The Daily PakistanPolitics Jan 15-31, 2020

• Jan31-2020--An article in the Dawn suggest that buddas or over 75 year olds are being neglected by the 68 year old buddha Imran Khan..many suggest that the old, unhealthy and unemployed should be the first objective of social charitable government aid...the writer calculated that 1.2 % were over 75 years old...they are at least deserving of Sehat insaf cards that Imran Khan hides under his bed...!all wives should be the spouses responsibility and dropped at least from Bisp...!
  
• Jan31-2020--six militants killed in balochistan operations as two soldiers are killed in waziristan operations
  
• Jan31-2020--Is Shabbar Zaidi on leave again...having failed to revive revenues to some real exponential extent he has taken ill for the second time...senior beaurocrats are not supposed to go on annual leaves...! And another National Executive Service is planned for the high salaried private sector or fauji elite beaurocrats...what will they do "for necessary action by the subordinate beaurocracy "people that Imran Khan can order around or who can do the run around
  
• Jan31-2020--The primeminister is becoming quite controversial in matter of ripping of technically party donations which he says are for his expenses...Ikram Sehgal is becoming famouss for quite a large personal donation...though he apparently works for a chinese firm and KElectric...he is known for his security consultancies and was technically close to the americans and the army...all this in the context that the primeminister says he is almost a pauper...he has recently allowed a camp office to himself and the president...now cpoming to his salary...they say it is 2 lakhs which is technically low...suggestions that it be increased to eight lakhs ie. comparable to the army chief and the CJ was shot down...his budget is still around Rs800 million or might be Rs1.2 billion...does a supposed saving of 40% matter...no it does not since the peoples lives will not be any easier...i think it would be better to increase primeministers budget and salary rather than hear him say that a supposed US agent paid him 4 lakh dollars for travelling to Davos...!...there seem to be quite a lot of conflict of interest in Imran Khan's attitude and luring money from contractors to the state and an MD of KElectric...!So i suggest that rather than be beholden to foreigners and others the government pay his expenses so thatt he is not beholden in policy matters...a saving of 1 billion or 2 billion rupees is hardly worth listening to his complaining...and that i have saved 40%...hardly matters to the people when he goes around begging for personal assistance...he is a real embarassment to the country...
  
• Jan31-2020--PTI allies tobe handled by seperate committees based on locals for locals...The first issue might be that of Kaleem Imam...he has travelled to at least three provinces as IG...despite the suggestions of the SC about tenure governments find the IG's easy to blame and replace...allies are probably looking for an officer of their choice...Sindh uniquely blamed the IG for playing politics...Imran first agreed than refused to replace the IG...The allies might now want sindh to implement a few of their policies
  
• Jan31-2020--Corona Virus becomes a global emergency as flights to and from china are shut down by airlines
  
• Jan30-2020--The mean and nasty Sania Nishtar going after the 140000 government officials who were getting Bisp payments...many suggest individual checking rather than the draconian indirect checking initiated by the PTI regime...obviously you can jail the four grade 22 officers...four of the grade 17 officials were already fired...most of the government officials were in grade 1-16 while around 2000 were in grades 17-22...the cabinet secretary Gilgit baltistan was getting Bisp payments for his two wives...!they were jobless and unemployed...!
  
• Jan30-2020--In a dramatic escalation as the deaths from the corona virus surged in china...four pakistanis in Wuhan were announced infected...human to human infections are now taking place...
  
• Jan30-2020--While a SC judge is arguing that i have nothing todo with my wife(wifes income and properties in england) the billionaire type Bisp controller is arguing that if the spouse or even his brothers go to the Nadra Executive Centre than they are not entitled to the small Bisp payments...!if you are a politician than all your relatives too bear the same blame...as the PTI went after Ahsan Iqbals supposed brother too a contractor for the the Metro beautification..I suppose you cant blame Imran Khans sisters about his poor governance...while Atif Khan argued can we also get donations for world tours or go on hajj at ikram sehgals expense.....hajj too is now for the not so rich at Rs5.5 lakhs...
  
