Feb26-2008--a day after sheikh rashid said that things would deteriorate further a suicide bomber ran into a car carrying the armies surgeon general who became the first lt general to die in the militants war alongwith seven others......Pmlq and militants only ones who can be blamed in teh situation...militants should wait to see how the new government develops its policies...although a wall street zardari interview effectively saying that musharaf has survived and local war on terror tobe disassociated from the american war left little hope for a major policy change..intra army conflicts also being rumoured...the way the car blew up it seems that explosives might have been in car although a suicide bomber seen running towards the army staff car...
Feb26-2008--four ngo workers die in hand grenade throwing attack on plan international in mansehra
Feb26-2008--PPP and PMln seeking legal advice to fashion judiciary solution...with the politicians accepting musharafs fraudulent election solution of judicial crisis might become complicated unless they retain newly appointed judges and accept formation of islamabad high court and related issues and problems...possibly hamid dogar could be shifted to another position because the CJ can in effect not be removed...or older judiciary might agree to work under a compromise CJ...etc....etc..
Feb26-2008--explosions leave three security men and a civilian dead in dera bugti
Feb26-2008--16 inch loti gas pipeline blownup in loti area effecting supply from pirkoh...
Feb26-2008--nobody will want to eat wheat anymore..as caretakers increase procurement price to Rs510 per 40 kg while agriculturists cruelly demanding Rs1250 per 40 kg...
Feb26-2008--three rockets fired on peshawar
Feb26-2008--PPP asks for repolling in thar as they blame agencies for many defeats
Feb26-2008--PPP not responsible for MQM's mandate as mqm threatens to block access to assembly buildings in karachi..mqm's murderous ways not acceptable to PPP...largest blocks should be respected in a democracy which was not done in 2002 says pir mazharul haq..
Feb26-2008--Rawal town asks that liaqat bagh and murree road be named after benazir
Jan31-2008--13 troops found dead in a vehicle in tor chappar in darra adamkhel...they had been captured by militants from the PTCL tower at the kohat tunnel where five other soldiers had died..kohat tunnel reopened for south bound traffic after six days..
Jan31-2008--edhi gets back his passport after getting a new greencard...
Jan31-2008--militants attacked a military base in razmak killing two soldiers
Jan31-2008--caretaker regime reluctant to iniate action against wheat hoarders
Jan31-2008--soomru wants 20000mw coal fired power plants setup in thar by 2019...
Jan31-2008--musharaf spent most of his time in europe spreading slander..unsubstantiated allegations of ineptness and corruption against the former CJ...in davos he told sanam aitezaz who works for an NGO to tell her father to get out of his way...The SC full bench had fined the federal government for spreading false allegations...musharaf has continued his diatribe against the former CJ even after his removal faulting him on riding in zafarullah jamalis car, politicising the issue and hiring a top lawyer like aitezaz ahsan...
Jan31-2008--altaf who is paranoid about conspiracies against sindh now alleges that someone is trying to sabotage his party by amalgamating sindhi areas into greater punjab and greater balochistan and leaving district central for urdustan...he suggests that he has been supporting sindhi views on kalabagh and NFC..it is mohajirs who have to amalgamate and many suggest they should start learning sindhi rather than opposing the kalabagh dam.....nobody should forget that teh mqm took off after riots in which a girl was killed in karachi by a bus and the mqm started its virulent anti pukhtun, anti sindhi and anti punjabi politics...the mqm is regarded as the main political group involved in karachi riots and maybe elswhere in sindh...his statement comes on the heels of his meeting with musharaf who might be the source of such out of touch views...
Jan31-2008--four electricity towers blownup in goth mazari affecting power to bugti areas...
Jan31-2008--in peshawar three militants died after their explosives blewup...two Cd shops blownup
Jan31-2008--soomru's going to yemen and saudia critisized as the elections are near and situation is literally far from being conducive..
Jan31-2008--after teh US alleged that they had 100 troops in pakistan training the FC the foreign office spoksman denied the report..
Jan31-2008--tribal elder found dead in mohmand agency
Jan31-2008--shabaz sharif refuses to break off friendship/talks with brigadier niaz a supposed musharaf emissary...
Jan30-2008--In karachi police raid jandullah militants home and five people died in the ensuing clash...three policemen and two militants..Qasim toori wanted in corp commander attack under arrest..
Jan30-2008--In a missile attack on a home in khoshali torakhel twelve die..suspected militants... pakistan army has not confirmed its involvement which thus suggests US involvement
Jan30-2008--military should get their vehicles tracked by sattelite...that would have solved a lot of problems in loss of army ammunition trucks...darra adamkhel cleared..while hostilities continue in some areas...many suggest that militants will have shifted trucks to punjab rather than afghanistan...military should not require such a huge quantity of explosives...many suggest that it is just like handing over explosives to create more suicide bombers...?
Jan30-2008--musharaf seems tobe harping on the banana republic theme saying it has never been taken over by a colonel..banana republics usually grow bananas(two meanings) and are ruled by dictators...generally referring to unstable latin american or carribbean countries......u can replace the word banana for military in pakistans case...musharaf many say has gone bananas..pakistan a wobbling, unstable, terror prone, undemocratic state where the state has often been involved in eliminations of opponents and politicians is just a little more a banana republic
Jan30-2008--The US which usually has preconceived notions about many things has refused to support a UN investigation into Benazirs death as its man in islamabad maybe directly involved but wants serious distortions tobe corrected before elections...a kenya like situation could develop although pakistanis have been known to collapse under military pressure from using street pressure to correct wrongs...
Jan30-2008--grenade thrown at maulana fazlur rehmans house..
Jan30-2008--Amin Fahim jumps into musharaf camp saying his impeachment not necessary and that he would like tobe primeminister..many suggest that an outsider might again become a coalition primeminister unless the PPP sweeps the polls..most PPP suporters consider amin fahim tobe a very mild politician...after winning the last elections he could not stop around twenty ppp mna's from jumping ship and spent the next five years in a lacklustre opposition role...on the pro government side pervez elahi has lost support due to a mean unsympathetic nature..
Jan29-2008--authorities let militant kidnappers escape in bannu to save schoolchildren...the eight militants had earlier kidnapped teh EDO health in karak whom they released after a police chase..they than took children hostage in high school walizar kullay
Jan29-2008--afghan taleban distance themselves from baitullah masud saying they are a pakistani organisation not under their control...
Jan29-2008--in swat the military took control of the durshkhela fort after three months..militants beheaded a constable and set his house on fire..most government offices in matta tehsil remain closed....curfew remained in force in durshkhela, kanju,peuchar, namal and wanai while it was relaxed during teh day in other areas..
Jan29-2008--the militaries piecemeal handling of teh situation sees a peace deal emerging in north waziristan...fighting in south waziristan, darra adamkhel and near normalisation in swat
Jan29-2008--minfal, sugar and wheat industrialists bent on creating problems for the people...international prices should not be regarded as a target for pakistani prices of agricultural products, electricity and gas...salaries are much lower in pakistan and overheads are literally minimal especially when considering low rates of agricultural loans...
Jan29-2008--there has been an exodus of people from south waziristan to tank/ miranshah and darra adamkhel to kohat...troops opened fire on two vehicles trying to use the kohat tunnel killing three..militants from khyber agency attacked a military camp in darra adamkhel...militants attempted to blowup a railway bridge on the kohat rawalpindi road and a 132kv tower near darra adamkhel..a checkpost attacked in orakzai agency...
Jan29-2008--a US security official found dead in his home with bullet in his head...suspicious circumstances and country situation suggests homicide..
Jan29-2008--US imigration officials find abdus sattar edhis regular visits to USA and appearance problematic...detained at newyork airport for eight hours
Jan29-2008--opposition forces gathered around a thousand demonstrators chanting anti musharaf slogans at 10 Downing Street with around 50 PMLq demonstrators doing the opposite..
