Jun2008.html

Jun30-2008--It seems that the militants in swat are unable to deliver on their agreement with the nwfp government...there can be no one sided agreement...swat militants suspend agreement as militants killed two security personnel in the ronyal area...an explosion damaged at least 25 shops in mingora as at least two other bombs were defused...
Jun30-2008--government raises oil prices and alleges that it is still subsidising oil...?one minister said that price hikes were universal...however no where in the world have there been over 20% essential commodity price hikes week after week...government trying to justify price hikes by suggesting that there are too many subsidies...if there were subsidies than there would be no price hikes...government trying to play with political problems which donot offset the negative effects of its economic attitudes...
Jun30-2008--650 kgs explosives seized in quetta as gas pipeline is blownup near sui town
Jun30-2008--FC/army/airforce continues demolition of LI leaders homes and a center of the AI...meanwhile both groups apparently continued their fight in the tirah valley..intelligently the TI militants have moved out of the bara tehsil area and government thinks that its writ has been established...militants say that opposing groups and government supporters are criminal...usually the militants move back whenever teh security forces withdraw which has caused much of teh problems...the issue started when the government made an agreement with one militant leader and killed him the next day...militants too think that an agreement means that they can continue operations against their area or tribal opponents...tirah, swat, peshawar other areas maybe next...military has not been able to completely subdue the militants...as they go they remerge stronger and more confidant...normalcy they say is returning to bara with shops opening...
Jun30-2008--pakistan ambassador to the USA heckled and forced to leave by JI dominated pakistani physians meeting in washington
Jun30-2008--Amin fahim confirms that he is a PPP dissident as he suggests that those in government are the new PPP leaders and teh old ones like him are not worth considering....The PPP regime seems unable to realize the problems that it is causing teh people while only being willing to help out the well off agricultural community...despite the extreme price hikes they have caused qaim ali shah still says the previous regime did nothing to alleviate poverty
Jun30-2008--uch power plant gas pipline damaged
Jun30-2008--PPP regime raises petrol prices to 75
Jun29-2008--Shoaib suddle removed as IG sindh and made DG intelligence bureau...he is known as having smothered the MQM insurgency in which altaf hussain and his men took control of karachi and setup nogo areas and literally reduced karachi to a cesspool of violence...in the end the nogo areas were cleared and altaf and his top villains escaped from the counry and setup office in london from where they continued ordering violence and eliminating individuals...over time most of mqm's violent men were eliminated and altaf was replaced by an mqm coordination committee...during benazirs first period of government when suddle was a DIG police surrounded murtaza bhutto and his top supporters returning from a rally and literally gunned them down...suddle sitting in his clifton garden did not even move to check what was happening outside giving raise to suggestions that the police did it on his orders...
Jun29-2008--after militants in teh tribal areas refused to end violent activities the army has started an operation against violent groups in bara...tension had been raised as militants started raiding peshawar with police a mere onlooker..most actions against the mangal bagh run LI another FM radio operator who turned his followers into an armed band who initially took pro government actions...
Jun29-2008-- NAB orders release of asif zardaris accounts and properties...
Jun29-2008--army starts patrolling peshawar as next war between baitullah and teh pakistani government might be underway as baitullah threatens sindh and punjab...government will have to go after the mehsuds hideouts if things go awry...
Jun28-2008--pakistan and india talk at cross purposes but still decide to talk on...indian spokesman avoids mentioning all real problems...pakistani spokesman says only positive is that ceasefire holds relatively and agreement on gas pipeline transit fee...with pakistan assuring security for the 2500 kilometer pipeline india was not offering a reasonable amount and indications are that pakistan will have backed down on the fee matter as well given the PPP governments nature......
Jun28-2008--Yusuf raza gilani the stand in primeminister of the PPP shows sham toughness and assures he will rebuild all girls schools in the tribal areas and swat...
Jun28-2008--ISAF, pakistan and afghanistan reactivate tripartite commission as joint intelligence operations fail to serve purpose...If US argues self defence than pakistan which has been cowering behind statements could also use self defence..tariq majeed says that US agrees that only pakistan should act in tribal areas...many suggest that troubled afghan provinces should be taken over by pakistan...
Jun28-2008--in bajaur taleban executed two afghans in a brutal manner and ran around with the severed heads shouting and firing in teh air and killing two of their own.
Jun28-2008--Not many amongst the public are worried about pakistans inept judges ie whether they get reinstated or not given teh price hikes, electricity shutdowns and further problems down the line as inflation for the last week shotup to 26......PPP government borrowing shotup to 355billion higher then the earlier 295 billion borrowed by the pMlq government..
Jun28-2008--lahore protests nawaz sharifs disqualification with a black day
Jun28-2008--Balochistans chief minister says they have traced 43 missing people
Jun28-2008--lawyers movement may go violent says aitezaz ahsan as constitutional amendment on judges seems impossible..
Jun28-2008--People in Dina home to the mangla dam protest electricity shutdowns...
Jun28-2008--Gwadar port will be a white elephant until peace is restored in afghanistan as in the last eighteen months only one ship chartered by the state arrived...
Jun28-2008--pakistani rupee jumps back to 68 to the dollar
Jun28-2008--Kiyani urges musharaf to vacate army house as he impatiently explains strategy in the troubled fata region...many suggest that musharafs exile being arranged...governments only options are to create its own brutal militia's...
Jun28-2008--two more schools burnt in swat
Jun28-2008--The dailytimes suggests that the rich and affluent face lesser load shedding than ordinary souls who cannot afford the UPS or the generator...
Jun28-2008--more paramilitaries and commandos to guard peshawar against threats from khyber agency taleban as taleban vow revenge if harmed...there have always been pickets and checposts outside peshawar
Jun27-2008--three more by elections delayed as PPP suffers embarassing defeats in punjab assembly elections...losing also in batgram...gaining a seat in balochistan and doing well in upper dir...however a low turnout seemed to favour independents with teh PMln doing well...PPP lost the three seats that it contested agaionst the PMln and ANP...Haroon Bukhari of teh PMLq won as an independent in muzaffargarh...shah mahmood qureshi relative thrashed in khanewal...yusuf raza, mehtab abbassi and zulfikar magsi sons win in rahimyar khan,abottabad and jhal magsi...general impression being formed is that PPP's price hike governance not too attractive to punjabis...PPP forgets that there are a lot more poor people than farmers...
