The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 13-19, 2010

• Sep19-2010--The suggestions appearing in the press are that teh federal government creating problems in the power and petroleum sector shortages..
  
• Sep19-2010--In a bizzare story three government authorities are accused of attempting to have the LHC chief justice murdered...a former punjab special branch chief denied that they had authored the plot...The controversial punjab governor suggested that shahbaz sharif was involved and that teh punjab government was under the control of former police chiefs rana maqbool and jehanzeb Burki...?
  
• Sep19-2010--In another of the bizzare occurrences in this government senior beaurocrat kamran lasharis appointment as chief secretary sindh were cancelled after being accused of corruption by the SC..another notification for the promotion of 39 officers to grade 22 out of teh 54 officers whose promotion was cancelled by teh SC has become controversial as the government is accused of promoting NRO officers...Gilani also seems to rule like a dictator who commonly follows the principle of " cancel my last statement or orders..""
  
• Sep19-2010--Yusuf Raza Gilani who has been in constant conflict with the judiciary and the PMLn boss suggests that he is running a consensus government while only apparently taking along teh ethnic groups mqm/anp and being in severe conflicts with others...many say he has started going haywire and making false suggestions that he is an awami person and serving the masses while in fact having only his personal or family interests at heart and having created even more miserable conditions for the people than those under military rule...many say the PMLq and PMLf getting together might be an offer to General Kiani that they are willing to support another military government led by any of the mavericks around eg. Musharaf or Imran Khan...or even some other altaf supported general..It would also give solace to teh Nawaz Sharif wounds and offer a change of personnel..the mqm already out in the open for military governance...chinks might also be appearing in the Zardari clan as the GHQ man Pir Pagaro suggests that Bilawal Zardari will takeover as the combined PML secretary general..?? earlier reports had suggested that bakhtawar was also leaning towards supporting teh PMLq which is seen by many as less disastrous towards the masses than teh PPP who cant even control sugar and electricity prices or the judiciary...? Gilani who is in effect running a minority government has the false confidence that there is no one to replace the PPP...while everyone might be a better option than the anti people Gilani-zardari governance...strangely he has suggested that the pakistan army is his personal army and he has personally given Kiani what many think is an illegal three year extension...it is such utterances which many suggest is the unbalanced nature of teh man supposedly leading teh government...many suggest that the nature of the PPP governance suggests that they only need teh armies support and are afraid of populist measures which might lead them to further terms in jail under another military or opponent led government...upto now the PPP government has been unable to resolve any conflict or problems faced by teh country and are in a system worse than ever where all their attempts at appointments, governance and accountability have been shot down by teh judiciary with the military watching from a safe distance as the taleban issues which they were handling die down and their confidence at governance springing back as dicatorship backers gain confidence under the insipid PPP governance...The SC is also seen as a failure after having failed to budge teh government on populist issues and bringing politician cases to the fore..The SC is seen as more interested in interfering in administration issues rather than providing effective judicial decision making after all those who want recourse to justice are much fewer than those who require better and humane governance...many suggest that everyone wants to prove that they would be better primeministers even though Iftikhar Chaudhry is just as much a failure as Yusuf Raza Gilani...
  
• Sep19-2010--The london police has not issued any details of the murder of imran farook...reports conflict of where the body was found...others suggest that another asian man confronted imran farook outside his apartment building while other reports suggest that his body was found inside his apartment...suggestions of whodunnit also include the mqm supremo or his henchmen while others insist that a political messenger suggesting that teh mqm step into a coalition with military governance supporters may have gone haywire...while still unconfirmed reports suggest that he may have been tortured inside his apartment after he refused to go back to pakistan to start a violent movement...
  
• Sep18-2010--government and private sector cannot co exist...KESC refuses to pay pepco..Pepco refuses to pay hubco and kapco...hubco and kapco and pepco and kesc refuse to pay PSO...payments have to be made by the federal government which refuses to pay pepco...nationalization only solution...
  
• Sep18-2010--Mqm thinks that imran farook murder is last warning to altaf hussein...many suggest that teh mqm was working on plans for a violent uprising in lahore and karachi tobe supported by the PMLq-f...earlier attempts to spark an uprising by bombing religious processions fizzled out...
  
• Sep18-2010--SC told that kamran lasharis appointment as chief secretary sindh came from the presidency and not the extension giving primeminister and that despite reccomendations for his removal by an enquiry ordered by the primeminister
  
• Sep18-2010--Narowal has 19 closed circuit camera monitors that function inefficiently
  
• Sep18-2010--kurram ytribal clashes toll crosses a 100
  
• Sep18-2010--medicines at Pims are free says the executive director while dawn says a pregnancy patient was asked by teh nurse to purchase Rs3000 worth of medicines privately...that is how the GOP and the medical community dupes teh people...
  
