The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 1-15, 2019

• Sep15-2019--PTI says that mega graft case litigants wont be given A-class in jail whether have been presidents or prime ministers...many suggest that NAB also look into PTI corruption eg. a punjab minister buying an 8 crore house...!and inordinate delays in peshawar metro and swat motorway...!
• Sep15-2019--video leak judge made OSD in BS-21 by LHC
  
• Sep15-2019--Pakistan reducing imports substantially...but exports rise is minor and there seems tobe some concern at fall in foreign remmittances...still many suggest that the imports will be around $24 - 31 billion higher than exports...the effect of lower rupee prices is still being felt mostly on inflation or substantial rise in domestic prices...government suggests that lower imports due to higher dollar prices...!State Banks view that dollar rates will tumble not correct...
  
• Sep15-2019--Houthi drones knock out out oil facilities near Dammam...supposedly using long range iranian drones almost half of saudi export supply knocked out...US says they were fired by iranians and have a 1500km range...if saudi exports drop to around 2 million barrels per day world oil prices will rise almost immediately...saudia could use its stockpiles or ask other producers to increase production...!
  
• Sep15-2019--four soldiers killed...one incident in north waziristan where two militants also killed while in another incident of cross border firing three soldiers killed in dir while building a fence
  
• Sep14-2019--SC freezes private school fees at Jan 2017 levels...since than prices have almost tripled...!
  
• Sep14-2019--Imran Khan appointees Dr. Shahbaz Gill and Awn Chaudhry dropped as advisers as Buzdars failings become apparent...apparently Imran Khan wants Buzdar's opponents to leave the PTI...Gill had been authorized to to visit and inspect in place of Buzdar who was not keen to visit any place but his own constituency...the person replacing Awn was immediately given two portfolios' while Awn had been sitting around for almost a year without any portfolio...!so much for an unpopular alalutalalu chiefminister...!
  
• Sep14-2019--PTI backs out from imposing article 149 on karachi as Bilawal starts crying and accusing center of destroying the karachi economy...the rest of the country hardly matters to Imran Khan...the chief minister should take his responsibilities in karachi seriously and just not play politics around the issues...!
  
• Sep14-2019--in what seems a pathetic decision ehsan Mani only drops Sarfraz as captain from tests...it is the pakistan team that plays well in T20's and there is no real input from the captain...In one days his thinking is totally pathetic...he did not encourage selection of century makers and was slow in dropping failing fast bowlers...in fact his personal selection of Hasnain was not even tried as other bowlers failed...he did not realize that the New Zealand lead in points required him to win matches...the performance against india was terrible and that alone should require him tobe removed from the one day side...and bring in a wickekeeper who can score centuries and is quick behind the stumps...roping in another opener from the under-19 side might also be considered...bringing in better wickettaking spinners into the one day side is also necessary...alrounders should have a batting and bowling capability...just trundling the bowl is not spin bowling...!this is probably the first failure of Misbah ul haq...he too should be aggressive in selection if he wants the team tobe aggressive...
  
• Sep12-2019--The CJ-SC expresses concern at the lopsided nature of accountability and curbs on dissent...most people do worry about the authenticity and clarity in judgements many of which are regarded as political in nature and effecting the democratic process..as well as the PTI animosity against the opposition...
  
• Sep12-2019--PTI and MQM-P planning to take over karachi administration under an obscure constitutional article under which they can order around the chief minister...!
  
• Sep12-2019--four major generals promoted as lt. generals...due to retire in 2023 they could challenge for the COAS position the other four lt generals from their batch...there are 48 superceded major generals many of who will retire in early 2020...The next important transition will be the retirement of the CJCOSC...The four/six senior Lt. generals to be considered are sarfraz sattar, nadeem raza, humayun aziz, naeem ashraf, sher afghan, mohd afzal and bilal akber...all promoted during the Bajwa tenure...one of them would have been COAS if Bajwa had retired...so there must be some feelings amongst them...many think the dull bajwa would be shifted to CJCOSC with a new army chief ...with pukhtun thinking prevalent in the PTI it could be Sher Afghan although some consider the experienced karachi warrior Bilal Akber to have the inside track...!
  
