July2008

July31-2008--new operation in swat as taleban issued threats and interfered with public life...five soldiers killed and 25 militants...major militant behind dargai suicide attack toor mullah killed...militants blew up the malam jabba TDCP hotel and an army rest house...militants waiting for the relatively peaceful baitullah mehsud to use suicide bombers...they say
July31-2008--rehman malik the defacto ISI boss says that india and afghanistan responsible for problems in fata and swat and that the ISI does not fund militants fighting the GOP...?The taleban seem to get more funds when they are in hibernation or slowing down suggesting that teh countries enemies renew their financial backing in such situations which renergizes them
July31-2008--SC lets go NAB army officer who beat up a person in court premises...
July31-2008--government says that it has gained Rs4 in petroleum pricing but people not to benefit
July31-2008--with the intense US propaganda against pakistan Yusuf Raza says that it is caused by US failures in afghanistan and not due to pakistans restraint or inaction...
July31-2008--Sindh which has had only one political policy of my minerals,my revenues,my NFC,my water, my taxes, my gas and now it is my coal...sindh has used everybodies resources to develop but has never even once suggested helping out other provinces even nwfp and balochistan...one just hopes that there is something in teh NFC for other provinces...?
Jul30-2008--Yusuf Raza limping thru US visit...says US is just whining and wants FM jamming equipment and obviously $15 billion in aid over ten years...pakistan appears as little more than a poor undeveloped beggar...who can talk/beg...? ...?
Jul30-2008--Gonzalos Gallegos says the US is “looking to assist [Pakistan] in modernising their educational system, armed forces, build their healthcare system, modernise the government and improve government functions, and also is looking to help build up their democratic institutions...what is pakistan...drowning in debt and horribly underdeveloped...$1.5 billion is just peanuts these days...
Jul30-2008--karachi drowns in rain as seven are killed and the entire electricity system collapsed
Jul30-2008--as militants kidnapped thirty security officials, killed two armymen and threatened to launch horrible murderous suicide attacks the nwfp officials asked the army to resume operations to wipe out the remaining militants in swat..it seems that militants have not been able to recruit suicide bombers as support for militants has lost any praiseworthyness due to their meaningless behaviour
Jul30-2008--in bajaur the army used artillery to dislodge militants from a captured television booster
Jul30-2008--As the indians restarted their daily firing across teh LOC the pakistanis apparently foiled an indian attempt to setup another post on the LOC...
Jul30-2008--government to impose duty on diesel exports to afghanistan and cap oil companies profits at $100 per barrel...Oil distribution companies are heavily profitable and their profits should be taxed
Jul30-2008--loti to pirkoh gas pipeline blown up
Jul30-2008--traffic policeman gunned down in quetta
Jul29-2008--missiles strike south waziristan as suspected arab compound is hit...al qaeda explosives expert is killed a second time
Jul28-2008--The Fazlullah group threatens further murderous attacks...the swat group of taleban murderers was easily dominated by the pakistan army and their threats show that the agreement with the ANP is literally worthless...
Jul28-2008--The countries useless ISI has protested its merger with the Interior ministry and sought to delay the inevitable...The government has backed out partially and told them to integrate, coordinate and cooperate with the IM...The ISI whose nefarious role in coup plots and undermining civilian governments and at times running its own policies on internal security and external matters has caused pakistan enough problems...The current attempt to subjugate the ISI leadership is probably based on afghan and american sentiments that teh ISI is still continuing its support of the afghans war of liberation..They also might have been involved in a failed coup attempt...The change apparently came after interior ministry officials started phoning details of operations to their indian counterparts...many regard the iSI as an organisation which was a failure in kashmir and negotiations with india and could not manage the afghan fallout from the russian invasion...many say the primeminister cannot handle intelligence affairs given his schedule and running around and a committee of ministers and legislators should coordinate teh countries intelligence policy and run them...In democratic countries parliamentary oversight and a coordinating agency are a must...The iSI which wastes huge resources and also claims events done by unknown groups is usually dependent on the army for finances and personnel...the countries troublemaking militants are also said tobe on their payrolls...
Jul28-2008--Top LJ leader shafiq ur rehman caught...!
Jul28-2008--In load shedding the government wants equality as well as in tariff...the government is making the good pay for the bad people in tariffs and load shedding...
Jul28-2008--government whose privatisation strategy was to allow the privatised organisations huge profits at the expense of the people now wants to restrict oil companies and oil distribution companies to charge a minimal profit of around Rs1-2 per liter and reduce taxes to reduce prices by about Rs 20..There is a margin of reducing the oil pricing mechanism by upto Rs100 billion..giving 10% to refineries is also a waste
July27-2008--Jehangir Badr says no plans to expel amin fahim...when someone opens up a front publically the end result is usually an exit from the PPP...many say amin fahim is doing nura kushti as behind teh scenes he is supporting zardari and yusuf raza and it is only his public ego that is causing the problem otherwise he had been discarded in london by benazir bhutto as literally useless...
