Apr4-2025--the Punjab apparently military canal issue hots up...usually Sindh is always up in arms over water anyway. But this spring there is no water at all due to excessive use by Sindh and the Tarbela power station...new negotiations and agreements are needed as Sindh will have to share the Indus water more equitably with Punjab and other provinces as well...This year they also did not preserve 2 maf in the Mangla dam ...most of Sindh complaints are the usual hype as water cannot be generated if its use is not controlled all year round...from the Punjab side water also flows into Sindh as well as the Indus and Punjab should stand firm for its and other provinces share...apparently Sindh chief minister willing to commit suicide they say...Punjab will only lose the federal government, and maybe new elections will have to take place if the PPP cannot work out a formula with the PTI or even in the extreme a PMLn-PTI coalition of necessity...
Apr4-2025--The US tariff is based on a simple formula plus Trumps ethnic or political animosities. Many say that Trump is behaving like a third world poor country/despot. The formula is
tariff = exports - imports/imports from country (some say stolen from ai chatbots)
mostly it is based on trade deficits...Pakistan imported $2.1 and exported $5.1 billion in 2024...it will probably make paki linen more expensive in the USA... EU which has a average tariff of 5% has been dealt a 20% tariff...Pakistan's tariffs are based on the WTO limits of 35-45%...despite that there apparently are a few tesla's in Pakistan...Pakistan now has a Japanese, south Korean and Chinese car base although a French car plant was also being constructed. Government imports European cars like Mercedes, BMW, Audi for their own security value etc... WTO should fine the USA and throw them out of the WTO. USA says Pakistan charges them around 59% tariffs...China has over 250 billion in exports to the USA and Japan, Korea and Germany have huge car exports...generally consumers in USA who like foreign vehicles will suffer most...some countries like Vietnam have been dealt massive tariffs...China also raised tariffs and announced import and export curbs...
Apr3-2025--Asif Zardari tests positive for corona virus in Karachi
Apr2-2025--New Zealand roadroller Pakistan's top batsmen in second ODI...Or the innocuous Kiwi floors the floundering Pakistani eagle.... The kiwi is not black(grey-brown reddish-spotted), but the team symbol is a black fern, and they are also known as 'all blacks' or Kiwi's...
Apr2-2025--Eid woes. Even live chicken selling at around 600 and up to 1200 meat. Beef also up to 1600/kg. Compared to rate of Rs220 watered milk at Rs200 per liter, fruits up to 300 per kilo or dozen...onions/potato's affordable at Rs80/90. Naan barely affordable at Rs25...100's of daily robberies in Islamabad. evil foreign IMF agent Aurangzeb and dumb Shehbaz being blamed for excessive price hike...
Apr2-2025-- dawn cartoon...noplace even for Kashmir in is this evil Modi-trump-Netanyahu world.
Apr2-2025--many think that rights groups should learn to distance themselves from militancy, insurgency, suicide and Ied bombings and not go around kidnapping unidentified dead bodies...from Jaffer Xpress casualties lying in hospital...many blame senior PTI leaders/tribal insurgents for Jaffer express incident. Some say Omer Ayub little different from a militancy planner...