Jun27-2008--malam jabba resort hotel burnt as militants kill three prominent PPP supporters amongst seven others and torch a police station and girls school in swat......
Jun27-2008--militants-nwfp government accord stays as militants blame government for sabotaging teh agreement while conveniently forgetting their own violent actions...
Jun27-2008--PPP's khurshid shah loses religious ministry as yusuf raza hands it over to his advisor...
Jun26-2008--Dr Qadeer Khan the dissident nuclear scientist claims that musharaf working on a US agenda to break pakistan by 2015...others say that everybody had their speeches for creating a new pakistan ready after benazirs assassination with the PMlq going to the extent of setting up relief camps for punjabis fleeing from sindh...
Jun26-2008--The News reports that PPP working on bringing in new ministers by early july with the possibility of mqm joining in...ministries run by advisors not too great an idea...
Jun26-2008--in what seems a clearly orchestrated show rehman malik was stripped of his interior ministry powers to control militancy in nwfp...a clearly jaded and out of touch yusuf raza accepted a junior subdued role of surprised onlooker and shifted the onus to the PMLq governor of nwfp as coordinator and teh army chief for action and teh quantum of force needed...the army chief also could call on police, levies and FC if needed...The tribal areas are seeing a minor upsurge in violence with sectarianism in kurram and an occupation of jandola by baitullah seeking to control criminals/ killing of 22 bhittani tribesmen...and activism by the AI/LI...relatively waziristan and swat have been calmer and other areas of nwfp have also been somwhat peaceful barring taleban threats etc..baitullah has also agreed not to attack the army however he aims to occupy other areas controlled by other tribes......PPP government claiming that kidnapping of christians from a hospital in peshawar has caused the muslim government embarassment....the pakistan government never worries about the kidnapping and killing of muslims...so the direction from where the orchestration of this regime comes is seemingly apparent...In exchange NATO agrees not to carry out any hot pursuit or killing of pakistani forces...
Jun26-2008--SC backs out and urgently cancels polling in NA-123 from where nawaz was contesting until it settles question of his disqualification...
Jun26-2008--turning girsl shools in the tribal areas into jamia hafsa's might be one solution as announced by taleban in pusht a town in bajaur...
Jun26-2008--delivery of refurbished old F-16's continues at teh slowest possible pace...pakistan has now received ten of the twelve ordered...
Jun26-2008--a soldier killed and ten girls schools burnt by militants in swat as nwfp government meets taleban for talks...taleban have tobe told that no militancy or attacks on police, people and armed forces are acceptable whatever their powers and strengths...
Jun26-2008--truckers in karachi warned by taleban if they work for Nato
Jun26-2008--PPP again wants cheaper tractors imported for the rich agricultural farmers...even the poor agriculturist usually has a tractor...hav'nt seen peopel using the ox for cultivation anywhere in pakistan
Jun26-2008--hefty increase in CNG prices by the current PPP regime...
Jun25-2008--In swat militants and soldiers clashed killing one soldier and nine militants...
Jun25-2008--The government should not try any harsh tactics except in areas where there is real trouble...eg..the government should avoid using helicopter gunships in places like peshawar...areas like landikotal, darra adamkhel should be freed from the AI and LI clutches...obviously the situation though uncertain is much calmer than in the militaries days and going haywire and starting uncertain operations without scope and objectives is not advisable..The primeminister too should take an interest and participate in difficult handling areas/subjects rather than only assigning them to the advisor on interior...yusuf raza seems tobe only looking at easy soft tasks rather than any difficult ones...running from trouble seems tobe yusuf raza's forte...government should also advise its militias to avoid conflict...the government apparently runs some trouble making militias in the tribal areas that it uses to enforce its form of justice
Jun25-2008-- The PPP which not a few months ago was getting elected on pleas off being against price hikes threatening to further raise prices on petrol, wheat, electricity and gas...the defence minister had better realize that there will not be many supporters on teh street when the military goes for its next action against the PPP and with a Rs1.25 trillion budget(a 25% increase in revenues) how much more money do they need for subsidies...people not interested in any other aspect of the PPP economics...?
Jun25-2008--army moves hardware into jandola as baitullah men withdraw
Jun25-2008--The Yusuf Raza government decides to take the LHC rejection of Nawaz Sharifs eligibility to the SC despite Nawaz Sharifs reluctance..Government bent on proving that the Dogar (who is from khairpur) led SC is better..judges should realize that Nawaz sharif was the primeminister and that ordering a plane to land at nawabshah cannot be termed a hijacking and the ATC court decision was as malafide as the present decision of the LHC..keeping important people out of parliament deliberately can literally be termed treason...one would even suggest that people like baitullah mehsud should be given an honorary parliamentary seat since they continue to thrash the administration and tribals...many suggest that the rejection of nawaz sharif might stem from his non cooperation with the present regime...The judges apparently said that he has been disqualified for not producing a presidential order of pardon, earlier conviction and scandalizing teh judiciary..the judiciary is at the center of a controversy and talking about it is normal...
Jun25-2008--AQ Khan says he will take action against musharaf for ordering his detention after he was issued a special list of people he could meet...The PPP regime has also fallen under american/indian subjugation on the subject and is continuing musharafs negative activities......no legal order detaining AQ Khan has been issued...
Jun25-2008--an islamic teacher killed in jamrud
Jun25-2008--Yusuf Raza apparently lacks religious knowledge despite being a pir..appoints a shiite as a religious advisor...most of yusuf raza's advisors from the south of punjab...
Jun25-2008--PPP and PMLn negotiations mostly about getting each other elected unopposed...
Jun25-2008--SSP starts activities again under a new name...now they want a holiday on abu bakrs day of shahadat...are they sunnis or shiite..?
