• jan13--india and USA are both rabidly anti pakistan as recent statements from john negroponte show...while showering praise on indian destabilization efforts in south asian countris he apparently egged india to bomb militant sites in pakistan as the US and musharaf's military have been already doing...john negroponte and indian statements show the abject failure of musharaf's pro US and pro indian policies...
• jan13--pakistan which is meekly threatening to fence and mine the pak afghan border is facing resistant from afghanistan and the USA...pakistan seems a reluctant ally in helping police the afghan border
• jan13--USA still unable to differentiate between a democracy and a military sponsored regime in pakistan...elections under a military ruler can be little more than a farce as the last five years have shown in pakistan...
• jan13--india and pakistan attempting to move towards joint control on minor issues in the kashmir dispute...at least verbally
• jan13--at least 25 militant bodies returned from afghanistan killed in what can only have been a one sided fight as no casaulties reported from the US side..the US pawn ie the pakistan army reportedly also bombed ammunition trucks on its side.....many suggest that the pakistan army or its retired generals helped arm the group and than informed on them...typical pakistan army tactics to fool both sides...!!
• jan13--indians accept defeat at wagah and end the theatrics...pakistan commander urges similar actions inside occupied kashmir where the indians have been brutalising hapless kashmiris...
• jan13--military regime accused of theft from a senators home..
• jan13--a regime lawyer killed by rivals in a gangland shooting in lahore killing eight others as well...another lawyer killed as well
• jan12--pakistan an ally to the state deptt but an enemy to the US intelligence network...US seems to have a lopsided thinking of its worldwide war against muslim countries...it has middle east experts that dont know that the israelii and US actions are destabilizing and the main cause for retaliatory terrorism in the islamic world...
• jan12--in what could be an attempt to undermine the pakistani position US says it killed 130 who crossed over from pakistan into afghanistan as militants...
• jan12--hekmatyar helped al qaeda chiefs to escape...?
• jan11--shiite musharaf suggests that sectarianism is a bigger risk than his military rule...sectarianism has been around for almost 1100 years...!!shiites who project an elitism are opposed by the populist and equal right sunnis...
• jan11--ANP wins bajaur poll against the PMLq
• jan11--in the punjab the PMLn might cooperate with traditional allies PTI and MMA rather than traditional opponent PPP...?
• Jan10--US reopens a new front aginst islamists in somalia...
• Jan10--Saudis arrest 100 qadiyanis...
• jan10--three blast rock jamaat islami rally at nowshera...
• Jan10--pakistans military economist government unable to provide people with affordable electricity..load shedding again on the cards...even at exorbitant rates shortfalls persist as government unable to build required power plants...
• jan10--Benazir supports military sponsored polls even under musharafs uniform....possible return on april 4 as she suggests that military might go for early elections as support for military diminishes...the PPPP has failed to get support for its participation in military sponsored polls...it suffered in the last assembly as its elected members split and jopined the military government...
• jan10--nwfp moves supreme court on payment of hydel royalty...an arbitration tribunal had given an unimplementable decision which was not acceptable to the government and wapda..there seems tobe a conflict on the concepts of royalty and net profit which are very different to each other...
• jan10--government continues its anti bugti campaign by issuing warrants for brahmdagh bugti as two military men killed in a clash in bolan...a two year sporadic insurgency coontinues in balochistan for more rights and control of resources...
• Jan10--Assam governmnet blames ISI, bangladesh for the killing of over 69 hindi speaking biharis by assam rebels...the indian government has failed to control the assam rebellion despite bringing in thousands of troops
• Jan9--Supreme Court again directs government to recover missing persons...apparently government has released 18 and 23 are still in ISI custody...
• jan9--mqm miniosters extremely corrupt and behave just like feudals...altafs thtreats to resign mollified by a share in corruption...?
• Jan8--Lahore police DIG shot in attempted mugging...?
• jan8--railway track blown up in nasirabad
• Jan7--PMLn to boycott polls under animosty plagued musharaf...
• Jan7--military kills four in raid on a ferrari camp in balochistan
• Jan6--gas pipeline blown up in dera bugti
• Jan5--shiite caretaker of an imambargah shot dead in peshawar
• jan5--PIA's russian airhostesses run away...
• jan5--benazir says ready for polls under musharaf despite his illegality and also suggesting that musharaf will try to get himself relected by the current assemblies...
• Jan4--primeminister rejects deal with PPPP while one minister says deal in final stages of negotiations..
• Jan4--18 inch gas pipeline blown up in dera bugti
• Jan3--policeman shot dead in karachi
• Jan3--military regime mulling 20% hike in power rates