April2003

Apr30--Shujaat to lead 11 member LFO talks on seven clauses only..opposition members tobe Chaudhry Nisar, Liaqat baloch,Hafiz hussein, Aitzaz and Khoso
Apr30--Vajpayee aparently rejects vist to pakistan
apr30--Mahmoud Abbas becomes first palestinian primeminister
apr 30--fertilizer plant inspected by UN in pakistan
Apr30--13 killed as US troops fire on iraqis..
Apr30--Despite indian preconditions jamali says he was encouraged by call to vajpayee
apr29--The government and opposition agreed to form an 11 member committee to draft a constitutional package tobe submitted to the heads of parties..by May11
Apr29--Jamali invites vajpayee to pakistan for talks to repeat past history of agreements on peripheral issues..
Apr28--The azad kashmir government backs away from the mangla dam raising agreement due to tariff disagreement...
Apr28--Formerly of the PPP Maleeha LOdhi and one of the faujs few women tobe appointed HC to the UK
Apr28--MQM-h's lone mna dies..
Apr27--Musharaf to visit USA in june as Benazir vows to return...
Apr27--Akram Lahori the lashkar e jhangvi henchman sentenced to death for sectarian murders
apr27--US not to take army action in india to help kashmiri muslims...
apr27--14 iraqis die as ammunition dump blowsup sparking angry protets..
Apr26--18 killed in occupied kashmir in a courthouse bombing, a suicide attack on an indian post,an ambush and attacks on politicians
Apr26--13 killed in army aviation MI17 helicopter crash
Apr26--Iraqis reject US occupation at friday prayers..
Apr26--parties show flexibility in first round of LFO talks and suggest agreed points to be put before parliament
Apr25--iraqi deputy prime minister tariq aziz arrested
Apr25--While the opposition would like musharaf to leave now he suggests that he will give up his uniform some time in the future...
Apr24--in a contradiction to his talks offer shujaat suggests that opposition will have to accept LFO...
Apr24--Karzai has presented a list of terrorists that he claims are in pakistan
Apr24--Vajpayee continues to back out of talks on kashmir as he states preconditions not acceptable to pakistan
Apr24--opposition to only discuss teh LFO hoping Jamali will have learned his lesson..PPP willing to attend too
Apr23--massive gathering in karbala urges USA to withdraw...
Apr23--UN team to inspect a fertilizer plant for WMD's..government says inspection routine
apr23--Jamali formally invites opposition for talks..
Apr23--Musharaf says parliament is uncivilized(military like)
Apr23--karzai assures half hearted support on kashmir via UN resolutions
Apr23--Musharaf-karzai to continue war against terrorism..visibly musharaf and karzai remain somewhat antagonistic towards each other
Apr22--Despite the governments refusal to listen the opposition they offered a facile consolation by offering a referendum on the LFO...referendums have been seen as useless politically
Apr22--rawalpindi cantonement introduces chingchi garbage collectors for congested areas...
Apr22--The national assembly was paralyzed by opposition protests against army rule
Apr22--zafarullah Jamali rejects preconditions for talks with india
apr22--Amin Fahim says despite supporting a neutral coalition after the elections they had rejected a military proposal to ban Benazir for ten or twenty years...
Apr22--US sends in a reluctant looking major general(r) Jay Garner to handle the iraqi administration
Apr22--The almost dead musharaf resurfaced saying he and LFO were part of his constitution...
Apr21--Opposition suggest direct talks with musharaf rather than with his employees like shujaat and jamali...
Apr21--PMLq accepts LFO and musharaf and refuses to compromise..
Apr20--head of ahmediyya jamaat dies in london
Apr20--15 killed in tribal clashes in balochistan and sindh..In Jamalis hometown gunmen killed Nawab Khan Domkis children..mahar and jatoi tribes clashed and killed in sindh...jagirini and narejo tribesmen also clashed
Apr20--Vajpayee again offers peace if pakistan accepts status quo...?
