The Daily PakistanPolitics Mar16-31, 2019

• Mar31-2019--military courts started in 2015 have ceased functioning.
  
• Mar30-2019--Pakistan selection for the oneday worldcup has been thrown open by three centuries by outsiders abid ali and mohd rizwan...and better bowling by shinwari and junaid...mohd amir, sarfaraz, shoaib malik look like sifarishis now and even imamul haq looks like an odd opener with the heroics of new entrant abid ali...the pace of wahab and rauf looks much better and the team selection looks up for grabs...sending the old team now will look like sending failures to be roasted by the other teams...sarfraz's weak batting, wicketkeeping and captainship failures in south africa look very visible and he does not know how to keep his mouth shut about basic ethnic failures...some point to obvious Sarfraz armtwisting techniques in the PSL...get out like this or...!
  
• Mar30-2019--the earlier report of an F-16 being shot down on the indian side on feb 27 had been reported immediately in pakistan as a indian helicopter crash shot down by a indian/ israeli missile...The indians say that 25 pakistani planes had retaliated the indian intrusion in the Nowshera sector...while pakistan says only five aircraft were involved...pakistan seems to have a problem having no real bases near the indian border...with indian aircraft sitting in srinagar pakistan should build quick reaction bases along the eastern border and approaches to kashmir alongwith radar enhancements in blind areas...
  
• Mar30-2019--State bank following Nawaz era policies when they started hiking the 5.75% key discount rate in Nov'17...It is now at 10.75% showing key demand for money has not abated...growth revized downward to 3.5% and generally things will become more expensive as the government plans another major petrol price hike
  
• Mar30-2019--Imrans conversion to a dutiful spade holding typical primeminister is now complete...he tried to douse balochistan complaints by inaugurating the gwadar international airport, the equally controversial Quetta-Zhob 305 km western CPEC route and a medical complex in the health starved Quetta...as the army and chinese looked on...earlier Imran Khan was trying out being a policy maker and economic interventionist...
  
• Mar30-2019--In a major blow to his credibility Imran Khan appoints an ex military IB chief known for his involvement with Zardari ,Musharaf ,Nawaz Sharif and PMLq formation as minister for parliamentary affairs...in the recent past he was being credited for Imrans surprise victory in the polls...!earlier Benazir Bhutto had credited him with involvement in her future assassination...still earlier Benazir had accused Zardari of having an affair with his daughter and that Zardari had bought the surrey palace for her...!he was earlier punjab IB chief and later IB DG(2008) and probably is in his seventies...Ijaz Shah is also accused of political victimisation during the coup, and earlier eras...according to the PTI the parliament is deeply interested in his dubious internal security experience..apparently according to punjabi slapstick comedians Ijaz Shah will take problematic PMLq members one by one into the speakers room and slap and hit them...IB walas are known to believe in the slap and pummel technique to straighten out problematic politicians...!!!Imran Khan does not have the votes for constitutional amendments and Ijaz Shah maybe used for typical arm twisting techniques such as favors and doleouts...maybe the members will be handed over thousands of mobiles for distribution or khokha plots...etc...or free pilot trainings for their daughters...there is nothing free in the PTI brains for men and even housing will be jointly issued to husbands and wives...!might be they will get control for bank accounts for women with the billions that PTI will dole out to them...!
  
• Mar29-2019-As expected the indians backed out of even Kartarpura talks over the pakistani sikh committee members...earlier they had made impossible demands that pakistan could have found difficult to accept...apparently the pakistani side lied that talks in the first meeting were supposedly constructive...!
  
• Mar29-2019--Imran Khan has so much confidence in the politicised pakistan army that he sees no further need for the plethora of militant outfits dubiously inspired by state institutions like the ISI...any further excursions or operations will all have to be carried out by the army itself...the feb 27 retaliatory raid by the pakistan airforce may be the first example of a military confidence in ability to control indian and other shenanigans openly...supposedly the cabinets committe on defence has been replaced by the National Internal Security committee which will oversee NAP
  
• Mar29-2019--federal government and KP unlikely to find new resources for KP-Fata.. from NFC
  
• Mar29-2019--Shireen Mazari calls US kabul ambassador a little pygmy...she is human rights minister and another one who thinks that she has been overlooked for her internal security experience...most ministers in the PTI regime like to behave as if they have a different portfolio ...these include ministers of railways, foreign affairs, information specifically
  
• Mar28-2019--Imran Khan comments on afghanistan reconciliation which are being dubbed an outsiders foolish comments
  
• Mar28-2019--The new SC does not see 40% tax on mobile topup cards as extortion...!
  
