June2004

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...?
Jun25--Machine readable passports and automatic border control machines by September says Nadra...
Jun25--The opposition in parliament seems to have a strange attitude...Opposing musharaf and military involvement in politics and supposedly protecting the militaries primeminister...They also oppose the negative attitude of the speaker who along with jamali are top supporters of the musharaf doctrine......many wonder why amin fahim and qazi are so supportive of jamali whose reputation has taken a further nosedive after the budget...An in house change is a democratic process and is the only process that can save this military rule from collapsing...Another primeminister could at least have some popular tendencies...musharaf and jamali are just two sides of the same anti terrorist india/israeli coin and have no public stature or approval...
Jun25--Fresh skirmishes between the military and tribals reported from wana with a rocket attack on DI khan...
Jun25--Imran Farook retires from the MQM after his london based coordination committee was fired for terrorism...Apparently altaf hussein has ordered his top partymen in london to return to karachi...most of them were involved in literally a civil war to liberate karachi...
Jun25--The opposition walked out as the government rushed the budget thru...Jamali who seems to have a villagers understanding of democracy seems unaware that he has the reputation of a dictator and apparently orders the NA speaker to stop/rush any proceedings thru the computer...It is the government that has to follow the rules and show a democratic attitude and nature...With the military pushing him zafarullah seems unable to show any democratic tendencies...He now like musharaf seems frightened of even visiting areas that are in turmoil...
Jun25--Musharaf and jamali vow revenge after MMA refuses to attend their NSC...The NSC a useless organization which is powerless is supposed to end future military coups and allow the armed forces chiefs a venue to vent their feelings...According to reports musharaf was the only one who said anything as usual and teh armed forces chiefs sat around watching their antics...There are already reports that even the subordinate natured Yusuf Khan wants to take over teh presidency as soon as musharaf retires...many suggest that the pakistani fauj and zafarullah do not understand the meaning of a national security council... and only want another venue to sit at the top of the table...
Jun24--gang warfare in lyari cause four deaths including that of babu dakait...
Jun24--The government wants asif zardari to appear in a swiss court on the 30th however zardari says he is too ill to travel...
Jun24--The mean israeli natured musharaf army refused to lift the month old economic sanctions on wana as the tribals elected a new military chief...the military is insisting on the handing over of four tribals associated with nek mohammed...The militaries so called foreign militants are appaerently afghan refugees...
Jun24--opponents suggest that musharaf has been misled into lining watercourses as they constitute only 20% of pakistans canal system and the saving of 8maf of water is only a myth and Rs66 billion in costs is a total waste...jehangir tarin whom musharaf has appointed to head the project is said to owe the government millions in sugar cess...
Jun24--union council nazim shot dead in multan over political murder involvement...
Jun24--An eye witness to the murder of PPPP gujranwala city president shot and injured...
Jun24--Indian consulate tobe opened in karachi after a decade despite the turbulent situation...
Jun24--The leader of opposition and nwfp chief minister snub musharaf by refusing to attend the NSC meeting...
Jun24--A 500 KV power supply tower blown up by bomb blasts...near Dadu
Jun24--28 judges positions vacant in federal judiciary...
Jun24--The railways has handed over its schools to a private firm run by khurshid mahmood kasuri...
Jun23--Altaf hussein accuses PPPP and MMA workers of shooting to death an mqm worker rashid qureshi...Many are of the opinion that the mqm only notices the muders of its own and never urges its workers not to retaliate...nor does it identify the killers of its opposing parties.....MQM is known to have a core of killers that were controlled from london...the same type of war that continued for many years in the early nineties...This war can be restrained if the PML controls the mqm...
Jun23--MQM workers attack house of PPPP leader in sukkur
Jun23--The Supreme Court unseats PML's haroon akhter brother of commerce minister humayun akhter from PP-156...after finding that if the winner is disqualified teh runner up cannot become the winner...
Jun23--The airforces airline Shaheen Air has been sold to a canadian firm...
Jun23--PPPP accuses PML of using illegal means in the provincial by elections in lahore and bahawalpur...The dawn suggests that the PPPP is not even trying and their candidates have not started campaigning in real ernest...
Jun23--In what looks like a rigged election the PML's waqas akram won the Jhang NA-89 by election asits candidate got 51419 votes against maulana alam tariq's 41549 and hassan mohiuddin 12787...The high turnout of 45% seems surprising...
Jun23--15 cases aginst PPPP activists in multan as they sblockade Shaukat aziz's car...
Jun23--Imran Khan old at 51 and Jemima Goldsmith young at 29 have divorced..The children to stay with the mother...Imran and teh former jew jemima started having problems early in their marriage as the conservative liberal pakistani imran could not settle their differences...Jemima apparently was unable to live within the restrictions that were imposed by pakistani soceity and her marriage to a celebrity...Imran too soon tired of a foreign wife and her inability to live as a domesticated servant that most pakistani wives are supposed tobe...Imran who was a conservative in pakistan and tried to become an upper soceity liberal noble in england could not live teh duality for too long...nor could he tolerate the western liberism of his wife who was considered nice but too soft ...
Jun23--In what seems tobe the oppositions madness the PPPP and MMA offered to help zafarullah jamali survive if his party tried to replace him...the PPPP and MMA combined have about 140 seats which combined with teh patriots-sherpao and a breakaway PML faction could topple the PML...many amongst the oppositions supporters find support for jamali strange as he has been instrumental in opposing all efforts of teh MMA and PPPP
Jun23--In another pointer to the governments submission to the MQM teh SHC stayed the fresh elections on three karachi seats...The SHC seems dominated by mohajirs...The sindh government argued that it would be a waste of money thus supporting open rigging....
Jun23--The Finance minister quickly ended the budget debate by agreeing to end duties on computer parts and teh 2% on tractors...Amongst development projects nothing new was noticeable...projects nearing completion such as the gwadar port, coastal highway and saindak project were mentioned alongwith three minor dams...The finance minister is apparently unaware that teh same sort of budgets have been presented thruout pakistans history and pakistan was never under any pressure even inits repayments...Rescheduling of debt had been started prior to his arrival and the nawaz sharif government had already stated the same sort of budget predictions...many have been unable to notice any federal spending in the punjab...
