats and JI-PTI 193 seats...PPP apparently trying to break away Ji-PTI seats...it could reflect the national situation somewhat</div><div><br /></div><div>June5-2023--Punjab IG says Yasmin Rashid key planner of jinnah house attack...an audio suggests she ordered pti workers to det fire to the corp commanders house...mian aslam iqbal who with another pti mna is accused of shooting and killing two pti workers on the run saying that police looted his daughters dowry...many pti lahore leaders were in telephonic contact with attacks on other military installations</div><p></p>Jun 5- 2023-- Pti defectors come up with a supposedly 35 member democrats group under Raas a former imran puppet...the democrats could be a Pti front group designed to prevent a complete destruction of the party as they dont oppose imran... but oppose the PDM... this apparently after seeming failure of similar attitude Chaudhry Fawad group ...imran trying to stuff top positions with seeming loyalists/puppets or batmen.... suicide bomber takes over KP pti leadership<div><div><br /><div>June3-2023--PTI propaganda does not stop even in jail or anywhere else...as u know when something happens imrans first reaction is major general ? did it...than he realizes that the man was run down by a rich vice president of his party...the women in the video below donot seem hurt or injured but being innocents and victimized/fooled by the imran ideology... they probably did not expect tobe in jail for rioting on the streets and being involved in arson...video can be seen on twitter.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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literally turning a blind eye to crime just because they know the perpretrators family...the judges are at best becoming Hoodwinking Inc....they let off three girls who were beating up another when she threatened to tell her mother...!this has happened after audios started to appear of judges families trying to pander to fake justice and affect judgements...this video probably made by another girl and can easily be identified...</p><p>Jun2, 2023--as usual hammad azhar retracts talks offer says it is not for for puppets...the army does not talk to enemies of the state...and as some say only puppets, orderlies, batmen, chaprasi's and hangers on left in PTi...</p><p>Jun2-2023--Imran who has flailed away at talks with institutions told by the government that he should approach the primeminister rather than the army...!This is a stepping down from a hard stance by the government...imran should technically lose face by talking to the government but he might gain by bringing the army to his table...!</p><p>Jun2-2023-- Pervez Khattak has also resigned from Pti positions...while Pervez Elahi has been arrested...interior ministry says 33 have been handed over for army act prosecution..Pervez elahi had escaped arrest several times and he has been arrested after his bail in a corruption case was cancelled...like imran...pervez elahi is also supposed to have received over 200 million in commissions..pervez khattak was president of the PTI Kp and has said that he will make future decisions after consultations...khattak like fawad chaudhry had been supporting better relations and negotiations and did not want investigations into KP programs..buzdar probably feeling neglected also quits...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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imrans insinuations against military and May9<p></p><p>Jun2-2023--a rana sanaullah tweet which imran used as a suggestion that women particularly Khadija shah were being mistreated...khadija her family says was not involved in politics but she was arrested apparently in connection with attacks on the corp commanders venue ..there are supposedly 11-31 women in police custody who the PTI was using to attack the police...a senior women police officer visited the kot lakhpat jail and said that nothing of the sort had occurred</p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-15zivkp" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy 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inherit;">Views</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><p> Jun1-2023--one never believes it but the bigger party is always prone to fragmentation in times of crisis...generally as imran becomes corrupt and fights the army he tends to lose sight of the bigger picture...his lack of interest in being an mna also causes a belittling of parliament...however at the moment apart from a few mna's he is losing more mpa's...it could become a tide and he would at best be left with novices in place of his party of lota's...technically he should be able to win with unknown candidates as well due to his supposedly huge popularity...however he is losing the bigheadedness of power ..last time this happened he had lotas homes targeted and gheraoed...This time pathetically he only ejected them from his whatsapp ...on the one hand fawad chaudhry leads his small band trying for a bigger piece of cheese...he was found talking to shah mahmood qureshi in jail who had earlier left the PPP on corruption charges...however the sly zardari made a big gain by breaking of a chunk of south punjab PTI ticket holders..it seems that south punjab is up for grabs...the PPP took in 24 former PTI ticketholders...some say that bilawal has the establishment backing this time even though it won only six mna's from punjab in 2018...so the PPP at the moment leads JTI and PMLq at the moment in confrontation against the PTI...some say that Fawad is trying for a Imran free PTi while others say he is seeking his share in Pti funds...senior Pti leaders deny any contact with Fawad...</p><p>Jun1, 2023--two soldiers die along iran border after their post was attacked...</p><p>Jun1-2023--The former azad kashmir PM sardar tanvir ilyas joined the PMLq and called imran a so called political leader who misled the youth to acts such as the attack on the jinnah house...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXV4R4gnhARrAtUPkvuGQ7z1MVp2J1TO12iQYumeKhWCjLPRB0lv3jxj_qW6MLt7m5BRltcft0cVzyx5-RNxJpu8ucN9FaPqw-pFD5PcMDEnGfLTFpwbWOpdoWUvX2DFccqpxErS4HM8WUzwAM8i2DegjLEoqFKZjQ0TNLznw9q-pDVrxiTHGQFU3K/s1780/Screenshot%202023-06-02%20062210.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="1780" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXV4R4gnhARrAtUPkvuGQ7z1MVp2J1TO12iQYumeKhWCjLPRB0lv3jxj_qW6MLt7m5BRltcft0cVzyx5-RNxJpu8ucN9FaPqw-pFD5PcMDEnGfLTFpwbWOpdoWUvX2DFccqpxErS4HM8WUzwAM8i2DegjLEoqFKZjQ0TNLznw9q-pDVrxiTHGQFU3K/w640-h373/Screenshot%202023-06-02%20062210.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Jun1-2023--GB speaker resigns amid no trust move...</p><p>Jun1-2023--the SC is at its own throats as IHC tries to save saqib nisar a former CJ's son from corruption charges...the Isa led commission on audio leaks suggests that CJ is doing chakkar makkar against government actions...IHC stays proceedings by NA body probing ex CJP's sons audio...CJP seeks SJC judges opinions about complaints against judge mazhar ali naqvi...while another judge wants to know who is recording phone calls and audios...in the present day and age recordings can be done by multiple sources and released in various ways...judges should realize that intelligence agencies are not that efficient and information has tobe moved quickly otherwise its utility decreases...there is no way that recordings can take place after approval of the judiciary secretly...pakistan is just not such a country...</p><p>Jun1-2023--two militants shot dead in seperate KP incidents and a soldier protecting a polio team also killed in north waziristan</p></div></div></div>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-37881945884909540742023-05-20T02:21:00.075+05:002023-05-30T13:48:25.951+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) May16--31, 2023<p>May30-2023--the Pakistan 1973 constitution writing committee is now in plaster statues at the senate museum..prominent maulanas of the time and abdul hafeez pirzada were key particiapants</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyUQwbTfJcLLcxxz-NaVoCs7-OAsXyO3puA71KWEFabxo6g0XzjWhUbZHYVbQVg3xMQaQflY_C7ZhklEL4V0NitEwwCRdGB8w_m7ZJZ-b2NknWgVPBERRSQ2KzJu1kDR87-izBV3Qsc4WS41aF4WyRSkcVpFt5CZSw4oKSy4n13ePUbA83oulxtBJ/s1892/Screenshot%202023-05-30%20132546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1892" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyUQwbTfJcLLcxxz-NaVoCs7-OAsXyO3puA71KWEFabxo6g0XzjWhUbZHYVbQVg3xMQaQflY_C7ZhklEL4V0NitEwwCRdGB8w_m7ZJZ-b2NknWgVPBERRSQ2KzJu1kDR87-izBV3Qsc4WS41aF4WyRSkcVpFt5CZSw4oKSy4n13ePUbA83oulxtBJ/w640-h327/Screenshot%202023-05-30%20132546.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>May30-2023--Sheikh Rashid says he was not on talking terms with shehzad akber who was also associated with the interior ministry...everybody has some knowledge of the qadir case and the interior minister not knowing about is surprising...the travelling of a brief case from Bahria to imran was documented</p><p>May30-2023--Imran fires of 10 billion notice against health minister who said that imran had no fracture in his leg and was faking it...traces of alcohol and a illegal drug were also found in his urine..and that his mental stability was questionable...Imran has shown a surprising recovery from his leg injury since being checked by Pims doctors...before he was moving around on a wheelchair...</p><p>May30-2023--Imran summoned by punjab JIT to investigate his involvement in the corp commanders house attack case..imran and chaudhry fawad have been prominent in saying at various times what would happen if imran was arrested...others say that the orders for the May9 attacks were given six months ago by party leaders..the JIT to meet today at Qilla Gujjar singh police station</p><p>May30-2023--CJ Bandial says he was just trying to defend the courts power against the audio leaks commission...many feel that he has done it out of fear of audio leaks which were supposedly meant to affect his judgement...he supposedly indicated that most leaks came from something called 'indibell'...he could easily have done it after the audio leaks commission had concluded its job...a commission can only verify audio leaks and see who was behind them...