October 2007

31Oct--suicide bomber walks upto picket at gen tariqs house killing eight near kutchery in rawalpindi...
31Oct--military moves out of kabal bazaar as ceasefire holds in swat...
31Oct--benazir to address meeting in rawalpindi on nov9..says first karachi blast took place in a car...16 mutilated bodies still unidentified from oct18 blast...
31Oct--shaukat aziz directly involved in nawaz sharif deportation...SC asks AG to name cuplrits for contempt of court in sharif case
31Oct--musharaf guilty of exploiting country and constitution hears the SC ...decision by friday on qualification...
31Oct--four secuirty men killed in bomb blast on convoy on bannu-miranshah road as rockets fired at another convoy on the same road...blast rips apart girls school in hangu...
31Oct--benazir not to benefit from NRO to any great extent says musharaf
31Oct--taleban taking control of darra adamkhel and other areas around peshawar...
31Oct--Sherry Rehman says pakistan army and police losing battle against terrorists...
31Oct--two checposts blown up in bajaur...
31Oct--ECP moves into modern world by initiating task to display electoral rolls on the internet and CD's...
31Oct--at least two politicians ghinwa bhutto and sheikh rashid have been identified as supporters of the bomblasts on benazirs rally in karachi...while many mqm journalists and PMLqwalas showed happiness at its occurrence...
31oct--house advises government to raise support price of wheat to Rs550 to create more problems for the poor...it is a fallacy that higher support prices will increase production...government should get out of the wheat price bussiness and allow free imports to stablize the prices...subsidies, loans and incentives to the rich agriculture sector are totally counterproductive and of no use to the people
30Oct--SBP report says nothing new...high inflation...good crops...growing imports...slowing exports...remittances and internal revenue only strong sectors...external debts rise to $40.1 billion...internal debt Rs2.597 trillion...In rupee terms internal and external debts similar...there is no difference in the pakistani economy apart from volume...little or nothing available for real development...
30Oct--hundreds deported from dubai after a labour strike over poor wages...
30Oct--swat ceasefires as 60 militants and upto 30 soldiers reportedly killed including several civilians...villages of imam dheri, manglor and bharbhanda being vacated...
30Oct--benazir wants consensus on caretaker setup...
30Oct--confusing approach of judges and lawyers in qualification case...only in case of death and a resignation can a parliament hold a second presidential election...SC should consider that it had allowed only three years of military rule and the previous tenure of musharqaf was based on an illegal referendum which cannot be used to elect a president...the question of affecting fundamental rights of an applicant/ individual was dealt with admirably by justice buttar...an unqualified person assuming the presidency would effect the fundamental right of each and every citizen...AG raises issue of maintainability at the end of the hearing...in fact the assumption that a person can be elected president by answering an unrelated question can be termed at the least as insanity...
30Oct--madarassa degree case disqualification reaches conclusion after almost four years of dithering...graduation degree requirement might be declared ultravires by SC as the countries population is almost totally disenfranchised..such laws contribute to militancy as well..
30Oct--pakistan had a nuclear delivery system at the time of the kargil war but denies it...
30Oct--Qasim Zia refers to "chaudriyon ki chorian" accusing the chaudhry brothers of daylight robbery...people from gujrat are known in punjab to be slipper or shoe robbers as they runaway with other peoples shoes from mosques...
30Oct--arbab rahim suppressing his hometown PPPP workers by arresting ten...
oct29--In the third front opened by the military conflicts flared into armed combat in various areas of swat in which 12 militants and two civilians were killed..army claims to have cleaned out two villages...
oct29--kabul says it is not involved in swat and waziristan while india has not denied its involvement...
oct29--three rockets fired at peshawar cantonement as rocket lands near american consulate..
oct29--benazir hopeful of elections success as musharaf demonstrates his duality and suspiciousness of purpose..musharaf only used negotiations to further his personal power and did not agree to any PPPP suggestions...militaries policies encourage spread of militancy in nwfp she says...while the PMLq has literally been a US slave they accuse benazir of towing or implementing an american agenda...the USA is always talking to militants and terrorists though which she refuses todo...