Jun22--Apparently the PML senior leaders are already getting worried at quickly ending the debate on teh budget as peopel are also starting to realize that the huge allocations and no development can only mean corruption...The allocations for the primeminister house have been increased by 40 % and the allocations for musharaf's houses have been increased by 65%...Musharaf apparently occupies three offices and two houses...many have suggested that a combined office with three signboards could help solve many problems...Others are suggesting that teh COAS office has become redundant...
Jun22--Two doctors from karachi who were apparently kidnapped and missing have been picked up by the police...One of teh doctors had a dispute with the NICVD administration who were making threatening phone calls...
Jun22--Sindh government admits its guilt in allowing waste untreated water to flow into drinking supply canals...sindh has been so embroiled in blaming everything on the federal government regarding water downstream kotri that it forgets its own responsibility to provide clean healthy drinking water...
Jun22--Nawaz Khokhar a PPP leader convicted for late payment of dues has filed an appeal in the LHC...
Jun22--Pakistan has denied any involvement in teh 9/11 incident despite its ISI chief being in washington at the time...and having close relations to the taliban/al qaeda...
Jun22--The opposition has accused the interior minister of bias in handling the murders that targeted the opposition...many have pointed out the ethnic and anti military/rangers nature of the recent karachi violence which is pointing to the deep involvement of a government ally... a direction totally opposite to the interior ministry/ police/ musharaf actions....
Jun22--There seems tobe a visible reaproachment between chaudhry shujaat and zafarullah jamali whom many regard as totally anti punjab in most government matters...The dawn suggests that a reshuffling of ministers and a possible cabinet expansion may have been discussed...Zafarullah jamali whom many regard as having grandiose ideas about himself and who made him primeminister...It was pointed out to him by a PML mna that it was they who had made him primeminister and not allah...
Jun22--In what many see as the collapse of the PML in the face of the MQM ultimatum the interior minister says that teh sindh governor will not be replaced despite being totally ineffective and involved in using the government against its political opponents...and having failed to control terrorism in karachi...
Jun21--The most controversial budget provision in the governments Rs902 billion budget is forcing people to pay Rs25 as television license fee..the people are already irritated at the governments inability to reduce electricity rates to reasonable levels...PTv has been unable to gather the license fee thru banks and contractors and now wants to collect it thru electricity bills...Many question why PTV cannot be privatised or why four billion cannot be allocated to PTV from the huge budget...PTV does little in the peoples interest...Not even providing quality real news or probing/criticising government actions or analysing events openly... basically PTV has an inability to critisize the governments top people and that makes it totally useless...most of the time it spends to popularize primeministers, presidents and teh army... ...people also question why the health ministry spends Rs250 million on useless advertisements which at times sponsor sports and dramas...
Jun21--Sughra Imam has resigned as a minister in punjab to protest her inability to solve problems,helplessness of ministers and bad governance...says Qasim Zia teh PPP punjab boss
Jun21--In a poll sponsored by USAID... 58% people are satisfied by the army and only 14% with the national assembly...inflation, uneducation and poverty seem tobe the biggest problems...only 12% think musharaf is doing a good job..41% think that the government seems very interested in india...? only 20% think country is moving in the right direction....the poll seems tobe directed at supporting US supported politics /activities /concerns...
Jun21--After threats to close down the ARY transmission by musharraf...altaf hussain too threatened ARY with actions against their relatives in karachi if they aired anti mqm views...
Jun21--In what can be said tobe worrying teh army..the tribesman are gathering in azam warsak and a new leader to replace nek mohammed will soon be chosen...
Jun21--In another political maneouvre to avoid responsibility for the karachi situation the MQM said that it has given a long three month ultimatum to the PML to reign in the jihadi terrorists backed by teh MMA...While many blame the MQM for the violence in karachi the mqm is worried about the toughness of the new sindhi chief minister who is not going tobe as soft as the previous one...The mqm wants that its workers not be blamed or arrested and that the mqm ministers have complete freedom todo whatever they want...The mqm failed miserably in controlling violence in karachi and altaf hussain as usual wants teh army and rangers out of karachi who he blames for election violence which was orchestrated by teh mqm itself......The army literally controls all deptts in karachi still...
Jun21--Musharaf who apparently loves to saunter around in uniform even at home will surely leave the army and his beloved uniform before things go awry suggests the daily Dawn...Nowadays he has been pictured in unbuttoned untidy uniforms looking like a rogue AWOL...
Jun21--Apparently nine missing pakistani nuclear scientists maybe in North Korea...They escaped six years ago and some say pakistani nuclear workers have even been seen in iran...
Jun21--Three oil tankers caught fire at chaman as they were waiting to cross into afghanistan and supply the US led occupation forces...The drivers were injured and a checkpost was burnt to the ground...The military says that the fire was accidental...
Jun21--The sui airport building was destroyed by rocket attacks on saturday night...
Jun21--Zafarullah Jamali apparently agrees that in the system under military rule two years of a meaningless misdirected government is about what everybody can tolerate....A government led by an unpopular person who does not think of the peoples problems or their solutions...if zafarullah can survive than anybody else can...The discussions have begun and it is not only the manipulators but everyone else as well...Soon zafarullah too will be history and whether political victimisation will follow ... who killed whom...and who ate what and how much...He like others that have gone before him thinks he has the necessary support...even though everyone is a candidate...no politician obviously turns down a primeministership...
Jun21--In what can only be said tobe regurgitation of what already has been agreed upon the pakistan and indian negotiators agreed to contine the ban on nuclear tests..
Jun20--The useless MQM mna's who were just meaninglessly praising the federal budget in speeches suddenly left islamabad for an mqm meeting in karachi...the sindh MQM governor has not returned from london after altaf hussein said that he would be killed on return...altaf said that an operation against the mqm walas involved in karachis murders and terrorism was imminent while ibad said that no such thing would happen...
Jun20--In the sui bugti area over 140 rockets were fired in may while over 40 rockets were fired in june...