</p><p>May30-2023--The Jehangir tareen group has again resurfaced to try to absorb the almost 70 PTI walahs who have quit the Pti under the current situation..some are very prominent types and could provide the JT group a bigger stake in the next elections...it is not the PMLn who needs leaders even though they too like the PPP would like to pick a few...there are already several prominent types in the JT group...they just probably have to select a matching name and start running...Jehangir Tareen had been disqualified for not mentioning a 12 acre property he owned in england...the new party could be called JTi...as jehangir tareen could appeal his lifetime disqualification..otherwise aleem khan , PTI discards could be in the running ...people mention the chaudhry shujaat factor however it does not have a key leader leading it...however if the Pti somehow falters the PMLq and JTi could be challenging the PPP and PMLn...as Punjab is the only province that could divide the votes and seats</p><p>May30-2023--the corp commander house raid by the Pti is becoming the real focus of imrans opposition even in the PTI...shaitan ibn shaitan imran called rana Sanaullah a certified criminal and insisted that his defence confirmed women were being raped in prison...the most prominent apart from imran's usual chaprasi types seems tobe khadija shah...prominent daughter of salman shah and grandaughter of former army chief asif nawaz janjua...there are apparently 32 pti women criminals in jail for the attack on the corp commanders house..the punjab government sent in officials to check the jail and said that the women are held in a women only prison with a female doctor and two female health workers...some 11 women are still on remand</p><p>May27-2023--the government apparently cancelled a zoom meeting that imran had arranged with a group of UK mp's...methinks such a meeting should be arranged with government participants if a real tone is expected...in this connection two journalists are said to have disappeared ..one had been apprehended by the police while the others assailants were not identified...Sami ibrahim is said tobe a key military antagonist </p><p>May27-2023--Imran now suddenly wants talks with the powers that be...supposedly according to him that means the army...upto now talks have been i think held twice...the first time they arrived at a decision on a amendment to the NAB law and imran and azhar torpedoed that..the second and recent was the talks on the elections...only a decision on holding elections on one day was reached after which the Pti walked away...talks can only be held when both parties can benefit...imran seems to have a party floundering on his one man views about opposition to the army and he generally continues to insult everyone...he also denies responsibility for initiating one of the most terrible violence , arson and military assaults in pakistans history...so what does he want to talk about...whats happening is a reaction to his own actions...if there is no one hiding in zaman park than he should get the search over and done with..only pervez elahi of his leadership has not been found by police...so he must either be an escape artist or hiding at zaman park and probably some of the corp commander home attackers...</p><p>May27-2023--Justice Bandial who is himself involved as a target for audio leaks has suspended the audio leaks commission saying it insults the higher courts..i dont think the commission could have been any higher in the setup and its job technically was to check the authencity of the audio leaks...the CJ should have allowed it as it would have given the court a halo and stature that it has lost in due course...but the action focuses doubt on the judges intentions and role...</p><p>May27, 2023-- strange contradictions in the Pti and Imran behaviour...he says the PTI is not responsible for the violence and arson on May9...than why is he worried about arsonists being tried under the army act..senior leaders of his party were present at the corp commanders house and the attack on GHQ...his secretary general of 13 months could not control the parties violence or the meaningless 11 month PTI protests. it is now well known that imran left the government in collusion with shahbaz sharif orders.....people like peace and quite and general security and the army under article 245 somehow succeeds in providing that...so why the opposition to the army on the streets...he says his party is not involved...senior leaders of his party led protests and blocked key roads in KP and assaults on military infrastructure..somehow there was no element of anti government protests...mostly it was focused on an anti state/infrastructure(burning metro stations and police vehicles/anti military attitude...party hacks know how the funds were expropriated by imran for himself...khata khud he aur kaam hum karte hen...case in point...he flies to madina in a plane with wife and supposed friend who some say was his wifes handler... whom he also took to davos, switzerland...saying he would handle the economy/israel...while ordinary workers have to walk to medina...!many also point to his sudden healing of a fractured or painful leg...</p><p>May26-2023--twin blast in zardalo, Harnai kill two..Harnai is a restive coal mine area in balochsitan..an SHO killed in an operation near dera bugti..a soldier lost his life in Tirah..while polio team attack injures three police officers</p><p>May26-2023--Martyrs Day...who do u think is the primeminister..imran says it is an undeclared martial law...article 245 is just for calling out the army in aid of the civil government...the days of violence he perpretrated necessitated that...things continue to evolve and move on...the govt trying to get hold of all the arsonists and military attackers ..PTI losing leaders at a fast pace...a commission on audio leaks..the CJ tries to take notice saying his nani's audio is an internal matter...imran trying to hang onto a favorable judiciary for dear life..government resisting the idea of banning the PTI like other militant organizations...and imrans tinka ka sahara...if u leave the party i will remove them from the parties whatsapp..who cares about that..imran continues his one man dictatorship of his party</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM65sDSnQXaRRbYtzul3ZMWe4dg6Rq13Mj6z3TpreeOAIYVa2VShgD5f6H2TTR760bX_mfn_mbvw2_eUK1we_g7uAhvk_HqalOxAItBnyn9LxZ7GreLSt7NkD-4GRaPIrcnxRbvXJW2ex0LP534UKGtVI61ajHMFNXAubvmdUZDLrM6ur_nfjBCLf3/s1581/Screenshot%202023-05-26%20182648.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="1581" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM65sDSnQXaRRbYtzul3ZMWe4dg6Rq13Mj6z3TpreeOAIYVa2VShgD5f6H2TTR760bX_mfn_mbvw2_eUK1we_g7uAhvk_HqalOxAItBnyn9LxZ7GreLSt7NkD-4GRaPIrcnxRbvXJW2ex0LP534UKGtVI61ajHMFNXAubvmdUZDLrM6ur_nfjBCLf3/w640-h394/Screenshot%202023-05-26%20182648.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>May25-2023--imran again refers to an ideology as yet unknown saying that parties cannot be crushed...while large parties donot suffer as much there is always a withering of the wine under a sustained assault that depicts characteristics of the parties illogical behaviour like May 9 when the party literally went up against the state not the government...while imran tries desperately to seperate himself from the perpretrators he is losing supporters by suggesting that he and the party were not responsible..his anti military assaults have floundered from earlier thoughts that he might have been hard done by the establishment...!</p><p>May25-2023--Today is the first<b> Martyrs day </b>in Pakistan after the military declared May 9 as a black day in response to Pti violence...The military largely unnerved by the Pti hostilities said that they would not allow the honour of their shaheeds to be degraded/diminished/tarnished...upto now Mar23 and Sept6 and 7 have been military pomp and shows and remembrance of wars when shaheeds were publically remembered...there have been some dubious attitudes towards naming internal casaulties of the military, police and paramilitaries as shaheeds as the fight is against internal/pakistani insurgents and militants and includes civilian casaulties...this has been complicated with political agitationists being declared shaheeds/heros by their organizations like the PPP, Mqm and recently the PTI who have also recently claimed 25 shaheeds...all that aside one would suggest that real military shaheeds be given a seperate burial ground in the capital where they can be revered...most shaheeds have been buried in their own areas...some with memorial towers/monuments...people do revere and remember the shaheeds of the 1965 war..but other wars like 1971 and insurgences are best forgotten...the sole outstander being captan karnal sher sher khan of mardan who died in the Kargill war...and considered a brave warrior...Wikipedia lists 15 conflicts in which Pakistan was involved including internal insurgencies..the PTI also desecrated the monument of karnal sher khan... Pakistanis do remember their dead and converge on graveyards on a specific day to wash and clean and pray at their ancestors graves...</p><p>May24-2023--PTI should understand that even in cricket vicious bouncers can be bowled...and u duck and weave or hit it for six..however what u dont do is to start digging up the pitch, attacking the umpire and beating up the groundsman or camera man...or set fire to the pavillion</p><p>May24-2023--rumours mill apparently has imrans trusted pirni as receiving calls from primeministerial aspirants...most would like to find out if she could project them to power and what the cost would be...imran and bushra are considered to have a great love for money...while imran apparently married her because she said that he would profit or benefit...while the monetary profit and becoming primeminister was successful... probably she sold him out towards the latter end of his political career and created immense problems for him...popularity and government are two different things...maybe imran would have been better of an as an actor..</p><p>May24-2023--Khawaja Asif says banning Pti being considered..questions are being asked as to whether the Pti is against the state, government, military or the entire concept of the country...while Faisal Wavda blames ex ISI chief for al qadir trust corruption...what we know is that the money and land deeds were sent directly to imran thru shahzad akber...</p><p>May24-2023--six militants killed in south waziristan operation</p><p>May24-2023--today imran came up with a statement that he would step down if (unknown adjudicators think that he is the problem)...since he brought the country to this juncture with his year long insidious protests, wild attacks on the military, USA and Bajwa and recent arson, riots and physical assaults on military installations..it would be a normal conclusion that he is responsible...it would definitely ease things if he replaced the parties chairman and resigned from politics...in statements recently he has also opposed elections in October questioning what they would solve...elections are not a panacea but a means to bring in a new government...imran should realize that the dictatorship of a few is not a government...that could lead us to a military coup or a government by a Bajwa type...we could even bring in Raheel Shareef who is a milder sort of general...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh2Jtf7vrNQV6L_si5wRyY2ge4PWGINan9GDPdEgeOtUA0y7SfB6crju83Y3c59M_NWjxM13W3l8AlZogX3uehEq59I6eRUNFz3WaENVbXLBopHZZlSDZIGMoq9qR0gc2jXcEjpV6IkPp-oFau6zMp_YqYjwCdo-Yli-paNy9SLHEt4KyeYw82YHm/s520/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20231747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="434" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh2Jtf7vrNQV6L_si5wRyY2ge4PWGINan9GDPdEgeOtUA0y7SfB6crju83Y3c59M_NWjxM13W3l8AlZogX3uehEq59I6eRUNFz3WaENVbXLBopHZZlSDZIGMoq9qR0gc2jXcEjpV6IkPp-oFau6zMp_YqYjwCdo-Yli-paNy9SLHEt4KyeYw82YHm/w334-h400/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20231747.jpg" width="334" /></a></div>this is the way security men holding bullet proof shields escort imran in islamabad...these days<p></p><p>May23-2023--PTi inits head butt first and thinking later attitude has a initiated a case in the SC to oppose the use of the army act... specifically prosecuting attacks on military infrastructure under the army act...that would at least ensure that some rioters get preventive detention the only deterrent that is available in pakistan...they also oppose the summoning of the military under article 245...that was regarded as one of the only methods to stop violence, arson and riots...they also want the court to look into the crackdown on the party...many think the governments actions are justified ...since the party planned and executed the riots to almost perfection one does not oppose that either...the governments actions against some of the Pti's top leaders has resulted in many jumping ship/positions...jumping ship is one step that Pti leaders can take to avoid harassment and jail...however those just stepping down from Pti positions will flow with the tide...however many leaders are stepping away from the Pti because of its assaults on military infrastructure...as Fawad chaudhry said Pakistan may not survive without its army...