May2008

May30-2008--Salman Taseer says PPP reccommended me for the job even though he is not regarded too highly amongst PPP supporters...general perceptions were that the PPP had reccommended khalid kharal..salman taseer regarded as being too close to teh coup plotters and his press empire routinely printed reports aginst PPP leaders
May30-2008--musharaf being obstinate...refuses to vacate army house or leave...rumours relate to transfer of brig asim bajwa who many say might have been inching towards trouble...head of 111 brigade which routinely has launched into coups
May30-2008-- Soomrus early return from a foreign tour causes speculation of either a military coup, musharaf's resignation or a joint sitting if musharaf refuses to sign constitution amendment...
May30-2008--Yusuf Raza who has turned into a musharaf puppet says coalition and parliament to decide on musharaf's fate...
May30-2008--sherry rehman also jumps into musharaf camp and says democratic culture(musharaf controlled) is flourishing despite parliament being completely out of the picture...decisions like kalabagh increasingly being made by individuals...there is nothing in the constitution which gives any power to provincial assemblies
May30-2008--Yusuf Raza who yesterday saw musharaf as a democracy supporter today says" Military rule brings about further polarisation in the polity, New divisions ... between the civil and military bureaucracies; between those who collaborate with military rulers and those who oppose them; and the regions and minorities, who do not feel genuinely represented"
May30-2008--Rupee rises to 67.32 to the dollar
May30-2008--Mehsud is spending between Rs 2.5 - 3 billion yearly on procuring weapons, equipment, vehicles, treating wounded militants and keeping families of killed militants fed,” says frontier governor surmising that funding is thru narcotics smuggling..
May30-2008--was army funding militants who than refused to follow orders..?
May30-2008--AQ Khan critisizes musharaf for dragging the country into a mess and not being able to develop after achieving defence self reliance...
May30-2008--Zardari supports tribal engagement which does not mean that militants will not be dealt with...tribal leaders must control local violence, spread of arms and encourage education and development
May30-2008--Raja Riaz the PPP leader in punjab says that PPP wants musharaf dealt with amicably...
May30-2008--punjabis and mohajirs riot in quetta over killings by BLA...BLA has to realize that a lot of baloch live in the punjab too..BLA opened fire on railway colony killing four..nobody has a right to kill anyone brothers or not...
May30-2008--rumours takeoff that musharaf could be gone in days as the architect of the musharaf-ppp reconciliation ashfak kiani calls on musharaf..ppp's doves who dominate teh cabinet start to worry and say nothing said about musharafs exit in talks with coas...
May29-2008--lawyer wants SC to get army house vacated which is under illegal occupation by one pervez musharaf...
May29-2008--PPP to bring forth constitutional reforms on Jun2...
May29-2008--both zardari and nawaz sharif want musharaf removed..with nawaz sharif against a safe exit
May29-2008--six die in bajaur blast
May29-2008--stock exchange falls to nine month low
May29-2008--The primeminister of unprecedented price hikes suggests that the budget will suddenly be helpful to the lower income groups...while his finance minister says just the opposite...
May29-2008--salman taseer suggests that punjabs development is hostage to the wishes of other provinces..kalabagh said tobe an example of a project ostracized because of its location in punjab by two anti punjab provinces...
May29-2008-- Many in the PPP and outside have started thinking of a second primeminister and many say faryal talpur maybe one of the leading cadidates...
May29-2008--while the USA does not oppose its own cross border activities its senator feigold suggests that they oppose militants attempts to take actions across the border...tribals donot have much access across the border and unlike teh americans many in pakistan support calming down militant activities inside pakistan...crossing the border to undertake militant activities inside afghanistan is really not possible as militants have little or no transportation and most crossing points are monitored...anyway not many militants can successfully crossover and undertake any effective militant activity in afghanistan and american intellgence is at best dubious inits estimates of tribal strengths as the pakistan military has been able to successfully encircle and restrict their activities...
May29-2008--truce declared in darra adamkhel
May29-2008--asif zardari who has not done much to make parliament supreme suggests that pro martial law groups becoming active again...while peoples lawyers forum refuses to participate in a lawyers long march
May29-2008--yusuf raza thinks that he is providing subsidy on petroleum products and wheat...there is only a five rupee subsidy on wheat in punjab and petroleum prices are higher than the USA...
May29-2008--baloch nationalists protest on the tenth annversary of the nuclear test and suggest that the baloch have nothing to do with national reconciliation...asif zardari should interactwith all the baloch in this respect
May29-2008--The USA wants pakistan to be frightened of al qaeda while the pakistanis are more frightened of militant suicide bombers of varying hues and colors...
May29-2008--army man amongst four killed in quetta
May29-2008--PIA to increase fares on loss making haj ventures...
May29-2008--clashes between militants and army in dera bugti, kohlu...two 32 KVA power lines blownup
May29-2008--akhter mengal ready to talk to the PPP
May28-2008--government again seems tobe falling for negative WB advice by agreeing to raise oil prices by a whopping 75 %...it is almost impossible to see the pakistani economy surviving such an increase...pakistani oil prices are already higher than US retail prices of around $3.75 per gallon...only option available to the government is reduce all taxes on oil to zero...
May28-2008--The PML n agrees on some aspects of the constitutional package if judges are reinstated and musharaf is impeached...With PPP leaders looking like musharaf controlled puppets afraid of even making a move...other PMln reports suggest that some of them agree that zardari might only be feinting with a constitutional package which could only be pushed thru as normal passage would take a long time... they at the moment donot have an obvious two third majority in parliament or in a joint sitting... and that judges reinstatement is complicated...it all boils down to teh militaries Nov 3 actions and accepting a judgement issued by seven judges of teh SC which was over ridden by teh PCO courts...a simple statement by the primeminister suggesting the illegality of musharafs actions and asking the old judges to attend courts and the new judges to go home is the easiest way...
May28-2008--the RPA or Raja Loadshedding statement on the kalabagh dam has been ridiculed in punjab and only welcomed in sindh...farmers bodies and punjab politicians and government opposed teh move without consultation or discussion in the CCI or parliament...
May28-2008--US threatening to kill pakistani politicians if they dont stop talking peace with militants...?
May28-2008--five of the mangal bagh group die in orakzai in inter militant clashes
May28-2008--government to further increase peoples woes by increasing wheat prices to Rs800/40kg..
May28-2008--Nawaz Sharif withdraws from NA-52 leaving his son in law...?
