• May31--Forex resrves rise to 5.45billion
• May31--15 indians killed while seven pakistanis also killed in firing across the LOC
• May31--Pakistan, turkmenistan and afghanistan signed a gas pipline agreement from turkmenistan to gwadar..
• May30--Nancy Powell tobe next US ambassador to pakistan
• May30--Monsoon to restrict indian military options suggests the News..
• May30--Nisar memon suggests that the future primeminister will have all powers and that there will be no power sharing between musharaf and the government..Musharaf and his cronies have however been suggesting a different dominating toppling scenario..
• may29--after a severe heat wave thunderstorms struck major punjab areas in lahore and muzaffargarh killing 14 ..wind speeds rose upto 200 km
• may29--jaswant singh has rejected the idea of indo pakistan talks in kazakhastan
• may29--pakistan tests a 180km range missile..pakistan seems to have suddenly stopped its missile testing program under US pressure...pakistan will now build up its missile arsenal which is supposed tobe its first and last line of defence...Pakistan will pepper indian targets with hundreds of missiles in case of a large scale attack while pulverising teh indian armies ground attack thru airstrikes and artillery fire...US stil thinks that pakistani missiles are made from chinese components...
• may28--musharaf seems to have lost teh consultative support of teh countries major political groups which has made him look like an unelected useless dictator that he is...many suggest that things might have moved on if he had held elections early and handed over power...
• may28--pakistan tests 290km missile...
• may28--musharaf in an attempt to regain the prestige and support lost during the referendum fiasco attempted to look tough against india in a speech despite his known pro indian nature...many regard musharaf as a has been and he will be quickly sidelined by the elected government that comes into power after the October elections...he rejected cross border infiltration allegations and repeated his hackneyed stance on kashmir...he has reportedly assured the indians that no infiltration into occupied kashmir will take place from azad kashmir...many now refer to musharaf as a paper tiger..or toothless arafat..
• may27--pakistan conducted two missile tests on the 26th and 27th..no specific technical improvements were announced...the tests therefore can only be designed to announce some independence from US policy..The missiles were named ghauri-3 and shaheen-3..india is considered tobe teh only target for these missiles..one of the missiles was fired from jhelum and landed in teh arabian sea..
• may26--musharafs policies have been a mix of previous military regimes...trying to be a ayub, yahya, zia at various stages...similarities with a previous dictator are continuing to emerge as musharaf nears the end of his three years dictatorship...Now Putin is to host an india-pakistan summit in kazakhastan...anyone remember taskent...?
• may25--india could be possibly planning a surprise/sneak attack on pakistan despite US/EU led efforts to dampen the situation...
• may25--possibly 3-12 million people could be killed if a nuclear war breaks out between india and pakistan
• may25--reports suggest that pakistan army and musharaf are to intensify actions against terrorists and pro kashmir liberation groups in further evidence of the militaries appeasement policies..pakistan army attempts to ensure that no pakistani groups enter occupied kashmir...this is an apparently impossible task given indians refusal to negotiate on kashmir and the type of border
• may25--india backs out of its border terrorism stance and gives musharaf two more months to implement pro indian agenda...
• may25--pakistan army chief general Yusuf threatens to invade india if it launched any attack on pakistan...
• may25--pakistan announces four day delayed missile tests from May25-28 to coincide with nuclear tests anniversary ..pakistan has been hesitating in conducting further missile tests under US pressures...
• may24--india foreign secretary literally uses harsh language in browbeating pakistani envoy..who fires back in same tone..
• may24--pakitsan army to get more funds despite its huge allocation of over Rs150 billion...
• may24--vajpayee disappointed with son of india musharaf...refuses to include pakistan in talks on kashmir--suggests that war threats are mere hyperventilation although lightening attacks still possible..?
• may24--washington expects a terrorist attack in pakistan says US ambassador
• may23--thousands attend Lone funeral in srinagar
• may23--Uk pulls out embassy staff from pakistan and closes visa offices as terrorist threats mount...
• may23--india moves naval assets to teh arabian sea to further threaten pakistan...
• may23--police informant involved in daniel pearl murder suggests the press..more suicidal attacks possible in pakistan...
• may23--war mongerer vajpayee calls for a decisive battle
• may23--India military designs unclear as it may opt for a limited war in kashmir or start a broader conflict by invading the lightly defended sindh area as well as attack the karachi port by air and sea...india has moved two new divisions to teh kashmir area from teh chinese border...
• may22--one killed in karachi sectarian riots
• may22--india refuses to pull back its forces from the border under US pressure
• may22--ARD not to cooperate with musharaf and only willing to support army in current situation..
• may22--APHC member Abdul Ghani Lone shot dead in Srinagar...a pro pakistan seperatist his killing could only be indian orchestrated...While supporting pakistans non violent approach some suggest he was willing to participate in elections...
