Jun2007

Jun30--Shaukat aziz increased haj fares despite cabinet opposition and is now attempting to raise gas prices to benefit producers and anger consumers...
Jun30--militants in landi kotal near peshawar blew up 13 oil tankers providing fuel to US troops in afghanistan...one tanker was blownup which gutted the other twelve...
Jun30--eight districts have been completely cutoff and devasated in balochistan and there has been rain and flood damage in nwfp and sindh...in nwfp the rivers are flooding, landlsides and villages and people being swept away...in balochistan the problems seems unmanageable at present..demos in turbat and further flooding in various areas caused by dams...The dams in mustang, kharan, kalat, naushki causing problems...garani dam, kishingi dams and others...floods in naushki, kharan,washuk, sibi....over a 100 dead...the pakistan army had already started praising itself despite criticism of its efforts in turbat and jhal magsi...the relief effort seems slow and ineffective...many in balochistan found muttering that development without azadi is meaningles...balochistans provincial government was again been shown tobe ineffective and pakistan army subjugation evident...
Jun30--It seems the general consensus that unless the pakistan army comes toits senses the military regime will continue to plague pakistan..There has been a second natural disaster almost in comparision though not comparable in number of casaulties to the kashmir/nwfp earthquake and such things only happen under the most zalim of rulers.. ...musharafs recent statement is that i am going to remain in uniform and whoever wants to boycott or participate in elections means nothing to me...
Jun30--The lal masjid has musharaf and the army frightened...musharaf who has had people killed in karachi, kargil, north waziristan and balochistan is frightened of bloodshed at his doorstep...he fears that the army would kick him out if there are a large number of casaulties of soldiers in islamabad...so no army tobe used...the rangers and police dont have the guts or the arms...and despite there being no evidence of suicide bombers..musharaf says they have sophisticated weapons whatever that means...there has been no suicide bomb blast in islamabad and many suggest that the lal masjid has cornered musharaf and teh army thru militant propaganda...frightened of a few kalashnikovs and maybe a few suicide bombs...musharaf and the pakistan army must be quivering in their boots..wafling cowards.....long live the lal masjid imam....!!!many suggest that the chinese drama was a diversion to bring in weapons such as kalashnikovs and bombs...many are questioning whether the chinese have been providing weapons to pakistani terrorists too...
Jun29--There were two landmine explosions in balochistan and three center ministers are apparently being targeted by tribal suicide bombers...?...
Jun29--the iranian gas pipeline to india only to generate around $75 million...!!
Jun29--The SC judges partial to the government refused to accept that the CJ could not be charged or suspended..the judges do not equate the CJ with the army chief who cannot be touched by a tenfoot pole......many think that removing the CJ literally is a derogatory move that makes the entire senior judiciary suspect...just as musharaf makes the entire pakistan army look idiotic, selfish and unworthy of respect...The government however is moving towards teh CJ's view that the reference could be dealt by the full supreme court instead of an SJC consisting of junior judges...mockery of a senior judge for not standing down from the panel after having lunch with government lawyers continues...
Jun29--as rains intensified in the north..river flooding and torrents caused over 50 deaths in nwfp with related problems such as landslides...
Jun29--balochistan in almost total disarray as rains and flood waters create havoc all over the province...Most roads unusable with no rail, electricity and gas services due to destruction of infrastucture...turbat under ten feet of water..destruction in makran, pasni,chagai, naushki, jhal magsi, mach...almost the entire balochistan literally a disaster zone...
Jun29--The PMLq which had propagated against the PPP when it had allowed power plants at six cents has now allowed power plants at 12.4 cents to 18.8 cents on a fast track basis...however these plants wont be on stream before 2010...government policy is plainly difficult to understand...are they more corrupt than the PPP..?
Jun28--The clergies attempts at becoming the countries moral monitors and the mockery of the musharafs extremist behaviour towards seminaries and religious clerics as opposed to his supposed enlightened moderation towards india/usa/israel is becoming a mockery...There were apparently over a dozen chinese massage centers in islamabad with some providing sex, massage, chinese medicine and acupuncture...over a 100 chinese women have apparently fled to lahore...one chinese masseuse said that brothels are not something new to pakistan and that local brothels were unsafe and available...many however suggest that chinese brothels should be restricted to legal services...
