The Daily PakistanPolitics, Aug 28-29, 2009

Aug29-2009--power riots in sukker

Aug29-2009--parliamentary panel terms PTCL deal with UAE's eitesalat a shady deal at best

Aug29-2009--six to eight judges file review petitions aginst the PCO judgement

Aug29-2009--In quetta three explosions disrupt gas and railways operations

Aug29-2009--five militants killed in malakand

Aug29-2009--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 waziristan

Aug28-2009--The SC refused to order the PPP regime to start a treason trial against musharaf

Aug28-2009--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 orders

Aug28-2009--In hangu police fire at rioters who torched pesco offices and cars...

Aug28-2009--9 militants killed in swat, buner clashes

The Daily PakistanPolitics--July 11, 2009

Jul 11-2009--overseas remmittances rise 21% to over $8 billion

Jul 11-2009--orakzai air strike toll rise to 46

Jul 11-2009--another mqmh man gunned down in karachi

Jul 11-2009--advert in dawn says governments appointing administrators to local bodies is unconstitutional while yusuf raza gilani says musharaf attempt to impose local governments unconstitutional and undemocratic...teh LG system was relatively successful until the provincial governments started to curtail their powers...

Jul 11-2009--E10 a petrol derivative with ethanol starts selling ..price tobe around Rs60 per liter

Jul 11-2009--lawyer challenges PDL ordnance and asks SC to suspend it too..CJ says they will study their jurisdiction in the matter...earlier teh PMLq had stated that the PPP regime was trying to start a conflict with the judiciary

Jul 11-2009--drone attack in south waziristan kills three

Jul 11-2009--In Bajaur 14 militants killed after they attacked and killed a lieutenant and lance naik

Jul 11-2009--In zhob taleban attacked a security post killing a soldier..the military in retaliation killed ten taleban

Jul 11-2009--yusuf raza gilani wants to hide behind parliament in teh bad financial mechanisms of his government...teh parliament has shown no indication that it is representing teh peopel when its decisions are literally nothing but support for a system of bad governance...parliament has been supporting teh government rather than representing teh peopel...there are not many people amongst teh 160 million that gilani cites who support teh governments whacky economic decisions...

Jul 10-2009--In what can be said to be a mockery of both governance and teh judiciary the attorney general said that teh carbon tax was a mistake and zardari had promulgated an ordinance to reintroduce teh PDL and again raise petroleum prices within a day...The SC after listening to harsh remarks against teh government adjourned teh hearing for four weeks...in theory we now have both teh suspended carbon tax as well as a PDL...The gilani suggestion that he was unaware of teh reasoning behind teh carbon tax shows his lack of expertise in economic matters and that so called economic experts would explain the issue to the judges after their return from gallivanting in foreign countries...teh counsel said that the issue of the ordnance was malafide and repugnant as it was meant to repudiate teh judiciary...gilani on teh other hand suggested that parliament had passed teh budget without any objection...both the judiciary and teh government have taken a stance aginst parliament in the matter..SC to review petroleum prices later as lawyers said that teh PDL and whether taxes can be imposed thru an ordnance will also be challenged...

Jul 10-2009--IDP's to start returning home from teh 13th in four phases

Jul 10-2009--five FC men killed by blast in dera Bugti

Jul 10-2009--39 militants killed in orakzai as planes bomb their hideouts

Jul 10-2009--12 militants killed as planes bomb south waziristan hideouts of baitullah mehsud

Jul 10-2009--a policeman and an mqm UC councillor shot dead in karachi

Jul 10-2009--A Pesco lineman dies in blast in peshawar while repairing a 500KV pylon which had been blownup on thursday