Dec2006.html

Dec31--Saddam Hussein hanged
Dec31--two rockets fired at military checkpost in damadola
dec13--oil tanker explodes in karachi killing four
dec13--former saudi security chief to take over as foreign minister in saudia...!!
dec13--karzai insists musharaf funding extremism in afghanistan...pakistan suggests that karzai unable to control pukhtun loyalties...
dec13--military authorities continue abductions in pakistan...
dec13--military regime syllabus changes unable to convince anyone that pakistan's roots are not a seperate religion but something else...muslims in india still live in poverty almost 94% of them but they are not mounting a seperatist campaign...?
dec13--military regime accused of abducting over 4000 baloch youth and torturing them...
dec13--pakistan shockingly lose to a faster paced china 2-1 in asian games hockey semis...!!
Dec12--HRCP says police has abducted 242 persons...!
Dec12--pakistan foreign office spokesman also suggests that pakistan has no claim to kashmir while dismissing the ravings and rantings of musharaf...
dec12--Zain Bugti son of talal bugti attacked by army men in pat feeder area
dec11--hand grenade thrown at train in sindh...
Dec11--WB states that poverty is very high in nwfp with migration being the biggest wage earner for over 40% of its residents...
Dec10--The anti Benazir... shahid aziz a frustated general who heads the countries gestapo like NAB preparing more fake cases against the PPPP duo...NAB had failed to investigate six major scandals – the Australian wheat import scam, purchase of defective railway engines from China, high fertiliser and sugar prices, sale of Pakistan Steel Mills and stock market crash. “NAB left the inquiries of those six mega scandals when early investigations found indications about the direct and indirect involvement of the country’s head in those scandals...
Dec10--two blasts reported from balochistan
Dec10--pakistan guilty of overimporting ozone depleting substances...
Dec10--pakistans external debt shoots up to over $38 billion
Dec10--The economic growth paradigm in Pakistan, based on government-centred planning, reliance on foreign resources, and mercantilism (i.e. encourage exports and imports), has not worked so far because the incentive structure resulting from this approach led to a neglect of governance, disregard for merit and the development of rent-seeking.” market based economics is not too favourable an option in pakistan because of self interest groups that control prices, jobs and wealth
Dec9--WB states that pakistan trade deficit tobe $12 billion while others say it is going tobe between 12-15 billion...with such a huge resource gap how can there be an over 6% growth rate...?
dec9--musharaf equates killing bugti to the indians massacring kashmiri liberation fighters...musharaf who many now regard as having a mental imbalance seems unaware that his attitude and logic are inconsistent with being a pakistani...the pakistan army is not authorized to fight and kill its own citizens and a rocket launcher can hardly be regarded as a latest weapon...similarly u donot need to slaughter poorly armed kashmiri militants in occupied kashmir...
Dec9--PPPP lota sher afghan niazi suggests that the fight has gone out of the PPPP and they will fight as a pro musharaf party...the PPPP has generally stayed away from musharaf and can hardly gain anything by supporting him...
Dec9--human rights groups suggest that the indians have slaugtered over 70000 kashmiris to snuff out even mild liberationists
Dec9--Hafiz hussein ahmed being shunted out of JUI-F...hafiz opposes sherani in balochistan and the supposedly PML controlled fazlur rehman...
Dec9--pakistan and afghanistan both responsible for the afghan imbroglio by being blind to the situation...pakistan and afghanistan should realize that bombs and slaughtering people donot solve problems rather they enhance a civil war due to reactions to deaths and destruction...afghanistan has thruout history been an uncontrolled open state with invaders moving thru and creating a tribal structure that is totally uncontrollable from kabul unless there are no threats against any region or tribe or group
Dec9--interior ministry denies delay in visas to SPDI's indian visitors
Dec9---despite the hoopla the military has been unable to control corruption in pakistan..transparency internationals list has pakistan at 144 out of 163...using state resources for personal wealth enhancement is a penchant of the pakistan army and beaurocracy with musharaf becoming a millionaire by using state resources to write a personal book...government tenders and construction activities have corruption components of over a 100 percent...with most going to the top governing elite.......
Dec8--India which is largely considered as arming the tigers whereas pakistan helps the sri lankan army is now aiming to provide arms to the most brutal military regime in burma...
MMA splitting at the seams over the resignation issue...JUI-F to issue a show cause to prominent leader hafiz hussein ahmed over the issue...
