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 Pakistan Politics--Aug18-19, 2009

Aug19-2009--another 220 kv power pylon blownup on the Uchh-sindh line causing power problems in larkana

Aug19-2009--militants set fire to two lower dir schools

Aug19-2009--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 prestige

Aug18-2009--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 seven

Aug18-2009--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 areas

Aug18-2009--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 dead

Aug18-2009--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...