The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug 31-30, 2009

Aug31-2009--FarahNaz Isphahani denies that teh presidency is involved in reports maligning teh PMLn...Urges PMln to come forward with corruption reports on the PPP...one of them many say is that after doling out 12.5% shares of OGDC without charge Yusuf Raza Gilani reportedly sent a mesage to OGDC workers ..."ke mera hissa pohanch jana chahiye" others say that naveed qamar also delivered a similar message...others suggest that teh PPP is behind charges of nawaz sharifs ordering military to act against teh mqm in karachi in 1992 and taking funds from teh military-ISI during the ISI orchestrated IJI in 1990 ...?many suggest that the moves are an attempt to keep the unstable mqm from teaming up with the PMLn to topple the PPP regime which is immensely unpopular..

Aug31-2009--pakistan accused of modifying old anti ship harpoon missiles and PC3 Orions...by the NYT

Aug31-2009--anti terrorist DSP kiled in karak

Aug31-2009--As the vehicle stoppage at chaman continued 15 vehicles caught fire due to a blast in an oil tanker...

Aug31-2009--suicide bomber kills 16 police cadets in mingora police training center

Aug30-2009--In another of its dubious moves the PPP literally turned the Northern Areas into an illegitimate province and renamed it as Gilgit-baltistan even appointing a governor and giving it a chief minister...whether teh government can take such measures without teh approval of parliament is doubtful and teh government seems tobe occupying territory without it being a part of pakistan but still a sort of azad subordinate province...this is teh same sort of move in which teh government doled out billions worth of shares to teh workers of OGDC who apparently dont even do any work contracting out most of the important work to foreign companies...for this government illegitimacy and illegality are teh watchwords...many suggest that the government does not want to lose this area to the indians which also suggests some sort of dubious arrangement on kashmir with the indians...like musharaf... zardari also moving towards a sellout on kashmir many say kicking democratic institutions for a six on teh way...

Aug30-2009--teh controversial sindh judge Afzal Soomru who has travelled all over teh pakistan judiciary now being forced to appear before teh SJC on two references for improper judicial practices

Aug30-2009--supply trucks to afghanistan stopped at chaman as afghan truckers travelling to pakistan generally carrying fruit refuse to unload their trucks for inspection...

Aug30-2009--manmohan proving that his nature is teh same as other indians as he refuses to even open any negotiations

Aug30-2009--The government again attempting to prepare grounds for further price hikes inits continuing anti people agenda...petroleum price hike on teh cards...government unable to achieve economic stability...creation of shortages of essential products ...price hikes by unstable regime to cover its tracks..one price hike follows another...that is their childish economic policy...

Aug30-2009--Qadeer Khan objects to government provision of security...says he wants to travel to dubai whenever he feels like it ...says musharaf will be brought to justice by all the people that he has trampled upon...

Aug30-2009--helicopter gunships destroy training camp on island in swat river near charbagh as 18 militants are killed

Aug30-2009--seven more bodies found in swat...

Aug30-2009--Shabaz Sharif visits muzaffargarh and sacks DCO for poor ramazan bazaar arrangements...beaurocats must be fired for them to become efficient...

Aug30-2009--police arrest four westerners and a afghan in islamabad carrying assault weapons...

Aug30-2009--Dubai authorities seize a korean ship carrying weapons like grenade launchers that usually end up in teh hands of terrorists like those in pakistan...this is the first seizure of a korean ship under Un sanctions...!

The Daily Pakistan Politics--Aug16-17, 2009

Aug17-2009--The government again seems tobe implementing its anti people policy of hiking prices...again deliberately late in importing sugar and suggesting that they could not pickup sugar that mills had already been paid for...The punjab government which seems part of the sugar lobby also hiked retail sugar prices to Rs52..while reports of sugar being sold at Rs54-60...while teh production minister said that utility stores would sell sugar at Rs38 till december

Aug17-2009--mardan and swabi hit by flash rain floods killing 13 and washing away many houses...

Aug17-2009--17 of the maulvi nazir faction killed in apparent factional fighting in south waziristan as a hospital was bombed in makeen killing another twelve...

Aug17-2009--In what many term as using state resources for personal power esteem teh punjab government allocated 21 billion to turn a good four lane road into an eight lane behemoth between thokhar niaz baig and raiwind without assembly approval...!The provincial government has teh same discriminatory policy of allocating funds as teh federal government...

Aug17-2009--four soldiers injured in mingora suicide attack on a nawan kallay checpost while 18 bodies found in various swat areas...officials say over eighty such bodies found in various areas over last three months..army rejects accusations of mass killings...!

Aug17-2009--holbrooke says that pakistan has shifted focus from teh indian front to its internal areas in teh northwest...says pakistan backed out of south waziristan operation...while for the US advice is cheap spares for helicopters he says are difficult to acquire..

Aug17-2009--rocket attacks continue on kohat from the bezote area in kohat

Aug17-2009--two militants killed in bajaur

Aug16-2009--The sugar crisis worsened as teh cdgk raided godowns of 50000 bags of sugar...teh government said that there were 200000 tonnes of sugar lying around in factories some even paid for...but the governments moves suggested a collusion rather than attempts at reducing prices...

Aug16-2009--three soldiers and two civilians killed in suicide attack on checpost in khawazakhela

Aug16-2009--SBP cuts interests rates by 1% to 13%...

Aug16-2009--Sindh running out of male landless haris and land is now being distributed to women farmers a commodity rarely noticed...barring off course teh benazir daughters and sister

Aug16-2009--military convoy attacked in north waziristan killing one soldier as militant factions clash in tank killing four

Aug16-2009--In khuzdar a hand grenade attack on FC personnel kills one

Aug16-2009--sugar at Rs70 in hazara as rockets hit nowshera

Aug16-2009--Gilani says he has no liking for musharaf but he has limited powers todo anything in the present system

Aug16-2009--taleban abduct a UC nazim in malakand and behead two policemen as they regain strength in the palai area

Aug16-2009--nato oil tankers attacked in pishin

Aug16-2009--saboteurs blowup two 500kv power pylons in sindh and a 220KV pylon on teh shikarpur-Uch power line