Jan29-2008--PEPCO gets back into power generation with 450MW nandipur project after seventeen years...relying on the private power sector has proved problematic as they donot care for the problems faced by the people and are only interested in huge profits...
Jan29-2008--musharaf turns out tobe an israeli sympathiser..
Jan29-2008--despite the war having been started in 2001 and musharafs military forces actively started fighting over three to four years ago he still seems to think that the war on terror is five days old...in fact two corp commanders and several governors have fallen by the wayside as their tactics failed and failed...delayed reactions to taleban militarisation in many areas from the pakistan army have caused the problem to worsen or fester into a wound...the militaries refusal to remove corp commanders unable to handle the situation is part of the problem..pakistan army has improved its performance after ashfak kiani took over as COAS recently
Jan29 -2008--The UK decides to restrict development funds if elections fail tobe credible..
Jan28-2008--militants who had captured the kohat tunnel on friday were apparently cleared by sunday night from the surrounding areas and hilltops..militants fired five rockets at kohat cantonement..24 militants and five soldiers killed in the continuing clashes...seven soldiers died on friday defending the comunication tower at the kohat tunnel...militants took away another 12 soldiers...with no water, electricity and closed shops people in darra facing extreme difficulty
Jan28-2008--three levies and two others killed in attacks on checposts in orakzai and mohmand...rockets fired at garrison in thall, hangu...
Jan28-2008--Minfal at it again trying to raise flour prices...tandoorwalas raise prices to Rs5 per naan as they say government unable to reduce prices of 85 kilo bags from Rs1950...with gas prices almost doubling..
Jan28-2008--problems continue in south waziristan with militants saying that they have captured upto 120 soldiers in three areas of conflict...military bombed several places in makin
Jan28-2008--zardari alleges victimisation as caretaker regime restarts three year old cases of rioting against senior ppp leaders on the murder of munawwer suhrwardy...PPP workers blocked dadu-larkan road in protest on friday...police using generalised FIRS to arrest anybody they want...
Jan28-2008--army distancing itself from from polls environment and only to move in case of riots...
Jan28-2008--fifty militants arrested in swat as jirga wants end to operation accusing both army and militants of being anti people..
Jan28-2008--three buses burnt in north nazimabad after bus knocks down motorcycle...
Jan28-2008--building collapse in ganjmandi,rawalpindi due to fireworks explosion killing five
Jan28-2008--In early islam there were no courts as the prophet gave judgements himself...one self styled islamic expert Ghamidi says that qazi courts will create problems although many say islamic orientation is relatively a peaceful process...suggests a blitzkriek of tribal areas and bringing them on par with other areas politically and structurally...The problem is that creating seperate systems in the same state whether ethnically or tribally creates friction.. militants and the old tribal culture donot mix very well with both also opposed to democracy..
Jan28-2008--Asif Zardari says he is martyrdom bound in benazirs footpaths and would like tobe buried at garhi khuda bakhsh too..
Jan28-2008--government offers conditional amnesty to militants in swat as militants kill two civilians...one found headless...
Jan28-2008--musharaf in a rage asks audience to thrash former dawn editor Ziauddin who wanted to know why he let rashid rauf escape...
Jan27-2008--reports about lack of security surrounding nuclear installations seem to have ben correct...kidwai a retired lt. general says security has now been boosted and all anti musharaf nuts have been fired...what we know about the scientist types most are usually pro musharaf nuts..firing people just on the basis of oposition to musharaf seems tobe a pretty silly security system since most alqaeda types were usually pro musharaf...the system of several different specialists putting together a weapon or firing it has been in place for a very long time...it is the operational readiness of the pakistan army that has been put into question after a steady stream of militant attacks
Jan27-2008--pakistan army operations continued in darra adamkhel and south waziristan...26 militants are said to have been killed who gathered at the kohat tunnel..the military spokesman apparently said that the tunnel was in militant hands..traffic has been diverted to the pindi kohat link from the indus highway...militants firing rockets at kohat city and darra from surrounding mountains......in south waziristan ladda and nawazkot cleared and touda cheena bombed..bodies of three soldiers recovered in spinkai raghazai...in timerghera two policemen and a paramilitary killed...army convoy escapes bomb blast near badaber...
Jan27-2008--musharaf food committee unable to control flour prices in sindh
Jan27-2008--musharaf and lt gen shafqat the alleged musharaf coup ringleader meet altaf hussein..and ensure fair polls...mqm has never had any election problems as it controls areas where it wins...musharaf has never met any other party leadership which were accusing him of bias in teh elections process...others say musharaf might be attempting to lure altaf back in to eliminate him...?
Jan27-2008--Riaz Basra nephew Fahad munir basra arrested as key linchpin in suicide network...
Jan27-2008--musharaf says next premier tobe chief executive as compared to teh PMLq premier who was his subordinate...shahbaz says local polls immediately if PMLn wins...possibility of hung parliament remote as coalition partners of both types will emerge as the situation dictates...
Jan27-2008--Ali Jan orakzai who resigned as governor might have been removed for being too soft...others say he might have been involved/appalled in/at the benazir assassination..many military men openly think that musharaf and the military behind the assassination...
Jan26-2008--After the taleban refused to return ammunition, food and five soldiers from hijacked army trucks the military moved in and bombed militant targets around darra adamkhel a haven for gun smugglers and scene of recent taleban activity...25-30 militants killed and two soldiers...the kohat Fc fort captured by militants was destroyed in army attacks..kohat cantonment was sealed..there were militant attacks on the troops defending the kohat tunnel but they were beaten back..militants blew up a bridge on the indus highway and a PTCL hill tower...
Jan26-2008--a checpost was attacked in spinkai raghazai killing two soldiers...
Jan26-2008--there are many rumours about what chaudhry shujaats relatives were doing when they were picked up at gatwick detained for a day and deported by british police..the british usually donot take such actions without reason...
Jan26-2008--two power transmission towers were blownup in Hub and barkhan causing a twoday blackout in the lasbela and barkhan region
Jan26-2008--The secretary mines of sindh was made a consultant for creating a brouhaha over the lakhra power project...while NEPRA reccommended a 7.8 cent indicative tariff for financial calculations the sindh official started a press war saying the tariff should be 11 cents...since the fuel in the form of local coal is being provided the 11 cents and other tariffs going upto nineteen cents announced by PMLq governments are seen as excessive...earlier a hongkong group selected by the benazir government was rejected by the military regime..the arbab rahim government earlier failed to get the project to move ahead despite the approval of a seperate road to thar...
Jan26-2008--musharaf and caretaker regime attack retired generals who suggested that musharafs time is up...
Jan26-2008--militant activity increases in bajaur
Jan26-2008--JUI-f to seize government vehicles being used for electioneering...
Jan26-2008--US offers to jointly participate in pakistan army operations in tribal areas...pakistan army seen as moving too slowly and having no real experience of what they are dealing with...US setting up eight intelligence gathering centers on pak afghan border...where intelligence officials of the three countries will be posted...
Jan26-2008--pakistan army coas says 400-700 km missiles are routinely fired during army exercises which seems like a waste of resources...army generals sit and watch missile launches as if it is some sort of entertainment show..pakistan testing missiles for the last 17 years...many suggest that the regular tests maybe indicative of some sort of defect...
Jan26-2008--CNG stations shut down for 24 hours to conserve gas...
Jan26-2008--landmine kills security man in dera bugti..
Jan26-2008--PPP expecting to win to restart the election campaign from where it was left...
Jan25-2008--musharaf still thinks that the PMlq will garner sufficient seats to keep him afloat...in popularity he still does'nt go much above 10-20% with most pakistanis supporting the opposition..while the opposition will try to to remove him with the army under his control a two third majority for impeachement seems difficult...the army would have to clearly support the primeminister and parliament for his removal..recently prominent ex generals called for his removal who were previously his think tank
Jan25-2008--police remove a dud bomb from nawaz sharif route in pesahawar
Jan25-2008--Chaudhry shujaat's brother and son arrested at gatwick airport and deported to pakistan as they arrived in the uK to arrange pro musharaf demos...since they arrived from spain they were mistaken for terrorists..the UK than said it was sorry and that they can visit UK ..most immigrants nowadays are gujratis...others say the shujaat clan planning possible evacuation in case their patron musharaf is removed and they lose the punjab provincial elections...
