The Daily PakistanPoltics April 1-15, 2019

• Apr14-2019--merged tribal areas KP provincial polls on 16 seats in June
  
• Apr14-2019--12 killed by flash fllods in south waziristan and Pishin
  
• Apr14-2019--NAB goes after the Shahbaz Shatif women and places them on the ECL...Sharifs accused of widepsread money laundering thru family and employees
  
• April13-2019--PTI advisor and failed private equity fund manager Arif Naqvi arrested at Heathrow for suspicious transactions between his various companies...he apparently returned the health fund money but noone knows where he is spending or investing the health fund meant for health care facilities in poverty stricken countries...
  
• April13-2019--suicide bomber blows up 20 including eight hazaras in quetta market...while motorcycle blast in chaman kills a FC man...probably a reaction to pro shiite policies of the PTI...
  
• April13-2019--asad umar says IMF bailout almost worked and IMF only wants a free float, he says CPEc and IMf bailout tobe kept seperate...later he says he does not know anything about the economy...maybe it is run by unknown powers...
  
• April13-2019--four major generals who seemed tobe on sidelined and superceded posts made Lt Generals...two from the intelligence fields who mostly come in contact with the primeminister...one definitely a surprise choice who apparently ran the mullah protests or tahreek labaik protests at faizabad about which a lot of hue and cry was raised by the judiciary...TLP leader Mulla Rizvi is still in jail......two seemingly ahmedis...ahmed is Imran Khans middle name...The four generals including one possible shiite are supposedly going tobe at the top of the list when the 2022 army chief is chosen...That would leave Faiz Hameed and Nauman Mahmood who has a shaheed father in the lead...Lt gen sahir has been DGMO for quite a long while
  
• April12-2019--A LHC bench suspended the life sentence of Hanif Abbasi in the famous ephedrine case and sent him home on bail...Hanif Abbbasi a PMLn leader has two pharma companies and is reportedly known to use the ephedrine quota for making crystal meth which was even smuggled to Saudi Arabia...
  
• April12-2019--PTI calls justice qazi faez isa biased against the 2014 dharna...
  
• April12-2019--government does not want to cancel medicine price raise...and health minister only wants to continue his shenanigans instead...
  
• April12-2019--two oil company workers carrying out a survey in north waziristan shot dead
  
• April12-2019--Shireen Mazari instead of jailing accused of gender violence or child abuse only wants to change the mindset...forget mindset and send accused to jail...
  
• April12-2019--controversial information minister removes acting MD of PTV and appoints a colonel as acting MD...apparently Imran Khan averse to even appointing heads of state organizations and has authorized ministers to do so...!
  
• April12-2019--apparently the Imran Khan comments that he wants to talk to hindu nationalist Modi after he wins elections taken out of context...Modi being dubbed Imran Khans man in india...!
  
• April11-2019--PTI to file more cases against Nawaz Sharif and family
  
• April11-2019--CDA says that 75 of 77 islamabad marquees illegal...
  
• April10-2019--The SC CJ says he does not see any government run schools(maybe he lives in a too affluent area)...they are all still in existence but now donot produce the top students that they used to...even rehriwalas/dhobis/tailors/shopkeepers send their kids to private schools...even children of rehriwalas have become doctors...etc.The SC CJ should ask the provincial governments for a list of government schools and visit some of them...In islamabad the best schools are still the government run model schools...
  
• April10-2019--PTI initiates a new Naya Pakistan Housing Authority to construct 138000 houses in islamabad and Balochistan...while there maybe deserving cases most of those who have applied have upto two houses already...!No monetary allocations yet apart from some from the Ehsas pakistan cash...
  
• April10-2019--Shahbaz and Hamza indicted in illegal drain construction in Chiniot which benefited their sugar mill
  
• April10-2019--LHC judge Muhammed Farrukh Irfan Khan named in the Panama Leaks resigns from the LHC saying that the SJC attitude is inappropriate
  
• April10-2019--while Modi is expected to win teh next elections in India...The pathetic Imran Khan on the one hands wants Modi to win and on the other says he has never seen such hatred generated against muslims in india as done by the Modi regime...he knows well the stance of the modi government that the only solution of kashmir is to undo partition...how negotiations can take place in such a situation seems a pathetically wrong conclusion...it would be more thinkable for the congress to negotiate an appropriate end to the kashmir imbroglio rather than the BJP...Imran Khan like other cricketers has a very wrong impression about indians and india...
  