Jun25-2008--india starts moving border fence towards pakistan in OC as pakistan becomes literally subjugated to negative indian movements...
Jun25-2008--A former LHC judge released after 22 years who was kept in illegal detention on the orders of ziaulhaq's wife..?
Jun25-2008--The most dysfunctional state indexe has pakistan at number 9...?
Jun25-2008--eight dead bodies found in aurakzai agency...
Jun25-2008--Fazlur rehman says nwfp will be seperated from pakistan in a matter of months...
Jun24-2008--two killed in attack on FWO camp in chethar, nasirabad
Jun24-2008--Taleban occupy jandola and surrounding areas...
Jun24-2008--LHC disqualifies nawaz sharif and refers shabaz sharif case to election tribunal as sharifs refuse to be present or argue their case before PCO judges... earlier two judges had stepped down from hearing the case after they were found associated with teh PMlq......shahbaz sharif too could be shown the door as influence of dubious courts, musharaf/ ISI/PMLq influence and a PPP regime increasingly distancing itself from what it stands for starts being felt...sharifs could be headed out of politics...?
Jun23-2008--Wahdat colony has the lowest divorce rate in lahore..
Jun23-2008--bomb blast at cinema in mardan as taleban in mohmand issue burqa warning...
Jun23-2008--pakistan denies firing missiles into khost,paktia and kunar although pakistan fired at militants fighting afghans inside afghanistan..?
Jun23-2008-- Saudis unclear how to contain oil prices...prices have increased as demand has risen to 85.8 million barrels fueled by economic booms in developing countries...oil prices were considered very low compared to need , utility and demand...when oil becomes really expensive or nearer real value ie about $170 prices will steady...demand continues to surge as importing countries try to contain imports and impose taxes on domestic consumption...saudis should allow oil prices to float to whatever highs that they stablize at...
Jun23-2008--Asif Zardari to bring in a sindhi as president...many hope his choice is better than yusuf and taseer...earlier the PPP had proposed amin fahim as president but he had refused the offer...no known sindhi rich man supports the PPP barring landlords...
Jun23-2008--AI and LI groups clash in tirah killing upto fifteen as khasadars kidnapped in jamrud
Jun23-2008--unpopular budget passes with only PMlq abstaining from the 29 judge clause which the PMln said is not meant to carryalong the PCO judges ...while the PPP said that in that case iftikhar chaudhry would not be reinstated as well...
Jun22-2008--two cd shops blownup in kohat as battagram DCO asks ngo's to pullout women staffers due to taleban threat...PPP implementing a price hike as well as 80 billion in new taxes and an overall tax increase of Rs255 billion which will further boost the price hike...
Jun23-2008--The only way inflation can be contained is reducing taxation, high electricity and petroleum prices...utility stores can easily reduce prices by 10%
Jun23-2008--
Jun22-2008--PPP workers remember Benazirs birthday and donate blood but make the poor go hungry...asif zardari says that conspirators busy destabilizing his government ...many suggest that budget and deliberate price hikes by PPP government cause for apathy towards present government...many also see the contrived unopposed election results as a denigration of democracy by the two major parties...
Jun22-2008--balochistan budget shows a paltry insufficient Rs15 .74 billion for development of which Rs.9 billion is unfunded...federal government should give balochistan an additional 20-30 billion in grants annually for the next five years...balochistan depending on federal projects such as four dams..subakzai, bolan, shadi kaur and nawa batozai as well as kacchi canal(previous government said it would be completed by 2006), pat feeder and kirthar canal extensions and rebuilding of nari canal...
Jun22-2008--PPP to commute death sentences...
Jun22-2008--Mir waiz suggests that talks on kashmir should start in srinagar to give kashmiris a vision of some hope...
Jun21-2008--PMLn seems now to support a 29 judge SC having been yorked into doing so by the zardari persistence...
Jun21-2008--The PPP on the other hand saw PMLn support surge to 42% from 25% at the time of elections in polls conducted by dubious US organisations...and Nawaz Sharif has politicked himself to a 86% approval rating to zardaris 13%...The PPP government has suffered heavily due to load shedding and the rising prices of food, electricity and fuel...The PPP government which had the highest support amongst teh poor came out and knocked them out with huge increases in prices of roti, cooking oil and petroleum products...surpisingly teh PPP started supporting the affluent and oppressive community of farmers rather than ordinary people with punjab literally doling out a lakh per farmer directly...The government is also seen as almost as distant from the people as the PMLq with little or no sympathy for the peopel who suffer...
Jun21-2008--A UAE based group abraaj to take over KESC from saudi based al jomaih
Jun21-2008--US and israel prepare to attack iran say newspaper reports...
Jun21-2008--clashes continue in kurram agency with attacks on a military picket
Jun21-2008--Pakistan government saysnuclear warhead designs not exported by AQ khan who says that the designs only available to KRL...americans say that pakistans nuclear warhead design were on the computers of Urs Tinner which were destroyed by the swiss government..it now seems certain that urs tinner the man who provided nuclear detail to various countries...european countries helped fledgling countries develop nuclear knowledge as they were restricted by teh USA from developing their own nuclear weapons...
Jun21-2008--The PPP government which is literally making benazir turn in her grave as it tries to fool the masses and turn the poor into poor and hungry...facially teh PPP still adheres to its former leaders popular image and has renamed the rawalpindi airport, murree road and rawalpindi general hospital after benazir...
Jun21-2008--a paramilitary dies in landmine explosion near the kachi canal and two jamalis killed in quetta...
Jun20-2008--Things go haywire in kurram agencies sadda area...a 24 vehicle food convoy attempting to break a seven month blockade of upper kurram was attacked by militants killing four drivers and burning four vehicles...as villagers started looting food in what maybe an unwise action military helicopter gunships started to target the looters.. killing five militants and injuring women and children..
