The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug 15-31, 2019

• Aug31-2019--Imran Khan fires 1000 PIA employees...there are usually very few employees to cater to passengers at counters while aircraft are usually overstaffed
  
• Aug30-2019--According to reports from Islamabad Modi has refused Trumps mediation efforts and Donald Trump has advised the pakistanis to invade india...!Pakistan in a fix as they had been hoping for some real mediation effort or at least some arm twisting...pakistans bravado propaganda hiding their weak army and fright of going to war for even a few months...!Pakistan hopes that the kashmiris can arrange some suicide bombings...!
  
• Aug30-2019--reports emanating from washington suggest that Imran Khan has been promised two F-35's to deal with any indian aggression...!
  
• Aug30-2019--The unelected financial advisor refuses to take responsibility for the massive 8.9% fiscal deficit during the PTI first year...their spending during the last month was a humongus Rs1.5 trillion...!which pushed up fiscal deficit from around 4.5% in may to around 9% in end June...maybe they should reappoint Ishaq Dar to take his responsibility...!!!
  
• Aug30-2019--In a pathetic laughable US report on pakistani politics they insinuate that the army chief is professional and non political...they also suggest that the Imran Khan-Javed Bajwa duo will protect vital US interests such as terrorism, afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, India, democratisation,human rights and economic development...! They obviously have not heard reports of who delivered nuclear P2 parts to someone in the region...The PTI anti corruption drive is failing to make any headway as reports of PTI corruption are mounting with a serving minister buying a Rs7 crore house and Imran Khan being mocked as a benami owner of a Banigala property which is actually owned by Jemima Khan...!
  
• Aug30-2019--Imran Khan unable to implement plastic bags ban in islamabad and trees are felled on a daily basis...
  
• Aug30-2019--Given the reputation of the Polio vaccine Pakistan is seriously considering applying it to old men such as horny devils...etc. Under the scheme Imran Khan, the Army Chief and all the KP ministers will get two doses of polio drops in public...It will serve as an appropriate propaganda device and stop the horny devils in their tracks...!!Imran Khan tobe administered polio vaccine in a nationally televised program early tommorrow...after which freed from other activities he might get the courage to order the invasion of occupied kashmir to vacate it from fascist devils...!
  
• Aug28-2019--The chinese military delegation tells Imran Khan that they should have the courage, ability and perseverance to fight before they can go to war...Pakistans military and politicians do not have the heart to fight a long and damaging war even if they think they can succeed...Pakistan has strange views about their military strength and ability...This is not conducive to military victory and they should have plans for short duration wars in which they can go after areas that can be occupied and defended...
  
• Aug28-2019--The PTI has no expertise in economic management...Imran Khans experts have been unable to find the head or tail of pakistani economics...In the last year revenues fell 12.7% and development outlays by 44%...still fiscal deficit rose to a historical high of 8.9%...it was Rs3.45 trillion which is 8.9% of GDP however it was almost close to 100% of actual revenues...!!interest rates almost doubled and compounded teh fiscal deficit as did teh falling rupee...
  
• Aug29-2019--In one of their almost repetitive machiavelian moves the PTI regime harking back to their military/coup origins transfers all ANF/accountability court judges apparently to delay the outcomes of cases against the opposition
  
• Aug28-2019--widespread rumours suggest that the army chief has been seriously compromised and maybe an agent for at least two or three intelligence agencies...reports suggest that the individual spent fifteen consecutive weekends in Dubai where he apparently lived by the pool in a top hotel..he was apparently contacted by an indian female contact...recent reports suggest that he wants to run or escape to Dubai where he supposedly wants to marry the indian girl...some also suggest that he already has an indian identity...other reports suggest that he has been working as a consultant to the UAE without government approval...other reports also suggest that he may have been hired by the indians while working for the UN where he worked under an indian brigadier...!while this information is on the grapevine it also compromises the indian nature/sympathies of Imran Khan...There are also reports or suggestions that he asked for 550 billion from one of his foreign contacts...!If true these reports suggest the highest level of infiltration by an alleged indian spy since Zia ul Haq...the well known lure for officers is their love for wealth, money and women...after the Imran Khan visit to the USA there were reports that a new US spy/agent has surfaced in pakistan with the identity of K999 or as some said..."canine99"...It a tossup who that new US agent is...!
  
• Aug27-2019--Justice Isa asks for a full court reference on his alleged money laundering...he says government sifted thru all the available data of his wife and children and the CJP was not competent to hear the reference against him...alleging bias and prejudice...many suggest that Imran Khans wives and children are not directly relateable to the judges and they would only be liable in cases of the prime ministers corruption...if involved in any money laundering Imran Khans children and wives could be considered triable/liable...His wives and children are not directly the accused as it is the judge who is responsible...the judge should realize that an open trial would be much more damaging to his defence...!
  
• Aug27-2019--The government paid $11.61 billion in 2018-19 for debt servicing...
  
• Aug26-2019--a days stay at nathiagalis KP governor house will cost Rs44000...maybe that is the kind of people Imran Khan and his coterie call people...!the speaker house will however remain closed to the public...
  
• Aug26-2019--SM Qureshi seems very indian minded as he opposes a ban on indian overflights and refuses to take a stand on the modi award by the UAE...!
  
• Aug25-2019--Government blaming sudden increase in polio cases to vaccines imported from Indonesia...!In fact they are absolving india by propaganda and billboards that polio vaccines are not imported from India...I dont think anyone is worried by where the polio vaccine originates...!The fear of the vaccine is based on its effects over a lifetime...
  