• Sep10-2019--reports filtering out suggest that main PTI leaders were funded to the tune of 3 crore each..by either Imran Khan himself or the ISI...this was buttressed when a poor PTI punjab minister recently bought a 8 crore house...!the people should realize that the double cabin black vehicles popular amongst PTI leaders cost around 3 crore each...!!!there is definitely an air of corruption surrounding the PTI as they distance themselves from development and carrying out daily government chores like cleaning karachis nullahs and handling Dengue...!many wonder why more nullahs in karachi are choked than before and who cleans the cities vast DHA's amongst the cleanest in the country...otherwise they say karachis skyline is cleaner despite the dungheaps on the ground
  
• Sep10-2019--for reasons unclear almost all pakistani money is flowing to Dubai...daily several several hundred transfers are being blocked by the PTI regime...the transfers blocked including those of the army chief and numerous other military officers...many are suggesting that the over rich military is building houses in Dubai for R&R(Bajwa type affairs etc...and sunning around hotel pools)...Bajwa had earlier suggested that he would like to sun on the beaches of Baluchistan...(in pants of course...)...a group of military officers were stopped from going to Dubai when they suggested that they would breakin to Zardari(Bilawal's) Dubai villa and spend their holidays there...!
  
• Sep8-2019--while this is a more frightened SC afraid of raising imran khans hackles or attempting something for ordinary people...They must look into electricity pricing...they tell us that all losses are included in the price than they raise the price further and even apply additional fuel adjustment...!The Discos buy electricity at Rs5 and sell it to people at Rs22 plus 25% plus other charges...There definitely is something mixed up in this...army and bahria is charged at Rs8...agriculturists/industrialists at Rs12...is this not an injustice of the highest magnitude...they even tell us that hydel is priced at Rs0...we wonder at the cruelty of the PTI regime...the Supreme Court inits infinite wisdom should take suomoto notice of this and restore electricity prices to Rs1 as they were in 1983...the issue of such varied pricing has no justification now when you are charging everything several times over...this is the biggest injustice in this country and the court would do wonders for the peoples confidence if they took up the matter...Discos do nothing to electricity and just it pass it on...so what is the justification of buying at Rs5 and selling at Rs30...sales tax also seems totally unjustified as there is no value addition of any kind...the Rs5 is calculated after adding all costs...!can the Supreme Court wake up for a few days...!the Discos only need meter readers...!the answer That the PMLn was doing the same in 2012 should not be an answer for everything...even than electricity for some domestic consumers was just Rs15 under the PMLn...
  
• Sep7-2019--the faujis are just not as nice as they used tobe in 1965...barely able to withstand terrorism they are just mere bravado and bluster...in 1965 there used tobe faujis in every galli...nice and helpful people always willing to attest forms and help your child locked up by the ISI/police...nowadays you only see a fauji on TV and never in real life...since an organized army is useless in kashmir the only way to fight in kashmir is guerrilla warfare...The indian tactics now being adopted by Pakistan to break off talks and relations when a solution/fight has tobe made...imran Khan is just face saving cowardly-ness...many are suggesting that he make a grand gesture towards kashmiris and donate his Banigala mansion for kashmiri orphans and live as people do in government d-type quarters...Others suggest that he adopt ten kashmiri orphans so that " dal roti ka bhao pata chal sake's..." maybe banigala bhi abad ho jae perhaps...others suggest that he rename the indian ocean as the pakistan ocean or the southasia-africa ocean...
  
