The Daily PakistanPolitics 16-31 May, 2020

• May31-2020--new Nawaz Sharif photo shows him hale and hearty...work of evildoers in the PTI says Maryam Nawaz...
• May31-2020--In the world the cases are still rising while deaths have fallen significantly suggesting that doctors might be more experienced now in handling the troublesome virus...deaths are on average around 5000 now from a peak of 7700 while cases per day seem tobe rising above 100000 per day...!
• May31-2020--cases in pakistan rise to a hefty 70,381 and deaths 1499...new cases are trhese days around 2000 and deaths vary from 40-80...recoveries have jumped to 25271
• May31-2020--The cruel and pathetic Imran Khan now wants to take away the greatest achievements of our man of Steel Nawaz Sharif...apparently Shah mahmood qureshi is the biggest joker in the PTi and now wants the atomic test carried out in Nawaz Sharifs government to be credited to everyone and even the army...The army only capable of minor civilian tasks and they cant even handle the indians firing across the LOC...where the indians have installed 14 kilometer artillery guns...The army had nothing todo with the atomic process and that is one of the reasons that Musharaf kicked out Qadeer Khan unceremoniously...They also want credit for the motorway which was also started by Nawaz Sharif...The army always wants credits for others achievements and the Imran Khan mein kita syndrome is childish and mean...generally goes with the Imran Khan general lying attitude...!the nation is definitely not responsible for Imran Khans PIA aircrash...
• May30-2020--The BEA a french CA safety board will do the investigation of the PIA plane recorders...because it is a french designed plane and not owned by Pakistan...they say the fake Pakistani investigators have also tagged along...it will start June 2...The plane is owned by an Ireland leasing company who apparently will get an insurance amount of $19.7 million while each passenger will get Rs.5million + Rs1 million burial charges...while insured by a Pakistan  company NICL there are many reinsurers and AIG might be the lead insurer...it takes about six months to get the insurance approx...
• May30-2020--Pakistan to import generic Remdesavir from Bangladesh...with billions in his pocket Imran Khan has not made a move to import Remdesavir for corona patients...Imran Khan has a particular disconnect when it comes to help common people or ordinary corona victims...
• May30-2020--It is not the peoples trust in the judiciary that has been shaken but the peoples trust in Imran Khan who does not know right from wrong...
• May30-2020--Pakistan cases rise to 68177 and deaths 1441...There seems a vast disconnect between doctors, government and people as mourners again ransack Civil hospital in Karachi...The front line is made up of people not doctors many say...
• May30-2020--Pakistan seems desperate for funds and will restart international flight operations on May30...it will also float a Eurobond for $1.5 billion...with investments at the minimum worldwide  dollars are lying unused in most places...Pakistan one of the few countries willing to take any amount from donors or anybody else...!its key exports and foreign remmittances are falling...many suggest that it export by air until sea transport resumes...
• May29-2020--like his SaPM earlier Imran Khan has accepted defeat and said that  Pakistan cannot do anything about the Corona virus..that leaves Pakistan at the hands of herd immunity...if the world produces one or  171 vaccines Pakistan will use them if the world donates funds for their purchase...or the people doit themselves...!hopefully if the corona virus ends in all other countries it will end here too...the heat waves too are a hopeful hope...most experts suggest that a flu type end result with most people able to fend it off while others use the various available vaccines that might soon be on the shelf...But with Pakistans history like polio it will be around for some ...Pakistans cases have risen quickly after the end of the lockdown to 64832 and deaths to 1348...the hope however is in those that have recovered 22305...Pakistan is at number 18 in world with only Iran and Saudi Arabia above it...and the other highly affected countries...lets hope for a ray of hope...may Allah give somebody the sense to at least import remdesavir...so a few more can survive...
• May29-2020--A voice  recording of the crashed plane on the internet suggests that nobody knew of the bad landing gear and the ATC did not even question if there was an emergency...It seems pretty strange as if this is an edited version or a coverup...Pilot only says he is going around after first belly landing...as he takes a long loop around to the landing strip he says have lost both engines...ATC should have been able to visually see that landing gear was not down...and the pilot should have asked for help or advice...he should easily have turned towards to the landing strip when his engines went down...if ATC had talked to the pilot he could have urged him to land on first attempt...even going around he could have told him to reland immediately from the other side...