• Mar28-2019--Imran Khan initiates a get rich quick method for the PTI...Imran claims to start a food, housing, clothing, education and medical relief poverty alleviation with a paltry Rs80 billion(he has actually completed the process for his own food/clothing/housing)...he gave Rs40 billion to alleviate the poverty of exporters...!data about poverty is available with BISP even on the individual level...he claims that 10000 homes for orphans and 5 old people homes...(although there are more old people...)will be built which will consume probably most of the funds...providing medical relief to the poor is part of another program of health cards...he will dole out 5.7 million mobile phones to women...will pay pensions to the informal sector like maids...construction of poor people houses to get loans of Rs5 billion...he will provide hens and goats to widows in rural areas and leave aside areas for the poor to setup cafes/kiosks everywhere...Imran Khan technically only believes in ehsass for the poor and the very rich...he still insists that there are anti bussiness government policies...the people he is crucifying are the middle income people for who he has raised electricity and gas prices and pharma prices and obviously dollar prices...and who have to pay for his rich and poor...while technically such measures can ease poverty the required funds should at least match the military budget for any real effect...!
  
• Mar28-2019--National Savings director just demoted for sexual harrassment and a naib qasid retired...
  
• Mar28-2019--The pathetic ECP says there is no time limit for swearing in a legislator...In england common law marriage is allowed..this is the same situation if a legislater has not taken oath for a specific time say six months common law suggests that the courts deseat such a legislator...
  
• Mar27-2019--The pukhtunish PTI does every thing upside down...while its core constituency openly marries off under 18 girls they have initiated an underage child marriage restraint act which has no enforcers...eg Imran Khan does not understand why high rise building are a risk in pakistan where planes fly all over the place...This is no Dubai or the abu dhabi desert..clear flight paths have tobe designated...
  
• Mar27-2019--Careem acquired by Uber...?
  
• Mar27-2019--four terrorist blow themselves up in Loralai balochistan say the security forces.
  
• Mar27-2019--poor destitute hindu girls...they are restricted from conversion to islam as well...IHC sends ghotki sisters to a shelter home. The Quaid only allowed freedom to go to their temples...which comment is being expanded by the Athar Minallah to all sorts of things for minorities...it seems the courts and Imran Khan are under the spell of the ultra nationalist hindu conspirator Modi...
  
• Mar27-2019--The government to challenge the LHC decision to remove Shahbaz Sharif from the ECL list...CAA to provide Rs 4 billion relief to airlines and women to get free training to become pilots...It seems that the Imran Khan's financial animosity is limited to ordinary men who donot own export bussinesses or airlines or cannot build skyscrapers in islamabad...electrical tariff subsidies are given to everyone but people who are not in the army, donot own export bussinesses or have an agricultural farm...the government financial animosity is most intense for ordinary job holding men
  
• Mar27-2019--The government in a continuous attempt to make life difficult for the people intends to increase the power tariff further...Power tariff has already been increased with the reduction to two slabs causing bills to skyrocket or double in many cases...on average the tariff for a 500 units bills is already around Rs20 per unit...
  
• Mar27-2019--Another in a string of strange decisions the SC allowed Nawaz Sharif tobe released from jail for six weeks and seek medical advice of his choice inside pakistan...he is not allowed to leave pakistan and has to return to jail in six weeks...if he seeks further relaxation he has to petition the IHC...he has to file two sureties of 5 million each...his jail sentence is suspended pending an IHC appeal who seem to regard the issue favorably...It seems tobe a favor to the ex premier rather than anything based on law..The SC seems tobe ridiculing the top cardiologists in punjab...!technically he seems to have no major health problems as he only visited his private factory hospital in Jati Umra..so probably it could be said that his release in the al azizia reference is imminent...
  
