The Daily PakistanPolitics Dec 1-15, 2019

• Dec15-2019--The PTI is really a gas balloon up in the air all the time especially in rawalpindi...in rawalpindi they have many future projects...leh expressway, monotrain, daducha dam, ring road,chanan dam and some sort of transportation system to new airport...they have been unable to even start a bus service to the new airport which is 25 kilometers from the city...the leh expressway will be a new road from soan bridge to the IJ principal road...all mere talking points at the moment...in islamabad they have one project for an overhead from G6-G7...that too they are just scraping the ground still...!Imran Khan is pretty keen on not doing anything in an area that is almost his stronghold...
  
• Dec15-2019--a minister who is already controversial about sighting the moons has now claimed that the the SC judgement on the COAS appointments has lacuna's or mistakes...if the constitution does not mention a period of appointment than the government can include the duration inits notification...no particular need for a constitutional amendment for that...it is generally accepted that army chiefs are appointed for three years and it is considered controversial or abnormal to extend their tenures...as the army chief's job does not constitute anything other than visiting formations and talking to other officers/politicians...unless the government is frightened of any general viz a coup plot than it has the powers to pick who it wants...a change of army chief is only a change of person...most generals have similar attitudes and training and can handle the job easily given its power...why they did not not want a new general as COAS is not known...maybe they disliked all the lt generals...
  
• Dec14-2019--while it is visually known that the lawyers were responsible for the violence and that the doctors had run away from PIC... lawyers still donot acknowledge their faulty/mistaken attitudes...they say that a few doctors aka goons were responsible for the incident
  
• Dec14-2019--government takes a $407 million WB loan for a four lane khyber expressway to improve balance of payments...earlier the government had termed it a road to nowhere...however road traffic to afghanistan has increased although whether an expressway is needed or not is only known to the government...
  
• Dec14-2019--two soldiers die in an attack in Tank while six policemen injured in a grenade blast
  
• Dec13-2019--Apparently the supposedly good economy measures include Rs1.8 trillion in subsidies/exemptions while only Rs972 billion had been budgeted...most of the exemptions go to the industrial, agricultural, military and chinese groups of people...government generally shoving its highhandedess or subsidies for the rich on to the ordinary people thru excessively high electricity bills and higher inflation
  
• Dec13-2019--Imran Khans hobnobbing with the anti saudi block has him in trouble with the saudi's...apparently the small group while important otherwise does not have an answer to the ummah's problems like kashmir, palestine etc...they however could work together to undermine the anti islam lobby in india and the west...even though Imran Khan is frightened to mention the subject to the chinese or even the US...who are part of the main anti muslim lobby...the chinese have the uighurs almost in continuous concentration camps which they typify as correctional facilities and they are also constantly propagating against the main islamic rules, the quran, mosques, scarves etc...such things usually cause the governments more problems than the ummah who have to fight or go along with such attitudes...everywhere
  
• Dec13-2019--pakistani politicians no longer get too much support when jailed and now want tobe out of jails...a certain understanding has developed in the courts about the meanness of Imran Khan and they are now willing to give bail...Asif Zardari also walked free after being in jail for some devious continuous money transfers between numerous accounts...!Imran Khan many say has a seasoned corruption prone persons outlook and he seeks to subjugate his main opponents thru terorising them with consistent accountability threats...the politicians usually old and almost at the ends of their lives usually collapse mentally...
  
• Dec13-2019--Rumours are spreading as fast as they can be manufactured...the latest is that Imran Khan was personally behind the attack as the cardiologists had given him wrong information on Nawaz Sharifs medical problems...The army chief apparently also jumped in and swiftly delivered a warning to the government as reports suggest that a major was seen firing into the air...
  