• April10-2019--PTI's crude and pathetic information minister keeps running into trouble...he seems tobe a shagird of marium aurangazeb who spent her life as information minister attacking imran khan...earlier the PMLn used to attack the PPP...Attacking the former government when the government is your responsibility shows a pathetic failure of intellect...
  
• April9-2019--Asad Umar only one who sees any growth in the economy...both the WB and IMF see a a depreciation until 2014...in fact Asad Umar told the IMF that growth will be upto 2.5 until 2024...Asad Umar does not understand the word fiscal responsibility...it does not mean that you increase the peoples financial load or try to get as many more loans as you can...it means that you spend only what you have and slow down the economy to meet ends...
  
• April9-2019--28000 Khasadars and Levies a form of tribal police to join KP police
  
• April9-2019--LHC gives Hamza bail until the 17th...
  
• April8-2019--Imran Khan says he is trying to create a welfare state...many donot see any concrete measures apart from building housing for islamabad katchi abadis...allotting pathetically low earning plots such as shoeshine stands, kiosks. etc can hardly help too many...social security should be focused on the needy and older population...with about 5 million women under BISP getting 200 billion he has only around 100 billion for his remaining welfare state for chickens, baby goats, plant seedlings, mobile phones for women, house building, health cards and pilot training for women etc....with health might be getting seperate allocations from the provinces health cards
  
• April8-2019--The unemployed foreign minister says india trying for another pulwama type attack in the next month...?
  
• April8-2019--Dawn says there is no money in the Ehsas pakistan scheme and the government technically tax evader/farm donater Dr. Saima Nishtar is trying to get all social/charity government schemes under her control...no minister has yet been appointed and the only charitable think that the PTI has dome yet is to provide the homeless a free place(sarai) to live..ehsass karo logon ko looto nahin...
  
• April8-2019--The FIA in a fake looto and recovery of millions actually only recovered about one and half thousand dollars...FIA and government shouldnot make a show of fake looting money exchangers...teh dollar will fall eventually given that pakistans economy has a false bottom...
  
• April7-2019--NAB could not arrest Hamza Shahbaz despite cordoning of the shahbaz residence...the LHC however gave hamza a two day bail...travel bans have been placed on ex PM abbasi and hamza and salman shahbaz and an ex pakistan steel chairman moeen aftab
  
• April7-2019--PTI's love for black money knows no bounds...according to them a few people have requested another tax amnesty scheme after which pakar dhakar will be initiated...They say they have all the details but are still giving the crooked a chance...many see it as the Jehangir Tareen Amnesty scheme whom apparently Imran Khan misses a lot...while the schemes have not gathered much moss in the past...amnesty schemes were started in 1958 and the most successful was the one in 2018 which garnered over Rs100 billion(less than one billion dollars at current rates)...the PTI is saying that they have created a widespread tax amnesty to gather all sorts of people into the net...however the legal aspect seems suspect as the government wants it as an ordnance and technically it can only barely pass in the national assembly and not in the senate...some say that Bilawal already wants to skip the country and wait it out from outside...with one so soon after the 2018 one the outlook seems less than bright...
  
• April6-2019--The dollar went haywire in the open market touching Rs.148 and than falling back to Rs.142 on government threats...many see a fast rise by the end of the year to around Rs.160 unless the government has a free flow of dollar denominated loans and other inputs...apparently the PTI has assured its backers of a Rs.150 rate soon
  
• April5-2019--Pakistan come out with their strange and ungainly looking World Cup probables...Mostly sifarishis and recent failures selecting a 14 from them will look pretty disjointed...possible Abid Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Baber Azam,Haris Sohail, Mohd Rizwan, Faheem Ashraf, Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim, Mohd Hafeez/Imam ul haq, Hasan Ali, Shaheen shah Afridi, Usman Khan Shinwari, Mohammed Hasnain, Mohammed Abbas/Junaid Khan...Mohd amir, Shoaib malik, Imam ul haq and Sarfraz have no place in the team...i would have preferred Rauf and Wahab riaz as wicket takers but they were not even considered..
  
