Nov15-2025--Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan of the FCC takes oath...judges to take oath this afternoon..They were supposed to take over the FSC building but that is still in the doldrums...the judges will now take oath in the IHC auditorium...and probably until a building is arranged the FCC will be housed on the third floor of the IHC...!They could move into the Convention center...!Initially they would probably need one court room and judges offices...There are many buildings coming up in Islamabad and they could rent one floor until their own building is built...
Nov14-2025--The month long torkham closure has caused losses of upto $45million..Transporters are expected to lose big if the mullah baradar ordered closure of trade within three months... Pakistan was exporting fresh fruits, cement, medicines, surgical items, agricultural tools, fabrics, shoes, plastic pipes and sanitary items, cosmetics and a number of locally manufactured items valuing around $100-200 million per month.below torkham, mullah bardar and the long line of waiting trucks at Torkham...Mullah Baradar technically the afghan government leader probably thinking Pakistan will back down due to trade as they have other options like Iran, india, central asian states and Turkey for imports...he has also ordered that a cargo airline be developed...Pakistan however expected to stand firm until Afghanistan ends terrorism...Pakistan has blocked afghan fresh fruits being rerouted thru Iran..there are around 10000 cargos stuck at torkham and other borders and pakistani sea ports...Pakistan says afghans alternate import routes are much longer/costlier than Chaman and Torkham...Gwader is very near too...Pakistan is rerouting imports from uzbekistan via air and China
Nov14-2025--The police have picked up a online rider for dropping the bomber at the G-11 courts...The bomber came from the chungi no26 bus terminal and not pir wadhai where most buses from the tribal areas arrive...however that causes a riddle of how a motorcycle was at the position and burnt up at the site of the blast..a motorcycle is seen lying charred next to a police van while a car is seen burnt to a crisp some distance away...could be two blasts...!The interior ministry says the bomber was not a pakistani and had been living in bajaur..rawalpindi police has picked up six or seven suspects in connection with blast ..Americans suggest that the blast was done by jamaat ahrar a offshoot of the taleban...
Nov14--2025--amid noises of a judicial moot the critical judges Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah have resigned while a lawyer makhdoom ali khan has resigned from the Law and Judicial Commission of Pakistan...mansoor ali shah could probably be said tobe the cause of the 26th mendment and was subsequently sidelined as a senior judge..being critical of the government and the constitution is not the real and only function of judges although that function of critiquing law and amendments can be said to have been withdrawn from the SC...he even critisized nawaz sharif for not attending a environmental moot and caused the strictest guidelines of judges behaviour tobe issued...He expected the lawyers and judges to put up a fight against parliament..The 26th and 27 amendments have given the constitution some teeth...The 27th amendment has been signed by the president and the oath taking would probably take place soon...The FCC is supposed to have judges from all provinces although they would need an even number of judges for equal number of judges from all provinces ie. 4 or 8..these resigned judges will probably join a street movement with politicians of the opposition against the 27th amendment and will come into conflict with the executive magistrates who are supposed to control demos and street protests...this whole issue is linked to the recent blast at the Isamabad kutchery although it is still under investigation...The military has backed out from retaliating against a possble TTP involvement...Afganistan had theatened to attack islamabad and there is a possible threat on the internet of a 9/11 type attack on Centaurus mall...Two othe judges of the IHC mohsen akhter kiyani and saman rahat imtiz have indicated they might also not be available if they are transfered...judges who refuse transfers would deem tobe retired...These two judges have been critical of the governments transfer policy which have been institutionalized in the27th amendment
Nov13-2025--Sri lankan playes have requested their board to end their cicket tour due to the situation in islamabad however the board has rejected the move..interior minister in islamabad has said the sri lankan players would be treated as state guests
Nov13-2025--The 27th constitution amendment bill was passed in the national assembly with a two third majority...another eight amendments were incorporated and the bill will have to again go thru the senate...with abro having resigned the government will be one short of the required votes...!an exCJ has questioned the 27th amendment bill in the SCseeking a direction that the SC retain exclusive jurisdictionto determine the lawfulness and constitutionalityof the proposed amendment..it will have to goto the FCC as the SC no longer has the power to interpet the constitution...The independence of the courts however is also the same as before..some judges have urged the CJP to convene a moot or full court to study the matter of the SC's practical demise into an appellate court...at the moment however the provincial high courts can exersize constitutional jurisdiction thru their constitutional benches although the FCC can order the case be sent to them...!some matters can be taken up by a partial judiciary based JCP of four or five judges but if they are unable to decide it would be sent to the full JCP...
