The Daily Pakistan Politics--Aug22-21, 2009

Aug22-2009--Abdul razzaks dumping from chanpions trophy one day tournament team widely critisized

Aug22-2009--seven die in Bara floods

Aug22-2009--Altaf hussein tries to protect his local government in karachi which under the LG system was the only one having any real resources to spend...provinces bent on turning LG system into municipality type system...while development and law and order become a provincial subject...in karachi mqm had refused to act to stop violent riots...

Aug22-2009--hand grenade wielding youths killed in kohat and quetta

Aug22-2009--twelve militants killed in mohmand

Aug22-2009--Yusuf Gilani opts to appoint a mohajir as pakistan steel chairman as he refuses to accept a sindhis appointment

Aug22-2009--trade with china falls 13%

Aug22-2009--Government insists on going with expensive rental power plants...raja ashraf who is being openly accused of corruption says that is teh only way...a rental power station in sheikhupura has taken around 2-3 years and most industrialists can setup small to medium plants in that time frame..speaker turned off the mikes of opposition speakers from speaking on teh subject

Aug22-2009--21 militants die in drone attacks in north waziristan

Aug21-2009--The PMLn walked out at Gilanis odd support for musharaf and refusal to allow a resolution tobe moved in the NA to start proceedings against musharaf...

Aug21-2009--the government approves the Bhasha dam tobe completed in 8-10 years with a height of more than 924 feet and just 35 miles from an earthquake faultline...sindhis say dam is too high... huge cost of Rs894 billion

Aug21-2009--60 taleban surrender at kanju airport as four militants are killed

Aug21-2009--a bomb blast near a police patrol in rawalpindis misrial road injures eight...

Aug21-2009--Sindh too to sell atta at Rs10 while punjab chief minister attempts to sell sugar at Rs45 when it is at Rs38 in the utility stores

Aug21-2009--new PMLq real faction headed by hamid nasir chatta is formed containing some big names such as MKM kasuri, salim saifullah,humayun akhter and gohar ayub..they demanded that teh US leave the region and apologized to balochistan

Aug21-2009--government says its PDL and subsidies have been jokes with the people as the PDL pays for teh subsidy...SC asks rationale for 16% sales tax on petroleum products...SC should ask government to reduce sales taxes on everything to 2.5%...similar excessive taxation on mobile phones of 22% and advance tax collection causes immense harm to people who are not usually taxable...since teh government never pays back the advance taxes...

Aug21-2009--Inayat Kalley bazaar in bajaur opens after a year

Aug21-2009--blast in nowshera

Aug21-2009--Police blow up six houses in lower dir

The Daily PakistanPolitics--17 June, 2009

Jun17-2009--In the god forsaken rawalpindi where everything this year has disappeared...eaten by the corrupt they say..the dawn claims that this year for teh first time in twenty years they have dredged teh nullah Lai and removed encroachements..obviously a joke as they have been widening, dredging,deepening, cleaning the Lai every other year since benazirs first term...just weeks ago they said that a 700 million program to clean teh Lai had begun...now they say teh work has been completed at teh cost of 92 million...others say tanvir kaira is sitting at the Lai getting contractors to file fake bills for their work...?basically all they had to do this year was clean teh filth and plastic bags...u just cant dredge and widen and deepen a stream in weeks...what must we conclude ...dawn is hand in glove with contractors and commissioner and kaira and JICA in what is commonly called...kha rahe ho shabaz...?dredging a 13 kilometer stream in weeks...?

Jun17-2009--kaira claims he gave local bodies 106 billion last year which was not demonstrated in spending as teh local bodies apparently were not functioning... his 160 billion development funding also was invisible...?

Jun17-2009--punjab budget barely higher than sindhs showing greater development in teh smaller province...

Jun17-2009--The indians refuse to start substance negotiations..terrorism is an internal matter say pakistani anlysts neither able to help the other in dealing with it with the indians bigger culprits say teh pakistanis with terrorist controllers stationed in indian punjab and across teh afghan border...

Jun17-2009--chinese critisize indian air force chief remarks in which he urged pakistan to serve as intelligence agents against china...manmohan many say could start a war with his intransigent nature...

Jun17-2009--As the airforce carried out strikes in waziristan the army started moving its hardware thru tank and DI khan...

Jun17-2009--13 terrorists killed in swat and malakand over teh last two days...military claims destroying a militant training facility and killing a suicide vest maker...four tunnels destroyed in peochar

Jun17-2009--Fehmida Mirza who has presided over a weakening of parliament says she is finding it difficult to name a committee for constitutional reform...obviously being blocked by the PPP-zardari..?

Jun17-2009--11 killed in maidan

Jun17-2009--Britain appoints a diplomat to head MI6 after the failure of the MI initiated Tamil rebellion..maybe pakistan too needs a civilian to head teh ISI...

Jun17-2009--PCB appoints the lackadaisical Wasim Bari as a cricketer selector...they now have three selectors from karachi...?

Jun17-2009--The nura kushti opposition-government supporters in sheeps clothing are barely able to even discuss the budget properly in parliament...what to talk of teh supremacy of parliament...at least in the past they made noises now all we can hear are cries of sheep or cows...