Aug29-2009--power riots in sukkerAug29-2009--parliamentary panel terms PTCL deal with UAE's eitesalat a shady deal at bestAug29-2009--six to eight judges file review petitions aginst the PCO judgementAug29-2009--In quetta three explosions disrupt gas and railways operationsAug29-2009--five militants killed in malakandAug29-2009--police arrest twelve foreigners as they enter nwfp apparently coming from iran and claiming tobe tableeghis..Aug29-2009--five bodies found in bara...Aug29-2009--The TTP claims the cruelty of killing 22 khasadars in revenge for baitullah...Aug29-2009--The NFC meeting suggests a wide variation in the demands of teh four provinces...punjab says it is the most neglected as it gets Rs4000 per person while even balochistan gets Rs6000 per person...nwfp and balochistan more interested in getting arrears on controversial aspects..which are difficult aspects as where the arrears will be generated from is unknown unless they want the people tobe robbed further which is closer to Tarins views who wants the anti people policy of increased taxation and further price hikes...under the present system punjabs huge population is taxed more than any other province and even that is being claimed by other provinces...basically teh NFC has to decide how to divide around 38 % of revenues which was initially done on the basis of population alone...bringing in other criteria will not change the ratio very much..42.5-24-20-13.5 could be an acceptable ratio..the federal government could agree to divide the whole 50-50 with teh provinces which could increase the amounts available... Aug29-2009--LHC judge lifts protocol curbs on the movements and activities of Dr. Qadeer Khan...Aug28-2009--A suicide bomber killed 22 khasadars near a security post in torkham as they gathered for iftar...Aug28-2009--a drone attack killed eight militants in north waziristanAug28-2009--The SC refused to order the PPP regime to start a treason trial against musharafAug28-2009--The PPP regime does whatever it wants whether it is legal or not such as distributing OGDC shares to workers without payment..however when it does not want to it starts to raise inane objections...whether it is constitutional change or the trial of musharaf or going against the killers of benazir...Aug28-2009--US ambassador says that there would be only twenty marines to protect the huge US embassy complex..?Aug28-2009--AG says he has no idea of the extent of musharaf's involvement in the Benazir assassination...recent thinking suggests that musharaf, manmohan and literally the entire top echelon of teh PMLq were involved or had knowledge of the assassination...some say even hamid karzai asked benazir not to go to the party jalsa meeting at liaqat bagh...?still others suggest that benazir herself tried to stop the assassination but somebody at the meeting overrode her orders...Aug28-2009--security forces say lower dir cleared of militants...Aug28-2009--sufi mohammeds sons rearrested after release on court ordersAug28-2009--In hangu police fire at rioters who torched pesco offices and cars...Aug28-2009--9 militants killed in swat, buner clashes
Aug27-2009--The person since he is not a peoples representative in any sense heading teh NFC is a sindhi agent who bought his senate seat from sindh and thus has already a compromised nature......he has already given statements supporting teh sindh position of revenue share for collection even though sindh hardly spends anything on revenue collection and it is generally thought tobe a political ploy to defeat the punjab...while sindh is more developed and deliberately does not adequately share development funds between karachi and interior sindh its argument that population alone...should not be teh basis for division of resources...holds little reasoning...the higher the population teh bigger teh cities and teh more towns and villages, more problems and more funds needed for development...because of sindhs precarious position it has to spend everything in karachi leaving interior sindh to the vagaries of politics...Similarly in other provinces too teh spending is focused on capitals..division of resources on the basis of districts and their needs should be considered...balochistan wants focus on area 41%..punjab on population around sixty percent...nwfp wants the federal government to distribute 80% to the provinces and give it 140 billion in royalties...balochistan too wants royalties on gas...since past dues legal or not are almost impossible to consider teh NFC should only look into teh present situation...nwfp's royalty demands would raise electricity charges by another 20%...balochistans gas royalties demand would almost double gas prices...backwardness of areas in various provinces is teh only shared concern..the federal government is just creating more problems by seeking a 5% share for tax collection...obviously teh NFC exercise is literally doomed to failure even if punjab were to give away a few more percents of its