July27-2008--two Fc men killed in quetta and pirkoh
July27-2008--export of sugar halted
July27-2008--Yusuf Raza says that it is his fight in fata and it has nothing todo with the uSa and afghanistan...than what was the military doing taking bribes from the USA to buy helicopters and missiles to fight them...?many now say that pakistan has done enough to control the border and its environs and either teh USA allows pakistan control of afghan provinnces directly nothing else can be accomplished as teh USA just wants verbal skirmishes day in and day out...USA basically living in a dream world
July27-2008--fighting flaresup in dera bugti as 12 militants and three FC men are killed
July27-2008--In a major move yusuf raza finding the ISI and IB literally unbearable transferred their control to the interior minister...usually such control has gone upwards and it is the first time that it has gone downwards...both organisations despite huge resources have been unable to control terrorism or provide teh government with proper information or even good political advice...
July26-2008--a few months into his primeministership Yusuf Raza has started to harp on a few themes that he thinks will be popular...one being the Benazir Bhutto Income support program...i think that he can safely distribute the Rs1000 per family and not many poor will be rushing after such a small pitiable amount these days...
July26-2008--only 99% of tribesmen are loyal...why cant yusuf raza control the remaining 1%
July26-2008--one must remind yusuf raza that tribesmen and pukhtuns have only done a few things in this country with pride...smuggling and taking pride in being hired assassins..two primeministers have paid for their life becaus they forgot that... ...in fact many say that most pukhtuns came to the punjab after one job or the other...
July26-2008--swat has not calmed down...a girls school was blownup and 13 shops..a barber shop was also set on fire and an 11Kv power line blownup...
July26-2008--eight government employees released in orakzai by taleban...since the taleban are thought to be religiously oriented can they tell us under what islamic law they kidnap, kill and bomb...
July26-2008--railway track blownup in hyderabad
July26-2008--government again tries to get removed judges to take controversial oath
July26-2008--weekly inflation surges by 32%...?
Jul25-2008--The poor old F-16s...over the ast five years the US has upgraded them several times in the mind and this poor PPP regime is trying to make a big thing of it...Morocco got a complete new batch of 24 F-16's for what the pakistanis are going to get theirs upgraded...apparently these F-16's are now supposedly designed for anti terrorism operations..?
Jul25-2008--grand jirga signs hangu ceasefire accord and will now get the taleban to behave like decent muslims..
Jul25-2008--The taleban have torched over 64 women schools in the last year in nwfp...the reasoning many say is that girls schools dont have tanks to defend them or F-16's...and taleban are frightened of educated girls...
Jul25-2008--Pakistan finally gags the USA on its anti anti terroism strategy as it starts calming the frightening osama trained taleban...
Jul25-2008--The government also sacks finance secretary Farukh Qayuum and reapppoints waqar masood...the juggling of secretaries has made literally every secretary an OSD and back in a matter of three different governments...shaukat aziz policies of subjugating the people on the ascendancy and peoples suffering irrelevant to this blind government..the government has removed secretaries in the ministries of health, religious affairs, finance, revenue, petroleum, women affairs, labour or readjusted them as ministers dislikes about secretaries start to surface...
Jul25-2008--crude oil prices fell substantially to $125 creating hopes for reasonable policies and prices by governments such as those in pakistan
Jul25-2008--government says higher electricity prices good but is doing nothing to ensure supply...it should ensure electricity supply to cities as it subsidizes and enriches rural agriculture...agriculturists and rural people should not be given jobs so that they concentrate on agriculture...
Jul25-2008--governments writ in islamabd challenged as mullahs say they will open jamia hafsa at the same site in tents...?
Jul24-2008--coalition again shifts to a peaceful approach on Fata militancy...apart from some religious sentiments most tribal militancy is based on a group or tribe mentality and taleban warriors who seem to only want to fight whoever or whatever comes in their way...The pakistan army is reluctantly learning how to fight tribals when initially they were outgunned and out maneouvred...pakistan now might retaliate against foreign invasions or attacks...?
Jul24-2008--Hangu operation halted after peace was restored
Jul24-2008--provinces donot want too frequent or monthly electricity tariff hikes...
Jul24-2008--FBR chief fired while on foreign tour...already past retirement age he saw revenues jump from Rs500 billion to a trillion...BOI secretary Ahmed waqar jumps into slot...the PPP regime has been slow inits appointment of bearocratic positions showing that they were either not ready or had not done their homework on teh beaurocrats..
Jul24-2008--provinces to get control of local governments especially the the prized law and order aspectas LHC stops provincial government from nterference in local governments
Jul24-2008--ANP opposes sanctuaries for miltant groups...as baitullah mehsud prepares lists of his next 300 victims...?
Jul24-2008--pakistan railways increases fares for a second time in a month as urea prices also shoot up
Jul24-2008--consumer prices also being raised as effects of PPP regimes tax increases and its forceful implementation of price hikes in every sphere...this governments policy is the writ of price hikes will be enforced...and agriculturists will be coddled...!