Apr20--Arab neighbours ask USA to pull out of iraq
Apr20--Saddam's finance minister arrested
Apr19--PPP stages a demo against LFO outside the national assembly ..The military democracy has seen very little party or people involvement as yet..
Apr19--PML-n suggests a uniformed president acceptable if elecetd by 2/3 of the national assembly...despite the oddness of the army chief being subordinate to the primeminister...opposition also suggests validation of LFO by the national assembly
Apr19--US non essential diplomatic staff and families to return to islamabad
Apr19--Opposition favours combined opposition-- government talks..
Apr19--Jamali like musharaf welcomes aimless vajpayee offer of talks
-Apr19--opposition blocked senate and national assembly proceedings over excessive army controlled powers as government offers useless aimless talks...The oppositon chanted "no to LFo and no to musharaf"
Apr18--18 cases of polio reported down from 93 last year as 30 million innoculated
Apr18--Zafarullah Jamali who is totally myopic in that he opposes the IPP system of electricity generation and still wants 100 % electrification..He proposed a 33% subsidy to growers a rich group of people at the expense of middle class urban users and also did not commit to any government investment in the generation field beit hydel or thermal...The only way to oppose the Ipp's is to invest in government thermal power stations...
Apr18--Syria refuses inspections inits territory
Apr17--UNFPA to provide $2million to pakistani private greenstar clinics to subsidize condom sales or support familiy planning and reproductive health
Apr17--Us again fires on crowd in mossul killing four
Apr17--Despite negotiations shujaat and zafarullah suggest that they are ready to work without the opposition as they are afraid of what the army will do under a new army chief...
Apr16--The army led NHA refuses to take over the Kohat tunnel as they donot understand modern gadgets(is the army unaware of technologial advancement)
Apr16--As people find plots difficult to acquire in the face of the ease with which the army gets so many plots per officer the CDA auctioned off 65 plots for Rs416 million to the countries richest..
Apr16--Joint session of national assembly cancelled as PMLq dithers on removing musharaf as army chief and amending/removing LFO..both sides to talk
Apr16--Jamali orders facile reduction in petrol prices to Rs 30 from Rs.33 as oil companies make huge profits
Apr16--National assembly adjourned as the opposition chanted anti musharaf slogans...
Apr16--Us troops kill 12 in Mossul
Apr15--PPP refuses to accept LFO and musharaf in uniform
Apr15--Despite all the talks of peace vajpayee blames mushraf for agra failure as he refused to accept j&k as part of india...musharaf had thought that the indians had had enough and would be amenable to handing over kashmir...
Apr15--Tikrit falls to the USA as iraqi war phase nears end
Apr15--Us suggests syria terrorist but no invasion planned
Apr14--Ayatollah Sistanis house under seige as opponents led by moqtada sadr suggest that he leave iraq..earlier similar opppnets killed returning cleric khoi...moqtada's father and brothers also killed earlier by the iraqi regime forcing him underground...
Apr14--Jamali continues to insist on the LFO and musharaf in uniform..people now suggest that musharaf looks like a lackey or peon in uniform
apr14--pakistan to import cheap iranian electrcity at Rs1.80 per unit...In pakistan electricity prices have risen to a max of over Rs7
Apr14--Opposition suggests that teh PMLq-forcing musharaf to continue as COAS despite a crumbling reputation for both jamali and musharaf...Despite that indirect talks on the LFO continue
Apr14--The worldwide death toll from the Sars virus climbed to 131
Apr14--As the fight starts for tikrit... basra and baghdad return to somewhat normalcy...
Apr13--Pakistans fledgling interior minister suggests that no pakistanis handed over to US after sept11...many pakistanis in guatanoma Bay
Apr-13--Nepra raises electricity charges by 18.4 paisas per unit
Apr13--US intelligence suggests that saddam died in a bomb attack that crushed a restaurant in baghdad
Apr13--Americans move towards tikrit
Apr13--Iraqi envoy to UN leaves USA refusing to go over to the US side...
Apr13--PPP refutes talks offer by musharaf on LFO/army...