• May29-2020--As to most things that have happened in the PTI administration Imran Khan seems to be behind everything like wheat and sugar scams, exporters subsidies and now textile industry subsidies...what is being revealed is that only ordinary people pay taxes...everybody else exporters, textile industry, fauj are on zero taxation...It is now being rumoured that Imran Khan, PIA CEO, army chief and the aviation minister were sitting at the primeminister office listening to the PIA aircrash communication...This has been revealed by the aviation minister who says that the plane made three aborted landings and that the pilot did not inform ATC of a bad landing gear...why he was making such landing attempts if the landing gear was normal...whether they interfered in the process is not known...Imran Khan is now playing innocent and saying that the investigation report will be published...one doubts it because there will be a whole big pile of people being fired including or excluding Imran Khan...also the PTI is now trying to foist the sugar scam on a shabaz sharif son as the Punjab CM says he does not remember...anything...and it is in his blood to be a servant...serving who the people or Imran Khan...the other person they are blaming for the sugar scam is the sindh CM...! 3 cheers for the blamemongering PTI...many are praising the Rangers for not being thiefs...they say Rs30 million in burned notes were found in the burned airliner and other notes and jewellery were handed over to PIA...did they take off their rings or cut them off ...no one knows..!...in one place or seperate is also not known...many are assuming that the cash was being carried by the banker who survived...!
• May28-2020--Punjab government approves Rs60000 injection Arctemra for specific corona patients...they probably have not approved Remdesavirs which is said to help patients in the early stage...
• May27-2020--43 of 97 bodies handed over to families in PIA crash...the rest will be DNA tested...a team of a health university was sent from Lahore but sindhis say they can do DNA testing at Karachi university and Jamshoro University...airbus team whose leasing arm probably owns the plane arrives...plane will be put together at karachi airport to see if some information can be gathered...Pakistanis always problematic in investigation and lie all over the place to save the bigwigs...!
• May27-2020--Imran Khan gathers Rs4 billion for corona relief but has no idea what to do with the money...apparently he has only given Rs20 million to his personal charity..according to him ie. Imran Khan will now donate Rs16 billion to the fund...
• May26-2020--The PIA CEO is trying his best to save himself...he seemed unaware of what was happening and despite the plane having developed technical faults he said that it was in the best technical condition...there seems tobe no history of servicing the landing gear...he was also not available at PIA hq's...controversy seems tobe developing as to why no expert attempt was made to advise the pilot and develop a landing emergency plan...the plane seems to have  made a attempt to land without landing gear and scraped the tarmac...apparently after the first attempt one engine was on fire...however as it made its last, second or third attempt to land both engines were on fire and the passenger who survived said we were unaware of any problems...how that is impossible to  understand...anyway in the last attempt with both engines on fire the pilot cabin was smoke filled and plane was landing with its nose in the air and just fell out of the sky and bounced on several houses into a street...its only chance was to land on the first attempt with ambulances ready to douse any flames...but apparently no emergency procedures were carried out...
• May26-2020--Pakistan corona cases rise to 57707 with 1197 deaths...Pakistan has climbed to number 18 in the corona world...there are 53000 critical cases in the world and and 125 in Pakistan...Saudi Arabia has climbed to number 16 with 76000 cases
• May24-2020--a passenger who survived the PIA crash says he heard cries  and fire  everywhere and still survived...praise be to Allah
• May24-2020--Since we follow the government announcement all the ghuna's in this regard are their responsibility...Happy Eid ul Fitr 2020...we pray for the eternal redemption for all those who have passed  away in the last year...May all the people who have suffered due to corona and the plane crash be elevated to Jannah...