oct29--Islamabad buying up supporting lobbyists at $1.2 million a year for robin raphael...
oct29--military drops leaflets in malakand..
oct29--police stop umme hasan and students of jamia hafsa from entering jamia fareedia which the SC had allowed them to use...
oct29--Radio pakistan building destroyed in a fire in karachi...asif zardari and shaukat aziz are both descended from radio pakistan employees...
oct29--arbab rahim has PPPP supporters arrested in his home town...
oct29--maulana fazl critisizes poll code that stops people from critisizing, army, judiciary and foreign policy which are the main issues in these elections...
28Oct--Benazir prefers to goto sukkur by air rather than drive thru a hornets nest as she arrives in her hometown...
28Oct--in swat militants executed two security personnel and seven civilians as a checpost was occupied in mingora and the army dropped leaflets
28Oct--kayani puts a brave face to the sapping of the army strengths by consistent militant activities...
28Oct--The culprits of the Oct18 blast rumoured tobe the PML top brass get together as PPPP gains strength...as pagaro threatened to bomb chaudhry shujaat next...?
28Oct--military drops leaflets in waziristan copying a US tactic in afghanistan
28Oct--checpost in kohlu attacked with rockets
28Oct--Fazlullah demands releaese of his father in law and implementaion of shariah...
28Oct--nwfp blacklists 20 earthquake area ngos...as punjab governor suggest that MMA government in nwfp cause of all the problems...
Oct27--military operations began in swat withan assault on imam dheri headquarters of mullah fazlullah killing one militant...elsewhere the FC commandants helicopter was fired upon...and in matta militants started barricades capturing and killing four soldiers...people start fleeing the area in huge numbers
Oct27--Mullah fazlurrehaman demands troops pullout from tribal areas, swat and balochistan
Oct27--sindh government advises benazir aginst tinted glasses and armed guards...?
Oct27--ejaz ul haq who alongwith chaudhry shujaat is regarded by many as in league with terrorists urges benazir to initiate FIR's aginst them as they will if they are attacked...he also refuses to disband militant madrassas and accuses her of supporting US attacks and handing over aq khan to the IAEC...
Oct27--Javed iqbal despite clear laws against military participation in politics suggests that they will continue to hide behind military rule...
Oct27--12 jamia faridia students arrested again...
Oct27--Sherry rehman accuses musharaf regime of nurturing terrorists in the ever expanding militant controlled areas...
Oct27--benazir bhutto considering alignment with APDM parties as military regime seems to support terrorism against her...
Oct27--musharaf equated to a non muslim by aitezaz ahsan who suggests that musharaf cannot hold two offices or contest elections...many regard musharaf tobe a jain hindu rather than a syed...others consider him a christian...judges urged by aitzaz not to hide behind the bush...
Oct20--sheik rashid the chronic lota who threatened benazir even after the blasts urges benazir to give PPPP workers who died in the blast 10 million each as many had returned the 5000 that she gave each injured person...sheikh rashids assesment of benazirs wealth seems unreal.....PPPP punjab gave their three dead workers 100000 each...
Oct26--a blast destroyed a military truck, 25 shops and a CNG and petrol station killing upto thirty soldiers in nawan killi near mingora...maulana fazlullah who has gone underground said they were not involved...as swat residents start to flee the area...military should start designing trucks like benazirs for sensitive areas...
Oct26--death toll rises to 144 in oct18 blasts with rumours pinpointing PMLq's top leaderships involvement including people like sheikh rashid who have egg all over their faces...as they thought benazir would not return...upto six lakhs paid to suicide bombers months in advance...involvement of very rich politicians a foregone conclusion...some say chaudhry shujaat personally made the arrangements
Oct26--legal loopholes and constitutional misinterpretations abound in all decisions that the SC has made about musharafs martial law and related case...in most cases the SC has decided cases on whim rather than law...not giving cogent arguments is no reason for wrong judgements...