</p><p>May22-2023--Imran has done another tumble and now says that he is completely happy with Donald Lu and wants other US officials to give statements against the government...he also says that he will help arrest PTI arsonists and rioters despite protesting that 10000 are under arrest..government on the other hand showed its weaknesses by agreeing to not charge civilian rioters under the military act...only those who acted against army installations will be charged under the army act...imran wants us to believe that yasmin rashid had gone to the corp commanders house to stop pti rioters fron entering...earlier a pti walahs audio said she had urged them to set fire to the corp commanders house...imran now has also done a tumble on military relations saying he supports the militaries defence objectives and his previous allegations would weaken the army...he for the third straight day said he would be arrested..he has been talking to the administration on searching his huge palace for hidden arsonists and rioters and military attackers..he again said that he would be attacked by a fanatic...</p><p>May22-2023--Dawn suggests that exports can be increased and used instead of loans... what we have seen is that exports are stagnating, imports are increasing and that there were only an increase in exports post the covid era otherwise there is stiff competition..however there is a potential for substantial decrease in imports if Pakistan maintains status quo...there is literally no room left for more export oriented industries with higher prices...the dollar rise has already shown no comparable effect on exports...</p><p>May22-2023--two soldiers and three militants die in exchange of fire in Tank.</p><p> May20-2023--Imran continues to parade his views on arson...assault on military offices and bases and riots as some sort of demented ideology...just compare his parties treatment by judges of a supposedly weak frightened terrified mind...The Gawadar bachao movement consisted of demos of peaceful sitting people...the maulana who organised them has just been released after 4 months...compare this to the three days of imran or less of other PTI leaders...if this is not some sort of bias or <i>akrabaparwari </i>than i donot know english...the peaceful protests in gawader were considered a threat to the chinese who i think must regard the people as some sort of opponent as does the military...the military chief who at least supposedly went to gawader and ordered some face saving acts as opposed to the nasty corp commander...there...imran one must say must take responsibility and stop his partymen from such violent and terrible attitudes...shirin mazaro spent the entire day asking the UN to take actions against Pakistan...there is now no doubt that the Pti had already prepared a plan of widespread arson and riots on imrans arrest that was enacted by shah mahmood qureshi...fawad chaudhry was to be the other leader of the riots but he supposedly backed down...</p><p>May20-2023--JI emir survives a suicide attack on his convoy in Zhob...!</p><p>May20-2023--Shahid Karim another of the PTI judges sets aside at least the acceptance of 53/72 PTI mnas resignations...and asked them to individually meet the speaker.</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-4719478037012408272023-05-03T12:17:00.074+05:002023-05-30T12:27:01.767+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) May1-15, 2023<p>May11-2023--widespread violent protests and arson activity took place all over various places in islamabad and rawalpindi...NLC godown was torched as was a metro station in rawalpindi...raja basharat former PTI law minister/Khalid jadoon former pti mpa apparently urged and led pti protestors to attack the GHQ...police and protestors clashed all day at srinagar highway and an SP office was set on fire as were numerous vehicles...while in lahore yasmin rashid wanted the corp commanders residence set on fire...</p><p>May11-2023--another court controversy has surfaced...in the Tyrian white case the CJ has recused himself and reconstituted the bench while a decision of two judges has been loaded onto the court website while it has not been announced or even case listed for announcement...</p><p>May11-2023--The dollar which had held steady at Rs283 rose to Rs.290...</p><p>May11-2023--arson was the common activity of the Pti ...in lahore military buildings and homes were attacked..most protests were in KP and lahore..eight killed in kP and two in Lahore...military called May9 a black day...the military has been called out in Punjab and KP as the police response was at best feeble...karachi police however despite the arson was better able to do some control...many are suggesting that shah mahmud qureshi and Fawad Chaudhry were behind the orders for violence and protests..this is the scene outside the radio pakistan, Peshawar...such scenes were common in lahore, peshawar, karachi and islamabad...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRmOeTNKvUnehu3Vzfi8KRoZr6vH7SnJ4UUUr34YDV-bBLVGDEfuje5REO5Rh7gSrlJrLsRYBWW0jQoiq2--P30p5q8b38TtY-yT87Hxcxt_ILa5LyhBu9RMkNgsrGhSzMl-N3G6KCGpVFGpg6FcZWyu05mCiBx-4dWLsr7NLTyzZGMSM6OSHwmOw/s1027/Screenshot%202023-05-11%20161705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1027" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRmOeTNKvUnehu3Vzfi8KRoZr6vH7SnJ4UUUr34YDV-bBLVGDEfuje5REO5Rh7gSrlJrLsRYBWW0jQoiq2--P30p5q8b38TtY-yT87Hxcxt_ILa5LyhBu9RMkNgsrGhSzMl-N3G6KCGpVFGpg6FcZWyu05mCiBx-4dWLsr7NLTyzZGMSM6OSHwmOw/w640-h492/Screenshot%202023-05-11%20161705.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>May11-2023--parliament considering a new law to initiate a process of contempt of parliament...</p><p>May11-2023--foreign commentators say Pakistan not to get IMF bailout and could default without it...minister says Pakistan could become even more dependent on China and prosper...IMF has adopted a strange policy of refusing to bailout (it is IMF job to help countries with monetary/fiscal issues) unless Pakistan arranges more help from other countries...Pakistan looking for a Chinese rollover and having to pay some debt...Shahbaz Sharif stays in London for another day as PTI threatens more protests and blockage of army residences in Peshawar and Lahore...protestors invaded the gates of the GHQ Islamabad which has not yet been officially opened...Imran being held supposedly at police lines in Islamabad as other leaders of PTI are incarcerated...he was later handed over to NAB...</p><p>May10-2023--widespread protests and blockages of highways in various parts of KP</p><p>May10-2023--Imran ... was arrested today by a Rangers battalion from an IHC courtroom and whisked away in his own car. he was arrested in an Al-Qadir trust case which is one of the biggest corruption cases that imran and family are accused of...imran apparently received over Rs500 million and 450 acres of land in Sohawa..in exchange for letting the Bahria chief of the hook in a foreign funds case which included pounds 190 million...it also came to light after a audio involving Farah Gogi and Bushra the imran crooked corruption team...it involves the imran corruption/NAB czar Shahzad Akbar who has been absconding with Farah who is accused of taking away corruption proceeds of one billion. Riots , protests and attacks on public property have occurred in various parts of the country while a crowd was shown throwing stones at the GHQ gate and an attack occurred on the house of the Corp commander Lahore...the arrest seems to coincide with Imran renewing his attack on ISI director Faisal Naseer...The ISPR chief had declared Imran's accusations as politically motivated concoctions...The government seemed slow to react but by the afternoon they were reeling of details of the al-Qadir trust case...reports were issued of imran undergoing medical tests as he complained of pain in his leg..imran can be kept in confinement for 14 days at least under Nab rules. The PTI has suggested that he might be incarcerated for a longer period...there was a lot of traffic of military helicopters between Rawalpindi and Islamabad suggesting consultations of how harsh a crackdown might occur tomorrow...there were some suggestions that elections could take place on September 3...!other suggestions/rumors were that a new ISI chief maybe appointed...!there were some suggestions that mobile and internet were being blocked but there were no restrictions on Wi-Fi...</p><p>May9-2023--ISPR says Imrans baseless allegations against military officers not acceptable and they may go for court cases...</p><p>May9-2023--PAC seeks details of a judges assets detail after he bought a 100 million property</p><p>May9-2023--The SC/CJ is refusing to accept that judges become biased and a full court reference is necessary in select cases...</p><p>May8-2023--around 100 illegally built structures demolished in F-11...</p><p>May8-2023--having been unable to implement elections in 90 days the SC CJ still insists that it is a duty not choice...</p><p>May7-2023--polls only in punjab not appropriate says PM...</p><p>May6-2023--SC says it will issue appropriate order on single day polls but will also decide the May14 case...!</p><p>May5-2023--court case details how Bushra connived to divorce Reham and get themselves married thru skullduggery...many suggest since she was the reason, he became PM than he was also removed by her Dum Durood..</p><p>May5-2023--six soldiers and three militants killed in North waziristan gunbattle</p><p>May5-2023--seven teachers and one other gunned down in Kurram</p><p>May5-2023--how imran the frightened kaptan travels...i count 15 bullet proof guards on a bomb proof vehicle...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9YCzKUTonlm-zxlwhkh-mE_OwQE_rrCCE_pji72Y8cqabM2K90Bx8HzbYhq2ekb3qkS4QdaiTc7YVeNQtAz4XdxBOAMD6Uwcd5BOAo-0RQpzGxoP9G5mb9KhwXN65Hilott7qjLeij_yibM6_SVzZ1MuCQZbYq7yoPEvNdV9h-tNfTDAa9qORFDm/s1896/Screenshot%202023-05-10%20013727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1896" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9YCzKUTonlm-zxlwhkh-mE_OwQE_rrCCE_pji72Y8cqabM2K90Bx8HzbYhq2ekb3qkS4QdaiTc7YVeNQtAz4XdxBOAMD6Uwcd5BOAo-0RQpzGxoP9G5mb9KhwXN65Hilott7qjLeij_yibM6_SVzZ1MuCQZbYq7yoPEvNdV9h-tNfTDAa9qORFDm/w640-h398/Screenshot%202023-05-10%20013727.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>May4-2023--ECP asks court to revisit May14 decision...says fixing electoral date exclusive right of ECP.