• May23-2020--In what maybe a first Pakistan has announced the first Popilzai Eid in Pakistan...Fawad Chaudhry forced the moon sighting committee to announce the Eid without seeing the moon...Popilzai has always followed a fixed 30 days...The Pukhtun nature of the PTI leadership is probably the cause...may allah strike down the people who spread falsehoods..The Popilzai  Eid has a history since 1825 and they regard the use of technical equipment as unislamic...The current Popilzai looks like a Tajik or Hazara...This year Eid was announced very late which suggests the falsehood of the moon sighting... in most places the skies were clear with no moon sighting...Chaudhry Fahd had earlier accused the maulana heading the moon sighting committee of spreading tafaruka and later he said the maulana was a very nice guy...The conclusion is quite clear
• May23-2020--Pakistan corona cases rise to 53601 and deaths 1123
• May23-2020--A severe locust invasion is ongoing in upper Sind and lower South Punjab...NDMA is using several planes to spray the area but reports suggest that the problem is ongoing...The provincial government is refusing to do anything and is asking the centre to provide insecticide planes..the crops in this season are cotton upto Okara and rice in some lower locales and in north Punjab...Cotton outputs have been falling and Pakistan would be forced to import cotton
• May23-2020--A PIA A320 airbus plane crashed in a housing street near Karachi airport...apparently the landing gear had a problem and the plane after circling still was coming into land when both its engines failed and there was fire inside the pilot cabin(plane caught fire)...of 99 passengers  two survived..why a plan to land the faulty plane  was not made quickly is unknown...there were no fire or foam ambulances at the airport which could have saved some passengers...The Imran Khan government had appointed a friend of the army chief as the PIA CEO...a cranky medically unfit person he says the plane was in top notch technical condition...How that is possible with such severe technical failures is the nature of the PTI government...who says everything is a problem but we  are not responsible...The CEO was also not available in the Karachi head office of PIA...As usual a group of airforce officers was appointed to investigate who technically have little knowledge of commercial airliners...The military supported government tends to appoint airforce officers to head PIA and CAA who have never been successful eversince NurKhan...The government had earlier  suppressed a judicial enquiry into the appointment of the airforce officer to head PIA..The officer was a deputy head of the airforce and probably given the position as compensation ...The appointment was generally opposed by PIA officers and the government refused to study over a 100 other applications for the position...According to one plane cleaner the plane tried to land twice without its undercarriage...he says the second time the undercarriage scratched the surface and one engine was on fire...Palpa the PIA pilots association say it will continue flying...however they suggest that investigations be assigned to capable internal organizations like ICAA and Federation of international airline Pilots associations...The PIA CEO is making a out a case against CAA...It is PIA engineers/pilots/flight engineers etc. who have to check the planes
• May22-2020--NIH DG says Pakistan cases could increase by 15-10%  next week...meaning a possible increase from 7000-10000 cases which they think they can reasonably handle...Imran Khan has his eyes  glued on India which he expects to create trouble...after gunning down a Hizb commander recently they wont try anything unless they think that he is an indian agent and will accept anything that they do...!
• May22-2020--worlds cases cross 5.1 million with 330006 deaths
• May22-2020--Pakistan cases rise to 50964 with a record new cases of 3300 and 1096 deaths...there are 335 critical cases...
• May22-2020--UK has the least recovered cases in the world ....
• May21-2020--Pakistan cases rise to 47394 and deaths to 1010...The worst case seems tobe Belgium with 55000 cases and over 9000 deaths...with Netherlands at over 44000 cases and 5700 deaths...Sweden with 30000 cases and over 3700 deaths...Sweden just has a 10 million population and thus has a high death/population ratio
• May21-2020--two telephone calls changed the course of Pakistan history...one from the FBR chief stating that revenues are now zero...Imran Khan responded...restart the alcohol bars...that should bring the revenues back...another phone call from Pace headquarters stating... we shall die a sad and ignominous death... immediately a case was made to some gulzar character...malls should restart verna...!several rumours making the rounds suggest that two huge Pace malls in Lahore belong to somebody including a hotel in Dawadar...!one wonders why so many allocations are being made for development schemes when the countries revenues are falling below zero...! The Buzdar character who monitors the punjab corona situation saw cases rising faster so he immediately announced a seven day holidays...Usually eid holidays are just for three days...
• May21-2020--World new cases rise to 106000 which is the highest daily surge
• May20-2020--terror incidents rise...seven killed near Iran border and two in North Waziristan
  