Jun20-2008--Rehman malik who seemingly opposed a deal with militants allows nwfp to strike a deal for peace...upto now most peace deals have caused renewed violence...militants should give up violence as no one is opposed to islam or development...islam opposes mischief makers and there is no provision in islam to attack ones own government apart from the governmental process
Jun20-2008--unknown miscreants fire on army patrol along teh LOC killing four soldiers...activity has been reported on teh indian side of teh LOC and one can hardly imagine a pakistani group firing on teh army...many reports say the indians have been infiltrating saboteurs thru the LOC
Jun20-2008--rawalpindi-islamabad bomb blasts coordinator intikhab abbasi arrested say newspaper reports...
Jun20-2008--Naveed Qamar insists on raising prices and subsidizing teh rich and inefficient agricultural community...the agricultural community has been pampered, subsidized and doled money since teh sixties but have never shown the desired output...atta has gone from paisa Rs0.50 a kilo to Rs20 with naveed qamar wanting to push it further to Rs30 but still the same wrong policies are being pursued...many agree with faisal saleh who describes teh PPP government as inept and unable to agree even on a structure of governance...healing wounds is all very well but the basic bread and butter issues need resolution before people can sit and enjoy...it is not teh farmers that are dying of hunger and poverty anywhere in teh country...
Jun20-2008--With cooking oil at Rs150 kg the oilseed growers want to double prices for canola, cottonseed and sunflower share...the country has to realize that international prices and pakistani prices cannot be the same...salaries in pakistan are a tenth of those in the international market...
Jun20-2008--Sindh grows 3.4 million tonnes of wheat showing that water shortage stories are a hoax
Jun20-2008--The PMln indicates that they will resign from the punjab government if teh LHC disqualifies their leaders...The courts especially teh high courts are barely considered independent and many regard them as being under teh control of teh governors and chief ministers while some say that they are controlled by governments at the center...
Jun20-2008--The Rs1000 benazir scheme for helping the poor regarded as little more than a joke as government issues three Benazir postage stamps
Jun19-2008--PMLn and PPP continue to differ on issues that are not related to the people ie judges and musharaf and show little interest in handling issues such as deliberate price hikes...the PPP finance minister is busy helping rich farmers and literally pulling the roti from the poor peoples mouths...the methods adopted by naveed qamar are to create more problems for the people and than offering them a bite of roti...the people continue to suffer from load shedding and higher and higher prices...domestic sufferers of load shedding can easily be assisted...now according to World Bank dictates they are threatening to increase atta prices to Rs40-50 per kg...teh PPP regime should realize that a time might come when militants will go after agricultural farmers rather than the police and army...since the economic oppressors are agricultural farmers and the economics team of the PPP
Jun19-2008--the perception that the US deliberately killed mohmand rifles soldiers at a border checpost is quite strong in pakistan and the words that it was unprovoked and cowardly come directly from army chief pervez kiani...pakistan needs to end its dependence on teh USA if it wants any sort of sovreign status...what is the need of F-16's if they are not going tobe used for kashmir or to protect our soldiers on the borders...pakistan apparently won four F-16's in exchange for the death of 11 soldiers...!!
Jun19-2008--PAF squadron leader kidnapped in hyderabad
Jun19-2008--police picket in dera murad jamali attacked by armed men
Jun19-2008--three killed in tribal warfare in kurram agency
Jun18-2008--Yusuf Raza Gilani who seems to have a huge contingency fund sanctions judges salaries and in effective makes them functional judges and rich with a seven month paycheck...and doles out another Rs3 billion to balochistan...
Jun18-2008--In another stunt the government issued a nineteen line defence budget without explaining what assets are...it would not have been too difficult to explain what assets would be acquired for the example the navy could be say paying for chinese frigates or some missile boat...another item that shows the excessively high military salaries is teh Rs.99 billion expenditure on employees...military spending Rs.25 billion on civil works also seems excessive as the military would need a massive civil works program to spend that much...obviously the budget figures seem meant only as a palliative rather than an object for discussion...the only discussion stop wasting funds on teh armed forces from a government member and opposition cries against it...obviously a huge shift in mentality and intellect is needed for a real defence budget discussion...
Jun18-2008--swat taleban say government not releasing their captured militants...obviously militants in swat cannot afford to end the pact as they were literally on the verge of extinction when the ANP gave them a lifeline...
Jun18-2008--AQ Khan denies selling any nuclear warhead designs...obviously the head of of the pakistan nuclear laboratory could have designs of a missile and warheads on his computer...
Jun18-2008--Like the present budget the next NFC award may also be sindh oriented according to qaim ali shah... he also seems tobe suggesting that their coal power plants maybe ready in three to four years which seems over ambitious...the 7000 to 8000 mW will be needed inside teh country if any realistic industrial expansion and improvement in peoples lifestyles takes place...if electricity price is no objective than let sindh pay Rs10 per unit and punjab Rs.4...Punjab at least should be gauranteed gas and electricity supplies in the new NFC...
Jun18-2008--musharaf's portarit which was hung by pervaiz elahi next to that of the quaid e azam removed from governor house...
Jun18-2008--Zardari says he will decide when judges are reinstated..maybe he should also pay more attention to other issues that are being mishandled including the economy..
Jun18-2008--Yusuf Raza says military, judiciary and punjab chief minister should work within the limits of the constitution
Jun18-2008--swat police let a suicide bomber go...?
Jun18-2008--four shiites gunned down in attack on money exchangers van in Hangu
Jun18-2008--balochistan demands of Rs800 billion for gas supplies since 1955 unsupportable...gas and oil supplies are available all over teh world and nobody blackmails other areas because of them...government should clearly explain that royalties and surcharges have limits...however government can turn over control of provincial energy resources and even electricity power plants to the provinces...punjab will have to start its own power production programs as other provinces only aiming to create problems in the gas and electricity supply arena..
Jun18-2008--government can easily reduce prices and become conscious of the peoples problems by ending sales tax or reducing it to 5%...sales tax of 5% can be applied to agricultural products
Jun18-2008--government should drop the idea of raising import duties on powdered milk...
