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
Aug15-2009--The government is apparently buying sugar at Rs 25 per kilo and selling it to the unwary public at Rs38...The nasty and mean industries minister refused to bring sugar rates down even in ramazan...why the government is taking a hefty 55% profit is not very clear..Aug15-2009--american policy in the region is for pakistan to follow their orders and for india to do whatever it wants...a former ambassador to india Robert Blake the defacto secretary of state for south asia which as far as teh US and india are concerned has no pakistan...Blake has no soft spot for pakistan as is apparent from todays dawn...pakistan had better eat politics while india orders it around...people cannot be condemned without a trial as is done in india and perhaps teh USA too...it is clinton who does not want to raise teh issue of kashmir not pakistan as suggested perhaps erroneously by Blake...a country can hardly be teh highest foreign policy priority when its views and interests are totally rejected...Aug15-2009--Mr Zardari must have a very myopic view of things ..he wants a country that cant protect its gas plants, pipelines and power pylons from being bombed to become a hub for india and china...rajasthan, gujerat and indian punjab are not very far from bombay and they really donot need pakistani ports...as far as china is concerned it would best leave its hinterland undeveloped as it is a politically volatile territoty...building pipelines is a costly business and pakistan has enough problems of its own to manage...Aug15-2009--The judges who have been fired say there are enough loopholes in teh anti PCO judgement to warrant an appeal...?Aug15-2009--Nawaz Sharif says the army should prosecute musharraf for bringing it into disrepute and disregarding teh constitution...he mocked the islamabad traffic police saying that if a traffic error is punished than so should teh abrogation and negation of teh constitution...Many have however argued that teh army should court martial musharaf and a court of his peers should sit in judgement...there are enough retired generals to form a court martial headed if needed by teh army chief or general tariq...?many have argued that nawaz sharif should also be punished for appointing such a bad character and malingerer as army chief...as should teh SC for approving teh coupAug15-2009--In what can be termed as outright corruption the PPP regime has offered 12.5% shares of state enterprises to teh bad state enterprise workers so that the misdirected privatisation plan can go ahead...teh PPP which initially nationalized everything has forgotten its populist and socialist ideals and become a mean capitilistic natured party...Aug15-2009--Punjab government confiscates sugar stocks of various factories Aug15-2009--rockets fired into kohat and peshawarAug15-2009--IDP's in kacha garhi camp raise black flags to describe their hell hole life in teh camp...Aug15-2009--over ten people die in independence day celebrationsAug15-2009--The governments policies are full of contradictions...it wants everything that the people buy to be more expensive while it subsidizes the rich agricultural and textile lobbies..Aug14-2009--government announces some reforms to fata's FCR regulations allowing politics but not going far enough to change teh cruel collective responsibility clauses and destruction of homes and properties...Aug14-2009--13 militants killed in orakzai air strikesAug14-2009--Yusuf raza Gilani refuses to meet mark lyall grant who apparently came to ease the pressure on musharaf to face trialAug14-2009-- a lt col is killed in clashes with smugglers in kharanAug14-2009--punjab sugar factories hoarding 30% sugar stocks...Aug14-2009--another LHC judge resignsAug15-2009--while the rates for teh older IPP plants should have been reduced by now the power minister accused of corruption says that rental plants are teh only solution...and their rates are almost similar to IPP's...since teh rental power plant is not being bought and requires less financial outlays the rental power rates should be much lesser...the high rates are evident in teh huge profits earned by Hubco...!!
Aug13-2009--as exports fell 24% in july teh government which supposedly has a policy to end subsidies offered the textile sector huge subsidies to enhance textile exports which are being challenged by countries like china, bangladesh and india...india already has western brand outlets in nepal and sri lanka and sells them at double the prices of pakistan...pakistan cannot compete if it does not improve quality...if prices are important than why does teh pakistani government hike the prices of all inputs...Aug13-2009--lawyers say that zardari and gilani are ambivalent about bringing musharaf to justice...they are bent upon avoiding charging him for violating teh constitution and imposing military rule as if they supported military coups...Aug13-2009--supporters of baitullah mehsud and turkistan bhittani clash in jandola killing over 70...baitullahs men set fire to 33 bhittani houses in soor gher that left seven bhittani men dead..Bhittanis claim killing over 50...Aug13-2009--Rehman malik says they will continue reconciliation in balochistan despite not wearing bangles and an announcement about implementing 14 points might be in teh offing...Aug13-2009--MCB buys RBS local operationsAug13-2009--seven pakistanis apparently tablighis gunned down at a mosque in somalian puntland...Aug13-2009--The pakistani regime which is unable to even represent its own views is supposedly behind the construction of the $1 billion american embassy says an american charge d affairs..to house over 300 marines who could conceivably start mounting raids or operations...they say that they will also hire 1200 pakistanis...americans who have never been able to explain what they are doing in pakistan say their deeds will be honourable this time..?Aug13-2009--two killed in quetta as a motorcycle blows up and militants fire on FC...rockets fired at a FC fort in loralai...grenade hurled at FC vehicle in hazar ganji and rocket fired at police personnel carrier