Jun28--Aitzaz Ahsan suggests that it is improper to remove the CJ and institute a reference against him which is malafide in intent and it should be heard with him as CJ and head of teh SJC...Ramday who suggests casually that it is a crisis and not a case suggested that the intelligence affidavits were irrelevant...why they were accepted in the first case and propagated shows the bad intentions of the executive and the countries intelligence organizations...
Jun28--Balochistan in deep trouble as rains and the cyclone devasted roads, bridges, highways, electricity lines, rail lines and gas supply...villages were washed away and dams and rivers were overflowing...situation in many areas such as turbat critical as kech kaur and nihing flowed at three lak cusecs and mirani dam was at almost overflow levels...rail tracks near mach covered by landslides and breached at six places on quetta-to zahidan..main gas pipline to quetta also swept away...coastal highway swept away at six places...over forty deaths reported...
Jun28--The musharaf regime which has a generally anti islamic attitude is preparing to invade the lal masjid as rangers moved in to take positions and barbed wire fences came up around the mosque...the mosques imam also started carrying around a kalashnikov...never has anybody seen barbed wire around a mosque in pakistan but what can one expect of a government that is involved in an unholy alliance with israel, the USA and has routinely bombed seminaries and killed and incarcerated people without trial...
Jun27--musharaf under the impression that peace in afghanistan is controlled by elements in fata and US/Nato forces...?peace can only come to afghanistan by the withdrawal of US/Nato forces and the dismantling of the northern alliance government...or an agreement between the northern alliance and the taleban...all seeming impossibilities...
Jun27--The judiciary is rightly blamed for the ills of coups and coup plotters that pakistan has ahd to suffer...Justice ramday confuses the pakistan army and PMLq with the people when in fact they only represent a small proportion of the population...On the defensive ramday accused the people as well as the courts for the mess that pakistan has routinely gotten into thru military conquests of governance...the validation even for three years of the musharaf coup was illegal...he questioned why the SC verdicts are accepted when they are wrong...The people have no choice left and are literally embarrassed, confused and subjugated by the decisions of a judiciary consisting of supposedly intelligent/intellectuall beings..when the judiciary becomes a subsidiary of the illegal rulers and the pakistan army..a totally destructive rebellion is than the only way out...
Jun27--PPP and PMLn challenge the authenticity of EC voters lists in the supreme court...in many areas teh PMLq supporting enumerators did not come back to collect the electoral forms...enumerators were seen travelling around with pmlq politicians in their corruption acquired new toyotas and hondas...!!
Jun27--cyclone yemyin and rains played havoc with balochistan as 32 fishermen and nine others were feared dead...the coastal highway has been washed away and several bridges between karachi and quetta and sibi were washed away...the floods in various seasonal rivers and hill torrents caused havoc in central balochistan and cutoff all coastal areas such as makran...
Jun26--Two power pylons blownup in mach, balochistan as karachis electricity woes continued as in some areas entire lines had been blown away..
Jun26--cyclone moving across pakistans coastline with possibility of landfall in balochistan...rains play havoc in balochistan where six people died and many boats capsized...
Jun26--a new plan to control talibanisation underway by appointing three regional coordinators for the tribal areas with the army threatening to bomb seminaries...many suggest that the hat or paghar cannot solve anything...
Jun26--Supreme court questions conviction of a civilian Imran Munir by the army and asks defence secretary to arrange meetings with counsel and family...!!
Jun26--in the the CJ case the SC was told that the CJ was threatened openly in the meeting with intelligence walas and musharaf..The judges were surprised at being informed that their residences were probably bugged...and the law used to send the CJ on leave was a law not in existence asit was issued under teh 1970 martial law...
Jun25--armed men took over the edhi center in karachi forcibly where many of the thunderstorms victims were stored...it is generally assumed that they were mqm ghundas...!!
Jun25--two pakistanis were shot dead in baltimore while three pakistan army jawans were kidnapped in the tribal areas...
