2018 Elections

2018 Elections
election results in 2018..PTI than just a pukhtun based party literally surged in Punjab and karachi to emerge as the largest party with 114 seats in the national assembly

Sunday, January 1, 2023

The Daily PakistanPolitics (aka Pakistan Punch/Political Punch) Jan1-15, 2023


Jan15-2023--ECP to hold LG elections today after rejecting sindh government plea...LG polls boycotted by the mqm  in karachi, hyderabad and thatta...generally PPPP and PTI said tobe in good positions...low turnouts expected..eyes on who becomes karachi mayor..JI playing catchup...

Jan15-2023--with the governor refusing to sign a dissolution order the PTI in a dubious move automatically  dissolves the punjab provincial assembly within 48 hours of request  for no particular reason...initially the  PMLn had challenged them to dissolve the assemblies if they are interested in elections...the PTI probably thought that the center would also follow suit but that is not expected...they probably thought staying in the assembly was counter productive..a caretaker chief minister has to be selected in which pervaiz elahi and hamza shebaz will offer three names each to the governor...if a name is not agreed upon than four names go the election commission who will select one...while the PTI is more organised it remains tobe seen how the PMLn and PPP catches up in nominating and participating in elections and whether they cooperate between themselves

Jan14-2023--late night attack on peshawar suburban police station near bara/badaber..in police chase three policemen killed including a DSP..police station shows that the area is dubious security wise...in a counter CTD killed two supposedly involved while three others escaped...the militants used night vision devices which have been noticed in other area incidents too


Jan13-2023--Pervez elahi issues request to  governor to dissolve the punjab assembly...the assembly was becoming a bone of contention between imran and pervez elahi with wrangling to take no trust or not...pervez elahi probably running away from amalgamating his party into the PTI...!although he says he is not opposed to it and will become a major PTI leader on whom imran depends...and obviously there choice of a powerful chief minister since imran incapable of  depending on his parties main leaders...

Jan13-2023--as the SBP reserves fall to $4.34 billion shabaz in good legwork gets the UAE to rollover 2 billion and add another billion to their deposits...saudi also allows another billion of oil on deferrred payments...

Jan13-2023--three mqm factions re-emerge to reassemble  and oppose  Jan15 LG elections based on unjustified delimitations...the elections have been delayed several times and sindh government has  again said a delay will occur in dadu and karachi

Jan13-2023--The SBP says it has $16.98 billion inits dam fund ...the construction of the dams has been delayed several times and one does not know whether  wapda can access the SC fund for construction purposes...

Jan12-2023--The PTI thru a suspicious count enabled pervaiz elahi to get 186 votes in a confidence measure...the opposition citing that the speaker had not appointed agents for a fair count walked out of the assembly...

Jan12-2023--poultry prices drop  as feed containers freed at port

Jan12-2023--imran and fawad choudhry both claim that they are receiving phone calls  from unlisted numbers...on mobiles most people are unlisted unless u know them...imran claims they are from the supposed establishment while fawad chaowdhry says they are from the army and they will inform COAS when he returns from abroad...!nobody has yet been identified for making such calls however people of every persuasion can ask the PTI to shift their views individually...even the army employed are citizens and entitled to talk or call politicians...why they are frightened of them is unclear...

Jan12-2023--the LHC judges said that the CM must maintain a majority confidence at all times as should imran when he was PM...!the court gave one more day for pervez elahi to get a vote of confidence...

Jan11-2023--imran comes out to fight for the terrorist grouping TTP and says he planned to settle them in Fata even before reaching an agreement...says other provinces stopped any financial aid for his pleas to help to settle 35000 TTP...!

Jan11-2023--chaos in punjab assembly

Jan11-2023--WB cuts Pakistan growth forecast to 2%

Jan11-2023--four members of wazirabad JIT say there was no explanation for the assertion that there was more than one shooter...JIT report suggests that punjab police stationed around the site started to fire  too...while the incident occurred in punjab and under the punjab police and PTI control imran fails to accuse pervaiz elahi +PTI and punjab police chief of involvement but accuses federal government and iSI...if shooters had started firing from rooftops there would have been real mayhem...only one person was killed by the shooter...

