Jul27-2009--In what can only be said tobe an inability to get constitutional change the PPP regime abdicated all responsibility for the LG system and said that provinces can do with it what they want...many suggest that even if the provinces are responsible for designing their own systems it is teh responsibility of teh center to at least give an overall legislation giving such responsibility to teh provinces..the center should at least ensure that it is a democratic process and does not turn into an autocratic dictatorship of teh chief ministership as envisaged by the punjab PMLn...
Jul27-2009--The PPP also tried to show that it did not have a duality inits views about musharaf and would allow teh courts to decide the various issues related to musharafs coup initiated rule...there have been varying signals from teh PPP with one sindhi member saying that musharaf was a personal friend...many have opined that many in the PPP heirarchy had actually been advising musharaf in various sinister ways...
Jul27-2009--Army says it has captured over 35000kgs of explosives, 14 suicide vehicles and nine boys trained tobe suicide bombs...from swat
Jul27-2009--Sufi mohammed and his two sons arrested in peshawar
Jul27-2009--three involved in mariott bombing arrested
Jul27-2009--20 militants and two non combatants killed in fata, Dir and swat
Jul27-2009--In balochistan the BLUF killed a rice trader from sheikhupura at a weekly bazaar in quetta..sui gas pipeline blownup
Jul27-2009--security officials carryout operations in shah hassankhel village near lakki marwat
Jul27-2009--In kohat security officials arrest 20 SSP/JM workers and free 4 kidnapped officials
Jul26-2009--In what many see as a shrinking of the oil bill from $11.64 to $9.509 in 2008-9..could be a ballooning in quantity due to the massive fall in oil prices..pakistani imports shrank in general barring a few food products...such as sugar, wheat, tea and pulses and power generation machinery
Jul26-2009--In what many see as a surprise the supposedly straight barring hiring relatives yusuf raza gilani seems to have a corrupt wife...she apparently was part of two companies who refused to return agricultural loans of Rs.71 million and over Rs.100 million...one wondered where they had got their money...NAB judge refuses to back down
Jul26-2009--bottling plant manager and worker shot dead in quetta
Jul26-2009--banks and educational institutions to open in mingora
Jul26-2009--one militant killed afer police storm a suspects residence in quetta
Jul26-2009--ex mna named in killing of polish geological engineer
Jul26-2009--In what many see as punjabs reduction in influence the PPP brought in a ghafoor mirza seen as a pro zardari type as a private punjab rep and fired hina rabbani khar from teh NFC committee...Gilani who will now head the NFC will have to stand up for punjab for them to get their extorted finances back from sindh...
Jul26-2009--Armed forces kill 10 militants in Buner, 4 in swat and capture a cave full of ammunition
Jul26-2009--raja ashraf refuses to nationalize KESC but says we can take tough measures such as replacing mangement as he expects to reduce power shortages soon...
Jul26-2009--TNSM tries to activate itself again after it failed in controlling teh swat and malakand mayhem...whether government will allow it to start its activities again is not clear...Sufi mohammed had escaped from lower dir after teh situation worsened and has resurfaced in peshawar after travelling all around teh area...
Jul26-2009--JSQM strike in sindh after their convoy was attacked in karachi on friday killing a district president...poor response in thar and hyderabad while 19 were arrested..one attacker killed by JSQM while remaining attacker being grilled...JSQM hands over two ISI identity cards which agency says are fake...cards say they were sources...men supposedly also belong to an mqm faction and have criminal records
Jul26-2009--PMLn's thieving mpa shomaila rana resigns
Jul26-2009--In lakki marwat nine policemen injured as suicide bomber rams police van
Jul26-2009--IED damages vehicles on indus highway near kohat
Jul26-2009--ANF shoot dead a man driving a vehicle that did not stop at teh chakri interchange
Jul25-2009--In karachi a JSQM rally fired upon killing their thatta president while one attacker was killed and another arrested
Jul25-2009--musharaf says he will defend himself in court
Jul25-2009--PPP says that they and provincial governments do not want the LG system and that provinces will soon move to appoint administrators instead..many suggest that teh current politicians could not tolerate the almost independent LG system...and would probably appoint administrators and forget to hold new elections...the LG system was successful at the grassroots level until people like pervez elahi started to dismantle it...
Jul25-2009--chemistry professor shot dead in quetta
Jul25-2009--CNIC name verification now possible by sending SMS to 7000
Jul25-2009--21 taleban killed in swat and dir
Jul24-2009--SC also backs out on electricity tariff and tamely tells Nepra to inform it before raising tariffs...teh SC falling in with government statements that tariff would only be hiked after ending load shedding...
Jul24-2009--Damani dam breaches in barkhan
Jul24-2009--carpet factory in mach jail set on fire by prisoners
Jul24-2009--PPP again defers its cabinet reshuffle...many see most ministers as not functioning properly and teh primeminister as just sitting around...most say that gilani and zardari want their own lackeys in important positions which causes a reshuffle tobe difficult to manage...
Jul24-2009--principal of a school gunned down in quetta
Jul24-2009--gas pipeline blownup near khairpur
Jul23-2009--The SC in what many say is a stop start process of courage and weakness issues a challenge to musharaf to explain his Nov3 actions...
Jul23-2009--27 militants killed in malakand as suspected training centers in south waziristan bombed killing ten militants
Jul23-2009--yusuf raza gilani allocates 28 civil service jobs to baloch and 57 to women in the 2008 batch
Jul23-2009--one soldier killed in miranshah
Jul23-2009--The PPP which is big on relatives in government appoints tauqir sadiq a jehangir badar brother in law as OGRA chief...
Jul23-2009--BRP says they are fighting without foreign help...government has available to it data showing baloch rebel leaders visiting indian consulates etc...
Jul23-2009--Zardari supports chinese suppression of teh muslim uighurs in xinjiang...teh controversial chinese actions against the uighurs have a long history as the chinese are bringing in han to make them economically weaker...
Jul23-2009--four mqm men booked for killing a policeman in karachi as more KESC centers are attacked and mqm suggests handing over KESC to the CDGK
Jul22-2009--In what may describe teh SC of this time and the future teh chief justice cleared the 2008 elections saying they were held under teh constitution...whether something is legal when one part of teh government isn't constitutional is something only the SC can say and do...earlier it has given strange decisions about military rule and its consequences and dealt with teh government of coup plotters and given them legality as it basically supported authoritarianism and opposed teh mixed up roles that politicians play...the SC must clearly state that coup plotters are never well intentioned and are bad army types...SC praises parliament on not validating Nov3 actions although not doing anything about it too... how it sees musharaf going scot free of any blame is difficult to understand...The chief justice said that they could visit the Iqbal tikka case but their judgments would not be retrospective showing teh court tobe frightened of dealing with many or some past wrongs...of late teh SC chief justice has blamed teh court for the execution of a primeminister and toppling governments by teh military and giving them sustenance...
Jul22-2009--mild to ferocious protests erupted in teh punjab over electricity outages and price hikes by the traders who went on a strike..a train was torched in jhang...
Jul22-2009--Indians told of their involvement in pakistans internal troubles as indian intelligence agencies based in afghanistan and iran have long had a direct hand in pakistans troubles..pakistan did not mention iran while teh USA only adopted a mild approach to indian involvement in terrorist activities...while being xtremely harsh with pakistan. Hillary however did make some sort of a parallel with teh guantanamo prisoners and those held by pakistan for teh bombay incidents...
Jul22-2009--in continuing operations in dir 12 militants were killed and security forces have taken control of many militant held areas
Jul22-2009--Everybody has their own angle on the power crisis...Raja ashraf says he has almost overcome teh crisis...wapda says bhasha will solve it...zardari has come out with electricity from tashkent..sindh wants electricity from air and Lakhra coal and Asim says that teh expensive iranian gas will solve teh problem of power fuels...while yusuf raza and teh WB/IMF say extremely high prices will solve teh problem...availability and keeping prices reasonable are the essence for the pakistani economy..Since 1982 the government has been unable to keep a sustainable power policy with many failed schemes which included only hydel power...save electricity etc. etc.....many suggest that unless the government keeps prices in control nobody will need electricity soon..? and that an overall electricity handling group might be needed to control IPP's, fuel providers like PSO and sui gas companies, Pepco, KESC, Wapda and other related organizations such as distribution companies..IMF/WB and the mean and nasty ministry of finance and power...karachis industrialists say that a captive power plant costs Rs5 per unit while PEPCO/KESC is charging Rs9 which shows unnecessary profits..by the state
Jul22-2009--3 die in karachi building collapse as death toll in rain losses rises to 50
Jul22-2009--Pepco tells peopel to keep calm against its price hikes and unnecessary load sheddings...Pepco spokesman said that load shortfall was 18% while loadsheddings were in the range of 30-40%...the primeminister and president are either blind or only concerned with karachis problems...
Jul22-2009--gas pipeline blownup near pirkoh
Jul22-2009--grenade attack in quetta and bomb blast in khuzdar
Jul22-2009--power protests in peshawar and sukkur/qamber as well
Jul21-2009--massive power outages continued from saturday to monday evening in karachi
Jul21-2009--pakistan wants EU arms and troop trainings too...?
Jul21-2009--two IDP camps closed in mardan...
Jul21-2009--problems continued in swat as one soldier was killed and 18 militants...four tribesmen were found with throats slit..a local cleric was also killed
Jul21-2009--dozens of militants killed in lower dir and three soldiers as well...
Jul21-2009--four police personnel killed on the outskirts of peshawar
Jul21-2009--In karachi consumers or gangs of roughians attacked 21 KESC outlets as power outages continued..in some places police had to fire tear gas shells...while KESC said that attacks on KESC will cause work to slow down and that only four grid stations were not working...
Jul21-2009--rain related death toll rises to 41 in karachi
Jul21-2009--The LG system was seen tobe relatively successful in grass roots development and even law enforcement was better handled apart from heavy rioting ...the current provincial governments attempt to push teh clock back and bring back provincial controls on law and order and development...Zardari who is generally influenced by teh mqm is backing out after punjab refused to share administrator appointments..law and order is also improving and only elections should be held under administrators...the PPP which under Benazir had been behind the concept of devolution would have preferred political administrators but the PMLn prefers teh beaurocracy...
Jul20-2009--Asim Hussein tries to justify the high cost of iranian gas which according to some sources is the most expensive gas in the world of pipelines...given current usage patterns it would not be available to generate power alone..asim had earlier suggested that the gas was so expensive that it could only be justified if used for power generation...
Jul20-2009--people in karachi protested at rain related power outages...instead of helping solve issues karachis educated started rioting...karachi says it lost power due to a 500KV kine outage at guddu which seems ridiculous as most of its power is locally generated...28 deaths reported in almost record rainfall that had karachi almost entirely flooded..karachiites many say are paranoid...
Jul20-2009--Asim Hussein is trying to explain away teh governments bad policy on petroleum pricing...taking taxes of Rs18-22 on a price of Rs63 is a bit harsh anyway...his calculation of Rs37 as the refinery price might be too high... It might be cheaper to import refined products instead many suggest...others suggest that the government should use the middle east oil price as teh base rather than western oil prices
Jul20-2009--PMLn says it will appoint all administrators in punjab and no share tobe given to PPP
Jul20-2009--In what many see as a mockery of not only free tractor distribution or discounted tractors teh chief secretary punjabs son and wife got a tractor each...why everyone in a family needs a tractor is hard to fathom...small landholders can easily rent tractors as they need it for a day or two in a season...tractors dont improve agriculture in themselves
Jul20-2009--three terrorists killed in malakand
Jul19-2009--In what many say is teh musharaf doctrine continuing who had thought that india in a few years would itself suggest a kashmir solution but that didnt happen...now yusuf raza says he will build trust thru talks...trust for what end...meaningless..seems that yusuf raza has some views about indians that are not based on reality...indians have never solved any problem preferring that they have a propaganda item whenever necessary... mere talks solve nothing...either pakistan should give up or talk aggressively on the issue...he says that he fights only those who fight teh writ of teh government and not its external enemies...in a mild rejoinder to the bombay incident pakistan gave india a dossier on what it had on indian involvement...in balochistan...they were also involved in swat and Fata..many say..
Jul19-2009--heavy rains in karachi, hyderabad and upper sindh...18 dead..roads flooded, cars marooned..68 powerlines snapped and karachi was without power and water
Jul19-2009--In what many say is teh PPP regimes belated understanding that they have to play by teh rules...Gilani withdrew the nomination for teh ambassador to France as 105 foreign service officers filed a court case in The ICJ
Jul19-2009--12 militants killed in Orakzai by air strikes on taleban positions with severe clashes in darra adamkhel areas
Jul19-2009--FIA clarifies that it is more democratic than teh current regime and political jokes and commentary will not be proscribed by a stiff law the PECO 2008..
Jul19-2009--despite teh immense problems generated by the KESC privatization government bent upon privatizing other good and bad power distribution companies...
Jul19-2009--as the USA claims that india is a friend they say that they will still not start brokering a solution on kashmir immediately and will only urge india to open up...the uSA while being extremely harsh with pakistan is taking teh softest of approaches to india and is not even willing to take up issues on which it literally dictates to pakistan..india many say is deeply involved in trying to destabilize pakistan in every possible way whether it be karachi, multan, balochistan, swat or fata...
Jul19-2009--In what many say is a zardari like action who ordered link canals to punjab closed for a month a baloch minister closed the grang regulator to sindh for four hours...sindh is responsible for teh baloch share of 6000 cusecs..balochistan getting less than 2200 cusecs... ...rangers were called in to open teh regulator to the canal in sindh...
Jul19-2009--security forces destroy the lashkar i islam center outside peshawar
Jul 19-2009--many suggest that teh PPP and PMLn should restudy their liking for a subordinate LG system controlled by beaurocrats even though teh LG system served teh interests of the military dictatorship...winning elections should be the target/route to LG power and allowing substantial powers to devolve to district systems should be preferable as long as they work within the framework of teh country...crushing a system into disfiguration is not preferable and u might as well create a new one with new names...teh word nazim reminded everyone of teh jamat i islami...The worst part of the LG system is the extreme unequal distribution of resources and many suggest that is where the provincial governments should reccommend real change...
Jul18-2009--Nawaz Sharif acquitted in plane hijacking case by the SC...musharaf and his henchmen wanted a death sentence which if carried out would have made musharaf a hero in sindh and a villain in punjab...teh courts at that time had refused a death sentence and teh machiavellian nature of musharaf allowed nawaz sharif to leave teh country despite a sentence of life imprisonment...many had said at that time that musharaf had paid for nawaz sharif giving him an out of turn army chiefship...judges who seem to have woken up after a decade now say that there was no hijacking or anything like it while at that time an ATC judgement had been upheld...by teh SHC...nawaz sharif can now participate in politics...
