Oct8-2026--The Afridi march was planned tobe at Khairabad on Oct8 evening...however they have now changed the route and will be at Peshawar/ Charsada on 8th evening...from there they plan to go to Swabi and probably attempt to go down or race down the motorway...if they are not stopped...!they probably don't like the idea of being tear gassed at Khairabad...!The di khan convoy already went back...if they have further desertions than the end of the protest maybe in KP as the government at the center may announce governor rule citing Afridi's escape from KP...!
Oct8-2026--it is quite obvious that the PTI backed out of negotiations as it would not have anything left...todo or say...Government already uneasy at any sort of meetings with Imran and the PTI refused to just say that they supported governments anti terrorism policy…there were no new operations...all terrorism actions by CTD, Police and security organizations are intelligence based and they have been unable to stop the occasional suicide and terror attacks...
Oct7-2026--Houthi - Yemen - Saudi Arabia conflict continues...Aden airport bombed...local fighting escalates and reports of missiles hitting or being intercepted near Riyadh
Oct7-2026--USA is at best unnerved as Iranian leaders have seemingly piecemeal powers over negotiations...Vance says Iran's huge enrichment establishment has tobe curtailed...Iran tries to order the USA around and avoids direct negotiations so it has time to reassess its position...both have dubious ways to negotiate...Iran has not replied to the USA's reply to its demands...
Oct7-2027--Pakistan nuclear energy output from six Chinese nuclear reactors reaches 22.5TWH while solar now outstrips it to 36.3TWH...USA(94), France(57), China(63) and Russia(28)are major nuclear power station operators...
Oct7-2026--18 terrorists killed in KP and Baluchistan operations
Oct6-2026--Pti says that they cannot end long march without Imran's input...PMLn says they can have their long march and they will be able to control it...however govt willing to talk while the PTI says they have reached the end of their authority...governments differences on terrorism control boil down to controlling civilian deaths and opening up with Afghanistan once again...The police already taking tribal elders along and the military always tries to keep civilian casaulties down...Afghanistan does not agree to control TTP who the government says are friendly to the PTI...all this causes the police and security forces to handle things as Afridi refuses to call meetings or discuss things with center and army...government says they are more concerned with PTI corruption and refusing to do anything and focusing only on agitation all the time..one hopes that the long march participants don't end up in the Indus river...!reports suggesting PTI has started terrorist activities in DI Khan...
Oct6-2026--Yemen authorities recapture areas on bab el Mandab and mocha port from the Houthi's after a major operation...meanwhile Houthi/Iranian attacks continued on Saudi Arabia with the east west pipeline again damaged near Riyadh...the Houthis have surrounded Taiz...the Makkah three have agreed to form a rapid deployment force to help Saudi Arabia
Oct5-2026--more oil than before flows out of the gulf in various ways although oil tankers attacks are on the rise... most hits seem tobe against Iran's own perceived enemies...long lines at petrol pumps in Iran suggesting refinery problems...USA withdraws B-1 bombers from UK...
Oct5-2026--The breakdown of talks between the government and PTI/TTAP showed that these leaders were just puny assets in the hands of Imran...a debate is raging from both sides on the talks failure... their two parliamentary leaders have constituencies on the afghan border and are suspected of involvement in terrorism with one even having urged pukhtuns to join up with terrorists or form his own group of militants and the other having Shiite militants...as for achieving a broad consensus on terrorism handling PTI has only come up recently with normalizing afghan relations...who are at best not very friendly...police already get tribal chiefs on their side...Afridi is the head of the provincial apex committee and he knows how to get other things done without a broad consensus...if things are so bad why cant he go and meet the prime minister, army chief, ISI chief, corp commander, police chief etc. and discuss things with them...most of his complaints are against the army and he can easily talk to the corp commander or other paramilitaries or even the provincial police...he has only touted civilian casaulties for his opposition and indirectly accused the army which takes maximum precautions in that regard...terrorism or terrorists do not have any regard for civilians, policemen or army men...however one notices that politicians generally have not been targeted...Afridi also has been unwilling to take tribal leaders out of the equation...why don't they stop using drones and guns and bombs against each other...why did they not accept meetings after Tuesday...Imran's personal doctors are not very well known outside their hospital and the Pims specialists are well known in the area...!such patients just need a physcosomatic drug many of which are popular like Xanax etc...
Oct5-2026--security forces kill eight terrorists in DI Khan...
Oct5-2026--KP CM Afridi arrives in government helicopter to participate in long march in lakki marwat...amid numerous armored vehicles...apparently widespread application of section 144 and blockage of major roads in KP for traffic...the long march scheduled to reach Khairabad on the Punjab border on March 8 night...possibility of governors rule being applied in KP...govt wants to end long marches to Islamabad for ever...The govt-PTI talks failed on refusal to sign onto anti terrorism clauses and arranging a meeting with Imran...PTI supposedly willing to give up all other demands...The PTI refused after amendments to apparently four various drafts...interior minister says that Afridi sabotaged the talks...Afridi apparently sent a separate difficult draft in the middle of the night which caused the talks tobe ended...draft available on X...even his draft had clauses that would take months to unravel and decide...he is already authorized to talk with authorities who handle terrorists...he would have the federal government subordinate to several committees...it seems impossible to believe that the PTI negotiating committee only wanted to meet Imran seeing the Afridi draft...and the dubious suggestion that they were agreed points...