Dec8--As pro indian kashmiris attempt to support musharaf's pakistan subjugation proposals on kashmir the indians say they have killed over 41000 kashmiri militants in the last 17years...the indian army the main culprit kills kashmiris almost daily...BJP rejects joint control in kashmir
Dec8--PPP's minor local leaders are annoyed at the appointment of shah mahmood qureshi as punjab PPP president... a position that usually goes to some unknown medium level party worker...central PPP leaders are not very welcome in the punjab PPP setup which is already annoyed at the punjabs being sidelined by the military as well as the PPP...The PPP which usually gives seats to unknown outsiders in major constituencies might be helped by many of its leaders having left the party durng military rule...
dec8--a missile with no firing mechanism discovered in F-11 islamabad
Dec8--musharaf critisized in nwfp for saying that "religious illiterates ruled one province..." the nwfp government has been praised for its work by donors...
Dec7--india accuses pakistan of harrassing its diplomats..india itself also does the same even following around embassy drivers and peons...
Dec7--military regime attempts to change the relationship of being an indian muslim and religious association with it...indian muslims were deprived because of their religion, restrictions on socialisation and hindu/british bigotry towards them...the two nations theory is based on seperate religions and those that did not believe it did not come to pakistan...the pakistan military under indian and US pressure has changed the basic curriculum of school level subjects...the reason for pakistans existence are adequately explained by the number of muslims in indian parliament...even in kashmir one has seen only the odd muslim governor or police or army chief...
Dec7--MMA divided on resignations as the more extremists refuse to resign while the moderates want to...
Dec7--intelligence agencies behind all recent blasts in nwfp...
Dec7--pro indian musharaf regime refusing visas to indian delegation on SPDI conference...many belive that pakistani intellectuals are being consistently subjugated by the more voluble indian RAW controlled intellectuals...
Dec7--The debt ridden failing PIA has hired 45 foreign airhostesses at $5000 a month...? Thinner smarter airhostesses function better...?airhostesses in PIA are subjected to severe stresses by sexual propaganda/inuendo, continuous travel and no promotion opportunities...some travellers think they are there for their pleasure...
dec6--mullahs and army accuse each other of not knowing anything about islam...little or no difference between extremist shiite army officials such as musharaf and mullah leaders...
dec6--the pro indian musharaf has apparently agreed to give up claims to kashmir if indian army withdraws from kashmir...most people now regard the pakistan army chief as a wishy washy jelllyfish...the musharaf point of view currently finds no favour in new delhi which is only willing to deal with peripheral issues of no consequence...musharaf who blows hot and cold with the people of pakistan has been unable to get the indians to even start negotiations on kashmir...There will obviously have tobe a serious redrawing of the kashmir LOC for any negotiations tobe a success and dropping all options like musharaf is doing is not expected to achieve anything...porous borders and borders which become irrelevant are dubious options aimed at unrealistic solutions
Dec6--in what is being termed as a huge fiasco...an IB official was arrested placing a bomb in a dustbin outside the nwfp chief ministers office...the accused was taken away from the police station by the IB local boss...Durrani who is currently trying to play the nwfp nationalist card has lost considerable prestige by his inability to get excessive electricity royalties which were frozen by an elected government...officials claim the bomb was actually a box of sweets...
Dec6--ANP, PML and independents file nomination papers in bajaur by election..
Dec6--altaf unable to decide who he is in coalition with in the government...?
Dec5--Musharaf's muddled approach to a kashmir solution seems to lack any real direction and the independence of kashmir seems the only logical way out which he rejects...
Dec5--JUP leaders also mulling resignations as MMA hedges its bets...
Dec5--MQM a dual natured self serving organisation to protest against its coalition partner the army and PMLq...
Dec5--PPPP denies changes in party positions which seem out of tune with the times...ineffective leaders who are just hanging on such as jehangir badar, belam hasnain, rahimdad khan not tobe replaced
Dec5--nobody files papers in bajaur relections on day one with PPPP boycotting saying that no sane person will vote while tribal elders think participating will be a personal risk...
Dec4--seven men from NWFP held illegally by the pakistan army released after supreme court intervention...
Dec4--suicide bomber kills policeman in Bannu
dec4--government crackdown on baloch nationalists disrupts balochistan...
Dec3--State Bank governor seems unable to clearly state that the economy is being badly managed and is a cause of concern as its effects on the population are negative..The SBP governor should realize that even beaurocratic governors were always honest..the pressures from higher domestic prices especially in food items and uncontrolled imports and bad export earnings are expected to create a negative picture by the end of the year especially since exchange reserves have shrunk unimaginably...
Dec3--Polls suggest that muslims are hated by the general american...anti muslims feelings greater than antisemitism...
Dec3--reports suggest that the USA instrumental in indian anti ballistic missile intervention test...!!
Dec3-complete strike in balochistan against the arrest of akhter mengal and other BNP leaders...
Dec3--three pro government tribal elders shot dead in khyber agency
Dec3--a bomb blast outside the FC offices in naushki blew up a power pylon killing one