The Daily PakistanPolitics Feb15-28, 2019

• Feb28-2019--Pakistan seems tobe suggesting to india to return to the status quo and that they were willing to negotiate...as is generally known talks only take place between either friendly or open minded people who at least recognize the problem...In the case of India the attitude of animosity is almost a known factor and talks are at best a drama or dream...whenever pakistan opens its minds on kashmir the indians breakoff talks...There is a long history of this indian attitude...since 1999 even the agenda has not been unanimously agreed upon and the indians only talk on facial issues and the moment the indians hear the word kashmir they run like hell...since 2008 they have been beating the drums of terrorism and there have been only three or four incidences of militant activity in India...so if Imran Khan thinks that he can talk them into a solution of kashmir than i think he must have his head examined...In the current india-pakistan scenario war is the only chance of any solution...In that case the solution only comes about when one side submits and is totally destroyed...obviously the war i am talking about is not going tobe a walkin to occupy kashmir as happened in east pakistan...!...given pakistans supposed peaceful approach and india's liking for war and preparations for an all pakistan invasion...!... defence and being prepared for war is the only solution for pakistan...india's known animosity and attitude of only tinkering with kashmir makes any negotiations a futile exersize from the start...!If you only want peace than the status quo is the only answer and this situation will only repeat itself again and again...actors, cricketers and some media are only after money and there's is the only gain...so the government should consider the overall good rather than making a few cricketers happy who are normally under the indian thumb anyway...Imran Khan should realize that like Shahid Afridi he actually has no friends in india...
  
• Feb28-2019--Pakistan Airforce has carried out retaliatory strikes across the LOC on Wednesday...nobody knows what areas were targeted by the pakistanis the JEM or indian defence positions... Two indian aircraft were also shot down one on the pakistani side of the LOC and one on the indian side...one indian pilot has been captured...there were sounds of military aircraft in the early morning over Rawalpindi
  
• Feb27-2019--In what many say is a show of force eight indian planes crossed over into pakistani territory on Tuesday and bombed a hilltop near Balakot which is 80 kilometers inside pakistani territory...The indians claimed that they had bombed a terrorist camp killing 350...there are no terrorist camps along the LOC as claimed by india...The PAF says they challenged the indians but they ran away like scaredy cats...Pakistan which claims to have an airtight defence was found wanting in not being able to retaliate immediately...The government claims they will retaliate in due course...sounds of military aircraft over Rawalpindi on Tuesday morning
  
• Feb27-2019--The government is even attempting to fool itself...apparently Imran Khan was told that only 30% of the people were sent enhanced bills...there are widespread reports that everyone was sent hefty bills...bills were high in January and February bills were even higher...the apparent increase in bills was almost 500%...!
• Feb27-2019--while the country is generally considered backward in the context of hospital facilities there are 13 dispensaries on constitution avenue from where the high and mighty take away medicines in big bags...!!
  
• Feb23-2019--The PTI government is not very old but now a meatseller has challenged government prices of meat in Islamabad...he says that they cannot sell mutton for less than Rs1100 per kilo and Rs550 per kilo for beef...in that case mutton will only be served on a Banigala hilltop to drooling PTI bigwigs...!
  
• Feb23-2019--The SC has been subdued many say as Wapda issues the mohmand dam contract again to the Imran Khan adviser Dawood...! The corruption allegations not withstanding...The Dawoods who have built up a huge industrial base say doing bussiness is difficult in pakistan
  
• Feb23-2019--No organisation can sustain a Rs150 billion deficit and PTI's Murad Saeed should stop blaming people for the increased gas and electricity rates which is a pathetic excuse/attempt by Imran Khan to raise taxes on ordinary people...most of the circular debt has tobe paid by the government owned depatments...many are blaming the PTI for there being no people and only industrialists and fauj in their sarkar e madinah concept...The PTI has raised gas prices to pay for imported LNG for their pet industrialists...According to Imran Khan even his sister is a criminal for not paying taxes...According to Imran Khan he cant give subsidies to people but can to industrialists...The opposition tore up gas bills in the national assembly
  
• Feb23-2019--The FATF a politically motivated group on terror financing says pakistan does not understand terror financing risks of Daesh, Al Qaida, JUD, FIF, LeT,JeM,Haqqani Network, and taliban affiliated persons...most terror groups donot use any government systems
  