• Sep17-2010--The mqm secretary general imran farook a key early comrade of altaf hussein was stabbed to death in london....known as the early controller of ethnic terrorism in karachi when altaf hussein walked out thru an open door to safety in london he evaded the intelligencewalas following him around for quite a long time before also running of into exile in london...reports of his having been sidelined and having made fun of the french revolution of altaf hussein...possibilities exist of a movement starting from his burial if allowed in karachi..meaning the murder could have been planned to start a violent movement..others suggest that karachis ethnic violence has finally caught up with the mqm's exiled leaders..he is the second top mqm leader killed after its first chairman...he was eventually replaced as the terrorism incharge of the mqm...with reference to the french revolution idea many say only opponents of pakistan could suggest such violence ridden governance for pakistan...the patriotic general many think could also be a reference to musharaf the first karachiite mohajir army chief or some other mohajir general in the army...many think that musharaf and altaf should continue to serve their sentences in pakistans island prison(england) on the pattern of napoleon bonaparte who ended the french revolution and was later exiled to devils island(french island prison) unto death...!!
  
• Sep17-2010--The OGDC chief appointed a few days earlier was fired by the appointer..yusuf raza teh flaky primeminister after teh SC took suo moto notice of the mans involvement/conviction in a corruption case
  
• Sep17-2010--waters gushing out of the manchar lake breach inundate 75 villages and the runway of teh shabaz airforce base...bubak, johi and and dal areas affected
  
• Sep17-2010--richard holbrooke a no nonsense negotiator also falls for the sufi saint shah rukn ai alam and prays at his tomb
  
• Sep17-2010--while government doles out several lakhs to players who win a cricket match or even lose two tennis doubles tournament they have only small amounts for flood affectees devastated by floods...government waste is horrific and politicians should set their priorities straight...
  
• Sep16-2010--Since Sept 2 there have been 13 drone attacks in north waziristan as two attacks kill 21 militants in dandi derpakhel and datakhel...70 attacks already in this year...
  
• Sep16-2010--GB governor Dr Shama dies of cancer
  
• Sep15-2010--while most illegal changes of government here are/were instigated by military groups and run by insidious civilian individuals directed by strange natured intelligence operatives in a cloak and dagger manner... many say that musharaf and altaf should continue to serve their sentences in pakistans island prison(england like napoleon bonaparte)The only possible revolution threat seen is that of an american withdrawal from afghanistan...mullah umar rises and his hordes of motorcycle riding revolutionaries takes over kabul...he orders an invasion of pakistan...as the motorcycle rocket launchers crush the quetta and peshawar corps hordes of afhghan mullahs take over teh cities of peshawar and quetta...local militants swell their ranks and they launch an all out assault on punjab and karachi ...as hordes of mohajirs rush for the indian border the afghan mullahs occupy karachi and mqm leaders are hanged from street lamps and taleban sympathisers are released from jails...mohajirs enter refugee camps on teh indian border and the sindhis sue for peace and accept the islamic dictatorship of afghanistan however punjab blows up the khairabad bridge as the taleban attempt to crossover from nwfp and the 100 year war between teh punjab and afghan taleban ensues ...that is the only possible revolutionary scenario...an altaf hussein attempt at a french revolution would not even be allowed to takeoff from london... ...
  
