August2001Untitled

Tezro derailed near multan killing three
The Frontier Post reappears
Aug2—Anwar new AJK president after outpolling PPP’s Latif Akber 36-18
Musharaf whose regime has not been able to locate/arrest any murderer vows to chase terrorists..the musharaf regime seems to think that murders are relatively minor offences compared to corruption and politicians
1 killed in an attack on the offices of Jaish Mohammed in Karachi..It is rumoured that either the ISI or Indian agents are involved in the attack ie apart from local religious opponents...
August 03, 2001---Lt General Ziauddin whose appointment as COAS was the trigger for the army removal of Nawaz Sharif has been removed from the army without benefits... This musharraf action almost two years after the takeover is very suspect..It is being suggested by some that musharraf could not take the action earlier as Tarrar refused to comply with his orders while others suggest that Ziauddin initiated policies in the foreign policy arena were given time to succeed.. However after the failure of the musharraf –vajpayee summit and the US refusal to lift sanctions ziauddin was finally given the marching orders… Since the orders were issued just after the cristina roca visit US involvement cannot be ruled out…The Pakistan army has had a strange system of cooperating with the US army whatever the relations at the govt level…since the US army has shifted to India as its prime military ally in the region…Pakistan is expected to move towards a more independent(actually meaning totally dependent) policy…
Indirect elections for district nazims were held on the second of august… The govt supported PML(shujaat) has done well but the surprise has been the surge in support for other parties… Rawalpindi went to a combination of the shopkeeper lobby and PML(shujaat)..The PPP-JI-PMLn shocked the PML(Shujaat) into a runoff in lahore…While the surprise upset was the loss of Gohar Ayubs son in Haripur…PPP won multan, peshawar and zardaris sister won in nawabshah..Most of the nazims come from political families with the only change being that the next generation is coming into view…The present position shows that the PPP-PMLn can win the elections if they cooperate …The JI too has shown some improvement over the past..The ANP seems tobe a major loser asit distances itself from the main parties while the JI seems willing to cooperate…Several PML(shujaat) heirs have suffered defeats prominent being sughra imam
The Cristina Rocca visit suggests that while the US is willing tobe amiable it will not lift sanctions until some semblance of democracy is restored…
Christina Rocca met the afghan ambassador but failed to convince on Ossama
Aug4—Runoff elections for nazims in 32 districts
Aug5—Six arrested as land purchase scam surfaces in Ghazi Barotha project
Only three women got elected amongst the 502 nazims/naibs.Those three are from the PPP in sind ie Rakaya Khanum, Faryal Talpur and Nafisa Shah
Aug6--17 killed in occupied Kashmir..Two lashkar e tayyaba fedayeen stormed am Indian camp and killed at least ten soldiers
Taleban close shelter international a german christian NGO and arrest 24 staff for spreading christianity
Aug7—Indian foreign minister claims musharaf came to India unprepared
Aug8—gas supply to quetta restored after three days..caused by a burst pipeline
Aug11—Munawar Maunj former PPP MNA who was arrested in 1995 for drug smuggling sentenced to death.
Aug12-- 7 die as a motor cycle rickshaw bomb explodes in gujerat
Aug13—21 killed in occupied Kashmir as violence escalates
Naib nazim shot dead in gujranwala
Indian Foreign secretary Chokila Iyer says that next summit probable before years end..
Aug15—lashkar e jhangvi and sipah e mohammed both shadowy terrorist outfits on the religious extreme have been banned while the TJP and SSP also killing machines merely warned by musharaf
Elections to national institutions tobe held between Oct1-11, 2002
Constitutional amendments in June 2002
Musharaf announces 20 medium sized irrigation water/road projects mostly in sind and balochistan, punjab ignored..Projects include Gomal/mirani dams, Thal canal extension,RBOD, Quetta water supply,completion of Gwadar coastal highway,Chasma RBC extension, Turbat Gwader road,kachi canal, rainey canal,Mangla dam raising, Karahi water supply,Karachi northern bypass, Lyari Link road, Motorways M3, M4,Gwadar port, Thar coal..
Aug16—Hundreds of TJP, SSP workers arrested
PPP urges musharaf not to amend constitution
Aug16—Saeed Mehdi acquitted in illegal assets accumulation case
The corruption tainted military secretary lt gen Masud is to retire and take over at the Army Welfare Trust….ISI’s Lt gen Akram to take over as military secretary
Aug 17—The News reports that USA wants a commando base in Pakistan to get Ossama
Aug19—Nadra Chief maj gen Zahid Ehsan removed.
A homeopathic doctor given death sentence for blasphemy
Aug21—Sind govt bans jihadi organizations from putting up signboards and collecting donations
Aug22—Jehangir Badr the PPP secretary general arrested by NAB
Aug23—200 arrested in karachi for collecting jihad funds..Musharaf frightened of jihadis
Chaudhry Nisar one of nawaz Sharifs top negotiators released after almost two years from house arrest
Aug24—Musharaf backs out of drive against jihadis
Aug25—lt gen Ghulam Ahmed : musharaf’s chief of staff died in a road accident .A heavy trailer crashed into his car
Aug26—Four cops gunned down in Karachi
Aug29—Ishaq Dar another nawaz sharif confidant released on bail
Lt Gen Hamid Javed who solved the ten year puzzle of pakistans indigenous MBT has been made the COS to musharaf