• Mar26-2019--a frightened Imran Khan cancels meeting with Taleban...!says he is expecting a big offshore find of oil in what is only a field 30% owned by OGDC...however an oilfind is usually splite 50-50 between the country and drillers
  
• Mar26-2019--pakistan looking for an easier IMF package in May...an IMF package will ease other donor funds as well
  
• Mar26-2019--two FC and two Levies men shot dead in Lakki Marwat and Upper Dir
  
• Mar25-2019--Simililarly ex PPP foreign minister Shah Mahmud has asked Bilawal Zardari for the second time to consult or advize on NAP...apparently he thinks he is a foreign minister for the PPP since Imran Khan handles foreign relations...NAP should technically be handled by the interior minister...Maybe Imran Khan is going for a heavy cabinet shakeup...
  
• Mar25-2019--Apparently a future acting primeminister has been appointed by Imran Khan...Imran Khan apparently does not want to consult with the opposition leader so a deputy secretary in the foreign office has been authorized to consult who has informed shahbaz sharif of Imran Khans choices for the ECP members...!The opposition has refused and says the letter has tobe from Imran Khan
  
• Mar25-2019--Imran Khan more keen to protect two hindu girls from conversion to islam than protecting the gas bills of the muslim populace...apparently the bills had already been increased to Rs1500 per unit and now his new MD's are saying they wanted to increase the bills again to the same amount...The problem seems tobe more with SNGPL which wants the people to pay for the LNG imported for a few industrialists...The same industrialists have already been given a Rs40 billion subsidy on their LNG bills...!please Imran Khan go become an ambassador to saudi arabia...!
  
• Mar24-2019--Nawaz Sharifs kidneys in poor shape says marium nawaz...she says his kidney disease at stage three and he feels pain in his flanks..the final is stage five and than even there is chance of blood changes to clean the blood thru dialysis
  
• Mar23-2019--religious tensions rear their ugly heads as four motorcyclists fire at mullah taqi usmanis motorcade in karachi as two are killed...In islamabad security agencies cannot stop mullah abdul aziz from delivering a friday sermon at the lal masjid and challenges democratic norms as unislamic...
  
• Mar23-2019--The indianish Imran Khan trades messages with the hawkish Modi...both sides obviously have no understanding of each other and cannot work with each other...with the indians wanting to dominate and crush the kashmiris and peacnik Imran thinking that he must be frightened by now...as has been the usual attitude of pakistani army chiefs...prosperity cannot be achieved even if peace is achieved as it depends on each countries paucity of financial resources...and we are no europe of 1944...
  
• Mar22-2019--In the first of its kind the CJP takes suo moto notice of an unsigned suicide note by an army brigadier Asim Munir...A controversial anti taleban ISI officer he was appointed CDA member estate towards the end of the Musharaf regime in 2006-2010...in itself that is a strange posting...the army officer unlike most military officials was residing in the diplomatic enclave a haven for the rich and mighty like Imran Khan...most military officials normally reside in the equally posh DHA's...Asim Munir was found hanging in his diplomatic enclave residence...that is almost equally strange for the generally mentally tough military officers and many had surmised that he had either been eliminated by the ISI or by the Taleban...In his suicide note the military officer complained of harassment by the NAB six years after he had left CDA...That is normal as NAB has only recently started to consider all sorts of complaints...bearaucratic officials strangely find it humiliating tobe investigated...people usually hang themselves in love affairs or family problems...a political suicide no less...!The CJP who should have ordered a police investigation first challenged NAB to explain its position on exploitation/harassment which should have been a second step...a person who commits suicide is obviously not of sane mind...and the circumstance of the suicide should have been investigated first...like whether the note was real or fake etc.
  
• Mar22-2019-Imran Khan after failing to get anything from black money probes now says he is hoping for a great oil offshore discovery by Exxon MObil...nobody else has mentioned anything of the kind...even if a discovery comes about..its measurement and drilling of say numerous oil wells takes years...however if it does pakistan could become in the years to come a net oil exporter...and earn lets say 50% of the oil income from such wells...that is a hope that people have had since the 1960's especially those heading the governments...the people can at best pray that this comes about as than they will be as wealthy as the middle east oil barons...and karachi will become another doha or dubai...
  