Jul18-2009--Nawaz Sharif and Zardari meet again after eight months as zardari goes to raiwind...sharif who is supposedly a gilani supporter was told that ANP and mqm insist on pukhtunkhwa and provincial autonomy...both have generally been rejected and nawaz sharif would find it difficult to support an 18th amendment that was not clearly pro primeminister or which did not allow him tobe primeminister again...The ANP and mqm are not really required to support an amendment and nawaz sharif and his brother gave zardari secret advice about how to go about things...many suggest that the PPP is clearly divided betwwen teh anti people gilani and the sindhi wadera who might not be interested in losing all his power...zardari only seems interested in what the mqm wants or what he perceives tobe good for sindh...he seems to have little interest in teh punjab and many critisize his cronyistic attitudes.. he also replaced tariq aziz with salman farooki as the talks envoy to india...in sindh provincial autonomy means how to usurp even more water from punjab and get them to sign on an NFC which is supposedly even worse than teh one created by musharaf and pervaiz elahi...The PPP wants to appoint all local government administrators since it is still a federal matter..zardaris strange nature was noted by many as this is his first visit to lahore after becoming president...political leaders in power apparently prefer visiting areas where they have camp offices...
Jul18-2009--The sindhi nature of teh PPP regime was explained even in more detail when the ecnec dams proposal was announced ...sindh given 21.6 billlion, balochistan 22.3 billion, punjab 5.7 billion and nwfp 3.4 billion...it must be terribly difficult to build dams in balochistan and sindh...or might be teh dams in punjab are tiny small ones
Jul18-2009--The UN commission on Benazir wants only voluntary infomation and they dont want to summon anyone..apparently it is just another scotland yard type thing and will try to explain how it happened...a lot of information is now available to pakistan and teh UN on teh issue and still teh government has made no move to apprehend or detain anyone...
Jul18-2009--The ministry of water and power in an advert since no one is now willing to even print anything on their power politics gave a list of 19 projects which they say will enable load shedding to end in december...at the moment load shedding has reached a new high in rawalpindi and one cannot say what is happening in other areas..how Pepco or whoever does it will be able to handle the generally private sector projects and whether they can get and maintain fuel supplies is as yet unknown...
Jul18-2009--Hillary Clinton who apparently seems to have given up on the kashmir issue faster than anyone in US history saying it is a pakistan-india bilateral issue says that her visit to india should not threaten pakistan...since teh US has always projected indian views one just hopes that they will not create even further trouble for pakistan...the troubles they created in pakistan over teh last decade are an example that she should not talk to teh indnians about pakistans internal issues since she will be avoiding talking about bilateral issues...
Jul18-2009--In what many say is teh dual nature of teh indians manmohan refused to talk to pakistan despite agreeing to delink terrorism and other issues.. one hopes he will by now have realized that the cause is there tobe pursued and everything is directed at that..The indian opposition saw no point in their avoiding talks with pakistan for eight months...manmohan is being accused of a sell out...many say the BJP thought that the bombay incident would aid them but teh opposite happened...
Jul18-2009--drone kills five in north waziristan
Jul18-2009--30 shops gutted as two nato oil tankers blownup in khyber agency
Jul18-2009--ASI shot dead in DI Khan
Jul18-2009--governments strange policies ...no subsidies to the people but sindhs farmers to get 3000 subsidized tractors...?
Jul17-2009--Manmoham singh had barely gotten back when he announced that no talks would be held with pakistan after agreeing to reopen what can only be said tobe face saving talks in sharm al sheik...delinking terrorism and composite talks should have meant that talks should start on pakistans agenda as well as india's...pakistan will have to continue its foot dragging until the indians come to both tables...
Jul17-2009--UNHCR official shot dead in katcha garhi...
Jul17-2009--three tribesman died in north waziristan in a landmine blast
Jul17-2009--two Fc men and one soldier die in swat action as eight militants are killed as military clears hideouts, tunnels and bunkers
Jul17-2009--Irsa starts making trouble for punjab as it denies punjabs request for water from the tarbela dam for the southern areas of jhang, multan, vehari and bahawalpur where three million acres of cotton are at stake...zardari has started to play water politics with areas of southern punjab generally thought to be a PPP stronghold...punjab says mangla needs tobe filled and tarbela link canals are meant to functions as canals and not flood canals...anyway floods only occur late in august and punjabs demands should be given priority....
Jul17-2009--two more SSP workers shot dead in karachi in what is believed tobe a continuing mqm orchestrated vendetta
Jul17-2009--atta reaches 550 per 20 kilo bag in lahore
Jul17-2009--ISI official shot dead in lower dir
Jul17-2009--yusuf raza gilani obviously bamboozled manmohan sindh saying that they had completed investigations on teh bombay incident and had enough on Hafiz saeed to initiate a case...others suggest that fours others have been identified as teh main culprits and who have not been apprehended as yet...upto now no specific allegations or involvement have been specified and all they have are supposed phone call conversations in which unidentified people were supposedly controlling the bombay militants who were obviously in over their heads and had no specific plan and just went along and did what was ordered...government will obviously make another attempt to apprehend and hold hafiz saeed
Jul17-2009--zardari and nawaz sharif to meet today...sindh and punjab at odds over water and NFC and Zardari has been personally involved in denying water to punjab...others say their startegy worked on altaf hussain and will work on nawaz sharif too...nawaz sharif not a dupe others say and thanking him will only make him suspicious rather than want to be drowned in a PPP government with a generalized anti people bent of mind...
July16-2009--The indian primeminister who is aligned to both teh US and Russia continued talking to thin air at the NAM summit rather than offering any concrete way out of indias continued occupation of muslim kashmir...if terror groups are tobe dealt with than pakistan has already done more than enough having already dismantled both groups involved in the bombay incident..it is india that should also start to dismantle its hindu dominated terrorist groups that terrorize muslims, christians and sikhs...It should also stop terrorism and abetting terrorism in kashmir where youth are still daily picked up and killed for no reason..while terrorism in pakistan has no reason or cause or religion in india it is directed at teh occupation of kashmir and indias suppression of them and other areas thru state terror...india has still not done anything about the samjotha blast...if india will not talk about a kashmir solution than what are pakistan and kashmiris todo...no improvement is reported in indian attitudes with pakistan still willing to lick their shoes for even a few crumbs...pakistan even refusing a joint statement if teh indians donot start normalising things...pakistan would many say be willing to go to any length even complying with an extradition request...but india is not willing to offer anything barring meaningless talks...
July16-2009--five militants and two civilians killed in aerial raids on south waziristan and rocket attacks on khechi in jandolla...troops with 25 tanks moved to miramshah from mirali...a curfew was imposed on convoy movement areas in north waziristan...one security personnel killed in a bomb attack at the banda checpost and two as an FC convoy hit an IED in bakakhel mandi , Bannu...
July16-2009--13 militants died in fresh clashes in kabal, swat where militants are said tobe still hiding
July16-2009--The SC backed out of adjudicating on a petition against teh PDL ordinance...saying that SC not teh proper forum for challenging such a government decision
July16-2009--Asif Zardari who is said to refuse anything that teh mqm dislikes is in a quandary over teh changes required in teh LG ordnance where teh provinces seek the powers to appoint administrators...with an mqm dominated LG system in karachi nobody else will have a chance as is also the case in punjab where all teh nazims are from teh PMLq...they also want magistrates reincarnated and if the local bodies deal only with municipal functions the power of the mqm especially will be diluted...in earlier reports teh mqm had apparently agreed to give teh PPP the governorship and teh karachi nazim position however zardari, asim and rehman malik keep thanking altaf hussein but get nothing in return...
July16-2009--In karachi a leader of teh outlawed SSP killed..in another incident an mqm-h man was killed...police say either that they have no clue or teh youth involved cannot be arrested...?In june 47 were killed and 21 in july...since this war started 48 mqmh, 20 mqm, 8 PPP, six ANP, three SSP, two pMLn, and three from various religious groups...while altaf hussein indicated today(assumed: that he might have ordered the killings on) the receipt of 28 letters which he said the government should read...the mohajirs should know that in politics nobody tells teh truth and going around killing opponents wont solve anything
July16-2009--two banks looted of Rs10 million in karachi
July16-2009--six killed in fireworks blast in sheikhupura
July16-2009--strike in muzzafargarh against price hikes and load sheddings
July16-2009--Asim says that government at fault in only nomenclature of carbon tax which is the exact opposite of the peoples views...says diesel price rising internationally and government could start giving the price of next months tariff...says 71% gas produced in sindh,21% in balochistan, 6% in punjab and 2% in nwfp while usage is Punjab 46%, sindh 44%, balochistan 6% and nwfp 4%...pakistan never had a problem when gas was only produced in balochistan...sindh creates problems whenever it has to give something like water to balochistan...
July16-2009--government blocks balochunity website...leave some freedoms many tell teh PPP...!!
July16-2009--SBP says 50% of oil imports to be paid by other banks...while teh finance ministry, WB and ADB try to function as parliament and only agree to 60 billion for power subsidies...teh government has already massively increased electricity prices and tolerance for government gobbledygook on such subjects is wearing thin...
July16-2009--rickshaws banned from pindis three main arteries...or roads
Jul15-2009--In what many see as a mockery of pakistans sovreignity Salman Basheer teh foreign secretary says that jailing people if india requires it is equality, mutual respect and mutual interest apart from serious, sustained and pragmatic cooperation..meaning that india can do what it wants while pakistan will be an apologetic subjugated state unable to even ask for anything...many suggest that he should have taken a dictionary along as teh mean natured indians dont know teh meaning of such words...pakistan seeking a continuation of teh upto now meaningless composite dialogue...since teh seventies it has benefited india as trade is liberalised and transport mechanisms such as the samjotha express and bus services setup with no solution to any problem having been achieved...
Jul15-2009--23 militants killed in clash with a tribal lashkar in mohmand..
Jul15-2009--IDP's continue to return
Jul15-2009--In what many see as mqm's achieving its hit list.. meaning knocking out all altafs personal opponents in karachi in an almost daily killing routine as the PPP still praises such cooperation from altaf hussein... the interior minister says a judicial probe to be conducted...they see it as an attempt to destabilize karachi where it has almost no effect on the one track mohajirs..karachis status as an economic hub has no meaning to the rest of teh country now...it is basically an mqm-mqmh war and police officials should see it clearly as that...unless they and intelligence walas are involved themselves
Jul15-2009--military launches offensive aginst militants in buner gokand area
Jul15-2009--sugar prices shoot upto sixty in some areas
Jul15-2009--The indian dominated PPP regime to initiate a direct case against hafiz saeed as they no longer have any information to have him detained
Jul15-2009--iran executes 13 jundullah(solders of god) rebels for being enemies of God...teh sunni rebels have mounted a string of attacks in the rebellious sistam balochistan...amnesty says iran executes even more people than even china
Jul15-2009--transporters strike in karachi as mqm councilor is killed
Jul15-2009--to civilians killed in landi kotal area as militants and security forces trade fire over an attack on a Nato tanker
Jul15-2009--margalla towers builder who has escaped to britain and is accused as responsible for the faulty construction collapse in the kashmir earthquake has been given Rs10.8 million as compensation...?
Jul14-2009--Mian channu blast kills 11..30 other houses damaged by blast...a seminary run by riaz kamboh whose stored explosives blew up...7 children among teh dead
Jul14-2009--IDP's start returning to malakand, Buner and swat...some fearful of militant retaliations and others saying they will need substantial aid especially those whose homes may have been destroyed...government distributing ATM cards on which IDP's can withdraw 25000 and providing transport
Jul14-2009--The government and IMF/WB trying to force unnecessary electricity tariff increases which they say will be increased from teh earlier proposed 17.7% to 22% and implemented in three phases...saying that teh government has solved no problem in teh complicated energy generation field...government wants to wait till december to end load shedding and than force teh unpalatable tariff hike...on the one hand they are saying that they want to end subsidies and on teh other zardari announced that base electricity subsidies will be increased to 200 unit users ...that would obviously have tobe paid for by teh high end users too...teh government should study what it is doing ...it has substantial energy domain funds due to sales tax and petroleum levy which should amount to 100-200 billion which can be productively used to serve low end users as well as provide reasonable subsidies...unless government keeps prices under control people will start to agitate against its tax and tariff regimens...
Jul14-2009--six militants killed in south waziristan
Jul14-2009--Afzal sindhu becomes minister of state for law...gilani who seems tobe unable to accept anything that changes has said that Raza Rabbani and sherry rehman are still ministers without portfolio..
Jul14-2009--bodies of three taleban hanged from electricity poles found in malakand
Jul14-2009--Oil tanker gutted in peshawar
Jul14-2009--Punjab debunks sindh propaganda on NFC allocations saying that it gets just 41%(57% population), sindh 31%(24%), nwfp17%(13%) and balochistan9%(5%)..On teh development side if hospital beds per population is used as a criterion than punjab is the least developed...as for tax collections all end user taxes are paid by the people and punjab pays over 60 % of those..many suggest the example that if a punjabi buys an air ticket even in lahore teh tax he pays is collected in karachi...punjab which has been subjugated in political as well as military dictatorships has always got teh hard end of the stick due to teh propaganda of sindh and other provinces...many suggest that punjab should bravely stand up for itself...apart from disastrous situations in which a sacrifice is normal punjab should not give up its share many say...
Jul14-2009--SC says solid evidence needed to jail hafiz saeed and just indian demands are not enough
Jul14-2009--the Dollar which is selling at 82.60 may rise further as banks start funding petroleum imports...says teh News
Jul14-2009--The dailytimes says asim hussain to become sindh governor while four ministers including nazar mohammed gondal, qayum jatoi, raja ashraf and waqar khan may get new portfolios and raza rabbani may make a comeback to teh law ministry
Jul14-2009--sindh transport minister akhter jadoon apprehended when unlicensed arms were detected in teh car that came to pick him up from teh airport...he said that the licenses were available but police refused to let teh PPP minister go
Jul13-2009--the government stumbling under its anti people policies seems unnerved enough to take on people who use teh internet to send ill motivated emails and sms warning of 14 year sentences rather than rectifiying its anti people policies...such emails have been used against military dictatorships and harsh and mean rulers and it seems that teh government has started to feel the barbs that are commonly transmitted...teh government has been behaving in a manner similar to a harsh military dictatorship...
Jul13-2009--teh army destroying caves inhabited by militants in swat killing one miltant...the army moving to control areas around south waziristan...moving into tank, bannu and areas of lakki marwat and kulachi area of DI khan...bhittanis militants vacated Tank as the military moved in...planes continued to bomb baitullah bases in south waziristan killing eight as one soldier also died in an attack on a checpost...
Jul13-2009--Yusuf raza gilani an unpopular person and who did not lead the PPP into elections is bent upon returning teh system to one dominated by a powerful primeminister...unless he is seen as a representative of the masses with popular policies such a system would not work...the PPP stuck with no real popular leader and basing its government on infighting between regional areas and a dictatorial economy having no attraction for teh awam...