Jul23-2008--Khalid shahenshah the chief security officer of Bilawal house shot dead outside his house in defence karachi..a former student leader he is amongst three prominent PPP walas killed in karachi...many blame Benazirs security for not giving her proper instructions on how to leave a site given the threats to her life...however in karachi the main cuplrits are usually the mqm who are always frightened of even minor threats to their domain...mqm rose to power in karachi thru militant politics as did the ppp especially in karachi..the mqm is thought to have eliminated all possible threats to its power in karachi and could also be involved in the benazir assassination as are other possible sindh power bases such as the pagara group and the the military supported PMlq and some extreme religious groups...internal extremist PPP political power players could also be involved given the downfall of many after benazir...security officials are also disliked because they restrict access due to their jobs nature...
Jul23-2008--hangu operation stopped to see if nwfp government can move negotiations forward...
Jul23-2008--sui gas pipeline blownup in dera bugti
Jul22-2008--The IHC has restricted AQ Khans utterances on nuclear proliferation because his comments showed that musharaf had clearly been lying about many connected issues...why AQ khan should not comment while musharaf can make malafide unsubstantiated utterances in his book is unclear...especially when the poor pakistan funded army had nothing todo with nuclear proliferation apart from providing trucks and planes...
Jul22-2008--Yusuf raza drops asif zardari and nawaz sharif from trip to USA but will take along a lot of tribals and his afghan pagri...
Jul22-2008--normalcy returns to hangu amongst sporadic army actions
Jul22-2008--two die amongst bomb explosions in dera bugti and jafarabad
Jul22-2008--rawalpindi consular type PMlq local body members critisize Shabaz sharifs blocking of development funds and say that they will bravely hold a public meeting in liaqat bagh the terrorists favorite hunting ground...
Jul22-2008--India blames pakistan for kabul consular bombing while pakistan vaguely suggests indian involvement in benazir and other terrorist incidents in pakistan...pakistan has been suggesting that indias diplomats are nothing more than under cover terrorists
Jul22-2008--a pro government tribal leader of the mamonds killed near khar...
Jul22-2008--Two afghan ISAF suppliers killed as US spies...
Jul22-2008--Asif zaradri says strategy devised...to deal with fata problems
Jul22-2008--reports suggest that PTV deliberately casued problems in yusuf raza's televised speech especially making him look pockmarked and unappealing as well as causing interruptions...several senior officials reprimanded...sherry rehman asks for more serious action against culprits...
Jul21-2008--government increases petroleum prices by 10-18 per cent ringing petrol to Rs87 per liter
Jul21-2008--six security personnel and 24 militats killed in clashes in ucharea where security forces destroyed two camps from where attacks were being launched on oil installations
Jul21-2008--Nilofer bakhtiyar of lal masjid fame receives death threats.. asks for government security
Jul21-2008--tora warai fort fort in the hangu area came under attack where five militants were killed and six of their vehicles were destroyed...helicopters also attacked militant positions
Jul21-2008--insecticide sprays in islamabad
Jul20-2008--Nothing new from gilani in tv address apart from his policy of pampering the agricultural community with money and high prices..policies that never worked without subsidies in the west...subsidies just to the agricultural community who never deliver are a waste too...derides dictatorship and says will do away with load shedding...!
Jul19-2008--Ahmed mukhtar they say is pro indian trade...in one go he increased indian imports by 200% changing the future of pakistan into a nepal where u see nothing else but khatara indian trucks and in pakistans case i saw an indian rickshaw barely able to move...to sell a few shoes to india is this necessary...he was frightened even to express the level of pakistans imports which are teh major reason for the countries deficit...oil wont rise too much from here...i only support yusuf raza on one issue that is to not import medicines that we make but when we want to raise medicine prices by another 25% why not give the poor the option...that is the yusuf raza dilemna for this country...do good but make it impossible for the people to enjoy by pushing it out of the poors reach and grasp...medicines, wheat, atta, cement, ghee, wages, roti,electricity, gas, cng...
Jul19-2008--on one side india was being paid in trade terms to destablize pakistan and on the other we were ending or quest for kashmir by acknowledging the finality of the LOC... the people to people contacts on the LOC upto now have been 4000 from azad kashmir and 3000 from occupied kashmir...intra kashmir trade is being encouraged by a truck service to srinagar and passengers on the bus service increased from 35 to 45 per fortnight
Jul19-2008--clashes continued in the hangu area with casaulties the military using helicopter gunships to corner the fleeing militants...
Jul19-2008--government still pecking at the FATA regulations...the political agents who are almost dead in the current situation to lose more power to the tribal jirgas or tribesmen
Jul19-2008--three proclaimed as american spies killed in south waziristan area
Jul19-2008--mqm worker shot dead in landhi
Jul19-2008--naval official falls from fourth floor pakistani high commision building in london
Jul19-2008--The opposition says that prices, suicides, political victimisation have gone up in sindh during the PPP's first hundred days and sindh may even support the kalabagh dam for more water...