Jun25--Dawn reports that teh ARD and MMA are so happy with military rule that they will not boycott elections under any circumstances...
Jun25--Nato which has taken to bombing any congregation of people in afghanistan and pakistans border areas crossed into pakistan and bombed a sarai or village hotel...killing over sixty...The explanation that anybody was firing at their planes flying over pakistan or preparing to attack a base seems a bit farfetched and concocted..
Jun25--the death toll in karachi rose to 228 from saturdays thunderstorm...The cause of the deaths and destruction was as varied as electrocution,, drownings, car accidents and falling walls, billboards, trees and houses...The MQM must be faulted for the dangerous billboards that they allow on city streets and obviously the lack of drainage...The KESC obviously already in deep trouble could not come up with solutions and there were reports of 30 hour electricity shutdowns in most of the city...The slowness of government reactions especially at the center where a lack of legitimacy/end of term has caused an almost stalling of governance...
Jun24--Khalid Khawaja a human rights campaigner against illegal detentions was released after being in jail for five months...he suggests that hundreds of people including armymen, clerics and scholars are missing under this harsh and cruel semi military regime which supposedly propagates moderation...The cruelty practiced on teh detainees is the worst ever in pakistans history...
Jun24--pakistan is almost turning into a palestinian refugee camp as the americans and afghans play israel and bomb our people...another ten people killed due to cross border bombardments from afghanistan with the pakistan army barely able to whine...a roadside bomb kills three paramilitary soldiers in mirali
Jun24--The lal masjid hafsa brigade released the nine chinese massage parlour workers as the government started to get upset...it is also revealed that chaudhry shujaat also visited such dubious massage parlours...MMA suggests that the lal masjid should ask police to perform such actions which is usually hesitant to take action......
Jun24--44 die in karachi rain and thunderstorms which showed the paucity of city services and lack of proper drainage......
Jun23--reports about khushab suggest that pakistan has one reprocessing plant and a working plutonium reactor there as well as two other plutonium reactors under construction...one expert suggested that it was nothing new and the pakistanis might be just overdoing it for having nothing better to do...There is obviously no point in targeting indian areas at greater distances...
Jun23--Shaukat aziz is unable to realize that his term is up and that he might be out of government by early July...chaudhry shujaat who has illegally obtained diplomatic passports for his children suggests that it might happen depending on the London APC...
Jun23--reports are circulating that musharaf is in need of new moderate partners...however his possible new partners had better realize that musharaf is about as moderate as a hyena...!!
Jun23--pakistans next mukhtaran mai...neelofer bakhtiyar bemoans her fate as she considers asylum from threats from party workers, extremists and intelligence walas...she is now in hiding as she prepares to launch a movement for womens rights...neelofer who apparently has foreign funding has been critisized for going on travel junkets at state expense rather than doing anything for tourism or womens rights...
Jun23--Iran now has over 100kg of enriched uranium from its 3000 centrifuges
Jun23--PMLq behaviour highlighted as ex minister handcuffed for involvement in suspiciou death of canadian girl friend...!!!
Jun23--musharaf bemoans lack of development due to extremists obstruction...extremists have never objected to development but in some areas they have opposed girsl schools , immoral behaviour and polio shots...
Jun23--The lal masjids hafsa brigade raided a chinese massage parlour and took five chinese workers hostage...
Jun23--While the pakistan army has sunk billions into the defence housing authority no taxes have ever been paid and politicians accuse senior military officers of serious monetary corruption and illegal occupation of lands...
Jun23--Four PIA pilots suffer heart attacks...almost 40% of PIA pilots said to have other ailments...
Jun23--Pakistan army and MMA frightened of talebans spreading control in most fata areas as well as outlying nwfp areas...pakistan army had been thrashed by taleban over an operation spread over two years until they accepted defeat and retreated to their forts with the tail between their legs...Their theories about training camps in madressas and uzbek militants has been literally mocked and destroyed...
Jun22--Liaqat Ali Jatoi accused of corruption in forcibly occupying over 7000 acres of land and misappropriating over 400000b ags of wheat...
