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INTERNET ACCESS INCREASING, NSC, NOT RETIRING, PRIVATIZATION,ARMY RESHUFFLE, KALABAGH DAM SHELVED, IMF -- 17AUG-31AUG
CONVICTS CANT HOLD PARTY OFFICE,NWFP GOVERNOR RESIGNS, NAZIA HASAN IS DEAD,FEDERAL CABINET/NSC RESHUFFLED,NEW LOCAL BODIES SYSTEM, HAMOODURREHMAN COMMISSION REPORT, -- 01AUG-16AUG
SUGAR,RAIWIND ESTATE,FARUK SATTAR SENTENCED,BALOCH MINISTERS RESIGN,HELICOPTER CASE, MANGOS -- 15JUL--31JUL
ALLAN FAQIR IS DEAD, MUSHARAF MEETS POLITICIANS, CAR CHASE -- 02JUL--14JUL
WANTED INFORMERS,$10BILLION EXPORTS?,GAS PRICES UP BY 15%,2% RETAIL TAX-- 22JUN--01JUL
- 17AUG-Eight Indian agents arrested in Lahore who confess to killing 60 people and 25 bomb blasts
- Unidentified shining flying objects observed over Afghanistan and Balochistan
- The military govt like its two predecessors has drawn up a list of 49 state companies that it expects to privatize for around $4 billion
- 18Aug-92 cities and towns in Pakistan now have access to the internet. By October 2000 the access will increase to 262 cities and towns and by June 2002 around 1000 cities and localities or all telephone lines would have access
- The News quoting an unnamed govt official states that the NSC was reconstituted because it had become a meaningless debating club and was being overshadowed by the cabinet
- 19Aug-The News reports that Pervez Musharraf has refused to retire on the completion of his term in October 2001 and will probably stay in office upto August or October 2002
- 22Aug-Major generals Munir Hafeez and Javed Hassan promoted to the rank of Lt General
- 23 Aug--Five people died and 1500 fell ill after drinking polluted well water in a remote village near rawalpindi
- The govt has reached an agreement with traders says the finance minister on various aspects of GST, turnover tax, refunds and stock amnesty
- 24Aug-Imran Khan?s PTI and Tahirul Qadris PAT were expelled from the GDA which is an alliance of political parties and groups
- Aug25-The present govts attempts at restarting the generally failed privatization process has again run into accusations of manipulation and monopolization. The LPG assets of PSO, SNGPL and SSGC received offers of Rs121million, Rs140million and Rs369 million. The offers would make the companies recover the costs in afew years. The privatization commission should stick to a general guidline that the offers be around 16 times annual earnings
- Four Pakistani soldiers killed in an Indian attack on a position in Azad Kashmir
- India expels Pakistani embassy staffer
- 26Aug-Six persons reportedly policemen in plain clothes intruded into the residence of the Pakistani air attaché in New Delhi and carried out an unauthorised search. There have been over 80 incidents of harassment of Pakistani diplomats in New Delhi over the last five years
- Imran Khan, Hamid Nasir Chatta and Fakhar Imam met Musharraf. The politicians urged the revival of constitutional organizations and the democratization of the LB polls as well as a speedup of the much maligned accountability process
- 27Aug-Pakistan expels Indian embassy official for espionage
- 28Aug-Six civilians were killed due to unprovoked firing on civilian areas in azad Kashmir
- 30Aug--Air Marshal Farook Qari or Air Marshal Zahid Anis to be the new airforce chief on the retirement of Pervez Mehdi
- Riots in hyderabad as govt attempts to reclaim illegally occupied govt land
- 31Aug--The retirement of Lt generals Saeeduz Zafar and Afzal Janjua has caused a major reshuffle in the Pakistan armies ranks. Khalid Maqbool corp commander lahore is to replace Amjad Hussein at NAB while Amjad is being transferred as corp commander Multan.Mohd Yusuf Khan at present corp commander multan is being made the Chief Of General staff and Mohammed Aziz the present CGS is being made corp commander Lahore amongst other changes. Three other lt generals are to retire by January which include nawaz loyalists Salim Haider, MGO,and Mohammed Akram QMG and Agha Jehangir corp commander Gujranwala
- The govt has postponed the construction of the kalabagh dam for three years after opposition from sind and nwfp and asked wapda to concentrate on other projects which are less controversial and less expensive
- An IMF mission is due to arrive in Pakistan which will consider pakistans attempt to restart a $1-5 billion standby arrangement and further rescheduling of debt
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- 01AUG-Aftab Sherpao and families assets in Pakistan frozen by an accountability court.The family apparently apart from 2600 kanals in land,9 plots and residences reportedly has Rs 10 million, $0.5million and Pounds 75000 in various banks in Pakistan
- 04AUG--Two killed in quetta blast
- Asfandyar Wali, Pir Pagaro and Hai Balock meet Musharraf. Generally the meetings have had no effect on the govts attitude