• Dec13-2019--The Buzdar government unable to control a small group of lawyers who attacked the PIC over adverse comments about lawyers...the group seemingly had the support of the PTI government and many say at least Buzdar and Chohan(both small time lawyers) backed the lawyers...which is why the police did not try to stop them...the issue should have been handled by the provincial government however Buzdar went to complain about it to the center who they say concluded it must be the PMLn who did it...the public conclusion is that Chohan was behind it until they turned to violence and he than went to stop them and they conveniently beat him up...most comments focused on a Imran Khan's (sagga bhanja) who apparently was firing into the air and throwing bricks...apparently the brave nurses threw the bricks back as the doctors had run away...frightened cardiologists...!apparently lawyers and doctors init on a non party basis...!apparently the new minister of state for interior was so frightened that he ordered the Rangers to deploy in Lahore for three months immediately...or was it Buzdar...!
• Dec12-2019--lawyers attack the Pakistan Institute of Cardiology in lahore and ransack the place as doctors , nurses and patients run for safety...apparently a group of doctors made fun in a viral video which enraged the lawyers...the information minister thinking they were PTI supporters went to pacify them and got thrashed
• Dec12-2019--Zardari gets bail on health grounds...an accountability court orders Shabaz properties tobe attached in a case of income beyond means and money laundering...
• Dec12-2019--Hafiz Saeed indicted on terror financing charge...some properties of the JUD in some cities were deleted from the charge sheet
• Dec12-2019--Imran Khan has been ordered to quickly get the Bajwa constitutional amendments thru...government and opposition apparently cooperating on the bajwa extension and CEC appointments...while politicians are willing to get the bills thru the army chief apparently anxious at the delays...
  
• Dec11-2019--The governments misguided economic policies maybe the ruin of the automobile and tractor manufacturing in the country which are falling by almost 50%...one tractor manufacturer has shut down for a month while the popular alto/cultus are losing customers fast after their prices were hiked to Rs1.2 million to 2 million...the high end Alto now sells for Rs.1.5 million beyond the affordability of the low income groups such as taxi drivers and low wage earners...!
  
• Dec11-2019--traffic congestion leads to chaos around the rawalpindi cricket stadium even a day before a sri lanka test with people worried how they would get around/to islamabad...cricket stadiums many suggest should be moved outside the cities...
  
• Dec11-2019--The LHC asked to declare secret videos of individuals illegal without an overriding public interest...Imran Khan recently asked his party to film supposedly corrupt people opposed to him
  
• Dec11-2019--government increases its clout in the promotion of senior beurocrats by increasing the marks of the CSB to 30 from 15...this has probably been done by reducing the marks for ACR's and courses...while the CSB comprises mostly different types of beurocrats the government gets some clout for opposition to a particular beurocrat...governments are usually opposed to independent minded beurocrats
  
• Dec11-2019--The SC has decided that the IHC can overturn the conviction of the Azizia steel mill case if it feels that it is in its jurisdiction...apparently the IHC feels that the conviction stands overturned after the video confession of the accountability court judge...the case technically would have tobe reheard by another judge or would go on appeal to the SC
  
• Dec11-2019--according to the decision of a pro government LHC judge Maryam Nawaz has applied to the government for foreign travel...pakistan is slowly and steadily moving towards a military dictatorship type of governance...
  
• Dec11-2019--The PTI aka Imran Khan is so consumed with his animosity to the opposition that he now wants to enact a law to stop convicts/absconders appearing on television...apparently he was informed that the PMLn support base increases whenever its leaders appear on television...people are always willing to listen to all views in a supposed democracy...however we do find it odd that people who lost the elections and without any specific expertise are lording it over them as advisors and ministers...apparently a former protege Aqib Javed also said that Imran Khan had the wrong priorities even about cricket...!
  
• Dec10-2019--The PTI is going to avoid inaugurating the Orange Train via Usman Buzdar leaving it to a supposedly corruption prone minister...recently apparently Imran Khan had accused Usman Buzdar mockingly of being Sher Shah Suri for completing Nawaz era transportation projects...The PTI has been consistently opposed to the Orange Train and its over Rs200 billion cost...!The PMLn however celebrated with dancing horses...the Orange Train is going to start its trial run and was forcibly ordered tobe completed by the courts
  
• Dec10-2019--The PMLn accuses the PTI of a demonstration outside the Nawaz Sharif house in london and says they too can retaliate and they will end consultations against such PTI misbehaviour...The PTI calls it a peaceful demo...!how about peaceful opposition demos outside banigala...!
  
• Dec10-2019--The controversial science minister calls for removal of an adhoc rector of Comsats university and appointing another adhoc rector...!
  
• Dec10-2019--four women from awaran a radical infested area in balochistan have been released after being accused of gun running...the nationalist parties had raised howls of protest and the government now says they were falsely accused...
  