</p><p>May4-2023--NA to probe ex CJ's sons audio</p><p>May3-2023--after agreeing to polls on one day the pTI and PMLn unable to agree on a date...</p><p>May3-2023--Saqib Nisar has committed unspeakable crimes says Nawaz Sharif</p><p>May2-2030--Aslam Bhootani to head NA committee to probe audio that features a former CJ's son that seems to want payment for work done by former CJP Nisar in getting a Pti ticket...recent audios have been problematic which have a politicians wife and a judges mother in law featuring in PTI/pro Bandial audio's...</p><p>May2-2030--the PTI cried itself hoarse they would go to violent protests if the negotiations fail...while imran a known trouble maker in negotiations the PDM also started to feel uneasy about the talks...many feel that the pDM while reluctant should match street protests for street protest..the talks are at a crucial stage and they have just decided that elections should take place on one day ...however the next stage of date and constitution and Pti return to parliament maybe more problematic...how the SC than sees the resulting agreement is another matter...while constitutionally both sides have done much trouble making the court could approve any delay even without a amendment if there is a peaceful consensus...imran thinks that they have to dissolve all assemblies berfore May14 and than hold elections in two months ie..July14 which could be rainy or very hot...otherwise august and september are weather wise better...</p><p>May2-2030--the PTi in Rawalpindi could barely get together a dozen people for May1 remembrance...however the administration blocked islamabad routes making people walk ...which is good for exersize...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfmfASpVsNcHcEyYj09uUvr_TT1rck9nV5-eWtulI2p7Z-1jdSgJorBWEzBARCjuDKIXVgBvOsDRC8XPpCNrZfoZqj29NLPi9T0v_o6pDJ4lrwvYytu_6P8SOsb4BJk0lfZ0QjOlWHfsGDQaYc3f7mAsrFFm_cvxS5cdqauyupxBMVE8H8rbZw67y/s999/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20123418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="999" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfmfASpVsNcHcEyYj09uUvr_TT1rck9nV5-eWtulI2p7Z-1jdSgJorBWEzBARCjuDKIXVgBvOsDRC8XPpCNrZfoZqj29NLPi9T0v_o6pDJ4lrwvYytu_6P8SOsb4BJk0lfZ0QjOlWHfsGDQaYc3f7mAsrFFm_cvxS5cdqauyupxBMVE8H8rbZw67y/w640-h390/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20123418.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>May2-20230--workers protested all sorts of legal things on May1...noticeable was the women domestic workers union, punjab...it could be one of the largest unions in punjab, pakistan as one or two women work in each home...in pervez elahis home there were 13 employees...!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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work but the road they made from sangjani to D-12 leaves much tobe desired in quality terms...the road also developed cracks...the quality of the median and side pavement stones looks awful...this is the second road to connect to the main roads like N-5 and motorway and should be good quality...a portion to F-11/margalla avenue is under construction...while another portion will connect to bara kahu...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6kqDzKJBKUAU3U7JHqWQQeNDXph6PmRSxYKAFeV0oVgTvaRjXWN2oX1-L7CLWSURq2Qg62LNa5vPCfIbUmU7gio72VaG3y3UTZksJnSK5dsKUUonaBLzpBakQQb_543BELdgKME50yqdapug0rv-HRsiqmrbCXd-y4zTDHyYTaWBUMsRzzXGF_vR/s1536/Screenshot%202023-05-03%20123551.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1087" data-original-width="1536" height="453" 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his committee to personal/agent loyalists/corrupt...</p><p>30Apr-2023--Asim Munir tried to tread an independent line saying army loyal to its role and said he would fight for the peoples support against hidden enemies...the enemies are quite apparent and a few people have orchestrated anti army venom with imran being the outstanding ghaddar.....while there is relative peace in Afghanistan things in the KP are not as peaceful and the army will have to control things in Pakistan rather than Afghanistan...from gwadar to swat and lakki marwat confrontation lines are being redrawn...</p><p>30Apr-2023--The election talks have become muddy, dubious and political and some suggest they are near a dead end..Pti almost prepared to quit talks...with the PTI raising other issues and wanting a conducive/enabling environment too...when PTi will itself adopt an enabling environment instead of confrontation is unclear...earlier it was supposed to be a one point agenda...PTI politicking it widely as the issue almost grounds to a halt...imran raised the ante by refusing to accept a government budget and saying that governments must be dissolved by May14...for a one time national election...Imran however agreed to persist with talks snubbing his communist street worker hardliners...Ishaq dar says he knew nothing of the pervez elahi raid just as he knew nothing of the national assembly rejecting funds for elections...Ishaq dar who is playing dumb peacemaker seems to not know how to deal with it...The PMLn huddle however suggests that they will go into elections after some relief to the people when a IMF agreement is reached...IMF agreements never provide relief to the people...ishaq dar has no idea of peoples problems as he recently increased medicine prices by 20% and even announced a further raise in electricity tariffs...many think that the people are barely concerned with election dates and are unsure twhether the reluctant pro big guy phycho economist imran will be able to make major changes and bring in pro people policies..last time he jettisoned a ahmedi economist who many say is behind current government extremist polices...no major attitude changes are expected in the tuesday last round unless the PTI comes up with a more mutually agreeable agenda or the PDM collapses...elections in July , september, august, october are the same to the people and the only possibility is to split the issue thru the middle...lets say elections on august30 or dissolution of all assemblies on august 14...tough to accept by both sides...! ...The issue will than revert to the SC and one does not see how they can resolve it unless they open up their minds...many think that the PTI will be the only one queing for the doors of election booths to open...and may have to go for a street battle once again...!</p><p>29Apr-2023--An international PIA plane started to leak smelly drainage water..PIA says someone blocked the drains..while drain /sewage leakage is common in many cities in Pakistan this is the first we hear about the dubious PIA...</p><p>29Apr-2023--the PTI information stream now being handled by ijaz zia as they dubbed the caretakers attempt to arrest the dubious Pervez elahi in a case of corrruption /kickbacks...a "chaddar and chardeewari" issue as a police vehicle knocked down the gate of the wealthy sugar mill chakri-elahi home...pervez a elahi a hardened traditional area politician escaped...neighbour shujaat's home also searched..probably hiding in the escaped convicts enclave of banigala and zaman park...!the 19 servants arrested as they threw stones, batons and petrol at the police</p><p>29Apr-2023--as ceasefires are being attempted in Khartoum Pakistan too trying to evacuate the around 1500 pakistanis...pakistanis are being transported to port sudan from where they take ferries to jeddah...</p><p>29Apr-2023--The generally dumb PDM in the economic arena has raised medicine prices by upto 20%...medicine prices have been increasing steadily since the early PTi era...</p><p>29Apr-2023--Imran continued to play spoilsport/ main trouble maker as he opposed further negotiations if the government wanted elections beyond August...The Pti seemed tobe bringing in other issues apart from elections in an attempt to end negotiations...however as imran attempted to create another drama at a courtroom 43 workers of the Pti were arrested...however the PDM team had them released...imran was bailed out in a mutiny case in which he had raved and ranted against ISI and other army officers...however ishaq dar said that some progress has been made and attempts might be on going to split the difference between the two sides and elections may take place in September...!many are joking that if the PTi primeminister was tobe Shah mahmood qureshi than elections could be held tomorrow...others joked about the dubious memory of Fawad chaudhry who was bent upon writing down notes asif sitting in a urdu medium classroom...however doubts on elections being held kept on being made by the seemingly election frightened Pti...many point to their poor showing in karachi recently and in the KP first stage LG elections...next round of talks dubbed as the final round on tuesday..before this the PDM has opposed/mocked the attempt by the SC tobe a panchayat...as the ECP reported that funds for elections have not been arranged...the courts could ask the ECP to arrange loans and charge each voter/party/candidate a fee...!</p><p>29Apr-2023--the killing(assumed)of a majlis amal JUIf leader could be reason that fighting has broken out in lakki marwat...three soldiers killed in a new round and seven militants...suicide bomber blows himself up on a bike near army compound...attacks have taken place in the last few days on military and CTD locations..a new organisation "Tehreek -i-Jihad Pakistan has surfaced... a possible new military offensive may also be the reason for the intensified militant activity...however things have tobe planned even if they are done quickly...</p><p>28Apr-2023--rumours making the the rounds suggest that the courts may remove shebaz sharif as primeminister and another will take his seat...a senator has never i think been made premier so look at other candidates in the PDM negotiating team...</p><p>28Apr-2023--as bomb blasts and firing rang out in Lakii Marwat the government and the PTI met for the first round of talks as the government delegation was buttressed with ishaq dar, azam tarrar and their allies...it might be considered a breakthru however previous talk results have been torpedoed by imran...there were reports that initial meetings took place on Apr19 but there was no confirmation...other contacts being attempted by the senate chairman and the ANP who might be looking at pti support in KP where the PTI has tilted towards the JUIf...a letter was supposedly written by the NA speaker to the CJ..the PTI came prepared and suggested dissolution of all assemblies in May and elections in July and a possible one time constitutional amendment ...they also wanted the NA speaker to allow them back into the assemblies...Shebaz also took a vote of confidence securing 180 votes ...for the time being the mqm sided with the government...if the PTI comes back in than there could be a possible minor vote swing however it is expected that shebaz will retain support..now this is a PTI position of which we have been hearing for the past month...how the PDM responds is unclear and might be clear inits response today...earlier the PDM has said that the assemblies will expire in August and elections can take place in October or November...the PDM has also suggested that the funds for the elections can be budgeted in the next budget which usually comes in May..The CJ has also said that talks can resolve the problems as the issue is between two parties and the courts donot have much leeway or leverage..the PTI has suggested that the courts takeover the caretakers job and hold elections...that is going away from the constitution...the issue therefore is for the parties to resolve everything by May 14 and dissolution after the budget is passed...!...if they can the courts will paper over minor cracks in the decision making...if not there could be a standoff on May14 with the courts having to give a judgement apportioning blame by May15 or earlier when they realize that elections are not being held...there could be further destability if everyone stands there ground...