share...nobody would be satisfied because the money has to come out of the peoples pockets... provinces and the federal government should sensibly reduce spending which is as usual not in any way helpful to teh people anywhere in teh country...nwfp also wants another 5% for militancy losses...Punjab should also play hard ball many say and not try to distribute its share to sindh...there is little or no sales tax collected from teh services sector...many suggest that all provinces be asked to collect taxes...that would not only increase local industrialisation but sindhs unjust demands would also be parried successfully...usually the PPP government being sindhi dominated will try to paper over demands and seek more of punjabs share for distribution to the three poor provinces... Aug27-2009--Businesses in quetta close down on bugti anniversary Aug27-2009--The desperation of the people at buying cheaper atta should alert the government to the problems that it is deliberately creating due to price hikes in food and utilities...The punjab government has had to double wheat releases to meet the peoples demand for cheaper atta Aug27-2009--In swat 51 bodies were found in various areas..seven militants killed in various clashes... Aug27-2009--two to three people killed in various militant attacks in quetta... Aug27-2009--military clearing a 20 km road from DI Khan to wana in south waziristan thru aerial bombardments Aug27-2009--PHC orders release of sufi mohammeds sons Aug27-2009--two nato oil tankers destroyed in peshawar and torkham Aug27-2009--According to teh CDA chairman the distraught people of islamabad have been demanding a cable car for some time...from saidpur village to somewhere in the margalla hills...?
Aug26-2009--The taleban finally agreed that Baitullah was dead and appointed the orakzai chief hakimullah who led three tribal regions--(khyber and kurram as well...)as teh next taleban chief..hakimullah has led a fierce anti US campaign in the orakzai, torkham and peshawar areas creating problems along the nato routes, alongwith several high level kidnappings...teh army has been reluctant to go in strongly in only two areas ie orakzai and south waziristan...hakeemullah 28, being a junior was facing opposition from both seniors as well as waliurrehman but that opposition has apparently been settled as waliurehman has been given control of south waziristan...the new strategy of the taleban is yet to be seen whether pakistan gets ravaged alongwith teh US occupied afghanistan or the taleban start concentrating more on afghanistan...The taleban strategy which started after the lal masjid seige saw major suicide attacks inside pakistan turning the whole north west of pakistan into a sensitive troubled area causing a major army offensive in the FATA and PATA areas of nwfp...The army which has had a long relationship with the tribal areas and the taleban had to finally take off its gloves and combined with US drone attacks has brought some sanity back to the region...Aug26-2009--Sindh which can be said to be pakistans most developed province in terms of,oil and gas deposits, jobs, education, health services and industrialisation is teh biggest complainer of the NFC award...even the two smaller provinces donot complain as much as do teh sindhis...they now want the NFC award to be based on revenue collection(which contains even basic taxation of other provinces in teh context of large corporations and countrywide organisations),backwardness, geographical factors,area and population...many say that all taxation forms should be included including those already allocated seperately to provinces in the divisible pool...things like sales taxes, royalty, oil and gas surcharges which are supposedly paid for by teh common man should not be tabulated seperately as sindh wants all solutions that should benefit it rather than every province...according to a general understanding population is the only criterion in teh constitution but several varying parameters are already enjoyed by provinces like sindh which is already getting much more than its population share...punjab has suggested that sindhs share be reduced to less than thirty per cent and nwfp and balochistan be compensated on an individual basis until their basic needs are fulfilled...Aug26-2009--construction company employing pakistani engineers bombed in kandahar killing over 40... Aug26-2009--Jamil Bugti's plea to institute an FIR against musharaf for the killing of akber bugti in a Sibi session court...IG and SHO dera bugti asked to attend next court hearing...Akber Bugti died in 2006 while hiding in the bugti hills and was apparently tracked down by armies undercover sleuths or some say privately funded khojis...apparently as 30-40 soldiers approached he detonated a bomb killing himself alongwith numerous soldiers...what actually happened is generally said tobe unknown as his body was than buried by the administration without his family...Aug26-2009--Indians get