Oct26--Benazir asks for four police van security and allowing her tinted windo car convoys...said police investigations were inept with a different story being released every day..she wanted a distinction between religious and militant madarassa's...she pinpointed the zia era US sponsored afghan liberation policy as the cause for the current security problems...being attacked by a suicide bomber does not make anyone a moderate..musharaf known to deliver RDX laden jackets to kashmiriis...
Oct26--musharaf has again jumped into the PMLq camp saying nawaz sharif will not be allowed to return and that he would not fire the IB director because he was a friend...he also critisized the ineptness of arbab rahim...he said careaker and furure primeministers not tobe from PPPP showing the grave danger that he is to democracy...
Oct26--mehsuds ask pakistan army to vacate political compound in Tank which has been used for governance activities since 1906..
Oct26--new electoral rolls tobe published today
Oct26--SHC to hear PPPP breakaway factions being given the PPP name...
Oct26--in bajaur militants blow up five levies pickets...
Oct26--atta prices set to rise to Rs330 per 20kg bag as agriculturists mint money for elections...
Oct26--The supposedly economically successful pakistan even needed japanese aid for voting boxes and voting screens...?
Oct26--karachis KWSB cant pay its electricity billss...!
Oct26--Bob Woolmer strangled and poisoned with a pesticide says pathologist
25Oct--SC judges start tobe irritated as their own status,decisions,intellect and questionable interpretations being targetted by lawyers and people..how can judges who validated a fraudulent referendum and gave the three year military rule judgement be able to understand that musharaf who is not qualified even tobe an MNA or even a union councillor is just not qualified to stand for the prestigious position of president...such decisions have tobe given in accordance to law and not personal perceptions of what the country requires...judges at least should not play with constitutional provisions as do suspect politicians and military coup plotters...military rule definitely is not allowed under the 1973 constitution...
25Oct--violence under any name whether al qaeda or the US army is blasphemous in intent...The use of force against muslim countries has increased terrorist incidents especially in iraq and pakistan...
25Oct--suicide bombers being blasted from all sides in pakistan with even dubious supporters unable to show their faces openly...
25Oct--FBI ifficials attend FIA briefing openly contradicting shaukat aziz's refusal to allow in foreign experts...
25Oct--one head identified as that of mumtaz alias chooha apparently a jobless PPPP supporter...
25Oct--As army troops moved into three swat towns fazlullah vowed armed defiance...
25Oct--Benazirs police security detail of 45 men changed and security around maulana fazl increased...
25Oct--Sindh PMLq looking for alternate platform as PMLq becomes an unpopular option...pagaro league or an independent group might be alternates...
25Oct--The supposedly healthy pakistan economy is to face load shedding of upto 2500MW as shaukat aziz unable to make alternate arrangements for deficit power supply...
25Oct--Sindh chief minister becomes controversial as he suggests that either musharaf or shaukat aziz are woman causing terrible disasters such as the kashmir earthquake, oct18 blasts and almost unrelenting terrorism since 2002...police harassment of a PPPP mna also causes concern...religious militants just as frightened of womens rule as arbab rahim...and these PMlq walas were supposedly supporters of women rights...
25Oct--two soldiers killed near miranshah as convoy bombed..
Oct24--PPPP discusses new methods to contact voters as new threat materializes...al qaeda fast losing its appeal as its attacks or attacks of its sympathizers start focussing only on people in muslim countries...the general consensus is that the IB and the countries PMLq leadership deeply involved in terrorism and at the minimum not acting on credible evidence indicating criminal negligence...almost journalists and senior PMLq leaders seemed tobe in the know...the countries intelligence agencies seem to either work independently not informing the government even though knowledge starts seeping into the public domain...
Oct24--Karachi DIG manzoor mughal long involved in controlling political violence in karachi was behind zardari torture while attempting to shut him up...
Oct24--Naheed khan takes over as bhuttos security advisor jettisoning a former FIA chief...as benazir blames former ISI officials, IB director and a NAB prosecutor waseem afzal...all considered personally opposed to benazir with hameed gul even being opposed to her father and the PPPP
Oct24--musharaf opposing nawaz return before the elections...
