The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug 1-15, 2019

• Aug11-2019-After blowing hot and cold Imran Khan has fallen by the wayside on kashmir...he is now going to the UN not known for any real action orientation....pakistan has technically broken off relations with india...for pakistan it hardly matters as the issue does not change...some jokers are suggesting that india will handover kashmir to pakistan and ladakh to china...not giving ladakh an assembly is also strange...In indian occupied kashmir the opposition is only coming from the indian congress while kashmiri areas have been under curfew
  
• Aug11-2019-Imran Khan has looted the people of upto 121 billion by increasing electricity tariffs for a small section of the populace...domestic users are the target for his ruthless money mongering...he now says that electricity losses have decreased to 16%...loses were 25% when production was 11000 MW and should be 12% now that production is upto 23000MW thanks to Nawaz Sharif...that means that losses have increased by upto 4%...the power division of the PTI continues to attempt to fool people with false figures...discos recoveries are at best equivalent to 1%...and those areas that paid bills are still the same and no change in behaviour of losses is evident...when tariffs are increased theft will increase not decrease...as the people are not getting richer or even more affluent...line losses will not be zero by 2020...electricity rates used to be Rs15 they are now Rs20 and planned to increase to Rs22...the reduction of slabs has further inflated bills...power division is just charging more from the high end and middle income domestic users and giving charities to the army, agriculture and industrial users...!
  
• Aug10-2019-Shahbaz broke with the government on kashmir after maryum was arrested and accused Imran Khan of a sellout on kashmir...many are accusing Imran of having soldout kashmir on his US trip while others say he did a sellout for an IMF deal...he had come back waving two fingers which many are now interpreting as having divided kashmir into two..!
  
• Aug9-2019--Maryum Nawaz also arrested by NAB
  
• Aug9-2019-- PTI now says that estimates of wealth stashed abroad are down to a $5-7 billion and most of those have availed the amnesty...PTI protecting its sugar tycoon Jehangir Tareen who now tops the people who have properties abroad bought with money laundering from pakistan...Imran Khan came to power suggesting he would bring the hundreds of billions back to pakistan...unfortunately he now has nothing to show for his claims...!he now is relying on taxing electricity users and small car owners...!...many say Imran Khan is pathetic and mean by nature...!
  
• Aug9-2019-The stock markets has fallen to 29737 from 42923 a year ago...!!!
  
• Aug9-2019-The mean natured poverty stricken Imran Khan has cut the budgets of public sector universities...substantially...!he probably has shifted all the funds to the primeminister house university...!
  
• Aug9-2019--Pakistan irrationally says that they will still open Kartarpur suggesting that they still want to play sikh politics
  
• Aug8-2019--Justice Isa files a rejoinder seeking details of employment of shahzad akbar, zia ul mustafa who he says are working on bureaucrats posts without taking an oath...he also challenges why other cases have not been taken up in order of filing...he seems to suggest that his wife's actions do not make him culpable...technically he should be required to file where the money(money trail) came from that bought his wife flats or property in London...he also wants an open hearing
  
• Aug8-2019--FBR to make life miserable for small car owners...they will have to pay
  Rs.20000 as income tax and lifetime tokens which are technically a provincial matter...
  
• Aug8-2019--Miftah Ismail...nawaz sharifs economic advisor arrested by NAB
  
• Aug8-2019--one of the aspects of the indian action is to seperate Ladakh and Kashmir into two seperate regions or provinces...that could obviously be to seperate it from pakistans and kashmiris demands of freedom /plebiscite...the action is clearly in response to the situation in kashmir where india is losing control of the populace...it could possibly lead to indian or hindu governance in kashmir where technically the kashmiris were in coalition with the BJP...the pro indian kashmiris would now look to join the pro pakistan parties after the indians have literally dashed their politics
  
• Aug8-2019--India had stopped imports from pakistan a long time ago by imposing a 200% tariff...now pakistan has stopped all trade activity with india...and broken of diplomatic relations...the indian ambassador has been kicked out...pakistan had only recently allowed indian overflights...those too should be stopped...
  