Jun22--Pakistan has apparently received a few F-16's of the 31 that it ordered in 2005 but their seem tobe some complications as to associated weaponry..many suggest that such a small number of planes should have been delivered by now as the assumption is that they are upgraded or overhauled ones...so a spanner is in the wheel despite the war on terror...?
Jun22--Pakistan is expanding some nuclear activities such as building a new enriched uranium factory and setting up a third plutonium nuclear plant at khushab which has been interpreted as attempts at building a plutonium based nuclear arsenal...
Jun22--The defence has questioned how an emergency SJC was convened on the sane day that the reference was filed against teh CJ including the appointment of an acting CJ and suspension of the previous CJ and than sending him on forced leave... ..The SJC had not been convened despite there being 43 other cases...The government has admitted that they had the CJ under incarceration!
Jun22--a hand grenade was thrown at a tableeghi meeting in Bannu
Jun22--Shaukat Aziz finally moved closer to his day in court after having been able to avoid taking any responsibility for the fiascos during his rule...as the opposition filed a reference against him in the stock market crash and steel mills privatisation...mostly aimed at the PMLq avoiding total responsibility and not allowing shaukat aziz to flee the country in case the opposition wins the next election..
Jun21--power riots in various karachi areas
Jun21--religious sentiment over the knighthood to salman rushdie has inflamed passions in the ruling group with ijaz ul haq threatening a suicide bombing...extremist attitudes in the ruling PMLq and mqm are now almost quite well known...the references against imran khan are an example as well as the removal of nilofar bakhtiar who has asked the lal masjid maulvis to apologise for ruining her reputation......as for her hugging one wonders whether she has been hugging her PMLq father figures shujaat, musharaf and sheikh rashid too or was the frenchman the only one to benefit from her supposed hugging philosophy......?
The area bombed in north waziristans datakhel area seems to have been a recreation camp...There are obviously many seminaries in waziristan and one wonders whether the americans want to bomb them all...!!
Jun21--The pakistan armies intelligence wings seem tobe creating more tropuble than anybody else...In one case of missing persons Imran munir has been sentenced to eight years for spying because of a love affair with an ISI related woman...?
Jun21--why the MI and ISI donot seek the permission of courts for arrest and incarcerations is beyond understanding
Jun21--Most of the missing persons are baloch...one is munir mengal who was running a balochi channel/website from the middle east called baloch voice missing since his arrival on april 4, 2006...the torture inflicted on especially baloch missing is medieval and inhuman...examples include Dr. Allah nazar baloch, sattar baloch,Dr. haneef sharif,sher mohammed baloch, kazim bugti a nazim of dera bugti, rauf sasoli...etc..JWP reports that the MI has a Kuli camp in quetta and two internment camps in karachi...victims they say belong to the JWP, BSO, Bugti or marri areas..there have been over 400 complaints to the HRCP most of them baloch...upto now only ten baloch have been released.
Jun20--There seem tobe 20-37 million people missing from the electoral rolls and with no accessible process for checking the rolls by individuals the elections might be the worst farce ever...there seem tobe 82000 people missing from the lists in Thar and many suggest that an organized process to leave out political opponents might be the reason...
Jun20--musharaf's malicious comments on CJ's removal, the involvement of MI in the process, illegal suspension of the judge, and actions surrounding the removal and after show personal malice on part of the primeminister and musharaf and the SC urged to declare the reference and suspension malafide, dishonest and thus unlawful....
Jun20--In islamabad protests broke out among punjab policemen stationed there as a policeman died and policemen beatup officials filming their protest...
Jun20--22 die in waziristan as three house compound three miles from afghan border is blownup..possibility of missile attack by pakistan airforce or from across the border...lack of actual information shows that pakistan has unreliable intelligence in the tribal areas...possible targeting information exchanged during visit of american state deptt officials whose insistence on anti terror actions might have led army to stage another incident....every possible explanation included in press reports
Jun19--two policemen missing since Jun13 found dead in kalat having been shot dead at point blank range
Jun19--Condoleeza Rice who has avoided visiting pakistan expresses concern at the situation in pakistan and the way the military is moving towards an obviously rigged election process...many have critisized her inexperienced visiting deputies who have been seen as mere tourists afraid to even talk about realities...
