- Nov20--The pakistani government gave the final notice to the indians to stop construction of a dam on the river chenab whose water has been allocated to pakistan...
- Nov20--In what seem tobe attitudes ingrained in the poverty ridden minds of the PMLq the jamali government reduced electricity prices for domestic consumers by 4.42 paisas...even the richest domestic consumer would only benefit by a hundred rupees while the lowest rung would only see a price drop of Rs2...needless charity...in another effort wheat price was raised by Rs10 per 40 kilos and another Rs1 billion allocated to the food stamp scheme...i have never yet seen a food stamp..the jamali group needs to realise the value of the rupee...? maybe the primeminister and president should be given salary raises of Rs2...?!!!
- Nov19--Rs23billion raised thru offloading 2.5% OGDC shares to the public...
- Nov19--Tariq Hameed appointed Wapda chief...Wapda is still deemed unsuccessful despite being the countries largest corporation with over Rs200 billion in revenues..The appointment seems aimless as Wapda has mainly technical problems...Tariq Hameed seems to have no particular skills which might be specific to wapdas problems...Wapda has mainly failed to reduce rates despite low wages and no particular investment orientation especially in new plants..At present wapda has no major project with Ghazi barotha almost complete...
- Nov19--Country tobe shut down for five days due to eid
- Nov19--ARD seems tobe at odds with MMA decision to wait another month on LFO...MMA not keen to rock the boat and willing to enjoy a useless parliament and government that has no public interest at heart
- Nov19--government keen to ban further groups...obviously pakistan is giving up hopes of forcing a kashmir solution and seems willing to meekly follow US advice
- nov19--Discussions start on new NFC..provinces want raise in total allocation as well greater individual shares..each province has differing views which will probably result in little or no change in previous formulas..
- Nov18--PPP-s and patriots to merge with rao sikander as chairman..the group tobe registered as PPP has 21 MNA's and 22 MPA's
- Nov18--NFC meetings start
- Nov18--137 seminaries sealed and one week remand issued to police in murder investigation against sajid naqzi..it is for the first time that the govt has arrested a shiite leader for sectarian murders..previously only azam tariq was usually arrested..
- Nov18--UN suspends DP repatriation after french UN worker killed in afghanistan
- Nov18--MMA gives one month notice on LFO
- Nov18--Afghan foreign minister accuses pakistan of supporting/organizing taleban
- Nov17--Meat prices rise to Rs160/Rs110 for mutton/beef
- Nov18--In pakistan 38% children were underweight or stunted, 12.5% women malnourished, 6.1% children were iodine deficient,9.4% mothers were nightblind, 22-45% mothers had iron deficiency/anemia problems while in children the ratios were 36-51% and zinc deficiency amongst children/mothers was 37/41%
- Nov17--In what many say is a delayed reaction and made to again appease the USA(musharaf's only known policy) the GOP banned three outfits, the iSlami tehreek(fiqh jafria), millat islamia(ssp) and khudamm ul islam(masood azhars outfit)..in this context the govt has already sealed over 60 seminaries in punjab and arrested sajid naqvi for the murder of azam tariq...These are organizations banned earlier and which reeappeared...The GOP apparently has nothing todo these days and jamali is trying to prove that sunnis have some friends in a shiite dominated government..some suggest it is also an attempt to weaken the MMA...
- Nov17--The ARD on the other hand wants the weak supreme court to oppose further military takeovers...!!!!
- It has been proven that Zia Ul Haq must have been corrupt as his son has declared four expensive properties in rawalpindi-islamabad and 168 acres of land which are obviously worth much more than the Rs40 miilion that he has declared...others include azam swati Rs3 billion, Humayun akhter Rs140 million, Zafarullah Jamali Rs343,000 just from one years salary...? Chaudhry shujaat Rs68 million, pervez elahi Rs88 million,balochistan chief minister Rs216 million, a poor mqm minister safwanullah 200 acres,javed hashmi Rs67 million, Zubaida jalal Rs 40 million(15 plots and 140 acres and 70 tolas of gold), khurshid kasuri Rs128 million, sheikh rashid owns land in changa manga, fateh jang, a farm and a factory in islamabad, shaukat aziz has two apartments in london and islamabad, Imran khan owns two houses and over a 100 acres of land...poor daniyal aziz has only Rs2.4 million, Amin Fahim has a mercedes and two honda cars...such rich people these politicians...do they come from poor 34% poverty ridden pakistan...?