Jul13-2009--11 militants in landi kotal held for attacking nato terminals
Jul13-2009--military claims having destroyed a car killing five apparently foreign militants in lower dir
Jul13-2009--The governments supposed economic wizards have been unable to explain things to teh IMF and the basically irrelevant IMF tranche is supposedly not going to make it..teh IMF apparently now wants a 31% higher electricity tariff rather than 17.7% and 20% higher diesel tariffs...teh governments team obviously has to realize that economics is just not about tariffs and macro economic ends only...the economic effects and the suffering of the people should be the main issues...teh people are already suffering and tariffs and diesel prices cannot be raised whatever the IMF thinks...teh government should control/reduce spending and that is teh only way out...grandiose projects for which teh people are being squeezed should be put on hold and the government should learn to live onits own resoures...The government should get out of teh shop keeping mentality where it raises teh rent and than hikes prices...
Jul13-2009--nine killed in karachi in drive by shootings
Jul13-2009--Another PMLn mpa gets into the red book...mpa shomaila rana accused of using stolen credit cards...asked to resign by PMLn...
Jul13-2009--potatos fall to Rs33 per kilo from 44..tomato rises to Rs 42
Jul13-2009--In a country where teh local government system changes with each dictatorship.. considering the present system also as a no people input system or anti people system the punjab provincial government says it will impose another system which supposedly removes its flaws...shabaz sharif seems bent upon imposing teh beaurocracy on teh people from which the last system had provided some respite...people remember teh magistracy when they used to approve firing and killing demonstrators and arrested and involved opposition politicians in prolonged courts cases
Jul13-2009--muzzafargarh and khanewal police chase a tea stall owner who refused to stop at a picket and shot him dead...police have tobe told that terrorism is no reason to shoot at any person especially when teh person is unarmed...
Jul13-2009--Dawn states that teh cronyistic zardari's logic of appointing a junior official as an ambassador to france who was a provincial livestock secretary is that he is supposedly friends with sarkozys brother and who says that he was just summoned to the presidency and appointed teh ambassador out of teh blue...!!
Jul13-2009--JI chief says that government is expanding its war against taleban to karak,bannu and parts of punjab
Jul13-2009--Rehman malik says he wants to put up a barbed wire fence across teh long afghan border...he says we have 1000 checposts on teh border while teh americans have 60 and its makes no sense for anyone to be fighting on both sides of teh border...setting up even a barbed wire fence along teh length of teh border would be just as difficult as setting up a wall...
Jul12-2009--the government continues to follow teh same old policy of dictators to tax teh peopel into subjugation...After increasing electricity prices by a hefty 70% it still claims that it is subsidizing electricity...It now wants us to believe that teh IMF not parliament not people not government but teh IMF allows a six month continuation of electricity prices at teh present level...If the IMF, the WB and government wont allow it why should people subsidize electricity to teh poor...teh government should have its head examined if it thinks that such poppycock economics is something that according to Gilani is the best that he can do......if tax money cannot be used to ease peoples woes than there is no point left in government...one doesn't think that teh government has any real development policy which could be of interest to teh people and therefore if taxation cannot be used to reduce electricity and petroleum prices than the government should go home...what is it better at than the crazies at teh finance ministry...on the PDL/carbon tax another useless extortion like teh 16% sales tax on electricity teh government has no answer..apparently the PPP has advised its members to shut up and play dumb.....it cant even say that we are taxing petroleum to reduce its use...given the hike in prices of literally everything of upto 200% one fails to understand what teh goverment is upto...
Jul12-2009--Taleban say fazlullah not injured
Jul12-2009--something new has happened..gilani says the local government legislation has lapsed or dropped out of teh constitution...many had suggested that appointing administrators was illegal as only elected people can run LG's..and now teh provinces can do whatever they want in teh field...many suggest that the punjab was worried taht teh PMLq bosses would use the LG powers to corner teh next elections and only beurocrats could help them win...many suggest that teh chief ministers want local government control in their hands too so that they can be seen to be teh provincial bosses...
Jul12-2009--police raided a one room seminary in DG khan killing one militant
Jul12-2009--Carl Levine Of teh US armed forces senate committee objects to criticism of teh USA for using drones...which he says that pakistan tacitly accepts or condones...the USA should seek greater participative cooperation or allow pakistan to itself use the drones.. where needed.. pakistan has teh airpower and has used it in swat, malakand, buner and Fata...killing civilians seems tobe normal to teh uSA since they are not americans...now teh americans want us to believe that they were not telling us to go after teh taleban to ease their troubles in afghanistan...their policy now is kill them its good for u...?
Jul12-2009--CID policeman killed in karachi
Jul12-2009--three militants killed in bajaur
Jul 11-2009--overseas remmittances rise 21% to over $8 billion
Jul 11-2009--orakzai air strike toll rise to 46
Jul 11-2009--another mqmh man gunned down in karachi
Jul 11-2009--advert in dawn says governments appointing administrators to local bodies is unconstitutional while yusuf raza gilani says musharaf attempt to impose local governments unconstitutional and undemocratic...teh LG system was relatively successful until the provincial governments started to curtail their powers...
Jul 11-2009--E10 a petrol derivative with ethanol starts selling ..price tobe around Rs60 per liter
Jul 11-2009--lawyer challenges PDL ordnance and asks SC to suspend it too..CJ says they will study their jurisdiction in the matter...earlier teh PMLq had stated that the PPP regime was trying to start a conflict with the judiciary
Jul 11-2009--drone attack in south waziristan kills three
Jul 11-2009--In Bajaur 14 militants killed after they attacked and killed a lieutenant and lance naik
Jul 11-2009--In zhob taleban attacked a security post killing a soldier..the military in retaliation killed ten taleban
Jul 11-2009--yusuf raza gilani wants to hide behind parliament in teh bad financial mechanisms of his government...teh parliament has shown no indication that it is representing teh peopel when its decisions are literally nothing but support for a system of bad governance...parliament has been supporting teh government rather than representing teh peopel...there are not many people amongst teh 160 million that gilani cites who support teh governments whacky economic decisions...
Jul 10-2009--In what can be said to be a mockery of both governance and teh judiciary the attorney general said that teh carbon tax was a mistake and zardari had promulgated an ordinance to reintroduce teh PDL and again raise petroleum prices within a day...The SC after listening to harsh remarks against teh government adjourned teh hearing for four weeks...in theory we now have both teh suspended carbon tax as well as a PDL...The gilani suggestion that he was unaware of teh reasoning behind teh carbon tax shows his lack of expertise in economic matters and that so called economic experts would explain the issue to the judges after their return from gallivanting in foreign countries...teh counsel said that the issue of the ordnance was malafide and repugnant as it was meant to repudiate teh judiciary...gilani on teh other hand suggested that parlaiment had passed teh budget without any objection...both the judiciary and teh government have taken a stance aginst parliament in the matter..SC to review petroleum prices later as lawyers said that teh PDL and whether taxes can be imposed thru an ordnance will also be challenged...
Jul 10-2009--IDP's to start returning home from teh 13th in four phases
Jul 10-2009--five FC men killed by blast in dera Bugti
Jul 10-2009--39 militants killed in orakzai as planes bomb their hideouts
Jul 10-2009--12 militants killed as planes bomb south waziristan hideouts of baitullah mehsud
Jul 10-2009--a policeman and an mqm UC councillor shot dead in karachi
Jul 10-2009--A Pesco lineman dies in blast in peshawar while repairing a 500KV pylon which had been blownup on thursday
Jul9-2009--A frightened set of provincial and federal governments postpones local bodies polls and opts for administrators instead...provincial governments seemingly want to create their own controlled almost dictatorial local bodies which cannot overshadow them...local governments under military rule had performed well however their powers had been consistently reduced by teh chief ministers as they perfomed better than provincial governments who were all but invisible..when the law and order will improve is unknown so the people might have to stay under teh so called neutral or supposedly honest beurocrats a species not known tobe common in pakistan..worried provincial governments also did not allow a census to go forward not wanting their provincial populations to reduce their NFC funds
Jul9-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilanis support of the abominable carbon tax has many suggesting that people like him , hina and tareen would be better off working in the FBR rather than in responsible political positions ...finances and budgets are not only about collecting funds but knowing what the people want and keeping their interests in front rather than avoiding them at all costs.....
Jul9-2009--two drone attacks kill 38 in south waziristan...it had been hoped that drones would shift to monitoring/intelligence work but it seems that the pakistan armed forces might have backed out from a major operation in south waziristan given recent attacks...baitullah camps said to have been attacked
Jul9-2009--army and government say buner and swat have been cleared and services have been restored...158 soldiers and 1600 militants lost their lives in teh operation
Jul9-2009--The judicial report on oil pricing says refineries and distribution companies enjoyed enormous profits during the past ten years...the government only seems to focus on its revenues and industries concerns and shows little or no regard for teh peoples problems...
Jul9-2009--a former Mqm man, his two sons and servant killed in karachi
Jul9-2009--a bomb blast in a fruit cart kills one in peshawar
Jul9-2009--Levies men capture four police stations in pishin...!
Jul9-2009--UN wants armoured vehicle import for its workers in difficult areas...many diplomats have been caught travelling in pakistan with arms in unmarked vehicles say the police
Jul9-2009--during a military militant clash three women and two children killed as a shell hits their vehicle near dwa toi in north waziristan
Jul9-2009--norway embassy to remain shut for another week
Jul9-2009--bomb blast at kalat police station
Jul9-2009--lashkar organizer killed in tirah
Jul9-2009--Dawn says ethnic violence in Xinjiang the result of chinese attempts to diversify ethnic composition by moving in Han chinese and giving them better jobs, loans and government facilities...teh chinese supposedly.. jailed an uighur women for 25 years for leading a rebellion...chinese urge integration without respect for religions,cultures and ecomonic situations...teh chinese attempts to subjugate ethnic and religious groups have caused similar problems in tibet
Jul9-2009--A dawn editorial states that zardaris criticism of taleban as the militaries strategic asset who turned against teh state virtually negates the reason for their creation to fight initially teh russian invasion and as a by product attempting to liberate kashmir from indian occupation/hegemony and fight teh US occupation of afghanistan.....one must realize that fighting teh superpowers has been a time honoured tradition stretching from vietnam to afghanistan even thought the super powers have eventually become successful as states like india , china, russia and pakistan have succumbed to US might and wealth..whether problems like kashmir can be and afghanistan could have been solved without force is obviously doubtful since zardaris mentors teh US are using that same mechanism their...if u cannot use guerrillas and in a similar vein jihadis and taleban to fight wars when your army is weak or frightened to fight openly... than your army must learn to fight teh countries battles whether they be in afghanistan, tribal areas or kashmir...or elswhere since they supposedly have been fighting on a worldwide level..however one doubts that teh regimented army could have created a force that would be willing to fight it and teh country too..and whether the army can really fight a war is doubtful too
Jul8-2009--Supreme Court puts carbon tax on hold...Ogra immediately notifies new petrol price of Rs50.53...The carbon tax and other taxes almost double the price of petroleum products in pakistan and the cause is governments single minded blind attitude of taxation, taxation and taxation...it just could not let go of teh Rs100 billion it was making from the PDL...it not only reinvented the levy but also increased it to generate Rs113 billion...The peoples protests had no bearing on the assembly or teh government...The court was right in that the government did not need the money asits efforts to clean up teh environment were minimal..The dumb primeminister obviously learnt nothing and said they would defend their excessive and needless taxation...
Jul8-2009--US drone attack kills 16 in south waziristan..airforce also targets south waziristan...one soldier killed as roadside bomb hits a convoy near gomal zam...one civilian killed in exchange of fire at jandola fort..another soldier killed in an attack on a convoy in north waziristan...dwa toi fort attacked with rockets and helicopters pound militants in datakhel
Jul8-2009--The troika which seems to have been making teh crucial decisions in this government met for teh third time in a week
Jul8-2009--Zardari says that militants nurtured for short term gains...
Jul8-2009--The foreign service which is trained for ambassadorial assignments over a lifetime is told by the salman bashir that they cant do anything as the president prefers the sifarishi jehanzeb khan and refuses to appoint a career diplomat instead..the PPP is very sifarish oriented and many suggest that salman bashirs brother was appointed navy chief in a similar manner...obviously merit and capability are not very high on the list of considerations in the matter
Jul8-2009--two more mqm-h activist killed in karachi
Jul8-2009--Jul8-2009--Sindhis have serious misconceptions about many things..one that they can close teh indus link canals...if there was a serious shortage of water in sindh than punjab could giveup some share of indus water...the mangla dam has tobe used to store some water in case the rains are delayed since tarbela is almost working as run of teh river dam due to sindhs exceptional water requirements..another misconception is that sindh was the richest province at partition...sindh at that time had only one textile mill, no agriculture of any worth and literally no resources...punjab on teh other hand was india's grain feeder and had discovered oil...sindh comparative to 1947 has increased agricultural production substantially, is the leader in industrialization, education and commerce and has discovered oil, gas and coal...one doubts that teh servants of sindh have their heads on teh right way...if sindhis donot get admission it is their own fault and teh PPP regimes failure is the same in all provinces...obviously teh other provinces have been hard at work too and everyone has to help out the IDP's...it is really quit horrific that sindhis oppose IDP's...immigration and migration take place usually due to economics and strife and people go to places where there is more opportunity...one finds it difficult to understand teh sindhi attitude...
Jul8-2009--drone attack kills 12 in south waziristan
Jul7-2009--three Haqiqi workers shot dead in karachi..mqmh says almost 50 workers have been shot dead since Jun2
Jul7-2009--five shot dead in DI Khan including teh the local leader of the jaish a mohammed
Jul7-2009--As the Zardari-Gilani politics fails PPP says it will start preparing Bakhtawar as teh next leader as one maybe required sooner rather than later...there have been rumours that teh PPP might be looking to replace Gilani with somebody who can get along with teh people
Jul7-2009--drone attack kills 12 in south waziristan
Jul7-2009--attack on swat militants kills 14 and 4 in bajaur
Jul7-2009--Mangla power station outage becomes a serious problem with nobody showing even tv footage of the problem...Pepco says two units to come online by the 10th and the rest by teh 25th which suggests either a very serious problem or a lack of manpower , parts or technical expertise to do teh work quickly...
Jul7-2009--The SC restrains teh PPP regime from raising electricity prices...teh government thinks that load shedding will end in december and than they can go after teh people with even more expensive elextricity...The SC should realize that teh government is over charging teh peopel and unrestrained hikes in electricity prices are not conducive or right for teh economy or the peopel
Jul7-2009--air attacks on north waziristan kill seven
Jul7-2009--Sufi Mohammed resurfaces in peshawar with his 12 member family either released or still under custody...
Jul7-2009--another principal shot dead in balochistan
Jul6-2009--Judges asked to avoid public events and have meetings with other public figures
Jul6-2009--six dead in north waziristan attacks
Jul6-2009--another ten killed in swat clashes
Jul6-2009--The PMLq moving towards a split as chaudhries challenged by humayun akhter...?others suggest musharaf maneouvring to get control of the PMlq for himself...