• Dec10-2019--The PTI has again asked the UAE for a list of iqama holders...when they have a list of bank accounts in the uae than iqama bearers are hardly of any significance...Nawaz Sharif was not an ordinary iqama holder...the government knows several prominent iqama holders but has not done anything against them...!The PTI bias is almost insurmountable...!
  
• Dec10-2019--showing the PTI bias against specifically punjab Imran Khan announces an app in which he asks for videos and pictures against the corrupt in Punjab...The NAB chief jokingly(sic) states that he has not filed corruption references against the PTI governance in KP because the cases are subjudice...one hardly finds that a sufficient reason for not investigating the cases...he says that cases in BRT and malam jabba are ready...according to him the PTI allocated 275 acres of forest land to the malam jabba resort when it cannot do so according to an earlier era law....the multan metro probably pales in comparision to the corruption in the BRT...according to imran khan the people of multan did not want the metro...when has he asked what the people want...i dont think anyone is against city transport projects barring of course that buzdar character...if the people are not using it than reduce the ticket prices...such projects are never profit oriented as they are meant to serve the environment and traffic congestion...which obviously are not on imran khans PMLn ridden mind...!
  
• Dec10-2019--Imran khan wants to make the people fight probably on the basis of havenots versus the haves...he seems tobe jealous of the corrupt(his own understanding of who they are since he is not an unbiased person)...while throwing flowers is a common activity it is not only restricted to the corrupt...Imran Khan should also highlight his own corruption ridden projects like the BRT and explain why Jehangir Tareen has not been charged with money laundering...we also know some people who acquired land and plots from those that he now labels as the corrupt...people whom he has hired without specific expertise or advertising...!and who also are videoed receiving briefcases...Imran Khan should realize that apart from the corrupt of previous times he should also look at the corruption in his own regime--propaganda wise..he would have to say there are the corrupt amongst whom i am not even accusing of corruption...corruption is usually endemic amongst the government officials and politicians in power...one sees many in the PTi threatening people in the same manner of the corrupt just as Imran Khan is threatening a particular party...corruption can only end if it is stopped by at least those in the government and military...the methods adopted by Imran Khan reek of attempts at creating civil disturbances and putting individual against individual...If he is against corruption why has he not created any specific anti corruption establishment...since he goes around creating new bodies everyday...obviously NAB has been corrupted and politicized...why not create anti corruption bodies to check the people, police,fauj, bussinessmen , beaurocrats, landowners/grabbers etc. specifically since NAB is now only an anti PMLn body...for most purposes...maybe he should stop the FBR from threatening electricity disconnections which are not their domain and which already have tax components...filers and non filers can only be appropriate if there are no indirect taxes which form most of the government revenues...
  
• Dec9-2019--provinces return Rs209 billion to the center showing a massive slowdown in development
  
• Dec9-2019--CDA to install LED lights on the darkness prone kashmir hiway to IIA...CDA has already shutdown the underconstruction metro to the airport...
  
• Dec8-2019--under attack by the PTI the PMLn rushes to London for a huddle
  
• Dec8-2019--Maryam Sharif moves LHC for her names removal from the ECL
  
• Dec7-2019--The money returned by thekedar malik riaz is factually the sindh governments but Imran Khan is bent upon grabbing it and wasting it like all other moneys...social welfare is not something that everyone benefits from or popular in the PTI policy terms and the government has already made allocations for that which for the small objectives that it covers is more than enough...Government policies are not for the populace and the PTI too it seems is not for everyone..the secret agreement that the government does not want to divulge also shows that open hearts and open transparent attitudes are not possible with the secret devious attitudes of the PTI top brass...both sides appear tobe chakari prone...Riaz malik has agreed to pay the UK national Crime Commission pound 190 million from nine frozen bank accounts and the proceeds of from the sale of a property...since criminality is not involved it can at best be called money laundering...a similar case of Jehangir Tareen has not been processed by the ARU or the NCA...!
  
