The Daily PakistanPolitics Jan 01-15. 2020

• Jan14-2020--car sales have plummeted 43% to 59097 in the first half of 2019-20...similar falls are seen in other automobile categories even rickshaws and qingchis...the significance of losing almost 50000 car sales when 18 new car plants are coming up is very significant...The government however is showing a very harsh attitude towards car makers and says they will be fined if they donot introduce airbags and toughen up the thin car bodies...one does not see the situation improving as inflation is increasing despite minor dollar depreciation...the government has to decrease dollar prices more rapidly...Imran Khan meanwhile is spending the governments fortune on minor increase in cotton related exports...maybe he should offer greater incentives for car exports since he has so much over capacity...!others say that the punjab government used to buy 30000 suzukis for the unemployed thekedars...still others say that 20000 people in punjab are waiting to buy the KIA or french cars...!
  
• Jan14-2020--SC asks the PTI government to explain how a retired military lawyers detention concerns national security
  
• Jan14-2020--Ahsan Iqbal says Imran Khan sabotaged the Narowal Sports City Project by refusing Rs400 million in funds required for its completion...He said it would now require billions to complete...
  
• Jan14-2020--death toll during the current cold spell rises to 35
  
• Jan14-2020--The PTI government is floundering in handling its military and civilian allies...khalid maqbool siddiqui left the cabinet after being accused of the khatri blag bag...the ISI has started running itself as if it was a martial law government and the military is refusing to show even concern/preparedness for indian threats and spending most of its time in the primeministers room...with the PMLn leadership supposedly getting healthier in London and Luqman apparently slapping Fawad Chaudhry back for immorality many are claiming that Imran Khan is actually a KP soleimani and is running a proxy government for some Khattak...!and the LHC issued a startling renunciation of the PHC musharaf death sentence and declared the whole process of the special court under article 6 unconstitutional...the government maybe floundering but Imran Khan is just sitting around listening to various loud mouths like the ISPR chief who apparently thinks he is the iSI chief...!many suggest that Imran Khan who sometimes lacks expression might be suffering from ADHD...!
  
• Jan13-2020--Qatar probably better placed to handle iran-USA tensions given pakistans dubious relationships with various sides...what are the pakistani's going to say..."we have just started a new program of military trainings in the USA"...you can join too...!...Iran probably knows more about military trainings and shooting down civilian planes than the pakistan army does...The iranian response..."you can send us your army officers for proxy training...we will give them hands on training in proxies, militias, militancy, demonstrations, burning embassies in syria, iraq, lebanon and the houthi mountains in yemen...!"...
  
• Jan13-2020--MQM(p) convener quits PTI cabinet...PPP says they have left the coalition ...MQM-P say they will support PTI in the center...Khalid Siddiqui who had a sidelined ministry of Information technology many suggest wants mqm ministers of his own choice and probably a third ministry too now that they have an offer from the PPP...apparently Farogh Nasim given ministry of Law by PTI onits own...with the PMLn seeing good times ahead the PTI must be heading into darker days...both the PMLn and PPP say they were coerced to support the Bajwa act...Imran Khan's thinking is that with Bajwa around he wont be replaced...others suggest that the establishment arm twisted top PMLN and PPP leaders to support the Bajwa Act...!!!!
  
• Jan12-2020--The LHC orders the army/ISI to release a lawyer retd Col Inamurrehman declaring his detention as unlawful... The army/ISI is accusing the lawyer of espionage when the reason is his involvement in cases of missing people and unlawful military detentions
  
• Jan12-2020--Pakistan army adopts a lassez faire attitude suggesting that the indian army chiefs suggestion that they can occupy AJK is just rhetoric...the Pakistan Army also made a serious mistake in analyzing the previous indian army chief...Pakistan should beef up its front lines and be ready for serious action...Pakistan Army should also develop a plan to occupy occupied kashmir...Indians say that they at least have a ready plan...The army and political leaderships fake flag operations suggestion are completely opposite each others assessment...under Modi in India the Pakistan Army had better take things more seriously...
  
• Jan11-2020--suicide blast inside a mosque in Quetta that claims 15 lives including a DSP and possibly a prayer leader...possible iranian proxies at it again...government blames ISIS
  
• Jan11-2020--Rana Sanaullah says that the military led ANF has concocted a case against him and no heroin was recovered from him...he said there was no video of the event and the ANF had not even interrogated him...loud mouth Murad Saeed of the PTI aired previous allegations against Rana Sanaullah but had nothing to say about the drug allegations...Rana Sanaullah suggested that the house examine the false government allegations
  
• Jan10-2020--CII terms various sections of the NAB ordnance as unislamic
  
• Jan10-2020--frightened Imran Khan a supposed shiite afficionada refuses to participate in the iran-iraq-USA-Saudia war...imran Khan had earlier committed to defending saudi arabia...he proposes that pakistan is willing to mediate only...he asked the army chief and foreign minister to visit Iran, yemen and Iraq to study the possibilities of mediation but they have refused to travel under current circumstances...
  
• Jan9-2020--Pakistan which has really no leverage to attempt to mediate between the USA and Iran...however Imran Khan Khan asked his foreign minister to invite the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq, saudia and USA to meet in Pakistan and resolve their differences...
  
• Jan9-2020--Senate passes three key bills including the army act amendments in 20 minutes...!There is however some controversy as the president has been given the right to reject the extensions...others state that the martial law wording of the courts not being allowed to interfere in the amendments or extensions is unconstitutional...
  