Jun20--Pakistan apparently has upto 50 nuclear warheads of which twenty are said tobe bombs...Their missiles include Shaheen1, 2---750/2500kms...Ghori1, 2, 3--1500/2000/3000 kms...Hatf1, 2, 3--100/180/190 kms
Jun20--India has upto 150 warheads of which twenty are bombs...Their missiles are Agni1, 2, 3--1200/2000/4000 kms and Prithvi 1, 2, 3--150/250 kms...Apart from that india is also making many other types of missiles such as aircraft, surface to air, submarine and cruise missiles...
Jun20---The PML refused to stop useless/aimless military spending increases and windup organisations such as NAB/NRB/NSC since the parliament, cabinet, beaurocracy and police have the same functions...
Jun20--In what can only be called teh haphazard american coerced policy in wana the pakistan army admits to killing 80 tribesmen and losing eighteen soldiers...Despite not finding a single foreign militant in over eight months the military continues to insist on lashkars and registration...The tribesmen would do well to stop all cooperation with the army...They also admit that the lives of soldiers are not important to the militaries officers...
Jun20--Benazir bhutto has pointed to the meaningless and vicious victimisation of a PPPP mna liaqat ali dogar...Two brothers of the mna have been sentenced on malicious/minor charges by the militaries NAB...
Jun19--In what maybe teh first stone in the PML coffin.. Sughra Imam resigned as minister of social welfare from the punjab government...probably preparing for the chief ministership if pervez elahi is shunted out...The Dawn suggests that her parents are now opposed to musharaf and that makes sitting in the punjab cabinet terribly difficult...listening to pervez elahi droning on and on...
Jun19--A BNP senator Sanaullah baloch..from balochistan claimed the right of seperating balochistan from pakistan as pakistan was unable to provide security and development...He was shouted down by teh PML and the chair refused to allow him to carry on his speech...
Jun19--In india a muslim women and three others were gunned down by gujerat police for planning to kill Narendra Modi who caused widespread anti muslim rioting...The indians say that two pakistanis were involved and that teh killing was justifiable on the grounds of terrorism...many however suggest that it is the usual modus operandii of the indian police to kill muslims and makeup stories...
Jun19--A 26 member probables team was named by the PCB for teh asia cricket cup...Despite poor performances in new zealand and against india no body has yet been dropped while talented bahzid, salman butt, riaz afridi, zahid saeed and yasir arafat have been included...many are suggesting that players who were inconsistent such as younis, shoaib malik, razzak, faisal iqbal should not be considered...and that even imran farhat and yasser hamid should be dropped for a series at least...however they will probably be given another tryout and the final decision might come after the asia cup when bob woolmers first opinion about the team and its weaknesses is known...Some other probable choices have been included in the A team...many think that shoaib khan should have been in teh test team probables...while others suggest that players that the PCB does not intend to play should not be included in the playing 16...Many are suggesting that the PCB selects personal favourites to benefit financially and than drops them...The method of selecting young players who have not matured enough has been a complete failure...
Jun19--As the military bombarded many areas in wana a helicopter attack on a mud walled compound in shah nawaz kot killed the famous tribal warrior Nek Mohammed and four others on thursday night...His funeral was very largely attended at kaloosha.....
Jun19--There are widespread reports that the USA is in favour of a political change in pakistan...whether that includes removing musharaf as well is not yet clear...The News has come out with a report suggesting, ijaz ul haq, mohd mian soomru, pervez elahi and sherpao...as possible primeministerial choices...The patriot-sherpao group too it seems is only a handmaiden for the military...with only the MMA supporting zafarullah jamali...
Jun19--Musharaf is again making himself a partisan unlikeable figure by attacking respected politicians...Apart from asking the mna's to create problems for qazi hussein ahmed he also threatened to beat up a women politician...He apparently ordered his batmen in teh national assembly to attack qazi hussain ahmed and support the wana operation...The PML is wary of supporting unpopular actions of the military...Musharaf who seems to have a strange attitude asked for criticism on one hand and said the opposition should not critisize the improved economy...The PML members asked for more ministries and said that unless over Rs100 billion are spent in the punjab... musharaf's supposedly improved econony would have no meaning...Others are suggesting that musharaf's advisors advised him to kill opposing political figures which would make him more popular...The result many say is the killings in karachi and wana...There are other reports that those who have joined the PML are frightened of even suggesting economic measures in the budget...and only standup in the assembly to praise the budget...
Jun19--many are pointing to the mqm's sector incharges who were notorious killers during the mqm insurgency..The MMA has apparently pointed out a former mqm sector incharge as the killer of mulla shamzai...altaf hussein denied it from london and thinks that it is uneducated to blame the most possible murdering outfit in the country...
Jun19--As the PPPP mourned the death of munnawer suhrawardy many vehicles, buses, banks etc were torched over the last two days...Many are shocked at the lackadaisical behaviour of musharaf and jamali at the killing of a senior political leader......while the corp commanders attackers were picked up in a day the police issued sketches which many say are fake ...
Jun18--Musharaf many suggest is meeting the excluded section of teh PML mna's many of whom are disenchanted with the way jamali has selected his cabinet and his lacklustre rule...most of these mna's many suggest are undercover army personnel and are being given their orders by musharaf in teh event a change of government occurrs...
Jun18--Three more jundullah activists were arrested in karachi which is apparently the new name of the underground sipah e sahabah...????
Jun18--Benazir Bhutto has pointed to the military and mqm as the possible murderers of munawwer suhrwardy and said that it would not stop her from coming back ...she has also suggested that teh mean cowardly indian natured musharaf had threatened to kick her...!!!
Jun18--In what appears tobe apparent unease in teh MMA at the possibility of a change in government qazi hussein ahmed met zafarullah jamali and discussed the matter...There are widespread rumours that a new government is under preperation both at the PML and musharaf levels and discussions are taking place as to the next primeminister and future ministers...In the punjab there is widespread speculation and unease at the zafarullah jamali government which has not announced any new development programs at the federal level from the huge punjab share of over Rs120 billion...Many are suggesting that the federal spending in punjab over teh past year did not exceed Rs20 billion...