Jul6-2009--two killed in dir blasts
Jul6-2009--The indians want pakistan to take actions even against judicial decisions as they try to get hafiz saeed arrested again...pakistan addressing indian concerns without any concerns being addressed by teh indians...one way processes are never a success
Jul7-2009--two killed in dir blasts
Jul6-2009--lahore environmentally the worst of pakistans big cities and karachi has teh lowest particles in the environment even though higher than teh minimum limit
Jul5-2009--In mohmand a clash leaves six lashkar men dead and three militants
Jul5-2009--Swat GOC replaced
Jul5-2009--26 killed in orakzai as TTP hq shelled
Jul5-2009--SC belatedly realizes and suggests to its judges that they can not go against teh constitution
Jul5-2009--The governments subjugation to indian demands become apparent when both the punjab and federal government filed appeals against hafiz saeeds release by LHC
Jul5-2009--traders strike in lahore against electricity load shedding
Jul5-2009--The News says that first asim and zardari negotiated an extremely high price for an iranian gas pipeline.. now teh same issue is being taken over by gilani and asim has him bamboozled too...he wants to present teh gas pipleine agreement to parliament and teh high or the highest gas price in teh world is not going to go down well so asim suggests that teh parliamentarians be fooled too so taht they dont notice it while they try to get an alternate under sea gas pipeline approved as well which they suggest will be 150 km shorter and cost 1 billion dollars less...many suggest that teh government hire an experienced gas consultant and negotiator rather than a medical doctor for teh job of advisor on gas pipelines...?
July4-2009--military helicopter crashes in the tribal region near chapri ferozkhel in the mountaneous region between khyber and orakzai killing 41 or 26...could be overloaded or proper maintenance schedules of teh MI17 probably not followed...
July4-2009--drone attacks kill 17 in south waziristan
July4-2009--while one pakistani regime member asked Janet Napolitani a sort of interior minister of teh USA for gadgetry for the police system the other asked for help in building a fence on teh afghan border...both actions can be handled by local resources but the regime seems bent upon seeking help whatever the situation
July4-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilani not the best of analysers and who seems generally simplistic in attitude or lacking any real political vision seems set against teh almost popular claim for a seraiki province...the smaller provinces would be happy to see punjab divided into two or even three and teh seraikis suggest that they have been enslaved by lahore...it could be a good move althought it troubles other provinces as they also have provincial movements...the basis of the four pakistani provinces has become suspect as they are no longer dominated by a single ethnic component
July4-2009--many are mocking the PPP's zardari-gilani government which seeks friendly relations with neighbours in a region where there is no friendliness...all the countries in teh region have a tough attitude towards them ...even iran remained intransigent on an exorbitantly high gas price which they meekly gave in to...a country can only be successful when it tolerates no nonsence and is tough and hardline onits positions
July4-2009--Mullah fazlur rehman says he has brokered a shia sunni agreement in DI Khan which has seen numerous sectarian attacks...both groups to hand over teh culprits he says
July4-2009--FC raids provincial minister Sanaullah Zehris residence in quetta while case of murder of two STPT activists initiated against sindh interior minister
July4-2009--Foreign minister unable to resolve teh exceptional since it has never happened before appointment of a relatively junior grade 20 district management group official as ambassador to france...how the presidency can appoint an ambassador directly when the primeminister and foreign minister are unaware..usually either senior foreign office officials or top ranking civilian or retired officials are given such positions...
July4-2009--five militants killed in bajaur
July3-2009--suicide bomber attacks KRL bus in rawalpindi injuring many passengers...many are suggesting that indian suicide bombers maybe infiltrating pakistan as one doubts that taleban would be able to attack a KRL bus...
July3-2009--grenade attacks in quetta and turbat
July3-2009--two killed in DI Khan grenade attack
July3-2009--pakistan moves troops to 130 mile helmand border with afghanistan as US troops start major operation there...
July3-2009--Army kills another 23 in mopping up operations in swat
July4-2009--norway closes its embassy for two days under security threats
July4-2009--SHC asks PIA to appoint pilots on merit...many say that nobody has ever beeen appointed in PIA on merit with sifarish the only consideration
Jul2-2009--punjab to continue its fight to give people an honourable Rs2 roti with its automatic plant in rawalpindi as Yusuf Raza continues efforts to make peoples life a misery with utility, food, transportation and petroleum price hikes...
Jul2-2009--indian commission report on Babri mosque which was attacked by hindus and destroyed submitted after 17 years...? are these the people that the US wants to consult on what they do in pakistan...?
Jul2-2009--In orakzai khasadars and levies stop work after taleban threats...
Jul2-2009--passerby dies in DI kan blast while suicide bomber blows up in peshawar
Jul2-2009--sindhi extremists blow up rail track near mirpur mathelo..a petrol bomb was thrown at a trailer and a coach was fired upon near sakrand
Jul2-2009--PPP workers run riot in hyderabad
Jul2-2009--one policeman killed after militant attack a police station in Hangu
Jul2-2009--army says no plan to launch operation in north waziristan even after a disastrous attack..army dropped pamphlets saying they will however retaliate attacks...
Jul2-2009--balochistan police chief a punjabi was removed for not working quickly on reenergizing the Levies and failing to control target killings in quetta..
Jul2-2009--police kill ST worker in karachi
Jul2-2009--Punjab assembly suspended chaudhry ghafoor for seven days and Bushra Gardezi for one day...although Raja Riaz and zulfikar khosa the others who used the traitor words were not sentenced...
Jul2-2009--Yusuf Razaz Gilani the teflon primeminister who supposedly takes no responsibility for anything now wants teh power issue solved after almost an year and half in power and untold miseries suffered by teh people...his regime is accused of just extorting and collecting money and doing literally nothing...with even IPP's unable to function without government help the power policy needs serious rethought and nationalisation many say should be considered especially in teh power generation filelds......others are suggesting that power demand has fallen so low at high government rates that the government was forced to shut down mangla...government seems to have misguided ideas about saving electricity and its policy on power rates especially with cheap hydel power available seems guided to force people to live miserably without electricity...
Jul2-2009--In Kurram a ceasefire was announced after a batttle between tribesmen and militants left 26 militants and six tribesmen dead...teh army was deployed after almost 152 people died in inter clan or tribal/militant clashes..
Jul2-2009--two lashkar members died in doog darra in dir as amir hoti announced 30 million for each mpa and 1500 fans and water coolers for teh displaced
Jul2-2009--Benazirs investigation to begin with a three member international team...whether there is anything to be found and whether the government has any clues are not yet known...many people believe that people close to the killing have been eliminated...others suggest that it might have been a PPP political ploy that went wrong..many also believe that she died of a long range bullet that pierced her skull while the military regime said that she hit her head onto a window knob...some say she died of the suicide bombers or assassins bullet which hit her at the base of her neck..an international conspiracy theory has recently come to teh fore while others state that musharaf-shujaat and teh sindh chief minister could have been involved as they were already getting rid of opposing politicians...a conspiracy by baitullah mehsud or other religious local or international mullahs is also theorized with indian involvement...what is at presently known is that teh assassin worked on orders of someone from karachi in cooperation with assassins from the fata and religious associates in rawalpindi...
Jul1-2009--Baitullah mehsud many say is extremely cruel as he had 18 injured taleban executed when they withdrew from the Biha valley in swat...baitullah has also refused to release young kids who had been taken for suicide training.. li>July 1, 2009--In what is being seen as continued resistance from swat militants 16 were killed alongwith three soldiers...army is probably less careful thinking the job is done and is losing more soldiers daily...they recovered an explosives laden vehicle...In Dir teh lashkar destroyed 15 militant hideouts and killed two..an explosion in a Buner bazaar
July 1, 2009--utilities being restored in most of swat...and shangla..impersonators of armymen reported causing trouble in IDP camps...
July 1, 2009--Reports suggest that mna's are being seen as useless people after they could not stop teh government from raising prices unnecessarily..their image is falling as fast as that of teh government...despite huge electricity price hikes last year the government wants to burden teh peopel even more than ever before with another huge electricity and petroleum price hike..the primeminister showed that the government was not short of funds when it raised teh mna development funds to Rs20 million and that its policies were deliberately designed to hurt the people...in their daily lives...teh peopel will now have to pay for power utility salary hikes and teh governments ill advised petroleum hikes which will raise transport costs in teh huge army, government, transportation and obviously the peopel will have to pay for the related price hikes in other fields...while teh government pays lip service to bussiness sectors they have also been unable to restrict teh governments one line economic policy of price hikes, price hikes and price hikes...
July 1, 2009--car bombs kill four in kalat
July 1, 2009--the government which has caused huge losses to the people without compensation reduces gas prices by a miniscule 2%..earlier they had hiked gas prices sharply last year....
July 1, 2009--at least seven militants killed as jets pounded positions in north waziristan while taleban banned peoples meetings with government officials
July 1, 2009--while shah mahmood qureashi took solace in a month old story of teh indians thinking of reducing troops in kashmirs urban areas an indian delegation in washington was urging teh USA to decrease aid to pakistan as it would be used to strengthen the military on teh indian borders...pakistan like india trying to strengthen its awacs capability and acquire new workhorse planes for its airforce...teh JF-17 whose assembly in pakistan started is supposed to have state of teh art forward looking capabilities while many think that visuallly it is not too sleek even if the airforce chief said that it was light combat aircraft...pakistan has been restricted by the USA to refurbish its fleet of aging F-16's which are still its frontline reaction force...many think the JF17 is designed on the version of teh russian SU30 and the american F-15/18...if the indians are not a threat to pakistan than pakistans military strength should not worry them...the indians have backed down twice in recent years based on what pakistan might throw back at them...however pakistan has been unable to restrict indian orchestrated terrorism both in teh political terrorist fields...
July 1, 2009--suicide bomber kills eight on afghan side of torkham checkpost...
July 1, 2009--even punjabs politicians think of teh high cost of maintaining the military and its huge retired component..rana sanaullah retorted that he will calculate teh cost after a retired fauji questioned the cost of Rs4.8 million per day of teh provincial asssembly...provincial assembly to censure prisons minister for his unruly behaviour...
July 1, 2009--bajaur taleban leader surrenders..a security man killed in attack on convoy in janikhel area
July 1, 2009--zardari insists on friendly relations with india...it is just not possible given teh hinduistic control freak mean indian nature ..he also wants provincial autonomy....obviously by that he means that he should be allowed to stop water to canals in punjab or punjabs complete subjugation.. that too is not possible as than balochistan and sindh will refuse to sell their gas to punjab and sindh and nwfp also want the right to refuse electricity sales to other provinces..one baloch politician wants no port and only fishing allowed on its coast.....also sindh wants its coal electricity and air electricity to be exorbitantly priced...apart from that nwfp and punjab will than have to stop river waters from flowing downstream...punjab would like its wheat tobe paid for...karachi will say our port facilities should be priced upwards or cannot be used by other provinces etc. etc....with nwfp, sindh and balochistan even unable to tolerate people from other provinces moving a round..provincial autonomy to the extent taht it is practised at present is teh only way possible otherwise all teh provinces will set up walls and blockades in every possible way and bring everything to a halt...provincial autonomy basically means that there is a provincial assembly and that there are regional rulers...but autonomy can only go to the extent of the smooth functioning of a multi state or multi province system and not beyond to create a my resources for myself only provincial stalemate/mess...teh current powers in provinces are barely being utilised appropriately with provinces not able to control weapons, terrorism, tribalism or ethnicism...karachi has been unable to even handle its electricty production and distribution.. law and orders problems have caused other provinces to grind to a halt with resources of teh punjab government being apparently blocked by the center and the punjab government stopping funds for its local bodies...sindh only getting funds where even Benazir district has billions...autonomy and supposed cloak and dagger friendly relationships with enemies has limits..a meaningless relationship with india has been proved tobe useless thruout history and probably nobody can deal with provincial autonomy either...
Jun30-2009--The literally inept yusuf-zardari regime is known for its cruelty towards teh people and that image continues...yesterday as the countries famed mangla power station went out of circulation due to a burning of control and power cables...teh government announced that it was raising petroleum prices... mostly used in transportation and domestic generators teh government was clearly unworried that it would have an effect on prices and that it had been making billions which could be used to cushion the raise or it could decrease teh unnecessary carbon surcharge...teh governments cruelty was started when it raised wheat prices to help rich farmers and literally pulled or snatched teh staple roti from teh hands of hungry poor children...teh surge in prices some as high as a 100% that followed its fiscal mayhem has never been seen in pakistans history...it than tried to suggest that inflation had been reduced...while inflation calculations include price hikes it than forgets about it as prices than donot fall as inflation starts falling...as for teh sasti roti it never reached its target poor population however teh industrialist natured shabaz started a scheme for automatic roti plants with two tobe installed in a district and was also considering the sasti daal as a salan for the dry sasti roti......
Jun30-2009--The military upped teh toll from sundays convoy attack to 27 killed including three officers...wacha Bibi is a narrow mountain pass which was littered with destroyed army vehicles..the army killed another five in retaliatory firing...an agreement with the regime was scrapped by the taleban...the government had to attack as teh taleban continued their murderous ways...several militants killed in military action around tank
Jun30-2009--government says that relatives of quaide azam on baitul mal funding and sindh government allowances...?as sherpao said that corruption was rooted in lower level employees even in teh IDP camps...
Jun30-2009--US troops though still in iraq are to withdraw from all urban areas six years after they occupied iraq...30 bases also tobe handed over
Jun30-2009--pakistan has already taken all steps related to teh bombay incident and indians must ensure that talks are not broken off again otherwise teh peopel left to deal with india will be unknown future terrorists...since teh sixties tashkent and similar other accords such as simla india either refuses to talk seriously or breaks off talks for one reason or teh other..all pakistani regimes reach some sort of accord with teh indians but with no progress on issues....both organisations related to the bombay incident have been stopped from working and a case is in the courts for those related to teh incident...the indians however have not stopped covert funding of terrorism in pakistan...teh indian attitude a duplicate of the US attitudes/policies have caused an increase of extremist violence in pakistan and many blame the pakistani governments for its timid natured policies...teh whole imbroglio started when on US-india insistance musharaf/pakistan banned organistaions from collecting funds and fronting for kashmir liberation...that made pakistan and teh jihadi/taleban organisations enemies and the fight has not ended yet with almost all going underground to start their own terrorism networks...
Jun30-2009--almost 100 power system workers die every year due to work related injuries..
Jun30-2009--punjab prisons minister who apparently worked as prison guard attempts to slap seraiki women mpa..using bad language and throwing budget books at her which hit another mpa who threw them back at him...
Jun30-2009--raja riaz teh PPP man in punjab called mohsin leghari a traitor and indian agent for making the federating units fight after zardaris attempt to steal punjabi canal water..many say there is now only one federating unit with any power and punjab is little more than a district or tehsil...he forgot when teh accused federating unit opposed kalabagh and teh thal canal simply because they were in teh punjab...many suggested that teh legharis were also not innocents whose canal water was being grabbed by teh sindhi president...Ms bushra gardezi had displayed a placard calling shabaz sharif the reluctant or duped PPP coalition partner as a traitor of punjab...
