• Dec31--Pakistan to receive two new squadrons of chinese aircraft F-7PG as it ends use of sixties era Mig-19’s…Pakistans old F-7’s are called “ flying coffins” as pilot ejection usually fails in flight emergencies..
• Dec31—India backs out of war threats as Pakistan succumbs and jails lashkar and jaish chiefs…
• Dec31—lashkar chief hafiz saeed arrested
• Dec30—The US which had a strategy of encouraging india to attack/subdue pakistan now attempting to broker a peace
• Dec30—Nepra announced a minor9-13 paisa cut in electricity prices..Electricity prices are considered very high/unaffordable in pakistan with maximum rates as high 10-15 cents per unit…
• Dec30—Pakistan banns indian and star channels on cable networks..There were reports of anti Pakistan propaganda broadcasts as well as cultural attacks such as abusive language..pakistani women were particularly effected by indian channels…Others suggested that the indians encouraged terrorism in Pakistan thru violence ridden programs..
• Dec29—Musharaf backs out of a preventive military strike option to counter possible Indian invasion.…
• Dec28--Rupee1 and Rupee2 notes cease tobe legal tender from january1..Tobe replaced by coins..The value and usage of the notes had fallen sharply..
• Dec28—With all development projects at a standstill pakistani foreign exchange reserves rose to $4.7 billion
• Dec28—India bans Pakistani overflights, reduces embassy staff by half and restricts embassy staff to new delhi..pakistan retaliates with similar measures…
• Dec27—Justices Sardar Raza , Khalil Ramday, Nawaz Abassi and Faqir Khokar elevated to the Supreme Court,Shakirullah Jan becomes Chief Justice of the Nwfp High Court…
• Dec27—Lashkar taiba closes offices in Pakistan as masood azhar of the jaish arrested from bahawalpur…
• Dec27—India deploys aircraft/missiles to forward positions
• Dec25—Pakistan military regime shows weakness in the face of indian military moves and closes down two jihadi outfits…Hafiz Saeed quits as lashkar taiba chief and hands over to Wahid Kashmiri
• Dec25—India expels Pakistan high commission official for receiving sensitive information from a low level official of the indian parliament..?
• Dec24--Karzai approves stay of US troops in afghanistan until all terrorists are eliminated..?
• Dec24--Pakistan high commission employee arrested in new delhi and apparently beatenup and tortured…
• Dec 24--Musharaf releases an airforce crony Air marshal ®waqar azeem who was jailed on loan default charges…
• Dec24—Pakistan started moving its forces towards the border as Indian deployments intensified amid heavy crossfire along the Kashmir LOC..
• Dec23—Pakistans erratic twofaced military leader suggests support for an almost brutal Chinese repression of a muslim movement for independence in sinkiang by asking chinese muslims to become more patriotic?..Does that also apply to muslims in Indian occupied kashmir many ask…?There also seems tobe some indication that security was tightened around musharaf probably due to threats from chinese muslims…A visit to the terracotta warriors was cancelled ..
• Dec23—Pakistan moves airforce to battle ready status as Indians continue threatening military deployments…
• Dec23—Pakistan army continues to make the mistaken assumption that relations with india problematic due to kashmir alone...indian attitudes continue to portray a deap seated animosity against pakistan irrespective of kashmir..
• Dec22—US bombs a caravan in kandahar onits way to attend formation of a new govt in Kabul killing almost a hundred civilians…Is killing civilians in Afghanistan any different from killing civilians in Palestine or new york or Israel…?
• Dec22--7000 taleban under arrest in afghanistan…
• Dec22—In what could be either Indian retaliation or an MQM/political/rightwing hit the brother of proUS/anti taleban interior minister Moinuddin Haider was shot dead in karachi…He was one of several charity workers killed in karachi during the recent past…
• Dec22—India snapped relations with Pakistan by recalling its ambassador and ended the Simla/Lahore accords by ending the only progress in relations during the last thirty years ie samjotha express and Lahore-delhi bus service…
• Dec21—Moinuddin Haider who advised the taleban on the destruction of the Bamiyan bhuddas challenges their islamic concepts as wrong and misguided…?
• Dec20—13 die including several pakistani soldiers as arrested alqaeda men attack and escape while being transported on buses…
• Dec17--Punjab governor suggests that Pakistan only nominally independent…many suggest that the army leadership has turned Pakistan into a US colony with the Us ambassador literally making all decisions..
• Dec16—A prominent exile Aftab Sherpao to return on Jan5..
• Dec16—Alqaeda and some taleban escaping to pakistan…?