Jun17-2008--The budgets have so little people impact that nobody really is showing any interest...the pro price hike budget at teh center.. teh gimmicky budget in punjab, sindh still spending billions in karachi..in nwfp educations now free upto F.Sc....tanvir ashraf kaira looked smart but not his budget...
Jun17-2008--asif zardari gets a lacklustre official welcome in lahore and ridicules the lawyers long march...says somebody as controversial as salman taseer the musharaf man in teh governor house might soon be shifted to the president house and soon jiyalas will dance in the president house too...jiyalas already have long faces and are not too evident these days...his interior advisor has said that there is no way to remove musharaf while zardari says that he will convince musharaf to step down...?
Jun17-2008--In what many say is defence ministry territory rehman malik says that the eastern borders tobe monitored by sattelite...as pakistan continues to ridicule karzai on his threat to invade the tribal areas...many say pakistan should shoot down a few predators the next time they near the pakistan border...indians never could practice hot pursuit in kashmir and the afghans had better not repeat the mohmand incident...
Jun17-2008--Qari saifullah akhter blamed by benazir as the man who planned the karsaz bombing released by sindh police..
Jun17-2008--bomb lobbed into apparent shiite mosque kills four in DI khan
Jun17-2008--new rumours being spread by the USA about qadeer khan after reportedly having dismantled the nuclear supply racket run mostly by european companies...rumours about some sort of sophisticated warhead that could fit into a north korean missile literally concocted after the USA realized that pakistan had outfitted korean missiles with nuclear warheads...
Jun16-2008--In what is being seen as a US sponsored move hanid karzai threatens to hit militants in pakistan...The US is already targetting militants with predators..and recently one militant said they would retaliate inside afghanistan...outcome of recent US strike on a military checkpost in mohmand...
Jun16-2008--Yusuf Raza Gilani will have to show resolve and attack and shoot down a couple of US predators...what use is the new saab aerial radar system when an unarmed predator can not be shot down...others say that pakistan should invade and capture jalalabad...
Jun16-2008--five killed in two explosions in parachinar area
Jun16-2008--PIA raises fares by Rs600 per trip and Rs1000 for return tickets
Jun16-2008--four including three policemen killed in gujerat as kaira cousins one of whom is a tehseel nazim try to takeover a building...
Jun15-2008--The lawyers long march while generally successful was aimless as government already supported reinstatement despite reservations over teh judges pro coup/martial law behaviours and contacts with military intelligence and interior ministries...the demo although peaceful with known government collaboration ended early as most leaders did not want a confrontation with teh government and did not want to stage a sitin...The government side issued conflicting movement ridiculing statements at the end as a general lack of support for lawyers emerged in teh PPP...many say that most of the PCO judges donot have any merit...the contrast to what happened during teh PMlq regime when lawyers and benazir rallies were bombed was the only result with a train march being the next move...
Jun15-2008--US pressure forces change in taleban pact...with government wanting the mehsuds and taleban to restrict foreign involvement according to islamic law...government also wants mehsuds to pay damages of its actions...taleban lack ability for long range attacks anyway...
Jun15-2008--taleban walk out of peace talks in mohmand...
Jun15-2008--despite only a 170MW shortage country wide six hour load shedding continues...
Jun15-2008--government hands over four jundullah iranian baloch ethnicists to iran as iran kills five pakistani smugglers..
Jun15-2008--zardari strikes an anti PPP note again as he hands over karachis KWSB to the mqm...water and sewage bodies are generally only nominally controlled in big cities...making them subservient to the CDGK will only create problems...on the other hand what else has teh CDGK to do...most of karachis water programs were earlier implemented by teh federal government...sindhi nationalists see zardari increaasingly under the control of teh mqm...earlier he had sided with the mqm on teh governors issue...
Jun15-2008--five government officials kidnapped in mohmand and bajaur...
Jun15-2008--major banks which are being run on government deposits face problems as GOP decides to shift the phenomenally huge Rs.763 billion to the SBP
Jun15-2008--GOP plans huge increases in oil, electricity and gas prices as it reduces subsidies...highest subsidy on kerosene of Rs44 followed by diesel of Rs37-33 and only seven rupees on petrol...if oil prices remain high than petrol prices may jump by as much as eighty per cent...
Jun15-2008--oil import bill for 2008-9 may rise to $22 billion
Jun15-2008--an ex high court judge has been in jail for 16 years for forgery during which period his army captain wife died and child disappeared...??
Jun15-2008--balochistan government kicks out new IGP
Jun14-2008--lawyers hold huge demo in islamabad after long march
Jun14-2008--tribal elder and family gunned dowmnin miranshah
Jun13-2008--pakistan foreign minister protests over senseless strike on mohmand checpost
Jun13-2008--government says world bank asking for subsidy removal which is quite odd...subsidies only way people can benefit from taxes...
Jun13-2008--Asif zardari who is turning into a mqm supporter hands KWSB back to the karchi city administration
12Jun-2008--The USA after making several statements that the FC and ISI were helping the militants went one further and bombed a mohmand rifles checpost killing 11 soldiers inclding one major...in battles between US forces and militants ten were killed...it again shows that budgets are not our militaries problems and modern equipment will not help improve their performances...the defence forces are in clear terms unable to even nominally defend our frontiers...the ISPR called it a cowardly and unprovoked attack...the military barring the CJCOSC have upto now been appreciative of US drone attacks and have done nothing to prevent them...US bombs also fell on angoor adda...the fight started as afghan forces invaded pakistani territory and apparently the US says was coordinated with the pakistan defence forces...?
12Jun-2008--The budget seems todo more for the countries rich than its minions or poor...no solution for load shedding is provided....the useless fauj and beaurocrats get a 20% raise...the industrialists electricity and the people more harsh price hikes and unending load shedding...subsidies further reduced...Development down to Rs399.7 billion, taxes upped to Rs1251 billion, provinces share up to 606 billion
12Jun-2008--The government which was building temporary toilets for the lawyers long march near the MNA's hostel used teh finance bill to increase teh number of judges in teh SC to 29 from 16...The direction of teh government seems tobe a hodge podge of the pro musharaf camp and teh nawaz sharif camp...Nawaz threatens to join opposition on judges issue...which opposition...?