Jun19--According to dawn information minister Mohammed ali durrani has been fired from the post of information minister and is being possibly replaced by Tariq Azeem...Durrani had been ineffective as instead of information he provided political wriggles instead...
Jun18--JSQM an anti punjab splinter group has called for a strike against the disappearance of its workers...it called the mqm an establishment group and opposed allocations for kalabagh and extensions in punjab canal...Their narrow vision anti punjabi/settler politics has been a failure upto now...
Jun18--two blasts in turbat
Jun18--armed men belonging apparently to the military intelligence have stormed the house of a CJ relative in quetta..
Jun17--There seem tobe huges errors in the electoral rolls which have not been displayed at public places
Jun17--relatives of the nishtar park bomber have been arrested unnecessarily including his mother and father...
Jun17--the major worrying point for the PPPP was not resolved in US negotiations with musharaf who refused to take of his uniform...The US however seemed to insist on him getting elected normally after the elections rather than abnormally and illegitimately..however teh US urged musharaf to keep his promises and become a civilian...which he is reluctant to do...
Jun16--In contrast to what happened in karachi on May12 when the provincial government refused to act against the killers of over 40 people the balochistan government has apparently beefed up security after the killing of 10 army soldiers apparently belonging to the punjab...he has also threatened a crackdown and picked up over 28 political opponents...despite the BLA taking credit for the attack...the governments obviously react very differently when soldiers are killed and when 40 ordinary folks are killed...
Jun16--The sindh government has identified mohd siddiq from mansehra as the suicide bomber of nishtar park which wiped out the leadership of the karachi based sunni tehreek...
Jun15--The power crisis seems to have been deliberately created by the low level of interest shown by the primeminister and others concerned in solving issues and problems related to power production...
Jun15--Ramday suggests that musharafs seizing political power was illegal as politics and governance is not the army chiefs domain as aitzaz suggests an institutional reaction to CJ's suspension and reference...
Jun15--Sermad mansoor a PPPP politician dies in jail after police and jail staff did not provide hospitalization...pervaiz elahi accused of callousness in ordering needless arrests and causing unnecessary suffering...
Jun15--punjabs pathetic government unable to plan spending of over Rs112 billion...!!
Jun15--seven armymen, a policeman and passerby killed in shooting in quetta...army which is involved deeply in terror incidents cannot control anything better than any civilian setup...
Jun14--syed wasif aziz a powerful opposition coalition student leader belonging to the JI was shot dead in karachi...sectarian and ethnic organizations possibly involved...
Jun14--Iqbal Kazmi being harassed by police in karachi..Mqm/PMLq must have been criminally involved in May12 for such actions..
Jun14--Imran khan has successfully made a case against the british citizen altaf hussain who is involved in 234 criminal cases ...The mqm refuses to accept that they were involved in hakim saids case and say that their workers who everybody believes were involved were let off by the courts...they say that nawaz sharif had suggested that it was a mistake to involve the mqm in the murder...?
Jun14--In the dummy parliament nobody seems interested in a useless debate on the budget as tehmina daultana called shaukat aziz a dummy primeminister and placed a poster of nawaz sharif on the primeministers chair...
Jun14--ex minister shahid jamil now also faces a murder probe after records revealed that he might have tried to transport the body towards lahore but eventually came back...
Jun14--Supreme Court calls up SJC records on the CJ case...
Jun14--US trying to end musharafs grip on power by supposedly ensuring free and fair pollls...
Jun14--Shortage of power reaches 2900MW which is 20% of requirements while power stations that can produce 2092MW lie closed due to various reasons...???
Jun13--mqm filed a reference against imran khan accusing him of extra marital relations thus ending any supposed liberal attitude or image...while imran khan has started the process in england of declaring altaf hussain the top pakistani terrorist while nawaz sharif said that he had ended his coalition in sindh with the mqm after receiving hard evidence about their involvement in the murder of hakim said...
Jun12--In rawalpindi-islamabad load shedding increased to four half hour durations per day...
Jun12--Just days after neelofer bakhtiar resigned for the second time another minister told to resign who apparently let a women friend staying with him die...foul play is not ruled out...