Jul19-2008--fish exports cross $200 million
Jul19-2008--even 30% of PMlq voters want musharaf removed...PPP does not know how to remove musharaf or reinstate judges
Jul18-2008--stock investors went on the rampage as stocks continued to slide by 35-70% since April 18 as the countries economic management has been at best ordinary...
Jul18-2008--pakistans problems with the oil bill continue as in 2007-8 pakistans oil bill surged 55% and even further after that
Jul18-2008--An IRI survey suggested that pakistan is headed in the wrong direction and want musharaf impeached with musharafs popularity falling to 3%,,,nawaz sharif 's popularity surges to 82 % followed by qadeer khan, iftikhar chaudhry and shahbaz sharif
Jul18-2008--baitullah mehsud threatens nwfp government with action if it does not resign in five days...
Jul18-2008--clashes continued in the hangu theatre as army took control of zargari and surrounding areas
Jul18-2008--an army vehicle was blownup in the kahan area of kohlu...
Jul18-2008--lawyers protest CJ visit to karachi as mqm worker kills a PPP activist in karachi
Jul17-2008--In a private case initiated by a doctor accused of rape during the earthquake a judge ordered several prominent people including pervaiz elahi and maulana fazlur rehman and farazan raja tobe produced before teh court
Jul17-2008--CNG outlets still selling at Rs48.80 despite government price of Rs44.38
Jul17-2008--The US after failing inside afghanistan to stop attacks has been accusing pakistan which has little else that it can do...pakistan already engaged in several places inside tribal areas...despite firing on pakistani tribal areas teh US said it had done so without massing firepower on the pakistani border...
Jul17-2008--The government seems to have no solution for the economic mess barring raising wheat and oil prices...despite only a few border crossings it seems unable to stop wheat smuggling to afghanistan...it now wants to peg prices to those inside afghanistan meaning creating more problems for the people of pakistan..being sindhi in orientation the government seems to think that highly expensive thar coal power is the only solution....requiring 1000-3000 mW every year a continuous solution is needed and government should allow open installations of all types of power stations even allowing private sector into the nuclear power arena...
Jul17-2008--army moving to control zargari, doaba, chapri and naryab dam areas
Jul17-2008--policeman killed in mastung as bomb goes off near Fc vehicle
jul17-2008--US forces attacked a mound in north waziristan claiming that a rocket had been fired from that spot...in retaliation US forces used artillery and attack helicopters...no restraint was demonstrated nor pakistan asked to check source of fire...pakistan apparently did not use self defence...US apparently wants to inflame the situation and no logic is seen behind US actions...US attacks came from paktika province...There have been no US losses to cross border firing and such US actions are not going to reduce their fighting losses inside afghanistan
jul17-2008--US failure to record pakistan checpoint data major cause of attack on pakistani checpost last month
jul17-2008--peace jirga fails to end military operation in hangu...military seals the area and continues bomnbardment with possibility of food shortages and disallows edhi to go in with supplies
jul17-2008--people might get some relief when load shedding will be reduced in august
jul17-2008--atta price rises to Rs500 per twenty kg in karachi
jul17-2008--seven killed in clashes between AI and LI in tirah valley
Jul16-2008--with a deficit of almost 800 billion last year and a $20 billion trade deficit the only thing possible to improve the economy is reduce useless spending and cut imports...
Jul16-2008--The country apparently does not have any wheat storage facilities...
Jul16-2008--There seems to be a US forces buildup across the pakistan border in lawara, mir saffar, shawal, zhawar and ghulam khan in waziristan...
Jul16-2008--US turning quite anti pakistan as bush suggests that they will investigate ISI instigated attacks inside afghanistan probably referring to the teh attack on the indian embassy...
Jul16-2008--Nawaz sharif will apparently try to talk asif zardari into applying their agenda one final time before waiting for 2009 or 2010...?
Jul16-2008--army and dir scouts soldiers injured in rocket attack on balamabat dir scouts hq
Jul16-2008--Discussions at SDPI suggest that elected local councils governance only solution to fata problems although under current situation any organized process difficult to implement
Jul16-2008--Jirga fails to work out truce in doaba, hangu area
Jul16-2008--Obama equates attacking attacking pakistan tribal militants to a train ride...
Jul16-2008--US and Nato officials claim situation in pakistan is dysfunctional as US finds nothing else to blame for taleban attacks inside afghanistan.
Jul16-2008--Rangers baton charge and teargas striking PTCL workers at islamabad HQ over unified payscales
Jul16-2008--an Fc soldier killed in dera bugti area when rockets were fired at a convoy...