• Jan28-2020--NAB seems to have decided to investigate reports of the wealth of two minister brothers Khusro Bakhtiyar(food security) and Punjab finance minister Hashim Jawanbakht...As per report of NAB Multan--December 2018, the ministers family did a roaring investment in six years of the last decade 2006 onwards. It set up four sugar mills, five power generation companies, four trading companies including one in London, one ethanol manufacturing company and two others. Their agricultural property increased from 5,702 kanals (712 acres) to 7,780 kanals (972 acres) meaning thereby an increase of 2,078 kanals (260 acres), along with 6-7 residential houses and plots in different cities...They have not taken any loans and Khusro Bakhtiyar has traveled abroad 189 times in five years...he also seems to have stopped the investigations by suggesting to NAB not to create trouble for him...A couple of properties that Khusro purchased in DHA Lahore were not declared in the nomination papers, this report adds that the family received foreign remittances of approx. Rs979 million during 2011-2018. Current market value of the assets of the minister’s family (who live in a joint family setting) is more than Rs100 billion. The wealth generated prior to their joining the government
  
• Jan28-2020--two militant terrorists killed in Pishin in encounter with police
  
• Jan28-2020--Murad Ali Sah floors Imran Khan with a knockout punch who agrees to removal OF IGP Kaleem Imam...he also suddenly cancelled a trip to IGP office
  
• Jan28-2020--Rana Sanaullhah expects Shahbaz Sharif to return in march...!
  
• Jan28-2020--PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen arrested for sedition
  
• Jan28-2020--The Corona Virus is causing concern as 81 chinese have died of it...with 10000 pakistani police security the thousands of chinese in pakistan come and go...in fact most of them are on holiday for christmas...on each project there are thousands of chinese...concerns in gilgit, balochistan, thar , rawalpindi and multan and the government is only checking their temperature on arrival
  
• Jan28-2020--The LHC thinks people are stupid idots...they forget that the SC had even asked the couplotter to return and they would help him out...!
  
• Jan28-2020--Imran Khan says his ministers or some of them...the idiots(untrained , uneducated in economics)...are concerned about inflation...as if they should not be...The PTI has earlier suggested that inflation does not concern them or their actions...Imran Khan too i suppose unknowingly said that it was not his responsibility...but caused by shopkeepers, hoodwinkers and manipulators...(kamino you have to own imran khan decisions or you know what happened to his dear friend Atif Khan imported from europe)...otherwise maybe he and they should study Economics 101...!he should realise that things have become more expensive by almost 50-100% and that i suppose as a PTI sympathiser is not caused by the PTI or a cause of concern to idiotic ministers and primeministers...Earlier he had suggested that inflation is something that worries the PPP...god in heaven please activate jahanum...!
  
• Jan28-2020--the almost corruption of Imran Khan who admits to taking funds from friends, contractors, CIA agents, consultants, princes etc. for aiding him in travelling is becoming a serious concern...as primeminister taking supposed sponsorship in clothes and money becomes a suspicious process and the primeminister did not report it to any regulatory body...parties taking funds and the primeminister taking funds surreptitously are two different things...his aides say they travelled free...while imran khan said he had taken money from a friend the information assistant said that he had taken money from an unknown think tank of pakistanis...!ikram sehgal is known in various circles as a journalist, tv commentator, blackwater trainer, military consultant and contractor..the pathfinder group that he runs also has links to K-Electric...Apparently he has denied giving $4 lakhs to fund the imran khan spending in Davos but he could easily have taken from USA/india/china and given them to the primeminister...this is almost over the thin line between friends and corruption associates...
  
• Jan27-2020--two pictures from Imran Khan's meeting with his puppet chief minister of punjab show him as arrogant in one and almost as humble as a young girlresisting imran khans advances in another...!Imran Khan probably felt that he might take his 20 mpa's and join the PMLn in an absurd coalition as he just urged him to increase development...many suggest that someone is distributing money amongst PTI mpa's and the south punjab walas want in...Buzdar had been roped in to quiten the south punjab drama...however differences between multan and bahawalpur or whether there should be one or two new provinces have bedeviled the south punjabis...no attempts have been made by the PTI on south punjab though...and everyone else is just willing to let the PTI fall...many mpa's supporting Buzdar just wanted a proper distribution of funds to mpa's directly as they said the distribution to districts has not been handled evenly by the chief minister...the chief minister suggests that distributing funds via the provincial Financial Commission to areas on population basis makes punjab dysfunctional...apparently he did spend a few crores or billions in DG khan
  
• Jan27-2020--In what seems an over dramatic gesture the PTI fired three senior ministers in the KP government for attempting to overthrow the moneyed chief minister Mahmood Khan...many had suggested that Imran Khan is so attracted to money that he cannot see anything else...Atif Khan, Shahram Tarakai and Shakeel Ahmed longtime PTI ministers came under the hatchet...the key occurrance seems tobe a dinner party at which 11 other mpa's were invited...the other mpas have been issued notices to explain what they were doing...it seems that the party has taken this action without any investigation...The KP assembly has been postponed to Feb7 and Usman Tarakai MNA of the swabi family group has said that they will also decide if the Imran Khan listens to them or not...many rumours are making the rounds that Imran Khan maybe flying to London to patchup with Nawaz Sharif...!as there is a danger of the PTI coalitions unravelling everywhere...
  