May28-2008--Yusuf Raza Gilani despite not being able to get a single governor appointed or even have the controversial cricket chief or attorney general changed says musharaf was showing goodwill for democracy despite his military dictatorship actions against teh judiciary and people...gilani turning into a turncoat many suggest...many say his origins are also rooted in supporting military regimes and might be a military mole......there is not much evidence of any democracy yet...nothing has been even discussed or approved in parliament... teh PPP seems tobe attempting its dictatorship orientations by trying to force approval of its actions by just being in power...the PPP in its constitutional amendement only attempting to exert dictatorial influences for the primeminister rather than bringing parliament into the picture to approve serious appointees like the COAS , CEC, and attorney general etc...musharaf on the other hand still resides in teh COAS house and has apparently not even handed over teh primeministers plane...one fails to notice any goodwill to democracy yet..?
May27-2008--a pervez elahi tape is making the rounds i which he suggests using PCO judges to plot against teh candidature of teh sharifs...
May27-2008--taleban allow girls to attend schools in mohmand and the army to use roads
May27-2008--minister suggests that the kalabagh dam has been shelved for good without even a discussion in parliament...in the punjab dams are being considered useless as they are not filled until august and have little utility for most of the populace...since punjab is not to benefit from dams they be built from the resources of other provinces..
May27-2008--The budget should have no taxes as the rising prices of everything has sapped the peoples economics...tax relief for industrialists and exporters but not the people is not good economics...any increase in taxation either thru new taxes or expansion should be quickly nullified by the government as it it always comes out of teh pockets of the people...all taxation on energy ie electricity,gas and petroleum products should be ended and all subsidies should be replaced by tax reductions to zero...there should be no financial benefits or loans for agriculturists anymore as they donot provide cheap produce anymore......development does not benefit the poor
May27-2008--seven killed in Di khan in possible sectarian incidents
May27-2008--ghazan marri in exile in london issued pakistani passport
May26-2008--presidency denies reports to replace pervez kiani are COAS...repports sugegst that teh chaudhries pinpointed kiani as teh problem for them and discussed various options with musharaf...yusuf raza gilani too many say has considerd bringing in a seraiki army chief...?
May26-2008-- Zardari says PPP could muster support for impeachment...zardaris best friends teh mqm would obviously have to oppose the removal of a mohajir president with others saying the ANP and JUIf would also oppse with some in the PPP opposingany confrontation...it was rumoured that musharaf had agreed to leave in april in negotiations with benazir...zardari and ishaq dar agree to five year tenure for CJ judges..a three year NFC also thought tobe mere trouble making
May26-2008--custodian of akber bugtis lands killed...
May26-2008--iftikhar chaudhry to punish PCO judges...
May26-2008--Junoon performs in srinagar despite opposition from pro pakistani circles and militants...
May26-2008--glacier bursts in hunza
May25-2008--another PMLn VP seriously imjured in traffic accident
May25-2008--PPP's constitutional amendment probably the first it is tabling since the bhutto era includes many controversial changes...apart from teh army chief now judges too can be guilty of treason for abrogating teh constitution...the trecherous and treason list should also include all coup participating lt generals, beaurocrats and lawyers such as shariffuddin pirzada and possibly politicians such as the chaudhries...
May25-2008--apart from changes that shift power to teh primeminister.. nwfp changes to pukhtunkhwa and five minority senate members are added...holding two official positions is banned...people in service cannot participate in elections and critisizing country and army not reasons for disqualification...NFC every three years and consultation with political parties necessary for caretaker setup..shortens concurrant list which earlier they wanted to abolish...no more than two full terms for president..
May25-2008--zardari says impeachment of musharaf certain but we expect him to walk away...
May25-2008--important positions should be filled by parliament rather than the individual primeminister...at the minimum it should be discussed in cabinet and parliament
May25-2008--Rehmat shah afridi who ran the the english paper frontier post and who was convicted of running hashish thru a chain of trucks released on parole...he says he was arrested for critisizing the army led ANF
May25-2008--mehsud says he wants to stop fighting teh pakistan army but that jihad in afghanistan would continue and refuses to cooperate in benazir assassination
May25-2008--PMLq says that PPP cannot get the constitutional amendment thru the senate without their support...
May25-2008--US says that a low level explosives expert was killed in the strike on jandola
May25-2008--two policemen and a civilian killed in roadside bombs in peshawar and bara
May25-2008--Faryal Talpur elected unopposed as PPP-sb's mumtaz gopans papers rejected...
May25-2008--clash at torkham border
May25-2008--main roads opened in south waziristan
May25-2008--PMLn calls for musharafs impeachment and says he was involved in the benazir assassination..calls for bringing back shaukat aziz, bilal musharaf, iftikhar hussein shah, IB heads in punjab and sindh to be questioned in the investigations by a commission
May24-2008--PMLn vp tariq khan shot dead by motorcycle killers in karachi
May24-2008--KSE crashes as SBP restricts cash flows
May24-2008--PPP prepares 62 point package for constitutional amendment
May24-2008--shahzain bugti a bugti grandson freed frommach jail
May24-2008--PMLn, ANP, JUIf support zardari against musharaf
May24-2008--call to induct locals in sindh rangers
May24-2008--six rockets fired on kohat
May24-2008--banks which have been profiting at the expense of depositors to lose 20% in profits under new rules
May23-2008--some oomph being pumped into PPP asit shifts from its limping reconciliation strategy..Asif zardari refers to musharaf as a relic of the past who is a blockage between the people and democracy saying controversially that people want him removed and not electricity or food..PPP spokesman says that they will wring the constitutional changes to shift power back to the people...
May23-2008--shamshad akhter who has literally been letting teh countries economy go down the drain says that discount rate hike to 12% reduce inflation and government borrowing tobe reduced from next fiscal year...asks banks to offer a pitiable 5% on PLS deposits..says government borrowing out of control and has reached Rs950 billion...government says privatization of HBL, kot addu is the answer while privatisation has failled to deliver in the past...proliferation of valuless banking services an indication of misdirected privatization...governor wants this years privatization/FE inflows tobe used to pay for borrowings...
May23-2008--express tv journalist shot dead in inayat kalay
May23-2008--Iftikhar chaudhry says judge's are sorry to have taken oath under PCO's and supported martial laws with dubious reasoning and doctrines...but praises PMln for stepping down from teh cabinet in support of a quick judges reinstatement...
May23-2008--militants say sharia enforcement necessary for deal...while people show some happiness at lessening of a warlike situation in swat...government sources say both systems of judiciary to function together..peaceful intent required from militants
May23-2008--ministers plan visit to UN to request UN investigation into Benazir assassination
May23-2008--musharaf to resign if 58-2b removed..musharaf has still not vacated teh army house
May23-2008--wheat procurement thru private sector tob Rs21 per kg and flour to retail at Rs25 per kg in sindh...
