The Daily PakistanPolitics May16-31, 2019

• May31-2019--Cantonments are small military controlled entities in the county...The Chaklala cantonment has allocated almost all of its funds Rs.550 million for a medical college...!!!The Rawalpindi cantonment also was trying to setup a medical college last year...
  
• May31-2019--Imran Khan clearly lacks an understanding of who is paying the bulk of the taxes...his supposed experts say a few thousand peopel are paying most of the taxes...most of the countries tax revenues come from indirect taxes such as sales, advance and customs taxes that are in the end paid by consumers or most of the countries populace...theoretically sales taxes and customs tax comprise almost all the revenues in the country...this system has even babies paying taxes for milk and diapers...saying that people donot pay taxes is one of the biggest lies propagated by PTI...it is the rich and bussiness classes that avoid taxes with chartered accountants like Shabbar Zaidi...
  
• May31-2019--Another PTM MNA mohsin Javed dawar has been remaded to CTD custody
  
• May31-2019-- In another major case the army chief sentenced a retired Lt. general to 14 years for espionage and two others to death...a retired brigadier and a doctor...
  
• May31-2019--the government thru the president has filed references against three judges for purchasing substantial properties abroad and not mentioning them in their wealthtax returns...the most important judge is the Judge Qazi Faez Isa who opposed the judicial activism of the court under Saqib Nasir...a judge from balochistan many think that it is not his undisclosed wealth but an attempt to tarnish his reputation...he is supposed to have bought three properties in england worth around pounds 750000...the SJC has asked the government to present its case...technically the SJC hears the case in secrecy but circumstances have opened up the issue as several lawyers councils opposed the move and an additional attorney general resigned...The five member SJC decides teh case in five days...if the government case is solid than the judge can be asked to explain his conduct otherwise the court can send its opinion without too much deliberations for the president to fire or end the reference...judges are considered relatively honest but have their political opinions...and a simple case can end their careers...in the case of an IHC judge his comments about the iSI interference were taken seriously and he was removed as a judge...Justice Faiz Isa's derision of the armed forces chiefs has also raised some problems...
  
• May29-2019--The fool the people economy is best observed in the way electricity cost is charged...The CPPA said that it was charging Rs5.8 per unit for April and thus Paisas 55 would be extra per unit for people...Now all the people are charged more than the price at which Discos get electricity...The Paisas 55 per unit should be charged to the discos and not to the consumers...The poor unrepresented domestic consumers pay a maximum of Rs17 per unit...The government still insists that it and not the richest domestic consumers are subsidizing electricity...so much for ehsas and PTI honesty...
  
• May29-2019--The PTI termed the PTM as miscreants for firing on a military checkpost and killing one FC man...This was several days after the incident...PTI's supposed ally BNP wanted a parliamentary investigation into the north waziristan incident and several iranian sponsored terrorist incidents in Balochistan...he said his government in balochistan had been removed after he protested the Chagai nuclear tests..while many in the country had been discussing the probable nuclear tests he said that he did not know about them...The army has said that the PTM has been observed receiving funds from indian and afghan sources in afghanistan...the army chief apparently met the PTM leaders very early on...and some question the rationale of the meeting with indian sponsored elements...
  
• May29-2019--Apparently Mullah Baradar is the head of the taliban and not Imran Khan or the Army Chief...he says peace can only return to Afghanistan if the US withdraws its forces and thepuppet regime is dismantled...
  
• May29-2019--The experts say only a few hundred thousand people and 300 companies are paying the Rs5.5 trillion in taxes...apparently most of the taxes almost Rs4.5 trillion of them are going tobe sales taxes/custom taxes which are paid indirectly by someone not listed as taxpayers by the experts...sales taxes are set to increase by Rs350 billion or just 1% of GDP...on checking it was found that Imran Khan and the Army Chief pays no sales taxes as their bills are paid by the state
  
• May29-2019--As has been trumpeted around the Imran Khan regime is following IMF orders literally...They said tax revenues should be Rs5.5 trillion so the cabinet approved it...apparently some nation is going to foot the bill to the tune of Rs1.5 trillion...The people had better beware that the Imran Khan regime and it's advisors are crazy...they also want the CDC to come and tell them how aids spread in Larkana...obviously Zafar Mirza is no health expert...!
  
• May19-2019--Imran Khan thinks he can handle terrorism with speeches to the tribes...!The mistake in this is that the tribes are no innocents like him and have been thru this before...while there has been an upsurge in tribal terror it is at the moment minor...otherwise operations are the only way...maybe the innocent uninvolved banta khelna wala Imran Khan dos not know that the center is no longer responsible for Fata and he should let the provincials use the long handle...!as the IMF says the provincials really donot need that much money and the federation needs much more than 50% to balance the books...!
  