• Mar22-2019-The Sindh government or Malir or Karachi should be wealthier by Rs460 billion as the SC reaches a settlement with Bahria Town the state supported private contractor who has made it big by building real estate since the early 1990's...it is to be noted that Bahria has had the support literally of all governments and the military in the country barring the KP and balochistan provincial governments and it is just behind the militaries DHA in building real estate for the wealthy especially housing estates...Bahria town had started by offering 3lakh rupee plots to the middle class although that has now climbed to around 5 million per plot...three marla plots now cost as much as 2 million
  
• Mar21-2019-Bilawal and Zardari grilled in three NAB cases...PPP seems petrified as they called in a few supporters to protest who clashed with police...
  
• Mar21-2019-Pakistan says Indian hypocrisy exposed as Indian court acquits all Samjautha train blast accused...the prime accused had been an Indian army officer who was letoff earlier...
  
• Mar21-2019-six Levies men killed in a terrorist attack on a check post in the Ziarat area
  
• Mar21-2019-Nawaz Sharif quizzed by Model Town JIT in jail for two hours who said he seemed perfectly fit...Nawaz Sharif rejected any involvment...On Monday Shahbaz Sharif said that he had not ordered the attack and ordered a disengagement by police when he was informed...given how pakistani governments operate it would be difficult for Shahbaz and Nawaz Sharif to not having known since it was all over TV...such knowledge/information is immediately provided to the higherups...even Imran Khan has already started to say that he had no knowledge of what has been happening...!
  
• Mar21-2019-generally on politics...governor punjab says he has not received any bill to enhance legislators salaries...health workers protest in lahore...deaf cricketers also potest...punjab university students protesting lack of transportation thrashed by IJT apparently on admin instructions...Imran Khan wants to appoint new ECP members without consultation opposition says...apparently army chief wants an extension some say...
  
• Mar21-2019-The new secretary Finance is a former secretary power with no experience of finance and generally considered a provincial...however he did handle the power ministry adequately in the Nawaz era
  
• Mar20-2019-CJ SC trying to find a way to send Nawaz Sharif abroad...
  
• Mar20-2019-Imran Khan has a partiality for his own dishonest men...he got jehangir tareen whose agricultural experience is in sugarcane and sugar to give the cabinet a briefing on the National agricultural Emergency Program...how
  he cameup with program is unknown...Imran Khan allows ministers to appoint heads of organizations...!cabinet told that millions of gas consumers looted..minister of petroleum and gas says only 50000 were looted...!
  
• Mar19-2019-Rs10 billion are tobe spent every year in Fata...i think the funds are not available but apparently the PTI has no idea how to spend them...no elections have taken place in Fata and Imran Khan says he will consult with unknown people even though it is now a provincial matter...The frightening tribals he says are actually very decent
  
• Mar19-2019-bodies of two kidnapped doctors recovered from Taxila
  
• Mar18-2019-four killed as railway track blownup in dera murad jamali
  
• Mar17-2019-indian camera drone shot down in poonch sector...
  
• Mar17-2019-Only 17% think Imran Khan is doing a very good job...but 84% now think the polls were accurate and 56% generally support the government...This is an IRI poll
  
• Mar16-2019-two mosques were attacked by an armed terrorist in New Zealand killing 50 people including six
  
• Mar16-2019-Police SHo's can now grant bail in teh punjab
  
• Mar15-2019-pakistan-india in supposed constructive Kartarpura talks...india has never completed any negotiations in the long indo-pak history of talks.
  
• Mar15-2019-Imran Khan nixes the legislation for higher punjab legislator salaries...the legislation was passed and is presently suspended
  
• Mar15-2019-pakistan tries some mechanisms to boost tourism like cheaper and quicker e-visas to most countries...with pakistans poor infrastructure and no famous resorts and difficult terrain tourism is not going to become a flood