Jan10-2023--Pakistan gets favorable response for aid to handle flood relief

Jan10-2023--ECP rejects MQM plea to delay LG polls in karachi and areas of sindh

Jan10-2023-- KP islamic scholars give a controversial fatwa that jihad can only be announced by a head of state and it is incumbent on everyone to follow the head of state...they also state that people killed inside the country by the countries enenies can be declared martyrs...many regard the victims of civil war as not martyrs...

Jan9-2023--Imran it seems is hanging onto the coattails of pervaiz elahi  who is reluctant to take a no trust vote many say...when a big party slides towards the end of its government the availability of naraz arkan increases...imran trying his level best not to lose more supporters but that is almost inevitable...that many say is increasing the freedom of electables who many say have the option of going with two or three parties..This could in the end reduce the PTI's considerable mass support and there could be a huge independent group or the PPP could rise from the ashes in Punjab...wedges are being hammered in between imran and the likes of fawad chaoudhry...just notice the difference...imran says maryam does makeup and my wife does'nt...fawad chaowdhry however says she is much better than others or less brown...!...!so come election time imran may need hundreds of new candidates...

Jan9-2023--Naan prices shoot upto Rs30 in islamabad while pateeri or flat roti rises to Rs25...naanbais say that a 5kg atta bag now costs the same as a 20kg bag used to cost...!a 5kg atta bag costs Rs850 while a 20 kg atta bag costs Rs2080 which is expected to rise to Rs2700...

people trying to rush a low priced government atta truck...committee chowk rawalpindi
above a PTI naanbai placard showing new prices...
protesting well off rickshaw drivers...

Jan4-2023--PMLn's version of  how a economy must be run...no interference tobe allowed...our model...corruption does not matter but policy changes do...imran kha pee kar hazam kar gaya he sub kuch...


Jan4-2023--four actresses up in  arms at being accused of relationships with generals...a Pti activist adil raja who had escaped to england behind accusations...a serving head of ISI in punjab has also sued adil raja...

Jan4-2023--Multan ISI head shot dead with an inspector in a parking lot of a roadside hotel...!

Jan4-2023--Maryam Nawaz takes over PMLn as others shy away from major role...

Jan4-2023--government could have controlled inflation to an extent by only minor adjustments in the dollar and not accepting IMF diktat on electricity tariffs...imran blames inflation and unemployment on the PDM who say that it was his legacy that caused all the economic mayhem...imran forgets his involvement in ukraine, world situation and floods...he says floods caused by present government while he only killed  30000  in covid outbreak...Tareen at a loss for a response and says Dar cooking up figures...imran only thinks of how chaos and anarchy can play into his hand...reserves have fallen over the last year..Pti benefited from covid as loan repayments were deferred...there was no particular employment in the Pti era...Tareen used to sit in washington working out an agreement with the IMF..The Pti raised medicines prices substantially...dollar also rose from 105 to 188 during the Pti period..Haqqani says imran thrives on concocted conspiracy theories...imran trying to link haqqani, bajwa and former isi chiefs...imran says that bajwa not willing to see his concocted stories about opposition like him...

Jan4-2023--bara kahu bypass up and running..government says they are saving Rs60 billion thru load shedding to pay for it...want to shut down markets and wedding halls early...punjab refuses to save energy...


Jan4-2023--after wheat/atta it seems the turn of chicken...at Rs.370 a kilo for a whole chicken and 650 a kilo for chicken meat...dealers say chicken meat may soon be as expensive as beef...the reason seems tobe the government blocking the unloading of soyabean ships because it is genetically modified...there are already so many things especially seeds that are already genetically modified...causing a chicken feed shortage and making feed prices rise

Jan3-2023--Imran has always been hand in glove with the military and intelligence agencies...many suggest that military still working on both sides since most politicos are their products...his inability to reconcile himself with being removed as primeminister has him issuing vile and at times baseless accusations against bajwa...many think that imran having been spoon fed by bajwa most of the time is becoming paranoid in his old age...cause...surrounded by equally paranoid sycophants...!