Jul15-2008--militants in hangu beseiged a FC fort in shinawarai area..allowed FC personnel to leave than looted the fort and blew it up with explosives...the army has launched an operation in the zargari, naryab and tora warai areas and pounded the hills between orakzai and hangu with artillery
Jul15-2008--shahbaz sharif visits balochistan and assures wheat supply to balochistan upto december and supports baloch/punjabi position of backwardness, area, and population as a basis for NFC distribution...suggest that chief ministers meet every three months to coordinate with center
Jul15-2008--coalition leaders to meet primeminister on the 23rd
Jul15-2008--provincial representatives to NFC are saeed qureshi, kaiser bengali, haji adeel, and Gulfraz ahmed...every province is lined up against the constitutional provision that NFC be divided on th basis of population
Jul15-2008--swat taleban suspend talks
Jul15-2008--cement prices also rise to Rs350-Rs395
Jul15-2008--Sindh IGP says no talebanisation in karachi...most militants in karachi belong to major ethnic group
Jul15-2008--kabul for no more talks with pakistan
Jul14-2008--Yusuf Raza working on coalition support to induct new ministers as well as setting up a new NFC
Jul14-2008--suicide attack in DI Khan injures four
Jul14-2008--taleban militants hand over bodies of fifteen FC soldiers to jirga kidnapped and killed while moving to the zargari fort in hangu
Jul13-2008--Sherpao says US could attack pakistan at any time via air, or dirty mercenaries...coming in thru ground forces a bit more difficult
Jul13-2008--PPP regime to increase oil prices further despite saudi oil facility
Jul13-2008--pakistani foreign exchange reserves have practically fallen to $6 billion from $15 billion a year earlier
Jul13-2008--in what can be termed the newest front the volatile hangu area saw the slaughter of seventeen Fc men by taleban militants in an ambush in which one militant died from the kahi village seminary...militants refused to hand over bodies as military pounded teh surrounding hills...
Jul13-2008--Admiral Mullen was apparently in town and it might signal an increased activity by US forces...upto now recent attacks from the afghan side have targeted military checposts and civilian areas without reason...if militants are moving across the border than the uS has the ability to stop them inside afghanistan...since teh uS is unable to locate them than how do they think that pakistan would be able to...
Jul13-2008--US suggests that taleban trying to spark a confrontation beteen US and pakistan...obviously both sides are taking counter productive actions...If US has secured the border onits side than nobody should be able to get across
Jul13-2008--Pakistan to receive upto $3 billion worth of oil from saudi on defferred payments..since payments will have tobe made in teh future it amounts to a huge loan...pakistan imports over 40 million barrels of oil annually half of it from saudia...since all imports are not crude pakistans oil import bill should be much higher than $5.8 billion if oil prices stabilize in the $145 range...
Jul13-2008--Russia and china veto sanctions against zimbabwe where robert mugabe has all but destroyed any semblance of democracy...
Jul13-2008--Iran to retaliate against any military actions and to target 32 US bases and israel...
Jul13-2008--Pepco does not decrease load shedding despite demand falling to around 15000 mw and improved hydel generation at tarbela...
Jul13-2008--Utility stores also hikes atta prices to bazaar level
Jul12-2008--The US could be preparing for a major engagement in Fata or iran...in fata they want to walk in under mortar fire while in iran they will provide cover to america's only ally israel as it tries to bomb teh iranian nuclear sites...
Jul12-2008--shah mahmood qureshi who is never at a loss for words unable to tell condoleeza rice to stop bombing an ally...calls predator raids friendly rather than friendly...The word unfriendly acts he termed as a harsh characterization...
Jul12-2008--Nato fires mortar shells in to angoor adda as pakistan also fires back...Dawn reports increased predator activity
Jul12-2008--Indians fire rockets and mortars across teh LOC in the Battal sector...
Jul12-2008--two small containers containg radioactive traces found buried in OGDCL workshop in karachi...possibly from soviet era drillings...
Jul12-2008--taleban have kidnapped 17 government officials as army breaks doaba police station seige..
Jul11-2008--.With PPP ministers unable to handle mutiple ministries and increasingly being seen as representative of a very small group of the population ...portfolio changes and new ministers expected...with everybody looking for a ministry that assures power and privilege the PPP will have to accomodate everyone in one way or another
Jul11-2008--military again reaches an agreement with tribals in teh darra adamkhel region
Jul11-2008--three killed in lower kurram when landmines explode...
Jul11-2008--kidnapped government official found dead near miranshah
Jul10-2008--trade deficit in 2007-8 reaches $20.7 billion
Jul10-2008--taleban surround hangu doaba police station as provicial government calls for army help
Jul10-2008--government to provide gas to power stations to reduce oil imports
Jul10-2008--PPP regime wants to inrease prices of medicines too
Jul10-2008--rockets fired on nowshera cantonemnet..russian rockets which have a range of 10 km
Jul10-2008--karachi police clear eidhu lane, bengali para and other lyari areas from gangsters...
Jul9-2008--SBP restricts foreign exchange usage as dollar surges past Rs73.9
Jul9-2008--four chitral scouts killed in akakhel the first casualties in the khyber operation
Jul9-2008--interior ministry say karachi blasts aimed at ethnic violence without investigation
Jul9-2008--kabul accuses the iSI for the indian embassy suicide bombing
Jul9-2008--zardari to decide next actions of government in dubai as some pro military tv channels start vicious propaganda against PPP...probably next batch of ministers being decided after consultations with nawaz sharif who might not have agreed to rejoin teh cabinet
Jul9-2008--Kashmala tariq expelled from PMLq as she critisizes PMlq leadership...reference for her removal from parliament would have tobe sent to the speaker who can forward it to a commmittee
Jul9-2008--a 16 inch gas pipeline near shikarpur blown up
Jul9-2008--surprise visits to hospitals will not improve doctors and hospital performances as hospitals not run professionally as management troubles patients by wanting graft for medicines, operations and in some cases patient has to run to medical shops to even buy syringes...