Jun30-2009--governments inconsistent and bad local government system has 28 billion tobe spent in islamabad and just or only one billion in rawalpindi as punjab government blamed for lack of development funds...
Jun29-2009--twelve soldiers were killed when militants attacked a military convoy in south waziristan at Wacha Bibi..militants claimed 60 soldiers had been killed and 16 trucks destroyed..military claims killing ten militants in the ensuing battle...militants also claim killing three soldiers in bomb attacks on convoys on friday..one soldier and a civilian were killed in rocket attacks on tanai fort...another person killed in an attack in raghazai...air raids on kotkai, sararogha, ladha...45000 civilians flee...officials say south waziristan has a small population
Jun29-2009--government claims detaining a suicide trainer with explosives and vehicles in swat as it continues clearing operations...says buner and swat services restored...
Jun29-2009--three killed in kurram clashes
Jun29-2009--akhter mengal continues isolationist attitude on baloch nationalism saying that they wont give up rights and rejecting any development...resources of nwfp and sindh have also been looted he says...resources are there to be used and will be under any circumstance...apart from ending state suppression it is mystifying what they can achieve..nwfp and and sindh have also looted teh country as a whole and can hardly be seperated from those that benefitted in teh punjab...whatever resources are there in teh punjab are also being used...
Jun29-2009--Dawn claims that teh US is helping pakistan in stockpile stewardship of its nuclear arsenal...suggesting that all its support payments have gone towards nuclear development...pakistan while not having sophisticated computers has been known to use computer modelling much earlier and AQ Khan was of teh opinion that there was no need to test their warheads and even missiles...obviously pakistan has continuously worked on upgrading its warheads from teh original crude versions....AQ Khan apparently must have been a terrible salesman since nowhere apart from iran is there any centrifuge system and even the iranian system seems more russian in origin than pakistani...
Jun29-2009--heat wave in the country as turbat shoots up to 49 and jhelum to 46.5
Jun29-2009--As teh zardari attempt to steal canal water from punjab continued to raise hackles...the pakistan kissan mahaz blames the situation on indias baglihar for a 20000 cusec decline in flows in teh chenab...yusuf raza gilani says that shabaz sharif was involved in teh attempt to fool the punjab...why they simply did not allow IRSA to handle teh situation is unknown...the PKM says that only balochistan was being actually deprived of canal water by teh sindhi controlled government..many suggest that the sindhis should learn to work with other provinces rather than trying to implement their own provincial attitudes dictatorially...others state that punjab is almost becoming an afghanistan in sindhi controlled pakistan...with no power and control...?
Jun29-2009--while teh people have no problems with a seraiki province since teh present setup is not of any great help to them either...nawaz sharif says that seraikis in government and the establishment are behind teh floatation of teh idea...many problems would have been solved if new provinces had been created in sindh, punjab, nwfp and balochistan...others would like a potohar, bahawalpur, south balochistan and hazara provinces too..ideas of a karachi province have faded since altaf started to champion sindh instead..of the rebellious mohajirs
Jun29-2009--several grenade attacks in gwadar
Jun29-2009--four militants shot dead in bajaur...
Jun29-2009--sindh seems to have teh unfounded belief that the river sindh is only for their benefit and that new canals should only be built in sindh...sindh has been improving its agriculture at teh cost of other provinces say many as sindhi agricultural outputs have been constantly increasing...and that cannot obviously happen without adequate water...sindh is getting an almost equal share to punjab...sindh used to have literally no agriculture until punjabis built barrages and developed sindhs agriculture despite being constantly maligned..many say that if the kalabagh dam had been built in teh 1980's teh water problem would been better controlled with more electricity production too even if it was just a carryover dam...but sindh could not stand to think that more water would have tobe allocated to punjab...if appropriate canals had been built in punjab agricultural production could have been tripled...sindhis on one side blame that their resources are being looted by punjab and on teh other that they are not allowing coal tobe exploited so asto avoid paying them royalty...sindhis many say are teh biggest jokers in pakistan...
Jun28-2009--33 dead in kurram clashes
Jun28-2009--air attacks target ammunition dumps, training centers and other militant facilities in south waziristan killing 16
Jun28-2009--Fazlullah family arrested
Jun28-2009-- five militants killed in Dir
Jun28-2009--rocket attacks in kohat
Jun28-2009--military destroys a complete bazaar with 700 shops in tank called the jandola bazzar
Jun28-2009--The canal that zardari ordered closed teh panjand-taunsa link canal is running at less than half its capacity...The tarbela dam and its links canals were built to overcome shortages of water from india...people in teh rural areas of rahimyar khan, bahawalpur and DG khan that are fed by teh canals are taking teh zardari actions as a personal insult...
Jun28-2009--pakistan tells india to fight its own terror wars as does pakistan..india itself allows all sorts of religious terrorist organizations...teh way india behaves unrealistically it is a threat to pakistan...indian army chief should not interfere in pakistani matters...if india cannot protect its territory than it should give up its sovreignity...
Jun27-2009--In what many see as the evidence of indian control on the TTP..two soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in AJK at an army barracks in muzaffarabad
Jun27-2009--five killed in karachi shootout betwen police and residents of a house of bank robbers or baitullah followers that they raided
Jun27-2009--government goes back to 1991 IRSA accord on water distribution...two further accords were made in 1994 and 1998...while punjabs water share has been cut Gilani falsely claimed that teh shortage was over...?
Jun27-2009--MQM now wants federal government to solve karachis electricity problem..gilani deflected the issue to teh power minister who refused to be involved..Pepco giving karachi 740 MW this year compared to 560 MW last year despite increasing shortages inits own areas...The MQM's whining for just karachi has everybody disinterested or disgusted...they should share in teh sufferings too many say
Jun27-2009--two killed in karachi firecrackers blast
Jun27-2009--school blown up in peshawar and hand grenade thrown at police station
Jun27-2009--five killed in bajaur operation
Jun27-2009--Nawaz Sharif acquitted in helicopter acquisition case
Jun27-2009--three soldiers killed as convoy hits explosives on way to bannu
Jun27-2009--TTP says 13 militants died in aerial bombing attacks onits camps in orakzai run by suicide controller hakimullah mehsud
Jun26-2009--In what is seen by many as a particularly nasty attack on punjab zardari ordered teh closing of the indus river links to punjab to give sindh 25000 cusecs of punjabi water...what is seen as particularly damaging is that there is no shortage of water at this time and sindh has made it an yearly habit of crying about water shortages and has been getting increasingly more water every year since teh tarbela dam was built...tarbela many note used to fill up by Jun15 but sindhs increasing withdrawals cause it to fill late and cause substantial losses in teh all important electricity generation...institutionally this is the job of Irsa and Zardari deliberately bypassed it showing his sindhi dictatorialism...many note that zardari has been fighting to get equality with his wife even after her death and many note a recent television report in which both Zardari and benazirs photos were hung together...it is almost similar to the much derided pervez elahi attempt who hung musharafs photos with that of teh quaid e azam...many regard zardari as not of the same level or quality of leader as Benazir even though he has been able to keep together PPP's top subordinate natured heirarchy bringing back some benazir opponents and sidelining a possible opponent or two...losing only a few at teh top in the first year...by the end of five years many suggest that he will probably be handling PPP's children...?
Jun26-2009--The pakistani cricket team looking at a windfall having gathered over Rs50 million in teh first few days...many say that people like kamran akmal, umar gul and saeed ajmal particularly unhappy at not being given the same level of praise as afridi...!!even fawad alam they say is miffed as his run out of albie morkel probably won them teh match against south africa...others talk of whether tarin will tax them... there is a small tax on winnings which probably applies to cricket players...
Jun26-2009--many are talking of teh surprise collapse of teh opposition in the budget session and there are rumours that there might have been a sell out...nawaz sharif is being blamed by many to have let the people go to hell as they say for a few personal favors...?many suggest that nawaz sharif has been looking at substantial loans to expand his empire as have teh chaudhries...and teh mqm is very easy to buy they say as usual happy to eat up sindhs share...others suggest that nawaz sharif not only sold the peoples rights to a fair budget but also gave away 25000 cusecs of punjabi water...others say sindh is trying to deny punjabs right to a proper share in indus waters prior to bhasha...zardaris dictation or orders overriding Irsa could be a constitutional case of mis governance
Jun26-2009--sindh builds canals even in deserts itself while critisizng the thal canal extension...food minister calls irrigation minister naive and says his new district ignored while even jafarabad and jhal magsi in balochistan are better developed...
Jun26-2009--Pakistan tells india that it is not responsible for terrorism in india and if india does not change its stance gods know what will happen there next ...like teh chenab water that india stole terrorism incidents are also water under teh bridge and suggesting work on only one item is counterproductive and impossible...india has never acted against anti pakistan groups and pakistan has done a lot in that regard and many think that there is not much else that pakistan can do without indian movements on a kashmir solution...india thinks that it can subjugate pakistan like teh USA...
Jun26-2009--balochistan to deploy FC in quetta as situation detriorates
Jun26-2009--Sindh speaker gets upset at the term interior sindh...they are used to show teh level of development in two distinct areas in sindh...such terms are used in other provinces like hazara, south punjab, potohar, balochistans pukhtun, brohi and coastal areas which clearly delineate various levels of development, prosperity and government patronage which do change with the times...for example yusuf raza gilani thinks punjab is somewhere in multan...
Jun25-2009--In what many see as a major scandal the PAF fired upto a 100 personnel for involvement with Dec 2003 attempt on musharaf...giving six death sentences...The airforce many say has a much greater conscience than the brute force army...teh involvement of so many can only be described as an ISI failure whose job it is to monitor armed forces personnel...Those removed say that they even removed those that voted no in teh dubious musharaf referendum
Jun25-2009--Indians lack of consistency was apparent in a request for leniency for sarabjit an indian terrorist whose review was rejected by teh SC
Jun25-2009--two killed in Tank as baitullah and zainuddin groups fight it out...
Jun25-2009--upto eighty were killed in the drone attack on Bekh Mary Langara with several commanders killed while baitullah escaped moments before the attack which suggests that someone amongst teh top leadership of teh taleban might be an informant
Jun25-2009--In a move which shows teh extremely sindhi nature of teh current regime a water distribution meeting(actually the job of IRSA) was held at bilawal house without any real punjab participation which apparently restricted water to teh punjab...most water accords apart from teh first one have been caused by sindh complaints of doing this and that...Tarbela in teh seventies used to fill up by Jun15 and the excessive withdrawals for sindh many say are teh cause of water problems and reduced electricity generation which is more important than agricultural produce...if the zardari regime wants to make a change for teh better than they should allow tarbela to fill early...
Jun25-2009--and in karachi...a policeman posted in islamabad shot dead...five suspected militants arrested after firefight...two mqm-h men shot dead..two watchmen from dera bugti on a motorbike killed by another motor cyclist..prayer leader disapearance causes court concern
Jun25-2009--shabaz sharif tobe praised for ending teh extortionist nature of exam fees being charged by education boards in punjab to teh tune of almost a billion...federal government should also end its extortionist nature and end teh petroleum levy and sales taxes on electricity...
Jun25-2009--17 killed in Kurram clashes
Jun25-2009--three policemen die in mortar attack on peshawars arbab tapo police checpost
Jun25-2009--swat almost clear says army as seven militants are killed in swat and dir
Jun25-2009--two killed in quetta by motorcycl killers
Jun25-2009--government to pay Rs24 billion to ease the debts of Hubco..kapco..people have to pay extortionist electricity bills as teh government pampers privatized entities..
Jun25-2009--some jokers suggest that teh 1973 constitution which survives because nothing that replaces it will be successful either as everyone has their own views about teh constitution in various areas... many suggest that since all governments recent and past do/did whatever they wanted whatever teh laws and constitution..one prominent lawyer and people in teh army thought that coups were legal and that army chiefs had teh constitutional right to takeover or become president...the SC even allowed one coup plotter to rule for three years...others views change with teh situation they are personally in...a shampoo might not be enough for a bald head many say...there are too many amendments that make one think that precedents are better than a constitution..what difference does it make if teh president or teh prime minister has teh power to dismiss parliament since both are not answerable to the people...the parliament too should not have teh right to transgress its authority and approve things that were illegal under teh law such as coups and martial laws...many suggest a major change that secessionist, rebellious or anti country groups and parties be banned immediately...why allow the propagation of anti state politics...others also suggest taht the government be bound with teh overall good of teh people and not the policies of foriegn countries or institutions...many also suggest that teh constitution is so damaged that various groups use it for changing priorities and helping out their personal provinces for example what right has zardari to hold meetings in sindh when he never has held even one in punjab or nwfp......might be the primeminister and president should have four wives from four provinces as in canada...the primeminister also rushes off to his area and finds things in lahore not available to him in islamabad...although many doubts exist as to what they are...others suggest that it might be time for another constituent assembly as parliament is not really authorized to rewrite teh constitution...others suggest that teh SC be given teh right to overthrow bad constitutional changes...as far as financial distribution is concerned many donot accept teh sindh views as it has done quite well and wherever there are more people there are more cities and more problems so population should be the major divider for fiinances ..however whenever or wherever there is a need teh federal governments should provide funds or reappropriate as teh federal government does not develop on a population basis...technical help should be freely provided by all governments to each other and parliament can always be asked for special development resources...in effect if government does not function for the betterment of teh people nothing will matter
Jun25-2009---SC gives a correct decision at last..G-6 quarter squatters tobe evicted...turn it into a park many say...zardari regime looking for free expensive places to give to its near and dear ones in islamabad...dont clutter islamabad many say...the supposed zardari owned lakeview motel to become a sheraton and be given possession of teh islamabad golf course or new adjacent land from teh shakarparian green forest......such things can only achieved by teh high or mighty or bahria..or a CDA chief..?
Jun24-2009--drones target Khog Wali's funeral and kill over 50...in lataka and bekh mary langara areas of south waziristan...drones also targeted escaping vehicles
Jun24-2009--baitullah mehsuds rival zainuddin was shot and killed apparently by his security guard who escaped...rehman malik says zainuddin killed by his friends...misbahuddin takes over the original abdullah mehsud group..
Jun24-2009--NA speaker whose performance in teh budget debate was at best lacklustre since she is only acting as if she has to control like a pastry puppet and not participate...being of teh Zardari group she has just formed the constitution reform group which apparently has only nine of 27 members from teh punjab...The smaller provinces would obviously prefer teh strong president while in theory punjab should prefer teh strong primeminister...one has seen teh performance of the powerless kaghzi primeminister and dictatorial president each at tangents to each other and causing severe problems to teh people who do not know who to even accuse for teh anti people nature of teh present governance...teh smaller provinces seem to be preferring high utility prices and taxes for a few more provincial rupees and the PPP has started to look like a special interest group with no peoples support or any pro people policies...