Nov12-2025--In Turkey prosecutors sought a 2000 year prison sentence for Istanbuls jailed mayor a Erdogan rival Ekram Imamoglu in 134 cases...
Nov12-2025--Three killed in Bannu quadcopter strike...a policemen was also killed when coming to work and a police station was also attacked on Monday night
Nov12-2025--KKH landslide in Chilasburies six vehicles nd sweeps two into the indus
Nov12-2025--The 27th amendment to the constitution is likely to be passed by the national assembly today..Justice Aminuddin Khan likely to take office as the first CJ tomorrow alongwith 5/6/7 judges...There is no major difference apart from the the FCC possibly being milder than the SC which had started making decisions on wide ranging dubious interpretations...there will however be new entrants to the SC...all the controversial constitutional matters will shift to the FCC...The constitutional bench listening to the 26th amendment case threw up a large number of viewpoints and issues of whether the bench could be considered a full court and whether the entire SC should listen to the case...The controversial issues in the 27th include individual immunities and how the Chief of Defence Forces will handle the Airforce and the Navy and whether a airforce officer could eventually be transferredand appointed the Army Chief...!!!
Nov12-2025--On going investigations into the islamabad terror attack point to the TTP with the suicide bomber having come from Bajaur by bus and to the islamabad courts by motorcycle wearing a chaddar..obviously there was no one monitoring the place and a 4kg blast damaged vehicles nearby with the motorcycle being completed charred. Identification is possible as there are huge number of photographic evidence...usually what is required is a thumb imprint or a photo...That taleban threats were not regarded highly is quite clear...online threats include a possible 9/11 type event while PTI's achakzai has also mentioned 9/11...viral images show all three buildings of centauraus on fire..such things must be taken seriously...The government seems dubiously slow in retaliating across the border although that is possible if local links are not found...
Nov12-2025--a suicide bomb blast took place at the islamabad courts today at 12.39pm Nov11 in which 12 were killed and four substantially injured...a charred car and damaged police vehicle and motorcycle are shown in pictures...The government did not take notice of a taleban threat to attack islamabad..interior minister has now ordered that only vehicles with e-tags be allowed to enter islamabad after two weeks...
Nov11-2025--Bajwa and Imran must have been indian agents tobe so frightened...The NSC refused to mobilize and declare a war after balakot and six airforce fighter jets went and bombed empty spaces the next day...There is a story about bajwa when he worked under an indian at the UN...
Nov11-2025--A dawn report suggests that while the closure of the afghan borders for a month has caused a huge loss... imports and exports were already falling in volume and afghan markets are full of goods from Iran, Turkey and central Asia...while it has caused losses to the manufacturing industry in Kp some items were coming from sindh and Punjab..traders said that the volume of trade with Pakistan had shrunk from $2.5 billion earlier to $900 million..from 1000-1200 shipping containers daily the volume had dropped to 250-300...Afghanistan currently imports cement, garments, shoes, slippers, variety of edibles--fish, chicken, fresh fruits, animal feed and confectionary and probably also atta, ghee, drinks,petroleum products etc.....Pakistan imports dry fruits, pomegranates and garma etc....!
Nov11-2025--The government coalition pushes thru the 27th amendment in a few days thru the Senate as the opposition boycotts...while the Government had 64 votes it had to rely on PTI's Abro and JUI's ahmed khan to arrange a 2/3 majority...its senator irfan siddiqui passed away and the NP did not vote for them...Abro said he voted for the army chief and resigned after saying that the PTI did not help him and his ten relatives who were kidnapped in the 26th...JUI-f kicked out ahmed khan...The senate chairman assured Abro that they would get him reelected...!
Nov11-2025--three judges of the SC raised a ruckus to force the CJP to standup and protest... a couple of lawyers also wanted a SC led protest movement...The FSC were perturbed at the possible loss of the their building and shifting to the IHC third floor...The dubiously dumb Shahbaz refused immunity for life and sanaullah said it was not due to imran...!technically their is no restriction on whatever decisions the two FCC and SC make as the government has in theory been able to deal with successive issues..the judges now say that the backlog and duration of cases is not due to the SC as there are a bigger number cases slowing down the lower judiciary...The SC still has a backlog of 66000 cases and it takes sometimes years to deal with politically sensitive cases...The FCC will have 5 judges initially and can be expanded later..Judge Aminuddin Khan who heads the constitution bench is supposedly the favorite to head the FCC..a list of dreary judges makes the list of possible judges..The FCC has to decide all constitutional issues and all such cases will be shifted to them...they are to decide intra government disputes and deal with fundamental rights cases...at the moment everything related to the opposition is said tobe a fundamental right..The government could evenually clearly decide what are fundamental rights too...The FCC can takeover any case that it thinks is in its domain...The SC can now sit back and decide civil and criminal appeals at ease as it also has been deprived of suo motu...The FCC can do suo motu if someone files a case...Many think the CJP is not a man for street warfare...!