Jan3-2023--Swati released on bail after warning by the court to stop anti military outbursts...pakistani government warns TTP despite inability to control them...!no trusts with drawn in punjab assembly..gawader protest leader mullah hidayat rehman escapes arrest after murder charge...inflation at 24.5 in december...beaurocrats observe pen down strikes...ppp-mqm patch up while tessori works to end mqm groups...reports hussain haqqani working for pTI lobbyist...others suggest that imrans anti military outbursts due to hussain haqqani consultancy...nanbais say that naan/roti prices to rise to Rs.25/20...as wheat bori price soars to Rs5400...imran says he is merging with PMLq...

 Jan1-2023--No change in sight for PTI politics of..."judge sahib mujhe mara bachao"...Islamabad LG polls now subject of dispute as ECP did not hold them after the government increased UC's from 101 to 125 despite a court order on the 30th..ECP submitted its reasons for not holding them yesterday while the federal government challenged the IHC decision for holding them as hasty...the PTI on the other hand filed contempt charges against the federal government and ECP...The IHC had refused to find cogent reasons for increasing UC's and in literally fast action ..writ petitions filed on 28th..taken up the same day and respondents asked to appear on 29th... at 2:30 pm...and made the decision on the 30th...ECP technically could not arrange elections in one day as it had neither ballots, transport or security or the 14000 staff required....they said they also needed 1000 vehicles...!

Jan1-2023--Fighting in Janikhel, Bannu kills four terrorists

Jan1-2023--Three BAP mpas including zahoor buledi, saleem khosa and Arif hasani and other balochistan leaders join PPP...The PTI wants to file  a horse trading reference in the ECP against Sharjeel memon and nasir husein shah for trying to bribe punjab female pti mpa's in the no trust on Jan11...

Jan1-2023--floods, ukraine war, high imports and unprecedented inflation are causes for pakistani problems plus the dollar...reserves are falling fast and defaults are presumed as inevitable...one suggestion to help ease the problems is reduce taxes massively, reduce imports, end development and provincial allocations and  raise BISP payouts...other suggestions are to beg IMF to layoff...the market version of the exchange rate is not helpful and pakistan should try the fixed exchange rate...again..controlling imports is imperative...Pakistan is already doing its maximum to increase exports but still failing as bangladesh taka despite being more expensive has more exports...resources and factories for exports are already at full capacity...This is a pattern similar to past IMF doles ...revenue collection fell in December by Rs.225 billion...steel bar prices Rs235000 per ton

unemployment is growing fast... over 25000 appeared in tests for 1600 islamabad police posts...! others suggest iSI walahs are shifting to police jobs as the military becomes neutral...

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How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...

How it all started...coups and politics and islam and democracy...
how bhuttos got into politics in 1958...

debacle in Dacca

debacle in Dacca
total humiliation...India had steadily destabilized east pakistan over twenty years playing on ethnic, financial, development and military concerns...pakistan was not that rich at that time and the ethnicists played on phsychosis generated by cyclones, floods, tea and jute...the army and west pakistani politicians could not accept a bengali dominated government and a small army contingent could not defend against the mukti bahini and the indians as teh US withdrew its support as usual...When teh going gets tough teh US chickens out as usual...!! The indians have continued teh same themes in karachi, sindh and balochistan but similar tougher responses have not allowed their success although pakistan is now at best a divided land with a pathetic center...!!While it left pakistan numb at the time many now feel the seperation was a proper solution as east pakistanis did not get along with pakistan and they would be better able to solve their problems with india...others still pine away for the lost land of rivers, tea and jute...others suggest that india should handover kashmir in exchange...while some still want to repatriate those considered pakistanis and left stranded in bangladeshi camps...others however heave a sigh of relief as teh problems with the remaining provinces are generally insoluble.....and ethnic regionalism or provincialism mixed with economic and racial nonsense is not a pleasant mode of politics anyway...

allah be praised

allah be praised
allah be praised...i do own forty factories but the people think i am a pauper...i really donot need sarkari umra's....please allah i did not promise imran khan the government when he fell off the platform...cant u make him my slave and not ask for recounts...!

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