Jun18--The army in an apparent escalation of its wana offensive literally used all its attack helicopters in bombing a small hideout near the afghan border...many suggest that teh army unable to handle anything peacefully is hell bent on attacking and killing all its opponents in the wana area...The people and military rulers seem to have opposite ideas about the al qaeda and its supporters...
Jun18--In what can be termed as literally state terrorism munawwer suhrwardy a close associate of Benazir Bhutto was shot dead in karachi... This is the second prominent PPPP leader shot dead under this military-PML regime...Fingers are being pointed at musharaf, arbab rahim and the zafarullah jamali government which in its hatred of teh PPPP can be said to stoop at anything...others suggest that the mqm too is not a bunch of angels and such target killings have been teh modus operandii of both altaf hussains ethnic bunch and the sectarian groups...Others are pointing at the vile nature of pakistans military intelligence services especially the mohajir controlled ISI which has been attempting to destroy the PPP since 1977...closely related to the killing is the announcement that the PPP logo has been given to the sherpao-patriots group despite everybody knowing that teh PPP is a seperate known group or party...The rumours related to this event are closely related to the killing by the army of Nek Mohammed a respected tribal warrior who rose to fame in teh recent wana invasion...apparently teh pakistan army has been very impressed by teh israeli army which targets palestinians in similar murderous ways...
Jun17--PPPP spokesman senator farhatullah baber mocked the armed forces who are even frightened to itemise what they are spending their budget on... The armed forces budget is actually over Rs240 billion..In the budget teh defence budget allocations is explained as " ... to defray armed forces salaries and other expenses...
Jun17--PCB fires javed Miandad as coach and hires Bob Woolmer. Miandad wanted more powers as a coach so the board decided to replace him as his performance as a coach was less than satisfactory...Miandad turned down an alternate job...however the board decided to pay him for the remainder of his contract...
Jun17--Another former policeman haider baig who participated in the 1992 cleanup operation was killed by motorcycle mounted killers...two other operation cleanup cops were killed in the recent past ie taufik zahid and zeeshan kazmi...The general conclusion being made is that the mqm is continuing killing what it regards as ethnic opponents in the police and the politicians...
Jun17--The pakistan army is continuing to run into trouble in wana...Its opponents teh tribal warriors apparently attacked an FC fort in ladah...Over 100 tribesmen launched a firece attack with mortars and rockets and kept pounding the fort for over five hours from midnight to early morning...One FC and two militants died with numerous wounded...There were also rocket attacks on two military checkposts...
Jun17--Pakistan has been made a non nato ally by the USA as many predict more trouble ahead as bush heads towards a defeat...Pakistan apparently will now be able to get most of the ordinary military hardware that it was denied...Apparently the Wana problems have made the army realize suddenly that it needs 100 APC's, 130 trucks and 90 jeeps...
Jun17--As the country literally falls into chaos around an unpopular primeminister who seems tobe sleepwalking amid attempts to placate an unsure support group... musharaf attempts to ensure dithering supporters that the asemblies will not be dismantled...musharaf who was apparently knocked into an observer position by two suicide attacks is now again trying to regain the support he had before he decided to keep on his uniform...the military has lost a lot of support as it refuses to go back to the barracks and is shown tobe inefficient and lacking in ability especially as the wana tribesmen embarass it again and again...
Jun17--40 die as bus falls of bridge near rawalpindi
Jun16--MQM files appeal in SHC against CEC decision to hold fresh elections on some seats where violence badly affected polling...
Jun16--curfew lifted in gilgit after 12 days and a gas pipeline blew up in shikarpur...
Jun16--In karachi everything is being blamed on a jundullah group another of whose suspects Shahzad mukhtar was arrested for firing on teh corp commander.. The interiorminister says that they have arrested all the culprits of terrroist incidents
Jun16--In wana the military opened fire on a suzuki vehicle as a tribal militant refused tobe checked killing one and injuring several others...apart from an FC vehicle being blown up there has also been a minor bomb blast in DI khan...
Jun16--As musharaf tried to force a change in the hudood laws zafarullah jamali in what many see as a confrontation refused to have anything todo withit...
Jun16--As the debate on the governments economic policies opened both the finance minister and primeminister were absent...There was speculation that zafarullah jamali might be on his way out as he seems to be extremely slow in making administrative decisions...musharafs power of appointments keeps the primeminister weak and unable to handle many situations...the PML has been unable to remove teh armies beaurocracy from power and many ministers/beaurocrats seem tobe following teh armies orders rather than the primeministers...
Jun16--In what seems tobe a clear case of political victimisation an accountability court sentenced Nawaz Khokhar of the PPP to three years for a delayed payment afterseven years of litigation...
Jun16--Musharaf who seems to have many double standards himself expects the police tobe cleansed of political influences while he himself attempts to interfere in everything...policework as well as the judiciary...musharaf obviously has no conscience and expects the judiciary to decide cases without thinking and evidence...The police onits own rarely work and it has tobe the orders of the political setup that gives police the guidlines to work in...what the police must not do is to become the personal servants of politicians...or the army...the same goes for the judiciary...
Jun15--Three PIA planes including its latest 777's have caught fire on three occasions while landing at manchester airport...?
Jun15--Electricity breakdowns in karachi causes riots and tire burnings...
Jun15--There is anger in muzzafarabad at the shelving of a medical college...
Jun15--The military/ISI has arrested several miltary officers and a civilian under custody without explanations...Those under arrest for al qaeda association include ghulam sarwar bhatti for planning the musharaf bomb blasts..the military officers arrested for unexplained reasons are Col's Ghaffar Khan and khalid abbas, major ataullah khan and rohail faraz,captain usman zafar and major adil quddus ...These officers have been in custody for over an year and their relatives are moving the courts which is refusing to hear cases under teh army act...
Jun15---Irsa authorities are at a loss as how to explain over 9.02 maf in irrigation water losses during apr1-jun10...?
Jun15--The military has announced teh end of the ill advised wana operation which has caused over 17 military deaths and forty civilian deaths without any major al qaeda arrests...An FC vehicle was blownup with three being killed near miranshah...
