The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug26, 2009

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 saeed

Aug26-2009--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 swat

Aug26-2009--two militants killed in clash with FC in quetta

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...