Jun11-2008--Nato bombings in pakistans upper mohmand agency area as afghans try to setup position in pakistan controlled area...
Jun11-2008--The dismal economics of 2007-8 are explained by a 5.8 % growth when the PMLq had forecast 7.2%...a drawdown in FE reserves by 3.4 billion since July 2007 and a revenues shortfall of around Rs50 billion..major causes seem tobe the high price of oil and almost record increases in food prices...however the poor economic performance was visible before the oil and food price hike explained by teh earlier sugar and wheat crisis in which sugar mill owners and wheat growers created major problems of supply and price hikes...wheat growers want to shift to more difficult and economically more viable products...the correlation with world prices is not correct as pakistani wages are literally rock bottom and there are no taxes on agriculture and they received literally everything from teh government ie seeds to tractors to free loans...By June pakistans external debt could be around $48 billion
Jun11-2008--There is going tobe nothing much in this budget barring salary raises for the already well todo government employees...Yusuf Raza's claim that there will be no increase in the defence budget has been shot down by critics who say a hefty 7.2% increase planned in teh defence budget...Raja Ashrafs claim that electricity generation has been increased by 1500MW is not borne by facts as load sheddiing continues unabated and should have been halved if it was true...government seemingly being run by PMLq supporting economic and political experts...the yusuf raza government seems tobe increasingly isolated from its party rank and file...the lawyers movement also seemingly lacking public support...president house guarded by shipping containers...musharaf's refusal to move to the presidency seen as avoiding being the subject of daily demos and taunts...
Jun11-2008--major crops declined last year and were only saved by livestock, minor crops and fisheries...livestock and minor crops now provide better incomes for small landholdings...
Jun11-2008--with literally puppets in the national assembly yusuf raza wants the unrepresentative musharaf to address parliament...parliament has been literally destroyed with outside forces like musharaf, nawaz and zardari handling everything and parliament has only had some sort of debate on the LG system which is floundering without support from govenments...
Jun11-2008--USA now firing drones without reason or targets in pakistani tribal areas
Jun11-2008--while there are some good statistics such as the $1000 per capita income, Rs 100 billion from the telecom sector...reduction in absolute poverty which has obviously been undone by the high food prices...the major statistic is teh $45 billion external debt which like teh defence budget has never gone down...rich poor gap widens..only 0.65 percent growth in electricity to 19566mw with electricity supply growing by 4% to 74032 Gwh and remittances growing in last two years by 25% and 19% and the humungous Rs750 billion deficit of last year...
Jun11-2008--As Nepra/GEPCO ad shows huge increases in electricity prices planned with gas prices also to move higher by almost 30%...300 unit slab prices to go up to Rs6 and 1000 slab prices to around Rs9...!!
Jun11-2008--population at 160.9 million and CNG vehicles at 1.7 million with 2063 CNG stations at a cost of Rs90 billion...
Jun11-2008--rioting in malir over load sheddings
Jun11-2008--Sherry rehman says PPP frightened of tackling musharaf calling him a compulsion and reality for them...
Jun11-208--mustafa khar bars son from entering his house
Jun10-2008--the ambivalent zardari to decide on impeachement says naik...in saudi he said musharaf was a defacto though unconstitutional president with a working relationship...?
Jun10-2008--four police men killed in ambush in peshawar
Jun10-2008--pagaro predicts martial law...
Jun10-2008--Rehman malik says truce in swat scrapped as taleban still not peaceful...taleban say they will turn cities into battlefields...bilore says truce still on..
Jun10-2008--Akhter mengal receives rousing welcome in quetta
Jun10-2008--Nasreen Haq becomes first women KPT chief replacing a retired admiral...!!
Jun10-2008--TNSM caravan bombed by tehreek a taleban in lower dir.....
Jun10-2008--record trade deficit for 2007-8 of $18.7 billion on increased defence imports..
Jun10-2008--Yusuf raza has obviously not realized that india is not a cooperative country...
Jun10-2008--With people finding life increasingly difficult SBP's economic survey paints a rosy picture of 17% investment of 2638.8 billion to achiev 5.5%growth in GDP...high remmittances..$7.7 billion, improved exports $22.9 billion...imports $37.2 billion...current account deficit $12.7 biilion, inflation.. 11%...inflation this year hhas been around 20-25%...
Jun10-2008--Yusuf Raza's poverty program seems an amalgam of unimplementable programs...the do nothing government employees benefit the most with a 15% pay rise...poors pensions raised from Rs1500 to Rs2000..can u live on Rs2000 rupees yusuf raza..?graduates to also to get remuneration if hired as interns...social security for those earning Rs10000..poor families to get Rs1200 plus commodity assistance...5.6 million poor households..
Jun10-2008--Yusuf Raza obviously does not belong to the barely izzatdar group..raising prices of wheat is barely teh action of an honourable person just as is the action of hoarding wheat...the objectives of yusuf raza and wheat hoarders are similar...raising wheat prices wont help..?...maybe a constitutional amendmentment on who is honourable and what is honour and izzat...?
Jun10-2008--Yusuf Raza has already started to think that parliament, the peoples party and people are fools...his defence budget will not be a one liner but have several lines...defence budget will be reduced in dollar terms...after already spending an estimated 5 billion dollars for useless defence imports the militaries budget should be halved many think...their thinking on electricity is also pitiable...people need electricity not export industries...at the minimum he should also reduce utility stores prices where they should charge 3% profits rather than 13%...high prices donot only trouble the poor but everyone barring the rich pirs,landlords, industrialists, bussinessmen and fauj...
Jun09-2008--musharaf says he is a useless vegetable but will spike teh soup if cut...The PPP has a strange view supporting all sides on musharaf after it loaded teh cabinet with pro musharaf supporters...many suggest that zardaris muhajir sympathies and a lack of an overall majority in parliament leave musharaf safe for almost an year unless nawaz sharif can get teh PMLq to amlagamate with his party...PMLq consists of splinters from teh PPP and PMLn...