Jan25-2008--the army started a heavy troops deployment in south waziristan and moved into spinzai raghazai, nawazkot and tiarza supported with three tanks and gunship helicopters...The resultant fighting left 40 militants dead and 10 soldiers with the military claiming that they were moving into control the areas on the border with afghanistan..
Jan25-2008--The taleban on the other hand claimed that they had captured four military trucks laden with ammunition in darra adam khel and that 25 soldiers and only seven militants were killed..
Jan25-2008--at least ten US senators mostly democratic asked for a credible UN investigation into Benazirs assassination and reinstatement of the judiciary...
Jan25-2008--the pakistanis who used tobe proud of the training of the pakistan army now realize that they were actually poorly trained and donot even have modern helmets and seem unaware of basic counter terrorist operation tactics even inside pakistan...while the US soldier has evolved into a fighting unit the pakistani soldier can at best look like a person walking down the street in his flapping shalwar kameez...the pakistan army has been based mostly on visuals, pride, medals and propaganda rather than the actual training of its soldiers...The FC or paramilitaries which do not have even proper transportation have suffered teh most..however the soldiers now being sent to the tribal areas at least wear bullet proof vests and carry rocket launchers..even the ASF uses better guns than them...helicopter gunships and airforce jets only things that ensure some superiority over militants...
Jan25-2008--caretakers considering five day workweek to save 1000MW of energy...people will also work better and be fresher with a five day work week but other holidays would have tobe reduced...
Jan25-2008--while the caretakers have chaudhry iftikhar under house arrest the PWD want him to vacate his prison..
Jan25-2008--matta tehsil naib nazim and two others killed in swat
Jan25-2008--asma jehangir says that qazi courts in troubled areas will only encourage warlordism...the courts which just have a different nomenclature and have to consult islamic texts experts and procedures wont change the situation judicially although they have been a help in malakand...anything to pour water on a fire..
Jan25-2008--invesigators identify abid hunzala as a suicide bomber of teh sorgodha airforce bus..lived in karachi and rahimyar khan...
Jan25-2008--spain says potential pakistani suicide bombers did not have enough explosives but are still extremists...links to commandos and PMLq...!!
Jan25-2008--caretakers ridicule india navy statement on gwadar and they say indian information centers along pakistani border in afghanistan responsible for terrroism
Jan24-2008--troops advance into south waziristan to control mehsuds...troops from jandola move to spinkai raghzai for operations in makin, spinkai raghzai and tiarza..one soldier killed and militants attack razmak base
jan24-2008--US says situation in afghanistan easing as taleban and al qaeda focussed on pakistan where the military is gearing up to control areas under their control..
Jan23-2008--problems continue in the south and north waziristan areas...five soldiers and 37 soldiers klled in attack on ladda fort while the militants claim killing ten and capturing thirteen...another attack on a razmak army base killed two security men...military usually retaliates by bombing nearby villages which the militants say is killing innocents...militants threaten more attacks on intelligence offfices in islamabad
Jan23-2008--caretakers moving to take action against wheat hoarders and possibly restarting the sixties era ration card schemes where the impoverished could get rations at lower rates thru utility stores...say they now have wheat stocks for just 52 days... wheat output significantly lower than government estimates...wheat output could have been as low as 10-12 million tonnes...
Jan23-2008--caretakers willing to start qazi courts in dir, chitral and swat on the malakand style
Jan23-2008--with musharaf showing a lack of understanding of democracy and willing only to some sort of partial democracy... condoleeza rice suggests that elections at least should be elections..the regimes credibility rests on the type of elections and the situation could quickly turn ugly if results are not credible..
Jan23-2008--five checposts blownup in mohmand
Jan23-2008--karachi police arrest several militants and uncles of aitezaz shah and raid his madrassa
Jan23-2008--karachi court declares senior sindh ppp leaders proclaimed offenders for rioting on the murder of munawer suhrwardy and refusing court summons...
Jan23-2008--PPP considers options as CEC refuses to take action against teh misuse of official machinery for elections
Jan23-2008--heads of leading parties either not contesting elections, disqualified or not considered able enough in the case of teh PMLq..
Jan23-2008--western and pakistani views coincide on only one issue...that musharaf is playing both sides of the fence...using terrorists to knock off opponents at home and providing the west with intelligence leads on would be terrorists...
Jan23-2008--jaish activist abdul jabbar arrested for the third time since 2002 on suspicion of participating in suicide attacks...
Jan22-2008--Musharaf unable to understand the meanings of democracy and human rights...blames west for obssession about them...says power tobe handed over to winners in his elections...
Jan22-2008-- army moves heavy equipment from jandola to south waziristan and mehsud areas... baitullah mehsud whom the administration continues to blame for benazirs assassination warned of serious repercussions if the army entered his areas...tribals blame military of killing innocent people and destroying their homes ...suicide bombers do the same thing...military continues to bomb areas in ladha, makin and chaghmalai
Jan2-2008--deputy nwfp IB director shot dead in charsadda
Jan22-2008--Accordng to geo which came on the air yesterday AG threatens zardari with resumption of cases if NRO is not reissued on Feb5 and PPP ends reconciliation
Jan22-2008--rumours of new reconciliation this time with the PMLn making the rounds if PMln gets the lead role in some sort of prepoll arrangement..musharaf said to have castigated PMlq for its anti shaukat aziz attitude...with chaudhry shujaat trying belatedly to appear as a major politician rather than a military collaborator..nawaz sharif rejects insinuations...musharaf and chaudhry shujaat reject national government...
Jan22-2008--three oil tankers and a container truck blownup at chaman
Jan22-2008--militants escape after battle with police on ouskirts of mardan
Jan22-2008--The PMLn has moved the NAB against shaukat aziz and pervez elahi the alleged masterminds of the power and wheat crisis...earlier shaukat aziz and major PMLq politicians involved in stock exchange crash...
Jan22-2008--police and media playup suspicious teen suicide bomber aitezaz shah whose story seems quite concocted..no major disclosures yet...sindh rejects benazirs exhumation asking punjab police to ask the family...
Jan22-2008--two mines hit sindh rangers convoy in pir koh area killing one
Jan22-2008--SC again on suo moto trail asking SBP to provide details of loan writeoffs by musharaf regime for organisations unprofitable in three consecutive years...
Jan22-2008--Sanam Bhutto says benazir aware that she would be murdered and two days before leaving for pakistan she wrote a seventeen page will...!!
Jan22-2008--firing at muharam procession in hangu
jan20-2008--Police say they have detained another suspect in the Benazir assassination in DIK...supposedly teh fiftth bomber did not have the necessary vest etc...a backup bomber...claim again denied by mehsud spokesman...earlier the interior ministry had released a purported conversation to the same effect however the quickness with which the tape was brought out and the apparent lack of information displayed by mehsud made it suspect...also the interior ministries attempt to confuse matters also caused a degree of suspicion asto teh motives...however both claim a karachi maulvi was the controller who sent them for training in the tribal areas...police have in general been more active in this muharam capturing suspected terrorists in various areas..
jan20-2008--airforce jets have bombed various areas in south waziristan in response to the renewed attacks on the military...military says they have arrested 50 militants which was disputed by the taleban as a base in razmak was rocked...
jan20-2008--bank branch blowsup in rawalpindi due to gas leakage
jan20-2008--troops claim to have pushed the militants further into the snowclad mountains in swat..
jan20-2008--shabaz sharif says that talks with musharaf possible if he moves into neutral territory...musharafs motives have always been suspect as he has only tried to maintain his own position...the sharifs should be wary of what musharafs negotiations have done to one leader
Jan19-2008--waziristan imbroglio continues...armies policy of retaliation not too effective...army says two engagements in laddha and chagmalai killed 90 militants...saplatoi fort recaptured..tribal malik brings back seven bodies from sarararogha..security post blownup in mohmand..
