The Daily PakistanPolitics Nov1-15, 2018

• 08-Nov-2018--with taxes already at an all time high provinces to levy Rs1 per liter as another new tax...the SC should clearly declare that its is purified water and not mineral water that should be taxed only...purified water technically has no impurities...!
  
• 08-Nov-2018--a police oficer kidnapped from islamabad has been discovered killed in afghanistan...so much for our institutions...!
  
• 14-Nov-2018--The army in a vociferous statement has again reiterated that the country is effectively under martial law...They say they will forcibly shutdown an emerging voice of the people in the form of the TLP which was earlier stated to be an army front for protests...since the army, judiciary and government are all involved in politics of confrontation one never knows who is breaking which law...The protestors apparently chanted that the army chief was not a muslim and the CJP was a heretic...!The pathetic PTI also has has become the voice of the army chief threatening protestors with dire consequences and than accusing opposition parties...It was generally a short lived protest and there was not any great deal of destruction...democracy cannot live without protests...The government should allow peaceful demonstrations and should for example listen when a substantial number of people emerge on the street...The CJP should also give straight decisions...rather than convoluted political ones...nobody has even investigated the killing of Maulana Samiulhaq who was eliminated after turning against the government...many point to the army and internal security institutions which technically were behind maulana samiulhaq and also anti state organisations...some have vehemently stated that Imran Khan is now no longer more than a army subedar...!allowing the army so many perks while the government is against even lavish housing is a contradiction in terms of governance...The CJP states to fool the people that the DHA and The Bahria Town contractors literally two of the most corrupt landgrabbers in Pakistan that they will build the Daducha dam for free...without issuing tenders two organisations that have never built a dam are being promoted by the CJP...No contractor has ever done any free work...and picking and choosing favorites from the countries contractors is corruption at its most obvious...DHA a ministry of defence organisation will obviously use defence funds and from where Bahria will come up with 26 billion is anyones guess...!
  
• 08-Nov-2018--already with many controversies attached the PTI housing megaproject is far from achieving its 5 million applicants...upto now they have 80000 applicants suggesting that housing may not be a big problem as previously thought...Initially Imran Khan wanted to bring in english contractors or builders...now they say the koreans are moving into the gaps...another surprising news was that the army chief has approached Imran Khan with a bussiness proposal about housing...while there are numerous contractors in pakistan those involved only in housing are not that many...with dha and bahria being the biggest developers...if FF or the FWO/military jumps in any capacity than there could be many contenders...at the moment cost seems tobe the biggest obstacle...many suggest that small lowcost houses are now being built for3-4 million...if land is supplied by the governments than cost could be restricted to around 2 million depending on design and quality...
  
• 08-Nov-2018--army captain dies in IED blast in mohmand
  
• 08-Nov-2018--the anti saudi PPP wants to know the details of imran khan's chinese and saudi visits while accusing him of a surrender to the TLP or making an NRO with the mullahs...after the agreement the PTI tried to suggest that their ministers were attorney generals who would not let the mostly chanting protestors of the hook...That is the job of police prosecuters and the government and army should not get into a personal fight..
  
• 08-Nov-2018--Asia the blasphemy accused was released from multan jail and flown to islamabad where the government will be working to have her relocated...
  
• 08-Nov-2018--shah mahmood qureshi is preparing to learn para jumping...apparently he will parachute into yemen to hold negotiations..between the iranian supported houtis(fake shiites) and the southern adenites...shah has already said that he accepts the division of yemen between north and south...The UN is the only negotiator and they they have restarted their attempts...Shahs views suggest that they are literally a front for the iranians...non of our great leaders has ever visited yemen...shah mahmood should start by studying the history of the yemeni world over the past century and a half...The saudi side is a part of the defacto government installed by the UN while the iranians are supposedly arming the houtis a mountain tribe that has ruled yemen thru the centuries but have felt that unification has killed their aspirations...north, south yemen have twice joined and than seperated...with a nothing economy that will be further shattered by war things are pretty eery with most of the army captured by the houtis and now opposed by saudi supported rebels...saudis and iranians will have to contribute heavily to repair the yemen economy...
  
• 08-Nov-2018--What did Imran Khan learn on his china visit which was initially considered a failure...he now thinks it was a partial success...The chinese explained the system to him...you pay our contractors,transporters, suppliers, consultants etc...all the money goes to the chinese government...when it totals a billion dollars the chinese will dole out another billion dollar loan...the more you pay the chinese the more you get back...the chinese contractors however want the chinese money kept in a revolving account so that they can be paid immediately...so it will never be a problem for the pakistani government...however they refused to dole out $7 billion so the government greedy and aviricious will go to the IMF who will dole out probably $5 billion...the last IMF loan of around $4 billion ended in 2016...so dont expect this tobe the last IMF loan...and what they will not allow...they have already done that...loot the people and help the billionaires...
  
