Aug22-2009--Abdul razzaks dumping from chanpions trophy one day tournament team widely critisizedAug22-2009--seven die in Bara floodsAug22-2009--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 quettaAug22-2009--twelve militants killed in mohmandAug22-2009--Yusuf Gilani opts to appoint a mohajir as pakistan steel chairman as he refuses to accept a sindhis appointmentAug22-2009--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 subjectAug22-2009--21 militants die in drone attacks in north waziristanAug21-2009--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 billionAug21-2009--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 storesAug21-2009--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 balochistanAug21-2009--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 yearAug21-2009--blast in nowsheraAug21-2009--Police blow up six houses in lower dir
Aug12-2009--In what might indicate a failure for teh zardari efforts in balochistan who supposedly even met rebel leaders but who have not yet accepted defeat...another group was created teh balochistan independent council headed by teh khan of kalat who refused any reconciliation without mediation...in london...which supposedly will work for an independent balochistan...in related matters the khuzdar engineering university was closed down after students tried to raise teh flag for an independent balochistan..the khan said he would include bramdagh bugti and iranian baloch groups...Aug12-2009--The governments ECC seemed to make a pathetic effort to support teh sugar price during ramazan which indicates that it might balloon further afterwards...teh governments generally anti people policies on prices and support for price hikes in teh food market have decreased its popularity considerably...Tarin has generally no knowledge of how to control prices and teh governments non interventionist frightened nature has it boxed in...they say they have a huge wheat stock of 9.749 million tons which should according to market economics reduce wheat prices...but teh government only wants to help rich farmers and not the consumers...Aug12-2009--Interior minister insists that baitullah mehsud is dead...reports suggest that drone videos showed him having a leg massage prior to teh attack..Aug12-2009--An FIR by chaudhry aslam ghumman has been registered in islamabad against musharaf for wrongful confinement of SC judges and their families and issuing an illegal PCO...a sessions judge apparently taking teh lead from teh SC judges attitudes...!!Aug12-2009--Drone attack kills 10 in south waziristanAug12-2009--A PMLq(known as a supporter of teh SSP) member pleads for the government to attack the teh supposedly banned SSP whose major activists are either in jail or were killed during teh musharaf era...Aug12-2009-- 17 militants killed in bara by security helicopters Aug12-2009--students to pay minimum charges not exceeding Rs.25 on bank payments for educational institution charges..Aug12-2009-- US to use USAID funds to build massive embassy complex where they want to station over 300 marines and USAID officials who will also generally be from teh US military...pakistans present regime pathetically or feebly protesting but without any effect.....Aug12-2009--three killed as seven rockets hit peshawar damaging a 132kV transmission line...Aug12-2009--one killed in two blasts in Rakni the baloch border town 130 km from DG KhanAug12-2009--Sasti roti ordnance coming up as tandoors donot follow the provincial governments rules...Aug12-2009--seven schools, a health center and policemans residence were torched in BunerAug12-2009--two taleban commanders clash in orakzai killing 21Aug12-2009--Raja Ashraf who apparently has made controversial rental power deals at the exorbitant 13.5 cents and 14% advance payments should be investigated for corruption says Faisal Saleh Hayat...saying that the ineffective BISP is also corruption tainted...Aug12-2009--Dead judge restored to pre Nov3 position in the Sindh High court...Aug12-2009--As security forces moved into the sui area where teh BRA claimed killing ten policemen clashes broke out killing five militants in day long fightingAug12-2009--Buner which Dawn claims produces 68 percent of teh countries marble has its industry closed down due to a stoppage of explosives supplies...Aug12-2009--militants houses demolished in maidan area of dirAug12-2009--National assembly hears protests against indian TV channels which have literally turned pakistani TV channels into mere news channels leaving women little to watch but indian cultural propaganda...the PPP's Kaira responds feebly as usual...