• Jan9-2020--A ukrainian 737-800 goes down soon after takeoff from Tehran airport...rumours of an iranian missile strike on the airplane
  
• Jan8-2020--NA passes the the army chief extension bill in which the government can do what it likes till age 64 even firing an army chief technically...theoretically now army chiefs will refuse to retire until they are 64...an army chief can now get an extension by keeping the primeminister happy(licking his kohati chappals)
  
• Jan8-2020--motorcycle blast in quetta kills two
  
• Jan8-2020--An Sc judge questions the NAB attitude of arresting first and proving later...while it maybe good policy in case of a chief minister most people cannot tamper with evidence at will...
  
• Jan8-2020--Imran Khan critisized by party mna's for not consulting them regularly...they also wanted funds allocations to mna's tobe restarted...
  
• Jan8-2020--PTI to restart ration cards for the poor thru the Utility stores corporation
  
• Jan8-2020--two policemen shot dead in shootout in saddar
  
• Jan7-2020--The defence committee of the national assembly approved the extension bill almost with no discussion...
  
• Jan7-2020--The government has amended the NAB ordnance to save key imran khan hangers on from arrest...apparently the PTI and beaurocracy has been doing corruption in good faith which is a new point of view...!
  
• Jan7-2020--Mubasher Lucman says that there are immoral videos of Fawad Chaudhry an Imran Khan insider
  
• Jan7-2020--an author Hanif says ISI men raided his publisher and took away all Urdu copies of a " a case of exploding mangos"...Ejaz Zia has also threatened a libel case even though this is quite an old and famous book...many suggest that the iSI is starting to behave as it does in martial law era's...maybe Imran Khan should have a talk with the iSI chief and straighten him out...others are saying that it is the army chief who is behind the arrests and suppression attempts
  
• Jan7-2020--SC to review IHC decision to allow motorcycles on the motorway...!
  
• Jan6-2020--The government is again planning to make the people pay for its bad management of the power sector...it is the government that has to pay the bills and not the people...
  
• Jan6-2020--suspected Iranian proxies (aka militia's) protest on Pakistani soil against the killing of iranian Soleimani by the USA...government says Pakistan refuses tobe used by Iran or the USA inits conflicts...government should control Iranian proxies before they become troublesome...
  
• Jan5-2020--Imran Khan has to understand that punjabis and pukhtuns are a different species and police in punjab need to understand that to and they cannot be like KP police...the only thing that Imran Khan has done for his constituency is build a model police station...such things might not be interesting enough in the next election
  
• Jan5-2020--Apparently there have been over 700000 complaints from punjab on the complaint Portal started by the PTI...reflects the bad governance in punjab say many...
  
• Jan4-2020--NA Defence committee passes the extension bills...The PMLn, JUIf, and PPP did not oppose the bills while the NP, JI, PKMAP opposed
  
• Jan4-2020--oil prices rise slightly on killing of an iranian proxy militias controller in iraq suggesting that the markets will wait and see what happens
  
• Jan4-2020--while the killing of Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq is called an elimination of a key destabilizer in the region by the US it is the elimination of the Hashad militia deputy which is more important since he ran the government/private militia's which handled all the details like attacking the US embassy , rocket attacks, kidnappings, bomb blasts and attacks on opponents...
  
• Jan4-2020--The CIA police islamabad recovered RS28.9 million from eight gangs of 34 robbers...included were a gang that robbed a post office and four tranquilizer maids who robbed many...
  
• Jan3-2020--The foreign office has called the remarks of the indian army chief reckless and many suggest that the Pakistan army should be ready to takeout indian formations should a pre emptive strike be attempted...Imran Khan should probably be advised that the indians are suggesting direct action and not false flag operations...Bajwa/ISI have obviously given pathetic and childish advice...pakistan has been unable to retaliate in any way to the indian threats...!
  
• Jan3-2020--polio cases in 2019 rise to 123...many suggest that the government mishandling and need for aid is behind the polio disaster...Imran Khan even allowed ink tobe imported from India for marking polio children
  
• Jan3-2020--Imran Khan suggests that the NAB law has been changed to benefit Nawaz Sharif who will now plead that he is a bussinessman and always acted in good faith...that is the extent of the new NAB ordnance...!
  
• Jan3-2020--Government corruption may now be ingrained as the advisors argue that accepting a loss is preferable in the Etisalat case...they seem to suggest that Etisalat will now pay only $1.935 billion instead of $2.598 billion according to the initial offer...of the remaining $1.1billion approximately Imran Khan willing to take $275 million and willing tobe a domestic too...!
  
• Jan3-2020--The hasty call of the national assembly might have been at the urging of the non army chief who was getting worried about his extension...apparently the government got thru its amendment in one day and will get it passed today...the give and take suggests that the only beneficiary might be Nawaz Sharif who wants an extension of his overseas stay...The amendment seems tobe Bajwa specific as it sets the age of an extended army chief at an old 64...and is applicable to generals only...many suggest that Nawaz Sharif being a bussinessman will also benefit from the new NAB ordnance as he will plead that he did everything in good faith and all his court cases will be dropped...since they include bad faith from the SC as well as the PTI...Imran Khan might now be working only for Nawaz Sharif who ordered support for the army chief amendments...The PPP however is mildly objecting at this stage...however many think a consensus passing might have been agreed on earlier...Bajwa has been a complete failure at least in suggesting that India may go for a false flag operation...he also seemed tobe behind the kidnapping of Rana Sanaullah in which 25 vehicles of the military run ANF and Punjab Rangers were used...
  
• Jan2-2020--While taking it easy earlier the cabinet suddenly came out with a draft bajwa bill
  
• Jan1-2020--government to incorporate opposition views in new ordnance after being critisized severely for what is being called the PM aides ordnance...many PM aides will avoid arrest while the beaurocrats will be able to claim that their corruption was in good faith...
  
• Jan1-2020--government convenes two houses of parliament on 24 hours notice...