Apr13--Arab and kurd fighting in mossul kills eighteen
Apr13--Saddam's top scientific and weapons adviser gen amer al saadi arrested...
Apr12--Needless military appointments continued as Brigadier Bokhari appointed member CDA
Apr12--Ahmed Chalabi seen here as a pro western influential iraqi opposition shiite leader sees a quick transition to civilain rule
Apr12--Lashkar taiba denies killing 24 hindus in kashmir as their top militant is arrested
Apr12--Colin Powell insists that there no countries that teh US wants to attack...not even syria or iran which are considered more dangerous than iraq
Apr12--US issues list 0f 55 iraqis that it wants arrested or eliminated..
Apr12--Musharaf offers talks on LFO to the PPP's amin Fahim who suggest talks with Benazir...
Apr12--US captures Mosul and completes northern iraq takeover or the iraqi kurd areas...as expected law and order in baghad and basra crumbled and looters took over as the US avoided the police aspect of the occupation...In baghdad the medical system also collapsed..The US invited the iraqi opposition for talks near Nasiriyah..
Apr11--The US captured baghdad and kirkuk and there was widespread looting of government buildings in basra and baghdad probably by former employees
Apr11--Colin Powell syas that there is a difference between saddam and the US sponsored pakistani coup plotter musharaf who refuses to hand over to an elected leadership
Apr10--Irsa now suggests that irrigation water is tobe distributed on a historic use basis although upto last year it insisted on the 1991 accord as a base
Apr9--The US kills several journalists almost deliberately in iraq
Apr9--Two gas pipelines blown up in sadiqabad..gas supply to industries in punjab, nwfp suspended
Apr9--The zafarulahl jamali cabinet was expanded by the inclusion of Shaukat aziz and hafeez sheikh as economic and privatization ministers...musharaf also appointed a crony Jamshed Gulzar to the Federal Public Service Commission...An economic minister is nowadays a useless position as the government follows the policy of price rises in utilities and petroleum products and there is what can be said tobe a no development policy....the people obviously donot matter and the government is slowly and steadily being regarded as a useless institution in almost its entire domain...
Apr9-six killed i abbottabad in a family feud
Apr9--The US targeted a saddam meeting place when intelligence reported that a regime meeting was underway...Saddam said tobe reportedly dead alongwith his sons but no confirmation
Apr9--Maulana Fazlur Rehman suggests that teh Chief Of Army Staff has no right to address parliament and that the LFO and army chiefs role in government must be ended
Apr9--Zafarullah Jamali says that musharaf is now a civilian although it does not seem tobe teh case..
Apr8--The US takes central baghdad and occupies three palaces
Apr8--Power tariff raised by 15 paisas despite zafarullah jamali orders to exercise restraint...
Apr8--Musharaf continues to insist that he is essential to avoid a future military coup...despite PMLq requests for him to move on...
Apr8--Harkatul mujahideen confirm the killing of their occupied kashmir commander and appoint a new one vowing revenge
Apr8--A pakistani rafeeuddin ahmed appointed advisor to the UN chief on iraq...
Apr8--Azam Hoti an ANP leader was convicted by the almost defunct accountability courts for another 10 years while out on bail for an earlier conviction for 14 years
Apr7--Zafarullah Jamali to study wapda affairs as it cannot meet peoples aspirations for cheaper electricity.....despite huge increases in prices
Apr7--Russian convoy attacked as mahathir suggests pakistan as the next target and that the main reason to attack iraq was the protection of israel eventhough iraq had no direct influence in palestine
Apr7--Kharazzi and turkey both oppose kurdish state eventhough that could solve one of the biggest iraqi problems
Apr7--The US /british on the verge of victory as british take control of Basra as the US surrounds baghdad
Apr7--India again suggest that pakistan fit case for next US invasion as it has wmd's, supports terrorism(liberation of kashmir) and lacked democracy..pakistanis suggest that india too could be a fit case as it has wmd's, brutally suppresses internal opposition and it could solve the kashmir problem...