Jun24-2009--The nura kushti group comprising teh PMln and mqm and other opposition groups all walked outof parliament at teh governments anti people nature...considering electricity bills of last july and this june bills have doubled and one can hardly accept that any subsidies are left...they accused the government of cruelty to the people...mqm which is at best a two sided sword of last resort apparently also walks out to provide the government intelligence..many have wondered if teh army and beurocrats need two salaries and pay enhancements why the people have not been provided a 25-30% help or relief package as they are the ones who suffer the governments absymal policies not teh government employees and soldiers...!!
Jun24-2009--India issues warrants for 22 mumbai attack suspects...
Jun24-2009--SC takes suo moto notice of teh governments evil electricity price hikes...
Jun24-2009--pakistani assault cause prices of ammunition to double in afghanistan say teh americans...and taleban activity there is drying up...
Jun24-2009--five armymen including two officers killed in charbagh
Jun24-2009--talks of seraiki province despite southern punjab politicians control over government and finances making lives miserable for everyone
Jun24-2009--college principal gunned down in quetta
Jun24-2009--six militants killed in lower dir and bomb hits security convoy in charmang, bajaur
Jun24-2009--zardari insists that like musharaf he will issue a new NFC award this year...NFC talk only in sind which shows that performance will result in poorer election results at the next elections many say...democracy has tobe for everyone and not only for sindh
Jun24-2009--CDA chief removed as parliamentarians worry about their chak shezad farms and SC wants to know why the palatial residences get agricultural electricity rates or cheaper rates than the poor in teh cities...
Jun23-2009--Rehman Malik says that guerrila chiefs in south waziristan and swat not be allowed to escape as yusuf raza stated that most top guerrilla leades had been eliminated
Jun23-2009--Yusuf Raza who dreams of a primeminister with total dictatorial powers irked by Fauzia wahabs balance remarks...he says he will start a case against teh murderers of ZAB
Jun23-2009--As Obama favors ahmedinajad Zardari says US caused problems by supporting dictators
Jun23-2009--21 killed in south waziristan actions
Jun23-2009--Government shows its distance from the people in teh budget only favoring special interest groups
Jun23-2009--IMF which does not know teh reality suffered by the people says it did not ask for the carbon tax...government thinks that it can make easy money from peoples lack of representation on issues and that inflation took off after its IMF agreement was implemented...the 14 % inflation now is only with reference to last year and portrays a 30-40% price hike in a year...
Jun23-2009--two girsl schools blownup in peshawar and bajaur
Jun23-2009--three killed in bannu rocket attacks...three shot dead in quetta..MSF leader shot dead in hyderabad
Jun22-2009--pakistan wins an unexpecteted world 20/20 world cup as srilanka crumble
Jun22-2009--lashkar kills seven in Dir..27 militants killed in bajaur..eight die in kurram tribal clashes
Jun22-2009--Military attacks continue in south waziristan..twelve killed
Jun22-2009--of the over 500 farms in teh islamabad suburbs only 100 are following teh rules...others identified as owning farms are chaudhry shujaat, mohammed mian soomru,wasim sajjad...many have received teh farms as corruption share which many say includes musharaf...most are using more than teh allowed covered area and around 50 are being used as wedding farms..!!
Jun21-2009--six soldiers including a major died in fighting in swat and south waziristan where the military killed 32 and six in swat...troops reached madejan and started shelling sarwekai...seven militants killed in bajaur area
Jun21-2009--The government seemed tobe cowering in shame to teh disgust of its supporters as it rejected opposition pro people moves to trim teh useless budget...teh government refused to kick out the 134 billion petroleum levy, reduce sales tax to 10%, freeze teh excessive perk filled defence spending and reduce non developmente xpenditure by 25%...what teh government wants teh money for is invisible apart from teh strutting around of the multani moronic puppet...!
Jun21-2009--Raza Rabbani lambasted his former PPP friends for turning into a Brutus for teh people of teh country and said the naive and illiterate or incompetent financewise team of southern punjab was controlled by ayub khan era babus who knew nothing that favored the people...
Jun21-2009--an mqm and a mqmh worker were shot dead by motor cyclists in karachi as horror spread at teh torture and murder of a contractor left in a gunnybag eerily reminding peopel of what the mqm had been doing inits early violence prone days
Jun21-2009--a quick response unit readies to deal with terorrist emergencies in lahore
Jun21-2009--two power pylons blownup in kohat
Jun21-2009--SHO of thall police station dies who was injured in an attack on Jun12
Jun21-2009--center to rebuild 1000 primary schools in nwfp
Jun21-2009--five civilians killed as militants fire rockets amd mortars in lando kotal
Jun21-2009--Punjab food stamp scheme says poor have reduced in gujranwala areas and fewer are applying for food stamps
Jun21-2009--Dawn says pindi stinks because it lacks 200 waste disposal sites which are usually stinking as they are not properly cleaned when waste is lifted...it has also 40 waste disposal vehicles where 80 are required...a waste handling facility being financed by teh ADP has not been constructed as yet...
Jun21-2009--The countries employment situation is reaching dangerous levels as applicants turned violent in islambad at a junior teacher hiring center
Jun21-2009--Will the CJ be able to convert teh 505 palatial farm villas back to farm houses when most are held by important peopel in islamabad...? owned by people like the power minister, amin fahim, musharaf, nawaz sharif, shaukat aziz, nishtars etc...amongst others... i think there are a few orchards and some plant nurseries and probably a rose farm or two but not any real vegetable farms...bulldoze all buildings and tell then to grow veggies or else...?
Jun21-2009--Loi Bhir park being encroached says dawn...
Jun21-2009--Punjab has 95 million people says dawn...many of whom live better and have greater opportunities than in 1947 but teh government seems to lack an interest in developing punjab further...there seems tobe a policy of forgetting almost 3/4 of the punjab populations needs government wise...
Jun20-2009--In a new development the french say that politicians from interior sindh might have initiated teh attack on the french engineers bus in karachi when they were not paid kickbacks...when teh topic was broached many say teh french may have retaliated by having benazir assassinated and a discussion with zardari resulted in a payment of $200 million for the IDP's for silence on teh matter...?This is a totally new angle and zardari is known to have said that even teh world bank paid kickbacks...the french say that they stopped kickbacks in 1995 while teh politicians continued to insist on payments...the pakistani rightwing terrorists are known to attack targets for payments when there interests are also served...
Jun20-2009--The army started its assault on mehsud territory by blowing up several seminaries, training centers and militant hideouts...heavy exchange of fire was taking place as the military trys to seize control of the wana jandollah road...military blocking all exits and its supporting militias led by zainuddin and bhittani apparently funded to raise lashkaras in tank and jandola...taleban left tank after four baitullah supporters were shot dead...
Jun20-2009--judge and his aide shot dead in quetta...bomb blast in dera murad jamali...grenade attack in hazarganji...roadside bomb attempt on FC convoy which escapes
Jun20-2009--claims and counter claims against KESC on power outages...they say Pepco failed to provide power due to outages onits system three times in teh night while Pepco says at one time they were supplying all the KESC. load...KESC says they used an old 132 KV line to connect to NTDC and start their power stations...it seems the karachi power stations lack DC starting power systems...Nepra questions lack of /functioning of low frequency relays and KESC not having a modern computer software controlled SCADA(supervisory control and data acquisition) monitoring system...many suggest that wapda's national power control system which used to have an office at hyderabad be allowed to control teh KESC system...Nepra says KESC provides spurious data and they could be fined...
Jun20-2009--government backs down on controlling tax evasion amongst exporters and bussinessmen and agrees to many amendments in teh budget however the peoples representatives seem unable to get them to provide any relief to teh people...
Jun20-2009--31 militants killed in baajur and upper dir clashes
Jun20-2009--wheat flour selling at Rs60 per kilo in skardu
Jun20-2009--peshawar airport opens after two days
Jun20-2009--france which earlier prohibited muslim schoolgirls from wearing a head scarf now worrying about muslim women turning to teh burqa whose use has increased there...
Jun20-2009--cleanup of militants in buner, mohmand and swat continues as power circuit from chakdara to buner being rehabilated
Jun19-2009--the privatized KESC showed its meagre talents as electricity shutdowns continued thru the night into the next day as people were forced to sleep on teh roads to escape the heat in karachi..government reluctant to takeover KESC knowing the nature of teh unruly mqm...mqm is a perpetual opposition and has no real use in teh government playing to its radical supporters rather than being in teh coalition
Jun19-2009--eleven killed in drone attacks on south waziristan
Jun19-2009--pakistan move into a tough final against sri lanka in the 20/20 after an unexpected win against south africa based on a good performance from the mercurial afridi
Jun19-2009--swat IDP's to start returning
Jun19-2009--The soft zardari opts out of meeting the uncooperative manmohan at the next international meet...pakistan will have to wait until the indians quit their whining
Jun19-2009--The anti people PPP withdraws tax on CNG...of little effect teh government should remove taxes on all energy mechanisms including petrol, electricity and gas
Jun19-2009--while teh country is unsecure due to externally controlled internal subversion gen tariq insists the nuclear assetts are safe and that they can resist teh undermining of the nuclear capability
Jun19-2009--PPP looking at the JI as allies in areas such as lahore in local bodies elections ro provide some sort of realistic fight to the massively popular PMLn...
Jun19-2009--shabaz sharif announces perks for teachers giving them better area allowances and 50000 a year and plots for the best 2000 teachers
Jun19-2009--118 militants arrested in darra and bajaur as two terrorist camps and 13 houses were destroyed
Jun19-2009--34 militants killed as troops secure kabal, kotlai and shamozai in swat
Jun19-2009--gas pipeline blownup in sui as akhter mengal says intelligence figures more powerful than zardari and UN should act as guarantor for any baloch deal
Jun19-2009--caretakers of a mosque kill a masked man on entry in peshawar
Jun19-2009--three women and a child killed in shelling in mohmand
Jun19-2009--kala dhaka a dacoit infested area maybe next taleban bastion
Jun18-2009--Baitullah Mehsud who even people in settled areas fear to oppose is feeling the heat from the Qari Zainuddin group of mehsuds who oppose suicide bomb attacks on pakistanis..teh other opponent Turkestan Bhittani an ex sepoy says attacks on teh military are wrong and that baitullah is US-india organized/aided...a veritable democracy amongst terrorists that have literally brought pakistan to a halt allowing teh government to get away with excuses for its terrible economic policies...
Jun18-2009--In what many say is a growing realization of increasing indian orchestrated terrorism in pakistan...zardari many say was stunned/stumped by manmohan refusing to meet him any further many say.. manmohan singhs stubbornness in attitude thinking that pakistan is lamely going to focus on providing security to the indians..terrorism in india is india's own concern and it has to solve many regional independence issues to get out of it...pakistan has shut down whole organisations to satisfy teh indians but their whining continues because pakistan is not tough and harsh in negotiations with them...india has allowed political groups to kill sikhs, kashmiris, and christians without even denting teh power of those hindu groups...india many say will have to start reciprocating on kashmir...there is no other way...otherwise another group/groups will start to form in teh years to come...manmohan seems to have lost in the indian power struggle and is now no more than a chaprassi/courier for the hindu nationalist power groups...?many suggest that teh increasing terrorism in punjab is indian orchestrated...mainly directed from indian punjab and indians stationed in afghanistan
Jun18-2009--Karachi was plunged into darkness by storms that tripped the jamshoro-hubco and jamshoro-dadu power tramsmission lines tripping all power generation units...in such a situation restarting the generating units and stablizing an unsteady power load is always a problem unless a clear process to restart the system is planned and practiced...Pepco says that it was supplying upto 800 MW to KESC which if it was thru one power transmission line becomes a liability in such a situation...many say karachi's power system should be integrated into that of teh rest of teh country...
Jun18-2009--taleban's threats to peshawar airport shuts it down...
Jun18-2009--a punjabi taleban network is said tobe responsible for the sri lanka attack in lahore which many regard with scorn given teh strategic nature...many say information came from manmohan singh...police arrest zubair alias naik mohammed and claim that the head of teh network is called farook..police identify seven others with photographs and rumours are aired about the JI's involvement...
Jun18-2009--transparency international says musharaf local governments corrupt even though they were one of the few government deptts actually involved in people related real work...no corruption charges have yet been proven by the new governments......the new governments have brought local government work to a halt...many say transparency international statements politically twisted in nature...most corruption in pakistan is centered around fraudulent peopel who frighten people into payments...while customs now donot harass flying passengers they still rip off on cargo shipments looking for illegal drugs forcing gratification...power sector visibly uncorrupt...most corruption is centered around contractual work where contractors overcharge to make payments to officials...petty corruption has decreased but wholesale corruption by politicians in which entire budgets are grafted away...that happens in all government deptts...
Jun18-2009--The government is standing onits head says finance secretary salman siddik...though IMF said that it had made no such conditions he says we will still raise power prices by 17% irrespective of anything...government raised power prices heavily last year and it only contributed to unnecessary inflation raising production prices and other prices...
Jun18-2009--educationist gunned down in khuzdar
Jun18-2009--PPP leader shot dead in DI Khan
Jun18-2009--two explosive devices blowup power pylon in kohat and a hujra..car blasted in shahdara
Jun18-2009--the ethnic divisionists who generally oppose punjabis of the STTP, SNF, mean sindhi PPP groups, MQM and SQM block sindh punjab border at sukkur to oppose IDP's...one does not know what to do with ethnicism...pukhtuns dont allow anyone to settle in nwfp but themselves live in all provinces...similarly the baloch...sindhis too show negativism as do mohajirs to other ethnic groups...it leaves punjab which is overflowing with pukhtuns at least with tharis and others also moving in all over teh place with christians thinking they have a right to occupy land for katchi abadis...
Jun17-2009--In the god forsaken rawalpindi where everything this year has disappeared...eaten by the corrupt they say..the dawn claims that this year for teh first time in twenty years they have dredged teh nullah Lai and removed encroachements..obviously a joke as they have been widening, dredging,deepening, cleaning the Lai every other year since benazirs first term...just weeks ago they said that a 700 million program to clean teh Lai had begun...now they say teh work has been completed at teh cost of 92 million...others say tanvir kaira is sitting at the Lai getting contractors to file fake bills for their work...?basically all they had to do this year was clean teh filth and plastic bags...u just cant dredge and widen and deepen a stream in weeks...what must we conclude ...dawn is hand in glove with contractors and commissioner and kaira and JICA in what is commonly called...kha rahe ho shabaz...?dredging a 13 kilometer stream in weeks...?
Jun17-2009--kaira claims he gave local bodies 106 billion last year which was not demonstrated in spending as teh local bodies apparently were not functioning... his devlopment funding also was invisible...?
Jun17-2009--punjab budget barely higher than sindhs showing greater development in teh smaller province...
Jun17-2009--The indians refuse to start substance negotiations..terrorism is an internal matter say pakistani anlysts neither able to help the other in dealing with it with the indians bigger culprits say teh pakistanis with terrorist controllers stationed in indian punjab and across teh afghan border...
Jun17-2009--chinese critisize indian air force chief remarks in which he urged pakistan to serve as intelligence agents against china...manmohan many say could start a war with his intransigent nature...
Jun17-2009--As the airforce carried out strikes in waziristan the army started moving its hardware thru tank and DI khan...
