The Daily PakistanPolitics Dec 16-31, 2019

• Dec31-2019--Bilawal Bhutto has offered a complete 50-50 partnership to the MQM-P in Sindh if they jettison the PTI in the center...while the PTI government will not fall but it could be in dire trouble if another ally runs for cover...the MQM-P would definitely like the idea of having ministries in Sindh...
  
• Dec31-2019--Imran Khan says new NAB ordnance to benefit his constituency the beaurocrats and bussinessmen...!apparently Imran Khan cannot do without the deskbound beaurocrats who rarely do any real work...apparently they will get benefit of doing wrong in good faith the upside down new Imran Khan motto...
  
• Dec30-2019--most of the night and early morning dense fog in rawalpindi/islamabad and electricity cutoff almost all day in rawalpindi
  
• Dec30-2019--the new NAB ordnance or ordinances are more controversial than the actual NAB...while we have had chakri presidents before...this dentist is the worst possible...before NAB could pull out a tooth no question asked as it was diseased...now they have to worry about whether the dentist knows what good faith or to say it in common language ethics are ...!he aired that he was doing something to control NAB harassment but ended up just adding a controversial amendment...the one earlier ordnance exempted bussinessmen...almost all politicians involved in bad decision making are bussinessmen...what they ended amending is adding a good faith clause supposedly for dumb beaurocrats who make bad decisions without reason......while no beaurocrat is being investigated the PTI seems unable to make the beaurocrats work...so they have come up with this amendment that good faith corruption is allowed...The PMLn interpreted this as suggesting that they want to just dryclean the PTI...others interpreted this that since beaurocrats, army, PTI are almost exempted the NAB ordnance was only for the PMLn...many have been heard claiming that Imran Khan, Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are all bussinessmen...!I dont think there is anything like good faith in making losses to exchequer, bad decision making, corruption, bias etc...maybe the PTI now have a different idea about corruption...the Saudis have argued that Nawaz Sharif too was acting in good faith...!Nobody has yet argued that Asif Zardari is acting in good faith though...The PTI probably does not know that officialdom rarely does any work apart from sitting behind a desk...they want a consultant just to do a computer search...!Thinking about the future one PTI minister(in bad faith) wanted to just end NAB by joining it to the do nothing FIA...!others argue that ashiq firdous, murad saeed, shehzad akber , fawad chaudhry, shah mahmood qureshi and Imran Khan , pakistan police, punjab chief ministers, pervez khattak etc...can never act in good faith...there brains are wired the wrong way...they have hate and bad faith ingrained...!...
  
• Dec29-2019--The government which was supposed to issue an ordnance to clip NAB's wings and reduce it to RS500 million and over cases lamely just issued a good faith amendment when it suggested that beaurocrats are just dumb order followers and alongwith bussinessmen had tobe freed from NAB's clutches...The PTI is arguing that beaurocrats were not willing to sign anything...all they usually do is write "for na" and forward it to the minister
  
• Dec29-2019--There are only small numbers of houbara's left in two or three areas of punjab but Imran Khan still allowing them tobe hunted by his arab friends...
  
• Dec28-2019--Apparently PTI suddenly issues an ordnance to reduce NAB brutality..most bussinessmen and beaurocrats only tobe investigated by FIA...!
  