• Dec7-2019--Imran Khan has a very dubious and insulting attitude to pakistan and pakistanis...in pakistan he derides rags to riches stories but praises a couple of low income pakistanis who made it to become industrialists over fifty-sixty years in the UK which is a very small high income country...i can recall only a few or two pakistani immigrants of such a nature...he forgets that there were no industries or billionaires in pakistan when it was formed and there was only one textile factory in karachi...with the poverty stricken country even finding difficulty in getting paper for working...the huge industrial base created in pakistan is almost all by people who went from rags to riches......the dawoods who he carries around also were small shopkeepers...and if they could setup dawood fertilizers, descon, buy engro and build Hubco than there is really no difficulty for bussiness in pakistan...Imran Khan only thinks of a small sector of pakistani's ie. exporters and would be bussinessmen...There are 99% other pakistanis that he must pay attention too who donot have factories, plaza's or bussinesses and need jobs, lower tariffs and lower inflation...maybe he would understand the terms cheaper food, hospital costs etc rather than teh difficult terms of inflation that asad umar and hafeez sheikh cant understand ...low end bussinesses and SME's can just not provide the millions of jobs required by ordinary pakistanis..this policy is quite old and while helpful to a few is not population oriented...welfare policies too should not be gender oriented and applicable to everyone and must at best be equally balanced...
  
• Dec6-2019--it is rumoured that Imran Khan and the army chief had a falling out after he turned the extension into an issue/controversy and the SC stepped in to give the army chief a six month extension and ordered new legislation on the army chief appointments...while the army chief can be considered a constitutional position no constitutional provision exists covering appointment and tenure/extensions/reappointments...thus confusion and conspiracies take root whenever an extension is given or desired...the issue had been considered settled by a Zulfikar Ali Bhutto executive order or notification in which army chiefs were appointed for three years and Lt generals for four years...there are also around 100 superceded major generals...the new law should consider automatic retirements for superceded brigadiers and major generals too many suggest so that the armed forces are seen as a vibrant organization...and not full of medically/otherwise superceded officcers just clinging on for dear life...
  
• Dec6-2019--two soldiers and two militants killed in north waziristan in an exchange of fire
  
• Dec6-2019--reports from London suggest that Nawaz Sharif is making a substantive recovery in England though many still like the conspiracy theory of Dr Adnan having concocted Nawaz Sharifs illness with illicit drugs/prescriptions...anyway Nawaz Sharif was seen walking briskly out of his London Hospital and he is not even hospitalized suggesting that his blood problems might be near normal...other reports suggest that Nawaz Sharif might be back in January...!other reports suggest that a complete body scan discovered a few swollen nodes...!
  
• Dec6-2019--The government seems tobe playing a dirty propaganda game of... it is corruption...no it is SC payment...thekedar Malik Riaz is a crook...no he is not...money results of criminal investigation...no it is not...malik Riaz building in london tobe sold and money repatriated...building three years ago belonged to Nawaz Sharif son...it seems tobe a carefully concocted vendetta/witchhunt/ anti sharifs propaganda...The sharifs have faced this before...Musharraf/GHQ had also confiscated Nawaz Sharifs property documents...so one can generally see where the crookish Imran Khan gets his inspiration from...anyway the SC must be congratulated on receiving a payment of pounds 140 million with another pound 50 million tobe repatriated later...malik riaz on the other hand is propagating that the government has been unable to prove any criminal activity over a year of investigations and that the money has been transferred after a written agreement of sordid silence...however both sides are continuing to challenge the governments version...Although what the UK's national Crime Agency has got to do with it is unclear...isit just a postbox or did they do all the work...with the jack in popping box type character of Shehzad Akber claiming probably that he dunnit and must get the whistle blower reward probably...PTI crooks are after the money of the sharifs and their properties too...reports of PTI-walas/army generals wanting the properties have been propagated and many suggest that the biggest crook might be the punjab governor/PTI expatriates...after having made billions from the dollar price hikes..they are all after beaurocrats to transfer other peoples lands and properties...upto now the beaurocrats have remained honest waiting for the dumb Imran Khan to increase their salaries to 70 tolas a month.......Imran Khan aka crooks controller was supposedly offered 2 million dollars each by USA expatriates for fronting as their investor in chief supposedly for such properties and lands...even the army chief offered togo fifty-fifty with him on a joint contracting/building firm...!
  
• Dec6-2019--PTI's new minister of interior(state) has been seen receiving a bag from building/land developer/tycoon Malik Riaz in a video...Imran Khan had critisized a retired judge /former president for carrying money in a briefcase for distribution to judges in Quetta...The notoriety prone Shehzad Akber says he was just handing him his computer bag(wow)... a tycoon handing a bag containing a computer to an anti corruption agent(wow) and too in england..!Shehzad Akber key person in the anti sharifs witchhunt of Imran Khan...who seems tobe mounting a personnel vendetta against the sharifs...
  