- Jun12--reports continue to surface that the PMLq might create trouble in faisalabad on the judges visit...
- Jun12--In what can only be seen as Ramday sliding out from an immediate decision...the SC decided to defer a decision on the maintainibility and hear the CJ's counsel on the main plea...the main argument is that the military and PMLq had a malicious intent in attacking the CJ who after refusing to accept musharafs orders to resign was embroiled in a SJC reference...whether musharaf's staff and military intelligence were involved in a deliberate campaign to malign the CJ remains tobe seen...the governments threats of further references against the CJ and other judges was countered by delaying the decision on the maintainibility even though it seems to show that the Ramday court has backed out...The other argument is that the SJC composition which should in theory be the four senior judges comprises now of judges that are government controlled or biased against the CJ...whether Aitezaz can convince the judges of musharaf's malafide nature in the process is the whole argument...
- Jun11--the levy of substantial taxes on incoming air passengers leaves many surprised...
- Jun11--Heat wave sizzles upto 51.6 degrees celsius with Dawn suggesting that just wapda is deficient in power capacity by 2500MW
- Jun11--at least two federal ministers at the federal level are said to run major construction companies which are said tobe inefficient and fraudulent...
- Jun11--a women friend dies in mysterious circumstance in minister of states house...
- Jun11--Budget largely irrelevant for teh common man says Dawn...jugglery of words and fudged figures says PMLn and Benazir calls it a major disappointment...
- Jun11--Salman Shah the useless economics advisor is still blaming the state sector after nearly the entire state sector has been privatized including portions of PIA and the power utility...The investments in the power sector will only increase after privatization which is reflective in the KESC situation...As for PIA.. airlines are profitable in very few cases and only cost cutting can reduce losses...PIA is obviously unable to fund huge plane purchases and can only do so at a small level...the obvious solution is to sell off PIA's remaining shares to one of teh arab airlines which survive/thrive on lower fuel costs...The government has been investing huge amounts in the private sector such as textiles for over forty years...Using state resources for public good in whatever domain is the function of governance...
- Jun11--In what is being termed as distasteful and childish the dumb looking law minister announced that they had prepared another reference based on the afidavits of the security agencies which shows that the afidavits information was clearly a further attempt at keeping the pressure of victmisation on the judiciary and the CJP...obviously the seeming loss of the first reference on moral grounds seems tobe a reason for the second...the maliciousness of the government is also quite apparent...
- Jun10--In what seems tobe a shamefaced apology from the speaker for his recent actions he allowed opposition figures to speak beore the budget who called the military regime murderous in intent and purpose as no inquiry has been ordered yet into the 40 deaths in karachi mainly blamed on the PMLq's mqm allies and teh security agencies...After a noisy duel the opposition boycotted teh budget session...In another step musharaf shamefacedly withdrew the new Pemra ordinance that he had issued just recently...he now suppsoedly is for a free press and only against those that speak the truth or are against him...
- jun10--In what can be said tobe the third murderous incident related to the musharaf regimes recent activities a family were brutally murdered in rawalpindi...the cruelty and the parent having undergone interrogations for 25 days in a murder attempt on musharaf create the negative scenario for the brutal regime...
- The budget after overall considerations barring some paltry salary raises has little or no real impact on price reductions...the Rs1.025 trillion taxes and Rs398 billion deficit is going to come out of the pockets of the unwary public and will unwittingly cause further higher prices...Despite the available huge resources there was no need for deficit financing or foreign loans...$10billion of reserves could easily be used to payoff loans and reduce interest payments...there has been no reduction in taxes for any group of people barring the dictatorship supporting cable industry...there is a an overall increase of Rs35 billion in taxes with the government mainly depending on foreign loans, domestic borrowing and economic expansion for the rest...The only federal investment in the punjab seems tobe the thal canal which should have been completed in 2006...Otherwise there seems tobe little or nothing new in the budget
- jun9--In karachi a lawyer who had filed a case against the mqm was abducted and released showing that the mqm had not given up its tradition of not tolerating opposition and violence
- Jun9--Ramday suggested that the court could refuse to hear the case if government lawyers did not stop shouting and protesting...and that they might not hear the rest of the government team and give a snap judgement...Shaukat Aziz has refused to resign whatever the judgement...