- About 42 political parties including the PPP and PMLn attended an All Parties conference and asked for elections without delay
- 09AUG--The Hizbul mujahideen one of the groups fighting for the freedom of Kashmir withdrew its ceasefire offer after India refused to reciprocate
- 10AUG-Musharraf has promulgated an ordinance that disqualifies any convicted person from holding any office in any political party
- 14AUG-Nwfp Governor LG(retd) M. Shafiq resigned on health grounds
- 19 injured in Okara bomb blast
- Two policemen shot dead in multan
- Nazia Hasan dies of cancer
- 15AUG-Communication minister LG(retd) Iftikhar Ali Shah appointed governor of NWFP
- Federal cabinet and NSC reshuffled. Former NSC members Mehmood Ghazi and Attiya Inayatullah made ministers for religious affairs and Women development. LG(retd) Javed Ashraf made communications minister.Derrick Cyprian resigns and S. K. Tressler becomes minister for minority affairs. Sharifuddin Pirzada and Shafi Niaz made advisors to the CE.Imtiaz Ahmed made chairman federal land commission.The federal ministers for finance, defence, foreign affairs,commerce and interior will sit with the services chiefs on the NSC
- New local body system announced which revolves around a 21 member union council elected on non party basis.The nazims of these council become members of the zila council and the naib nazims goto the tehseel councils. The members of the zila council will elect a zila nazim who will run the district affairs with a district coordination officer and 13 district officers. DC/commissioners abolished. Voting age reduced to 18 and district police chief to serve under the zila nazim
- The publication of supposed excerpts of The Hamoodurrehman commission report on the 1971 debacle in East Pakistan in an Indian newspaper and quoted widely on the internet has caused an uproar.The present government most probably released or sold the excerpts. It blames the loss on a loose moral fibre that exists amongst Pakistan army officers. However the tiny Pakistan army hemmed in by secessionist anti Pakistan Bengalis and waiting unsuccessfully for American intervention literally keeled over without a fight when India invaded. The only question that remains unanswered is why musharaf released the report in this way?Some politicians are asking for the generals involved tobe tried. Some want to know why the order to fight till the end was not given. Others wonder why our army tends to make the Indian army look so good when we are supposedly braver and superior?
- Five killed in bomb blast in south waziristan
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- 15JUL-Sugar prices continue to rise in the local market despite imports and reduction in import taxes. Wholesale prices are around Rs24 and retail prices around Rs29
- PMLn files review petition against SC decision validating military takeover and giving one person the right to amend the constitution
- The military govt expects to file a reference against the Nawaz family for misappropriating land thru govt pressure and spending Rs700 million in building the raiwind personal family estate
- Naveed Qamar the PPP incharge of the privatization commission and others have been indicted for causing a loss in the sale of Ittehad chemicals
- 16JUL-Farook Sattar an MQM leader and former sind minister for local bodies was sentenced to fourteen years in prison and a fine of Rs 50 million for corruption in awarding octroi contracts.It is surmised that the only leader from the mqm tobe arrested by the military was involved in ordering mayhem in Karachi
- Musharaf becomes a muslim by making the Islamic provisions of the constitution a part of the PCO
- 17JUL--Ten dead as bomb explodes in the Karachi bound mehran express near hyderabad
- 18JUL-Musharaf meets Sajid Naqvi, Sami Ul Haq, and Hasil Bizenjo.Refuses to end campaign against benazir and nawaz and restore assemblies
- Two balochistan ministers Wazir Jogezai and Razia Baber resigned
- Pakistan earned $689million from the export of mangoes in the last fiscal year. Pakistan grows a number of delicious mango varieties in semi arid areas of southern Punjab and Sind
- 19Jul-The Peshawar High Court has set aside a conviction of former nwfp chief minister Aftab Sherpao in one corruption case involving allotment of plots. Sherpao escaped confinement by secretly leaving the country
- 2 die as quake hits Peshawar
- Forteen rockets fired by disgruntled tribesmen into quetta streets
- Four ministers Naeem Ahmed, Nasser Bacha, Sadaat Ali and Roshan Barocha inducted into the balochistan cabinet
- 21Jul--Flat rate electricity for baloch farmers restored
- Govt agrees to 5-7% indirect devaluation by floating the rupee
- 22JUL-A five member AJK cabinet including Ali Mohammed Chacha,,Ashraf Khan, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Javed Akhter, Akhter Rabbani and senior minister Ishaq Zafar were sworn in.