Jun15--The rangers have arrested from karachi dawood badini a former LJ man who apparently specialised in financing and planning quetta operations...many are suggesting that the arrests in karachi are attempts by the karachi police to lay claim to bounties announced for various incidents...one finds it strange that operations in quetta are planned in karachi...
Jun14--The senate chairman refuses to answer questions about the criminal cases in which sindh governor is involved
Jun14--The government has warned teh mqm that if its terrorism oriented approach to politics continues than a wana type operation will start in karachi with helicopter gunships blowing up terrorist hideouts such as 90--azizabad...governor sindh has been specifically despatched to england with the message from the top military leadership...Others suggest that the military now wants a political governor in sindh as the mqm governor was unable to demonstrate a province wide approach and kept dealing with mqm problems only...still others suggest that the promqm musharaf has asked altaf hussein to return...
Jun14--Apparently the indians too wanted to start selling nuclear secrets and the brother of an indian nuclear scientist was arrested in dubai after he reportedly made offers to various arab diplomats...<;li>Jun14--The police and rangers claim to have arrested eight people in karachi and are blaming them of having carried out all the recent terrorist incidents in karachi and quetta...Included are al qaeda linked masoob aruchi and supposedly trained in wana Ata ur rehman...they are claiming that it is a 20 member gang... however teh various types of incidents involved make many doubt the police/rangers claims...
Jun14--The UK is attempting to hold indirect talks with the taleban suggests the daily dawn...
Jun14--The misdirected military operation in shakai continued with numerous civilian deaths and helicopter gunships blasting homes ...The military has blockaded the entire area and asked the huge numbers of afghan refuugees to leave teh area...
Jun14--The budget is anti poor and myopic suggest politicians...The budget according to Shaukat aziz is supposedly investment oriented...although no specific investment promotion is noticeable...however there is a total lack of any real development schemes...many regard shaukat aziz who was previously associated with an american bank as being unable to handle the huge financial array oF Rs902 billion ...Shaukat aziz seems to lack any real development orientation and seems unsure of teh reasons/outcomes of the taxation measures that he is proposing...He thinks that tax reductions/rationalizations are negative actions and that alone makes many doubt his sanity... There are some doubts as to the collection problems of Rs580 billion in revenues and teh need of Rs150 billion in aid...many question why the government wants foreign aid when such huge resources are available locally especially the over $3.5 billion in foreign remmittances... Most of the development funds seem to be regarded by many as wasteful useless spending without any real orientation or overall effect on the people...with shortages in electricity supply looming he has only facilitated the small environmental electricity productiona such as from the sun and air... ...The government has been unable to even explain teh increase in the defence budget to Rs193 billion...The decrease in electricity prices is little more than a mockery of the peoples plight and that has been replaced by a monthly tv fee in the electricity bill..PTV is generally regarded as a government operation and should be funded by teh ministry of information rather than by the people...After destroying the base of the national savings centers they think that it will improve by turning it into a cooperation and loading it with other losing government bonds/schemes......NSS deposits have fallen to Rs5 billion from over Rs80 billion...There seems tobe some help for employees and the agricultural sector however the rest ie over 80% of the populace have to depend on wishful thinking...reduction in sales taxes to 15% on some items has been countered by imposing duties on computer equipment and the reintroduction of pre shipment inspection agencies...Minor efforts to increase employment opportunities are considered ineffective and poverty reduction is just a catch phrase for the finance minister...For major city developments the finance minister hopes that international agencies will step forward to foot the bills and planning ...
Jun13--Eight suspects arrested in karachi corp commander attack...
Jun13--India's cold start military doctrine has no relevance to pakistan thinks the military while many consider it as a threat to pakistani kashmir...in the past pakistan has avoided retaliating indian aggression which many suggest has emboldened the indians...Pakistan armies inability to control a small area inside pakistan like Wana without loss of life has demonstrated the pakistan militaries poor approach to problem resolution...many regard the pakistan army tobe poorly trained and lacking in modern methods of planning and execution of operations...Pakistan army has a long history of botched operations...Their inability to handle karachi during the mqm uprising is regarded by many as a cause of severe embarassment...
Jun13--Rs902 billion budget announced...Government revenue ..RS796.3 billion...defence spending.. Rs194 billion...law and order.. 15 billion...Education.. 12 billion..development.. 203 billion...economic affairs...48 billion, General Public services...423 billion...Provinces...258 billion...15% payrise...
Jun12---The Economic Survey 2004 suggests that teh countries economy has grown by 6.4%...Most of this rise comes from industrial growth which apparently was an unimaginable 17.1%...Many suggest that the growth is not actual and is based on an increase in value as nobody knows which new industries have been setup...The countries major economic gains come from high foreign remmittances...Increase in the construction sector is also not visible as there are no new major construction projects after teh completion of the old ones...Agricultural growth at 2.6 % is considered high given the conditions...The apparent suggestion that poverty has been reduced by over 4% can only be considered a joke...Unemployment is teh highest ever at 8.27%...Each pakistani earns Rs 3151 per month which is a 24% increase over last year...Pakistan at teh people level remains poverty stricken as most of the wealth is still concentrated in the same group of people and the trickle down aspect of pakistans supply side economics is nill...Borrowing was high at Rs 53 billion...Exports $10 billion and imports $12 billion... Reserves at $12.5 billion..The economic survey apparently lies about the high inflation and teh problems in electricity availaibility which used tobe surplus before teh military regime...Life in general is regarded as having become more difficult for those in the lower income brackets as teh price of living has sky rocketed...
Jun12--The MMA warns the army of pitching teh army against civilians as one soldier died as teh military resorted to air strikes on apparently abandoned compounds in shakai...Many doubt that the almost inaccessible area could be used for training given the inhostpitable terrain and living conditions...
Jun12--Colin Powell who is developing an anti pakistan reputation says that cross border attacks across teh LOC have gone down but the infrastructure is still there...obviously these views were transmitted to him by the indians and can at best be regarded as being the concoction of a deep anti pakistan mindset...