Jul8-2008--girl killed in quetta bombing
Jul8-2008--there seems tobe a fresh wave of bombings in US controlled areas in the islamic world...
Jul8-2008--swat taleban agree to lay down weapons and end militant actions...nwfp government to gradually release prisoners and remove army/checkposts and impose shariah...it must be understood that the militant groups are not the accepted rulers of those areas...
Jul8-2008--pakistani post attacked from afghanistan in mohmand
Jul8-2008--punjabi speaking lawyer gunned down in quetta sparking protests amid four other murders in recent days...
Jul8-2008--gul bahadur and maulvi nazir groups form anti baitullah group governing ahmedzai wazirs...they also fined a tribal 500000 for dissenting...obviously the tribals donot use a consensus approach
jul8-2008--jirga reaches tirah valley with government demands of handing over 60 of mangal baghs militants...
jul8-2008--lal masjid demo followed by mock classes for jamia hafsa girls on the grounds near the mosque...
Jul8-2008--six bomb blasts in karachi seemingly aimed at ethnic opponents cause injury and panic...blasts could possibly be aimed at reinforcing recent statements meant probably to keep ethnic loyalty against taleban by altaf hussein...with supposedly no ethnic opponents left altaf hussein has nobody left to fight and his enraging statements can only create trouble since he is trying to create another enemy...the mqm has been rumoured to be fighting religious groups in karachi thru blasts and murders
Jul8-2008--government bent on creating more trouble for the people by raising electricity rates...by raising the rates on commercial, industrial, agricultural and rich users the government will only overload the troubled economy further and cause the people tobe overcharged indirectly......no foreign lending agency has openly asked for ending subsidies in teh current environment...the governments attitude is unclear as the rich farmers continue to be subsidized while the people are being steadily crushed...rates of wheat in producing countries not as high as claimed by the government...the government claims that most peopel use less than 200 electricity units...if that is true than the reasons for loadshedding for domestic consumers is not understandable..government should focus on electricity production as a burgeoning economy could increase just domestic electricity use to around 60000MW in ten to fifteen years...government now thinks that 200 unit users are also poor but will still increase their rates...government should fund new power projects from its own funds so that wapda can reduce power rates...
Jul8-2008--possibility of strikes in industrial sector from Jul11 against price hikes
Jul8-2008--while government threatens to take qadeer khan to court his lawyer threatens to file defamation charges against kidwai
Jul7-2008--the government seems to think that situation is so normal that a jalsa of lal masjid militants was allowed on the anniversary of lal masjid operation and no proper security preperations were made...The police as usual were just lounging around in a bunch when a suicide bomber reached them and detonated killing over 22 mostly policemen...the lal masjid gathering though peaceful demanded teh release of maulana aziz and rebuilding of the jamia hafsa and removing police from the jamia haideri...they also threatened a continuous series of protests with the next being in august...!
Jul7-2008--government almost ends bara operation as militants continue kidnappings and extortions...government apparently backing down and willing to release those arrested and ease conditions while army to stay until jirga reaches a conclusion...
Jul7-2008--The taleban have started their own courts system in a remote area in bajaur...usually they kill and plunder on teh orders of their comamnders...
Jul7-2008--The PPP regime being sucked into the musharaf/ISI-qadeer khan vendetta in which military now says they did not know about centrifuge parts being shipped to libya and iran they were so cleverly/properly packaged and camouflaged...? the KRL must be full of geniuses if they can have fooled the pakistani customs, defence, intelligence and aviation agencies...libya not known to have received any centrifuge parts however designs of missiles, nuclear bombs, and and even centrifuges were said tobe available with a swiss named eric tinner whose stash was recently destroyed...everything at krl, and pakistani airports is protected fully and previously the KRL had said that no parts of their old centrifiges was missing...military also says that musharaf sent centrifuges to north korea...a centrifuge is said tobe a simple device that spins at high speeds while enriched uranium is skimmed off a mixture of a gaseous liquid and uranium... centrifuges are said tobe better at getting enriched uranium rather than reprocessing spent fuel...pakistan also used to claim that it was designing fuel for its nuclear plants which it was than unable to build...The PMlq and musharaf suffered in attacking qadeer khan and the PPP also moving into the same situation even though it is already losing support for other reasons..in the sialkot by election its candidate came third after politicking by its governor salman taseer
Jul7-2008--in balochistan BLA kills a constable in khuzdar and a civilian in quetta
Jul7-2008--altaf hussein who relaced the VCR with the kalashnikov in almost all mohajir homes in karachi now wants to resist talebanisation of karachi and sindh...most people oppose extremist organisations including the mqm which has literally wiped out all political parties from karachi..the sindh ppp also falls into the same trap and hands over the KWSB to the mqm...