• Dec27-2019--Another controversy about the 800000 BISP benficiaries that have been jettisoned by the gender sensitive Dr. Sania Nishtar...she has coined up a new philosophy of the "undeserving"...and she seems most concerned about spouses doing this and that...she probably does not have a spouse...according to her if a spouse has a car or a motorcycle out she goes...if the spouse goes to the Nadra executive center or travels abroad out she goes...if the spouse is a government servant out she goes...nobody asked her to coin the "undeserving philosophy" and she has done it on her own it seems...she says she is saving Rs60 billion which she will e distribute to probably her poor bussinesswomen-loans...many still remember how in a burqa she went to check on a potential bussinesswomen loan applicant...she could have done it without a burqa too...she is also considered to be a tax evader in her sale of an islamabad orchard plot to none other than the convict Gen Musharraf...she too comes from the coupplotter musharaf era as do many of the imran khan proteges...one condition that does look odd is that PTCL bills of Rs1000 and out she goes is probably invalid and as she cannot find out how much they spend on mobiles...as mobiles topups are probably unrecorded...most domestic employees spend around Rs1000 per month these days on phone bills...i think that her undeserving strategy has some kind of personal bias or imran khan bias involved...a straight shooter she is not...they had better prepare some better rules for the poor deserving who are not entitled to any service...ie no phones, motorcycles, cars , employed spouses, executive nadra etc...what should they be ...probably beggars only...i think there is also a 12 acre condition somewhere...probably she does not know that they can earn two lakhs per year from a few kanals of land...probably by growing tomatoes and lettuce...she should probably list those eating lettuce and tomatoes as undeserving too...the district centers that she aims to setup for registering new applicants will also cost a lot...or will she mann every office herself...surveys should be properly conducted...it was assured that a proper economic survey had been carried out although there is no evidence of one...although i still receive sms from someone to contact BISP as i have no income...!
  
• Dec27-2019--The government thinks that a new CJ will get them a different result in the COAS extension review...apparently the problem is at the top in the PTI and army...the review suggests that Bajwa who is considered ordinary by most people is considerd highly by i suppose Imran Khan...supposedly he was the one behind the Pulwama incident and has apparently some sort of international stature...supposedly the public also wants him reappointed although no one has asked for it...The SC had ruled that army chiefs cannot be reappointed and the government should legislate properly before taking pathetic decisions as there is no particular reason why a new COAS cannot be appointed...while saying that it should have ordered that a new COAS be appointed...however it itself gave an illegal six month extension and asked the government to properly legislate the process of an army chiefs appointment and subsequent rule...It seems that the government would have to give up too much to talk the opposition into a legislative/constitutional amendment...The government seems tobe under the impression that the SC cannot order them to legislate anything and they have sufficient powers to appoint/reappoint/extension an ordinary Bajwa/COAS...!methinks that the SC should appoint the seniormost Lt General as the new army chief...
  
• Dec27-2019--Government seeks a review of the COAS extension judgement as legislation would be a difficult process...government wants that the SC rule that they can do whatever they want...once something comes to the SC it has to acquire form and substance
  
• Dec27-2019--The FIA raids the PMLn secretariat looking for some material to link up with the judge video case...probably Wajid Zia trying to show some karwai...
  
• Dec27-2019--One has some qualms about Dr.Sania Nishtars mental status given her list of undeserving conditions...she should just have said anyone having a spouse is undeserving...however she has given outright deserving status to women living on the LOC...if all those removed from the deserving list are from the PPP she should probably be jumping up and down in the PTI meeting at least
  
• Dec26-2019--Season for bail says upset Shehryar Afridi...while everyone is now doubting the army chiefs honesty viz the ANF arrest the courts gave bail to rana sanaullah and miftah ismail...PMLn says the government has only arrested political opponents during its brief rule
  
• Dec26-2019--Though there is some justification for removing 140000 government employees from the BISP list many suggest that the BISP create a basic condition for women irrespective of their spouses who usually have them hired on dailies of Rs30 or Rs20
  
• Dec25-2019--The PTI creates a third LG body in islamabad...a LG commission which will deal with problems in CDA and MCI
  
• Dec25-2019--government strikes down over 800000 Bisp recipients...while no criteria was declared for the removals earlier it is being joked that Sania Nishtar has no spouse...
  
• Dec25-2019--KP government appeals to SC to strike down PHC judgement sending 35 questions on BRT tobe investigated by FIA...
  
