Feb27-2009--shops remained closed for the second day running as various protests continued thruout punjab...the emerging situation/protests ie if the PMLn can remain on the streets and unsettle the Zardari group which many say has taken the PPP hostage...nawaz sharif says the protestors that damaged benazirs memorial were not his partymen...?The PPP seems unable to answer the PMln attacks as the actions taken by Zardari and Taseer seem to have been pre planned...nawaz sharif castigated Zardari saying he wanted deals without implementation...many suggest that the teh SC judges seemed tobe from teh seraiki and sindh areas..nawaz sharif castigated the judges for removing the graduation condition and giving other decisions favoring the military...suggesting that teh SC was literally Zardari controlled...one finds it difficult to accept iftikhar chaudhries contention that SC decisions which cause mass protests are usually wrong...the musharaf SC gave numerous wrong decisions which were never mass protested...it however is clear that courts that attempt to kill popular leaders are guilty of a crime akin to murder..one hopes the PPP will not sit with those that killed zulfikar ali bhutto, murtaza and benazir...!...no major reasons for teh decision have been given and teh court was just playing with feelings of teh sharifs and obviously the people...in the end it said that it had no jurisdiction and teh complainants were not directly affected...teh judges many say were acting in bad faith..the judges disallowed teh sharifs from elections and holding public office...showing that they were behind teh decision zardari and taseer took control off the province even before any failure of the constitutional process could occurr...nawaz sharif said that shahbaz was the constitutional chief minister as a new chief secretary and police chief took charge...the new chief secretary is from bahawalpur as is one of teh SC judges and who else...?while pakistans dummy primeminister has litte power left under his belt he still was praised by nawaz sharif even though teh people even in teh PPP regard him as a useless dummy with little or no instincts to rule or benefit teh people...teh common direction is that the PPP and teh PMLq could form a possible coalition with other small groups in the punjab possibly with a small forward block from the pMLn...The PMLn unless it mounts a strong running street protest would be run into teh ground by its adversarial PMLq/PPP...the other option being that they quickly bring in a younger leadership that can keep the party together and upset the PPP into harsh anti PMLn measures...The PPP hopes that its rhetoric will be enough to counter teh PMLn's anti Zardari campaign and that its main opposition in the punjab will be finally marginalized...in the hopes of corralling teh PMLq the punjab provisional administration quickly ordered the reempowerment and release of funds of the local governments as teh PPP alone is literally not enough to counter the PMLn...!! whether peopel who referred to the PMLq as teh qatil league will be able to sit with it remains tobe seen...many suggest that benazir is now politically dead and kursi ki siyasat is back in power...while kiyani many say would not personally like to take over there there are many generals ready todo so if they are COAS...kiyani many say would lose face if the PPP came to power in punjab with a rainbow cobbled coalition and would have to either do the needful or step aside for a new military regime...?...the PPP should avoid looking like a dictators lookalike and not allow democracy to be crushed after supposedly being teh party for sacrifices and democracy... Feb26-2009--things got out of hand as protests erupted across many cities of punjab..in rawalpindi the city was covered with burnt tyre dust as people ventured out in the evening with police watching suspiciously..all shops had closed early to avoid trouble...banks and shops were said to have been attacked with two deaths reported...a train was also reportedly set on fire...governor rule was applied for two months as even teh PMlq forward block moved towards the PMLn while the PMLq slithered towards teh PPP...the PMLn called an assembly session and lambasted teh zardari-governor clique...teh PMLn said that the next chief minister would still be from their party and nawaz sharif said that teh court decision would soon be reversed...The pMLn meet tommorrow to decide strategy as on the street planning for tommorrows demos started to take shape...people on all sides are worried about teh governments dictatorial instincts in matters economic and political...governor rule was seen as the only method to bring the PPP to power in punjab by breaking teh pMLn in two...the PMLn think they can get a chief minister elected and did not worry about the governor and his meddling...theoretically the governor should have convened the provincial assembly to elect a new chief minister...