</p><p>26Apr-2023--Hussein Haqqani alleges that imran making false allegations against him and that he is not a registered lobbyist...however other reports suggest that hussein haqqani worked for a imran lobbyist who was the ex CIA director in Pakistan...apparently Haqqani was asked to meet imrans second wife with whom he had become friendly...there have been reports that imran sent $20000 to his second wife covering her expenses for book writing...!</p><p>26Apr-2023--The ISPR chief probably the first chaudhry in that position saying they were apolitical came out with the usual army politics and rhetoric...mostly he had turned against the TTP and social media critics..there were guffaws when he said that they regarded all politicians with respect a sort of slap in imrans face..he continued to support a general election nationwide and said they could not provide security...the only people available maybe the Punjab Rangers and everybody else was involved in operations...he seemed to run right into the PTi views...he said that 293 killed in terrorist incidents last year and 157 killed in military operations...positively he said armed forces reducing expenditures...he insisted that the fauj could provide food security on 45000 acres from punjab and did not explain why ordinary kissans/private sector/chinese could not handle it on a tender basis...military has had problems with people working on military farms...he said that the army could not respond to social media directly and immediately even though many of them are military related..even retired lt. generals are putting out AI generated rhetoric on a specific side...the military too could hire 1000 influencers who could respond immediately..he also said that "<span face="Georgia, ui-serif, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">dragging the institution into politics to suppress an ideology, religion or a political party had resulted in chaos in different countries"...probably referring to afghanistan, lebanon, somalia, sudan etc...The Pti many would say is just facing ordinary law breaking cases... the ISPR chief seemed to suggest that they had no ideology, religion or politics...that would make them aetheists at best...as for the law it should be applied by the government/police rather than the army...!</span></p><p>25Apr-2023--army chief visits china possibly seeking approval of a coup...!while mutton runs its way upto 2000-2200 in karachi... and veal to Rs.1200...meat products almost constantly moving with inflation...In 1964 mutton was Rs4 a kilo while a chicken could be had for Rs12-18...now chicken meat is around 780 and whole chicken at 480...prices usually stabilize after ramazan...</p><p>Apr25-2023--jesus was the son of a poor carpenter from nazareth and regarded as a heretic/ ghaddar by the romans and jews...is this his home...!supposedly his grave was found by the jews and they spread concrete over it...if he was the prophet of muslims they would visit his home in millions...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodZwUKUnsn3MKf083gzcOsWdLFCIVn4rZceECtLchY80o5vIKKm2eaYcozknCziuOSppoXTSAtQiEs_fGqWk17yjpH1mL77L95D83NmqJHt6NjzlktbQKyOxRX2zNpgytMIKi4IprZlFhcczcc1nKeTifWFei4lTSzUVeod6EFinOV_Qca5eMk1l0/s340/Screenshot%202023-04-25%20123003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="340" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodZwUKUnsn3MKf083gzcOsWdLFCIVn4rZceECtLchY80o5vIKKm2eaYcozknCziuOSppoXTSAtQiEs_fGqWk17yjpH1mL77L95D83NmqJHt6NjzlktbQKyOxRX2zNpgytMIKi4IprZlFhcczcc1nKeTifWFei4lTSzUVeod6EFinOV_Qca5eMk1l0/w640-h364/Screenshot%202023-04-25%20123003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Apr25-2023--imrans weak leadership has caused a pti forward block to seize the AJK primeministership after the AJK courts removed tanveer ilyas for contempt...still having a majority imran was unable to force his party behind a single candidate...he announced three possible candidates and literally split his party apart..with a supposed pti president and pti forward block primeminister they will supposedly sit in the opposition...</p><p>Apr25-2023--the talks at gun point have to take place by tommorrow...however imran has expressed scepticism saying we are for May14 elections in punjab only..Shebaz still talking to allies...initially the talks were to take place under the aegis of the JI and than the SC ordered talks to take place after eid...given the wide gaps in the PDM and PTI positions one has difficulty in assuming a consensus...only the two speakers have some point to talk about with asad qaiser even offering a one time constitution amendment..the SC could lets say wait for three days and take up the matter and announce it' s decision...which if not implemented could force the SC to initiate actions say against the State Bank governor, secretary finance, finance minister and the lame duck ECP chief...The ECP chief has however been following SC orders and can hold elections in punjab although one cannot say they will be fair as the PMLn has no candidates in the race...if the ECP does not get funds than the SC would have no option but remove the government and impose an interim government and hold national elections in 90 days...! That would take a lot of guts on the part of the seemingly weak Bandial...!</p><p>Apr25-2023--Imran seems unaware that nobody is afraid of his parties protests which have been going on for over a year and nobody cares for his biased and revengeful nature..his revenge was witnessed recently when his party returned to power in punjab and went on a rampage against opposition appointed officials...earlier a controversial remark from him suggested that he had dissolved the punjab and KP government on orders from the PDM and Bajwa...a puppet of this magnitude should not regard himself as a representative of the people</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9f_hobNQ9vpUkew8qJVSA5OEjd-dNpZC5_ldEj0xvGQUXD3ev_hGKDRXL_EC-8TZJzImsCNimyJDVQ_Hy46GwT4bWJBW2tIWo77JfaahpuGnG-sQ88egF-CMbindWCinrN5eOkaEdSHetB2bInCcIm4qzBft10ohKcr-mfH1EntKnefi4aP_85Kvp/s894/Screenshot%202023-04-25%20123217.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="894" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9f_hobNQ9vpUkew8qJVSA5OEjd-dNpZC5_ldEj0xvGQUXD3ev_hGKDRXL_EC-8TZJzImsCNimyJDVQ_Hy46GwT4bWJBW2tIWo77JfaahpuGnG-sQ88egF-CMbindWCinrN5eOkaEdSHetB2bInCcIm4qzBft10ohKcr-mfH1EntKnefi4aP_85Kvp/w640-h496/Screenshot%202023-04-25%20123217.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Apr25-2023--Blast at swat police station in an old weapons depot...terrorism not suspected...however 16 are dead and over fifty-seven wounded...as a mosque, kitchen and CTD depot blew up</p><p>Apr25-2023--three shot dead in lakki marwat after retired army colonel shot dead in his hujra on second day of eid...</p><p>Apr19-2023--Shebaz suggests that new army chief went to saudia and uae to lobby for funds where he is supposedly seen asking one saudi whether he had billions in his personal accounts...which he might kindly deposit in some pakistani bank or state bank...!</p><p>Apr19-2023--now why wait for eid...!the JI buoyed by a dubious victory in karachi LG polls which bumped its importance to number two in karachi...almost a mqm like powerful situation...so they visited important places and said the talks were a go...however the understanding on both sides is not the same ...the Pti ready for polls in two months while the Pmln liked Zardari's 'haste makes waste"...if an agreement is reached with good intentions than elections could be held as soon as July while others say August and Sanaullah says Oct8...so some talks need to take place...imrans old timers not party policy supporters it seems nor do the PMLn negotiators think too highly of Shahbaz...given his weakness to price hikes and IMF conditions...so there might be no talkers at the MPC...a weak Oct 8 still the PMLn view...many think that the Pti will try to runaway from any face to face meeting...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLxOLcwj2Uqb3Sd-foyBdamzCk4oKsiQfnNPkgAgaR6pjwdGBzdKvg62Wh6fq8zHJAWb0H6VVa2gqzhZUlXlZ47t5ldVXAz4wltFBXjUePwIuiTK0YkOaAgHYRnQaPKgvDrVpF2a7CCHCsZLrL0fHkwy3n0mp5OQYAe1w3KeWElV5SMDFMrGAQCX0/s1017/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20055727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1017" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLxOLcwj2Uqb3Sd-foyBdamzCk4oKsiQfnNPkgAgaR6pjwdGBzdKvg62Wh6fq8zHJAWb0H6VVa2gqzhZUlXlZ47t5ldVXAz4wltFBXjUePwIuiTK0YkOaAgHYRnQaPKgvDrVpF2a7CCHCsZLrL0fHkwy3n0mp5OQYAe1w3KeWElV5SMDFMrGAQCX0/w640-h480/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20055727.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Apr18-2023--rumours about talks had upset the allocation of 21 billion to the ECP however it was again rejected by the national assembly...apparently the government has taken two trillions in rupee loans from banks and they have over a 1.5 trillion in the FCF account...The SBP which was ordered by the SC to provide the funds say assembly approval required and funds are available...on the PTI side fawad and imran are key opponents to talks...most other senior leaders seem pro talks some going as far as approving a one time constitutional amendment...the imbroglio moving towards an impasse and possible military involvement...with a stalemate brewing on all sides something has to give and a coup direct/indirect might be the only possibility left..if the military is averse to direct involvement every body would have tobe jailed with a possible military puppet in power delaying elections further...</p><p>April18-2023--true to form the Pti says they are more concerned with imran's fake assassinations than elections and talks...a few days ago they had the chef sounding out whether imrans room is bomb proof or bullet proof...than imran mentions supposedly signals/inside information that assassinators/home attackers on the way...imrans dubious undercover informants not yet identified...imran now travels in a bullet proof vehicle as he did before and he has additional bullet shields while in the court..no blood shed has taken place apart from attacks on the police when police visited imrans place which he fears will be occupied again during eid holidays...many think it is just paranoia...even in court seeking a blanket stay against 140 cases he was only talking about his dubious informants...