Apr7--a gunbattle between bugti tribes kills 13
Apr7--North Korea suggest that only a huge nuclear detterent attack could put off a US invasion
Apr7--The MMA says no more talks on the LFO until musharaf quits or retires from the army...they however seem to support a civilian musharaf as president eventhough he would be literally a useless sitting duck or PMLq puppet having no political power base
Apr6--US moves into baghdad
Apr6--The US says that there are no parallels between kashmir and iraq while many others suggest that the only way to a solution in kashmir and palestine lie thru US invasions of the areas
Apr6--Shabaz sharifs wives and daughters arrive while abbas sharifs family still here...many military decisions apart from those pertaining to the retention of musharaf and the LFO being openly flouted by the Jamali government.....
Apr5--US captures baghdad airport as eight taliban killed in afghanistan
Apr4--fresh fighting in afghanistan as twenty taliban killed by US bombing near kandahar
Apr4--The US reaches the outskirts of baghdad airport
Apr4--The US to write of $1 billion of aid to pakistan
Apr4--The LHC finally decides that parliament is superior to the judiciary in matters of law making and should decide the judges retirement age...should'nt the parliament also be supreme one asks in matters of the LFO and who is tobe president and army chief...?
Apr4--The pakistani government frightened by threats of a preemptive strike by New Delhi
Apr4--PPP leader Jehangir Badr freed on bail
Apr4--New leader appointed to head Hizbul Mujahideen
Apr4--SSP to assume a new name after political settlement with pakistan army
Apr4--The MMA which has noticeably moved closer to teh government is about to reach an understanding on the LFO although it will still be kept out of government due to musharafs inability to get along with them
Apr4--Reports from New Delhi suggest that india may start a new war in kashmir after teh killing of 24 hindus and pakistan might respond with lightening air strikes on key targets in india especially New Delhi and occupied kashmir...since india refuses to negotiate an appropriate solution on kashmir...India seems to want become the israel of the south asia which could attack pakistan unhindred whenever and wherever...
Apr4--Jamali government tells LHC that LFO cannot be reviewed by courts...what are the courts for many ask...to give illegal powers to the military others respond....
Apr3--The final push towards baghdad by US forces started by teh destruction of the outer defences of baghdad
Apr3--India achieve major success by the killing of occupied kashmir Hizbul mujahideen chief
Apr3--Huge anti war rally in quetta organised by teh MMA
Apr3--The US State deptt says that 10 north korean scud-b missiles were loaded onto a pakistani ship in in mid march..the US also alleges that pakistan passed on designs for gas centrifuges in exchange
Apr3--Turkey allows logistic deployment thru its border with iraq but not troops
Apr2--Nepra/government allows 12-15 paisa hike in electricity prices
Apr2--Pakistan ridicules US restrictions on KRL for export of nuclear technology..pakistan and korea have similar nuclear programs developed independently...korea supposedly preparing for a nuclear test
Apr2--Landmine explosion in kohlu kills eight
Apr2--Indian foreign minister riducules colin powell suggestion that kashmir will be tackled after iraq...suggests that colin powell only deal with cross border terrorism while india will deal with the actual war on kashmir...
Apr2--Faisal Saleh Hayat says no other PPP members of parliament tobe allowed into Patriots
Apr2--A rally was held by college lecturers to stop privatization of government colleges
Apr2--Man burnt critically as firebreaks out in primeminister house
Apr1--The invasion of iraq continues as baghdad palace bombed and US forces clash with the supposedly elite republican guards
Apr1--carnage in sindh town as 25 bugtis attack mazaris in kashmore...14 killed, 18 injured and 8 kidnapped...said tobe the result of a decade old bugti-mazari feud
Apr1--Pakistan allows afghanistan to import eight more items under ATT including cotton yan and polyester
Apr1--The pakistani interior minister says that pakistan not afraid of a US attack as it had a sophisticated air defence system...one wonders how they would deal with cruise missiles...
Apr1--Petrol prices reduced by Rs3.84 to Rs 37.11..there seems to have been unnecessary price increases by the oil companies in connivance with the government