Jul7-2008--The yusuf raza regime is so frightened that it has banned the holding of family remembrance prayers for one tanvir shehzad in chak 477-GB chotian kottan who died in the london 7/7 bombings...The village says the family has been frightened by law enforcers and does'nt even respond to door knocks and anybody suspicious in teh area is questioned...
Jul6-2008--US reports suggest that musharaf and yusuf raza have both given the USA carte blanche to invade and tackle ben laden if they find his hiding place...The US has shown no reluctance to fire missiles into the tribal areas but have been only embarasssed again and again as they donot get ben laden...The pakistanis would consider killing ben laden themselves as politically naive...
Jul6-2008--There is little to celebrate for the people in the first 100 days of this government says teh daily dawn...as the government increases rail fares and utility stores prices as well...sugar price also increased to Rs32...inflation for the week surged to 28.37%...for those earning Rs3000 or less it was 31.56% and 30.47 % for those earning less than Rs5000
Jul6-2008--after a day of thinking kidwai(SPD) supposedly representing teh PPP government as well says that they did not force qadeer to sign a deal despite musharaf having been shown on television browbeating qadeer khan..when two generals one of them from teh ISI force someone there are usually no bruises...apart from the mind...the drama and teh propaganda by the army shows that they were literally american pawns...he also says that he was proliferating since 1987 despite only iran having a centrifuge system of enrichment...kidwai who has been needlessly retained by teh army despite retirement seems tobe hand in glove with teh other american agents in the army...one has not known the pakistan army to retain retired officers and it is obvious that either teh other generals refused to follow american orchestration on the issue or teh americans forced kiani to retain kidwai...otherwise it is not too difficult to hide a few nuclear tipped missiles and protect them...protection obvioulsy means eliminating anyone who gets near...one finds it extremely difficult to believe that the US thinks that qadeer could do something without government approval in an ISI infested country...?
Jul6-2008--both swat and bara militants want army removed and their arrested peopel released...without ensuring peace army withdrawal seems impossible
Jul5-2008--bara operation comes to a halt as jirga option being tried again...bara closed with a curfew with army manning checposts taken over by the mangalbagh group
Jul5-2008--Dr Qadeer Khan says musharaf regime shipped centrifuges to north korea in 2000 so it is obvious that musharaf, army and the dummy government were aware and behind the process...obviously the army which runs the airports would know if a foreign airliner was being loaded with suspicious stuff...he says he traveled to korea with an army general to buy shoulder fired stingers...In a country where the ISI infiltrates every organisation nothing happens without their approval...khan says that every place in his home bugged and he preferred to meet his lawyer on teh street...says under agreement he was to be free...it is obvious that qadeer khan has been used as a scapegoat by the countries army to curry american favour...government unable to comment as it has to make up a story in reaction...
Jul5-2008--girl killed in roadside bomb blast in quetta
Jul5-2008--punjab which is being made to suffer horrendous electricity shutdowns forced to ease wheat and flour movements...
Jul5-2008--government deliberately causing electricity supply problems by not funding Pepco financial needs and not filling dams early...with shortfalls reaching 4500MW many doubt this governments ability to fulfill electricity needs even three years down the line...
Jul4-2008--while the US has already been running predator raids inside pakistan the foreign ministry still suggests that they donot have a right todo so...noora kushti pakistan style...hit me again...!!visits by USs officials when such raids took place suggest pakistani complicity...
Jul4-2008--raids in areas around peshawar particularly bara and dara adamkhel slow down...as army tries to clear road to jamrud...!!PMLn distances itself from raids and oil price hike as it said the PPP earlier wanted a solution via dialogue...coalition partners complain of not being consulted
Jul4-2008--PMLq mocks yusuf raza inits appraisal of his 100 days calling it a betrayal of the PPP and the people and almost a failure...
Jul4-2008--oil terminal ransacked in karachi as traders strike in quetta over lawlessness
Jul4-2008--Qadeer Khans wife moves IHC against his detention
Jul4-2008--MQM wails against karachis talebanisation after it completely eliminated all opposition to its politics in karachi
Jul4-2008--a british tv team comes under fire in mastung
Jul4-2008--calls for shah mahmood qureshis resignation after he is unable to handle petroleum ministry problems
Jul4-2008--minister of water and power urges electricity price hike...price hike not inevitable say many...one price for all could reduce burden of industry and peopel...
Jul4-2008--a massive government orchestrated price hike sinks rupee to almost rs70 versus the dollar as oil reaches $146...