Oct4-2026--Government - PTI talks end without any joint statement...some statements suggest that the issue of PTI's lackluster effort to control terrorism and Imran's meetings with personal doctors(nowadays there are almost similar views on diagnosis) were the main sticking points...Afridi who was made head of the Apex committee has only held one meeting on terrorism which is not enough to show any enthusiasm about the issue...terrorism in Kp was controlled to some extent after the closing of borders and bombing Afghanistan but the militants have again restarted violent actions...while indirect talks have been held thru Arab and Chinese mediators no solution has been reached...Afridi again wants to get chummy with Afghanistan which is opposed by the center...The PPP seems to have been able to drive a wedge in the talks and says that a agreed agreement was changed four times...anyway what ever the differences a detailed change in the long march has emerged where all supposed PTI convoys will reach the border with Punjab on the 8th...PMLn was of the view that they could control the long march and might impose an emergency in KP and governors rule when Afridi is on the streets...!visuals suggest a happy PPP...a non interested PMLn and partially subdued PTI...PTI's forays into islamabad have a violent history barring the first dharna of a religious group cum PTI...The long march seems designed to pressurize the center while the PPP seemed happy that its governor could be ruling KP even for a month...might be there are other reasons for the situation and the PPP could be invited to form the next government if Shahbaz resigns...many views suggest that the PMLn willing to give concessions but the PTI unwilling to reciprocate...Shahbaz was consulted apparently directly but no solution was achieved with the PMLn backing down to suggest that they could hold their protests elsewhere but not in Islamabad...The Daily Tribune has suggested that any trouble could invite military repercussions...
Oct3-2026--Indian troops fired across the Kasur border killing two Pakistanis
Oct3-2026--Europe to release oil diesel stocks of around 100 million barrels over four months...USA to stop diesel exports...!
Oct3-2026--a government-PPP group had talks with the PTI in the national assembly...nothing emerged of any significance...talks to continue on Saturday...government could allow hospitalization of Imran if it feels insecure...PTi has problems with meetings with Imran and his hospitalization...meetings are not allowed freely and the government has refused to follow a SC court order to shift him to Al Shifa a private hospital for tests...Jail rules allow him tobe facilitated at a government hospital like Pims...why meetings are denied is not clear although many believe that things like PTI anti government propaganda and terrorism get worse with such freedoms...army corp commanders conference warns that attempts at creating instability of the May9 type would cause a severe application of force...The PTI had a prepared program to create anarchy/chaos if Imran was arrested...while the anarchy continued for two days before trained/prepared army units moved in and restored order...There were also many problems at the previous long march in which they threw tear gas, climbed to buildings roofs, killed two rangers and a policemen and looted motorway offices until they fled after setting fire to their truck...and the dharna when the PTi refused to follow agreed instructions and first entered PTV building, tried to occupy the prime minister house and broke into the national assembly after pulling out the iron fences apart from blocking constitution avenue for a month
Oct3-2026--seven terrorists killed in north waziristan operations
Oct2-2026--Pakistan again bombs Afghanistan and claimed 22 militants killed
Oct1-2026--TTAP and PMLn to hold talks on Friday...PPP jumps into PMLn talks committee having previously talked to opposition and conveyed their invitation to Bilawal to attend their multi party moot after long march
Oct1-1026--Saudia says Houthi drone hit transformer in medina power station...
Oct1-2026--Achakzai who heads a one seat party on the border with Afghanistan refuses to talk with the prime minister...The TTAP has 2 one seat parties and some zero seat allies and the PTI...!the prime minister has sent invitations twice...!according to some he works on Goher ali khans orders...!
Oct1-2026-- six terrorists killed in Baluchistan's Kachhi area
Oct1-2026--Kpler a maritime data firm says that gulf oil exports minus Iran have reached prewar levels of 16.6 million barrels per day in September...although 40% does not exit thru the Hormuz...almost 70% of the oil going thru the hormuz transfers to other tankers after exit...Trump says that in the last three days more oil has flowed thru the hormuz than before...Goldman Sachs estimates that 23.3 million barrels have flowed out of gulf in the last week including dark exports...China suspends oil exports except to Hongkong and Macao
Oct1-2026--Somalis(Puntland- breakaway Somali territory) recover tanker occupied by pirates five months ago...Three Pakistani crew killed in action and three injured
Oct1-2026--the prime minister who perceives himself tobe doing a good job seems quite annoyed with the PTI...The interior minister has already said that they will decide the PTI matter once and for all...many perceive the long march tobe contempt of court on many points...any trouble in the Afridi long march such as rioting, not following police instructions or firing or guns display, killing of any police or Rangers, moving containers or robbery of computers or cameras etc. will get the PTI banned...even before that the government may announce governors rule and a emergency in KP if PTI shows any lack of cooperation with the center...
Oct1-2026--A UAE private airline flying to Israel had a brawl between pilots in which one pilot was apparently stabbed...passengers controlled the aggressor as the plane made a sudden 17000ft descent and some spare pilots landed it in Tabuk, Saudia near the Israeli border with some damage to its flaps...
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