Jan19-2008--shahbaz sharif says donot believe in behind teh scenes negotiations despite relations with musharaf negotiator...
Jan19-2008--uzbek tribal area commander calls for fresh attacks on military as police mount extra security operations...reports of militants arrest from karachi and more suicide bombers in rawalpindi...
Jan19-2008--four people sitting in a taxi shot dead by two motorcyclists in lyari...
Jan19-2008--Zardari says that PPP makes decisions by consensus
Jan18-2008--young suicide bomber rushes into imabargah qasimbagh in peshawar.. fires with assault rifle and than detonates a suicide vest killing 10..
Jan18-2008--the pakistam army is in a quagmire in waziristan...another fort in saplatoi/saklatoi captured by militants..military bombardment of Sararogha, Khewra, Makeen, Barwand, Spinkai, Kotkai, Chagmalai, Saplatoi and other areas continues...three rockets fired at kamra base from hazro near islamabad one hitting an officers mess..tribal negotiators refuse to intervene in south waziristan until bombardment stops and road to south waziristan is opened...
Jan18-2008--US congressmen think that f-16's/submarine detectors(only indirectly funded by USAID) not needed to fight terrorism..nor the deaths of policemen and army men seems to achieve much...small levels of US aid have mostly gone to military development and over the last sixty years $21 billion has gone to military regimes and only around five billion to civilian regimes...a civilian democratic regime would require upto around $5 billion annually to survive...The US usually suspends aid during civilian governments and restarts during military regimes when there is usually trouble in the region..musharaf who many regard as the beneficiary of the aid says that pakistan can do without the small amounts being doled out...
Jan18-2008--Zardari says that the party trying to determine if somebody prompted Benazir to stand in the sunroof..rumours suggest that sherry rehman asked benazir to stand and wave to her supporters...
Jan18-2008--people still visiting benazirs grave from all over the country
Jan18-2008--protests as caretaker regime stops water supply to ex CJP's home...which CDA says has been restored
Jan18-2008--9 cops who allowed rashid rauf to escape dismissed
Jan18-2008--government refuses to allow ex CJP to hire tutor for his children who are unable to attend school due to government restrictions
Jan18-2008--The iranian pipeline to and thru pakistan only meant for indian use as pakistan has sufficient gas for twenty-four years
Jan17-2008--The sararogha fort in south waziristan overrun by taleban with disputed casaulties on both sides...with upto 40 militants killed and seven paramilitaries...15 soldiers escaped ...leaving the fate of around 22 uncertain...taleban later blew up teh fort and said they had only two casaulties and escaped with the ammunition...several areas being pounded from other army positions.. tribal mediators in a no mans land
Jan17-2008--DG military operations says that they have swat under control with just a few pockets of militants in remote mountains...36 soldiers killed in two month old swat operation mounted jointly by 10 corp and 11 corp
Jan17-2008--with the pakistan army almost considered ineffective US centcom says their involvement will increase in training pakistani troops to fight internal turmoil...pakistan continues to oppose a more open role for the americans...
Jan17-2008--pakistan police say they have arrested several suicide groups out to get a few PMLq politicians...?
Jan17-2008--Nawaz Sharif calls for musharafs removal and an interim regime as at least two provincial governments and the CEC have shown partiality to teh PMLq...suggests rana bhagwandas as CEC and allowing boycotters and others to participate..?
Jan17-2008--economy almost floundering as revenues decrease and oil prices increase...oil subsidies, power crisis, wheat crisis, losses in riots, production drops in large scale manufacturing, huge government borrowings,suicide bombings,uncertainty in tribal areas, higher imports and money printing expected to lower economic forecasts substantially
Jan17-2008--Zardari says PPP not looking for crumbs of power from a dictator’s table but our rightful share in power under the constitution after a free and fair election..
Jan17-2008--nwfp governors nephew kidnapped
Jan17-2008--The WB and ADP halt operations as security situation worsens...
Jan17-2008--a curfew remained in force in much of swat as a bomb went off harmlessly near a military convoy
Jan17-2008--Sherry Rehman says pakistan economy based on misling the people... the last eight years of so called economic growth is based on extremely weak foundations of misdirected privatization, huge borrowings and no policy... just completing previous projects...now the gloss and shine of a prospering economy is wearing off...Selective and pro-rich development, fudged figures, heightened poverty, economic disparities, record food, health and housing prices and shortages of basic commodities have been the hallmarks
Jan17-2008--mehsud-wazir tensions rise as wazirs refuse to travel thru mehsud areas and mehsuds have cutoff electricity to wana for the last fifteen days...wazirs want Gomalzam road opened
Jan16-2008--The caretakers are blaming the karsaz bombing on a motorcycle riding LJ team active in teh sorgodha-mianwali-region...they say they have recovered sizeable quantities of explosives...they say the team can make a suicide vest in minutes...this could possibly be related to the major ahsanul haq arrest for the sorgodha airforce bus bombing..others say it is just a sectarian group being targeted because of muharram......monitoring of possible bombers on motorcyclists moving between cities should be increased...since opposition leaders are considered prime targets many blame two of musharafs criminal ministers pervazi elahi and arbab rahim...both were threatened by the PPP and PMLn resurgence
Jan16-2008--PPP and teh PMLn say the suicide bomings are a major failure of the military proppped regime as they were happy to see suicide bombers targeting the public and opposition...they just sit and wait for the next suicide bombing and do nothing to interdict possible organisations and groups...
Jan16-2008--Zardari says they have provided the scotland yard with evidence...he called for a UN investigation and pooh poohed musharafs insinuation that the pakistan army disliked benazir...however zammurad khans victory in rawalpindi which zardari says shows fauji supportivemness not attributable to any military vote but due to population changes...he says that he arrived in pakistan six hours after benazirs death... after propaganda that he was personally involved in the assassination...the PMLq has let loose a series of wild charges against zardari as they had hoped that the assassination would turn the tide in their favour...apparently pervez elahi even wants benazirs insurance money
Jan16-2008--Shabaz sharif who left for london said soomru/shaukat/musharaf government policies aimed at depriving teh poor of basic necessities...
Jan16-2008--13 year old suicide bomber from swabi detonates at FC checpost in mohmand as a partner is shot dead
Jan16-2008--political agent in tank fails to get release of six gomal zam employees as jirga demands end of operations against tribals..
Jan16-2008--afghanistan has closed the chaman border as pakistan confiscates over a hundred trucks of flour...
Jan16-2008--Arbab Rahim and Pervaiz elahi match each other in zardari attacks...he says that zardari and benazir had seperated as informed by abdul sattar keerio..he also claims that zardari filed insurance claims in dubai...and blames zardari,sherry,rehman dacait and khaled shahenshah for assassination...EC should tak notice of such unsubstantiated accusations...
Jan16-2008--JI naib amir in karachi shot dead by two motor cyclists...
Jan15-2008--caretaker regime on verge of drastic increase in oil prices....salman shah unable to handle subsidies of $14 billion per month...government moving towards revising development outlays as it might barely be able to meet last years revenue targets..
Jan15-2008--bomb blasts in hub and kalat
Jan15-2008--Bomb blast in karachi kills eight, injures 52 near gul ahmed chowrangi in landhi
Jan15-2008--in mohmand agency taleban attacked a military convoy killing seven troops...several militants killed in retaliation...militants say 17 soldiers taken hostage
Jan15-2008--with rumours abounding about military involvement in politics and assassinations general Kiani has advised his officers to stay away from politicians...musharaf apparently fired a lieutenant general for meeting nawaz sharif when he was COAS...while the COAS is not the competent authority in firing a general government bussiness is usually conducted thru proper channels...generals have always had connections with politicians being sociable and serving in various areas while some have even used military helicopters to go off and meet their political allies...