• May19-2020-- deaths seemingly are falling in most countries while rising in Pakistan...critical patients worldwide are still around 40000...according to http://worldometers.info/coronavirus there were over over 3445 deaths yesterday and over 88000 new cases...both figures are slightly above yesterdays  reports of +82000/+3000earlier reports
  
• May19-2020--Pakistan cases jump to 45013 and deaths 969...at the moment cases are rising faster but the effect of the end of the lockdown will come probably in week to twenty days...one can only hope that people start to realize the danger they are in...never has there been a Pakistan  ruler who does not care about the peoples lives...
  
• May19-2020--wonder of wonders the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court does not know what a pandemic is...he said that since there is no pandemic in Pakistan he is allowing the opening of all malls and ending the weekend shutdowns too...now if the infections take off there will be two people in jail ...Imran Khan and the CJ...The rush in Rawalpindi was terriblehttps://epaper.dawn.com/?page=19_05_2020_151...only education and offices are not being opened while transportation seems tobe open but it is almost a death trap with small vehicles mostly involved in cities...
  
• May18-2020--worldwide 44368 are in critical condition...that is 2% of currently active cases...98% are suffering mild cases
  
• May18-2020--Imran Khan looking at every opportunity to divert attention from covid...he now seems to want India to create a cross border incident...one wonders why he is so worried...if india strikes strike back with full force...India is only emboldened by his pussyfooting weakness in attitude...If india can carryout preemptive strikes than so can you...if you have information than strike before them and doit with real venom...!
  
• May18-2020--SC needlessly interfering in the covid controversy...allowing opening of malls in karachi and even going against the government on weekend shutdowns...
  
• May18-2020--Pakistan rise at a faster pace to 43158 and deaths to 923
  
• May17-2020--Brazil rises to fourth in the world in number of cases...Brazil has conducted minimal testing they say...
  
• May17-2020--many small places have announced that they have no cases left...places like Papua New Guinea, Western Sahara, Suriname, Geenland, Faroe Islands, Eritria, Timor Leste, New Caledonia, Saint Lucia, Falkland islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Anguilla, St Barth, St. Pierre Miquelnon, Dominica and Seychelles
  
• May17-2020--Slovenia became the first european country to announce the end of the corona epidemic...!they still have over a thousands cases left...
  
• May17-2020--Corona deepens its grip in Pakistan as cases reach 41300 and deaths rise to 896...11341 have however recovered...AJK reannounces lockdown after surge in cases
  
• May17-2020--Cambodia becomes the second country after Mauritius to announce that the last corona patient has gone home...Pakistan given its history in Polio will probably never reach that stage under this government at least..!
  
• May16-2020-Pakistan conducted 14878 cases in last 24 hours...that suggests that more positive cases are going to appear compared to earlier...while present increase in cases is due to earlier effects many warn that cases might skyrocket as the people refuse to take precautions...The way buses are are being told to operate by Punjab they can only carry half the passengers...nobody is going to care about SOP's if there is a rush...
  
• May16-2020--In response to threats from Shahzad Akber and NAB the PMLn's Maryam Aurangzeb said the fiasco that started from Panama Papers case had been reduced to the drain case and cases involving personal property and now ancestral property. The NAB-Niazi alliance does not feel any shame in dragging a 90-year-old mother into its political victimization. The bureau is blind to the court’s verdict on Banigala, the political ATM's-sponsored Zaman Park House, the flat worth millions in Grant Hyatt, 23 illegal secret accounts and billions funneled to Imran Khan from questionable persons and organisations. Imran Khan too seems to have a wealth beyond known resources...!he probably did not tell how much he made by selling PACE or is that too being run by his frontmen like Jehangir Taareen, Zulfikar Bukhari and some say Asad Umer and Ikram Sehgal too...
  
• May16-2020--Punjab is opening its malls, transportation and auto factories which could cause problems in the medium sized cities and a couple of the big cities, while KP is falling back on blanket curbs as are sindh and balochistan...sindh banns firing of employees
  
• May16-2020--while Remdesavir and a cocktail of three antivirals help patients early...China is testing all its 11million residents of Wuhan which could cause a spread again if the people dont form proper lines...another scenario is checking sewerage in which dead segments of the virus have been found...they suggest patients emit the virus in their faeces...!
  
• May16-2020--Pakistan cases rise to 39729 and deaths 866 while India is at 86508/2760...India and Peru have leapfrogged China in the number of cases...The world cases are not flattening while deaths seem to be attempting to flatten slightly...world cases 4554798/307929...deaths in USA at 87568 and in UK 34078...Deaths in UK at a high of 486 per million..Russia and the UK have climbed to second and third in number of cases
  
• May16-2020--Imran seemingly has given up on handling the corona as all provinces have knocked him out given his unpredictability and lack of common sense...he asks people to learn to live with Corona and wear masks which he regularly forgets todo...