Nov10-2025--Pakistan has won the Hongkong sixes for the sixth time...showing that with no fielders and a team adapted to hitting sixes can do wonders while the pakistan senior team fails in all tournaments absymally losing to india three times in the recent asian t20 championships...
Nov9-2025--Nanbais strike enters fourth day in Rawalpindi as they say sack of wheat flour costs Rs.11000..they want the roti price of Rs.14 raised and they are already selling naans at Rs30...They say when this governent took office atta sack cost Rs.5500 and fine atta (maida) cost Rs.6200...the government said that fair prices shops have been setup everywhere and atta is easily available...PERA is responsible for ensuring Roti price..
Nov9-2025--PMLn candidate Bilal Farook Tarar wins NA66 Wazirabad unopposed as the PTI and other candidates withdrew/boycotted..he is the grandson of former president Rafique Tarrar..PTI incumbent Ahmed Chatta the Punjab PTI president had been convicted in a May9 violence case..and thus was deseated
Nov9-2025--The senate and national assembly law committees meet today to consider the 27th amendment to the constitution on a sunday which is rare..The 27th has got much more attention due to various reasons and controversies...specifically many think that the Supreme Court has been dismantled into two parts and some are now calling it the Supreme High Court or the Supreme District Court and technically subordinate even though the senior of the two chief justices will head the JCP..the CJP could move to the FCC...! even though all cases are not constitutional...many political cases could still come to it as the Election Act is a law...at the moment all cases based on the constitution and fundamental rights will go to the FCC and the Supreme Court will deal with dreary civil/tax/criminal appeals and everyone has to implement FCC decisions but the FCC does not have to follow precedent as it is a new court with very little history...probably a new FCC building could be built eventually or they could share courts in the IHC or SC...!The amendment also increases the maximum numbers of ministers in a cabinet to13% of the assemblies...The TTAP a PTI concoction says they will oppose the amendment as the government does not have a clear mandate..PTI, PMLn and PPP won under the same system...form 47's are issued when the ECP declares a winning candidate...
The JUI-f has boycotted the committee as has the PTI and its allies..If things go according to plan the amendment could be passed in a few days or even by tomorrow...They need support i think in the Senate and might have to wait or do some arm twisting...
Things that are being highlighted...Supreme Court judges who refuse to move to the FCC will be fired...similarly high court judges who refuse transfers also will be fired..The high court transfers will be done by the JCP with the two high courts CJ's added for the decision...President and Field Marshal have been given lifetime immunity against civil and criminal cases...upto now the President and governors had immunity while serving...The commandant of the National Strategic command gets to decide when a nuclear missile is fired and perhaps control when all missiles are fired/tested ending any civilian type oversight ...what happens to the structure of the Chairman of the joint chiefs of Staff committee is unknown...probably it will become the office of the Chief of Defence Forces...whether powers of the chiefs of navy and airforce will be reduced in matters of promotions/transfers specifically is not known...at the moment the three chiefs are completely independent apart from when a war breaks out...will there be transfers between the three services too...! The other two services only rarely get the ISI/CJCOSC chiefs position..or whether they too can get to be Chief of Defence Forces or whether the Army/Navy/Airforce chiefs will in effect be dissolved into the Chief of Defence Forces... High Court judges also will be appointed by the JCP in a new process...
Nov9-2025--seemingly there is a nationwide outbreak of Dengue...