Jun09-2008--asif zardari and yusuf raza on a begging trip to saudi arabia where they asked for cheaper oil...many say that they wanted to perform umra at government expense...
Jun09-2008--shabaz sharif takes oath as chief minister punjab and immediately opposes any interaction with musharaf although he shakes hands with the dual minded taseer
Jun09-2008--lawyers start long march
Jun09-2008--shortage of wheat in three smaller provinces
Jun09-2008--tidal wave floods villages hear thatta
Jun09-2008--PMLn prepares chargesheet for musharafs impeachment
Jun09-2008--CDA budget Rs28 billion...? how will other areas develop...!!
Jun09-2008--gas pipeline blownup near pirkoh
Jun8-2008--musharaf refuses to quit despite having houses overseas he says will pass the time playing golf...musharaf is atmost a nuisance under the present regime
Juno8-2008--seven officials kidnapped in darra adamkhel
Jun07-2008--UN formally asked to prove benazirs death...
Jun07-2008--four police men killed in DI khan as police van bombed
Jun07-2008--budget to have a few defence spending details
Jun06-2008--Aftab sherpao who killed pukhtuns left, right and center worries that pukhtuns are being killed in the tribal areas by their allies the americans......
Jun06-2008--64 swat militants freed in timergarha
Jun06-2008--a bomb blast kills two children playing near a railway line in quetta
Jun06-2008--full bench of LHC asks for arguments on Ec approval of sharifs candidacy
Jun06-2008--Housing ministry which can't control a small number of government houses in islamabad wants Rs 10 billion for new housing for the poor..poor cant afford such housing anyway...
Jun06-2008--darra taleban want unimpeded free electricity for peace deal as well as freedom from army interference...
Jun06-2008--two hour gumbattle in nowshera
Jun06-2008--military to evacuate from mehsud areas after all kidnapped soldiers are released...there has been a noticeable increase in terrorism after teh army broke its seige of the mehsud areas...
Jun06-2008--paramilitary soldier killed in bajaur
Jun06-2008--police seize two explosive laden vehicles in islamabad
Jun06-2008--government not too clear onits budgetry policies...budget delayed to the 11th...while it is insisting on equal loadshedding all over teh country barring karachi it is not giving anything to the urban sector development wise while continuing teh dole for the agricultural and industrial community...waiting for foreign investments is meaningless and government should lay out sectors in which it wants the banks to increase outlays...government should stop wasting funds on dams and waterways when there is a shortage of water and when dams are going tobe empty for ten months...
Jun06-2008--shabaz to take over as chief minister asap...
Jun06-2008--government to increase taxation by over 22.5% with a revenue target of Rs1200 billion
Jun06-2008--India building upto sixty dams on jhelum , chenab and other rivers to deprive pakistan of water in teh future say sindh tass watchers...
Jun06-2008--mqm wala mustafa kamal considers pukhtuns an ethnic threat as they aim to take over karachi...pukhtuns have always had that aim to take over the bussinesses in all pakistans major cities...they start small and move into bussinesses and building...the same thing goes on in rawalpindi...every next person on the street is a pukhtun...but in rawalpindi they have seen this go on since teh sixties and are not threatened after all they are pakistanis too...and punjab at least is not like balochistan or karachi...? i think mustafa kamal has changed a lot since the eighties when he thought that the punjabis were after him and his bussiness and taking over karachi...? mqm is a pandora's box of ethnic prejudices and paranoia's...but are the pukhtuns different...no they too donot allow foreigners or punjabis to settle in pukhtun areas of nwfp...but who wants to now...?
Jun05-2008--US, saudi and PPP want musharaf kicked out with dignity as more retired generals accuse him of not having any sense...
Jun05-2008--grade 1-15 contract employees tobe regularised in govt and PIA...gwadar port matters tobe studied...
Jun05-2008--shahbaz to take over as CM punjab on the 9th
Jun05-2008--two killed in dera bugti landmine explosion
Jun05-2008--AQ Khan says the germans, french and south africans were the suppliers to iran and tripoli in their nuclear programs...and he only supplied a few addresses...
Jun05-2008--militants blowup over 24 music shops in kohat and miranshah...
Jun05-2008--government employees are usually the only ones to benefit from government largesse after a complete failure of its agri based economic policies..The pakistan army which can largely be considered tobe on the dole is usually accompanied by government employees, industrialists, exporters and agricultural rich men to benefit from what is considered the budget...
Jun05-2008--millers strike in rawalpindi to increase atta price to Rs440
Jun05-2008--government unable to procure 5 million tons of wheat from the local market which might be indicative of a massive shortfall in production
Jun05-2008--pakistans 36 F-16's cost $5.1 billion while morocco gets the same model planes at $234 million for 24...?
Jun04-2008--AJK assembly wants to change kashmir liberation cell to kashmir cell...current ajk government very close to end its fight for kashmir..others allege corruption in Rs34million bagh debris removal contract...
Jun04-2008--while yusuf raza wont give punjab even priority in electricty supply in exchange for wheat supply...he wants them to allow wheat movement which apparently encourages smuggling...
Jun04-2008--musharaf critisized in national assembly for US missile strikes and baloch policies...PMLq which remained blind to musharafs faults all the way thru accuses opponents of musharaf phobia after earlier having accused him for their own defeat...PMLn referred to musharaf as a dictator hiding behind dinners in the army house...
Jun04-2008--five children die in a quetta blast as they try to dismantle a scrap mortar shell...
Jun04-2008--roadside bomb hits pickup in kurram agency killing four
Jun04-2008--sunni tehreek worker killed in karachi
Jun04-2008--PPP-PMLn form joint committee to study constitutional measures in effect putting on hold the judges reinstatement...both sides say that their members not being consulted by either governments in punjab and at the center
Jun03-2008--bowler mohammed asif detained at dubai airport for possessing unknown chemical
Jun03-2008--pakistan seems tobe aiming for the world record in rapes...after the mukhtaran bai incident,rape at the quaids mazaar.. a ten year old girl was raped in a mosque in lahore...