</p><p> Apr17-2023--in what many see as a victory for the PTI as the PMLn and supposedly PPP will go in to talks via the JI...the JI says that the talks on elections with various government parties will take place after eid at their HQ...This suggests that elections could be two or three months down the road possibly..the PTI has been in talks with minor parties TPL, JI and the GDA...that only leaves the election date as a controversy or talking point...PTI will gets off its high horse on punjab/KP elections while how the PMLn climbs down from October 8 is unclear..even if elections take place on Oct 8 that will be a clear victory for the PTI...many suggest that nawaz and maryam in saudia have reached the conclusion that some interaction might be better as the Pti is running all over them with the judiciary in tow...PMLn senior men also might now be incharge as both negotiators are key nawaz supporters... other suggestions are that the PDM has completed its one year with nothing spectacular except high inflation and iMF obstinacy..they highlighted imrans stupidity in foreign relations too...Shebaz looks a soft inexperienced ruler when he says even further conditions from the IMF will have tobe accepted...as for how quickly the talks reach a conclusion depends on the staying power of the participants...even if they reach a conclusion by say July the earliest elections could take place is September..however the JI would like July/early august elections......however the PTI might be more interested in getting back into the assemblies and than the October 8 could be a date written in stone...!..if the talks are quick like ..."OK Oct8 give us the opposition leadership" that gives the PTI participation...the elections date becomes immaterial...the government lasts upto say August 8 and a talks mechanism stays in place to remove any emerging thorns/tantrums...the PTI looking at a constitutional amendment to end Bajwa rule and save face that the constitution has been safeguarded thru a one time amendment to delay elections...the amendment would have tobe in place before May14 or a dubious SC might look the other way...! or the SC can recuse or whatever...!</p><p>April 17-2023--three free atta is very popular when atta is so high priced...there was a rush until the last day for three 10kg atta bags...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvXOsJ11WCSocw55_8hJ3rOVxsn6z4Wcc4L7JORIR0__ZczGJqg3r4qpa3kj8esbjgaX40ZXKd7qIrcGVUOt4RKUOKVTL4DxS7eDGasMfEKX2ex4Om349Skjco4bGV8dIgm5-Fp9_FabqjeAgd6POVLyYoWUGzooMqJS8nva04CJKpyqA7WHW1-fS/s1858/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20011007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1858" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvXOsJ11WCSocw55_8hJ3rOVxsn6z4Wcc4L7JORIR0__ZczGJqg3r4qpa3kj8esbjgaX40ZXKd7qIrcGVUOt4RKUOKVTL4DxS7eDGasMfEKX2ex4Om349Skjco4bGV8dIgm5-Fp9_FabqjeAgd6POVLyYoWUGzooMqJS8nva04CJKpyqA7WHW1-fS/w640-h394/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20011007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>April 17-2023--Shahid Kardar bemoans the SBP attempts to control inflation thru interest rate increases to astronomical levels...this only restricts the federal government from taking bank loans at high interest rates...and thus only effects the federal governments macro strategy...Shahid Kardar forgets that foreign remittances, dollar price and import costs are the key to inflation...while foreign prices donot fluctuate as much prices in country go flying above the norm...and might be fertilizer is not the only component of agriculture prices skyrocketing apart from greed..Thus the key is to control the dollar whatever the IMF says...foreign remittances are causing around 20% of the inflation as the dollar skyrockets...Shahid Kardar does not give any key suggestions barring reducing electricity use...most power plants are running at 20% and getting capacity payments of 90 billion...The problem is that this would have reduced electricity prices but the capacity payments block that...reducing petroleum imports lets say by 20% cannot reduce inflation when u have a high dollar and every price , tariff is skyrocketing...u are just trying to slowdown the country to a crawl..given higher and higher loan repayments only points to reorganising loans and drawing out repayment options...the problem is the government is taking steps in both directions...it does one thing and does another to protects its allies...it is a stalled economy until major reforms like reducing tariffs, prices, dollar rate and import costs take place...inflation is being controlled in the west but not in Pakistan..and the major factor is controlling need for dollars and their price in Pakistan...please move in one direction and forget about your allies...everyone should suffer...</p><p>April17-2023--for reasons best understood in the higher corridors of power... development these days only takes place in islamabad that too mostly on the roads...the provinces have/are doing nothing...government reduces development outlay to 600 billion...still a huge amount one never understands where it goes...in lahore i found these days you go just up and down the canal road which is devoid of altos but full of corolla's,vigos and prados...and there is a underpass every few kilometers...a friend said this is all south punjab money wasted by pervez elahi on underpasses...spending 20-30 billion on lahore out of the trillion that punjab has for development is justified...the first underpass cost just 300 million and was completed in three months...south punjab is also very developed/clean since the 1970's when multan used to have open dirty water nalis or drains...ie outside the railway station...</p><p>April17-2023--these days crime is concentrated in the upper corridor or elite...a prado robbed/stolen by a vigo owner killing its owner...a powerful minister driving a vigo killed by another vigo driver on a empty road...in lahore a Pti vigo delivers a body to a hospital...etc...imran calls up his lahore vice president and orders him to create a incident...the religious oriented poor in their rickshaws are standing in line for free atta...vigos and prados and pajeros very popular amongst politicians and the elite...</p><p>April 17-2023--and a chinese accused of blasphemy as he ridicules the prophet in public...blasphemy has a history and in 1927 ilmuddin a carpenter killed a hindu who had written a blasphemous book...the chinese after an FIR taken by helicopter to abbottabad..people had blocked the karakoram highway and attacked the chinese residential area...chinese management apparently handle labour things very roughly...FIR filed by two heavy vehicle drivers</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgevOde8F2X-ON3O_2FEXsH6ydDQ9qFIL9U6wS1pTgZxcCd17mP4olVbc1e-LWyyf8WQVilxw8lNlGPwvaxqaVroYJPGTRm1P8Fqd2FhyAHVCrLP3WIGZnkmnPPB762YC86VDAYlSjSBrTf-vAq_GtVuqzHLZCx-LFSKAWrefJ0cAtY_53ZKtilFK/s973/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20013728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="973" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgevOde8F2X-ON3O_2FEXsH6ydDQ9qFIL9U6wS1pTgZxcCd17mP4olVbc1e-LWyyf8WQVilxw8lNlGPwvaxqaVroYJPGTRm1P8Fqd2FhyAHVCrLP3WIGZnkmnPPB762YC86VDAYlSjSBrTf-vAq_GtVuqzHLZCx-LFSKAWrefJ0cAtY_53ZKtilFK/w640-h410/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20013728.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-15123002377703854952023-04-01T19:14:00.018+05:002023-04-14T10:32:44.775+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Apr1-15, 2023<p>April14-2023--Abbas Afridi was the highest wicket taker in the recent PSL but he finds no place even in the shaheen squad or senior T20 squad..he could easily have replaced faheem ashraf/mohd nawaz /shadab khan who had no great batting/bowling exploits and one alrounder like iftikhar ahmed is usually enough if imad wasim or shadab khan bat well...faheem ashraf is more at home as a occasional test alrounder...shadab/faheem ashraf/mohd nawaz too have not been batting that well although imad wasim has perked up...maybe the selectors have not been paying attention to form and performances...</p><p>Apr14-2023--four firefighters die in collapse of an industrial building in karachi which was destroyed in a fire</p><p>April 14-2023--imran who is a member of the luxury living elite and lives in a 8 kanal house owned by his deceased mother has been issued a notice for tax assessment purposes...apparently imran demolished the old house and built a huge one in 2020 covering over eight kanals/12000 square feet ...he will have to pay a tax of Rs.200000-Rs300000 which was levied in 2014 but imran has avoided paying any taxes..these niazis are habitual tax evaders...</p><p>April14-2023--PPP forms senior leaders three member committee to convince allies of talks to the problematic PTI who have always rejected the outcome of previous talks...however the former speaker who some see as the root of the problem as he was unable to standup to imrans shenanigans...says now they are willing to participate in a one time delay in elections amendment which could again be struck down on unconstitutionality...!some think that the army might be interested in a new coalition that being a PPP-PTI one..the best way to douse a problem is to join the problem...!</p><p>Apr14-2023--Things in the SC deteriorated further as the CJ and his yes men suspended a law passed by parliament.They seem quite confused as the law is not yet operative...they say the right of appeal cannot be forced on them despite it being a right...the only aspect that can be deemed political is according the right of appeal to previous suo motos...the formation of a committee of three to decide to initiate a suo motu and finalize a bench is not a clipping of powers just forcing the CJ to consult two senior judges on the matter...no internal matters are touched upon as the CJ was deciding things unilaterally...trying to interfere in the basic power of parliament that is legislation does not seem right...</p><p>April14-2023--The national assembly rejected dar's bill on allocating money to the ECP...saying that that should go to the budget committee...the court would have to issue contempt notices to the committee, speaker or the entire national assembly...government sees a clear attempt to subjugate parliament ansd passed another resolution against the SC attempts to order around the parliament...</p><p>April14-2023--after protests that another operation in the tribal areas would cause further problems the top brass to brief NA in camera and question the need to do so...The TTP apparently still operating from afghan soil and some suggest their members come and go..defence minister suggest that cross border bombings might be a last resort..</p><p>Apr1-2023--It is April 1 and we are being fooled by both dar and the judiciary...Bandial tried to fool the entire the entire country by forcing out mandokhel from the four judge bench on the punjab elections...and saying that everything is fine...mandokhel however said that they had supported the dissenting two judges on the March 1 judgement and it was 4-3 against and that bandial had avoided discussing the bench with him...Dar however went one step further and raised the electricity price to Rs.43 from Jul 1, 2023...from no where he brought a Rs3.32 seperate surcharge and gave it the protection of a sovreign guarantee to his friends in the IPP...a sovreign gaurantee could have resulted from negotiations but no such talks were visible and it must be illegal to apply a sovreign gaurantee so late in the game to an additional charge...it is no help to the people if it is listed seperately...those using less than 200 units and tubewells would have to pay an additional 43 paisas per unit...!