Jul4-2008--government raises mobile phone taxes to 21%
Jul4-2008--Varan back in pindi after removal of anti varan pervaiz elahi
Jul4-2008--Old and new PPP divisions become stronger...as PPP labour organiser fired for attending old PPP jalsa at liaqat bagh...old PPP will have to work harder as new PPP literally destroys even the meaning of the ppp's attitude towards people issues...amin fahim at the moment trying to gauge feelings in PMLf and SNA...he could get all the older ppp dissidents together and challenge teh zardari PPP...many in the old PPP accused of not advising Benazir properly on terrorist threats and improper handling of her security,travel and jalsa's..amin fahim fails to realize that PPP parlaimentarians was a front that he could not turn into an anti Bneazir PPP despite the urging of the ISI and musharaf
Jul3-2008--The government seems tobe in power just to increase prices for the rich to mint money...after the spate of price increases the next in line seem tobe PIA fares, railway fares and sugar...an artificial shortage of sugar is on the way too says Dawn...teh governments policies apart from pricehikes seem tobe just pro agriculturists who are a very small section of the populace and now they want to give workers a greater share in privatisation...the rest of the people seem to lack representation...continuation of teh shaukat aziz agenda seems tobe yusuf raza's prime aim...using taxation for teh good of the people seems tobe something that the PPP brains seem unable to understand...
Jul3-2008--the only aspect of the bara operation that pleases the government is that nobody is left to support the militants who are fast losing support not only in teh country but also amongst tribals..success or failure seems to mean very little and has never effected the careers of those in charge...
Jul3-2008--Admiral Mullen says that musharaf had given them authority to attack targets in tribal areas and nobody can dare shoot down a predator...pakistani spokesman issues soft denials of the statement...and the cowardly military says only they can function in the tribal areas...
Jul3-2008--rockets hit pakistani checposts along the border in bajaur...
Jul3-2008--the next long march by the lawyers may run into trouble say police sources...
Jul3-2008--many question why nawaz sharif wont work for the reinstatement of previous wheat and atta prices and only wants former judges reinstated who dont even have a good record in decisions about coups and are almost all tainted by various PCO's
Jul3-2008--gunmen kill three people at a cold drinks shop in quetta...
Jul3-2008--the balochistan assembly passes a resolution asking for the reinstatement of people fired from the gas industry
Jul3-2008--Tessori family says police extorted Rs60 million from them for PPP leaders in sindh government
Jul3-2008--yusuf raza ordered to stay in PM secreatariat rather than uselessly run around the country due to death threats
Jul3-2008--baitullah mehsud allows talks in swat...
Jul3-2008--Fc soldier killed in attack on checpost in sibi as grenade lobbed into police station in quetta
Jul3-2008--The PPP reconciliation does not extend to mqm opponents afaq ahmed of the mqmh whose bail is rejected...
Jul3-2008--revenues reached Rs.1002 billion last year just 23 billion short of the target...however despite the huge revenues there was nothing done to benefit the people last year and this year too the trend seems tobe to waste funds rather than direct them into problem areas to rectify major economic problem areas such as power generation..government statements to end load shedding by december 2009 seem to not include further power requirements...government should look into ending load shedding for domestic consumers...especially in urban areas
Jul2-2008--The government and its ministers apathy towards peoples problems especially price hikes became apparent when the petroleum ministry said that CNG prices had actually been raised by Rs5.58 and not Rs13 and it was a calculation error...the primeminister and ministers have been apparentlty told not to worry about peoples negative reactions about them or prices...the ministers seem tobe living in a vacuum while teh primeminister who accidentlty got the primeministership still seems tobe on cloud nine...
Jul2-2008--Asif Zardari says that west helped army and not the people...while that is factually correct the governance system inside teh country also thinks of nothing but teh army including peopel like asif zardari...the present government seems tobe unique in the fact that it does not worry whether people die of hunger or anything else...
Jul2-2008--PPP government is happy as it fuels further price hikes in literally everything...
Jul2-2008-- former mna Zammurad Khan made head of Pakistan baitul maal...?
Jul2-2008--power pylon blownup on quetta-mustung power line
Jul2-2008--operations continue in khyber agency as police nab militants from peshawar...many suggest that the trucks of rebel tribals and all vehicles in tribal areas such as toyoya pickups should also be confiscated...
Jul1-2008--in what can only be termed as total discrimination shah mahmood qureshi says he is only increasing gas prices for 9% of the people...?
Jul1-2008--session judge acquits former minister in murder of kafila siddiqui...in this strange case a married woman was staying with the minister who died in strange circumstances...the minister apparently drove around with teh body and there seems enough circumstantial evidence but the sessions judge said there was a lack of evidence when nobody else was even near the woman
Jul1-2008--In upper kurram 30 FC men kidnapped by toori tribesmen...!
Jul1-2008--eight bullet ridden bodies found in lower kuram
Jul1-2008--government banned three bara militant organisations as seven killed as militant compound is destroyed...opponents say all three organisations were pro government...
Jul1-2008--government increases payscale salaries but does not incorporate minimum of Rs6000...transport allowance doubled...medical allowance Rs500 to grade 1-15..20% adhoc allowance included in payscale...
Jul1-2008--this government is setting a record of almost daily price increases...yesterday it was petrol today it is CNG -31% and gas-17%...LPG-4%...electricity raises yet to come...