- Jun9--The Budget survey suggests a huge trade deficit anywhere from $6-11 billion..exports have slowed down..food inflation upto 10% which belies the bumper agri production...government this year to have an almost Rs400billion deficit which is almost 40% of resources...It seems that budgets have not changed with this government also playing catchup...with power shortages expected to increase as well as prices the peopel are in for a harder ride...there is no change in foreign debt up at $38.86 billion
- Jun8--in what is being described as the worst example of anti media behaviour ever the journalists were barred from the national assembly...
- Jun8--musharaf and shaukat aziz both unpopular amongst teh PMLq and its allies...
- Jun8--On the kashmir front pakistan is being subjugated into nothingness with more interaction and nothing else..The AJK puppet primeminister suggested that student exchanges and jobs in AJK for occupied youth and the possible supply of gas and electricity to occupied kashmir..
- Jun8--In what seems tobe a comedy of victimisation the countries spy chiefs have attempted to dig up as much dirt on the CJP as possible which was described by aitzaz ahsan as absurd, fictitious and a figment of their imagination...They accuse the CJP of keeping tabs on judges and refusing government advice on judicial appointments as well as suggesting that new elections be held under him supposedly kicking musharaf out...That might be one of the reasons for the governments attempt to remove teh CJP..!
- Jun8--In what can only be said tobe the ugliness of the pakistan army the rejoinders from the MI, IB and COS are literally dung heaps thrown at the CJP...while not focusing on the issue of the pakistan army and musharaf's maliciousness they detail about twelve points of ordinary accusations such as fake petrol receipts, illegal air tickets for the judges family,one extra plot allotment(musharaf has had over 10 plots allotted) dealing with high court judges in a bad manner, musharaf and shaukat aziz's assistance in getting his son a medical college seat and that the judges sons mobile phone was not cutoff in the four day incarceration...and apparently they also suggest that they were very friendly and asked him very nicely to resign... the judge, musharaf and the MI chief...so if the judge is guilty so are these army officers by association...and apparently the constantly angry musharaf did not even get upset at the CJP's refusal...deciding instead to goto friday prayers and run off to karachi !!!
- Jun7--the government is arguing that making judges resign is a very ordinary thing...with the court case almost becoming a laughing stock of inanities with ramday suggesting that the chief justice take the case to the national assembly for giving him the right to appeal an almost forgone conclusion against him in the SJC...sharifuddin pirzada suggested that he was actually a lawyer for human,fundamental and constitutional rights before becoming a supporter of martial laws...his suggestion that the 70 year old quaid e azam could have stopped martial laws is difficult with people like him and others becoming willing pawns for martial laws and coup plotters...
- Jun7--ex sindh minister samiullah marwat kidnapped in lakki marwat...
- Jun7--In what can be termed a slap in the face for musharaf... shaukat aziz decided to review the amended pemra ordnance...
- Jun7--after demos broke out in the press gallery the speaker had the national assembly galleries cleared of all journalists...as opposition members applauded from the floor
- Jun6--massive arrests of opposition figures in punjab apparently to satisfy corp commanders...
- Jun6--privatized KESC seems to have suffered rather than improved...with 3-6 hours of load sheddings in differnt karachi areas riots broke out in several places...KESC apparently has a chronic problem in one of its 210 mW units which is causing the power gap to go up to over 400MW...KESC should focus on increasing generation capacity and power station maintenance rather than wasting funds on other areas...
- Jun6--senior shiite provincial government official shot dead in peshawar...
- Jun6--a gas pipeline was blownup in pirkoh and a petrol tanker set on fire near chaman
- Jun6--The military which had upto now subdued the media and judiciary maybe in for a hard landing as the media too are going to court against the pemra ordinance and other cases are coming up against the corp commanders and pemra MD...the judiciary still seems tobe controlled and wishy washy the way ramday is pleading with sharifuddin pirzada...many are suggesting that people like ramday and pirzada never grew up...as the quaid e azam could not have lived very long anyway...when such people as sharifuddin pirzada spent their entire lives sponsoring one military regime after another how they can be trusted by the judiciary is difficult to fathom...
