The Daily PakistanPolitics Nov 15-30, 2018

• 29Nov-2018--The nayadaur housing scheme or scam is taking off says the PTI...according to them almost 40 contractors have offered to arrange land and construction of any magnitude...these might possibly include the current army chiefs company...corruption in acquiring land and building contracts is an almost given...
  
• 29Nov-2018--Nawaz Sharif wants the investigation of Alina Khans assets in Dubai which he say she got regularized for a small payment under the PMLn's SK Abbasi NRO...the SC gave a guarantee that no investigation would be carried out to those who got themselves regularized...he did not mention any specific assets...Alina Khan's husband was running a housing soceity with no access road in islamabad...
  
• 29Nov-2018--Asad Umar pines away for an IMF handout saying t might be delayed a month or two...typical beggars these PTI wala's
  
• 29Nov-2018--Imran khan opens the kartarpur corridor on...two indian ministers and navjot sindh in attendance...The flirt that Imran Khan is seemed tobe bending over to Harsimrat kaur to ask "you want to shake/hold hands...?" but she quickly held her hands up in a namaste...while the corridor might not not open immediately it could eventually prove tobe a political opening point though sushma swaraj quickly destroyed any non sikh hopes on negotiations...!many others were immediately thinking of independent sikhistan helping the kashmiris join pakistan...!others thought how it would be easy for terrorists to just walk into pakistan and vice versa..
  
• 24Nov-2018--Despite the supposed cautionery attitude of the PTI the first quarter expenditures expanded...current expenditures rose to 1.4 trillion increasing 19%...defence expenditure rose 21% to 219 billion...provincial and federal development fell sharply by 27% and 41.1 percent...overall deficit rose to 542 billion compared to 441 billion last year...provinces had a surplus of 264 billion compared to 82 billion last year...total expenditure increased 12.9% to 1.643 trillion compared to 1.455 trillion last year...markup payments inched up 14.86% to 507 billion compared to 446 billion last year...Total revenue was almost flat at 1.1 trillion compared to 1.02 trillion last year...federal tax collection was 975 billion while provincial was 88.6 billion. No particular reasons for the jumps in expenditure apart from failure of military and economic officials to control expenditures.
  
• 24Nov-2018--In an early morning gun and grenade assault on the chinese consulate in karachi three militants were killed and four others including two policemen and two visaseekers...three vehicles were gutted but the militants could not not blow open the gate...This comes as military and government have a confused personal animosity attitude rather than a professional approach......a bomb blast in Orakzai Bazaar killed 34 including sikhs, shiites and sunnis...another SC judge literally blew up in court ridiculing the CJP running to the UK to gather dam funds...while handling the after effects of a TLP faizabad protests...also many TLP leaders were arrested across punjab as they ordered a demo for the November shuhada...multan road in lahore turned into a pitched battlefield between police and the TLP protestors...the government, army and judiciary have a pathetic attitude in handling protestors who are not technically terrorists but will burn and pillage when attacked...
  
• 19Nov-2018--Imran Khan must be really troubled by the oppositions pre election strategy of ridculing him as a person who frequently makes u turns...for the last few days he has compared himself to napoleon(a fascist rebel), hitler(a fascist warmonger) and now to the strategy of crooks...he compares uturns to the crooks lying to evade responsibility...he also says that napoleon and hitler lost because they did not make uturns...napoleon and hitler had very bad objectives and their success could have destroyed the world as it is...they should have lost irrespective of strategy good or bad...while imran khans strategy of luring opposition vote winners(electables) was proved correct he should not make it a habit...in the byelections many a brother and electable lost..his uturns on loans and price hikes are also not that popular barring amongst his rich friends...and anti people economists/beaurocrats...people now say that he is paying back industrialists for providing him products for his Pace departmental store...!
  
• 18Nov-2018--In one of the funniest protests against the PTI 800 PHD's wanted tobe the first of the PTI's ten million jobs manifesto to get permanent jobs...PHD's were given one year contractual jobs...
  
• 18Nov-2018--PTI plans to restructure the FST so that it can hear appeals...a constitutional amendment might be required...numerous cases heard by the SC involve federal service jobs...
  
• 18Nov-2018--bomb blast in karachi friday night kills two...two solders killed in North Waziristan as an FC vehicle hit by a rocket
  
• 18Nov-2018--heavy truck sales plummet by almost 50% in four months...Saudia to cut oil production to control prices in warning to the USA
  
• 18Nov-2018--As Nawaz Sharif seemed tobe slipping out of the Panama case net The government sent four more cases against him to NAB involving 900 million in transport expenses and illegal aircraft use by Maryam Nawaz...The army has warned the government that they will not tolerate this or the TLP...The PTI response what can we do if the SC gives such decisions...!
  
• 18Nov-2018--a former DIG gunned down in Quetta...!
  
• 17Nov-2018--Our great leader might actually be a simple minded tyrant who does not realize the foolishness of following the armies orders..he now says that Uturns are the signs of great leadership...the opposition PPP and PMLn have made their fortunes on following age old policies...he uses dictatorships failures to explain the problem...saying napoleon and Hitler lost the wars in russia because they did not change strategy...In those days strategy was just kill or be killed...his electables strategy seemed to fail in the bye-elections when they lost seats they had won...it is not only about uturns... though many suggest that key uturns in economics policy caused the PTI losses...oil imports soared to an annual $5.2 billion..or the voters thinking stressed by the PMLn that things have not changed...
  
• 16Nov-2018--The convoluted worlds of the army and iSI personal security, aloofness and isolation came into view as the shahrahe suhrwardy a famous islamabad road was reopened for the first time in ten years...while i think only one ISI ofice was bombed during the Taleban insurgency the ISI HQ was literally quaking inits boots...The army has adopted an aloof and isolated gun and barbed wire culture for its own personal protection supposedly in a country where it is much loved and honored...however it took IHC and SC decisions to force open the road from ISI clutches...in the process a senior IHC court judge was dismissed by the SC in the SJC for irritating the ISI...and a musharaf minister was approved as an ISI approved CJ of the IHC...however the ISI as usual refused to obey orders and still blocked one lane...The CDA said that it will make another lane in due course as well as an underpass at aabpara...!
  
• 16Nov-2018--Imran Khan appoints defence minister to solve problems with senate chairman sanjrani who banned minister chaudhry fawad from attending the cuurent senate session...Chaudhry Fawad who is developing a loudmouth reputation had earlier threatened protestors in the TLP protests with dire consequences..similar in nature is the uncouth ISPR chief who supposedly thinks of himself as the coupplotters information minister who had threatened the entire country and the government recently if they did not stop slandering the blameless army ...information ministers have developed an uncouth reputation as both in the PMLn government had also developed a bad reputation too...
  
• 16Nov-2018--body of a slain KP police officer finally handed over by afghanistan after delays...police officer kidnapped from islamabad and murdered in afghanistan
  
• 16Nov-2018--first company formed by the PTI government...the Sarmaya Pakistan company will be run by Imran Khan on the pattern of the failed companies in punjab...The Railways, PIA and Steel mills head a list of 195 failed government entities...the government will evaluate government officers for six months before giving them three years tenure...the tenure system has failed as officers when appointed to independent positions become corrupt and inefficient and refuse to consult and follow the government...a special case is that of the army chiefs who when appointed are said tobe complete professionals...by the time his three years are over the government is happy to just get rid of them...The same can be said of primeministers who people(and army) are happy to get rid off after five years