• Sep15-2010--while many many similarities exist between the french revoltion era to the situation in pakistan where supposed democrats are attempting tobe seen as espousing a radical revolution, brutal suppression of a tribal and religious revolt and stuffing of prisons and eliminating political and religious opponents is teh norm..yusuf raza gilani cannot tolerate oppposing views of any sort as he is controlled by a groups of insidious hidden advisors...price hikes and shortages are the norm...in the french revolution various governments imposed strict price restrictions and those who did not follow the rules were hanged...however revolutionary fervour does not exist in pakistan at any level and is easily doused by various suppression techniques as everyone waits for some windfall that will enrich their families for generations to come economically/politically...primary amongst them is a chemist who robbed one of pakistans main industrial cities thru street gangs and is now living it off in foreign lands...other rulers have large landholdings and hold hereditary power while other politicians have built up economic empires and industrial wealth unimaginable in even teh richest countries of teh world...even an ordinary sportsman is attempting to get rich thru donations/charitable intentions to achieve political power thru hook or crook...medical treatment is so expensive that charities attempt to garner donations, run ambulance services and suggest that they are spending their riches to alleviate the suffering of teh downtrodden... the government on the other hand is literally ripping of the countries wealth and is unable to solve any basic problem faced by the general populace...one of the most corrupt punjabi political families supports the french revolution scenario on the basis of poverty after ripping of a WB/UN program for the aid effected... although pakistanis are seen as better off than their french revolutionary counterparts...children of previous supposed revolutionaries rule the roost as pirs try to build up hereditary political dynasties...governments attempts at price controls fail as they are bought off by rich industrialists and importer lobbies and even teh solution of power problems is delayed for decades as importers and political lobbies seek profits and shares in solutions...military funded pinochios attempt a lackluster do nothing rule but are repeatedly pulled down by earlier pinochios...as new hereditary descendants learn political control and suppression techniques from military dictators...a supposed awami terrorist pir and a defacto rangeela rule teh roost...!!one ruling pir said that he is not afraid of losing power as he does not work for a living but has a wife who enjoys the privilege of a non returnable Rs200 million loan bestowed by one of the previous coup plotters..!!??
  
• Sep15-2010--the french revolution was in essence a failure and it encompassed various revolutions, governments, assemblies run by various groups of revolutionaries, counter revolutionaries, secret soceities, dictators and even an attempt to give the vote to only those that owned land...it included the storming of the bastille a reviled prison, guillotining of a king and 40,000 others and the brutal suppression of a peasants revolt(230000 killed...)...guillotining of opponents was the routine and anybody who even tried to outshine those who ruled was eliminated..eventually military rule was imposed by napoleon bonaparte who assumed the title of the emperor of france...eventually he was deposed and a relatively +benign form of government was finally achieved in france where they now are fighting the religious veil...however most extremists were eliminated and hereditary/monarchist rule and that of other groups was ended forever...liberty and egalitarianism was ensured...however france won many of its wars during teh period...
  
• Sep15-2010--sixteen militants killed in two drone attacks in north waziristan
  
• Sep15-2010--CJ of the SC says that judiciary has powers to keep state organs in check although he has backed out from adjudication in military matters and matters related to the president and yusuf raza gilanis refusal to implement SC orders...
  
• Sep14-2010--the army chief who has handled things like visiting flood camps relatively better than the at times obnoxious political leaders is according to the defence minister leading a government funded army only good for fighting the taleban...the defence minister more interested in setting up servis shoe stores in india than liberating kashmir...many feel that the PPP would have been more successful if they had given priority to the countries problems rather than concentrating on mere provincial politics...one however does feel that things like tents and immediate food aid should have been made available for flood affectees without the need for donations...
  
• Sep14-2010--six killed in drone attack in north waziristan
  
• Sep14-2010--the manchar lake has started to overflow and inundate surrounding villages and towns
  
• Sep14-2010--musharaf even while sitting overseas is trying to rip off pakistanis as usual and supposedly gathering flood donations while not doing anything in the real sense...with the PPP governance floundering yusuf raza gilani showed his ineffective nature by suggesting that the chief justice was in charge of immigration and police matters and would greet musharaf on his return...it seems a mockery of the judiciary and the governments refusal to accept responsibility in matters of law and order...under normal circumstances the primeminister should order the police to arrest musharaf on arrival and send him to balochistan to face trials on various charges...musharaf a weakling without the PMLq is to form his own political party the APML and many feel that flood donations will probably run his political campaign
  
• Sep14-2010--The dawn would have us believe that aisam ul haq is playing tennis for the country as a great diplomat and not trying to sell pepsi's... a task withdrawn from mohammed amer recently... when he is partnered by an indian devil in a doubles partnership that was literally massacred by teh bryan brothers...are we now a tennis power with just one half baked sania mirza lookalike in international tennis after being a failed squashpower, hockey power and a corrupted cricket nation...
  