Interpol to issue a red corner notice against hafiz saeedAug26-2009--initially thumbs were marked with ink only for elections...now babies get them for polio vaccinations and people when buying subsidized atta...!!Aug26-2009--two mqm men shot dead in karachi Aug26-2009--The law minister negates article 105...if a chief minister gives advice than it must be followed...the comments of the governor on judges reccommendations are not supposed to be personal...theoretically teh governor should ask the chief minister to get teh input of the police and intelligence organisations as all lawyers are neither known to teh governor or teh chief minister Aug26-2009--PMLn says that 1992 army operation in sindh ordered by nawaz sharif against dacoits...they say that pro MQM corp commander Naseer Ahmed and altaf hussein got karachi and hyderabad included in teh operation...wanting action against 89 mqm opponents...but when mqm's actions against the army were brought into play altaf hussein left for england after a deal with general janjua saying at karachi airport that he was abandoning politics forever...general janjua than died of a suspicious heart attack some say administered thru a poison in a cup of tea..The mushraf regime literally turned karachi into a one party state literally prisoning all mqm opponents...Aug26-2009--Real PMLq leaders goto meet musharaf..pro musharaf humayun akhters meeting triggers condemnation and concern ...Aug26-2009-- three more bodies found in swatAug26-2009--two militants killed in clash with FC in quetta
Aug20-2009--Maulvi Faqir takes over TTP leadership claiming Baitullah is sick and appoints Muslim Khan his spokesman...?Aug20-2009--In what can best be described as taking a tumble, going belly up or turning turtle yusuf raza gilani true to his suspect origins(whether he is a military spy or not) suddenly went for teh PPP's jugular and refused to put musharaf on trial...earlier he had left it to parliament which despite its subjugated nature was willing to test him...this was in response to chaudhry nisar ali khan who is also related to a coup friendly general calling musharaf supporters traitors...yusuf raza gilani wilted like a wallflower and fell back upon poor bilawals statement that democracy is the best revenge said in extremely different circumstances and under very difficult pressures...he said a trial under article 6 was not doable despite musharafs known treacherous and treasonous relationships with teh countries enemies...Chaudhry nisar otherwise a mild supporter of teh PPP also ridiculed teh MQM for its support of the treacherous general...forgetting that teh mqm supports everyone in power...Aug20-2009--In a difficult triangle... flyoff to china which is exactly what zardari is doing... many say it is more for relaxation and enjoying chinese culture than discussiing how to dredge the tarbela dam...Aug20-2009--two schools attacked in lower Dir...Aug20-2009--Shabaz sharif usually willing to meet victims of violence in lahore seems now sensitive to the times as policemen rough up a dacoity victims family from approaching teh CM secretariat in lahoreAug20-2009--two LHC judges retirement accepted by ZardariAug20-2009--militants kill three in bajaur..Aug20-2009--three blasts in balochistan.Aug20-2009--Tarin insists that punjabs resources will be looted in the NFCAug20-2009--Sindh democratic forum mocks zardaris new sindhi town near Thatta to change sindhs karachi only development policy...seeks revival of sindhs 300 small towns first...
Jul26-2009--In what many see as a shrinking of the oil bill from $11.64 to $9.509 in 2008-9..could be a ballooning in quantity due to the massive fall in oil prices..pakistani imports shrank in general barring a few food products...such as sugar, wheat, tea and pulses and power generation machineryJul26-2009--In what many see as a surprise the supposedly straight barring hiring relatives yusuf raza gilani seems to have a corrupt wife...she apparently was part of two companies who refused to return agricultural loans of Rs.71 million and over Rs.100 million...one wondered where they had got their money...NAB judge refuses to back downJul26-2009--bottling plant manager and worker shot dead in quettaJul26-2009--banks and educational institutions to open in mingoraJul26-2009--one militant killed afer police storm a suspects residence in quettaJul26-2009--ex mna named in killing of polish geological engineerJul26-2009--In what many see as punjabs reduction in influence the PPP brought in a ghafoor mirza seen as a pro zardari type as a private punjab rep and fired hina rabbani khar from teh NFC committee...Gilani who will now head the NFC will have to stand up for punjab for them to get their extorted finances back from sindh...Jul26-2009--Armed forces kill 10 militants in Buner, 4 in swat and capture a cave full of ammunitionJul26-2009--raja ashraf refuses to nationalize KESC but says we can take tough measures such as replacing management by Nepra as he expects to