- Jun5--a crackdown on opposition parties has begun in the punjab with no apparent reasons or rationale...
- Jun5--two video shops bombed in kohat
- Jun5--Despite failing with his constant strategy of attacking militants/taleban with full force all over teh country musharaf still innsists on muilitary measures rather than policy changes...taleban are literally taking over all tribal areas and even in islamabad mullahs insist on the same powers as clergy have in saudi arabia where they can close shops during prayer times and check immoral activities and force people to pray and lead a decent life...
- Jun5--militants impose night curfew in darra adamkhel
- Jun5--Supreme Court told by petitioners to quash government reference against CJ as it was not a matter of lawyers agitation but of fundamental rights and presidential malice...
- Jun5--a jirga shot dead two men and a women on accusations of illicit activities in bara tehsil...!!
- Jun5--Supreme Court rejects government complaints of contempt and defamation of judiciary and military...
- Jun5--in what cfan only be described as draconian measures the military issued a revised PEMRA ordinace authorizing Pemra to seize equipment and seal media premises...journalists immediately took to the streets and protested outside the PM secretariat
- Jun4--two judges opt out of military defamation trial...the pakistan army when it is directly involved in politics and armed activities against the people as well as keeping people in detention without trial and many other heinous activities must realize that it is responsible to the people and judiciary and must bear the brunt not only of criticism but also be accountable...
- Jun4--elections likely on Jan15 under interim setup...
- Jun4--The PMLn suggests that the military-pml regime has wasted over $63 billion since 9/11 on activities that are not very visible or constructive...
- Jun4--military regime blocks transmission of aajtv and geonews and tries to suppress other TV channels...while news of threats to journalists from intelligence walas and mqm continue to pour in...
- Jun3--a final verdict on bob woolmers death to suggest that he died of natural causes which in itself seems strange...!
- Jun3--Imam kaaba has started to interfere in pakistani politics giving the impression that he has been brought to plug the government position on the lal masjid fiasco..
- Jun3--talal bugti says MI has kidnapped his son in karachi
- Jun3--the military regime has literally closed down the transmission of many pakistani sattelite channels and openly banned vilification of the army or presenting any program on the CJ debate...
- Jun3--Five including a tribal chief, tehsildar and journalist killed as vehicle hits roadside bomb in darra khawar
- Jun3--politicians have critisized the corp commanders statement supporting a drowning regime...the generals apparently threatened the lawyers and media while others suggested that after failing with the mqm card the corp commanders card is literally flailing in the wind...
- Jun2--rocket fired at FC fort in naushki
- Jun2--Sheikh rashid a maverick that plays all sides suggests that musharaf will be relected illegitimately and that benazir will come back after settling details to a by election as well as nawaz sharif although no shahbaz sharif...
- Jun2--current events that showed the military regimes insensitivity and incapability to handle even minor events were unable to move the armies corp commanders and they apparently according to news items continued their ostrich like attitude in reitrating continuation of military controls...
- jun2--apparently mansoor dadullah a fiery orator is now the new taliban military commander
- Jun2--Justice Ramday apparently frightened of the military executive seems tobe urging an appellate tribunal against an SHC decision rather than giving total relief to the Chief Justice in the apparently malicious moves by musharaf against the judiciary...
- Jun1--after imran khan said he would start court proceedings in the UK against altaf husseins terrorism... sarfraz nawaz apparently a government agent said he had a long meeting with the mqm in london and gave them evidence against imran khan...
- Jun1--a railway bridge was blownup near quetta...this was the third such incident in four days
- Jun1--Ayesha siddiqa 's book Military Inc that looks into the pakistan miitaries spreading economic empire was launched after teh government cancelled its launching at the islamabad club and other major hotels...she calculates that the military is sitting on about Rs200 billion worth of property and industries and uses it to control pakistans politics
- Jun1--In a horrific attack in the troubled tank region apparently pro taliban militants attacked the khyber political agents house with rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades and assault rifles killing 13 inmates...