Jan15-2008--farhatullah Baber says working relations with musharaf will be dealt with when necessary...musharaf has not been too kind to the PPP over the years and has apprently stayed away from even a visit to naudero
Jan15-2008--threats of assassinations and bombings loom in sectarian effected cities in the punjab by the LJ and taleban...
Jan15-2008--Bilawal tobe provided security in oxford on the level of leading dissidents or people under threat from various states...
Jan15-2008--checposts manned by over 70 police setup for zardaris protection around his residence in naudero
Jan15-2008--nawaz sharif says while he tried to heal wounds pervez elahi kept giving irresponsible statements...says national government with musharaf out of the question..says shaukat aziz ran away after creating all sorts of problems...one of which was selling wheat at $200 per ton and than buying it at $450 per ton...
Jan15-2008--the murder of bakht bedar khan a brother of the rebel clerics spokesman by uniform clad persons causes protest at kanjoo chowk in swat
Jan15-2008--a seemingly complicated increase of electricity rates has taken place...peak rates have been enhanced for commercial and industrial consumers...some increase in lowest block rate...decrease in rates for industries using more than 20kw...
Jan15-2008--zardari to work on wooing back PPPs estranged former leaders in the punjab...possibility of aitezaz ahsan being made a vice chairman
Jan15-2008--Pakistan Post also increases charges...
Jan15-2008--scotland yard detectives not allowed to visit naudero so zardari goes to karachi to meet them raising speculation of a meeting with musharaf
Jan15-2008--grenade thrown at ANP office in peshawar
Jan15-2008--snooker club bombed in peshawar
Jan15-2008--wheat issue to mills increased to 38500 tons daily which NDMA says is enough to feed 12 million people..says wheat crisis artificial as country not short of wheat..
Jan15-2008--Mehsuds demand that security forces stop operation in tank area...
Jan14-2008--musharaf says army disliked benazir and that she had a bullet wound on the right rathar than the left and wants her body exhumed...musharaf has almost turned into a Mr. No...why this controversy has been created is uncertain as doctors seem to have had another story initially...doctors who they say have been gagged.. ...says most militants.. from southern punjab and trained in tribal areas...says military which has failed in tribal areas over teh last three to four years operates better than american forces...others say that tribals have been used to taking pot shots at army bases since the sixties...u dont need a post mortem to observe simple bullet wounds on the head and the neck nor an x-ray which the doctors apparently made...that is the first thing the incompetent doctors should have checked...
Jan14-2008--union council office blownup in totanoo bandai, swat
Jan14-2008--Zardari says pakistan needs help for its democracy and to stop balkanization...and that teh PPP appointed bilawal as its head not him...says furure primeminister not yet decided...
Jan14-2008--militants attack mana army camp thrice in one day..near miranshah
Jan14-2008--PPP ofice attacked in karachi as party says that organised process underway to suppress parties workers...ppp's islamabad candidates car fired at...
Jan14-2008--shabaz sharif says they are not joining a national government...says government deliberately created gas, flour and electricity crisis...lists the armies three blunders as teh 1971 seperation of east pakistan, execution of zulfikar ali bhutto and teh assassination of Benazir Bhutto...?
Jan14-2008--PTV which has been acting as a PMLq personal Tv station regrets PPP accusations that they are hiding important film on benazir assassination
Jan13-2008--PPP to approach the UN onits own for a Benazir assassination probe on the pattern of the harriri assassination...as musharaf refuses todoso...obviously musharaf and the military blamed by many are amongst the possible culprits and they would not like their dubious roles exposed...
Jan13-2008--As teh PMlq literally collapses showing bad intentions,manners and insulting attitudes after teh Benazir assassination musharaf tries to rope in shahbaz sharif for a possible interim regime that could theoretically postpone elections...musharaf probably trying to end his vendetta against teh sharifs...
Jan13-2008--Justice Bhagwandas put under protective custody in karachi as he predicts reinstatement of deposed judiciary...
Jan13-2008--Justice iftikhar refuses to vacate house for abdul hamid dogar...
Jan13-2008--Rangers and FC which have failed in military duties, riot control and containing terrorism, extremism now to protect wheat supplies from smuggling...everybody likes the civilians soft jobs in the military...smuggling had been going on for months which the caretaker regime seemed reluctant to handle probably due to connections with the flour mafia/ attempts to increase the support prices... the job now assigned to the NDMA
Jan13-2008--gas pipeline blownup in mastung/kalat supply circuit as well as the rail track
Jan13-2008--a US journalist deported...
Jan13-2008--fierce clashes in tank between militants who attacked a garrison, police lines and checpost...government again moving towards a deal in north waziristan...
Jan13-2008--nazims effecting electioneering all over the place at times using local bodies employees as well..PPP accuses PMLq of using state funds for electioneering...musharaf equated suspension of the nazims with the suspension of teh national assembly during LB elections even though both actions are not similar ...
Jan13-2008--As US plans to act unilaterally in the tribal areas evolve US denies plans and option to refuse intelligence sharing
Jan13-2008--despite several polls showing that he lacks any convincing level of public support musharaf says he will go if the majority wishes...
Jan13-2008--Benazir assassination possibly via a pistol made by the Chinese company Norinco recovered from the scene, with lot No 311-90. An MUV-2 triggering mechanism for the bomb was also found, similar to the ones used in 15 previous suicide bombings, and with the same lot number and factory code.”
Jan13--2008--Zardari says they hope to form a governemnt of national consensus after the elections
Jan13-2008--two militants shot dead in multan late friday
Jan12-2008--paranoia or perhaps proper security measures have been initiated for the military and those blessed with the governments support...in peshawar the cantonement has been isolated by building walls on entry roads and stopping all civilian traffic into the area housing teh controversial governor who could possibly be a target...in rawalpindi people complain that all roads surrounding ejaz ul haqs house have been blocked for traffic...considering such actions obviously the security for Benazir was criminally negligent...
Jan12-2008--Thai airways reduce flights from lahore to bangkok to five a week...pleasure trips effected by uncertainty..
Jan12-2008--musharaf who many people blame for much of the violence says that government cannot provide security for Bilawal and Zardari...the government he says has no way to stop suicide bombers...
Jan12-2008--while the US maybe preparing for open conflict with pakistan by infiltrating/invading the tribal areas musharaf has challenged them to intervene without approval which he says will be an invasion
Jan12-2008--people have started to feel that the pakistani police are inadequately trained causing their negative behaviours at times and deserve sympathy for events like lahore which was expressed by placing flowers at the lahore bomb site where many policemen perished...the country does little to improve police services compared to the spending on teh pakistan army which declared itself unable to deal with suicide bombers...
Jan12-2008--This caretaker government has had to deal with more problems than others...shortages of electricity, flour and possibbly rice shortages..unable to provide adequate electricity the government now wants people to drastically reduce consumption across the board with measures such as a 7.30 closedown of all commercial activity..The government should take measures to produce adequate power as the need for electricity is not going to go away...
Jan12-2008--Scotland Yard to only determine cause of death..not find the orchestrators...
Jan12-2008--a truck carrying oil for nato blownup at chaman...
Jan12-2008--Zardari many say aims tobe the Sonia gandhi of pakistan although his image is not that of a soft simple foreign wife...he suggests that pakistans survival lies in good ties with india/india should play a bigger role...although it frightens many given indias attitudes...becoming a nepal or occupied kashmir is obviously not our idea of being a nation...india has backed out of even critisizing musharaf because they prefer army rule and whether they beat up judges is immaterial..india also said it would avoid destabilizing pakistan in these circumstances as they regard musharaf as a friend...many regard pakistans atomic tests as having cornered india's negative ambitions...
Jan12-2008--chinese to collect waste in karachi at $20 per ton
Jan12-2008--Minfal refuses to accept sindh decision for mills to sell flour at Rs17 saying wheat prices have risen...minfal many say behind the wheat shortages to raise support prices...