• Sep6-2019--Dengue victims are on the rise in specific localities in Rawalpindi...despite having the expertise and the manpower the punjab chief minister is only showing concern rather than applying the methods of aggressive dengue control of the last government...the PTI's money minting attitude is expressed in Yasmin Rashid who is more interested in collecting pathology fees from patients has shown scant regard for dengue work and should be replaced by a more active minister...the punjab chief minister should look into the matter on a daily basis and order sprays and control methods in dengue localities...!
  
• Sep6-2019--Misbah takes over coaching and selection duties...while it is good that one person is entrusted with two most important duties one knows of Misbahs attitude of refusing to drop failures and bringing in new players...it seems that some of the players had sold out to the highest bidder in the worldcup...it is not necessary to play someone for ten matches before deciding to replace him...one or two matches are usually enough to see any players potential and players who regard national duty as rest and recreation should be quickly sidelined...if someone has been successful for two years you should not automatically select them for another two...Sarfraz's form had been dropping over the last two years(average dropped from 49 to 31)...all the other top captains had shown considerable improvement in form over the last two years...players who think that one good inning is enough for a tour should learn that replacements can be quickly brought in...Misbah does not have a mindset for aggressiveness and one is surprised when he wants players to play aggressively...
  
• Sep6-2019--over 80% of ministries refusing too follow imran khan's orders...!
  
• Sep6-2019--FBR says tax base is growing but revenue targets are too difficult tobe achieved...The revenue base apparently is 2.51 million...if the entire armed forces filed tax returns since their salaries are supposedly Rs40000 and upwards than the tax base base would have another 3-4 million filers...most filers are however not in the millionaire bracket...and the government gained a paltry Rs2.583 billion...it is obvious that the insistence of increasing meaningless filers will not contribute much to revenues...FBR should concentrate on the bigger customers and the government can if it is so consumed by a trivial task divide FBR into two...one dept which goes after increasing revenues and a minor seperate deptt to get people to file returns...filing returns really will not get the government anywhere...In the ziaulhaq government they insisted that poor wapda employees file Rs80 and Rs90 tax returns to increase filers...increasing filers is really nothing important in the pakistani revenue collection system...writing off chinese taxes, military customs payments and things like the GIDC to the tune of Rs250 billion is where the fault lies...since not too many refineries are being setup the government can rename the tax to swell its coffers rather than handing it over to refineries...!!!
  
• Sep6-2019--in what is largely regarded as rhetoric and propaganda the discredited army chief said that he had the governments approval to "do or die" and to fight to the last man to liberate kashmir...one has not heard of a general dying fighting or even in an accident for a long time...none has ever died sitting in the GHQ...we would prefer that our fighting forces have the training, ability and capability to fight the enemy and overwhelm it rather than die fighting as if they did not have the courage to face realities...if they are weak and unable to defeat the enemy than they should quitely enjoy life in the DHA' s and Askari's and military housings rather than make such popaganda to fool the people...most people generally regard the army chief and imran khan tobe sikhs...! bravado only and nothing concrete...
  
• Sep4-2019--in what is widely being seen as a buckling under by Imran Khan...the PTI regime has withdrawn a ban on pharmaceutical imports from India...the reasoning is pathetic since prices of medicines are quite high and cheaper inputs are available all over the place from russia to china...
  
• Sep4-2019--you know this is the PTI daur...it never happened before and may never happen again...kal ie yesterday the army chief came around and complained "i have hundreds of Lt.generals lyin unemployed just taking huge ...pensions..."...imran responded AWT mein laga de...ya UAE mein suna he bahut army jobs hein.....fast forward a few years...bilawal was touring a pagal khana...uder se awaz aei..."nakli wazir e azam, nakli wazir azam..." dekha to nine veils and an imran khan lookalike were lying on the flor in tatters...!he continued to shout i distributed so many chicken ..murghiyan bantin...but the economy never improved...!!! hai hai...so sad is the history of pakistan...he was such a decent gentleman cricketer responded...someone...in the entourage...!
  