May23-2008--Punjab PPP's successful PPP chief shah mahmood qureshi tobe replaced by Qasim Zia
May23-2008--federal government refuses protocol to iftikhar chaudhry while punjab government allows...
May22-2008--pakistan and india make no significant announcement after talks as pakistan prepares to offer a grand reconciliation
May22-2008--the nwfp government and swat militants announce an agreement to renounce violence and turn Imam Dheri into a university militants dropped their main planks opposing girls schools, barbers and music shops...government to impose shariah in teh area
May22-2008--two girls schools destroyed,a gas pipeline bombed,two picnic points and a house burnt and a policeman killed in an attack on a checpost in swat by militants opposed to teh agreement...suggesting a split in the swat militancy...
May22-2008--private sector allowed to import wheat as shortfall tobe over five million tonnes...import surcharge ended
May22-2008--bara militants kill four of an mna's family
May22-2008--US opposed to talks with pakistans internal militants..pakistan says it is talking to tribals
May22-2008--three more ministers in baloch cabinet of 44
May22-2008--oil moves to $132 and pakistani rupee reached Rs70.40 to teh dollar...
May22-2008--AQ Khan appears in public after a four year detention
May22-2008--ship breakers association head killed in hub
May22-2008--Ogra suggest 30% raise in gas prices..which would result in higher electricity prices as petroleum prices continue to surge...
May20-2008--PPP bringing forward a comprehensive 18th amendment bill to teh constitution which will restrict the presidents powers to appoint/transfer armed forces chiefs, CEC, disallow change in oaths for teh army chief and judges and not allow any PCo's..it will also bring about a reinstatement of judges but it is controversial as they too want to retain teh PCo judges despite wanting to restrict directly a PCO...there is no provision for coups or PCO's in teh constitution and neither teh army chief can order any changes in teh constitution nor the judiciary...58-2b would be repealed and judges who support a military chief or coup will be liable tobe proscuted for high treason...under a normal process teh constitution cannot be used to protect particular individuals and whether teh bill will repeal any protections for previous army chiefs involved in high treason is yet tobe seen...providing protection to musharaf and his actions would obviously make teh PPP look like it has a duality of vision... protecting one group of coup plotting army chiefs and judges and not others...
May20-2008--the PMlq law minister says teh reference against teh CJ was not prepared by the law ministry and that shuakat aziz is a liar...he says he defended teh reference out of cowardice...
May20-2008--zardari acquitted in drugs case as well
May20-2008--three die in bajaur after an explosion outside a mosque
May20-2008--The controversial punjab politician manzur ahmed wattoo quits the PMlq as he becomes an advisor...a former nawaz sharif associate he has run around with all parties and became a punjab chief minister with benazirs support..in theory he should quit his NA membership
May20-2008--pakistan explains its aim in controlling the fata region to bush...the USA was almost happy when the militants set of a wave of suicide bombings in pakistan...however the new pakistani governments have succeeded in exerting some control...pakistan feels that teh uSA should control the region that it occupies and pakistan should serve its own internal interests as there is no terrorism in teh USA...
May20-2008--Balochistan CM appeals for a ceasefire from all sides as provincial assembly urges supply of power from Uch and hub power plants
May20-2008--JUI-f wins NA-25 Tank as SC refuses repolling despite non signatures on most polling station results...
May20-2008--Sindh government has still not started to instigate proceedings of criminal negligence in the shershah bridge collapse which includes improper design
May20-2008--It takes Wapda eight days to repair 500 KV tower and resume supplies to peshawar..
May20-2008--pakistan army totally destroys spinkai razakai a medium sized town in the mehsud area as over 200, 000 are reported to have been displaced or left teh area
May20-2008--Dr Asim Hussein becomes teh head of teh NRB
May20-2008--three killed in hub area in ongoing seperatist or anti establishment violence
May19-2008--Bush says kashmir ripe for solution...?
May19-2008--aitezaz ahsan quits electoral contest in NA55
May19-2008--suicide bomber attacks military run bakery in mardan killing 12...darra admakhel militants claim resposibility
May19-2008--72 security personnel who refused to work on musharafs VVIP route reinstated
May18-2008--tariq azizuddin freed by militants in a seeming quid pro quo as agreement with mehsuds nears...there has been a general exhange of prisoners by both sides...the government has not released important prisoners and the militants still hold 20-25 soldiers...
May18-2008--wheat hoarders stocks tobe confiscated and auctioned...
May18-2008--lawyers to start another long march on jun10 if judges not reinstated...there is a general feeling that musharfs personal vendetta has gone on long enough and the government should end it by a simple order restoring teh judges...since musharafs actions despite a controversial Sc validation are universally regarded as illegal...
May18-2008--karachiites lynch another robber
May18-2008--Yusuf Raza Gilani says he is not a hostage to musharafs actions and is only attempting to form a controversial working relationship despite reservations in everything that musharaf does...attends sourth waziristan briefing and wings off to cairo for three days...
May18-2008--Aftab Shaban mirani wins in repolling...in NA202 shikarpur
May18-2008--Pakistans shah mahmood qureshi under the mistaken impression that good relations will lead to a kaahmir solution--CBM's not making LOC irrelevant in effect it is almost becoming a defacto border...
May18-2008--rocket fired at Zaida police sation in swabi disrupts electricity supply
May18-2008--punjab refuses to hand over drug king rehmat shah afridi to the center for release...
May18-2008--Yusuf raza gilani appoints manzur wattoo a PMLq supporter as advisor for industries and production...manzoor wattoo not seemingly an industrial expert to qualify as an advisor...possibly he will advize yusuf on internal punjab politics...asif zardari also starts talking to punjab chief minister instead of the sharifs...
May17-2008--maulvi killed in swat...
May17-2008--the brouhaha over the controversial salman taseer is the result of an earlier decision to appoint kharal...the PMln says it was not consulted..Salman taseer says he will sort out differences with the PMln while the PMln says coalition in punjab depends on taseers attitude..taseer says he is a liberal rather than a moderate...announces weekly benazir day and will attempt to make teh governor house a peoples house...
May17-2008--the americans says they wont stop cross border attacks and teh pakistanis says they cant stop militants moving across...the damadola strike could be a pakistani or american missile as yusuf raza might be a moderate but is not pro militancy of any sort...those killed in damadola might be local tribal militants and it was apparently attacked because of some sort of special dinner...the tribal taleban seem to be infiltrated and still donot avoid major gatherings...any major gathering with some sort of militant color seems to get attacked...