• Aug25-2019--two passersby killed as a group of motorbike riders fire at a checkpost in DI Khan
  
• Aug25-2019--government relying on periodic reduction in imports as a plank to show it is doing something right...mostly imports have been reduced due to a probable reduction in machinery imports..however imports will still be around 15-21$ billion higher than exports which are not doing well...a weekly boost in stock market figures induced probably with government funds is also being touted as an improvement in the economy...the government in another masking effort has shifted the burden of punjab government employees health costs to the sehat insaf cards...now charitable funds will be used to fund the punjab government...!Government largely relying on gimmicks rather than any real improvement in governance
  
• Aug22-2019--The current joke making the rounds is that Bajwa's reappointment according to Imran Khan has been neccesitated by regional security issues...there is no particular change in the regional situation, indian hostility/intransigence...,iranian interventionist isolationist-sectarian ideology and Afghan's peppering the border on and off...If that was the case than he could easily have been made National Security Advisor or pushed up to CJCOSC...The military is now used to changes at the top and hardly bats an eyelash...Since Pakistan is hardly going to go to war a change would have been the best statement...Imran Khan is obviously afraid of both war and peace...!
  
• Aug20-2019--Cuddle, Muddle, Puddle they say...Imran Khan apparently started the discussion with the comment..."i dont really know any other general..!" In a clear indication of stage fright Imran Khan has shied away from a new general tobe army chief and retained the dull and boring Bajwa...many suggest that the US coddling of Bajwa maybe one of the reasons...others cite the refusal of fourteen senior Lt generals tobe army chief under Imran Khan...the generals apparently said that they could not be the 'yes man' that Bajwa has turned into...he apparently also told the USA that Bajwa is the key to his governance...many cite the Bajwa doctrine of economic success ie the higher dollar and incarceration of opposition leaders...Bajwa thinks he is an economic expert and that the economy is being handled correctly...his thinking on national security is suspect...given his weekend trysts in Dubai...most others see no major change barring the higher dollar, lack of development policies, massive inflation, and higher petroleum and utility prices...This when world oil prices despite uncertainty are stable...Bajwa has been seen as a frightened inarticulate army chief refusing to retaliate against iranian, afghan and indian actions...the US sees him as a bulwark against the reemergence of even a meek/collaborative/cooperative Taliban leading to a US withdrawal from afghanistan...The pakistani regime seems to have become a US puppet all over again...many others say that Bajwa was the only punjabi choice...still others cite the Bajwa's hindu, sikh and ahmedi roots although according to some he thinks of himself as a shiite...!further controversy surrounds the issue as many suggest that Bajwa refused to suggest another Lt.general for the post and the CJCOSC was forced to admit that he would like a second term too...!!!still other reports making the rounds suggest that Imran Khan got up from his seat at a meeting and started shouting at the CJCOSC who is now expected to retire and Bajwa maybe shuffled up the order otherwise he would have to serve under a junior...!!
  
• Aug18-2019--many people feel that the armed forces are the only group of people who have all facilities and perks and they should be the only ones tobe taxed...apparently even the army chief has filed a no income tax return with 25 lakh rupees in travel deductions...!with every other car being a small car FBR preparing to tax small cars at around Rs20000 annually...apparently pakistanis were found to have only $7 billion in foreign hidden assets which amount to around 400 people who have all taken the amnesty...people can generally become a filer by filing a no income tax return while traders think that filing an upto Rs5000 income tax return should suffice...! Pakistan must really be an honest nation...they just have no income tax to file...!many are suggesting that Imran Khan also preparing to file a no income tax return...!
  
• Aug18-2019--PTI's first year in government shows massive inflationery pressure even without the IMF deal...there is a 26% rise in domestic borrowing and foreign borrowing is at the same levels...only a 15% decrease in trade deficit is probably due to the decrease in import of power station machinery...the stock market has fallen massively and lending rates have been raised by the State Bank...Government only helping a very small slice of the populace...many say PTI corruption was visible in the large number of new vehicles in their rallies...there is supposedly a massive decline in provincial spending specifically in the punjab and federal development spending...In punjab teh PTI government seems inept with a weak and ineffective chief minister...most people feel the higher tariffs and price increases...There is no improvement in government services and it could be called a FBT led government...with Imran Khan being regard as increasingly hostile to the populace...most of the higher prices are attributed to the unneccesary increase in dollar values...petroleum prices are at the higher level ever with no increase in internationl prices
  
• Aug18-2019--In a massive anti people move the the punjab government has imposed a Rs50 fee on OPD patients and incresaed test fees to almost the same levels as the private sector...The punjab health minister also ended free treatment of patients at indoor deptts...government hospitals used to charge a token of Rs1...most of the patients going to government hospitals are usually from poorer sections of the populace and low income abadis...the government is attempting tobe a shopkeeper rather than make health services available to the lower income groups
  
• Aug18-2019--India threatens nuclear war if pakistan goes on the offensive...Pakistan given its frightened nature only playing politics with the issue...Pakistan now realizes that there is no point in talks with india and there is no point in being browbeaten day in and dayout...Imran Khan a known indian sympathizer and Modi supporter was literally thinking of going bellyup if india even showed some sympathy to the kashmiris...
  
• Aug18-2019--Another afghan prayer leader killed in Baluchistan's Kuchlak area who was shot dead at a shop by motorcycle riders..this is the second prayer leader tobe killed and could be a tit for tat attack...earlier a prayer leader said tobe the brother of afgan taleban leader Haibutullah was blown up by a IED...This could possibly signal renewed cooperation by the security/intelligence forces with the USA...Imran Khan was briefed on possible taleban leaders in pakistan on his visit to the USA...The taleban have said the killing of their people will not have any effect on their struggle...!