Oct24--SC judges attempt to mitigate musharafs apparent disqualification with javed iqbal attempting to blame the boycotting party as well...one judge says it is immaterial to the SC if musharaf agrees to retire from the army after......
Oct24--three suspicious afghans arrested in larkana
Oct24--twelve mobile police units raided the home of benazir aide Dr. zulfikar Mirza...
Oct24--as pakistan army occupies swat hilltops kanju township residents start moving to mingora...
Oct24--JI activists also involved in terrorism say nwfp police...
Oct24--three militants killed two arrested in dera bugti
Oct24--economist rejects miltary regimes views that political instability has any effect on economy...
Oct24--PPPP related mohammed bashir arrested for having 95 grams of marijuana dies after jumping from mochi gate police station...?
Oct24--there were two blasts on oct18 and no hand grenade says a press report...several reports suggest possibility of involved group having died in the bombing as well...
Oct24--Aitzaz ahsan says militancy not restricted to nwfp...karachi, islamabad, balochistan and nwfp have been hit in recent times...with most of the attacks on police and the army...politically natured attacks have occurred in karachi and islamabad...with attacks on a major political party the terrorists have started to lose a rationale...earlier their focus was on the army, police and the illegitimate ruler which had some popular support...change suggests involvement of political parties....
Oct23--The government suspiciously refuses to call in a foreign expert to investigate blasts...benazir says government lacks forensic experience...while pakistan police have usually been able to determine suicide bombers they have never reached any control source or dismantled any organisation involved...initial report suggests links to nwfp...
Oct23--Despite inability to infiltrate terrorist organisations military regime refuses to remove the IB chief Brig Ijaz shah who gathers information from unknown sources and is little better than a civilian with no sources of information...
Oct23--The SC deliberates on how martial law can be avoided if a real judgement is given on musharaf's disqualification...judges seem to agree that musharaf is disqualified but seem unsure if their judgement would be legitimized or martial law reimposed by musharaf or kiani...
Oct23--pakistan gets 26 Bell 412 helicopters and 4 second hand cobras for $235 million(Rs15 billion)...
Oct23--two soldiers die in north waziristan in attacks on convoys and checposts
Oct23--bomber killed while planting bomb in karak as five others arrested near zhob...
Oct23--PPPP suggests that chaudhry shujaat coming across as an idiotic maniac for his opposition to reconciliation and remarks on the blasts...PPPP not to become a collaborator or a subordinate to either the military or PMLq
Oct23--Afghan taleban say they donot function outside afghanistan and are not involved in karachi blasts..
Oct23--PPPP doubts need for musharaf and will consider the situation after the SC judgement...they want the electoral commission reconstituted and participation in interim setup being discussed as is the process of mass/people contacts like rallies and jalsas in the light of the new situation...
Oct23--suspicions that two suicide bombers were involved as well as a grenade thrower
Oct22--PPPP wants elections in two months...musharaf wants lackey tariq aziz as caretaker while the PPPP suggested amin fahim...outsider likely as caretaker...british question karachi don altaf hussein as to why bombs exploded in karachi rally..APDM also wants a caretaker president
Oct22--Benazir wants rally attack investigator replaced as he had participated in asif zardaris torture...
Oct22--possible dissolution of sindh assembly after CM fails to prevent rally attack
Oct22--Joe Biden a candidate unlikely tobe president suggests occupying pakistan to control its nuclear arsenal...
Oct22--Fazl says USA has failed to control terrorism and that the MMA will not collapse..
Oct22--minor protests continue in karachi and other sindh areas against oct18 blasts
Oct22--Fatima Bhutto blames Benazir for the rally tragedy as she did not care for the lives of her party workers while herself travelling in a bullet proof iron container..