• Aug7-2019--first the Imran Khan PM ordered a study of the steel mills by a dawood clan official...it was concluded that it would be difficult to run and should be privatized...now imran khan has decided to revive the mill whose cost is estimated at $100 million...it seems that the chinese/ russian suggestion of a joint collaboration has failed...pakistan takes along all the government funding as losses and thus it becomes difficult to revive anything even PIA...government funding should be reconstituded as allocations/grants rather than loans...just as the government funds the army and thinks of it as a great spending organization... grants should be written off each year...the concepts of corporate loss and profits do not not function in the state sector...it is peoples money and has been used and should be written off as it cannot be recovered...however it might be questionable to literally restart a closed down failed unit...pakistan should attempt to hire an experienced pakistani CEO type from the USA and make him run the steel mills...upto now generals and bureaucrats hired to run the mills have all failed/been corrupt...the government should check whether the steel mills outputs are available in world markets and whether the cost to purchase internationally is lower than restarting the steel mills...
  
• Aug7-2019--one hazara killed in quetta blast
  
• Aug7-2019--Pakistans MD and MS degree are a five year graduate program and not a post graduate program..it is only based on studies and work...no research program is attached to the medicinal degree program...saudi arabia is firing pakistani doctors as they donot study under a structured research program...pakistan's medicine specialization programs are not run by universities says Saudia Arabia..
  
• Aug7-2019--pakistan should take the opportunity to go to war..since india is not willing to stop even firing across the border...the primeminister has mentioned amongst other things further suicide blasts as well as putting the armed forces on standby to initiate a war...with no non state actors left pakistan can only go to war itself...however imran khan has showed his cowardice by suggesting his fright at india initiating a war...
  
• Aug6-2019--What has long protected the kashmiris from the loot and plunder of hindus...the Modi regime revoked Article 370 of the constitution...while technically the constitution cannot be amended like that Modi has the votes to push it thru...it comes on the heels of Imran Khans US visit and many suggest he might have sold kashmir for a few dollars given his liking for collecting billions without doing anything for the people...Imran Khans popularity was also at a low ebb and many had already critisized him for his indian tilts/nature...things are expected to go topsy turvy in occupied kashmir and pakistan has already conveyed its negative attitude towards the Modi regime...while it does not effect pakistans views... pakistan and kashmiris had been subdued to an extent by the autonomous status...mostly it will effect the kashmiris in occupied kashmir...Pakistan has been literally keeping the peace in the region and can now move aggressively on the military front...other possibilities include pakistan also annexing azad kashmir and turning it into a province...The pakistan military has been attempting to create a subdued pacifist facade/nature given the impossibility of a military adventure's success..Therefore technically pakistan is left only with face saving measures...
  
• Aug6-2019--two military men killed in Bajaur in an IED blast
  
• Aug6-2019--Imran Khans views about the agricultural sector seem pathetic and based on Tareens misinformation as banks say they have disbursed Rs1.2 trillion in loans to the agricultural sector...!!21% higher than last year...!!!the agriculture sector is doing very well...!
  
• Aug5-2019--sections of the Motorway have been completed upto Sukkur...the first part of the motorway between lahore and Rawalpindi was built at a cost of Rs40 billion(at that time a collosal amount) in the mid 1990's(1997)...nowadays it costs Rs200 billion just to carpet that motorway...the motorway from sukkur to karachi is under construction...The portion from Pindi Bhattian to Sukkur has been under construction since 2003...It is considered tobe Nawaz Sharifs finest achievement...The motorway opened up many new areas but has not served its secondary purpose of industrialization across its route
  
• Aug4-2019-- Indian army using cluster ammunition in firing across the LOC...pakistan army sitting around like ducks...
  
• Aug3-2019--the votes that crossed the floor in the senate election yesterday were managed as usual by the ISI mafiosi and the Jehangir Tareen plane many say...PTI now known for vote buying too...!Imran Khan has turned into little more than a fraudulent cloudy image of his cricket/cancer image..list of credible opposition defectors available on teh internet
  
• Aug2-2019--Inflation crossed the 10% percent mark for the first time in five years...the cause is government insensitivity to price increases
  
• Aug2-2019--In a no confidence vote against PTI supported senate chairman Sanjrani the opposite lost as 14 opposition voters voted for the chairman...the opposition is not considering action against the defectors which include two lt generals and a former interior minister...reports suggest upto 8 crores paid by the PTI per vote...!
  
• Aug1-2019--India continues ceasefire violations on the LOC as pakistan army literally looks on...India moving thousands of troops into the occupied region
  
• Aug1-2019--The PTI raises petrol prices to the highest ever Rs117...never before have prices been raised with no change in the international petrol prices...!