May17-2008--government preparing constitutional package to review 17th amendment...specially the COAS will only be allowed only one oath of office...judges could be restored before budget session..zardari asks supreme court to pay salaries to deposed judges
May17-2008--army continues to re-adjust around mehsud areas in preperation fro an agreement or deal
May17-2008--a paramilitary soldier killed in bajaur as a retaliation for missile attack...
May17-2008--two soldiers die in kohat ant as remote controlled bomb blowsup their vehicle...military operations in darra probable cause
May16-2008--In what can be described as a sudden move musharaf tok the opportunity to appoint a red beaerded azizullah memon in place of afzal soomru as the SHC Cj..a move considered unnecessary in the situation unless they wanted a karachiite in place of the sindhi...
May16-2008--It is now obvious that teh rejection of the sharif brothers papers in general elections were ordered by the musharaf regime...as teh sharif brothers suggested that they were now prepared to go to court their nomination papers were accepted...
May16-2008--In what can be termed as another controversial move the strange looking and dubious owner of the daily times, bussiness plus and a recently raised financial empire Salman Taseer was appointed punjab governor...The PMLn now willing to play dirty raised a rumpus..Salman Taseer a controversial ex PPP supporter is known to have attacked benazir, asif zardari and some say ran a protracted campaign against teh PMLn...maybe he will now treat teh PMln as extremists tobe subjugated...? some say he might be given the task to subvert teh PPP-PMln coalition
May16-2008--many say the government of asif zardari cum yusuf gilani is being overrun by anti benazir people such as shaukat tareen who was supposedly behind the citibank photo stat cheque copies of alleged benazir corruption...the television station aaj suggested tongue in cheek that the PPP should rename itself PPP-q and asif zardari should be now referred to as chaudhry asif zardari...
May16-2008--The damadola attack in which eighteen were killed came after the visit by centcom chief general dempsey...it is now a historical fact that events take place in pakistan after visits by senior american officials...
May16-2008--six more soldiers released by the mehsuds
May16-2008--yusuf razaz gilani unable to handle the countries economic situation and forms an economic adcvisory council comprising salman farooki, hina rabbani, shahnaz wazir ali, bashir ali, tariq saigol, farook rehmatullah, saleem raza, saqib shirani and the finance secreatary and deputy chairman planning commission...shahnaz wazir ali not much of a financial expert
May16-2008--guddu power station shuts down as gas pipeline from marri gasfields blownup
May16-2008--Yusuf Razaz Gilani backs off from raising petroleum prices further...!
May16-2008--four rockets fired at badabher
May16-2008--All political victimisation cases aginst nusrat bhutto and asif zardari ended...
May16-2008--possibility of musharaf reinstating all judges minus iftikhar chaudhry being raised in the press however he cant increase the strength of the Sc judges..
May16-2008--yusuf raza gilani appoints hina rabbani and shahnaz wazir ali as special assistants..
May16-2008--PPP avoids appointing new ministers despite teh PMln openly wanting out and open participation in politics..many feel that coalition restricting PMln politics of attrition...
May15-2008--a drone attack in damadola kills twelve as prisoner swap takes place in south waziristan..many suggest that pakistan might have secretly acquired a predator drone.....12 security personnel exchanged with 40 militants
May15-2008--on the judges issue the government controversially offered high court judges a fresh oath an attempt many say to seperate teh high court judges and the supreme court case ...PPP attempting to bring reinstatement issue to a joint session of parliament..Nawaz sharif urges people to take to the streets to get judges reinstated
May15-2008--residents of a building in karachi kill three robbers
May15-2008--rocket attack on security forces in kohlu as two bugtis die in a landmine explosion...
May15-2008--power conservation by re initiating daylight saving time and closing commercial areas by 9...attempts to quickly intiate 1200MW power installation...when shortage expected to climb to over 4000MW
May15-2008--PMLq to remain in the opposition
May15-2008--US spy killed in mirali north waziristan...
May15-2008--Salman Taseer a musharaf supporter tobe new punjab governor
May15-2008--petrol prices tobe raised again...
May15-2008--government employees to benefit from situation as a 20% dearness allowance is planned
May14-2008--The Yusuf Raza Gilani primeministership might not be working as they have only a one sided cooperation with musharaf and have not yet been able to even get a governor appointed barring zulfikar magsi in balochistan...there are changes in policy on balochistan and militancy but little or nothing in matters related to the people such as high prices...in fact they seem tobe deliberately raising prices
May14-2008--The split on the judges issue came after teh PMLn reversed its position on retaining the new PCO judges...PMln states they reversed policy after teh may12 dateline was not adhered to.....others suggest that teh PMln had achieved its aim by demonstrating cooperation and wanted out to focus on their punjab government and had put in place a program to leave the coalition government...The PPP on the other hand wants to delay the inevitable and will make another attempt if they are able to reinstate the judges...
May14-2008--reports in dawn suggest that attempts have been made by the law minister to rope in some high court judges who were offered a fresh oath which was turned down..
May14-2008--reports also suggest that some agreement might be nearing with the mehsud militants with a prisoner exchange that might not include important prisoners while some soldiers might also be released...The tribals have to become a calm tribe rather than appear as warring fighting organisations since they have failed to achieve much else apart from militarisation
May14-2008--Gilani to wait for zardaris return before accepting resignations while chaudhry nisar says the decision is final and could only be reviewed when the judges are restored...many suggest that teh PMln is favoring an opposition role at the center which is easier given the constraints of a coup plotter as president while handling the easier aspect of the provincial government in punjab...they say that even a lallu panju like pervaiz elahi could handle punjab..
May14-2008--there could possibly be more bye elections as nawaz and shahbaz standing from multiple constituencies unnecessarily...
May14-2008--Naveed Qamar who is more political than economic seen as new finance minister..
May14-2008--nwfp government to enforce nizam e adl n malakand to appease swat militants whohave started to see reason
May14-2008--paramilitary soldier killed in bajaur after militant attacks on checpost...
May14-2008--policeman gunned down in quetta...
May14-2008--punjab governors sister and brother in law die in motorway pileup in poor visibility
May14-2008--army chief still worried about minimum deterrence after literally bleeding teh country dry over the past few years...minimum deterrence was achieved in the early nineties...
May14-2008--zalim mqm refuses to say even fateha for the may12 killed in city council confusing the issue by their usual methods of refusing responsibility for anything...
May14-2008--doctor killed in gilgit...
