Sep8-2009--The pakistan army has backed out of creating cantonments in kohlu and dera bugti which are at best residential colonies for faujis in any area...sindhis and baloch are known to oppose pakistan army cantonments which number 54 in teh rest of teh country...creating different rules for different areas is at best a policy of divide and rule...teh government of teh PPP which previously was known for its committment to teh peopel has this time around joined in with imperialist thinking industrialists and agricultural landlords to crush teh peoples will thru price hikes, tax hikes and seperate thinking for seperate areas...teh policies are apparent in the cruel price hikes, different polices for karachi and the northwest and the facile reforms in teh fata and the northern areas...while they pamper one they kill another...the bugti son jamil bugti had come out strongly against cantonments although what difference that will make is unclear...the pakistan army has shown itself capable enough to work in remote areas with small logistic bases..a thinking which has developed since east pakistan and with small to sometimes lethal trouble making rabble rousers..there seems no clear cut policy on balochistan with even teh PPP chief minister advocating a semi independent state...baloch liberationists have a policy of armed conflict in which they attack other pakistani ethnic groups and create a sense of anarchy but teh situation in teh region leaves them no support and they have little public backing...teh government as has been pakistans policy follows a generalized theme of allowing such movements to play themselves out...with teh government refusing tobe pushed to extreme solutions and the liberationists continuing to create tensionsSep8-2009--dawn reports suggest that teh PMLn preparing for elections...with the PPP having sold out on all issues whether political or otherwise teh PMLn demanded that one extreme only not be listened to on renaming nwfp...nwfp which has a diverse language base with at least two main parties supporting the name pukhtunwa while others like the PMLn with a base in hazara suggesting a neutral name..The ANP suggests a referendum on a third time primeministership also which could be a good idea as the PPP which has little decisive powers would be able to defer another issue rather than talk it out ..The PMLn is generally only talking on political issues generally avoiding people intensive issues such as price hikes even though they are now considered more populist than the PPP Sep8-2009--drone attack kills five in mir aliSep8-2009--The government and teh courts have failed to resolve teh sugar crisis as teh rich sugar mill owners seem to have more power than teh feeble natured governments...Sep8-2009--hazaraite husband of ppp leader in balochistan shot dead by motorcyclists Sep8-2009--The communist party of pakistan issues a comprehensive list of 481 people who should be tried under article six...many think that a few prominent people should be tried to show future politicians how to move on such a serious issue...Sep8-2009--Balochistan wants its NFC share doubled by a determination ration of 70(population)--10(size)--15(backwardness) and 5(revenue generation)...the increase in revenues should in general be able to take care of thatSep8-2009--Faisal Saleh Hayat urges the SC to take note of the minister for powers corruption who is apparently accused of buying a flat in london for Rs600 million...Sep8-2009--10 militants killed in bara areaSep8-2009--In south waziristan a roadside bomb blows up a military vehicle killing five soldiersSep8-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilani hell bent on raising taxes says teh IMF...already having crushed teh people thru unnecessary shortages, price hikes and tax hikes the government plans more misery for the poverty stricken people...Sep8-2009--In what many see as the type of governance in pakistan ijaz butt who has literally brought pakistan to its cricketing death barring teh 20-20 triumph has removed all his appointees at teh senior level in the PCB leaving the innocuous wasim bari in almost total charge...they however say that Ijaz Butt unlike other rich men in government does not use any of teh huge expenses/perks allowed to the PCB chief...cheaper and honest than most corrupt individuals around but inefficient and obviously unable to handle even the management of cricket matches...