Jun17-2009--13 terrorists killed in swat and malaknd over teh last two days...military claims destroring a militant training facility and killing a suicide vest maker...four tunnels destroyed in peochar
Jun17-2009--Fehmida Mirza who has presided over a weakening of parrliament says she is finding it difficult to name a committee for constitutional reform...obviously being blocked by the PPP
Jun17-2009--11 killed in maidan
Jun17-2009--Britain appoints a diplomat to head MI6 after the failure of the MI initiated Tamil rebellion..maybe pakistan too needs a civilian to head teh ISI...
Jun17-2009--PCB appoints the lackadaisical Wasim Bari as a cricketer selector...they now have three selectors from karachi...?
Jun17-2009--The nura kushti opposition-government supporters in sheeps clothing are barely able to even discuss the budget properly in parliament...what to talk of teh supremacy of parliament...at least in the past they made noises now all we can hear are cries of sheep or cows...
Jun16-2009--The army which has never really gone after teh mehsuds after the airforce gunned down mullah nek mohammed who headed a milder version of the taleban and was killed after musharaf refused to accept the corp commanders agreement with him...baitullah mehsud who the army chief says is involved in all terrorism in pakistan is reportedly least worried about teh pakistan army...many wonder why...? he has a running feud with apparently two taleban leaders turkestan bhittani and qari zainuddin one a afghan veteran and another who runs his own group...teh army apart from earlier being embarassed in teh south and north waziristan areas has been running around after everyone else but teh taleban boss...technically he has been replaced as leader by ahmedi abdullah and recent attacks seem to have been ordered by hussein mehsud from orakzai......early on in teh conflict teh mehsuds captured several forts and gunned down a helicopter carrying many officers...as teh conflict eased in teh waziristan areas it flared up in every other area as teh army avoided going after teh taleban command group...The armies new policy will be to target areas like makeen after every suicide attack...whether they will mount a real ground offensive is yet to be seen...the other emerging reality is teh willingness of teh behind teh scenes airforce to go after the taleban...that has helped teh army in swat and that is teh only weapon they have against the mehsud control group...many think the army/airforce will go after all centers that they can indentify in mateen and than mount a ground offensive...the mehsuds are escaping and teh army should monitor hi profile escapees many suggest...the military seems to be hedging its bets by trying to create emerging centers of power opposed to baitullah and opening teh wana-tank road bypassing the mehsud areas...the military is also seeking to get cooperation from other pro government commanders such as maulvi nazir and gul bahadur...
Jun16-2009--The army and airforce involved in anti taleban operations apparently to get two salaries a month says teh army chief ...that surprises many who see teh army as a perk infested rich mans playfield...with literally Rs.400 billion to spend teh army has literally started to control many areas of commerce in pakistan and most top army officers are literally billionaires like musharaf who is now playing teh playboy in england from his ill gotten wealth...?
Jun16-2009--many hope that zardari has the guts and intellect to talk straight to manmohan about its involvement in teh problems in the region...upto now the playboy turned politician has not said much in real terms on relations with india barring the simplistic that they want good relations with almost teh only enemy in teh world for pakistan...talking meaninglessly to india is not worth while many say...
Jun16-2009--The army moved closer to a conflict with the mehsuds by clearing the janikhel area in FR Bannu...rockets fired by militants and an exchange of fire took place..military killed a possible suicide bomber when he refused to stop his car in bannu
Jun16-2009--lashkar kills four militants in upper dir as they move towards kandao their last bastion in the area..
Jun16-2009--In maidan lower dir militants attacked killing two security men and losing nine of their own...
Jun16-2009--military continues clearing operation in mohmand killing three militants...
Jun16-2009--PMLq ridicules PMLn year in power in which they could hardly do anything...many wonder whether tanvir kaira has siphoned all teh funds for his personal use...? projects questioned include how many tractors they distributed...where 160 billion was spent...how many cheap houses were constructed...how many widows loans were written off...where are teh airconditioned buses for students...where they are producing 350MW of electricity...many think the center didnt give anything to the punjab this year...yusuf raza ate it all they say...?in rawalpindi there was no provincial spending at all they say...!
Jun16-2009--EDO swindled and left unconcious on way to khanewal
Jun16-2009--Car prices fall by 5% and cement by Rs10...this depicts the high cost of taxation to the people...government should end taxes on utilities and petroleum products too to really help the people live...
15Jun-2009--The PPP regime seeks another $4 billion from the IMF
15Jun-2009--decisive offensive against baitullah mehsud in the offing...
15Jun-2009--eight die in a DI khan explosion...different from the suicide bombs of the taleban it could be one of the political/sectarian groups acting against another
15Jun-2009--three killed in south waziristan drone attack
15Jun-2009--military continues operation in bajaur, darra and fr bannu...nine militants killed...at least 30 killed in attacks on south waziristan a day earlier says teh military
15Jun-2009--11kv electricity poles crumble in various sindh cities due to high winds...
15Jun-2009--while teh federal government pays scant regard to providing employment sindh says it has so far given 28000 jobs...
14Jun-2009--The PPP budget did not reflect its mandate or its party manifesto...generally increasing taxation...despite the over 2.5 trillion spread no relief is provided to the people from price hikes...needless reductions in the minor existing subsidies will increase prices further for teh people...a meaningless 2% decrease in mobile phone taxes and forcing people who do not have taxable income to file tax returns...a similarly ridiculous condition to get an NTN for phone, bank accounts, mobile phone connections and gas connections shows teh governments deliberate problem creating nature...posting of teh generally corrupt custom officers overseas also seen as needless or useless...a dangerous condition to levy sales tax on unspecific banking services...no major positive people oriented or people specific spending announced...or development oriented spending...Bhasha seen as a sindh specific project as punjab will hardly be able to benefit and sindh already restricting electricity generation on teh indus...the government seems to just want to collect more and more taxes and foreign aid and spend it on unending non development...almost worse than teh shaukat aziz consumerism...
14Jun-2009--The airforce bombed/attacked teh supposed HQ of baitullah mehsud... mateen after the killing of a pro government anti taleban mullah in lahore...
14Jun-2009--The US has dropped AQ Khan and indian oriented conditions from teh dubious micro managed pakistan aid bill...
14Jun-2009--The governments hugely unpopular and needless taxation proposals contain a petroleum tax of Rs134 billion and a gas surcharge of Rs.299.37 billion and over Rs300 billion from sales tax...while it is creating problems for teh peopel it is giving government employees a generous 15% pay raise...just that shows the extent to which teh PPP is creating problems for the ordinary populace...The PPP can at best be said tobe a blind organisation with idiotic dictators blind to the peoples needs and problems at the top...
Jun13-2009--The government which seems in some sort of narcotic trance is moving to create one of teh worst economic scenarios for most people who will be taxed a further 25% as revenues increase to near 2 trillion with one minister falsely claiming that electricity prices will be raised further due to economic constraints.....teh only people who will supposedly benefit are faujis and government employees with a whopping 20% salary increase probably teh highest worldwide and probably those who get free tractors...teh government will continue to fuel inflation by raising prices, taxation, wastage and salaries...when this rigmarole of an economy will end is unknown...the government said the same thing when its revenues were 50 billion and says teh same thing when they are 2 trillion...no government has had it so good economically but still the people are being made to suffer...many are suggesting that the word people be replaced by militant or enemy in the PPP since this government is no friend of the people...new taxation may include capital gains,services, banks, doctors,customs officials, cargo agents etc....which will obviously directly effect or increase teh cost to teh consumer or people using those services
Jun13-2009--In two mosque bomb blasts the taleban made more enemies by killing another ten...
Jun13-2009--Zardari says a cantonement to be setup in swat...and fauj to get an extra monthly salary...?
Jun13-2009--operation launched in mohmand killing 12 and two soldiers
Jun13-2009--seven militants killed in bajaur fighting
Jun13-2009--three policemen and a soldier killed by explosive devices in hangu...
Jun13-2009--two schools torched in maidan
Jun13-2009--In an obvious attempt to silence mullah opposition to teh taleban two mosques were bombed one in lahore and one in nowshera...in nowshera the supply mosque was destroyed and in lahore a top sunni cleric was killed...the leadership of teh taleban many suspect is either shiite or non muslim in intent and purpose..others suspect a sectarian motive...mullah naeemi who was killed in lahore recently came out in total opposition to the taleban crusade...others suspect that it might be part of the indian retaliation to rattle the pakistani government which is at best supported by a smaller and smaller cross section of the populace everyday...
Jun12-2009--The governments pathetic economic performance was apparent when a growth of only 2% was announced...Tarin seemed to have nothing to suggest but more taxation...he was unaware that everyone pays taxes since literally everything is taxed...Taxing agriculture is meaningless...he said they had been consolidating meaning what...? many said that funds were being siphoned off as the government at best did nothing this year but make speeches and kill people...?
Jun12-2009--a gun battle took place outside the corp commanders residence in peshawar where two people were killed...while six were arrested in karachi planning to attack teh corp commander there
Jun12-2009--a provincial minister was attacked near darra adamkhel killing three seriously wounding the minister
Jun12-2009--In hangu and orakzai the military pounded seminaries and villages killing 47 including a sunni cleric and a family of a JUI leader
Jun12-2009--India turned into a US client state as a under secretary of state conveyed washingtons desire to move on various issues including talks with pakistan...pruning indian consulates in jalalabad and kandahar...moving on CBM's of a relatively serious nature...etc...
Jun12-2009--bomb blast in bolan mail kills one
Jun12-2009--LHC reinstates two PIA airhostesses fired for being over weight
Jun12-2009--In the last two days 66 militants killed in swat, bannu and malaknd
Jun12-2009--daily oil production fell in teh country to 66532 barrels..oil usage fell by 3.4 % and electricity consumption rose by 0.7%...
Jun12-2009-- clashes on bhutto lands between villagers and workers of both sides
Jun12-2009--Pakistans external debt which has never fallen increased to $50.1 billion and the only pakistanis doing well are expatriates who sent in $7 billion in first eleven months...
Jun11-2009--In the peshawar hotel attack bodies were still being pulled from the debris as teh dearg toll rose to 19...
Jun11-2009--about 70-80 militants killed in teh janikhel area of Bannu as military attacked after imposing a curfew in Bannu...military now says that 500-600 militants rushed to defend the area which is a staging post for attacks in the nwfp's south...
Jun11-2009--In Upper dir the lashkar attacked shakas and ghazigay
Jun11-2009--In peochar military secured some more areas killing 16
Jun11-2009--Both teh US and pakistan pressure india to become a good mature country and government and give up its childish practice of whining and hiding under the bed whenever anything happens...pakistan can hardly provide india any protection given its size however many suggest india should stop arming terrorist groups in pakistan and allow independence to volatile regions of its own making...still others suggest pakistan could station troops in bombay to protect teh indians and like teh US... india too should open its coffers to participate in teh war in pakistan...
Jun11-2009--pakistani student deported from england..
Jun11-2009--two STTP men killed on the northern bypass protesting IDP's
Jun11-2009--Dr. AQ Khan stopped from attending an international school function...
Jun11-2009--police kill alleged car thief in lahore
Jun11-2009--Punjab to setup its own revenue collection deptt to handle the extortion of federal resources by sindh...
Jun11-2009--35 new anti terrorist checposts established in kohat
Jun11-2009--The shiite led government reduces zakat disbursements to a whopping 56% beneficiaries preferring to shift funds to other means of disbursement...direct disbursements decline by 31%
Jun11-2009--as all the news on teh budget front was literally negative viz the government there seems to have been a stoppage of all budget stories....
Jun10-2009--suicide blast at pearl continental peshawar..gunmen open fire and kill security guards and than detonate suicide vehicle killing 11...group using tactics similar to those in lahore which could suggest that it is either a newer terrorist group or a new operations controller..lahore blast blamed on DG khan and rahimyar khan groups ..many suggest that teh weak manmohan singh is trying to prove himself an indian to the indians...
Jun10-2009--Troops pound areas in bakikhel and janikhel as tribes did not hand over kidnappers of razmak students...near Bannu
Jun10-2009--14 militants killed in swats peochar, as military pounds dooag darra in upper dir as lashkar captures four villages..one soldier killed in kalpanni
Jun10-2009--four schools torched in mardan
Jun10-2009--Fazlullah sermon center Imam Dheri( the mound of teh leader) blownup by the military
Jun10-2009--oil climbs to $71 again as demand probably mounts for winter supplies
Jun9-2009--mqm calls pukhtuns descendants of the mongolians chenghiz and hilakhu khan....ANP minister says railways cannot be privatized even if zardari might want to...
Jun9-2009--In the Buner district where the military has pushed the militants out of teh main areas who retaliated by destroying a government college, high school and two bridges...another 21 militants killed in malakand...military advancing towards Jure in buner...
Jun9-2009--karachi descended into mqm orchestrated violence as eight more were killed
Jun9-2009--Zardari teh naive wants unconditional talks with india...how that is possible when the spade work on all problem areas has been done...it is quite obvious that teh indians will stall till kingdom come and terrorism is a mere bahana...these issues have been around for half a century and india has not moved an inch towards a solution or solutions...india many say must start by giving independence to punjab, kashmir and teh assam areas...and later tamil nadu and west bengal...india only wants talks onits agenda and not anything else...democratic nations are usually problem solvers but india is the biggest problem creator/troublemaker in the region...
Jun9-2009--In Dir upper villagers killed another 14 opponents
Jun9-2009--policeman killed in hazarkhawani blast in peshawar
Jun8-2009--clashes between lashkar and militants leave almost 11 dead as hayagay sharqi and other villages join to form a lashkar and fight militants who were bunkered in and also razed 20 militant houses in upper dir..
Jun8-2009--In maidan, lower dir militants torched 11 schools...
Jun8-2009--TTP and TNSM clash in mamond, bajaur leaving four dead
Jun8-2009--Military spokesman says all indian defence spending pakistan specific as they can hardly fight china and its small neighbours sri lanka, nepal, burma and bangladesh are too small to even figure in defence matters...he said that pakistan militaris huge budget Rs318 billion almost equaled development spending last year but has ended up 15-20% higher than the federal development program in which the government says it allocated only 189 billion of the 373 billion upto May...even that development is invisible as the government did little but fight terrorism... The armed forces budget is very inflexible and there is no interchange in resource allocations between priorites old or emerging...military should many suggest reallocate operational resources to emerging realities rather than remain rigid...for example if a bullet or missile or soldier or tank or petrol is needed more in malakand and swat than obviously it can be shifted from one ordnance depot/base to another...
Jun8-2009--military securing more areas in swat and caught suicide bombers, bombs in kohat , karachi and swat...4 militants killed
Jun8-2009--As the mqm refused to back down and waded further into another insurgency 10 are killed in karachi...it seems as another war between the mqm-mqmh is on...teh mqm known to refuse plural ethnic politics inits areas...