May14-2008--The situation seems to revolve around the PPP effort to retain musharaf who according to some has been offered a safe exit or stay..ishaq khakwani suggests that iftikhar chaudhry resign after being reinstated while musharaf should try to get elected again as his position makes real governance almost impossible......others suggest that iftikhar be reinstated and takes up the case aginst musharafs election from where it was left of and disbars him from being elected ...a new president is elected and iftikhar chaudhry could resign in glory...
May14-2008--chatha could takeover from shujaat as PMlq head with shujaat being pushed into a non functional chairman position to facilitate the PMlq being brought into government in place of the PMLn...
May13-2008--Riaz Fatyana says PMlq could join coalition...says Nawaz sharif wants government in punjab as well as opposition role at the center..PMLn could possibly play the role of a strong loyal opposition...?
May13-2008--PMLn ministers drop out of cabinet as per earlier plan after inconclusive discussions on judges restoration..refuse to accept new PCO judges and raise strength of SC to 27......nawaz sharif to contest elections...still in coalition...PPP hopeful that they will be back...only finance minister position tobe filled...mqm, pmlq happy...as their situation improves
May13-2008--only ceasefire with militants in swat says ANP
May13-2008--major 500KV grid station pylon blownup near peshawar causing electricity supply to peshawar tobe affected
May13-2008--militants threaten NGO's and girl schools in kohat
May13-2008--The SC subject of continuous speculation banned the publication of defamatory material about the Sc and its judges...!!
May13-2008--nawaz sharif to contest from NA52 and PPP not to put up a candidate against him...shabaz sharif from PP -10 and faryal talpur from NA207
May13-2008--The twelve strong PMLq forward block in the senate moves a resolution for the reinstatement of the judges removed on Nov3
May13-2008--amin fahim on a trip to india...?
May13-2008--Dawn suggests that controversial citibanker shaukat tareen might be inducted in as a financal advisor to run teh finance ministry as politicians seemed unwelcome in an economic scenario that favors the rich and exploits the poor......
May13-2008--rehman malik tells geo that all intelligence agencies report to him and that he is now in effect the establishment ...
May13-2008--in balochistan chief minister wants old levis and administrative setup...while provincial government is to be included in gas pipeline talks and rehabilitation tobe encouraged to bring communities together
May13-2008--Ishaq Dar wants taxes on windfall real estate and stock trading...suggest harsh measures to bring down rupee dollar rate...as reserves fall to $10 billion
May13-2008--coalition leadership has failed says mushahid as PMln jumps out of cabinet at the first hurdle and after 42 days...
May13-2008--constitutional amendment to increase judges strength to 27 difficult under the circunmstances and only possibility is a reversal of Nov 3 army chief order...
May13-2008--ISI torture center in rawalpindi cantt where several british terror suspects have been harshly interrogated...
May13-2008--mutton price Rs320 in karachi
May13-2008--inflation at an alltime high of 17%
May12-2008--one year from teh day since the musharaf-mqm regime slaughtered people in karachi on a visit by the suspended CJ the judges reinstatement is a problem for a wobbly new government whose coalition is in tatters...the government could start out by censuring the previous COAS for his role in teh coup and the May12 slaughter and literally bringing teh country to a halt in the worst handling of crisis by any military regime in the country...while teh country has calmed down to a great extent the PPP led coalition is unable to clearly distance itself from the baqiat of the military regime and even censure it in parliament...while it would obviously now be difficult to remove musharaf thru an act of parliament the government should not become embroiled in literally becoming a part of the former regimes horrendous mistakes...
May12-2008--Yusuf Raza starts examining possible future government partners in punjab and at the center in the eventuality of teh PMLn going into opposition as an apparent breakdown in talks on judges reistatement becomes visible...
May12-2008--The PMLn to study options today
May12-2008--pakistan army redeploys tanks as militants wreak havoc in darra area attacking army checking at the kohat tunnel and blowing up schools, colleges and making life miserable for the tribals of teh area...
May12-2008--army operations continue in dera bugti...
May12-2008--The upward price trends hammer the people as government favors higher agricultural commodity prices that directly hits the ordinary populace..There is no cheap source of food left barring potatos and onions...atta..Rs390..ghee..Rs760..rice..Rs100..tea Rs295..packed milk...Rs48..dal channa...Rs60..dal mash..Rs75..Dal masoor...Rs100..Nan...Rs5...obviously it is not even worth mentioning the prices of food/utilities/equipment preferred by the rich ie mutton, chicken, fish, prawns,generators,electricity...prices of other things that are dollar/transport/petroleum products affected also moving upward
May12-2008--The US apparently wants teh PPP-PMln coalition to work but has given them teh unpalatable/unworkable advice to avoid embarassing/irritating/coming into conflict with musharaf...zardari's supposed opposition to iftikhar chaudhry also not understandable as is his/governments avoidance of even normal conflict...government cannot survive if political stances are not clear and peoples views are unapplicable/unacceptable...it is just like high prices...the agriculturists like zardari, chaudhries, gilanis benefit while the people suffer...people cant wait for three years for everything...
May11-2008--Nawaz Sharif obviously seems intent on leaving the coalition as there seem tobe no reports suggesting success or failure...while the PMLn seems visibly ready to leave the coalition even for the opposition benches teh PPP not willing to leave the punjab coalition...The PPP seemingly unhurried while the PMLn desperate to somehow suggest that it is not there fault even though they agree one day and disagree the next on what todo and obviously no one can obstruct a decision on their own......Decision on judges issue and coalition survival tobe made on monday...
May11-2008--if the PMLn leaves the coalition for the opposition than the PPP will have to depend on several small groups like those of teh FATA, MQM, ANP and JUP with teh obvious possibility of the PMLq and Mqm coming into a much better bargaining position...
May11-2008--militant activity grows in darra as a college adjacent to FC offices blownup...a night time curfew in effect with closure of the kohat tunnel...
May11-2008--two suspecetd militants killed in lanjoseghari area...near punjab-baloch border
May11-2008--Trade deficit up to $16.75 billion as import bill rises to $32.061 billion by april...possibility of a $19 billion trade deficit
May11-2008--Four killed in security operation in dera bugti...
May11-2008--Nawaz Sharif suggests that judges reinstatement should take place thru the police while teh PPP suggests that they will reinstate all judges..present and past so that no one is threatened...
May11-2008--Federal housing ministry loses its master file
May11-2008--audit of punjab local bodies begins...municipal work suffers as government undecided on whether to continue or change local body system...every major change in government has caused a change in the local body system in pakistan...chaudhry nisar says that nazimate system to continue despite dislike by teh PMLn...the nazim systems interference ability in local politics and control of policework is cited by many as problematic...tehsil staff was routinely running errands and organising meetings fro PML candidates...In the punjab there were only a few opposition nazims as the provincial government did not allow a free election and even where teh opposition had majorities PMlq nazims held sway...