• Dec5-2019--SC moved to decide case of new
  
• Dec5-2019--Shahbaz pleads for a in house change of Imran Khan...!
  
• Dec5-2019--inflation surges to a nine year high
  
• Dec5-2019--Justice Faez Isa has three properties in the UK and according to NAB rules applied in the Shahbaz sharif case all belong to faez ISA...however an original citizens complaint against the judge had listed only one property...the judges and faez isa are complaining that the government used investigative methods to find the properties...when a SC judge has properties in england that is hardly illegal
  
• Dec4-2019--NAB freezes 23 properties including that of Shahbaz, his wives and children...in case related to assets beyond means
  
• Dec4-2019--The pathetic imran khan(expert economy managers according to him) economic team blames price hikes on the indian trade ban...might be a few items like onions and tomato possibly...however the government should have been aware and arranged for imports of tomatos at least...why peas have gone up to Rs200 a kilo in karachi has obviously nothing todo with indian trade...apparently hafeez sheikh was still getting tomatos at Rs14 a kilo while the people suffered highest known prices of tomatoes...maybe a few tomato importers/traders had joined the PTI...a lot of them look like pTI supporters the vegetable sellers in karachi at least...
  
• Dec3-2019--Wajid Zia appointed FIA chief while outsider Shahzad Akber a key opponent of the sharifs appointed minister of state/special assistant...
  
• Dec3-2019--Asif Zardari also to go for a bail plea
  
• Dec3-2019--In a surprising announcement the interior ministry will handle the islamabad metro.!
  
• Dec2-2019--Imran Khan wants student unions a violence prone problematic process revived...usually plagued with ethnic/religious/regional problems
  
• Dec2-2019--a paramilitary killed alongwith two terrorists in north
  
• Dec2-2019--The PTI wants a balance of power with the military chief literally/technically running it...the COAS legislation will face trouble if the PTi wants to continue fighting the opposition...
  
• Dec2-2019--ECP wants fresh delimitation of cantonment warsd around rawalpindi and chaklal...while the interior ministry wants rawalpindi and attock to notify areas in and around IIA, taxila and rawalpindi/attock tobe included in teh capital territory...Islamabad wants to include the areas around the IIA inro the capitol territory for security concerns...houding societies which are springing up in the areas will be removed...!
  
• Dec1-2019--PMLn's punjab chief's Rana Sanaullah legal team has boycotted the narcotics court which banned media coverage and stopped entry of lawyers...This almost akin to things that happen in illegal governance...or martial laws...
  
• Dec1-2019--a six months judicial extension for the controversial army chief means a three year extension says a failed politician...Ahsan Iqbal however says it will difficult to draft/drag the army chiefs extension into constitutional law...technically it means that the government has to look at the tenure of the army chief again and the SC seems tobe suggesting a mechanism like the CJ where the seniormost officer serves as COAS till retirement meaning anything from two to four years...the COAS has become almost synonymous with the governments he sees inducted into office and once a COAS goes the governments time is suppoosed tobe up...the government will also have to decide whether extensions and reappointments are really necessary or legal in the context...most of the extensions have been taken by coup plotting illegal army rulers...
  
• Dec1-2019--In the last month of 2019 Imran Khan continued to refuse to take any responsibility for his parties failure to get any good reviews in the punjab...Imran Khan blamed his party mpa's for all wanting to become chiefministers and interalia gave Buzdar a five year tenure...That is one of biggest indications of Imran Khans refusal to see reality...Imran Khan and the PTI who refer to the opposition politicians as the mafia or the enemy is hardly winning any hearts and minds in the punjab...many suggest that he released Nawaz Sharif to get some support in the punjab and subdue the traders/industrialists who largely were Nawaz Sharif fans...he also blamed the beaurocrats for his own failures suggesting that they could do whatever they wanted in a three tenure...!...its like saying whether Buzdar is corrupt or useless and a beaurocrat is corrupt or inefficient he will turn a blind eye to their faults...it is the chief minister who galvanizes support, development and the work environment of beaurocrats and it is always he who is teh failure...he can go and get beaurocrats from england or his other scheme to bring in fauji brigadiers/colonels but there will be no effect unless pro people development policies are initiated...a person who is afraid to bring in a new army chief for whatever reason is the biggest failure in pakistani political terms...