reduce power shortages soon...he says load shedding teh problem not Tariffs which he says he will raise by Rs3...government at teh moment seemingly not subsidizing electricity...says load shedding brought down PMLq which is obviously false...Nepra many suggest only authorized to fix prices...many suggest that tariff hiks... could possibly bring down teh PPP regime as in winter load shedding hardly matters whether it ends or not...!!Jul26-2009--TNSM tries to activate itself again after it failed in controlling teh swat and malakand mayhem...whether government will allow it to start its activities again is not clear...Sufi mohammed had escaped from lower dir after teh situation worsened and has resurfaced in peshawar after travelling all around teh area...Jul26-2009--JSQM strike in sindh after their convoy was attacked in karachi on friday killing a district president...poor response in thar and hyderabad while 19 were arrested..one attacker killed by JSQM while remaining attacker being grilled...JSQM hands over two ISI identity cards which agency says are fake...cards say they were sources...men supposedly also belong to an mqm faction and have criminal recordsJul26-2009--PMLn's thieving mpa shomaila rana resignsJul26-2009--In lakki marwat nine policemen injured as suicide bomber rams police vanJul26-2009--IED damages vehicles on indus highway near kohatJul26-2009--ANF shoot dead a man driving a vehicle that did not stop at teh chakri interchangeJul25-2009--In karachi a JSQM rally fired upon killing their thatta president while one attacker was killed and another arrestedJul25-2009--musharaf says he will defend himself in courtJul25-2009--PPP says that they and provincial governments do not want the LG system and that provinces will soon move to appoint administrators instead..many suggest that teh current politicians could not tolerate the almost independent LG system...and would probably appoint administrators and forget to hold new elections...the LG system was successful at the grassroots level until people like pervez elahi started to dismantle it...Jul25-2009--chemistry professor shot dead in quettaJul25-2009--CNIC name verification now possible by sending SMS to 7000Jul25-2009--21 taleban killed in swat and dirJul24-2009--SC also backs out on electricity tariff and tamely tells Nepra to inform it before raising tariffs...teh SC falling in with government statements that tariff would only be hiked after ending load shedding...Jul24-2009--Damani dam breaches in barkhanJul24-2009--carpet factory in mach jail set on fire by prisonersJul24-2009--PPP again defers its cabinet reshuffle...many see most ministers as not functioning properly and teh primeminister as just sitting around...most say that gilani and zardari want their own lackeys in important positions which causes a reshuffle tobe difficult to manage...Jul24-2009--principal of a school gunned down in quettaJul24-2009--gas pipeline blownup near khairpurJul23-2009--The SC in what many say is a stop start process of courage and weakness issues a challenge to musharaf to explain his Nov3 actions...Jul23-2009--27 militants killed in malakand as suspected training centers in south waziristan bombed killing ten militantsJul23-2009--yusuf raza gilani allocates 28 civil service jobs to baloch and 57 to women in the 2008 batchJul23-2009--one soldier killed in miranshahJul23-2009--The PPP which is big on relatives in government appoints tauqir sadiq a jehangir badar brother in law as OGRA chief...Jul23-2009--BRP says they are fighting without foreign help...government has available to it data showing baloch rebel leaders visiting indian consulates etc...Jul23-2009--Zardari supports chinese suppression of teh muslim uighurs in xinjiang...teh controversial chinese actions against the uighurs have a long history as the chinese are bringing in han to make them economically weaker...Jul23-2009--four mqm men booked for killing a policeman in karachi as more KESC centers are attacked and mqm suggests handing over KESC to the CDGK
Jul17-2009--Manmoham singh had barely gotten back when he announced that no talks would be held with pakistan after agreeing to reopen what can only be said tobe face saving talks in sharm al sheik...delinking terrorism and composite talks should have meant that talks should start on pakistans agenda as well as india's...pakistan will have to continue its foot dragging until the indians come to both tables...Jul17-2009--UNHCR official shot dead in katcha garhi...Jul17-2009--three tribesman died in north waziristan in a landmine blastJul17-2009--two Fc men and one soldier die in swat action as eight militants are killed as military clears hideouts, tunnels and bunkersJul17-2009--Irsa starts making trouble for punjab as it denies punjabs request for water from the tarbela dam for the southern areas of jhang, multan, vehari and bahawalpur where three million acres of cotton are at stake...zardari has started to play water politics with areas of