Nov9-2025--The government tabled the 27th amendment bill on Saturday...a major surprise was the amendment to article 243...the army chief to hold concurrently the positions of Chief of Defence Forces and army chief..the position of Chairman of the joints chief of Staff committee will end on Nov27 with the retirement of Gen shamsher...a new position of commander of National Strategic command from the army will be created...Field marshal tobe considered a national heroe and remain in uniform for life with rank and privileges and can only be removed under article 47 if impeached...it technically reduces the positions of other forces chiefs unless the chief of defence forces forms a committee...seemingly the government has withdrawn items relating to ministries withdrawal and minimum NFC awards/increasing federal share to 52.5%... and transferred the onus of judges transfer to JCP..!some say that the CJ of FCC now technically superior to CJP although amendment leaves that to seniority of appointment as both will be members of the JCP which has been reconstituted...one seniormost judge from both courts apart from twoCJ's and one other judge that is approved by both CJ's with the other members from parliament and a bar rep...amendment a mishmash of technical changes to constitution and article 184 plus two articles has been removed...changes in SC appellate rules...FCC judges have to be judges of the SC or been working in High Courts for seven years.
Nov8-2025--Sohail afridi critisizes use of sniffer dogs in mosques after bomb blasts...!he does not critisize/condemn suicide bombers and IED blasters..his criticisms of army widely critisized with governor saying army operations necessary for public safety...Sohail afridi apparently critized the army and pukhtuns in one go...he said that army would bring sniffer dogs into mosques and tie them their...when we would protest they would say that you are worse than dogs...it seems that afridi is using his personal/PTI sentiments to harm religious harmony/sanctity..The army is usually quite respectful of sentiments...
Nov8-2025--The afghan talks have ended without any agreement..Pakistan says ceasefire still on but any outbreak of hostilities/infiltration will be retaliated ..below afghan trucks carrying returning refugees lined up at Chaman... same scene at Torkham ...where trucks were lined upto Nowshera...many suggest afghan infiltration on Mullah Haibuttallahs orders who stopped negotiators from serious concessions...problems emerged after discussions on who would monitor the border..afghans uneasy with multi country involvement in monitoring...
Nov8-2025--Governent issues various financial gobbledygooks like giving a 960 billion financial guarantee for Rs.1.25 trillion private sector loans to payof circular debt...possibly also allowing higher nuclear electricity tariffs and dealing with other power sector problems
Nov8-2025--Pakistan government rejects Trump claim that they are testing nuclear devices
Nov8-2025--Speaker national assembly says leaders ofopposition cannot be appointed as the matter is subjudice in PHC..governent reduces two shiite chiefs in PTI to one with the SIC chief hamid raza arrested to serve ten year sentence
Nov7-2025-- a first draft of the 27th amendment which maybe presented to the senate today..surprise announcement of referring CEC appointment to JCP, 243 amendment still unclear..judges of SC and FCC to stay on until they are 70...however the cabinet meeting onthe 27th amendent did not take place probably due to PPP opposition...
Nov7-2025--152 shops razed at bhati chowk bird market, lahore...government say shops were illegal occupation of land and required for remodelling...The LDA rejected reports of birds being killed
Nov7-2025--Exchange of fire at spinboldak border posts..two killed...
Nov7-2025--The 27th amendment maybe in trouble...as PPP opposes everyting but the 243 amendment which envisages the change in name/upgrade to field martial of the chairman joint chiefs of Staff committee to 'Chief of defence /forces'...The amendment may thus only contain the federal constitution court and some nomenclature changes in 243 and appointment of ECP members...The reversal of some ministries to the center and changing the minimum award in NFC maybe dropped...at the moment the NFC award cannot be less than the previous award...!it may include single line changes eg. national curriculum tobe made by the center and probably appointment of ECP chief and members by the president or primeminister etc...other changes could include making the constitutional court head tobe head of JCP and SJC...the Executive majistracy to control the streets without any govt involvement...streamlining the process of judges transfer...etc
the amendment crooks--never satisfied with one amendment...ZAB made seven amendments...
Nov6-2025--government to attend PTI's peace jirga...!
Nov6-2025--two aircraft engineers heading the SAEP union were dismissed by PIA for distributing damaging images(leaking petrol) and holding a press conference...awais jadoon and abdullah jadoon...the engineers have said they refused to certify planes that were not fit to fly and were not on strike...the SAeP the aircraft engineers union seemingly on a go slow for two months for pay hikes after eight years and provision of aircraft spares...they said they are not against privatisation if a proper structure is created...PIA faced problems as several flights were delayed and passengers stranded and PIA said that they had made alternate arrangements...such arrangements include calling in retired personnel or flying in foreign staff...or transferring six engineers from peshawar to karachi
Nov6-2025--police say IS-K militant Nisar Hakim gunned down in Karak who is supposedly a mastermind of a suicide attack on maulana Fazal's vehicle in Baluchistan...!
