• May2—In partial payment for his support during the military coup of Oct12 Lt gen. Muzaffar Usmani the corp commander Karachi has been made DCOAS a position used only by martial law administrators so as not to lose the authority of the army..Pervez Musharraf waited almost 20 months for usmani to become the seniormost Lt general thus making it apparent that he did not like the other probably non muhajir lt generals..This shows that there are obvious ethnic problems amongst the armies generals..The only achievement that can be said tobe responsible for muzaffers promotion is his handling/codling of the mqm and his being a muhajir
• May2--Despite the unprecedented deployment of army and numerous arrests of leaders and workers the ARD succeeded in staging a dozen rallies in Karachi
• May4--The hardnosed pro military Wendy Chamberlain is being appointed as US ambassador to Pakistan to handle pakistans military govt..
• May4—The US has assured Shaukat Aziz of support in new loans and removal of sanctions
• May5—In retaliation for a bomb blast in a nearby mosque in which an iranian sunni leader was killed angry mobs attacked the Iranian consulate in Heart and set it ablaze
• May5—The controversial nawaz sharif IG sind Rana Maqbool was acquitted of all charges by a NAB accountability court
• May6—Protestors again attacked the Iranian consulate in herat and torched two Shiite imambargahs while taliban guards escorted consulate staff to the Iranian border
• Four people died due to a heat wave in sialkot, lodhran and multan
• May8—Police SP shot dead in DI khan by motor cycle killers
• May15—33 die in two days due to a persistent heatwave.Acording to The News 80 have died in the last two weeks..Pakistan is facing a drought like situation for the third year in a row
• An interior sind town is under curfew after two were killed in a sectarian row between the SSP and the TNFJ
• May16—18 people have died in three days of clashes between the Turi and mangal tribes in Kurram agency
• May18—5 killed in ANF raid on a drug smugglers hideout in Hub
• May19--6 killed in karachi as possible sectarianists ambush the van of Sunni Tehreek leader Salim Qadri
• Retired Admiral Mansur tobe sent back to Pakistan
• May21--Police suggest that the killers of Salim Qadri belong to the LJ .
• May24—India ends ceasefire in Kashmir and invites musharaf for meaningless talks
• May26—Tidal waves lashed the sind coast as a cyclone neared the coast..emergency evacuations from coastal areas have begun..
• May27—Musharaf accepts Indian invitation for talks
• May28—Over 500 arrested on eve of sunni tehreek strike in Karachi
• May29—One person died and eight vehicles were torched in violence as a strike crippled Karachi on a sunni tehreek call.
• Director Engineering, PIA sacked due to two mishaps-- an explosion in a pia aircraft toilet and a fokker door flying off during flight..Most surmise that another post is being created for a retired military official..