• 03-Nov-2018--The CJP now has a new victim...azam swati and wants to investigate his attitude and apply article 621f on him...azam swati has had a fight with the qabza group whom the CJP says are poor people and warrant a check of the politicians truthfulness or otherwise...maybe the CJP is losing the high road himself...!and the righteousness of the honest and decent...!The former IG said they were Swati's servants...servants who own a one lakh rupee buffalo which wanders off...!
  
• 03-Nov-2018--The TLP reached an agreement with the government...It is rare that religious groups can get countrywide support even if it is not in the form of huge gatherings...the government said that that accused would not be allowed to leave the country as the accused's lawyer left the country citing threats...usually in the past blasphemy victims have been allowed tobe relocated to foreign countries...in the process somebody also knocked off Maulana samiulhaq who apparently stated that Imran Khans duas have been ("puri hogai hen") and they did not have to support him any longer...some are blaming the PTI while the army, opponents and the USA are also being mentioned not to forget the iranians and shiites...the army also apparently went completely haywire as the normally pro army mullahs blamed the the army chief , ISI, heretic CJP...the ISI apparently threatened Mullah Rizvi in talks...earlier reports suggest that Imrans Khans harsh language was due to a harsh talking too by the under fire army chief...Even the ISPR spokesman used threatening language saying that they too would have their say when the review is over and the army chief would give advice(?) if the civilians could not handle it...The army many think should butt out of politics if it does not want tobe critisized as politics is all about criticism...The Army chief many have been suggesting is spending weekends in dubai and holidays in china...!the Army and ISPR should realize that it is not their responsibility unless summoned by the government to handle a crisis or even air a grievance publically...The Army never goes back to the barracks when assigned a tough job...Rangers have been in karachi for over two decades and even the terrorism crisis is more than a decade old...The army unable to close the book and retreat to the barracks...!!
  
• 03-Nov-2018--Maulana sami ul haq a towering religious leader and politician has been stabbed to death in his affluent safarivilla, Rawalpindi home...known as very close to the taleban on both sides of the border he was the head of the famous jamia haqqania of Akora khattak...he wielded immense influence politically especially amongst pukhtuns and was allied with the PTI...he could easily have been eliminated by allies as well as the USA which has opposed specifically the haqqani's who are technically a different family...he was killed while his servants were not around which points to a conspiracy or he must have been under watch or lets say being monitored by opponents and government...the government has come out slowly in condemnation of his killing and pointed to a family feud of some sort...he has been involved with religious party coalitions and even negotiated with the taleban alongwith two other mullah groups and has mostly been part of protest movements throughout pakistans history...some even call him the 'father of the Taleban' as some taleban leaders studied at his seminary...it could also be intra religious party warfare as the religious parties fared poorly in the last the elections...many in the opposition blame religious groups for large scale vote shifting...he was unable to participate in the TLP organized anti CJP protests due a road blockade and had returned home...
  
• 02-Nov-2018--The CJP who was declared a heretic recently in the Asia Bibi case as he tried to run rings around the mullahs...! The baoji who wears a suit-pant which no body wears nowadays after the arrival of the pauperized PTI...however many question his support for the corruption oriented Bahria Town construction company...he started looking odd when he said that Bahria Town was going to build some dam(Daducha perhaps) for free...Bahria Town had just put in a claim for Rs. 26 billion to build the dam just to purchase the land...The Punjab government estimated that they could do that in 2.98 billion...the judge literally got disoriented and said that this is flimsy/ unsubstantiated...maybe he has forgotten that contractors in pakistan usually charge double for whatever they do...Bahria Town would come up later for the cost of cement and iron...the CJP theoretically has started to support corrupt practices which all government organizations are well aware off when tenders have tobe issued...if something is build, operate and run...it can hardly be called free...The CJP might now be considered flimflam too...CJP sahib Bahria town is not your personal company...and the tender to BOO is not your personal responsibility...!!and calling such things free is pathetic...
  
• 02-Nov-2018--The TLP continues its protest for a second day running in blocking islamabad...Imran Khan runs of off to china as trouble brews...!
  
• 02-Nov-2018--The chakri Asif Zardari comes clean...says if money is his than stashing it in other peoples accounts is not illegal