Jun12--many suggest that events in karachi are the direct result of an Mqm dominated home ministry... a governor and president who have prohibited action against mqm activists or sympathisers...the tendency in the mMA and mqm towards terrorist activities and revenge actions are said tobe teh cause for many violent incidents...
Jun12--Neelofer Bakhtiar PML women head and advisor to the primeminister indicted for attacking a court...!!!
Jun11--In further affirmation of teh strange MMA behaviour fazlur rehman the opposition leader in teh national assembly has opposed an in house change...if an in house change is opposed than the only way to change the unpopular government is new elections or a military coup...maulana fazlur rehman had better give it another think...
Jun11--PIA resumed flights to gilgit after eight days of curfews in the sect infected area...curfew was relaxed during the day but total activity has not been resumed...
Jun11--12 rockets were fired at sui township in dera bugti which was used as an excuse for the approval of two new cantonements in balochistan by the provincial assembly...The opposition accused the primeminister and chief minister of not rising above their personal constituencies and thinking of the entire province......
Jun11--The indian foreign minister is calling for fresh ideas to settle the kashmir issue...Whenever india wants to make the necessary decisions obviously an agreement can be reached almost immediately...It would benefit india to end the kashmir issue while pakistan would probably be burdened with having to tolerate the indians intrusion into its industrial and commercial domains...a fifty-seven year old problem cannot suddenly find any new solutions...however the solutions can be fashioned to the views of both sides......The kashmiris could be given real independence from both countries and we could both allow two kashmirs to live side by side with no interventions from either side...Both sides could withdraw their military and police forces and end teh issue by agreeing to a seperate kasmir status...Eventually by mutual agreement both kashmirs could join to form a new country...a sort of neutral unmilitarised finland...
Jun11--Musharaf is apparently unaware that wheat autarky had been achieved during teh nawaz sharif era and that his policies in water distribution and agriculture are teh basis for the successive agricultural failures...musharaf announced a 9% markup on government agricultural loans which is still a bit too high in the current situation...lining of 87000 water courses...a waste of over Rs66 billion...small loans defaulted upto the year 2000 could be settled by paying 50% of the amount while balochis only have to pay 25%...customs duty was abolished on tractor and other agricultural imports..and teh ZTBL can no longer use tehsildars etc to recover loans...regurgitation of previous announcements of building dams and canals...
Jun11--In what is being called teh first attack on a corp commander...eight gunmen opened fire on a military convoy while a bomb blast occurred...later two unexploded bombs were also found...Intense fire was concentrated on teh corp commanders car and its support vehicle...The corp commanders driver and and six soldiers were killed...In all 11 people died and 12 others were injured...including three policemen...The impression is rising amongst anti musharaf militants that musharaf alone is not responsible and that the army and its corp commanders bear a heavy responsibility for the situation...
Jun11--When u travel in PIA 's new 777 boeing jet u might think u are travelling in a PIA plane...Actually they belong to Taxila Limited of Caymans Island and they are just leased by PIA...The PPPP has filed a fraud reference against the PIA management and ministry of defence...
Jun11--The GOP under shaukat aziz/musharaf purchased almost 15 billion dollars from the curb market in teh country over the last four years at a loss of over Rs109 million...
Jun11--The daily dawn reports that the person behind teh whole mischief in wana is pervez musharaf who apparently ordered the end of the truce and revoked the amnesty for the five tribals last month and ordered them killed or captured......according to ary television teh army also used helicopters and planes to bombard the areas..most of those killed on the military side belonged to Dir where according to Dawn tensions ran high and anti government feelings are on the rise...Apparently teh government had already broken the agreement by insisting on registration of foreigners...The government apparently is unaware of the typical faces inhabiting its own land and is being accused of calling the tribals that it is killing uzbeks and tajiks... Others are suggesting that musharaf is turning into a violence prone dictator and has similarities to saddam hussein...saddam was used to armed warfare against his own iraqis and musharaf has the same unhealthy habit...
Jun10--The variations in water inflows and releases have both mangla and tarbela almost empty...The reasonings are probably teh greater sowings of cotton and rice...However if the situation continues this winter might see an enormous water crisis especially in the punjab which sows most of the wheat...Mangla is thirty feet below normal and tarbela is almost empty...
Jun10--The punjab province despite teh availability of huge resources has advertised for donations for development causes...
Jun10--In what many suggest as strange there have been 36 gastronteritis deaths in hyderabad which many blame on contaminated water...Since all the people get teh same water there must be some other cause...
Jun10--In a pathetic display the PML did not even allow the opposition to nominate a candidate for the chief minister of sindh despite having a hefty majority...The PML which seems to have some sort of hidden fears or guilty conscience has been rushing things thru without discussion or opposition participation...Normal procedures of allowing a few days for discussion of a chief ministers resignation and nomination of candidates was not done and the opposition walked out...Arbab rahim is teh 26th chief minister of teh province...
Jun10--Nepra in what is being seen as a decision preempting the budget electricity price cuts has reduced electricity prices in Fesco...The most competent area electricity distribution system with only 12% losses sees prices drop by a minor 26 paisas for domestic consumers above 300 units, 140 paisas for above 1000 unit consumers, 50 paisa for agricultural users, 78 paisas for industrial consumers and 144 paisas for commercial users...
Jun10--The Chief Election commisioner in a landmark decision has nullified the by polls held in karachi on May12...While three seats NA-240, NA-246 and PS-127 will be repolled the commission controversially declared one winner on NA-243...On election day there were widespread irregularities and over 12 people belonging to the mqm and MMA were killed...mqm was behind most of the election day violence...The mqm has called for the arrest of teh CEC on his first honest decision...
Jun10--Firerce fighting has erupted between the army/FC and tribal insurgents who attacked two checkposts at the entrance to teh shakai area...Tensions had been rising as a lashkar had started searching for foreign militants in the fiercely autonomous region...At least 15 soldiers and twenty militants are reportedly dead...An american helicopter also flew over parachinar and many suggest that teh americans might be preparing to invade or carryout raids in the area as the pakistan army has shown its inability in handling armed tribesmen...???