• May19-2019--Shabbar Zaidi really might be the representing the Karachi black money walas..matlab kala dhanda ka aadhi he...think many...
  
• May18-2019--while the world has already started using electric, hybrid and automatic cars Imran Khan apparently pondering shifting 30% cars to electric cars by 2030...Chinese already making electric cars and the government should give tax free incentives to electric car imports
  
• May18-2019--Train derailment in Sindh...train services were restored partially after twenty hours...officials tell senate that Sheikh Rashid 's new trains are a failure...others say railway lines in sukkur region are totally delapidated
  
• May18-2019--the people that Imran Khan has hired for his economics team might really be crazies...The SBP governor said that they would take any actions that they wanted irrespective of the effect on the people...The economy that these supposed experts wants is to follow IMF orders even before the money is doled out to them...one of the key components apparently was that the dollar would cost Rs.150 and gas, electricity and medicinal drugs would cost much more...while the government has tinkered upto now they might be going in for hefty anti people measures...on the other hand the economics advisor agreed to setup a 20 billion fund to stabilize the stock markets...everyone is being doled out money that is being looted from the ordinary populace...The PMLn says that the amnesty scheme is aleema/tareen specific...tareen can apparently whiten his foreign hoardings by just paying 4% as can Aleema...Imran Khan is following a fool the people economy and the reactions could be fierce even though the PMLn is literally avoiding it...
  
• May17-2019--whilst rumours abound about why hafeez and shaoib became ill now they want to bring in amir and asif...!amir too was down with small pox and shadab khan with hapatitus c...hepatitus c takes a long time to cure but shahdab was cured after the pakistani bowlers got hit around...they want to replace abid and faheem...the best fast bowler in the last eight months apparently was Shinwari...i think it might be better to replace the oldies hafeez and shoaib...as the batting is good enough ...maybe they should tell sarfraz how to hit a few sixes...
  
• May17-2019--while the PMLn youth programs were clear and mostly benefited the middle aged...pukhtuns primarily ran off with the pickups and rickshaws...the older era yellow cabs can still be seen around..the PTI has as usual comeup with difficult sounding names that meant mostly "for the prime minister". PTI's ehsas is limited to a few people here and there...first they substantially raised drug prices suddenly and now the simple minded Zafar mirza says he is limiting them to 75% price increases as if that is a small amount...means that all prices are literally being doubled...and to top up his PTI natured dhoka baazi the people are going to benefit to the tune of Rs. 10 billion...just like tourism was going to benefit the economy and everyone was going to get insaf health cards...and exports would jump into high heaven...
  
• May17-2019--while shahbaz was reluctant to come out on the street the PMLn and PPP are studying the heat and the wobbly legs Imran's PTI
  
• May17-2019--nine killed in mastung operation against militants
  
• May17-2019--the dollar price rose in interbank trading to Rs.146 while it went beyond Rs. 150 in the kerb market...many feel that the SBP will follow the kerb...despite PTI efforts the tourism/exports market has not expanded...The government has little hope of reducing demand for dollars apart from remmittances and bringing down imports...The other area is to refuse new loans and thus eventually reducing loan repayments
  
• May17-2019--instead of affecting exports the rupee decline has affected imports...probably due to a reduction in import of machinery or a loss of market due to higher cost...PTI had hoped for exports of around $26 billion
  
• May16-2019--Pakistani exports show a minor shortfall while imports reduce by 8%...trade deficit fell to $26billion from $30 billion last year
  
• May16-2019--Oil prices steady as iran exports fall substantially...Opec+ also supposedly reducing exports...as demand increases in the latter half of the year prices could rise if Opec+ cannot maintain slowdown
  
• May16-2019--KP doctors go on strike...want FIR registered against marauding health minister...
  
• May16-2019--Imran Khan forms committee to control rupee devaluation...the ECAP or exchanges want government to reduce the $10000 limit that everyone can take abroad to $3000...however they say no dollars are available in the market and the government must control afghan bussinessmen...The SBP has to release funds to exchange companies and companies as that is the only way...Imran Khan apparently was humiliated at the fall of the rupee...The ECAP says that over the last 23 years 160 billion dollars were sent abroad...one other method is to allow the freedom of dollar accounts...The dollar during the day climbed to Rs148 in the open market...PTI target was Rs150...!
  
• May16-2019--Aleem Khan also granted bail...apparently he has been receiving undocumented funds from abroad