Jan12-2008--two suspects in the benazir asassination escaped before police raided the house of Qari shabbir rabbani
Jan12-2008--250-300 tribals attacked the Ladha fort and checpost on the night of the 9-10 after teh wazir gathering in wana...bajaur scouts camp also attacked on friday
Jan12-2008--the way the present and past government works electricity demand is going to outstrip demand unless they have 3000-5000 mW extra thermal power for winter months...newsreport says people bought 10 million new electricity appliances in a year...electricity demand only stabilizes after relative economic parity is achieved amongst the populace...
Jan12-2008--balochistan PPP boss lashkari raisani says they receive constant death threats from intelligence sources and the state apparatus...
Jan12-2008--music shop blownup in tank
Jan12-2008--PPP sources say that PTV has footage showing suspected people escaping...
Jan12-2008--missiles fired at mohmand rifles camp from darra mountains
Jan12-2008--General Ehsanul Haq refuses balochistan governorship...
Jan11-2008--a suicide bomber walked upto around sixty riot police and detonated killing 17 policemen, five civilians and two unknown...the scene the lahore GPO near the mall...police waiting for a lawyers procession
Jan11-2008--musharaf to resign if next government starts to impeach him...
Jan11-2008--PPP asks government for a UN investigation of benazir assassination otherwise it will make a direct request...
Jan11-2008--musharaf to visit naudero for condolences...better late than never.. as usual...
Jan11-2008--power situation to improve after Jan 25 when shortfall will be reduced to around 2000MW...by than shortages of oil and gas should also have resolved with a lessening in demand too...
Jan11-2008--Amin Fahim to lead PPP campaign which could employ huge screens or voice replays to show Benazirs old speeches...Zardari to take a back seat to reduce security concerns...
Jan11-2008--the pro government wazir tribes of mullah nazir to declare their territory a nogo area for mehsuds...
Jan11-2008--PPP leaders say that the riots were given a free hand for three days as they were meant to cause an elections delay...while another report in the dawn says as shouts of we donot want pakistan rang across naudero...that contrary to altaf hussein and PMLq views there was no ethnic element to teh riots and it was a sincere reaction to the new ways that the establishment is using to eliminate sindhi prime ministers...the report also states that despite having worked for the creation of pakistan sindh has suffered at the hands of military rulers who not only restricted its dominance in governance but also reduced its share in resources and even shifted the capital from karachi...in punjab that view is not acceptable barring the establishments anti sindhi viewpoint as sindh dominates industrially and economically and we are still emerging from the destructive rule of two sindhis albeit mohajirs..
Jan11-2008--atta being sold in karachi at Rs260/10 kg at utility stores which witness long lines and in the market upto RS 320 per 10 kg bag of chakki atta...u can get atta from mills for Rs160/10 kg...
Jan11-2008--around 10000 karachi police assigned to imambargahs in karachi which is a third of the police force...
Jan10-2008--after altaf husein accused the PPP of looting mohajirs in the riots...when challenged as to their ethnic strangeness to sindhis...they created a new definition of mohajir which they explain is people from other provinces not india...mohajirs should realize that they are part and parcel of teh pakistani populace and craeting meaningless ethnic distinctions wont be of much help...
Jan10-2008--PPP leaders worry that their candidates, voters and polling agents might be arrested under fake rioting charges near the election...about half a million PPP supporters said tobe involved in riots including troublemakers from other parties...government should make an effort to smooth things and accept that rioting after benazirs assassination under the situation was justified...
Jan10-2008--Generals kiani and kidwai gave a briefing to a US senator on how nuclear weapons are managed here.. something they probably never did for the pakistani senate or national assembly...!!
Jan10-2008--CEC to take legal action against biased ethnic advertisements by the PMLq..
Jan10-2008--The scotland yard detectives still studying issues and clues...while pakistani police processes are never explained scotland yard is studying each and every aspect...they visit lahore to study the gun and bullets...while these aspects are now considered unimportant what is whether teh assassin worked on his own...with religious groups or some punjabi politicians were behind teh action or someone from karachi.....politicians like chaudhry shujaat, pervez elahi and farook leghari are said tobe the meanest enemies of the benazir family...scotland yard detectives should also study the karachi bombing and whether somebody called abdur rehman sindhi/otho was involved...?
Jan10-2008--Sindh police chief fired...this police chief had the unique policy of pulling police and rangers off the street whenever something was expected to happen...
Jan10-2008--PPP officials say that scotland yard detectives wont be able to discover who orchestrated the assassination..
Jan10-2008--soomru also doing strange things ..he apparently has appointed a hindu as an advisor on muslim madarassas...?
Jan10-2008--thousands flee mohmand agency as paramilitaries start indiscriminate bombardment...several trucks of oil and flour heading for afgahnistan confiscated and sold to tribals...
Jan10-2008--No PPP and PMln electoral alliance says nawaz sharif
Jan10-2008--Ghinwa wants bilawal to defect...the PPP is quite strong and will obviously attract bilawal more since he will eventually be expected to run its affairs...
Jan10-2008--riots to provide more work....u know how tire repair shops function...when they dont have work they go out and plant nails on roads near their shops...
Jan9-2008--intelligence agencies claim arresting major ahsanul haq the mastermind behind the sorgodha airforce bus attack..
Jan9-2008--Bilawal increasingly looking like a politician claims country could disintegrate if election results are rigged...
Jan9-2008--government claims of record wheat harvest being contested..wheat being sold at Rs22 in the market with government trying to raise support price to Rs 550...if growers are hoarding in expectation of further rise in prices than government support prices are meaningless with wheat already selling at RS660...government should end its involvement and allow open wheat imports as growers cannot meet targets of around 26-28 million tons..This year imports of around 3-8 million tons might be needed if government figures of hoarding are wrong...if correct excessive stocks could force a freefall in prices by mid april...
Jan9-2008--paramilitary man killed, three kidnapped and several militants killed amid counter firing by army in various areas of tribal areas..11 rockets fired at army garrison colony near peshawar and seven security men kidnapped from darra adamkhel
Jan9-2008--Iranian gas tobe three times as expensive as pakistani gas
Jan9-2008--pakistani electoral rolls being stored in canada...
Jan9-2008--Secretary Finance fired...waqar masood replaces Ahmed Waqar...sindh home secreatary also leaves..
Jan9-2008--government to pursue swiss francs 54 million apparently blocked in switzerland related to zardari accounts...many regard it as a continuation of the political victimisation
Jan9-2008--wazir-mehsud conflict intensifies in wana...
Jan9-2008--DG ISPR waheed arshad removed from his position
Jan9-2008--reports of fazlullah being killed in military artillery barrages in swat
Jan8-2008--The dailytimes reports that police have identified the Benazir shooter who maybe from Swabi and have arrested several people from a Nadra derived address...
Jan8-2008--Zardari advizes party candidates not to travel at night...PPP to decide soon on working relations with musharaf and said that punjabi settlers were not singled out for attacks in the sindh riots...PPP has a wide base of support...many are critical of altaf hussein who like the PMlq wants to know why mohajirs were looted in the riots..politicians such as altaf and chaudhry shujaat should giveup the divide and rule attitude...
Jan8-2008--after mullah nazir a pro government militant refused to join the tehreek e taleban attacks on two of his offices killed nine...they immediately declared the mehsuds persona non grata in wana and other wazir territories..
Jan8-2008--A USIP poll suggests that about 35-40 per cent of the people regard talebanisation and extremist islamic groups as threats howeve they feel that democracy and islam are necessary to improve things...harsh government crackdowns also donot meet with any approval
Jan8-2008--police breakup APDM protests in karachi focussing on the benazir assassination, electricity, gas and food shortages
Jan8-2008--US insistent on covert operations in tribal areas despite disapproval in pakistan...pakistans lack of governance and a mild army chief seems to encourage the US to meddle...
