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 saeedAug26-2009--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 swatAug26-2009--two militants killed in clash with FC in quetta
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