Jun10--Since 1987when the mqm came into being there have been 97 bomb blasts in karachi which have killed 325...There were 22 bomb blasts in2002 alone...Over 3461 people have been killed in terrorist incidents since 1995...Over 14 police officers involved in anti mqm operations during 1992-96 the heydays of the altaf hussein led insurgency have been killed since...The mqm is said tobe behind the killings while the other group involved could be pro murtaza bhutto who was also gunned down by the police...
Jun9--The punjab chief minister despite an overwhelming majority is conttinuing to harass opposition mpa's to coerce them into joining the PML..Dr Nazir Mithu from Burewala has been arrested thrice during teh past month...A new term loti has been coined for the first time...The punjab opposition suggest that almost 150 of the punjab government members were initially part of other political parties...Political loyalties many suggest can change with events...people loyal to nawaz sharif yesterday and now working for pervez elahi and the military dictatorship could tommorrow be working for who knows...The PML has kept the chief ministers as party leaders so that they can control loyalty shifts as long as they are in government...
Jun9--Punjab has protested the cutting of 6000 cusecs from the indus despite the summer increase in water inflows...There seems tobe differences in opinion between sindh and punjab..Punjab regards the mangla as its domain and the sindhis donot want any access of punjab to indus waters......Punjab also claims that the transit losses between Taunsa and kotri of over 43% which are used in distributional calculations as almost exxagerations rather than possible realistically ...
Jun9--Things have started to unravel in occupied kashmir as the new anti kashmiri policy of the indians is implemented...It seems tobe teh same old policy of creating differences amongst kashmiri groups by murders and arresting kashmiri leaders ...the indians are basing their kashmir policy on controlling the movement thru terrorism on the occupied side and offering pakistan teh status quo as the final border...The indians blamed the murder of a supposedly moderate maulana on pro pakistan groups opposed to talks with the indian government...The indian congress despite a supposedly moderate primeminister seems intent on continuing the suppression in occupied kashmir...
Jun9--In gilgit protestors have apparently kidnapped FC personnel and snatched their weapons as well...The curfew continues while teh adminstration claiming to have reclaimed its snatched armaments...
Jun9--The military has threatened to in humanly bulldoze the wana bazaar if the tribals donot come up with any foreigners...
Jun9--Many are suggesting that ali mehr is a scapegoat to save teh pml-mqm alliance in sindh and that many more ineffective heads are set to roll..The most prominent change might be that of zafarullah jamali who could be replaced by humayun akhter...zafarullah jamali's boat might sink as he just wanted to coast along without thinking of the people..he seems unable to increase development despite teh huge resources available to the government...The government has been unable to initiate any new thinking and is accused of being unable to represent pakistan properly in international forums...combined with musharaf they have attacked pakistans few respectable scientists and are also suggesting giving up teh nuclear detterent...???
Jun9--Ghulam Rahim is almost teh defacto chief minister of sindh and no vote has yet taken place...Many are suggesting that teh PPP which claims a majority in sindh is being challenged to standup and be counted...Others suggest that Nisar Khuhro the sindh PPP chief was initially behind ghulam rahim as a former PPP colleague but he was too anti benazir...
Jun8--PCB has hired two cricket consultants for two months at the cost of over $200000 which is more than teh cricket teams entire annual salary...One doubts that such part time measures would be of any particular help either at the academy or to teh cricket team... many are suggesting that these are payoffs for the bets that general(sic) musharaf lost...others are suggesting that they are buying out the australians and south africans in advance and the loss to the indians was also part of teh scenario...????
Jun8--The senate calls for replacing outdated distribution transformers... and building new grid stations...to reduce losses...New distribution transformers are really needed to maintain the voltage fluctuations..new Grid stations are needed only when distribution lines get too long...Losses are caused in teh pakistani system of electricity distribution due to theft and teh long high voltage lines... something that cannot be rectified...
Jun8--The zafarullah regime is to demolish over 70 illegal mosques in islamabad...??
The MMA rejects calls fro zafarullahs removal and suggest that teh army is creating hatreds between tribes in wana at the behest of foreign countries...
Sindh seems to have been teh main troublemaker in teh NFC negotiations...they apparently wanted 6% more than the other provinces which was rejected by teh other provinces ...The other provinces regard sindhs collection issue as the direct result of inordinate financing of sindhs development over the last fifty years...Sindh also wants all the sales tax which includes that of products sold in other provinces...A huge number of taxes that are the property of other provinces are collected in karachi as many organisations have a centralised tax system...The federal resource distribution already has many aspects which give provincial preferences such as gas surcharges, electricity royalties etc...The best method is to distribute all resources on teh basis of population and the center take care of teh underdeveloped areas from its huge development funds...Upto now karachi has continued to eat at the funds of other areas developed or underdeveloped...
Jun8--The tribal lashkar has started a search operation to satisfy the army which is hellbent on finding foreign fighters who might already have left teh area anyway...
Jun8--38 died as truck fell into a ravine in the abottabad area...
Jun8--The indians have suggested that they will follow any agreements that vajpayee had with pakistan...No particular agreement was made public apart from statements of intent...Initially teh foreign ministers have failed to reach a solution on the final kashmir border as teh the indians have offered teh status quo which pakistan finds impossible to accept...
Jun8--curfew continues in gilgit
Jun8--Sindh chief minister Ali Mahar who was a surprise choice initially resigned...many suggest that he was unable to control the mqm inspired violence in karachi and supposedly refused to sit with criminals and murderers...The mqm which has been incharge of the sindh home ministry refused to take any responsibility as usuaL...Sindh as usual has been griping about water and NFC awards and despite the mqm being incharge has been unable to control the violence/situation in the mohajir areas...Others suggest that zafarullah who is slow in matters of responsibility was initially reluctant to change the scenario in sindh as it would point to him as the next probable change required to instill confidence in the military rule..Finally chaudhry shujaat who initially wanted a coalition with the PPP was literally controlled by the mqm and agreed to remove teh sindhi chief minister...The mqm thinks that eventually the chief ministership will come to them..however their attitude in suppressing literally all opponents in karachi has left them with no sindhi supporters...Arbab Ghulam Rahim is to be the new chief minister... many are now suggesting that musharaf will move soon to replace teh sindh governor and eventually zafarullah Jamali will be shunted out and a punjabi brought into the primeministership...it is rumoured that initially the mqm had opposed arbab ghulam rahim who has been in almost all parties and is a known turncoat...