• Feb23-2019--The army chief spokesman also said that pakistan is discussing with iran construction of a fence on the 900 km border...Iran despite supposedly being a friendly country has also been accusing pakistan of a blast on a Revolutionary Guards bus...Dawn says that the iran-pakistan border which has a very small population density is infested with criminal gangs, drug traffickers and militants...Iran like india disregards reports of an anti government movement in Sistaan and blames pakistan...reports also of iran firing across the pakistani border and having running conflicts with border crossers
  
• Feb23-2019--In what seems an apparent acceptance of guilt the government of Imran Khan and Qamar Bajwa on the one hand warns India of any misadventure and on the other hand orders the punjab government to takeover the Mullah Azhar mosque and seminary in Bahawalpur...The Jamia Masjid Subhanallah and Madressha Al-Sabir apparently have been taken over under the National Action Plan...! quite funny...! as the indians had accused the JEM banned in 2002 of the Pulwama blast..however in contrast to the action the interior ministry rejected reports of any involvment in terrorism and said that orphans and poor get religious and formal education there...The indians also shot and killed a 24 year old woman who had inadvertently crossed over the Shakargarh and Narowal working boundary...!
  
• Feb23-2019--The Pulwama blast which technically can be considered a retaliation by liberation forces for the kashmiris killed by indian forces in a steady stream for some time...the terrorism inside pakistan coordinated by an indian Navy commander is besides the issue...the indian propaganda involving mullah azhar seems quite unclear given the barbed wire fencing and indian patrolling and the extremely cold winter...military planes were heard over islamabad at a high altitude...the pakistanis show an extremely duped attitude and subordination to india and offered them all sorts of cooperation to investigate the issue if the indians have any evidence...the indians point to a supposed internet confession by a kashmiri residing on the indian side who has been at odds with indians forces and in and out of jail...mullah azhars group is considered very small and technically unable to procure the huge amount of explosives required...the indians have again started an international propaganda campaign and have broken of all relations almost and contacts and imports from pakistan and are refusing to deliver export cargos...pakistans attitude that it will only retaliate and do nothing else seems pathetic and weak...pakistan has a huge list of what they want retaliate for going back to east pakistan...apparently the imran Khan government has been asking for increased trade with india...!Pakistan should also stop all imports at least..most regard the pakistan army chief and imran khan as using pretty weak vocabulary with the ISPR chief saying that the indians have to stop their animosity which attitude has not changed for quite some time...the pakistanis should accept that india is an enemy and prepare themselves for all eventualities...the pakistanis live on the hope that india will one day become a friendly state...they are usually on their knees the moment the indians want to talk and as usual the indians slap and ridicule them back eventually...the propaganda of the Salman visit has also ended when he offered the same investments to india and china...
  
• Feb17-2019--The Pulwama blast may cause problems as indians threaten retaliation and complicate relations by cutting off trade. Indians maybe feeling the pressure of pakistans devaluation as all pakistani products are available at dirt cheap prices...Indians are ending the MFN status and raising tariffs on all pakistani products to 200% and urging FATF actions......while indian imports now cost twice their value in india...The blast by a local kashmiri comes just at the right time for Modi to up the rhetoric and win the next indian elections...while it would be difficult to start a war in snowbound kashmir the indians have a direct link to pakistani terror groups on the afghan side of the border...apparently the indians say there is a video claiming it tobe a jaish a mohammed action...the explosive used the indians say could be a local indian commercial explosive...suicide bombs have not been used in the kashmir conflict...the pakistani foreign minister pathetically advised india to a adopt statesman like approach which is something anathema to indians usual behaviour...pakistan should be ready to retaliate immediately if the indians respond militarily...
  
• Feb17-2019--The interior ministry is probing iranian funded shiite groups for amounting an internet opposition to the saudi crown princes visit to pakistan...The groups which are at best semi terorrist in nature have caused an almost military closing down of islamabad during the visit
  
• Feb17-2019--The government has raised a furore over the NAB arrest of a peshawar museum director and archeologist for the illegal hiring of 96 low grade staffers for supposedly protecting sites...NAB could obviously have interrogated him if no financial wrongdoing was suspected...It seems to reflect Imran Khan's views that the useless beaurocracy which is usually involved in corrupt practices not be charged for their offences andbe given extraordinary respect...as far as nobody wanting to work Imran Khan should find that out by advertising the said position...If a director does not seek normal approvals for hiring staff than there is a surreptitious motive involved...The SC and even NAB should not be frightened of the government to investigate and file cases...technically there is no reason to handcuff even criminals and a law can be framed on who should or should not be handcuffed...the concept of arrest means that a man is immobilised by handcuffs and relased into a jail cell...
  
• Feb17-2019--Two FC men shot dead by motorcyclists in Loralai bazaar