Aug19-2009--another 220 kv power pylon blownup on the Uchh-sindh line causing power problems in larkanaAug19-2009--militants set fire to two lower dir schoolsAug19-2009--The unpopularity of high wheat prices is so great that the punjab government is selling atta at Rs 200 per twenty kilos so fasting muslims have something to eat in these troubled times...Aug19-2009--US says that material or equipment shortages delaying south waziristan push but timing is a matter for the army to decide... Aug19-2009--The PPP regime which is seen as weak and powerless against lobbies of industrialists and international donors increases sugar retail prices to Rs.60...Aug19-2009--suicide attack on bannu miranshah road checpost kills four soldiers...Aug19-2009--Gilani summarily sacks the pakistan steel chief...gilani who is seen as ineffective and just a seat warmer might be trying to show that he has some powers...or might be is kicking out an opponent to the corruption of privatisation...Aug19-2009--maulvi omar teh deposed spokesman of the TTP arrested from mohmand..Aug19-2009--A dawn report says that teh TTP which is almost restricted to some tribal territories will divide and become a group of weak protagonists...The TTP leadership was based on organising amazing feats of terrorism and fighting the army head on which has caused them tremendous losses...and prestigeAug18-2009--In what many term as the comedy of errors manmohan singh said there was teh emergence of new terror attack threats from pakistan while his interior minister denied that saying there had been no attacks since bombay...such attacks usually occur about once in two years showing the poor resources of such organisations and the difficulty in organising them...in pakistan which only learns of such attacks afterwards there was no concern shown and they asked manmohan to share his sources of information...manmohan who recently has shown concern at maoist threats in teh countries north said there was a surge in infiltration which obviously comes from his army trying to fool him...however in pakistan concern has been shown at the numerous muslims killed in gujerat especially by hindus for which no hindu has been hanged yet...others say that direct threats have been phoned to manmohan showing teh growing disparity in the muslims killed and those killed in retaliation...some say we still have to take revenge for 1780 muslims what to say of the thousands killed in kashmir...manmohan can get rid of terrorism easily by quickly moving down the road of a real kashmir solution...others say that manmohan is literally asking for another attack...many blame his congress for having ordered the bombay attack...Aug18-2009--In nwfp's shabqadar area a bomb exploded in a bus killing sevenAug18-2009--The US which has been unable to solve any of the crisis in the area now has jumped into the energy arena saying that they cannot solve that in a day either...we just hope it does not take them another ten years...Aug18-2009--In what many term as the growing incidents of government orchestrated murders the head of the former SSP was shot dead in khairpur...many are pointing their fingers at the sindh home minister who some say is acting as the killing arm of the national assembly speaker another sindhi...? some rioting in karachi and other sindh areasAug18-2009--The pakistani regime seems only interested in importing sugar now because its price is now much higher and will benefit teh sugar lobby...many wonder why prices in pakistan should match european prices when they import from local markets...pakistan is a strange economic model where prices match the west and salaries and infrastructure are like poor underdeveloped countries...Aug18-2009--LHC takes up the issue of the lahore canal road widening from dharampura to thokar niaz beg an ambitious project which is congested with heavy traffic but also is the only relatively green road barring some areas of the mall...many say it will make it easier for teh current punjabi kings who live in raiwind to visit the shalimar bagh...?Aug18-2009--Humayun Akhter teh controversial industrialist son of a former ISI chief gets kicked out of the PMLq to trouble dissidents who were planning a parallel setup...Humayun akhter was the humane side of teh musharaf regime who refused to hike prices in 2007...the price hikes protagonist hina rabbani has jumped into teh the same slot in the PPP and is causing irrepareble harm to them and teh people by her anti people economics...Aug18-2009--in ongoing quetta violence three people shot deadAug18-2009--1300 people reappointed by the PPP in the IB as the feeble government asks india for intelligence information as it has none of its own...india supposedly has thousands of informants in pakistan while teh pakistani regime sits on a throne untroubled by any people problems and obviously uninformed about anything that happens or might happen...
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...
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 peocharJun17-2009--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 maidanJun17-2009--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...