Jun7--The sindh government showed its low popularity by a poor turnout at its solidarity rally...karachiites obviously prefer ethnic and sectarian tensions, riots and burning of cars, police stations, petrol pumps and foreign fast food outlets...
Jun7--Chaudhry shujaat suggests that zafarullah has many opponents for the primeministerial slot...shujaat and zafarullah differ on party organisation,mannerisms of consultation with other political parties, changes necessary in sindh and many believe the low level of interest shown by jamali in the development of punjab...many believe that shujaat is under pressure from punjab mna's to remove zafarullah and the sindh government...zafarullah many suggest in such situations tries to get shelter from musharaf and the punjab chief minister...many are already joking that allah does not protect pakistani primeministers for too long...chaudhry shujaat and sonia gandhi many suggest have many things in common...
Jun7--seven die in lahore rainstorm while teh army killed three for violating teh curfew in gilgit...
Jun7--The countries budget tobe Rs901 billion...
Jun7--The officials of UNHCR and five NGO's have closed their offices and moved to a hotel from their residernces...due to the turbulent situation and threats...
Jun7--The Dawn suggests that a nawaz sharif move to remove musharaf in cooperation with Benazir is underway...?
Jun7---Search operations by a tribal lashkar begins in shakai as tribes in the hilly areas suggest that there no alqaeda types around...
Jun7--Natwar Singh denied he made any remarks about pakistani terrorism...
Jun6--The government to continue to waste budget funds needlessly on the agricultural sector apart from providing further relief in terms of pricing of inputs...Apparently half the budget tobe spent on the affluent sectors of the rural areas...However in the rural areas wealth is focused on teh landowners and industrialists who have continued to benefit from GOP largesse since teh sixties...Most people in teh Pakistani rural areas have continued to limp along watching wealth concentration and ayashi of the political and landowning class of families...Improvement in infrastructure facilities such as drinking water, sewage, health, living standards suffer as local governments have literally no funds...The only development seen in rural areas is usually bad quality farm to market roads and attempts at poor quality health services...No particular attentions seems tobe focused on urban areas where problems mainly civic and people need attention..Despite the huge inputs into the rural areas the urban areas far oustretch them in provision of employment, health and education facilities...One would suggest that the eighty billions in loans to farmers be reallocated to improve the living standards rather than individual wealth enhancement...
Jun6--The portly zafarullah and teh tense shujaat continue to have serious differences...many now regard zafarullah as a poor choice as primeminister and shaukat aziz as an even worse finance minister...Zafarullah thinks that he will not be removed as primeminister as teh PML punjab will never reach a consensus on any candidate...Like the opposition many in the PML now think that the time is ripe for administrative changes in teh center and sindh...The sindh government is unpopular and zafarullah just looks like a politician with no direction and any real following in matters of policy...Regarded by many as the militaries puppet he seems to think that responsibility of events in the country donot rest on him personally...He also seems to have the faulty thinking that allah makes primeministers...Many before him fell into the same trap...and lost the government as well as their lives...
Jun6--An FC vehicle ran over a mine as it was hunting bandits in sukkur...
Jun6--In gilgit the government seems tobe moving towards giving the shiites a status seperate from muslims as they want their seperate rites and seperate thinking included in the curriculum...Upto now islamiyat mainly focused on basic islamic teachings and generally consensus views of islamic history...
Jun6--After almost six months of wranglings anti government tribes are to allow a one time search in the shagai area..
Jun6--The provincial governments have almost succeeded in upping their share by almost Rs28billion to Rs202 billion...
Jun6--UN ,ngo's warned about suicuide attacks in quetta
Jun6--India offering gas pipelines to both bangladesh and pakistan...many in pakistan regard gas pipelines to india as problematic as both countries never agree on anything and security for even pakistani gaspipelines has been difficult to maintain...
Jun5--Musharaf without consulting anyone has offered nuclear disarmament to india...One doubts if such a move move is possible with the huge advantage that india has in conventional weapons...such concessions are generally regarded as impossible and a nuclear free south asia is no longer possible...musharaf many suggest should have his head examined...Pakistan has not made any headway with india on any sort of negotiations since the early seventies...
Jun5--The musharaf led government has failed to reach any agreement on the next NFC...with the smaller provinces especially sindh wanting todo away with the constitutional position of population based sharing no agreement is possible...
June 5--According to dawn the allocations for islamabad are still stuck at Rs.1 billion that they used to get in the nawaz sharif era ie almost five years ago...many peopel have been wondering where the funds have been going as despite last years Rs160 billion there is no visible increase in development activities...according to some people Shaukat aziz has actually bought the Habib Bank with government funds...
June 5--The government in a move to get greater publicity from pro government papers has decided to give them tv licenses..nine newspapers to benefit
Jun5--The military and the government many suggest are carrying out useless missile tests to fool the people and get photo opportunities looking at the sky while missiles are fired...
Jun5--In what many regard as the militaries last exercise before musharaf is relieved from the position of cOAS the army continues to build up forces in wana where the military suffered a setback in march against former guerrillas...The tribes have been unable to satisfy the army and the military has been taking women and children hostage and economically blockading the wana area...The military is looking for al qaeda types to register however both the army and the tribes have been unable to carry out the exercise as yet...The army went in looking for senior al qaeda figures and now has fallen back to a position of registering foreign fighters who seem unwilling as are their hosts...The standoff continues till last reports....
Jun5--Chauddhry shujaat is backing off from offering a coalition to the PPP in sindh who wanted teh chief ministership since they are the largest party...However many suggest that the PML might bring in senior figures from its own lot after the PPP refused...
Jun5--The speaker of the national assembly has refused to bring javed hashmi to attend the national assembly...