• Sep14-2010--Altaf husseins failed french revolution will now apparently start from liberty in lahore and he is looking for 25000 stooges willing to die at the hands of teh countries military...karachis mohajirs who refused to even venture out of their homes this eid have literally refused tobe altaf husseins sitting ducks and he has been forced to look for duped punjabis...many suggest that many of the muckraking attempts by pakistans devilish media might be attempts at starting a street revolution but people not too interested..many are pointing to the elite or robber barons having taken over the revolution in france which is almost what has happened to the PPP in pakistan... what to talk about teh nawabs in teh mqm...many also point to teh apparent well fed(phiita huay)look of most mohajirs in pakistan with altaf hussein said tobe one of teh fattest leaders in pakistan..followed closely by Nawaz Sharif and asif zardari in girth...? Others suggest that the revolution scenario only possible in pakistan thru the military... might be the work of the much derided ISI thru its london agent..who apparently left the country for medical treatment eighteen years ago...?or ran from assassination gangs that were literally roaming around in karachi at the time....a muckraking totally uncontrolled revolution would be an invitation for a military takeover as this is not france where the real people would be allowed to take over parliament and guillotine the royalty...?Still others suggest that since the mqm is unable to control karachi...martial law maybe introduced their in the french style with the mqm royalty led to the guillotine by poor pukhtuns who suffer under their doctatorship..many have also noticed that the mohajirs and pukhtuns seem to have been the prime beneficiaries of the misguided economic governance in pakistan since the poor apparently only live in the rural areas of sindh and punjab and a revolution initiated in those areas is almost impossible...
  
• Sep14-2010--many others suggest that yusuf gillani who has never even visited teh GHQ went to visit corp commander multan..he initially thanked him for arranging votes for his family and wondered if he would be able to help his family evacuate in case of a revolution on the streets...teh corp commander assured him that his family would be airlifted to safety immediately...others suggest that he wanted to know whether the corp commander on the pattern of corp commanders karachi and quetta would be able to run a seraiki sooba movement...the response was that he should work thru proper channels...yusuf raza gilani after being unable to control anything in pakistan now apparently wants more sooba's..since he is a nobody outside multan...? The people are already wary/weary of the mess that soobait(provincialism) has created under teh PPP rule...under teh supposed guise of federalism...the federation seems powerless in the face of power hungry institutions and upstart religion mocking/challenging chief ministers...apparently chief minister nwfp ordered his own eid this time......ayub khan many say also used to attempt/impose his moonless pukhtun eids...
  
• Sep14-2010--The newest joke on the french revolution theme...is that king altaf was queried that your miserable mohajirs dislike sindhis so much why are u in a coalition with them...he answered u want me in a coalition with shahbaz and the pukhtuns...the questioner answered the only answer is guillotine altaf hussein...!!
  
• Sep14-2010--The french revolution apparently started when the french king was told that your royal subjects dont have enough bread...the true revolutionary he said feed them cakes from the royal bakery...and the les miserables(poor revolutionaries) revolted...in pakistan king asif gillani kayani were informed that the people cant afford roti and electricity...he answered make it even more expensive...and tell them that the IMF ordered it!!!
  
• Sep14-2010--The ADB suggests that the MOP and Nepra responsible for power woes in pakistan...many now think that Wapda was a very efficient organisation and only military misrule which caused massive power shortages and the supposed attempts at tariff hikes/privatisation/restructuring by IMF/WB/UN/ADB/Burki committee is the cause of the real problem...ADB now says that the cause is the refusal to form the Central Power Purchasing Agency whose task is now shared by the MOP/IMF/MOF/Nepra by fixing strange unrealistically high prices and said tobe IMF controlled...How a system can be reformed/corrected just by changes in organisational structures and tariff hikes and not handling the basic problems is unrealistic...from 1 rupee a unit in wapda times we now pay a maximum of 2-17 rupees per unit in pepco times...what will it be like under CCPA times... no relief in sight from power sector problems unless the dams are full and temperatures are under 80 degrees fahrenheit...How CCPA will be able to do a better job when MOP/Nepra/IMF/MOF cannot is unknown since the problem has magnified rather than been rectified in any way since teh reform/restructuring or reorganisation or privatisation process started...
  
• Sep14-2010--after the early mocking of stranded hapless flood affectees...asif zardari has attempted to improve his attitudes but in the safety of governor house mosques...while others say that geo-imran(100 MILLION BUT LOOKING FOR one BILLION RUPEES) and musharaf foundation(250 million already) garnered for flood relief are attempting to rip off donations for a future election campaign against entrenched political groups like the PPP, MQM and PMLn...?the geo-imran group despite huge donations has not started any flood relief activities while the musharaf foundation has only sent three trucks of relief goods as yet and have said that they will only ripoff 5%...the government after collecting billions in relief wants the flood affectees to wait for another two months to start any real rebuilding or resettling of flood affectees...
• Sep13-2010--american pastors threat to burn the quran causes outrage..
• Sep13-2010--ASWJ man killed in karachi
• Sep13-2010--12 killed in water dispute in Kurram
• Sep13-2010--nwfp splits on a moonless eid in pukhtun areas a day early and a federal eid in hazara, kohistan, dir, swat, shangla, chitral, di khan, buner, mansehra a day later