southern punjab generally thought to be a PPP stronghold...punjab says mangla needs tobe filled and tarbela link canals are meant to functions as canals and not flood canals...anyway floods only occur late in august and punjabs demands should be given priority.... Jul17-2009--two more SSP workers shot dead in karachi in what is believed tobe a continuing mqm orchestrated vendettaJul17-2009--atta reaches 550 per 20 kilo bag in lahoreJul17-2009--ISI official shot dead in lower dirJul17-2009--yusuf raza gilani obviously bamboozled manmohan sindh saying that they had completed investigations on teh bombay incident and had enough on Hafiz saeed to initiate a case...others suggest that fours others have been identified as teh main culprits and who have not been apprehended as yet...upto now no specific allegations or involvement have been specified and all they have are supposed phone call conversations in which unidentified people were supposedly controlling the bombay militants who were obviously in over their heads and had no specific plan and just went along and did what was ordered...government will obviously make another attempt to apprehend and hold hafiz saeedJul17-2009--zardari and nawaz sharif to meet today...sindh and punjab at odds over water and NFC and Zardari has been personally involved in denying water to punjab...others say their strategy worked on altaf hussain and will work on nawaz sharif too...nawaz sharif not a dupe others say and thanking him will only make him suspicious rather than want to be drowned in a PPP government with a generalized anti people bent of mind...
Jul14-2009--Mian channu blast kills 11..30 other houses damaged by blast...a seminary run by riaz kamboh whose stored explosives blew up...7 children among teh deadJul14-2009--IDP's start returning to malakand, Buner and swat...some fearful of militant retaliations and others saying they will need substantial aid especially those whose homes may have been destroyed...government distributing ATM cards on which IDP's can withdraw 25000 and providing transportJul14-2009--The government and IMF/WB trying to force unnecessary electricity tariff increases which they say will be increased from teh earlier proposed 17.7% t 22% and implemented in three phases...saying that teh government has solved no problem in teh complicated energy generation field...government wants to wait till december to end load shedding and than force teh unpalatable tariff hike...on the one hand they are saying that they want to end subsidies and on teh other zardari announced that base electricity subsidies will be increased to 200 unit users ...that would obviously have tobe paid for by teh high end users too...teh government should study what it is doing ...it has substantial energy domain funds due to sales tax and petroleum levy which should amount to 100-200 billion which can be productively used to serve low end users as well as provide reasonable subsidies...unless government keeps prices under control people will start to agitate against its tax and tariff regimens...Jul14-2009--six militants killed in south waziristanJul14-2009--Afzal sindhu becomes minister of state for law...gilani who seems tobe unable to accept anything that changes has said that Raza Rabbani and sherry rehman are still ministers without portfolio..Jul14-2009--bodies of three taleban hanged from electricity poles found in malakandJul14-2009--Oil tanker gutted in peshawarJul14-2009--Punjab debunks sindh propaganda on NFC allocations saying that it gets just 41%(57% population), sindh 31%(24%), nwfp17%(13%) and balochistan9%(5%)..On teh development side if hospital beds per population is used as a criterion than punjab is the least developed...as for tax collections all end user taxes are paid by the people and punjab pays over 60 % of those..many suggest the example that if a punjabi buys an air ticket even in lahore teh tax he pays is collected in karachi...punjab which has been subjugated in political as well as military dictatorships has always got teh hard end of the stick due to teh propaganda of sindh and other provinces...many suggest that punjab should bravely stand up for itself...apart from disastrous situations in which a sacrifice is normal punjab should not give up its share many say...Jul14-2009--SC says solid evidence needed to jail hafiz saeed and just indian demands are not enoughJul14-2009--the Dollar which is selling at 82.60 may rise further as banks start funding petroleum imports...says teh NewsJul14-2009--The dailytimes says asim hussain to become sindh governor while four ministers including nazar mohammed gondal, qayum jatoi, raja ashraf and waqar khan may get new portfolios and raza rabbani may make a comeback to teh law ministryJul14-2009--sindh transport minister akhter jadoon apprehended when unlicensed arms were detected in teh car that came to pick him up from teh airport...he said that the licenses were available but police refused to let teh PPP minister go