• Jan27-2020--Imran Khan loves the dumb looks of usman buzdar...many suggest that Buzdar has his own team orchestrating his opposition so that can keep close to Imran Khan who also loves the Buzdar opposition...one dumb man to another...is Imran dumb or is Buzdar...maybe Pervez Elahi is...!
  
• Jan26-2020--PMLn man files list of Vawda properties in the UK(eleven) in the NCA...!
  
• Jan26-2020--Chinese tentacles are quite widespread in Pakistan...apart from all the construction contracts going to the Chinese...the Pakistani embassy says there are around 2000 traders and 28000 students in china approximately and 500 students in Wuhan the center of the outbreak...perhaps a thousand odd tourists as well...so scares about the corona virus have an actual basis...two Chinese and a Pakistani were suspected and checked in a Multan hospital...maybe people coming from China should be quarantined for a few days...
  
• Jan25-2020--Car manufacturers are blaming the Imran khan tax drive for the fall in car sales...they say 48% car buyers were non filers and that number is close to the loss in sale percentages
  
• Jan25-2020--The PMLn sees a change in the Punjab government coming although Tareen has agreed to share district governance in some districts with the PMLq in direct opposition to Imran Khan who does not want beaurocratic transfers being controlled by local politicians...others say on the other hand the dull Buzdar is also attempting the same thing in the south Punjab...
  
• Jan25-2020--According to a TI report the PTI seems more corrupt than the previous rulers...
  
• Jan25-2020--some crazy general has surfaced in the military heirarchy many say either the COGS or the ISI chief...who has directed such things as arresting the lawyer col(r) inamurrehman and raiding a book publisher...they were also refusing to release lawyer on bail and the SC behaved strangely in believing that the lawyer was a spy and should deposit his passport and computer password...others are suggesting it is the mean nature of Imran Khan for allowing the chakry military to conduct lawless acts..the lawyer has however been released
  
• Jan22-2020--A former beaurocrat Sikander Sultan Raja picked by parliamentary panel as CEC...since he is not a judge how will he handle the judicial demands of the position...he seems chakry although Rana Sanaullah touts him for honesty. Raja seems tobe well connected on both sides ..i suppose this is the ending of the politicians love affair with the judiciary...the decision was delayed however it was announced after Imran Khan agreed to a working relationship with the opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif...and supposedly some more bails...
  
• Jan22-2020--Alice Wells again travelled to pakistan and like last time she tore into the CPEC again...she said a WB blacklisted chinese company had been given billion dollar contracts and that the CPEC Authority has been given immunity from prosecution...!she probably did not consult Donald Trump on these issues who thinks that iranian proxy Imran Khan is his bossom friend...it seems to many that Pakistan is almost out of the Saudi Arabian orbit...!many are now quite sure that the army chief was advising the iranians on military and proxy operations...
  
• Jan22-2020--The SC has serious problems with the former PIAC MD and has appointed the PIA board to run PIA...The former vice chief of the PAF is almost accused of corruption as well as not being qualified for the appointment...Airforce officers are recruited after they do FA/Fsc...The court also found fault with the appointment of 10 PAF officers in PIA including four AVM's,two air commodores, three wing commanders and one flight liutenant...on deputation(what does he think he is doing...running a mini airforce)...and another problem he gave a contract worth Rs.700 million to an air commodore who had registered his company a few months ago...!The court wanted to see the MD's advertisement to decide whether is was tailored for the air marshal who was already working in a acting capacity...Imran Khan probably does not understand the word corrupt in mind and spirit...these airforce officers also live in an exalted isolated state and know nobody but airforce walas...one wonders why a flt lieutenant was hired...probably as a chaprasi for the AVM's...the judges also were concerned by the 100% fare increases and the bad bread that they serve on local flights...
  