May11-2008--three killed in apparent sectarian attack in DI Khan
May11-2008--Rangers hand over water tanker service to KWSB after nine years...water was provided free by rangers to its preferred people
May11-2008--PMLn ministers donot want to quit
May11-2008--Gilani says that difference on judges reinstatement only on method...nawaz sharif might be correct in his assessment that PPP afraid of confrontation between institutions...while others think that PPP drifting into mqm trap
May11-2008--blast in swat mosque
May10-2008--Judges reinstatement stalled..as disagreement on new PCO judges continues with PMLn wanting to stick to teh May12 date as final.....many suggest that asif and nawaz in england to see convalescing kulsum nawaz...PMLn which seems unable to defend a situation trying to behave like a stuck record...refusing to change with a changing scenario or situation...possibility of PMLn jumping out of coalition and staying on the sidlines...
May10-2008--shah mahmood qureshi explains the difference between them and the PMLq with an open foreign policy less dependent on teh USA as compared to musharaf and more open to negotiations with militants and regional associations...shows independence by refusing to accept maj gen jay hood of guantanamo in pakistan...ANP and karachi nazim on seperate visits in the USA
May10-2008--sardar akhter mengal released...
May10-2008--dollar reaches Rs69.45 as oil inched up to $126.2
May10-2008--Army chief explains previous governments or army-musharaf position on balochistan while gilani stressed a combined effort, political engagement , development and minimum force...
May10-2008--nwfp government buries the hatchet with swat militants...militants tobe peaceful and army to stop retaliations...25 militants arrested in kabal
May10-2008--50 tribesmen held in bajaur after military convoy attack
May10-2008--Ishaq dar orders massive cut in expenditures of around Rs300 billion as he tries to raise funds
May10-2008--militant activity in darra as landmine explodes near army convoy, school wall blownup, bridge damaged by explosion and money van attacked...
May10-2008--judges issue contempt notice to GEO on reports that CJ and two SC judges met interior secretary...
May10-2008--PPP appoints Nazir Dhoke to run PTV current affairs...
May10-2008--explosion in quetta
May10-2008--suicide attack on mingora police station as well attacks on girls schools and military
May09-2008--Ishaq Dar planning to tax the rich...a difficult process as every taxation process boils down to extortion from the poor whether direct or indirect...with everything taxed in this country the country is already overtaxed and he should focus on reducing taxation rather than the other way around...
May09-2008--pakistan says it tested an indigenous aerial cruise missile...with no military sattelite system one wonders how the cruise is guided...many suggest that it uses google maps...?
May09-2008--a report in Dawn suggests that the US plan to post guantanamo prison chief has a head of its defence deptt in pakistan cancelled...the report suggests that there have been protests against the appointment which have not appeared in any newspaper...
May09-2008--In another dawn report the countries ineffective intelligence organisations will now report to operational heads rather than the executive head of teh country...with the MI chief reporting to teh COAS , ISI chief to the primeminister and the IB chief to teh interior minister..? musharaf even used to travel around with the MI chief thus denting any effectiveness of the person/position...
May09-2008--The negotiators of the PMLn and PPP are in london with reports suggesting that nawaz sharif requesting david milliband for a change in the agreement as the previous one was Benazir specific...milliband had been suggested as a go between.. benazir, nawaz and musharaf...? rehman malik who knocked over the local mqm leadership in london to woo altaf hussein...
May09-2008--PIA officials make a comeback as high paid contracted outsiders are fired...?
May09-2008--tank-wana road again blocked by security forces to force removal of mehsud checposts...as militants attack bajaur FC convoy and capture 30 soldiers later releasing 24
May09-2008--An FC soldier killed in kabal, swat...
May09-2008--most political parties being run by unelected people...
May09-2008--Rupee falls to 67 to the dollar
May09-2008--Akhter mengal of the BNP tobe released soon as sindh winds up cases
May09-2008--parliament debate not focussed on solving availibility of power but going all over the issue without any direction or reason...it is not a few megawatts that are missing but a huge availability gap of around 4000MW...rental power stations can only solve some part of the problem...government needs at least 50 plants of 100 MW each...wapda obviously not the problem as it has been minussed out since 1994...line losses caused due to poor metering and huge distance 500KV transmission lines...many aspects of line losses such as outside meters, new distribution lines, controlling large scale thefts have been unable to solve teh problems...many suggest that everybody should bear teh burden of low power availaibility including the military and politicians in power...subsidies to the army and agriculture should end and a single price mechanism should be intoduced...filling up two main reservoirs quickly can provide upto 3000-4000 MW during summer
May08-2008--SC judges okay fat airhostesses under 50..?
May08-2008--As zardari/zulfikar mirza friend takes over PIA.. cabinet ups FED on tickets to 15% to help out the underpaid airport security force..previous government had already made tickets costlier by upto Rs5000...Flying customers can be fleeced says yusuf raza...?...and multani police officer brought in as IG islamabad...yusuf raza known to hire people from his own locality...
May08-2008--final decision on judges upto nawaz and zardari...zardari wants CJ's tobe checked by parliament before appointment...and he wants us to believe that removing musharaf would be bad for the economy...the economy that was literally floundering has no musharaf input...Government also to increase railway fares by 10-15%...this government itching to make life difficult ...
May08-2008--zardari and teh powerful advisor rehman malik off to london to see nawaz sharif...rehman malik who had emerged as a key benazir advisor /negotiator has now emerged as a feared figure with nobody willing even to censure him...
May08-2008--ECP backs down and by elections now on Jun26..
May08-2008--US now wants Nawaz Sharif watched rather than the militants..militants want army out of all tribal areas and swat not only mehsud areas...
May08-2008--BLA kills four including two policeman in quetta...
May08-2008--Security van attacked on motorway with a rocket propelled grenade and thieves make off with Rs123 million...three guards killed
May08-2008--Dollar strengthens to Rs66.58 as government sources see input of $2.5 billion to control rupee fall by june...many see rupee falling to 75...thus encouraging further speculation...pakistan economy running on borrowed money and if that trend continues dollar will rise...Crude reaches $122.81 with a possible target of $150...
May08-2008--NAB which said it had not arrested Hamesh formerly of the BOP...challenged on Hamesh removal by PMln government by saying he improved bank to a sixth place...removal regarded as political as Hamesh appointed by previous regime...