Nov6-2025--talks with Afghanistan to restart in Turkey… Pakistan delegation headed by DG ISI and includes military and intelligence officials
Nov6-2025--the minor confusions on the 27th amendment are being cleared...however what change is to be made in the article 243 is still not clear...many opine that the supreme command of the armed forces maybe shifted from the president to the head of the armed forces or the army chief...? Asif Zardari does not look like a person vested with the supreme command or much of a fauji...and what he mostly does is deal with any salary enhancements/complaints of the senior officers in the armed forces...!as for the federal constitutional court, it includes provincial constitutional courts...possibly the Govt may/could drop changes to NFC laws and adopt an alternate route/ not withdraw ministries already given to provinces and probably legislate the federal goverment to be responsible for a unified curriculum upto F.Sc...!
Nov5-2025--Pakistan cancels 21 ENI lng cargoes for2026 and 2027...Pakistan contracted for 120 lng cargos from ENI and Qatar per year(one per month from ENI and nine per month from Qatar)...The slowdown is a result of falling requirements for power producers from SNGPL...due to higher solar and hydel generation and industrial units producing their own energy...Pakistan also in discussions with Qatar
Nov5-2025--In Karachi police arrest man who fired on protestors/arsonists who had set fire to a dumper that had killed a motorcycle rider…a case was also registered against Liaqat Mehsud the president of the dumpers truck association who arrived at the scene and whose gunman had fired at the protestors...a mqm ex mpa/worker who had threatened on social media to burn liaqat mehsud also faces an FIR
Nov5-2025--The fawad Chaudhary caravan though stuck against a solid no to negotiations or even interactions say some improvement in getting imprisoned leaders released might occur in 15 days, however there is nothing to actually support this view... Gujranwala and Lahore PTI leaders are the worst troublemakers and none have been able to get themselves released... The government supposedly trying to help Shah Mahmood Qureshi, but he is now having medical problems...
Nov5-2025-- four terrorists killed in Kalat gun battle says ISPR…troops recovered a lot of ammunition
Nov5-2025--World Bank estimates urban areas tobe88%…while government says it is 39%...there are 38 big cities and many smaller towns with all the facilities…government defines an area to be urban when it is taxed...development is based on districts...e.g. all districts have a district hospital and usually a sports stadium and these days also a university or two...
Nov5-2025--PPP unable to announce premier designate for AJK for almost five weeks...PMLn and PPP and forward block ministers who are supposedly anti Anwar ulhaq still enjoying the perks…they say it will only be haram if the no trust fails...some say 27th amendment has to be supported before the AJK change...? Premier approving projects which are being cancelled by additional chief secretary of development the next day... Anwar ulhaq spent a lot of time in Islamabad, but he is in Muzaffarabad for the last 12 days...while the disgruntled minsters are nowadays in Islamabad...
Nov5-2025--There has apparently been a gas cylinder blast at the canteen of the Supreme Court building on Nov4...one dead with 12 injured
Nov4-2025--at a provincial security briefing the officials said in Peshawar that there were 4000 terrorists in KP tribal areas...discussion centered on taking over the operations but too many ifs and buts...PTI peace jirga in provincial assembly on Nov12
Nov4-2025--a strange sky cloud formation on Tuesday in Quetta has been called a lenticular cloud formation…many thought it was caused by a recent missile test...such a formation also occurred in England recently…people thought it was caused by a hypersonic missile test
Nov4-2025--traffic problems for motorists as Kutchery chowk, Rawalpindi closed for traffic...traffic jams on Murree road and sarwar road/pearl continental...access to kutchery for lawyers and litigants and school hour traffic and access problematic…the construction of three underpasses and two flyovers and related roads could take six months...the kutchery chowk could reopen after four months after completion of some central infrastructure…the administration says some alternate routes will be quickly repaired and problems could ease...below murree road traffic jam and below roads involved in reconstruction...
Nov4-2024--Trump says Pakistan doing nuclear testing... there seems no evidence of that unless u include simulation…others say numerous small earthquakes could be small scale nuclear testing...there have been suspicious earthquakes in Karachi not known for earthquakes historically
Nov4-2025--The 27th constitution amendment out in the open even though no draft yet prepared...important aspects include a constitution court....and ending fixed allocations in the NFC which could be damaging to Sindh and Punjab...return of population planning and education to the center and changes to appointments process in ECP and some changes to the appointment process of the army chief...the government needs three votes in the senate and for the 26th amendment the JUI-f had torpedoed the separate constitution court...let's see what happens this time around...other aspects could include restoring executive magistrates, judges transfers...government could jettison constitution court again earlier opposed by JUI-f... Bilawal Bhutto, already in jor tor mood...