Aug7-2009--In what must be said tobe an escalation by karachi based assassins usually thought to belong to the mqm a balochistan minister from the well known pro pakistan jamali clan was shot dead by four to five gunmen...the police incredulously said that it was a car jacking attempt rather than a target killing...Aug7-2009--The PMLn claims PPP following dictatorial traditions by forcing thru a bill that empowers needlessly election tribunals to decide issues quickly...Aug7-2009--An indian court sentences three muslims to death for planting bombs in 2003 that killed 52...the defendants claim that they were retaliating for the death of over 2000 muslims in gujerat for which nobody has been indicted by teh indians...Aug7-2009--26 troops among 34 dead as bus falls into into indus near gilgit.. Aug7-2009--There have been two incidents in islamabad where US and danish security men have tried to fool pakistani police...a danish security man tried to pass by cops with something wired to his car while a US security official apprehended an SHO passing by teh US embassy and literally used profane language against pakistan...Aug7-2009--lahore commissioner confirms reports that the indians are actively using religious hatreds,ethnic divisions and labour activism to create problems for pakistan thru trained religious terrorists...Aug7-2009--lahores famed food streets gate was uprooted on teh orders of teh PMLn regime...Aug7-2009--punjab PMLn senior leaders son thrashed by legharisAug7-2009--Lahore HC PCO judge resignsAug7-2009--The country has over 9966 seminaries...most are just mosque based and teach teh basics of reading teh quranAug7-2009--TNFJ a sectarian grouping says it is not a proscribed organization...?banning organizations has not helped much and it only creates many smaller more vicious groups...Aug6-2009--PPP agrees to a treason case under article 6 against musharaf if national assembly says so...others have asked the SC to review the 1999 zafar ali shah case in which it regularised or accepted the musharaf coup...basically the SC has to say that military rule under any circumstance is not allowed under teh constitution and army chiefs cannot take over teh presidency or governance systems...the judges actively supported military rule earlier and their present attitude is in sharp contrast to their earlier activities...Aug6-2009--In balochistan Barrister Qazi Faez Isa son of Qazi Isa a reknowned muslim leaguer made CJAug6-2009--Two PCO judges of the SC faqir khokhar and javed buttar have resigned Aug6-2009--a drone attack on teh house of baitullah mehsuds father in laws house in laddha kills his wife with reports suggesting that baitullah mehsud is also deadAug6-2009--In doog darra 11 militants killed in lashkar attackAug6-2009--PPP naib nazim killed in gadap, karachiAug6-2009--Imambargah caretaker shot dead in karachiAug6-2009--Moonis elahi says government derelict inits economic responsibilities due to unnecessary price hikes, IMF loans and acquisition of expired rental power plants...Au6-2009--Shazain bugti says indian involvement being focused on only for military action...government says it has information about indian associations and the BLA/BLU's continued ethnic oriented assassinations are enough reasons for military actionsAug6-2009--government to remove all afghan mosque clerics from malakand...Aug6-2009--former mqm sector incharge killed in hyderabad who had been jailed for killing a hyderabad municipal officerAug6-2009--soldier killed in attack on military convoy in kohistan...Aug6-2009--musharaf could possibly be facing a corruption charge on acquisition of a five acre vegetable farm and construction of a huge palatial house...in islamabad...The SC has apparently backed off at present...other influential owners include a sitting SC judge and a former ISI director...etc..
Jul9-2009--A frightened set of provincial and federal governments postpones local bodies polls and opts for administrators instead...provincial governments seemingly want to create their own controlled almost dictatorial local bodies which cannot overshadow them...local governments under military rule had performed well however their powers had been consistently reduced by teh chief ministers as they perfomed better than provincial governments who were all but invisible..when the law and order will improve is unknown so the people might have to stay under teh so called neutral or supposedly honest beurocrats a species not known tobe common in pakistan..worried provincial governments also did not allow a census to go forward not wanting their provincial populations to reduce their NFC fundsJul9-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilanis support of the abominable carbon tax has many suggesting that people like him , hina and tareen would be better off working in the FBR rather than in responsible political positions ...finances and budgets are not only about collecting funds but knowing what the people want and keeping their interests in front rather than avoiding them at all costs.....Jul9-2009--two drone attacks kill 38 in south waziristan...it had been hoped that drones would shift to monitoring/intelligence work but it seems that the pakistan armed forces might have backed out from a major operation in south waziristan given recent attacks...baitullah camps said to have been attackedJul9-2009--army and government say buner and swat have been cleared and services have been restored...158 soldiers and 1600 militants lost their lives in teh operationJul9-2009--The judicial report on oil pricing says refineries and distribution companies enjoyed enormous profits during the past ten years...the government only seems to focus on its revenues and industries concerns and shows little or no regard for teh peoples problems...Jul9-2009--a former Mqm man, his two sons and servant killed in karachiJul9-2009--a bomb blast in a fruit cart kills one in peshawarJul9-2009--Levies men capture four police stations in pishin...!Jul9-2009--UN wants armoured vehicle import for its workers in difficult areas...many diplomats have been caught travelling in pakistan with arms in unmarked vehicles say the policeJul9-2009--during a military militant clash three women and two children killed as a shell hits their vehicle near dwa toi in north waziristanJul9-2009--norway embassy to remain shut for another weekJul9-2009--bomb blast at kalat police stationJul9-2009--lashkar organizer killed in tirahJul9-2009--Dawn says ethnic violence in Xinjiang the result of chinese attempts to diversify ethnic composition by moving in Han chinese and giving them better jobs, loans and government facilities...teh chinese supposedly.. jailed an uighur women for 25 years for leading a rebellion...chinese urge integration without respect for religions,cultures and ecomonic situations...teh chinese attempts to subjugate ethnic and religious groups have caused similar problems in tibetJul9-2009--A dawn editorial states that zardaris criticism of taleban as the militaries strategic asset who turned against teh state virtually negates the reason for their creation to fight initially teh russian invasion and as a by product attempting to liberate kashmir from indian occupation/hegemony and fight teh US occupation of afghanistan.....one must realize that fighting teh superpowers has been a time honoured tradition stretching from vietnam to afghanistan even thought the super powers have eventually become successful as states like india , china, russia and pakistan have succumbed to US might and wealth..whether problems like kashmir can be and afghanistan could have been solved without force is obviously doubtful since zardaris mentors teh US are using that same mechanism their...if u cannot use guerrillas and in a similar vein jihadis and taleban to fight wars when your army is weak or frightened to fight openly... than your army must learn to fight teh countries battles whether they be in afghanistan, tribal areas or kashmir...or elswhere since they supposedly have been fighting on a worldwide level..however one doubts that teh regimented army could have created a force that would be willing to fight it and teh country too..and whether the army can really fight a war is doubtful too