- A seventh minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh joined the Sind cabinet
- Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 14 years, Rs20million fine and 21 year ban on holding public office in the helicopter tax evasion case and living beyond his means
- 9 soldiers killed in quetta bomb blasts,28 injured
- Bank accounts of Nawaz family and others frozen
- Nawaz family insists on his remaining PMLn president while party opponents start campaign for his replacement
- Telephone call charges raised from Rs2.10 to Rs2.31 per local call. Line rent raised to Rs282 per month.NWD and international call rates reduced by 13% and 11%
- 24JUL-A hand grenade blowsup and injures several people in Quetta. Baloch Liberation army claims responsibility for quetta blasts. Others think that hijackers of Indian plane are involved who disappeared in balochistan
- 25Jul -In a sudden move a kashmiri mujahideen group announces a ceasefire and and offers talks to India
- 8 die in Lahore as heavy rains wreak havoc
- The musharraf govt has dismissed, demoted and retired over 70 officers for corruption, inefficiency and misconduct
- 26JUL-Musharraf meets Rao Sikander, Aftab Sheikh and Ijazul Haq
- One person killed as hand grenades lying on a hill near Islamabad explode
- 27JUL--A toy bomb explodes in Quetta
- Three women die in a kohat grenade explosion
- Micro Finance Bank started to provide micro credit to the poor
- 28JUL--8 die as picnicers swimming downstream of the Tarbela dam are swept away by the sudden rush of water released from its tunnels
- The PMLn backed Fida Nashad of the TJP was elected deputy chief executive of the Northern areas council. PPP boycotts election
- 29JUL-Traders again on three day strike against tax survey, gst and turnover tax
- Fish and shrimp exports fetch $130million
- Hand woven carpets export fetches $250million
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- 02JUL-Govt to get Rs 9 billion from tax amnesty scheme
- The tax survey contInues to draw protests from traders. In multan more than 700 traders some armed exchanged fire, brickbatted police and burned tyres.Protest rallies were also held in nwfp.
- Death penalty,manual labour, corporal punishment for children abolished.Children not tobe handcuffed or fettered
- Two lashkar e jhangvi hitmen arrested in multan
- Jul03-Musharaf starts meeting political leaders. First group included Raja Zafar ul Haq, Ajmal Khattak, Mian Azhar, and Fazlur Rehman
- Nawaz Sharif and other high profile prisoners shifted to Attock Fort from Karachi
- Jul04-Ali Raza appointed president of National Bank Of Pakistan . Until recently he was the head of The Bank Of Americas Pakistan operations
- Jul05-Amin Fahim vice chairman of the PPP meets Musharraf
- Allan Faqir dies
- JUL06-Traders clash with police in rawalpindi
- Jul08-four killed in bomb blasts at a Lahore bus stand and in gujranwala
- Hundreds of Pmln leadesr arrested to forestall protest march by kulsoom nawaz
- Jul09-In a dramatic car chase kulsoom nawaz escaped from her model town residence by breaking a police barricade and than refused to get out of the car when stopped . The car was than towed away to a resthouse by a crane. Kulsoom nawaz and other leaders in the car were arrested after they agreed to step out of the car. She was than sent back home
- $8.46 billion exports during 1999-2000 . Tax revenues of Rs345billion
- Jul11-Hand grenade damages Pakistan embassy in Kabul
- Jul12-FalakSher appointed Punjab High Court Chief Justice
- Jul13-10 dead and 45 injured as a bus carrying boy scouts falls into a ravine near abottabad
- Jul14-five injured in a bomb blast in Lahore
- 23000 posts abolished at the federal level since Oct12. Upper age limit for CSS exams reduced to 28
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- 22JUN-A person who was apparently an afghan died after a bomb he was carrying blew up at the pirwadhai bus stand in rawalpindi which injured twelve others
- Former NWFP chief secretary and former additional secretary ehtesab bureau Khalid Aziz was sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of Rs50 million for accumulating assets of Rs 100 million supposedly thru corruption.
- The Pakistani govt faced a humiliating defeat when the ICJ refused to adjudicate on the downing of a submarine hunter by Indian planes which crossed into Pakistani territory to shoot it down
- The conservative governor of NWFP has banned cable TV in the province. Cable tv generally broadcasts innocuous Indian and sports channels
- US persuaded Pakistan to pull out of Kargil says US general Zinni
- The Sind High Court has set aside the conviction of Salman Farooki and family on corruption charges and sent the case back to NAB for retrial
- Musharraf approved 15% increase in gas prices from July
- Oormara naval base/port inaugurated
- 25JUN--Musharraf to disqualify 845 parliamentarians for improper assets declaration
- 29JUN--Musharraf is still looking for informers almost a year into his dictatorial rule and he is even willing to reward them?
- 29JUN-The musharraf govt has scaled back its export target from $14billion to $10 billion. This year the military govt could barely achieve exports of around $8billion.Expectations of a 25% increase seem pretty much out of proportion
- 1JUL--The MUSHARRAF-military govt continues to increase the woes of ordinary people by starting a new 2% turnover tax at the retail stage
- 1JUL--The Union bank became the largest private bank with 28branches in 15 cities after it acquired the failing Bank Of Americas local operations
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