Oct22--There have been 56 suicide blasts since 2002 in pakistan
21Oct--eight killed in dera bugti van stop blast
21Oct--the benazir rally grenade thrower and the bomber might be two different groups...police probing south punjab car owners for grenade attack...many suggest that apart from militant,ethnic and political opponent groups the indian hand might also be around who have threatened to finish what they started...indians might be attempting an east pakistan type strategy in karachi and balochistan...their involvements in the tribal areas are also rumoured...
21Oct--sporadic protests in PPPP dominated karachi areas...bombing slows down benazir as caution has tobe exercised...
21Oct--sindh has a chief minister who praises goats rather than police
21Oct--The PPPP rally in karachi apart from the bombing has frightened the establishment party into banning rallies in punjab...PPPP better at rallies than PMlq...Unless equal access is provided by state and private TV channels the media is useles to the opposition...in karachi a jalsa has also been bombed so unless the government improves security to all aspects of outdoor political gatherings the danger will always be there...
21Oct--US expert sees a hybrid government...president obviously controlled by the army and parliament with the primeminister if he is a political figure representing the people to some extent with the judiciary intervening to handle complicated situations...present primeminister should retire many suggest as he is a typical beaurocratic failure unable to be popular and frightened to go out on the street...if US does not interfere and opens its monetary coffers the government could be successful...handling of terrorism for pakistan rather than the USA a better option...
21Oct--MMA blames musharaf and mqm for not providing the same security level as musharaf ensures for his own person
21Oct--two pro government tribal elders shot dead in bajaur...
21Oct--the only girls high school in miranshah blownup...
21Oct--roti or nanmakers on strike in islamabad as atta prices shootup to 1800 a sack...they want nan prices upped to Rs4
21Oct--intelligent and uncontrolled judges needed for an independent judiciary says aitzaz ahsan
Oct20--The attacks on benazir bhutto included firing on her truck as well as a suicide vest found lying on the streets and a man carrying a pistol was also picked up..rumours of fourheads and mufti ilyas of the LJ...controversial turning off of street lights helped bomber...suspicion also focusing on ISI, MQM, PMLq, and pakistan army...this is the third incident of terrorism against opponents of the MQM...in karachi...in karachi political opponents considered likely culprits..taleban and mehsud deny involvement...it could easily be musharaf using convoluted methods to silence opposition against his misguided rule in the war on terror...shaukat aziz's sudden tirade against looters and plunderers also significant...many suggest that leaders of several terrorist groups inside musharaf cabinet...one report suggests bomber in a small car or carrying a dead child..benazir avoids accusing mqm as it is a possible ally in sindh future despite its home minister again refusing to take responsibility for anything as he did in the may12 carnage...
Oct20--angry protests in PPPP dominated karachi areas where people burned motorcycles, a police post, a minibus and a petrol pump
Oct20--As the dollar grew weaker higher demand pushed prices of crude to $90 a barrel...
Oct20--two blasts in peshawar and di khan
Oct20--pakistan army aims at wiping out taleban presence in north and south waziristan...earlier attempts have just caused trouble to move elswhere and spread
Oct20--mullah fazlullah the rebel cleric in swat says they will fight back if attacked
Oct20--pakistan army exchanges fire after tribal attacks on several checposts
Oct20--many suggest that the pakistan army should give up meddling in politics and attempting to wipe out political parties...
Oct19--As a smiling Benazir arrived to instill hopes in many her rally vehicle was targeted by two terrible bomb blasts that killed over 134 security personnel and benazir supporters...this is one of the worst bombings of a political rally in pakistan since the nishtar park one and is being blamed on karachi based ethnic terrorists as well.......many blamed musharafs economic,anti terrorist and religion related policies...fighting the enemies of the USA and india will not reduce terrorism in pakistan...musharaf did not create problems at the airport but militant terrorists struck her rally and spoiled the show..many blame anti benazir politicians in the establishment...
Oct19--Is SC the real government...SC asks government to fire lal masjid clerics if they create trouble...Jamia fareedia to help girl students of jamia hafsa if government unable to provide alternate premises..