Jun8-2009--karachi police to start a foreigner escort service
Jun8-2009--militants destroy school in darra adamkhel
Jun8-2009--two killed in mardan for violating a curfew
Jun8-2009--The punjab says women university and female medical college in multan not workable projects...yusuf raza seems to be only spending in multan using his personal powers to bend teh weak provincial chief minister...
Jun8-2009--Qaim ali shah wants provincial collection of sales tax...ir would be unworkable as provincial governments would have to set up collection points at their borders...many suggest industries in karachi should pay sales tax directly to punjab for at least 60 % of the goods that they sell in punjab...as should PIA and wapda /pepco/sui gas companis etc...
Jun7-2009--suicide bomber strikes rescue15 office in islamabad killing three
Jun7-2009--roadside bomb kills two captured TNSM leaders and a JCO near sakhakot
Jun7-2009--army to stay in swat indefinitely and a new cantonment could be set for the swat, malakand, dir area
Jun7-2009--pakistan signs exorbitant gas price agreement with iran..gas tobe used for electricity generation...?
Jun7-2009--another two supposed political workers killed in karachi
Jun7-2009--unemployed workers block labour ministers car in sukkur...police to the rescue...
Jun7-2009--Government bent upon raising electricity prics by around 10% in july supposedly on IMF orders...Nepra is not authorised to raise prices for IMF and a court could strike down such a measure many say...why IMF would want to implement inflationery pressure on a stalled economy is unknown...
Jun7-2009--government trying to lure provinces into greater resources so that it dos not have to end taxes such as sales tax and petroleum development levy...finance ministry functioning as a peoples enemy with regards to taxation...government should pay heed to teh ADP which says pakistani government hooked on needless overspending...
Jun7-2009--LHC says intelligence reports shown to the judges showed no solid evidence against hafiz saeed and even those reports were prepared after teh arrests...Rehman malik lying openly that the government has more material aginst hafiz saeed than the UN...maybe its time for a new interior minister
Jun7-2009--Tarin thinks that agriculturists cultivate for fun...they are not teh richest class in pakistan without making money...why agriculture must not be taxed is to keep prices low not because there are no profits in agriculture...even in europe and america agriculture prices are kept low thru subsidies...for a good economy transportation and electricity must be cheap so that industries and agriculture can keep prices down and people can live and breathe...
Jun7-2009--shakeel awan emerging as PMLn candidate for NA55 as workers want a local candidate...?
Jun7-2009--many are questioning teh yusuf raza assertion that he has been providing jobs without fear...while he has been preferring shiites and multanis for appointments in teh beaurocracy he seems to have provided only jobs to a sindh ministers wife and a sindhi politicians daughter taht can be said tobe illegal...he has avoided appointing his relatives this time...an earlier report says that he promoted an SHO to IG islamabad who was protecting his wife...?
Jun7-2009--two TNSM leaders including amir izzat die in an abortive attempt by militants in attacking a convoy to get them released as military denies arresting the TNSM chief sufi mohammed or his sons...
Jun7-2009--In what seems an attempt to deceive teh people raja ashraf says that two power plants tobe added to Tarbela to expand it like mangla whose height was raised to store more water.....many suggest that since tarbela's current power turbines are never fully used the new plants will be idle for most of the year...and the high cost will be just a waste of money...to teh tune of Rs30 billion or more...similarly qaim and chairman planning commission at odds over kalabagh still...sindh blinded by anti punjab animosity just does not realize that it would be a dam just like any other...sindh does not like any investment in punjab...?
Jun6-2009--The deputy beggar of pakistan yusuf raza asks US to write off all its loans to pakistan...since pakistan seems unable to pay back any loans the PPP seems to want to continue the shaukat aziz policy of attempting to get all foreign loans written off and avoid repayments...
Jun6-2009--As the military pushes back militants further from developed areas a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in rural upper dir killing 30 including 12 children...the village called hayagay sharqi
Jun6-2009--In what many regard as a jovial gesture teh armies top generals urged the provincial nwfp government to ensure a sound administration ensuring safety of returning IDP's as they go after teh militants in teh mountains...civil administration in nwfp's rural areas is at best a dicey situation with dependence on tribal chiefs and unsteady jirgas and lashkars...many suggest that the national assembly must act and end tribal areas once for all and ensure elected rule with a proper police force...
Jun6-2009--in the senate a bit more openeness after teh taleban seemingly crushed in swat and malakand...one retired general says that teh ammunitions of the taleban comes from russian and and american arms in afghanistan..taleban now openly being referred to as terrorists as religious and other supporters back down...some blame previous governments reluctance to deal with teh situation as violence led to support for military governance and muted opposition...It was only after the terrible lal masjid fiasco and later events that the taleban and militant islamists have reached a situation of losing all public and political support...
Jun6-2009--a parcel bomb went off at the home of a baloch mna in karachi after he was named as a drug kingpin by the US ...?
Jun6-2009--India as usual blames pakistan for a supposed terrorist...just walking around a minar in delhi... picked up in delhi who is an indian citizen from bihar...pakistan cannot do anything if the indians terrorize muslims into bizzare acts against their mean hindu nationalist governance...such indian government behaviour of refusing to even talk can hardly be regarded as rational.....In this day and age anybody can contact anyone...and one must say that indian muslims are far better at terrorism than anybody trained in pakistan...india and pakistan have not solved any issue over the last three decades...pakistan wants trade and bus services and the indians subservience to their strangly negative attitudes...india forgets that pakistanis are not subjugated indian muslims...
Jun6-2009--karachis bizarre behaviour in which they seem to think that violent behaviour can solve things surfaced again as a bus accident killed three..rioters burned teh bus...militancy has been created in pakistan from such events when unrestrained anger is supposed to solve matters...many used to blame such attitudes on indian films where violent behaviour was propagated and rash driving...now our soldiers watch indian films in their private cinemas......others suggest that pakistanis have a naturally irrelevant anger and violence based attitude and the situation has been brought to his level by secret illegal military/dictatorship led governance...a seemingly uneducated politicised judiciary...subjugation of the poor at the behest of teh rich and a political class who runs teh country like kings and elitists...the poor have no option but to run riot and try to subjugate their own families in teh vilest manner possible which includes, anger, hatred mongering and extreme violent behaviour...even ordinary peopel kill without basis and fight over slights to their supposed izzat...threatening others by teh ghunda class, pukhtuns and sectarian riff raff and especially ethnicists is a routine
Jun6-2009--Justice Afzal soomru after a bizzare year and half in which he was elevated to the CJ, SHC after the Nov3...than brought down in Aug 2008 and transferred to teh FSC after supposed complaints against him and has again been made a judge and third in line of seniority at teh SHC...as a junior sindh judge has been elevated as CJ FSC...
Jun6-2009--US says militants being financed by the rich of the gulf countries...
Jun6-2009--houses of militants razed in maidan and adenzai...
Jun6-2009--dawn says that 14000 proclaimed offenders have hideouts in the fata...carjackers, kidnappers and hired assassins...one wonders why pukhtuns worry when they are so negatively portrayed...or is teh pukhtun really like that...
Jun6-2009--there was not much in obama's speech to muslims...he only had to say that israel will not invade lebanon and palestine ever again and that any israeli war mongering would be treated as harshly as muslims have been treated teh world over by teh uSA and his russian friends...but no he just did not give the assurance that muslims would not be attacked..he just offered mere talk and no solutions...while his team has tried to soften teh anti muslim rhetoric and attitude of bush's conservatives he too has failed in giving something back...maybe teh pride and sovreignity of muslim nations...he forgot to say that the US has never vacated any conquered territory...whether europe, germany, japan or korea and nobody believed that they would leave afghanistan and iraq...
Jun6-2009--FIA seeks warrants for mohammed khan of turbat who provided the bombay attackers a boat...government wants to help india out by prosecuting five supposed planners and boat providers in an in camera trial at an ATC but not the leadership of the jamaat dawa...?
Jun6-2009--PPP's dwindling political fortunes in rawalpindi may see them back out of a contest in teh NA55 where a third election is in teh offing...
Jun5-2009--Government raids amandara, malakand TNSM hq and arrests three top leaders...sufi mohammed and sons many say organizing from an unerground position...reports suggests that the sufi family is missing...in action or hiding...
Jun5-2009--Obama's speech showed no sign of change in attitudes of a crude USA...which recognizes one extreme and is blind to another...israel has been made on palestine soil by force and once it gives up teh areas that were not assigned to it by teh UN than i am sure everyone will recognize it...when it shows that it is sensible and will not attack every red flag that it sees inits blindness of its own extremes...when the US/israel too follow the paths of dialogue rather than war to achieve their aims than only will things change...the truth must be universal and not only on the muslim side...when america does not ask israel to vacate its own aggression than what right has it to ask of hamas or hezbollah anything in real terms...
Jun5-2009--Kayani says the tide has turned aginst teh terrorists in swat and their resistance is dying fast...troops not tobe pulled out until things become completely normal
Jun5-2009--The NEC approves a PSDP of 400 plus 200 billion which has no people init and there is only money for teh richest segments of soceity...government also trying to take credit for provincial devlopment projects...This year punjab seems to have got nothing many say and even big cities like rawalpindi have not got a cent.....a wastage of Rs 40 billion on reviving failed industries and another needless 3.5 billion in the dairy field which is doing quite well...no major job creation is envisioned and balochistan to get Rs.50 billion plus another 30 billion...as it could not utilize 21 billion last year...there is 4 billion for tractors for the agricutural rich...even though one fails to understand whether tractor distribution is provincial or federal in nature...the agricultural sectors seem quite well off and teh money would have been better spent on welfare of agricultural workers rather than the landlords...27 billion for agricultural storage shows that teh country seems way behind in that deptt...with wind energy priced at around 12 cents many wonder what price cheap coal energy from sindh will be...dawn says shahbaz sharif willing to giveup a huge share of punjabs development funds by giving up the population basis of sharing...tarin backing away from needless excessive taxation on agriculture etc...government told in no uncertain terms that raising utility/petroleum prices counter productive and inflationery...
Jun5-2009--The taleban released teh kidnapped cadet college razmak students realizing that not doing so would cause a huge military offensive
Jun5-2009--SBP revizes GDP growth forecast lower to between 2-3...
Jun5-2009--pakistan rejects indias negative attitudes towards pakistan and condemns interference inits internal affairs...pakistan too could condemn indian court decisions pakistan tells india and its pre conditions such as do this and that not acceptable to pakistan..india should resume dialogue at teh top level to remove petty indian ministerial/beaurocratic attitudes....the indian foreign secretary many say was so rude and undiplomatic that the pakistan ambassador also made similar remarks about indians negative attitudes towards a solution of kashmir and other matters...the indian president tried to create an impression that kashmir was a problem between them and extremist liberation groups...and than suggested probably in jest that they wanted good relations with countries in teh region...india known to meddle negatively in all countries onits borders creating immense problems for those countries...indian reports on bombay attacks were being received in marathi many say...no word on who supplied teh gunmen with weapons which apparently were delivered at sea...?
Jun5-2009--In karachi two mqm-h workers and a JI Shabab i Milli chief shot dead...such shootings are generally thought tobe carried out by the mqm
Jun5-2009--two mqm workers killed by opponents in karachi in tit for tat actions..
Jun5-2009--a PPP worker and a policeman also killed in various karachi areas...fueling tension...
Jun5-2009--militants blow up government school and two military official houses in Buner as military continues to clear their hilly hideouts...
Jun5-2009--at least seven killed including a captain of FC and a DSP as militants attack convoy near Mardan...
Jun5-2009--mqm which is deeply involved in karachi violence sees a plot to destroy karachi thru violence...many say mqm's opponents have got fed up with their dictatorial and feudal nature...
Jun5-2009--army says ten militants killed in Buner, swat...
Jun5-2009--taleban commander killed near kohat in police encounter
Jun5-2009--sindhi activist killed near hyderabad by police during a protest
Jun5-2009--school hit by bombs near peshawar
Jun5-2009--closure of marble mines in buner, swat and lasbela causing problems in exports and shutting down teh countries massive marble industry...
Jun5-2009--Ministry of Housing making out of turn allottments despite thousands waiting for government housing...the blue eyed and top officials being favored with teh minister from nwfp reportedly favoring people from nwfp and sindh...many rural people from nwfp known to occupy government accommodation by force...
June4-2009--In a development that reflects growing concerns about the governments subjugation to india and the USA on internal matters teh LHC released Hafiz saeed from detention after the government could not provide any details on Hafiz saeeds involvement...The court also took into consideration teh negative attitude of india towards pakistan...obviously Hafiz Saeed was apparently running a charity network and indian concerns which prompted his detention seems false...one cannot accept indian accusations without basis and also teh word of somebody in indian detention...many also pointed to teh duplicity of teh uSa which did not go against indian hindu networks that killed minorities in india...
June4-2009--In swat teh military cleared charbagh and pir baba in buner...and dakorak in shangla...in matta a checpost was attacked with teh killing of three militants and a soldier..reports of further improvements in lower dir...military claims big towns tobe cleared soon while surrounding areas may take months...
June4-2009--the negative expectations from teh PPP regimes budget started to rise further as zardari,naveed ismail, hina and tarins negative statements started to appear... reports of increasing electricity prices by Rs3, taxation increases and doles to teh agriculture, industrial and textile sector abound...showing that inflation and prices will definitely rise...bhasha seen as a sindh aid project in punjab..many suggest that the industrial, agricultural and textile sectors are doing well and they looted teh country with the active connnivance of the military over teh last thirty years and it is time to give something back to teh people...government should not build things with public money and than privatize and give nothing back to teh people...privatization money should be used to reduce electricity prices since it has not been used to reduce foreign loans...
June4-2009--Zardari a good beggar as he begs and gets another $200 million for teh IDP's from teh US...allah ke waste bijli bhi sasti kar do...many are pointing to the nasty trio of seraikis as behind the mean nasty anti people budget...with zardari looking on as a grieving widower in teh style of mein kiya karoon...industrialists ka bara nuksan hua he...hai raba amir logon ko aur amir kar do...gharib kiya kar len ge hamar...?many suggesting a country wide strike if electricity prices are raised...or an industrialists strike...
June4-2009--Obama has to realize that teh rich saudis cannot control muslim feelings or teh subjugated egyptians if situations in afghanistan, iraq, kashmir, palestine, chechynya go on...
June4-2009--37 kidnapped cadet college razmak students still missing...the government should close down such institutions in troubled areas...problems in kohats surrounding areas have been avoided by the military
June4-2009--two haqiqi workers shot dead in karachi
June4-2009--one lahore suicide bomber came from mandi bahauddin as police arrest an indian..
June4-2009--shabaz sharif allocates 8 billion for teh sasti roti scheme...
June4-2009--PMLq leadership to shift to pervaiz elahi, humayun akhter and salim saifullah...
June4-2009--landmine kills FC soldier in Khuzdar
June4-2009--Funds for BISP to rise to Rs80 billion...? it is necessary to increase teh emoluments too seeing the almost crazy price hike based economy run by the PPP...
June4-2009--PPP regime should encourage higher education in pakistan as should teh punjab government...?