</p><p>April 1, 2023--wheat/food is so expensive these days that there was a stampede at a food distribution center organized by a private factory killing 12 in karachi...the factory had to flood the place to keep people out...nine women and three children as the hundreds of women panicked and stampeded...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921524634688088262.post-59373487191356752222023-03-17T10:37:00.111+05:002023-03-30T22:11:15.745+05:00The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Mar16-31, 2023<p>Mar30-2023--a DSP and three constables died when their vehicle was hit by an iED in Lakki Marwat...they were on their way to a site under attack...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX2kx0hzZAwuBnhkAKKbRy_dreSapPLs48wK1zuta6gE4J-ceQzMFFTDuxPdTRobHcZNWKeL7ZGYO2RxLPDzS4jN3E3q1fQSsjAy2U88SLMWxERJgxiFhTaAURwT5-d-HtnmUMlroR2byGXgqyiFAgLZwTVYw3erF9FMepjcHSjPsv6PJPXIdU738/s1007/Screenshot%202023-03-30%20220916.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1007" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX2kx0hzZAwuBnhkAKKbRy_dreSapPLs48wK1zuta6gE4J-ceQzMFFTDuxPdTRobHcZNWKeL7ZGYO2RxLPDzS4jN3E3q1fQSsjAy2U88SLMWxERJgxiFhTaAURwT5-d-HtnmUMlroR2byGXgqyiFAgLZwTVYw3erF9FMepjcHSjPsv6PJPXIdU738/w640-h470/Screenshot%202023-03-30%20220916.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar30-2023--Imran is really the biggest chakar baaz in the history of Pakistans politics...he will neither admit nor refute his fathership of tyrian white...according to the judge they are still considering whether the petition is maintainable or not...according to the petitioner imran is maintaining her as a gaurdian in england and should mention it in his documents to the ECP...according to him sita whites father said that he would get nothing if he married her so he looked for another rich women jemima khan...the petitioner says that his other children are living with their mother but according to a press report he went to england to find lodgings for them and pays for their upkeep...technically if the judge finds that imran lied in his affidavits than he would be disqualified and not be able to lead his party as its head...judge seemingly leaning backward...if imran admitted to his fathership of tyrian white than he would be religiously considered immoral although he seemingly has had relations with a number of foreign women and some say local women as well...!immorality apparently does not disqualify but lying does...! </p><p>Mar30-2023--seems tobe a judiciary day...judge Aminuddin khan recuses himself from a suo moto on election date based on his own judgement...government passes a bill to reform suo moto cases, judges number/bench formation and allows appeal on all previous suo moto cases...if the CJ decides on the new replacement judge according to the government bill he would have to consult a three judge consultative committee...which the bill says will decide on suo moto cases.. the bill limits the CJ's present authority and could be struck down by the court although junior judges might prefer it...the main thrust of the bill is that the CJ and two seniormost judges decide whether a suo moto can be initiated...it also decides on judges composition plus cases of an emergent nature have tobe taken up in 14 days...judges have been upset by the registrar and CJ riding roughshod over nominations to benches in a dictatorial manner...as for judge isa he has been saved from a review appeal...judge isa is the son of a independence era muslim league leader and is the seniormost judge in the SC..as for the electoral date case there is precedent of delaying elections by about four months if not a few years(martial law era...)...however according to what we think is the judges thinking the judges could either accept Oct8 entoto or a provincial election date in two months or one month and reissue the same schedule and nominations already filed...accepting some minor changes or allowing two more days for more nominations...allowing elections in one month with all the appeals and printing etc..might be a rush...and what happens if a few more bomb blasts go off...(since judges are pooh poohing security threats or situation)</p><p>Mar30-2023--the controversial digital census...migrants being added in katchi abadis..Mqm still not happy enough... while almost total disinterest in punjab...some suggest enumerators after money donations too...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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rememberthe cheap trips for hajj on a ship...this year the hajj costs are upto Rs1.20 million...definitely not something that bisp affectees can afford...!</p><p>Mar28-2023--emergence of a PTI-nazriati which is already registered might be a vehicle for Jehangir Tareen and other PTI dissidents to challenge the imran led PTI-asli. It is led by Akhter Iqbal Dar</p><p>Mar28-2023--The IMF and its politics suggest that the IMF still is pondering some issues...they might or might not include the amounts available from donors and friendly countries...the IMF apparently wants to include those amounts so that they know what would be available...other suggestions might be for the government to reach a certain quantity in reserves before the agreement is announced or signed...the agreement might also be delayed until the next budget</p><p>Mar28-2023--the CJ SC says that they only want to deliberate on whether the ECP can change election dates...however the ECP gave the armies refusal to patrol and the governments refusal to finance as reasons...The CJ offered Rs20 billion from the coffers of the SC...the status quo is now different...suggestions of the court include a constitutional amendment to cover all issues...and whether the IMF agreement will not hinder things in October...The SC can refuse to accept the constitutionality of the new ECP order and reorder the previous dates of the provincial elections...the impediment being that the provincial governments thus elected would be replaced by temporary caretakers during national elections or not...again something that the constitution does not cover...CJ Bandial sees it simply as a one point issue while the federal government wants a full 13 judge court...technically like the PTI most people think that elections might not be held until the PTI, PMLn, the army, ECP, SC etc. are all on the same page...!some time next year...!The CJ also seemed upset by the animosity in the political arena...that however is not a judicial problem otherwise he would have to call up imran, shebaz and the army chief to shake hands before announcing the courts verdict...in a football match referees, linesman and opposing captains all shake hands before the match...!In cricket they shake hands after the match...!</p><p>Mar25-2023--PTI leader says the party is afraid not me...he carefully forgets his lameness in politics since being shot..!as he used a fully enclosed air conditioned bullet proof /bomb proof container...apparently it disappeared after the rally and reports suggest that it was not properly made or was rented from the interior ministry/military contractor..and the PTI has a ordered a new one...!in the new one imran wont be able to open it from inside...!imran has a troubled time with stages and containers...the first time his stage collapsed and than he was shot in the legs...apparently a larger one has been ordered which may contain room for some of his phsycophants...an earthquake could knock it off its pedestal or a bomb blast could send it flying...shooting at a container so high up would be difficult even though it could be managed by a long range sharpshooter</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWufimwsi4dzup3F7J_zSZCg67GO-ILEnVnhki6InarKYHo2PRoPnvDCp-s1SFbtvBR8t204stzP1Qg9gsK-2bFrCCRg-pEg7eeRxZ5-HE12aL0_rxrgs42VI89RY87v5spdGo1V6iuPinPEkqP5ggH1cEUaTi4tFFaYS9tRluN7u9O0dgkq_KiBYK/s766/Screenshot%202023-03-28%20140638.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="579" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWufimwsi4dzup3F7J_zSZCg67GO-ILEnVnhki6InarKYHo2PRoPnvDCp-s1SFbtvBR8t204stzP1Qg9gsK-2bFrCCRg-pEg7eeRxZ5-HE12aL0_rxrgs42VI89RY87v5spdGo1V6iuPinPEkqP5ggH1cEUaTi4tFFaYS9tRluN7u9O0dgkq_KiBYK/w484-h640/Screenshot%202023-03-28%20140638.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Mar24-2023--free atta in KP too as queue stampedes injure many and kill one in Charsadda and kohat...supposedly those families having a salary of less than 60000 can register to get three 10 kg free bags of atta in Punjab in ramazan...BISP payments generally to poor women increased to Rs8500 per three months...tuition grants for children also released...9 million women get BISP payments</p><p>Mar24-2023--Can SC order army to provide security cover for elections of a similar nature as it did in the last elections...can SC order provincial and federal governments to make funds available to ECP...can the SC order the punjab government tobe replaced by a caretaker regime for the duration of the national elections...these are the three questions that arise from the ECP decision to delay provincial elections till Oct8...can national assembly elections be announced without the dissolution of the national assembly!...the other question is whether there is a real security concern without army patrolling even the most tense localities...is security that much of a problem...will the PTI petrol bomb polling stations when police stop them...!or threaten to shoot them like Imrans nephew...!apart from that is the constitutional issue whether the ECP has that much authority...The SC can paper over the issue and decide that KP and Punjab elections can go ahead and they can be replaced with caretaker regimes when the national elections take place...!The issue of national elections is several months away and can be delayed or even cancelled for the time being...what the government could/would want is that the SC say that all elections can take place simultaneously and announce a new date in two or three months time...The SC in an almost heroic rebellious way can announce that all the provincial/national governments at the center/provinces are dissolved and announce that elections to it and all provincial assemblies can take place two months/three months after a caretaker regime is formed...if the ECP can stretch their authority so can the SC...a full bench can do that...!</p><p>Mar23-2023--minor increase in covid cases with a death in lahore to 168...advisory says to avoid crowds and wear masks</p><p>Mar24-gas supply to domestic users dried up all day all over the country on day one of the Ramazan...</p><p>Mar24-2023--IMF local rep says that the government can repriotise funds to fund elections...punjab government says that they have to maintain a balance of over 400 billion for IMF..both the federal finance secretary and punjab chief secretary have told the ECP that they cannot fund even the national elections...IMF also suggests that the government can raise additional revenues for elections..IMF running into political chaffe as its policies of controlling expenditures and raising taxes fails to generate a staff level agreement...IMF says it has nothing todo with politics and defence expenditures and there are a few points to deal with on the staff level agreement...!