May08-2008--militant PIMs pathologist fired by musharaf restored by sherry rehman
May08-2008--gas pipeline blast in sui
May08-2008--second girls school burnt down in matta
May08-2008--Musharaf ends cozy relationship with gujerats chaudheris...
May08-2008--Government fires PePCO MD and WAPDA member water and hands pepco to Fazal Ahmed Khan wapdas member power...pepco md probably angered zardaris MQM friends by asking KESC to pay its bills...pepco tobe possibly merged into wapda again
May07-2008--Rehman Malik who apparently advised the nwfp government to call for a delay in by elections due to a law and order situation seems of the hook with no one in teh government blaming him for the situation...apparently interior secreatary Kamal Shah might be blamed and made an OSD..PPP and ANP differ on justification for polls delay...teh government on teh other hand suggested that the decision be reversed and elections be held in June...specific constituencies in nwfp where a law and order situation might exist can be delayed...eight NA and 30 PA seats up for grabs...rehman malik is also an unelected advisor..
May07-2008--rehman malik also announced the creation of another position of IG rank who would oversee the work of provincial IG's and teh creation of a website plus toll free number for direct complaints...
May07-2008--As the wheat situation remained precarious yusuf raza immediately ordered the import of another 250000 tons of wheat as private wheat dealers raised the prices to Rs750 per 40kg for millers saying that it was around 1000 rupees in afghanistan...yusuf raza also ordered 50000 tones exported to afghanistan
May07-2008--On the judges reinstatement the question of how to adjust 27 judges when 18 are allowed...constitutional amendment needed to increase court strength or they be made adhoc judges...
May07-2008--defence minister becomes PIA chairman and ejaz haroon takes over as MD
May07-2008--suicide bomber blows up a cop and two women in bannu
May07-2008--development banks suggest that poverty wil rise in proportion to the increase in prices...ADB says another 10 million pakistanis to become poorer
May07-2008--Numerous party positions up for graps in PPP as incumbents given government positions...ministers usually have no time left for handling party matters...
May07-2008--government considering two weekly holidays and shutdown of commercial areas at eight which would reduce power shortfall to 1000-2000 MW
May07-2008--two policemen gunned down in matta
May07-2008--Abdul hafeez pirzada who had said in the SC that musharafs actions were protected by the constitution now represents zardari and nawaz sharif...and says he is against unconstitutional measures and martial law...took him a long time to say that...
May07-2008--Wadeira Bungul Khan Bugti a pro military tribesman killed in dera allahyar roadside bomb...
May07-2008--Yusuf Raza Gilani seems hellbent on getting his son elected who files nomination from Rahimyar khan PP-295...very few PPP sons won and it was a controversial matter even for Benazir has her key loyalists wanted nominations for their sons as well...
May06-2008--senators from nwfp and balochistan again went crazy on teh stoppage of inter provincial wheat movement as they are mainly responsible for smuggling to afghanistam..these days there is even inter district wheat movement bans...as the senators said that they too could stop electricity and and gas supplies to punjab...punjab can generate a fair amount of electricity and has a capability to produce some amount of gas too...punjab at least does not smuggle electricity and gas to india...gas and electricity are produced in all provinces and wheat is grown in at least three in reasonable quantities...tempers flared as roti prices reached Rs12 in quetta and nwfp's wheat smugglers suffered...adequate supply of wheat should be ensured to balochistan and nwfp...wheat and electricity supply are becoming chronically unstable...
May06-2008--rehman malik seems tobe one of teh culprits in delaying by elections while the EC says it acted due to a worsening law and order situation in nwfp...others say that nawaz sharif wants to delay shahbaz sharifs ascendancy...
May06-2008--unable to collect Rs1.025 trillion this year the finance division goes to a target of Rs.1.2 trillion next year
May06-2008--one soldier killed in clash in spinzai roghazai area in a tense truce in the troubled waziristan areas
May06-2008--brawl in pindi bar as lawyers clash over aitezaz ahsans NA-55 nomination against shiekh rashid...PMLn yet to nominate as nawaz sharif to quit electoral politics...
May06-2008--many are suggesting a minus two decision on judges in which musharaf and iftikhar would both quit simultaneously ...?
May06-2008--all unverified SIM's tobe blocked after May22
May06-2008--fakhruddin Ibrahim the retired judge who drew up the first plan to reinstate judges resigns from the reinstatement committee in protest against retaining the new PCO judges...?
May06-2008--In what many describe as a machiavellian presidential attempt to delay the election of shahbaz sharif the EC surprisingly delayed by-elections to August without any sound reasons unless they are extremely friendly to dost mohanned khosa the interim chief minister of punjab...
May05-2008--Bank of Punjab former head and five GM's arrested by NAB...?
May05-2008--all judges...sacked and PCo should be fired says fazlur rehman
May05-2008--FC troops withdraw from gwadar and quetta handing over to the BC and police...troops to remain in dera bugti and kohlu...
May05-2008--committee setup to trace missing baloch
May05-2008--troops to remain in troubled fata areas until peace is restored...two militants killed in dera bugti...
May05-2008--shujaat refuses to step down from PMLq leadership and musharaf backs down...musharaf was hoping that PPP-PMLn coalition would breakdown and a coalition would be made with PMLq if the chaudhrys relinquished the leadership...however musharaf has apparently given orders to chaudhry to start attacking the coalition
May05-2008--the parliament will decide how gilani/PPP get along with musharaf says gilani...?it has'nt decided anything else barring a few slogans...
May05-2008--girls school set ablaze in swat
May05-2008--packaged milk reaches Rs48
May05-2008--mqm visits graves of abdullah shah and his brother...one of them reportedly gunned down by mqm's terrorists...
May05-2008--gilani opens money gates for multans development...airport upgradation, roads, ring road, bypasses, underpasses, faisalabad-multan motorway,low cost housing and millions for bahauddin zakriya university...
May04-2008--musharaf and PMLq toadying up to fight government on presidential powers...musharaf urges chaudhry shujaat to quit
May04-2008--Fata's taleban want troops withdrawal ..government says only after peace returns to areas
May04-2008--Pakistan bar council does not want PCO judges.....PPP and PMln politics intertwines around judges issues...
May04-2008--three bomb blasts in quetta
May04-2008--pakistan has suggested an end to US CIA predator drone attacks which have had a negative fallout as they kill unnecessarily...