• April5-2019--SC rules that absence of accused cannot delay treason trial...One wonders what they had been doing upto now..!
  
• April4-2019--Asad Umar says he dont know why the economy is bad and 9.14 inflation is not too bad too...but might be a massive Exxon Mobil oil find will sort out matters...he says he loves black money too...!while drillers have gone down to even 18000-19000 feet he says 5000 feet is pretty complicated and Exxon does not drill if there is no oil...pakistan only has a 30% share anyway...
  
• April4-2019--a train derailment causes pakistan railways to shut down
  
• April4-2019--PTI agrees to buy expensive petroleum products from Azerbaijan...out of shiite sympathy...!
  
• April4-2019--Imran Khan continues to harp on tourism...it doesnt work...he should just increase the facilities...the few that will come will come...the world is full of beautiful comfortable tourist sites
  
• April4-2019--The PTI's aimless economic interference especially in increasing electricity and gas bills knows no bounds...they now have agreed without being asked to give Rs11 billion to AJK...where do the idiots thing this money will come from...from the pockets of electricity consumers...and than the PTI will complain about black money in their beloveds pockets...!the government should pay all losses in gas and electricity outfits from its own pockets and not burden the people unless all subsidies for agriculturists, industrialists, fauj and exporters are stopped...one rate for everyone is the only honest way...ordinary people work on fixed salaries and donot loot and ghasoot like the Imran Khan/jehangir tareen/nawaz sharif types...
  
• April4-2019--China says US move on Jem chief not conducive and india and USA are just blowing hot and cold and not interested in solving the issue which is related to kashmirs liberation...The Jem is not a thoughtless terrorist organisation like the taleban or alqaeda or ISIS and the US should also show sympathy for the kashmiris killed and warn India not to kill people without thought..a war of liberation is very different from aimless terrorism
  
• April3-2019--The PTI has no spine ...it says now they will not change the BISP name but just put it under Ehsas Pakistan bracketing...women have been enjoying payments without need...!The BISP head Sania Nishtar related to the musharaf era will now head the new social welfare and protection division...reportedly she is a tax evader as she supposedly said that she had gifted their islamabad farm to musharaf
  
• April3-2019--while pakistanpolitics does not procrastinate on corruption and project funding...The KP's own government investigators say the BRT has gone way overbudget and the construction work looks terribly substandard...
  
• April3-2019--three soldiers killed on LOC due to indian firing...pakistan army just looking on...
  
• April3-2019--with terrorism almost dead and buried the armies commanders still fighting away at NAP etc..
  
• April3-2019--Asad Umar just loves whitening his friends money...more programs to bring money into the net from non filers, launderers and just money hoarders...Government just following all advice from the IMF...despite the army having nothing to spend money on he says indian tensions will increase defence allocations without reason...army chief is known to have said that they have everything for defence except the courage to cross the LOC...Asad Umar like previous rulers wants the regulators to just follow utilities orders and does not want the government to have any say whichever way they go...might be there is no reason left for the government ...we could have a regulator in his place as well as other ministers and primeministers...he must realize that the people did not elect Nepra or Ogra or Nadra etc...maybe he just does not want to have any responsibility and wants to avoid framing a good people friendly economic sort of logical policy...maybe he is just an employee of special interest groups...
  
• April2-2019-- Asad Umar defends higher prices of petroleum products... Earlier he had said that they should hover around the international petroleum price...! but he supports higher prices on the Imran Khan thesis that it keeps bussinessmen(rich people ) happy...
  
• April2-2019--Nobody in the PTI knows about inflation or worries about it...as inflation touches five year high at 9.4%
  
• April2-2019--Qureshi-Tareen mein mein tu tu continues as Imran Khan tries to to whiten the blackened tareen..!
  
• April1-2019--Sohail Mahmood becomes foreign secretary
  
• April1-2019--petrol price raised to Rs98.89 by the PTI regime...