Jan8-2008--pakistan trying to eliminate baitullah mehsud...
Jan8-2008--around 2000-3000MW power projects both hydel and oil/gas are said to come on stream by 2010..however shortages will double by than and the government has to keep approving new projects every year...
Jan8-2008--Gen(r) Ehsanul Haq from abbottabad and supposedly a thinking general tobe governor of balochistan...one hopes he can change the attitude of teh military towards humane solutions of a low level tribal and secessionist insurgency...
Jan8-2008--despite identification of major wheat hoaders the government seems tobe shying away from action...imported wheat to solve problem in the short term...rural agriculturists are reportedly hoarding 13.5 million tons of wheat...
Jan8-2008--a suicide bomber detonated an explosives laden car near the kabal golf club in mingora a military base...soldiers in retaliation killed a college student...later a rocket was fired at the golf course..fazlullah apparently holed up in ghat peochar ..a blast in buner blewup eighteen shops
Jan8-2008--EU election observers say that emhanced security needed for them and the elections..
Jan8-2008--Sherry Rehman says that PMLq main beneficiary of elections delay and deeply involved in post assassination rioting to prepare the ground for delay and collecting resources for election expenses...
Jan8-2008--A US official calling gen kayani a soldiers soldier says army should perform better under him than musharaf...although not many soldiers live in the luxury of the army house nor does any soldier play golf or get sent to the US for training...kayani apparently spent eid with the soldiers serving at the tribal area front...!!
Jan8-2008--Amin Fahim like many in the army and establishment suggests that the benazir assassination might have targeted the destablisation and final breakup of pakistan..one doubts that suicide bombers could have such far fetched ideas unless they worked for altaf hussein or chaudhry shujaat...
Jan8-2008--David Milliband suggests that pakistan needs to release all remaining political detainees and clearly define where the 54000 polling stations will including specific security measures for elections tobe credible
Jan8-2008--PPP working against ethnic divisions generated by the PML and MQM...the riots especially in sindh effected everyone and were not ethnically specific...the electricity shortfalls and transportation problems effected people from the north too ...the pakistan army which is seen as working against ethnic baloch and tribals having earlier suppressed the mohajirs and sindhis becomes an easy target of condemnation...one can remember the pakistan army was similarly portrayed as being against bengalis and at that time they created a new language whcih included bengali commands...areas in the new islamabad were also named in bengali...
Jan8-2008--two landmine explosions in sibi and bolan kill two..
Jan7-2008--prices of roti climb to Rs5 in karachi
Jan7-2008--confusion still reigns asto the mode of benazirs death...the two theories being that she hit her head on the sunroof or that she was hit by a bullet. Later teh sunroof was seen lying in the car..other reports suggest that the assasin and suicide bomber might be the same person...the hooded person behind the bomber they say might surprisingly be a bystander..the doctors version suggests that something must have entered her brain which leads to teh bullet theory as she was inside the car before the bomb went off..pictures show at least three bullets hit teh car..the baitullah mehsud conversation they say might be credible but it clearly suggests that baitullah did not know the assassin which leads to the mullah as being the main suspect..despite the assassins photo being widely publicised no identification has yet been made..the alqaeda statement might also be conjecture as terrorist organizations routinely claim responsibility for publicity...in pakistan the religious outfits have lost a lot of public support because of the meaningless murder as it is not going to lead to any policy changes...
Jan7-2008--reports from teh USA suggest that bush wants greater use of CIA drones in the tribal areas while hilary clinton wants joint control of pakistani nukes..John Ewards described musharaf as an unstable leader..most democrats seemingly supporting direct action...
Jan7-2008--load shedding getting back to half hour shutdowns every four hours..
Jan7-2008--The USA seems to have lost hope as it strived for an outright PPP victory or a PPP-PMLq coalition under Benazir and must probably adjust to a PPP-PMLn coalition...obviously musharaf who showed a lack of national sense in not attending the funeral when generals are used to attending the funerals of colonels and majors...that alone could have increased musharafs clout...with new PPP leaders at the helm outright support for the USA's one sided policies remains difficult...constitutional changes are necessary for effective governance..however the removal of musharaf will always be subject to teh armies approval...he has looked like a helmsman without a ship and the US and pakistan army must get used to teh idea that he is not necessary...even without musharaf most policies will remain the same...
Jan7-2008--security forces setup two checposts to control infiltration from upper swat and mounted a new offensive as fazlullah asked for direct attacks on security forces independently..his FM station is apparently back on teh air.Seven union councils in upper swat apparently still under militant control..
Jan7-2008--British bishop says that muslims will be discriminated aginst in britain
Jan7-2008--APDM to hold a black day to condemn benazirs assassination
Jan7-2008--amin fahim urges a door to door campaign and a policy of non discrimination in any form
Jan7-2008--Removal of Owais Ghani welcomed in balochistan where he is seens as the murderer of over 2000 baloch...many suggest that he will only create more turmoil in nwfp as he did in balochistan..ghani on the other hand says that he has empowered the middle class by increasing educational opportunities...
Jan7-2008--in peshawar's badaber area a watchmen died in the bombing of a cd shop and a hairdressers shop.
Jan7-2008--three checposts blownup in the mohmand agency
Jan7-2008--Sindh PPP protests aginst the registration of over 2500 cases of looting against 250000 PPP workers, officials and candidates on the behest of the parties supporting teh government...the PPP has refused to take responsibility for the recent riots...with jehangir badr saying that violence will not suppress them..
Jan7-2008--Oil depot set on fire in kohat gutting a godown
Jan6-2008--army picket bombarded with small arms fire in the jandola region as ultimatum on swat expires...taleban now to attack government and military anywhere in the NWFP..
Jan6-2008--two more judges appointed to the election commission
Jan6-2008--armies directionless artillery barrage kills family of six in upper swat..most areas in upper swat still under militant control
Jan6-2008--SBP lowers growth estimate due to unfavourable conditions as govt borrowings during the last quarter increased by a whopping Rs120 billion...lower revenues forecast...bad cotton and rice crops...electricity and gas shortages..lower confidence in pakistans economy..falling industrial output...a possible populist government and uncertainty in nwfp further dampens economics..higher cost of petroleum imports, high wheat prices..a smaller wheat crop, costlier dollar and unregulated use of storage water amongst the many complications...SBP forecast of 6.6-7.0 a bit on the higher side under the circumstances...
Jan6-2008--shaukat aziz moves into exile as he is disregarded by the PMlq...his macro economic success story was based on literally not doing anything...whether it was power generation or importing wheat...
Jan6-2008--PPP and PMln severely critisize the PMLq attempt to garner the non sindhi vote in sindh and promote provincialism and ethnicism...
Jan6-2008--PPP's security liason accuses provincial governments of not providing a clear path for benazirs
Feb26-2008--a day after sheikh rashid said that things would deteriorate further a suicide bomber ran into a car carrying the armies surgeon general who became the first lt general to die in the militants war alongwith seven others......Pmlq and militants only ones who can be blamed in teh situation...militants should wait to see how the new government develops its policies...although a wall street zardari interview effectively saying that musharaf has survived and local war on terror tobe disassociated from the american war left little hope for a major policy change..intra army conflicts also being rumoured...the way the car blew up it seems that explosives might have been in car although a suicide bomber seen running towards the army staff car...
Feb26-2008--four ngo workers die in hand grenade throwing attack on plan international in mansehra
Feb26-2008--PPP and PMln seeking legal advice to fashion judiciary solution...with the politicians accepting musharafs fraudulent election solution of judicial crisis might become complicated unless they retain newly appointed judges and accept formation of islamabad high court and related issues and problems...possibly hamid dogar could be shifted to another position because the CJ can in effect not be removed...or older judiciary might agree to work under a compromise CJ...etc....etc..
Feb26-2008--explosions leave three security men and a civilian dead in dera bugti
Feb26-2008--16 inch loti gas pipeline blownup in loti area effecting supply from pirkoh...