• Dec25-2019--after six months of controversy Rana Sanaullah released on bail
  
• Dec24-2019--there seems to be an open case of the clash of institutions...at the level of the ISPR there is open contempt for government and judiciary and nobody even takes the ISPR chief to court...he apparently feels that musharaf belongs to his family...whether family or not the constitution is the highest law in the land and is applicable on everyone...institutions supposed/fake/imagined are much lower in the scheme of things...
  
• Dec24-2019--The PTI has doubtful democratic credentials and now wants to go to court in appeal against the conviction of a death sentence to a couplotter...apparently they dont want to apply the courts ruling that musharaf be hanged to death for three days or if he dies elswhere be dragged to D-chowk and hanged for three days...it is the way martial law governments of the PTI type hanged prisoners...
  
• Dec24-2019--The army chief who spends most of his time in the primeminister house sometimes even staying overnight says he is ready for any attempt by the indians to create trouble...with the area snowbound and cold on the extreme it is not fighting weather in AJK at least
  
• Dec24-2019--Ahsan Iqbal who was minister for planning held in a supposedly cooked up Narowal Sports City project...Miftah Ismail given bail after prosecuter says they never visited him in five months of jail...NAB seems tobe taking speculative action to aid the PTI government and stop the opposition plotting an inhouse change...Ahsan Iqbal says the sports complex was a stalled project started in 2009 and they had left it 90 percent completed...
  
• Dec23-2019--PTI attitude of nasty decision making has not changed as PTI says maryam sharif wont be allowed to travel
  
• Dec22-2019--Gulzar Ahmed becomes CJ SJC replacing the mild Asif Saeed
  
• Dec22-2019--Government thinking of moving SJC against the PHC CJ Waqar Seth
  
• Dec22-2019--senior lawyer akram sheikh robbed in islamabad
  
• Dec22-2019--sanitary workers salaries not being paid in islamabad as the PTI makes life difficult for PMLn MCI
  
• Dec21-2019--Imran Khan frightened of appointing new army chief thinking it will effect countries stability...!
  
• Dec20-2019--three provinces protest transfer of Rs200 billion of their funds to the center...it was said that the provinces had not utilized the funds and thus given them up...the provinces protested and want their funds returned...
  
• Dec20-2019--gas pipeline blown up in balochistan stopping gas supplies to quetta, pishin and ziarat
  
• Dec20-2019--PHC orders hanging of General musharaf on five counts...said all those who had connived the escape overseas also be charged...the PTI government protests the ruling and files review...army also upset although no previous army general has ever gone abroad to live showing at least the generals corruption...he had been sent to live in england by the PPP government after handing over his coup government and had been given six commandos for protection...where he apparently spent his time drinking whisky sours...judgement protested mostly by mqm minister although no ethnic aspect top the judgement...the martial law regime of Zia ul haq had started hanging convicts after their death sentences for three days in the open...Judge ordered if musharaf died elsewhere he should be dragged to D-chowk and hanged for three days...basically the judges showed their contempt for those who tear up the constitution
  
• Dec19-2019--SC protests government spread rumours that the CJ had ordered around the special trial court
  
• Dec19-2019--The army and PTI have shown disrespect by objecting to the verdict of the special court and death sentence of hanging...the sentence is completely legal and the army and PTI should not create misconceptions about the judgement
  
• Dec19-2019--The PTI and army seem to think that the judiciary is only meant for the PMLn and ordinary people...the judgement is against the specific actions of a general and not the pakistan army...Bajwa seems tobe referring to the judiciary as anti pakistani which at best can be regarded as contemptuous
  
• Dec19-2019--two cops accompanying polio team in malakand killed
  
• Dec18-2019--In pakistan 80% of the medical graduates are women and only 20% join the difficult profession...technically i would suggest that there are not enough jobs available for all of them to work anyway as there is no shortage of doctors...the government would have have to establish numerous hospitals to give all of them a chance at employment...
  