Nov3-2025--Bristish PM Keith Starmer cartoon found on flicker...
Nov3-2025--CDA plans multi story building on siraj market plot...such buildings have created a parking mess in other parts of Islamabad
Nov3-2025--300 huts gutted in gulistan jauhar, Karachi
Nov3-2025 Nov3-2025--mass transit along Lahore canal postponed as funds diverted to flood relief...PPP had opposed this popular project
Nov3-2025--ex PTI leaders who are feeling isolated and worthless want to initiate talks with Govt to increase their worth it seems...PTI itself not too interested as it feels it will lose in any future elections anyway
Nov3-2025--three cops injured in Hangu when an IED blast struck a police convoy... In Tank, an afghan bomb maker eliminated...a bomb defused that was planted under a bridge in Kalat...four mutilated bodies recovered in Buleda, Kech... They were picnickers whose motorcycles were found burnt
Nov3-3035--explosives blew up stored in a police station in Peshawar, killing a CTD official on Nov2… A blast took place in September 2024 blowing up the top floor of the Swabi police station killing three ...while in June 2024, 80 shops were gutted in a Nauthia Phattak Peshawar market
Nov2-2025--October the deadliest month for militants in a decade...PICSS figures show 355 militants killed ...72 security personnel perished, 30 civilians killed and one member of a pro Govt peace committee killed...162 injured,22 arrested and 55 kidnapped...89 militants attacks…there were minor attacks in Sindh, GB and Punjab...cumulatively there were 2853 deaths in first ten months of the year...1734 militants, 601 security personnel, 497 civilians and 21 pro Govt combatants...this in the light of sohail afridi calling the deaths of civilians war crimes...on average 49.7 civilians killed per month in militants attacks...militants kidnapped 31 people in Baluchistan mostly laborers...
Nov2-2025--solar users protest having to install AMR meters instead of green net meters...Iesco which was installing the white meters which could be turned off from their offices... Iesco says the program has been suspended...in my case they installed a green meter...it malfunctioned, and they installed another meter…Then out of the blue they installed AMR meters in my area...after my AMR was installed, Iesco officers created a lot of problems by turning off the meter from their office and sending a bill checker even though the bill payment was just a day late...since than i received a bill after ten months which seemed lopsided...for the last two three months getting a similar bill...the meter reader says that meter is inaccessible...it is too high...if the AMR can be read from the office than i don't know why they can't sent a regular bill! And no payment for all the electricity we send them...!
Nov2-2025--Trump threatens Muslim Nigeria for treatment of Christians... anti-Christian violence has been going in Nigeria since Biafra war when Biafra seceded and was later reconquered …recently there have been incidents carried out by violence prone Muslim groups one in which 300 girls were kidnapped... The Nigerian president that Trump is misinformed ad that Nigeria was not religiously intolerant and attacked all form of extremism... Trump has recently said that whites are mistreated in South Africa, but only allowed them to migrate to the USA... Trump seems to be racist and has anti-Muslim views...
Nov2-2025--The sohail afridi cabinet is the same as the previous one with just some cosmetic changes in portfolios...two ministers who had resigned were also included... A TV channel showed a sohail afridi video wearing a gas mask, probably participating in some May9 protest...!
Nov1-2025--Pakistan to wait and see how things pan out on the afghan side as to infiltration and handling of TTP and BLA...as to monitoring, Pakistan seems to favor a multi country monitoring... a long term mechanism which could come into effect on the willingness of Afghanistan…otherwise the truce is conditional...he said the entire leadership of the TTP lives in Kabul obviously with support of the Kabul government
Nov1-2025--some easing can be seen in allowing the return of refugees...with the afghans saying refugee trucks standing up to Nowshera...refugees return was blocked after Oct11...trade remains blocked until a final agreement is reached... Pakistan government says that around 1.4 million refugees have returned...
Nov1-2025--some older PTI walas who had abandoned politics might form another block of the 'bani né kaha he'…they say they will be better at it than the wavering and wishy-washy current PTI establishment...
Nov1-2025--some criticism on the KP CM for not including a woman minister or advisor...probably he does not know any women...there is only a woman mpa from Dir who is the KP assembly deputy speaker...anyway he could appoint some wife or daughter...