• Dec16—India threatening to invade Pakistan as Pakistan mulls targets for retaliation if they get serious…Some suggest that at least two nuclear devices being readied…most suggest that pakistani retaliation might consist of a missile attack on New Delhi or…
• Dec16--The Nation suggests that the IMF still rules the Pakistan economy and that Pakistan being forced to sell off assets such as the profitable PTCL
• Dec16—Asif Zardari probably the most well known victim of the militaries political victimisation gets bail in a fourth concocted case…Reports abound that the military might be moving to release him and other PPP leaders as elections approach…?
• Dec15--US to maintain permanent airbase in pakistan...?
• Dec14--Musharaf wary of indian attack as indian parliament attacked..12 killed in forty minute shootout including five attackers..India/israel/US adopt similar dangerous tactics(retaliatory terrorism) against muslim opponents creating unstability all over..
• Dec14--Suspect pentagon video release shows Ossama apparently revealing prior knowledge of Sept11 with apparent saudi boss..?
• Dec14--Paris club reschedules its entire $12.5 billion debt
• Dec13--The campaign against the taleban in afghanistan moves towards a close..Alqaeda turns out tobe a paper tiger too...Al qaeda not what the US makes it out tobe...
• Dec12--Omar Asghar Khan the NGO minister with political ambitions resigned from the musharaf cabinet
• Dec8--Nazims given nominal control over district police...?
• Dec8--While pakistan already has trouble with the hawkish indian interior minister...it might have to deal with an even more hawkish Yunis Qanuni in afghanistan who hails india as a friend and warns pakistan against interference in kashmir...?
• Dec8--Pakistan awash with loans as IMF approves a $1.32 billion/$109million per month loan..IMF as usual wants anti people policies to continue such as higher utility prices..??..Musharafs military govt does not know what todo with the funds as they have no projects planned..The NEWS reports that total bailout package would be $9.5 billion over three years and would require continued privatisation(nobody very keen) and definitely a handover to an elected government in October 2002..??
• Dec8--Kandahar taken over by northern alliance however fighting goes on at tora bora
• Dec7--taliban lose kandahar airport and decide to surrender kandahar to mullah naqibullah(Gul Agha/Haji Bashar other contenders) in return for safe passage to taleban and possible security for mullah omar...
• Dec7--Dostum rejects Bonn accord/pulls out of kunduz to avoid conflict with panjsheris... and Pir Gillani considers the agreement unbalanced and says these guys could not handle it in the early 90's
• Dec5--The US it seems has decided to take on and destroy the palestinians next as US puppet israel starts bombing palestinian authority offices and residences..Palestine is different from afghanistan as it is not a civil war and bombing the palestinians will only cause more retaliations from the oppressed palestinians...If supposed terrorism can be handled by instant retaliations than withdrawals from occupied terrirories should also be handled instantly...Israel as everyone is aware has no security problems and it can stonewall withdrawals to 1947 boundaries by a mere bomb blast...Bombing all opponents cannot solve the real problem..In palestine the solution is the issue and not bomb blasts and israeli retaliations..
• Dec5--Northern alliance and other groups agree to a specific 30 man six month cabinet tobe headed by Hamid Karzai...The system devised seems tobe monarchically based as a Zahir Shah ordered Loya Jirga will decide what happens next...Loya Jirgas based on tribal chiefs usually act as rubber stamps and the end aim of an elected government in afghanistan is quite doubtful at this stage.....as fighting and bombings go on around kandahar and Tora bora..US bombings being directed by pushtun spies from inside afghanistan..such spies have often misled the americans and directed bombings at personal and political opponents.....One however does not understand how in this day and age american pilots have deliberately bombed out entire villages...It seems that teh bombings have been used to eliminate political opponents of the northern alliance as well as taleban positions...
• Dec2--The interior ministry/US CIA known tobe extremely frightened of religious institutions and mullas/maulvis intends to straighten out religious madarassa's with aid from UN organisations such as the World bank....All normal schools provide military training on a regular basis while madarassa's donot..
• Dec2--The US continues to target ordinary villages and convoys of people inits proud bombing of afghanistan... Over 130 people were killed as at least two villages were wiped out...
• Dec1--Monitoring of passengers taken over by the FBI at karachi airport...
• Dec1--In india Benazir talks like an indian..they say..many suggest that benazirs views are inconsistent with those of the pakistani populace....Her parties leaders still seem dogmatic/sensitive about her and her views and seem unable to handle personal criticism or explain the nature of her utterances in india..The military on the other hand still seems strangely frightened of her despite a similarity of views and have mounted a half hearted campaign in the official press.....