Feb26-2008--nobody will want to eat wheat anymore..as caretakers increase procurement price to Rs510 per 40 kg while agriculturists cruelly demanding Rs1250 per 40 kg...
Feb26-2008--three rockets fired on peshawar
Feb26-2008--PPP asks for repolling in thar as they blame agencies for many defeats
Feb26-2008--PPP not responsible for MQM's mandate as mqm threatens to block access to assembly buildings in karachi..mqm's murderous ways not acceptable to PPP...largest blocks should be respected in a democracy which was not done in 2002 says pir mazharul haq..
Feb26-2008--Rawal town asks that liaqat bagh and murree road be named aft
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Jan31-2008--13 troops found dead in a vehicle in tor chappar in darra adamkhel...they had been captured by militants from the PTCL tower at the kohat tunnel where five other soldiers had died..kohat tunnel reopened for south bound traffic after six days..
Jan31-2008--edhi gets back his passport after getting a new greencard...
Jan31-2008--militants attacked a military base in razmak killing two soldiers
Jan31-2008--caretaker regime reluctant to iniate action against wheat hoarders
Jan31-2008--soomru wants 20000mw coal fired power plants setup in thar by 2019...
Jan31-2008--musharaf spent most of his time in europe spreading slander..unsubstantiated allegations of ineptness and corruption against the former CJ...in davos he told sanam aitezaz who works for an NGO to tell her father to get out of his way...The SC full bench had fined the federal government for spreading false allegations...musharaf has continued his diatribe against the former CJ even after his removal faulting him on riding in zafarullah jamalis car, politicising the issue and hiring a top lawyer like aitezaz ahsan...
Jan31-2008--altaf who is paranoid about conspiracies against sindh now alleges that someone is trying to sabotage his party by amalgamating sindhi areas into greater punjab and greater balochistan and leaving district central for urdustan...he suggests that he has been supporting sindhi views on kalabagh and NFC..it is mohajirs who have to amalgamate and many suggest they should start learning sindhi rather than opposing the kalabagh dam.....nobody should forget that teh mqm took off after riots in which a girl was killed in karachi by a bus and the mqm started its virulent anti pukhtun, anti sindhi and anti punjabi politics...the mqm is regarded as the main political group involved in karachi riots and maybe elswhere in sindh...his statement comes on the heels of his meeting with musharaf who might be the source of such out of touch views...
Jan31-2008--four electricity towers blownup in goth mazari affecting power to bugti areas...
Jan31-2008--in peshawar three militants died after their explosives blewup...two Cd shops blownup
Jan31-2008--soomru's going to yemen and saudia critisized as the elections are near and situation is literally far from being conducive..
Jan31-2008--after teh US alleged that they had 100 troops in pakistan training the FC the foreign office spoksman denied the report..
Jan31-2008--tribal elder found dead in mohmand agency
Jan31-2008--shabaz sharif refuses to break off friendship/talks with brigadier niaz a supposed musharaf e
shortage li>Jan30-2008--In karachi police raid jandullah militants home and five people died in the ensuing clash...three policemen and two militants..Qasim toori wanted in corp commander attack under arrest..
Jan30-2008--In a missile attack on a home in khoshali torakhel twelve die..suspected militants... pakistan army has not confirmed its involvement which thus suggests US involvement
Jan30-2008--military should get their vehicles tracked by sattelite...that would have solved a lot of problems in loss of army ammunition trucks...darra adamkhel cleared..while hostilities continue in some areas...many suggest that militants will have shifted trucks to punjab rather than afghanistan...military should not require such a huge quantity of explosives...many suggest that it is just like handing over explosives to create more suicide bombers...?
Jan30-2008--musharaf seems tobe harping on the banana republic theme saying it has never been taken over by a colonel..banana republics usually grow bananas(two meanings) and are ruled by dictators...generally referring to unstable latin american or carribbean countries......u can replace the word banana for military in pakistans case...musharaf many say has gone bananas..pakistan a wobbling, unstable, terror prone, undemocratic state where the state has often been involved in eliminations of opponents and politicians is just a little more a banana republic
Jan30-2008--The US which usually has preconceived notions about many things has refused to support a UN investigation into Benazirs death as its man in islamabad maybe directly involved but wants serious distortions tobe corrected before elections...a kenya like situation could develop although pakistanis have been known to collapse under military pressure from using street pressure to correct wrongs...
Jan30-2008--grenade thrown at maulana fazlur rehmans house..
Jan30-2008--Amin Fahim jumps into musharaf camp saying his impeachment not necessary and that he would like tobe primeminister..many suggest that an outsider might again become a coalition primeminister unless the PPP sweeps the polls..most PPP suporters consider amin fahim tobe a very mild politician...after winning the last elections he could not stop around twenty ppp mna's from jumping ship and spent the next five years in a lacklustre opposition role...on the pro government side pervez elahi has lost support due to a mean unsympatheti
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Jan29-2008--authorities let militant kidnappers escape in bannu to save schoolchildren...the eight militants had earlier kid
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Jan29-2008--authorities let militant kidnappers escape in bannu to save schoolchildren...the eight militants had earlier kidnapped teh EDO health in karak whom they released after a police chase..they than took children hostage in high school walizar kullay
Jan29-2008--afghan taleban distance themselves from baitullah masud saying they are a pakistani organisation not under their control...
Jan29-2008--in swat the military took control of the durshkhela fort after three months..militants beheaded a constable and set his house on fire..most government offices in matta tehsil remain closed....curfew remained in force in durshkhela, kanju,peuchar, namal and wanai while it was relaxed during teh day in other areas..
Jan29-2008--the militaries piecemeal handling of teh situation sees a peace deal emerging in north waziristan...fighting in south waziristan, darra adamkhel and near normalisation in swat
Jan29-2008--minfal, sugar and wheat industrialists bent on creating problems for the people...international prices should not be regarded as a target for pakistani prices of agricultural products, electricity and gas...salaries are much lower in pakistan and overheads are literally minimal especially when considering low rates of agricultural loans...
Jan29-2008--there has been an exodus of people from south waziristan to tank/ miranshah and darra adamkhel to kohat...troops opened fire on two vehicles trying to use the kohat tunnel killing three..militants from khyber agency attacked a military camp in darra adamkhel...militants attempted to blowup a railway bridge on the kohat rawalpindi road and a 132kv tower near darra adamkhel..a checkpost attacked in orakzai agency...
Jan29-2008--a US security official found dead in his home with bullet in his head...suspicious circumstances and country situation suggests homicide..
Jan29-2008--US imigration officials find abdus sattar edhis regular visits to USA and appearance problematic...detained at newyork airport for eight hours
Jan29-2008--opposition forces gathered around a thousand demonstrators chanting anti musharaf slogans at 10 Downing Street with around 50 PMLq demonstrators doing the opposite..
Jan29-2008--PEPCO gets back into power generation with 450MW nandipur project after seventeen years...relying on the private power sector has proved problematic as they donot care for the problems faced by the people and are only interested in huge profits...
Jan29-2008--musharaf turns out tobe an israeli sympathiser..
Jan29-2008--despite the war having been started in 2001 and musharafs military forces actively started fighting over three to four years ago he still seems to think that the war on terror is five days old...delayed reactions to taleban mlitarisation in many areas from the pakistan army have caused the problem to worsen...the militaries refusal to remove corp commanders unable to handle the situation is part of the problem..pakistan army has improved its performance after ashfak kiani took over as COAS recently
Jan29 -2008--The UK decides to restrict development funds if elections fail tobe
a economy li>Jan28-2008--militants who had captured the kohat tunnel on friday were apparently cleared by sunday night from the surrounding areas and hilltops..militants fired five rockets at kohat cantonement..24 militants and five soldiers killed in the continuing clashes...seven soldiers died on friday defending the comunication tower at the kohat tunnel...militants took away another 12 soldiers...with no water, electricity and closed shops people in darra facing extreme difficulty
