July 15, 2022--Pakistan achieves the much maligned/mistrust creating IMF deal. It has been the major cause governments to lose public support...mostly it will cause further problems to the people in tariffs and prices...The government also reneged on a full petrol price reduction...while the Russians might not have much oil left the Pakistani government should allow its refineries and petrol station companies to import from Russia or anywhere else if there is a price differential despite the USA attempts to get oil suppliers to increase production. While producers cannot match the 600 million barrels that the Russians put on the market...others are said to also look at Nigerian oil...but it is many suggest difficult to switch producers suddenly unless you are assured of a steady supply, transportation and prices...Asian prices are rising many say...Russia mostly supplied oil, fertilizer, gas, coal and iron to most of Europe ...recently they have shutdown a gas pipeline to Germany which came thru Ukraine...they were also building a second pipeline bypassing Ukraine. ..LNG rates have quadrupled since the Ukraine war on increased demand...however indonesia's edible oil prices are down 50% on a glut...!
July 15, 2022--The decision to overturn the action of the deputy speaker in the national assembly thus canceling the no trust vote was illegal as it was not the result of an assembly vote...the court thus said that alvi, imran, fawad chaudhry and suri were guilty of abrogating the constitution...the speaker had already run from the imran tactics......Imran the unrepentant conspiracy creator said he was hurt...i doubt that... he must be enjoying it...castigating the establishment and even objecting to the CEC travelling to Lahore or meeting PMLn leaders..his crookish former law minister Fawad Chaudhry said the SC was making bad decisions also suggesting they were political in intent...imran said that he had sent the cable to everyone but not to the people or the opposition... The SC also indicated that the PTI had not presented any shred of evidence of a conspiracy...somebodies comment on a situation is not a threat...it might have been a threat to the dumb imran but he receives such threats everyday...if he had been really honest he should have presented the letter to the people and called Biden for an explanation or even Donald Lu...that was his responsibility ...he should not have used it for his nefarious politics...for twenty days he could have won the no trust but he kept planning the conspiracy theory to increase his political clout...the USA might be used to assist regime changes which have had public approval in many places...usually they are coup plots or support for democratic/rigging protests or some say even assassination plots...but most people have rejected the imran narrative in Pakistan's case...previously none of them i think had even been on official visits...But imran has visited the USA and sold out for $2million to Donald Trump...imran maybe planning such protests if he loses the July 17 elections...it would be interesting to see...
July15, 2022--a sindhi man who was killed at a Pashtun/afghan restaurant in Hyderabad over a behavioral dispute... has caused a violent reaction against Pashtuns in Sohrab goth where people blocked the Super highway and set fire to a bus and two motorcycles...police however regained control easily...there is resentment against the influx of afghans and Pashtuns who dominate the opportunities for business and labour... Pashtun's and afghans dominate in setting up food outlets in far off places
July7, 2022--Maryam Nawaz says imran is an enemy of Punjab as he went to court to stop a free 100 units of electricity ordered by Hamza Shebaz...she says it will be resumed after the July 17 elections...since it is a general subsidy it should not have been stopped by the courts...The courts decisions have seen many negative ones recently ...no where in the world is a vote not counted for any reason apart from the SC...!and there is no mention in any part of the constitution about a vote not being counted...The courts should realize that is the PMLn that is the underdog and the PTI does not need their backing...The neutrals should also stay out of it..The election in Punjab include ten who won as independents...so they are technically not all PTI seats...
July 7, 2022--despite a packed jalsa in Bhakkar... Imran continued to rail and rant at the army and ISI though they have nothing really todo with elections apart from the fauji vote...it seems that he has a premonition of failure like his fake conspiracy theory...PMLn would probably require all out support from Jehangir Tareen, Aleem Khan and the PPP..ministers Malik ahmed khan, Awais Leghari, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, and Salman Rafiq have resigned as ministers to lead the campaigns...with the PMLn supporting the dissidents some feel that the jilted PMLn candidates may not work as hard...
July7, 2022--The ECP investigates a spurious looking campaign promise of a motorcycle for twenty votes in Multan...
July 7, 2022--Shebaz Sharif sought to quickly reduce petrol prices by upto Rs30 as oil prices fell unexpectedly...
July 7, 2022--It rained alnight in Rawalpindi and there was 2-3" of water standing in my house grounds but it drained away almost immediately...in other areas rains caused 27 lives...10 killed in Karachi, six each in KP and Baluchistan...five in GB...Met office says more rains expected in next few days...flash floods in Swabi, DIKhan, Tank, Nowshera and Malakand...200 houses washed away by the Winder river, Lasbela...The mean and nasty and probably dumb Imran used the rains disaster to attack other politicians...however he said that he had looted the karachi ports...earlier he had blamed Zardari until minions told him that ports are run by his crook Zaidi...49 die in Sindh while 31in Karachi...26 were electrocuted including 18 in Karachi...nine coal miners were drowned in Jhimpir, Thatta...five people drowned in Karachi while four died in roof/wall collapse.
scenes of karachi rains...imran did nothing to improve the situation...!