Jun03-2008--danish embassy bomb kills eight...embassies to move inside diplomatic enclave as swedish and norwegian embassies shut down...diplomatic targets have routinely been hit egyptian embassy, american consulates, burning of british embassy etc...western world refuses to adopt caution in antoganising muslims...the danes refused to stop and deliberately printed offensive cartoons again...
Jun03-2008--Shabaz sharif wins unopposed from bhakkar II..still standing in PP10 rawalpindi...NA55 very unpopular seat as literally all big wigs have stepped down..
Jun03-2008--220 kv power line blownup by a windstorm between uchh and sibi plunging many areas into darkness
Jun03-2008--cd shop and school bombed in takhtbai and mardan..
Jun03-2008--a house and mosque were destroyed in a missile attack from across the border/by drones near miran shah...no casaulties...
Jun03-2008--musharaf associate gulzar kiani says that nawaz sharif was not briefed about kargil and only told when things went bad...kargil and teh coup against nawaz sharif handled by teh same group of generals
Jun03-2008--brahmdagh associates himself with BLA murders of innocent people...
Jun03-2008--Raja Riaz to personally bear the expenses of a Benazir monument at liaqatbagh...
Jun03-2008--nowshera a military center has started to feel the heat of talebanisation
Jun03-2008--Balochistan chief ministers support to the BLA after killing of punjabis and cricketers in quetta raises questions whether the chief minister is right or the BLA...obviously killing the innocent and raising ethnic and sectarian issues will not help the BLA in any of its supposed objectives...The baloch should have clear objectives and support for such brutality will not help anyone...
Jun03-2008--bomb blast outside Danish embassy in islamabad kills three...embassy loses perimeter wall...
Jun02-2008--sheikh rashid also drops out of NA-55 election as well as the PMLq and forms an awami muslim league...fails however to reform and say that there is no support for him any longer...
Jun02-2008--ahmed mukhtar says that musharaf will go after teh constitutional amendment and supports asif zardari as president...says pervez kiani a straight soldier and agreement between Benazir and musharaf no longer useful
Jun02-2008--many say purpose of constitutional package is just a 17th amendment like validation of musharafs illegality...PPP approves most musharaf acts barring removal of judges and some Nov3 actions...only controversial amendment is the NFC award which now supposedly will be on a population and resources basis...punjab too suffer or small two provinces...all revenues should be included in NFC and income tax, sales tax, indirect taxation, corporate and custom duties must be divided on a population basis...royalties, surcharges etc too should be included and all provinces should get their shares rather than a single province...musharaf indemnity package included at the last stage...PMLn says it wants a return to 1999 situation...PPP to the 1973 situation...
Jun02-2008--teh anti zardari new york times says that aitezaz ahsan emerging as a virulent anti zardari figure who has a negative perception of him and despite having defended benazir in 14 cases says that cases were justified despite it being proven that it was mere political victimisation...
Jun02-2008--balochistan reconsiders deployment of FC as BLA continues indiscriminate murders...
Jun02-2008--EC allows nawaz sharif and shahbaz to contest elections...ahmed mukhtar says that nawaz sharif cannot become primeminister and his election will be meaningless...others say that he will be an alternate to the PPP's do nothing approach and might achieve a controllable majority at some stage
Jun02-2008--Washingon post accuses Benazir of personally delivering nuclear secrets to north korea...the koreans did not use the centrifuge model and Benazir personally went to buy missiles and pay for korean missile technology..
Jun02-2008--wheat prices rising fast in nwfp and fata to Rs600 per 40 kg
Jun02-2008--Sindh arrests Unnar sons too
Jun02-2008--PMLq could defect to PMLn if nawaz wins and joins National assembly
Jun02-2008--US readying troops for Fata invasion as it worries over persistent reports of militants readiness and strength...musharafs slow motion fall from power could also trigger an attack on iran which musharaf favored...columnist says economic crisis could make pakistan more dependent on US
Jun02-2008--saudi clerics say shiites destablizing muslim states as maulvi nazir pro govt faction commander gunned down in DI Khan...
Jun01-2008--Zardari approves constitutional package whereby PM can order a war but the president has to fund and run the army...Farook naek says that PPP to end nazim system while zardari seems to oppose
Jun01-2008--clocks move forward by an hour...?no effect on load shedding despite being a holiday...
Jun01-2008--with a high food/energy inflation SBP advises cut in expenditures however finance ministry routinely attempting to increase budget by 50-100 billion as revenues usually increase by a similar margin
Jun01-2008--Ansar Burney one of the pakistani indians deported on arrival at new delhi without reason...
Jun01-2008--Fc man killed in kohlu
Jun01-2008--gilani unable to exlain killing of punjabis in balochistan...on kalabagh he limps thru by saying that nobody else could do it either..Chief minister refuses to come to the airport...says nawaz sharif making difficult demands
Jun01-2008--appeals aginst sharifs sent back to election commission as judges unabel to decide...one judge approves appeal other refuses...
Jun01-2008--akhter mengal wants BLA to be part of negotiations...says army still major force in balochistan
Jun01-2008--Piochar still a major den for militants in swat
Jun01-2008--huge car price increases by suzuki
Jun01-2008--SBP says growth falling below six per cent for the first time in five years
Jun01-2008--PMLq to defend the failure pervez musharaf...?
Jun01-2008--while the army wastes Rs 40-50 billion just on plots that it disperses as perks naveed qamar suggests that only 50-60 billion in subsidies available for the entire populace...
Jun01-2008--talban vehicle blows up in mohmand agency killing four
Jun01-2008--a CDshop is blownup in nowshera
Jun01-2008--militants blow up khasadar checpost in miran shah
Jun01-2008--five million sims blocked by mobile companies
Jun01-2008--AI capture eight LI men in tirah valley
Jun01-2008--Ptcl offers free calls at night
May31-2008--six youth killed in quetta by BLA ...apparently hazaras they were killed after returning from a cricket match...riots at hospitals as doctors absent