• Dec18-2019--A retired colonel who is a reknown lawyer in military, missing persons and ISI cases has been kidnapped from his home in Askari14...
  
• Dec18-2019--Suzuki Alto-VXR to cost 1.4 million and Suzuki Alto VXL to cost Rs1.6 million...
  
• Dec18-2019--Saudia browbeats Pakistan in skipping Kualu Lumpur meet...!
  
• Dec18-2019--The people should hire Prince Muhammed as he is the only one Imran Khan listens to...maybe than no one would threaten people with 221% gas and electricity tariff hikes
  
• Dec18-2019--pakistan ranked 151 out of 153 in the Global Gender Gap report...while pakistan is not an equal soceity there must really be something wrong in the reports assessment as pakistani women participate in most fields and have some equality in the journalistic, medical, education fields and field monitoring...we have even had airforce pilots, a pakistani woman has climbed the Everest, a primeminister, they administer polio drops a difficult task here...so we really should have a much better rating...
  
• Dec18-2019--A Special Court has awarded a death sentence to ex army chief Pervez Musharaf for suspending the constitution in 2007 and forcibly confining sixty superior court judges...The ISPR in a pathetic statement critisized the judgement...the courts had given sufficient time for Musharaf to return but he had contrived to get ill...similarly when he was first charged he had ended up in the CMH while on the way to court and than the than military chief had let him go abroad...many have praised the decision and termed it a right step against the armies highhandedness however others have said that the decision on the 1999 coup should have come first...as for being a traitor in the midst of the 1965 war era Musharaf had run off to karachi without leave from a lahore border posting...!
  
• Dec17-2019--internet problems as PTCL submarine cable develops fault
  
• Dec17-2019--SC hearing focuses on the way the SJC case was formulated against the Judge Faiz Isa...while Isa was involved in animosity against the previous CJ the lawyers say his decisions in the Faizabad protests were the cause...even so the SJC is competent to decide cause and procedure...the information technically became available to the government thru an exchange of information about pakistani expatriate properties...since the government is regarding childrens and wives and mothers as benami owners the SJC should technically have it investigated why Isa's family is living abroad and whether the money was transmitted from pakistan...it is easy in the UK to get mortgages on property purchases and thus an independent investigation of the resources would solve the matter...the court should technically not show bias for or against a judge...however if primeministers can be investigated and vilified so a judge should at least be liable to investigation when there is sufficient reason to do so...
  
• Dec17-2019--In what is being seen as renewed confidence in the SC it quickly publisized its decision on the COAS extension...It rules that the COAS extension is illegal...however it has still given the COAS a six months extension...it has also ruled that there are no written rules for the COAS job...it has not mentioned the Zulfikar ali Bhutto notification under which the COAS position has been handled upto now...technically the COAS is a three year appointment while his salary and perks are determined by the president...under those rules the COAS usually get kharcha of one lakh per foreign trip and he is usually awarded a choice land or plot on retirement...one of the only positions that gets free food, transport,residence, telephone, gas and numerous security guards and batmen etc...The salary of the army chief is disputed as no public announcement is usually made but it can be anywhere between 4-10 lakhs per month...it maybe appropriate to fix the coas salary, tenure, procedure of appointment, litigation, extension, removal etc. too...In the present case the national assembly could vote on the extension and if say more than 250 members support the extension than a three year extension clause be entered in the new legislation...however an extension ridden COAS is always a problem for incumbent governments specifically and one would support a no extensions policy as well as law...the army is already overburdened with too many officers as almost 128 major generals have been superceded and are lying around uneeded...a Lt. general is technically retired after four years and a major general could be retired after five years...
  
• Dec17-2019--Islamabad wobbly about going up against the saudis and attending a Kaula Lumpur moot which was close to Imran Khans thinking
  
• Dec17-2019--blast near PHC gate
  
• Dec16-2019--internet problems as PTCL submarine cable develops fault