July 2, 2022--The SC in a seeming favor to the PTI cancelled the July1 recount of the Punjab CM election ordered by the LHC...The PTI was expected to lose not having the votes...instead the court ordered a second round vote on July 22 that would include the elected in the 20 seats on July 17...The PMLn comes out second best in the decision as the situation in the country economically with load shedding could lose them votes...otherwise the PMLn coalition plus former PTI supporters was expected to sweep the polls...PTI also asking for favors that they had opposed after losing the KP first round LG polls...on the surface there seems tobe no reason for changing the LHC verdict...PTI already complaining about fixed elections and phone calls from unknown numbers...most of Imran's claims about the powerful/ figures seem unverifiable...he Imran aka paktikawala too had a panama company...and many suggest that he is the only powerful to as yet being unpunished apart from military chiefs...the Sharif's had an ordinary beginning migrating from Amritsar where their father was a lohar making buckets/utensils for the village well/kitchen...here they started out as small contractors eventually setting up a wheat threshing machine factory and than going into iron smelting...they also built parts for Pakistan's first military jeep--Nishan...it was not until the rise of Nawaz Sharif that loans were arranged for Mian Sharif to setup twenty factories which were eventually divided amongst five brothers...Nawaz Sharif had a Rs6 billion loan that was repaid after twenty years by selling the Ittefaq foundry...July2, 2022--Inflation surges to 21.3% in June...Inflation expected to remain high 17-19% in the remaining part of the year as the effects of the high dollar, increasing electricity/gas tariffs and petrol/diesel prices sink in...The SBP also expected to increase the policy rate.. Indonesia the biggest exporter of palm oil has suspended supplies due to local shortages causing a massive increase in vegetable oil and cooking oil prices...the government has reduced prices at the utility stores...prices of mangoes, meat, cooking oil, fruit and vegetables have seen a massive increase...good quality mangoes have gone up to 350-500...in June food inflation was higher in rural areas than urban areas...such inflation was previously seen in Dec 2008 at 23%...goats which the previous year were selling at 25-30000 during Bari eid are now selling at 40-45 thousand...Dawn reports that at a Lahore market the prices of goats are 50000 to 60000 and there are still no customers.
July2, 2022--The PTI chief minister of GB has been charged with having two fake law degrees
July2, 2022--Farah who has various aliases such as shahzadi, khan and gogi apart from being associated with imran (aka dubious corruption oriented boss of the PTI) alias khan, niazi and ahmed is accused of acquiring two industrial plots of 10 acres thru crooked/devious means when they did not even have the resources to buy them at a subsidized price of Rs83 million when the actual value was 600 million.The CEO of the Faisalabad Industrial Estate and SEZ committee secretary have been arrested for the alleged cook up
Jul2,2022--the high heat in GB causes floods in rivers and nullahs and a bridge and many roads have been swept away...GB government has alerted people living near rivers and nullahs...in the entire region
Jul2, 2022--government says that power demand goes up to 30000 MW and availability is only around 22000MW..the maximum available is 25000MW...the shortfall is 6000 MW which does not explain the upto 50% load shedding...If discos cannot assure supply for 24 hours than the government should not charge Fuel Adjustment Charges
Jul2, 2022--government says they have increased salaries by 48 % which includes merger of ad hoc reliefs over the past few years...the effective increase will be 15%.... the basic pay scales (BPS 2022) have also been revised...
Jul1, 2022--another application of the famous imran-IMF agreement increases petroleum prices further...petrol Rs.248.74...HSD Rs.286… kerosene Rs.237 and LDO Rs.233...The crazy Miftah also said he would increase the petroleum levy gradually...given his lack of sense he might also soon apply the 17%GST...fuel consumption over the past two months has grown 18-20%...the logic of the finance minister is not understandable...another 3.3 is to be added in two weeks for exchange rate loss/import parity...The govt/provincial govts have to give an undertaking to arrange a Rs800 billion surplus from provincial funds...only Punjab has a Rs.125 billion surplus while KP is asking for funds to pay for its health coverage in the tribal areas...after other measures a Rs7.9 electricity increase in tariff is to be applied over three months...That will probably delay approval by the IMF till at least August
Jul1, 2022--A five bench LHC bench orders a recount of the hamza CM election minus the 25 dissident votes...if no candidate gets a majority of 186 than a simple majority runoff tobe conducted. Session tobe held on Jul1 at 4 pm
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