• Jan22-2020--The crushing season is over and Jehangir Tareen is again running rings round and round the PTI...yesterday he phoned the numero uno...sardarji logon nu roti ni mildi...acha cake khao...(from the french revolution)...nahin sardarji(imran is a sikh)...meri te khalid siddiqui diyan 50 atta mills band paiyan ne...pervez elahi diyan vi...acha acha..ki karan ji...KP da atta band kar deyo...nahin nahin...o meray log nen...acha sir ik billion de deyo...ki krna ee...sir ji mqm te PMLq waste...gandam(wheat) import karni eh...!!!are they punjabis...no really both are pukhtun...! or maybe baloch...!That is how the PTI works for Jehangir Tareen...(The PMLn however says he first exported 600000 tonnes at $100 a ton or 29 rupees a kilo and now is going to import wheat at $231 a tonne...the great money launderer...is he going to bring the money home...no he has plans to purchase another 1200 acres from the Queen of England...!that is how you import wheat by a private party...!
  
• Jan19-2020--PMLq say they have issued the PTI an ultimatum but are not opposed to Usman Buzdar....suggesting that they are more allergic to Imran Khan...!many say the PMLn must be working overtime to topple the PTI...in punjab the PMLq could have the chief ministership both in the PTI era as well a PMLn possible return to power era...a vibrant chief minister who gives the impression of keeping things moving is a better option in the punjab...Imran Khan had better understand that police stations are going to get him nowhere...!PMLq say they also have an understanding of sharing district power in chakwal , gujerat and bahawalpur...Fawad chaudhry however seems to want local body elections to get nearer the populace...how about it Usman Buzdar...want to distribute 30000 suzukis to unemployed PTI walas...! You know how Sania created space for the PTI poor in the BISP and her khandan ki poor women bussinesswomen...please visit in a burqa...!
  
• Jan19-2020--The government saves another $1.5 billion on reduced petroleum imports...oil imports down a whopping 20% in first six months...!the economy must be really slowing
  
• Jan19-2020--Either Imran Khan is completely dumb or...the west does not believe in helping muslims or a muslim minority...! He now wants UN observers on the LOC...the indians used to keep firing when they were here also...!Only pakistan can do something if they have the courage to fight...!
  
• Jan19-2020--methinks the wheat crisis is orchestrated as there are no long lines at atta mill trucks...atta is so costly that few of the poor want a 20 kilo bag...the millers should be encouraged to make kilo bags
  
• Jan18-2020--Shah Mahmood Qureshi was dubbed the Iranian proxy by the US State deptt...after he conveyed the iranian views on escalation/tensions...he also wanted the USA to decrease financial sanctions on iran...the Secretary of State queried "Are you an iranian proxy"...Shah mahmood replied 'just a trusted parttime shiite courier...' Ok said Pompeo...than please convey our concerns about proxy rockets and embassy burnings, kidnapping oil tankers, limpet mines and missile attacks on saudi arabia etc...Shah Mahmood said 'no i cant do that'...they might shoot down my plane...!anyway since i am here cant you get us of the FATF grey list...Pompeo said where do u keep your terrorist stash...in my pocket said Shah mahmood...see you should have said in an american bank...!The Saudis also thought that the Iranians were adopting a negative thought process...
  
• Jan18-2020--The dissident PTI minister for science says Buzdar spoiling PTI reputation...many however think it is Imran Khan's step motherly treatment toward the populace...!Maybe Imran Khan thought that health cards to the transgenders would improve the PTI reputation...but nothing doing...says Fawad...it is the PMLn lookalike Usman Buzdar that is the problem...!
  
• Jan17-2020--wonders of wonders new 2020 cricket team announced by the coach/selector Misbah ul haq...It seems to have only one batsman..all others seem bits and pieces players...all failures of the worldcup dropped and two or four failures of the worldcup recalled...the bowlers also revamped...afridi, haris rauf and mohd hasnain certainly look more competent...!spinners salman, shahdab and imad...misbah just does not learn but they might be enough for bangladesh who wont have mushfiqurrehman...next we might have afghanistan and ireland touring since we now are a third world outpost......misbah says failed wicketkeeper sarfraz has improved his fitness enormously...it was his other three abilities which were in doubt that is batting, wicketkeeping and captaincy...but the team might need a new wicketkeeper soon...i suggest that we wait and see on the under19 captain Rohail asghar...!