• may21--India rejects pakistan call for observers on the LOC...many are suggesting that musharaf is looking increasingly like a toothless arafat in his attempts to appease india...
• may21--PIA inaugural flight leaves for kabul
• may21--India continues firing across LOC and border
• may20--India intensifies threats of war by putting paramilitaries and coast guards under army and naval commands.. some suggest that the BSF and indian coastguards have been mounting independent undercover operations against pakistan... india continued shelling of chakothi, bhimber and sialkot areas where death tolls have risen to 12..
• may20--pakistan army/musharaf continue to pull the nation away from real democracy towards a military controlled semi dictatorship...amendments to increase the power of unelected government officials such as the military chief, president and NSC being planned...
• may20--The ARD the only people controlled political group in pakistan demands the removal of musharaf's pro appeasement dictatorship and supports the army in handling teh indian attempts at escalation of war hysteria...
• may20--The government according to press reports is trying uninvolved or semi involved people in teh Daniel Pearl case and new accused seem to have surfaced...A retrial maybe necessary...
• may20--India may threaten the discontinuation of the Indus water treaty...many suggest that in that case india will have no right to water from the rivers ravi, sutlej, beas and chenab...India has for some time been attempting to divert more water from these rivers than allowed...
• may20--US setting up military base near the iranian border in afghanistan
• may20--deaths from the heat wave in central and lower pakistan have reached 68...
• may20--india contemplating cross border air strikes but hampered only by possible retaliatory planning
• May19--India expells pakistani ambassador
• May19--Unmanned US spy plane crashes near Jacobabad
• May19--Decapitated body of Daniel Pearl found
• May19--pakistan which has backed out from retaliating against indian aggression in the form of terrorism and shooting down of its planes now plans to retaliate with full force if the indians launch any sort of attack
• May19--current heat wave to help ease water crisis
• May18--Seven indian soldiers and four pakistani civilians killed as heavy exchange of fire takes place along the LOC...
• May18--Commonwealth describes musharafs fraudulent referendum as a deviation from the roadmap to democracy..
• May18--A fire broke out at an army depot near Jhelum
• may18--balochistan accuses sindh of stealing its share of irrigation water
• May17--Three arrested men lead karachi police to the place where Daniel pearl was buried..
• May17--several thousand attend Riaz Basra funeral at rural village...
• May16--Former lashkar e taiba chief hafiz saeed arrested in response to indian demands to stop infiltration...
• may15--In what is being seen as a non judicial killing the countries most anti shiite group LJ leader Riaz Basra was gunned down alongwith four associates by villagers and police...Responsible for numerous anti shiite murders Riaz Basra was apparently arrested a month ago while returning fron afghanistan and killed in police custody...
• may15-- Kashmiri mujahideen raided an indian army camp and killed 34
• May15--india refuses troops pullback from borders
• May15--The US has apparently refused to extradite former Sindh Chiefminister Abdullah Shah
• May15--About 40 people have died due to a heat wave in the central parts of teh country
• may11--The musharaf govt seems to have a hit list of 50 LJ activists..whom they think will know about the attack on the french agosta workers..
• May10--The musharaf regime has launched a countrywide arrest campaign to locate the french agosta terrorists..
• May10--Military preparing for missile tests to cover for referendum fiasco and recover ground lost to political opponents at home
• May9--14 killed as suicide bomber crashes car into french agosta submarine workers bus in karachi...
• May9--Two cops shot dead by cycle riding terrorists in rawalpindi
• May9--Another suicide bomber kills 17 in israel
• May8--IRSA approves Thal Canal by majority vote...Sindh refuses to give up its useless water politics...
• May8--Shiite scholar ghulam murtaza shot dead in lahore
• May8--In a country with over 28% poverty the musharaf military regime was unable to spend Rs23 billion in zakat funds
• May7--Anti muslim violence in the indian state of gujerat has so far claimed over 900 lives..
• May7--A six party pro musharaf alliance formed which consists of many one man parties..included are farook leghari, Mustafa Jatoi, tahirul Qadri, ajmal khattak, mumtaz bhutto...
• may4--Munir Akram replaces Shamshad ahmed as pakistans representative to teh UN
• May4--Elections to the national and provincial assemblies could be held simultaneously on October12
• May3--One dead in two karachi explosions as mqm shuts down karachi and hyderabad to protest murder of two mqm workers...
• May3--Musharaf proved dishonest as he describes referendum as fair and transparent..In fact it was a disgusting display of a power hungry military elite which does not want to leave power
• May2--Musharaf says referendum turnout over 70%...actually it was little more than0- 5%
• may2--two bomb blasts in karachi ahead of mqm strike call
• may2--CEC suggests that 43.9 million out of 62 million voters cast their vote in the referndum..However polling booths were empty all over the country soon after they opened and only about 0-5% people cast ballotts..This shows the extreme dishonesty of the military and judiciary..
• may1--massive cordinated military-judiciary-police rigging/irregularities in referendum