May03-2008--a new deadline emerged as nawaz sharif said that he agreed to the PPP desire to keep the new PCO judges and that a resolution would be moved on may12...Naek however said that things could go beyond that..a new committee would work out the details which included the hostile pro dictatorship hafeez pirzada and aitezaz ahsan as well the new lawyer from the PMLn Khawaja Haris as well as Naek, Fakhruddin Ibrahim and Raza Rabbani..constitutional and judicial reform could also soon be on the table...many are arguing that the superior courts did not reinstate governments toppled by the military repeatedly falling for propaganda and that the judges thus did not also deserve tobe reinstated...
May03-2008--Musharaf as usual consulted former PMLq colleagues suggesting that removal of 58-2B could be acceptable if cover was given to his unconstitutional acts of Nov3...however teh PPP suggested that the president is now not in the loop...musharaf failed to use 58-2b when teh PMLq government was deeply involved in one bad situation after another in 2007 and would probably lose an SC case since the situation is now quite calm......however the president seems tobe working on possible PMLq inclusions into the government feeling that the PMLn and PPP are not clear on how to work forward...without a clear constitutional package of anti dictatorial amendments this government does not look like surviving for long...at the moment it seems as if yusuf razaz gilani is running from one photo opportunity to another without consulting either party, cabinet, assembly or allies on many issues and looking at times like a prop for musharaf rather than the primeminister of a newly elected party......dictatorship is dangerous whether it is of the military, presidential or primeministerial variety...
May03-2008--The feelings on the ground are that teh PPP is already drifting away from its supporters and they feel they can do whatever they feel necessary whether liked or disliked by its mass of supporters...things such as support for a military dictator,unable to workout a new kashmir policy, hiking daily utility prices, succumbing to the dangerous embrace of the mqm etc....
May03-2008--In sindh another twenty became ministers raising teh total to 41...only thing of note was the new generation of amin fahims family jammiluzzaman becoming a minister and the mqm female offering Nadia gabol is a niece of a PPP mna Nabil gabol who has risen quickly in the mqm...
May03-2008--Akhter mengal exonerated on yusuf gilanis orders from a treason case... yusuf suggests that he has ordered the stoppage of the military operation in balochistan until he can get a clearer picture from the new chief minister...and that five baloch officers have been promoted to grade 22
May03-2008--mahmud ali durrani will not have anything todo with the NSC
May03-2008--rupee falling against dolalr in pakistan
May03-2008--abdul hafeez pirzada says that the PCO court could stay an executive order reinstating judges on the basis of illegality despite upholding musharafs illogical and illegal Nov3 acts...abdul hafeez pirzada who has emerged as a supporter of dictator ship seems to think that musharafs acts were legal while an elected primeministers are not..the executive order will just have to reverse the Nov3 order and will not be appointing any judges...the courts have already ruled that they cannot oppose the actions of an elected asembly...
May02-2008--The negotiations in dubai yielded little apart from a reiteration of judges reinstatement...other points heard about seem tobe enhancing retirement age of judges to the walking stick or athritis age of 68 with iftikhar chaudhry tobe restricted to 2010 with a five year term for Cj's...obviously these two conditions seem tobe person specific...one feels that young judges should not be elevated to teh SC although older judges can only be conservative and not independent...most judiciaries in pakistan seem to adopt the frame of mind of teh CJ rather than the law or constitution...the judiciary is often swayed by the dominant political propaganda of the era......the CJ should not be a director and junior judges should not always sign on the dotted line..it seems that nawaz sharif and asif zardari may have been in dubai to enjoy a holiday or a quite meal away from the rough and tumble of politics...
May02-2008--Yusuf Raza appeared to snub his partymen in the AJKPPP and went with some green policy of the PMLq supporting anti ZAB Attiq...when visiting he could have pre discussed some aspects of his follow the musharaf policy on kashmir with his partymen...who seemed visibly perturbed at his attitude..
May02-2008--In nwfp a weak plan to curb militancy by 30% in three years was unveiled with a huge spending outlay of donor funded $4 billion over 3 years... an increase in police by 14000, reforms in police, coordination of security organs, revival of regional magistrates, regional cordinators,regional peace conferences of ulema, recovering control of lost areas, a provincial peace board, 1000 community FM radio stations,a rehabilittion plan for 12000 militants, a provincial livelihood program,a Rs600 million rural mobilisation endowment fund, 5000 village peace committees,micro credit schemes, creation of 7000 jobs annually for three years and 10000 daily wage jobs thru public works, community run programs and additionally what the FATA development policy does to assist...nwfp government has capacity to spend $800 million annually...seems more like a budget than having anything todo with militancy reduction...it would probably be appropriate to induct militants into security organs...government should inculcate that revenge, murders, killings, lootings are not the only avenues for provision of justice neither is militarisation of a soceity helpful or an answer or solution ...islam was not created by force of arms or the kalashnikov or the bomb
May02-2008--a suicide bomber blew up in Bara in a mosque run by a militant group..
May02-2008--power shortages rise further doubling load shedding programs in rawalpindi
May02-2008--blasts in spin boldak...kill three pakistanis
May02-2008--policeman shot dead in quetta
May02-2008--blast damages tanker in landi kotal
May02-2008--malakand university shutdown as PSF and IJT students clash...
May01-2008--oil prices inchup another Rs3 to Rs69 as pakistans oil bill skyrockets to $15 billion and the imports bill to $36 billion with a trade deficit of $14 billion
May01-2008--mqm reaps the benefit of a crumbling coalition and gets literally everything apart from teh home ministry and chief ministership...in sindh..PMlq being urged to join coalition by musharaf who refuse...musharaf thinks he is in for five years...he might be out on the street if the coalition agrees..getting ready to move court against judges restoration..
May01-2008--PPP-PMln negotiations continue in Dubai for another day
May01-2008--PPP delegation on the way to balochistan for talks on conflict resolution
May01-2008--Dr. Safdar sarki a sindhi militant nationalist released..
May01-2008--pakistan denies involvement in firing on karzai in kabul as reports of possible retaliation surface...
May01-2008--hhopes again rise for aftab mirani as SC allows repolling on 18 polling stations in Na-202
May01-2008--Khosa makes teh most of his few months as punjab CM announcing as much as he can for areas around his constituency...medical college for DG khan and gas for vihari, rhojan and rajan pur
May01-2008--rebellious militants retook darra adam khel and started extortions and kidnapped two soldiers who were later released as the military withdrew to hillside positions...The US position that current negotiations might succeed in a new Fata agreement seem doomed
May01-2008--yusuf raza wants trade and tourism with occupied kashmir as indians continue to slaughter kashmiris..an indian agent might have infiltrated pakistani security services or someone from the previous government might be handing over information to indians...pakistan rethinking shutdown of liberation organisations...