Jul13-2009--the government stumbling under its anti people policies seems unnerved enough to take on people who use teh internet to send ill motivated emails and sms warning of 14 year sentences rather than rectifiying its anti people policies...such emails have been used against military dictatorships and harsh and mean rulers and it seems that teh government has started to feel the barbs that are commonly transmitted...teh government has been behaving in a manner similar to a harsh military dictatorship...Jul13-2009--teh army destroying caves inhabited by militants in swat killing one militant...the army moving to control areas around south waziristan...moving into Tank and areas of lakki marwat and kulachi area of DI khan...bhittanis militants vacated Tank as the military moved in...planes continued to bomb baitullah bases in south waziristan killing eight as one soldier also died in an attack on a checpost...Jul13-2009--Yusuf raza gilani an unpopular person and who did not lead the PPP into elections is bent upon returning teh system to one dominated by a powerful primeminister...unless he is seen as a representative of the masses with popular policies such a system would not work...the PPP stuck with no real popular leader and basing its government on infighting between regional areas and a dictatorial economy having no attraction for teh awam...Jul13-2009--11 militants in landi kotal held for attacking nato terminalsJul13-2009--military claims having destroyed a car killing five apparently foreign militants in lower dirJul13-2009--The governments supposed economic wizards have been unable to explain things to teh IMF and the basically irrelevant IMF tranche is supposedly not going to make it..teh IMF apparently now wants a 31% higher electricity tariff rather than 17.7% and 20% higher diesel tariffs...teh governments team obviously has to realize that economics is just not about tariffs and macro economic ends only...the economic effects and the suffering of the people should be the main issues...teh people are already suffering and tariffs and diesel prices cannot be raised whatever the IMF thinks...teh government should control/reduce spending and that is teh only way out...grandiose projects for which teh people are being squeezed should be put on hold and the government should learn to live onits own resoures...The government should get out of teh shop keeping mentality where it raises teh rent and than hikes prices...Jul13-2009--nine killed in karachi in drive by shootingsJul13-2009--Another PMLn mpa gets into the red book...mpa shomaila rana accused of using stolen credit cards...asked to resign by PMLn...Jul13-2009--potatos fall to Rs33 per kilo from 44..tomato rises to Rs 42Jul13-2009--In a country where teh local government system changes with each dictatorship.. considering the present system also as a no people input system or anti people system the punjab provincial government says it will impose another system which supposedly removes its flaws...shabaz sharif seems bent upon imposing teh beaurocracy on teh people from which the last system had provided some respite...people remember teh magistracy when they used to approve firing and killing demonstrators and arrested and involved opposition politicians in prolonged courts casesJul13-2009--muzzafargarh and khanewal police chase a tea stall owner who refused to stop at a picket and shoots him dead...police have tobe told that terrorism is no reason to shoot at any person especially when teh person is unarmed...Jul13-2009--Dawn states that teh cronyistic zardari's logic of appointing a junior official as an ambassador to france who was a provincial livestock secretary is that he is supposedly friends with sarkozys brother and who says that he was just summoned to the presidency and appointed teh ambassador out of teh blue...!!Jul13-2009--JI chief says that government is expanding its war against taleban to karak,bannu and parts of punjabJul13-2009--Rehman malik says he wants to put up a barbed wire fence across teh long afghan border...he says we have 1000 checposts on teh border while teh americans have 60 and its makes no sense for anyone to be fighting on both sides of teh border...setting up even a barbed wire fence along teh length of teh border would be just as difficult as setting up a wall...
Jul12-2009--the government continues to follow teh same old policy of dictators to tax teh peopel into subjugation...After increasing electricity prices by a hefty 70% it still claims that it is subsidizing electricity...It now wants us to believe that teh IMF not parliament not people not government but teh IMF allows a six month continuation of electricity prices at teh present level...If the IMF, the WB and government wont allow it why should people subsidize electricity to teh poor...teh government should have its head examined if it thinks that such poppycock economics is something that according to Gilani is the best that he can do......if tax money cannot be used to ease peoples woes than there is no point left in government...one doesn't think that teh government has any real development policy which could be of interest to teh people and therefore if taxation cannot be used to reduce electricity and petroleum prices than the government should go home...what is it better at than the crazies at teh finance ministry...on the PDL/carbon tax another useless extortion like teh 16% sales tax on electricity teh government has no answer..apparently the PPP has advised its members to shut up and play dumb.....it cant even say that we are taxing petroleum to reduce its use...given the hike in prices of literally everything of upto 200% one fails to understand what teh goverment is upto...Jul12-2009--Taleban say fazlullah not injuredJul12-2009--something new has happened..gilani says the local government legislation has lapsed or dropped out of teh constitution...many had suggested that appointing administrators was illegal as only elected people can run LG's..and now teh provinces can do whatever they want in teh field...many suggest that the punjab was worried taht teh PMLq bosses would use the LG powers to corner teh next elections and only beurocrats could help them win...many suggest that teh chief ministers want local government control in their hands too so that they can be seen to be teh provincial bosses... Jul12-2009--police raided a one room seminary in DG khan killing one militantJul12-2009--Carl Levine Of teh US armed forces senate committee objects to criticism of teh USA for using drones...which he says that pakistan tacitly accepts or condones...the USA should seek greater participative cooperation or allow pakistan to itself use the drones.. where needed pakistan has teh airpower and has used it in swat, malakand, buner and Fata...killing civilians seems tobe normal to teh uSA since they are not americans...now teh americans want us to believe that they were not telling us to go after teh taleban to ease their troubles in afghanistan...their policy now is kill them its good for u...?Jul12-2009--CID policeman killed in karachiJul12-2009--three militants killed in bajaur