• Sep3-2019--last year the PTI only did a few things and that was benefiting a particular advisor plus other bussinesmen...this year too they have started off doing the same...benefiting a chakri advisor by writing of a Rs210 development cess...men behind the excessive largesse...are two of the dawood clan-employee plus owner...also the FBR which is mounting a witchhunt against ordinary people returned Rs22 billion to exporters...we sure are not a country of poor people but of rich conniving billionaires...Imran Khan has been known to say "these billionaires are my pockets and they voted for me..."!!!The PMLn blames the PTI for record inflation,record drops in growth and fiscal deficit...!For the poor Imran Khan is preparing Rs1.6 billion free chickens for egg laying...!chickens donot even require food if the graze in the open...you will notice the difference...Rs250 billion for a few billionaires and Rs1.6 billion for the poor hungry millions of people...!
  
• Sep3-2019--In probably the first time people are being recruited in the Railways by ballotting of applicants
  
• Sep3-2019--The judge who said that he had been blackmailed by both government and opposition in the nawaz sharif sentencing and also made a suspicious video has had three more arrested...!
  
• Sep3-2019--a PTI minister who had a run-in with the NAB calls for restraining the anti corruption behemoth...since the PTI's advisors are rich chakri people they are wary of the the watchdogs powers... PTI says they are concerned for their beaurocrats and businessmen but not the opposition...!
  
• Sep3-2019--imran Khans bravado has been shortlived and he now says he is just wary of an indian military intrusion...!
  
• Sep3-2019--The mystery dubai spy story has further story inputs...apparently the contact was an indian spy handler and may have received substantial military secret information...others say at least 10 million was handed to the conduit as payment for the indians Modi...others say the spy is now in dubai custody after reports of a three member hit squad landing in Dubai...!!!
  
• Sep2-2019--PMLn says Buzdar incapable of reading files and Jehangir Tareen is running the show...Buzdar apparently spent Rs2 billion in his home constituency but missed completing the Lahore Orange line...In a year he has changed three information ministers and three IG's..information is a problem that the PTi has even at teh center...5000 laptops purchased by the previous government are still lying in the offices...
  
• Sep2-2019--The PTI regime only gets along with Sikhs...JI suggests the scrapping of the Simla agreement and removing the LOC fence...Imran Khan thinks that propaganda will lead the western powers to aid a kashmir solution...
  
• Sep1-2019--FBR misses targets by Rs 64 billion in first two months of the year...Government had increased targets by over 40%...This points to missing the targets by around Rs400-500 unless collections fall further...It would be still be considered impressive if the target is missed by around 30%...However experts suggest that the revenue target will be missed by over a trillion...Government should control spending substantially in the circumstances
  
• Sep1-2019--After india enumerators missed over 2 million stateless persons in nagaland enumeration Imran Khan offered Nadra's service to enlist all indians especially muslims...!
  
• Sep1-2019--Mrs Imran Khan is a very funny lady...married in nine veils(aka zulekha) to buddha admirer of her pirymureedi/sufism Imrankhan(aka yusuf)she says Imran Khan only had four suits's when he married and he had no other clothes of any other type...asked how many clothes he has now...she said over 300 jora's...his tailor... delivers a suit everyday...the other day he was saying i need a new waistcoat to impress a chinese general...! the tailor delivered it in half an hour...asked what he eats she said he has very expensive tastes and prefers Shinwari sajji and tikka's...we buy the most expensive meat at Rs1500 per kilo from PMLn butchers and the vegetables also come from a PMLn farm...(This from the second wife...)
  
• Sep1-2019-The mystery dubai affair has got further inputs...they now say it went on for two years and involved a hindu girl...eventually she was paid Rs5 million to loosen her clutches...Imran Khan has confiscated the army chiefs passport so that he does not run off to Dubai without his permission...apparently the primeminister said he would lock Bajwa in a stockade...(that is usually a room) They also say there are pictures of the duo walking on the beach...!further the Dubai army in Aden ceded control when Raheel Shareef threatened Bajwa with dire consequences...