</p><p>Mar23-2023--CJ Bandial says that audio and video leaks have no judicial value while their political value is there...i suppose he means that when the videos and calls include serving judges..and that he will protect the judiciary from scurriless attacks...he also supported the ECP in the matter of transfers...however the CJ's views have been controversial on NAB amendments and whether a seperate NAB is even required when there are clear inconsistencies of NAB application..The government is calling for the SC to hear a reference against a sitting judge...there have been two recent references hearings against sitting judges with a difference on their evaluation due to individual complaints against the iSI and political leanings..two judges have been let off after clear financial implications of overseas investments and paid vacations in europe...</p><p>Mar23-2023--Ramazan too begins today and as usual controversially announced late in the night...!</p><p>Mar23-2023--The government mna's came out with posters against Saqib Nisar a former CJ calling him in effect the "dakoo of justice" or "insaf ka lootera"...!!!Rana sanaullah also called for reviewing the provincial elections judgement saying that seperate or split elections could cause a crisis and chaos...a controversial call is being made for a MPC even though it would be easier for Shebaz and Imran to meet in the presence of the army chief and the police chief and the CJ...they seem tobe the main protagonists in the given situation...on the PTI side they are suggesting a meeting in the presence of something called the civil soceity generally thought tobe dubious imran supporters...!</p><p>Mar23-2023--The assassination problemo...imran would be happy to die it was announced several times even in a suicide blast..than he raised a ruckus when somebody attempted that and said there were not one but three shooters and that everybody in the country should be nominated in the FIR...!...that continued until he recently saw assassins standing at the doors of the FJC in islamabad...he than refused to get out of the car...two days earlier he announced that he would be killed in the next two days...today is the second day and no killing has yet occurred...so is our terrorist opposition leader suffering from alzheimers or dementia...!and in the habit of lying and making things up...if you are ready to die than he should theoretically welcome assassins and killers...but that he does not do...so that/ theoretically he does not want to die...!we are wary of what he would shout from the hereafter..."mujhe kyun mara"...The dubious caretaker regime(pti's view) has constituted a police /ISI/Intelligence commission to probe the matter of seven assassination FIR's in lahore...the PTI says that the two police officers Imran Kishwar SSP/Aftab Phulwaran SP involved in actions against the PTI and instituting terrorist clauses in FIR's against it...Imran Kishwar the focal person of police in Lahore disappeared from the raid on the imran residence...</p><p>Mar23-2023--The new alto and swift earlier regarded as small vehicles cost Rs18-33 lakhs...so should they benefit from petrol subsidies even if their engines are say 660 horsepower...the government is going in for a complicated scheme of raising petrol prices by another 100 and than giving Rs50 per litre subsidy to those below 660 hp and two and three wheelers ie motorcycles and rickshaws...for the last few days i have noticed huge motorbikes generally blu colored on the roads...however the rush on the roads has again picked up...the subsidy is also a complicated process having tobe authenticated from a bank and paid later by the petrol pump...there are 24.5 million two/three wheelers and 4.35 million motor cars...annual sale of cars is set to fall to 0.12 million from 0.23 million last year...a number of car plants have been shut down due to import restrictions and lack of sales...</p><p>Mar23-2023--In what had been rumoured at the government level...the ECP cancelled elections in the punjab and announced Oct8 as the new date for provincial and national elections...the government was worried that the provincial governments elected earlier would interfere in the election process...and there would be no method to impose a temporary interim government for the elections duration while a elected government existed...one method could have been to declare the newly elected governments dissolved and new elections tobe held at provincial level for a second time...problematic too...however the ECP whatever its thinking was only worried about the security situation as the army had refused to provide cover...even in the last elections the army was only outside the polling stations i think barring karachi......however now with the PTI in total confrontation with the police the ECP found it as a supposedly compelling argument to delay provincial elections and hold them together with the national elections...The SC had allowed the ECP to delay provincial elections but that was thought tobe for a few weeks...The KP elections had already been cancelled by the governor...Now this is a constitutional enigma...upto now provincial and national elections have been generally held together...even if national elections are held first a constitutional void comes into play as an elected government can theoretically not give way to a interim regime for the elections duration...!so the judiciary which many assume given that it shows that it is totally controlled by the PTI is awaiting its new orders from imran the terrorist...(he is being called a terrorist because he had allowed the making of petrol bombs in his home and authorized their use on police vehicles...)...in islamabad they destroyed 21 police vehicles...the number in zaman park of police vehicles set on fire are not known...</p><p>Mar22-2023--a severe earth quake ripped thru a large part of the country...however damage was contained with buildings/dwellings developing cracks and ten deaths in rural areas of KP...the epicenter somewhere in afghanistan...!</p><p>Mar19-2023--1.4 million flour bags will be distributed free in Rawalpindi district according to the instructions of the Punjab government amongst the deserving at 232 points...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkP_42keviwFozTjxVdteMtLpdywvMj1UZJwShTyLdtd2A9LSULns8qRZM70eZGRey2ZK_QQt8LD4oSdoNFi8wWh_rutuISXNTN4X1xpxwm2-v0JOGkKJ4ByNycSWiq6rn_bVbpnDHFkdy-cv1G8CDk0t6c_NImqMnqc4_VqNmvcCK-VEDiy3GElk/s425/Screenshot%202023-03-19%20173332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="425" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkP_42keviwFozTjxVdteMtLpdywvMj1UZJwShTyLdtd2A9LSULns8qRZM70eZGRey2ZK_QQt8LD4oSdoNFi8wWh_rutuISXNTN4X1xpxwm2-v0JOGkKJ4ByNycSWiq6rn_bVbpnDHFkdy-cv1G8CDk0t6c_NImqMnqc4_VqNmvcCK-VEDiy3GElk/w640-h460/Screenshot%202023-03-19%20173332.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>the above is a long queue of mostly women in islamabad waiting for free atta bags...they seem tobe getting chits to collect the bags from a utility store probably...<p></p><p>Mar19-2023--three terrorists killed near Awaran...</p><p>Mar19-2023--In Lahore however the Police dismantled the gate of imrans zaman park residence and removed huge bunkers of sandbags and tents...they also found some weapons, marbles and petrol bombs...they say that they had warrants and section 144 was being violated...however several women including Dr.uzma khan and imrans wife and servants were present...the police cleared out the sandbags and arrested 61 Pti workers...they were seen thrashing a few who tried to escape...police announced on a loudspeaker that section 144 was in force and nobody is allowed to congregate..zaman park has become a nogo area and many thought imran wanted to become a altaf hussein but his ethnicity has caused a problem in a punjabi area...many suggest that the uncooperative should be handcuffed rather than thrashed or maybe the police should have thrown petrol bombs too...!</p><div 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his arrival was noted at the gate of the FJC and his warrants were cancelled and asked to appear on the 30th...apparently the appearance was signed by imran in his vehicle which was a mockery of the judiciary said azam tarrar...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQr8ssrEX-ARu5YsZ-ydG_1eMZsSSzBectu5xkS7cLXPrwO_74ld5vB3q7CKZFDlYG5XhpHSFb2UpFl0zPOwtoTxgfqWKmNg_-YS44kpFDE8Q5uotgG17qQDBkLtuAcJ9J4eC59dOSIMlNpzvxgqa_RCsK_kwKqLHjkFetX8mVqC66Yyp7q3uktp1j/s996/Screenshot%202023-03-19%20162222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="996" height="445" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxT_J0_m_yLWgEiuCDwMn6igqwt19XFxbLqTeYq5dB19Xcq_WuPuS97ilwfV03TJLf-KW1hnSJxpauq0_dJt2sfB15lwOizrzSSc6rx67lruZZ3EASUQpoe6vcDfCV9KJEVRIAgbp6lnnwAdPUMlQEfwG-ouivoKbN_DuGxY7NHkW21TGbvlzyk_2/w640-h390/Screenshot%202023-03-19%20162730.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Mar16-2023--we would have real fun every where if everyone did the jalao gherao tactics of imran...that is the azadi he wants...most of the time he was hiding in a underground room sweating while his men looted and plundered ...the picture below shows a Rangers truck being set alight by the Pti ghunda's...with imrans evil smiles looking on from posters...many say limit it to zaman park... there is no point in letting loose these troublemakers on the country...Imran now ready for talks...as two courts order his arrest and the LHC tells him to gaurantee appearances in courts...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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in the danda wielders around zaman park...reports also suggest that ali bilal may have been seen walking back to zaman park after being dropped off at fortress stadium in the cantonment...!</p><p>Mar17-2023--the evil incarnate rulers and opponents now smile at the prospect of talks...!what talks can achieve is unclear...given the wide differences in approach and views...shebaz would benefit if direct talks took place as it would be a comedown for the embattled Pti chief...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNyZrTwc93AK-pu2eGe8cdfwXYsbEihu79WaAxOHtbLA--ButUAF1I0scfxFU0DJjCCf4iTIR_0oZiOtXOJNX_p1rC1CaUSzuGH2wYzTAfjfFaY3kRznjrppQKdVR19VwV-N9HrRKH_Ch_opzMo7lZe8d4l79R_Nmlqmw2-hpQE2up8OF8kDT6fP_/s311/Screenshot%202023-03-17%20105458.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="311" height="500" 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for agriculture expertise...the areas are generally used for fruit farming...the pakistan government has been handing over prime farming land to army officers for the last five six decades without any supposed improvement in agriculture...most agriculture is conducted by village folk as standins for owners...in baluchistan similar land has supposedly been handed over to the chinese...</p><p>Mar17-2023--seven killed in Zhob after vehicle seton fire by shootings killing seven of a similar tribe...</p><p>Mar17-2023--eight militants killed in a military operation in south waziristan/north waziristan...</p>Pakistan Politicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00098832642143114003noreply@blogger.com0