Oct19--pakistan army moves 15000 soldiers to swat in an anticipated operation...army should arrest leaders of such militant areas rather than mount operations against followers...
Oct19--a prophet killed by militants in tribal areas...
Oct19--SC judges not afraid of martial law threats...judges read constitution wrongly says aitzaz ahsan...even article 17 allows president to hold two positions and not the army chief to participate in elections...a constitutional amendment allowing armed forces officers to participate in elections would be needed to override the present provisions..usually each article is independent and irrespective of other articles...it is just like appointing a general to head the supreme court...
Oct19--lal masjid students blame mqm for the attacks on benazir...similar to the nishtar park they say...some blame PPPP's former leaders such as mustafa khar...
Oct19--tomato prices fall to 60/70 as indian tomatoes arrive in the market
18Oct--SC accuses pakistan army of using exile in practicing an authoritarian and under-developed political system...UN HRC forbids exiling or restricting anyones return to his country...Ruling suggests that despite elements of forcible exile Nawaz sharif benefited and also left voluntarily...the judgements against Nawaz Sharif though not final were pardoned...any exile agreement however was termed illegal
18Oct--CJ says judges not available for full court hearing on musharaf legality...
18Oct--Benazir says suicide bombers to burn in hell
18Oct--musharaf regime admits troops fighting in tribal areas on US instructions...
Oct17--Durrani who is obviously unaware of realities says pakistan army has started to feel unsafe itself and will start actions against opponents of its attitudes and rule...Benazir left pakistan after clear threats were conveyed to her by the military leadership...her party has suported musharaf off and on since at various times but has been hampered by the armies patronage of a certain group of politicians mostly comprising anti benazir personalities...musharaf's sudden somersault is supposed to be based on intelligence reports that his politicians will not succeed as they have a very low support base amongst voters...benazir has survived one of the worst political victimisations amongst individual politicians...PMLq still uncertain about its attitudes and its leader has continued statements of vilifications...
Oct17--hearing of petitions against musharaf resume as full court matter refferred to CJ...both sides want opposing judges to stand own...judges should decide on opening day whether to step down...musharaf supporters worried although the situation will be easy to handle as senate chairman a relative of benazir can take over as interim president and kiani as coas...with musharaf stepping down todo his Phd in war studies on the indonesian pattern...he can than be elected five years later if the politicians want...chakar baz that he is he will probably want an immediate constitutional amendment to save his position..which could be arranged too although many think that his time is over...government policies barring politics have been almost similar being affected only by conditions and situations...
Oct17--Tomato prices surge to 120-140 during eid...
Oct17--Bank deposits rise as low interest payments and stock investments make them richer by Rs499 billion in april to june period reaching Rs4.952 trillion...
Oct17--people from as far as skardu reaching karachi to participate in benazirs arrival celebrations...100 buses and a train coming from lahore...sindhis and balochis throng karachi
Oct17--the pakistan army eases a 10 day curfew around mir ali and opens roads in the area..army also considering a ceasefire as rockets fired at an army camp...
Oct17--taleban collect donations for 50000 displaced north waziris in nwfp..
Oct17--mqm adopts dual attitude of supporting arbab rahims banning of posters, banners and wall chalkings while officially being neutral to the benazir arrival...the military supporting mqm might possibly be knocked out of a future coalition because of its mixed attitudes towards ethnic violence...sindhs home ministry assures that posters and banners will not be removed...
Oct17--press freedom rated at 157th in pakistan by RSF
Oct17--several shops blownup in mohamand agency
Oct17--no agreement on NRO with PPPP says shaukat aziz while benazir says she has no agreement with musharaf on future coalition
14Oct--musharaf and ministers advise benazir aganst return...benazirs return will see first popular opposition politician inside the country...SC decisions on musharaf and NRO worry PMlq and military as they could be marginalized if the court gives the correct decisions...
14Oct--taleban vigilantism takes off in swat as four supposed criminals killed in matta
14Oct--military unable to form tribal defence force sponsored by he USA as locals refuse to join...military has 80000 soldiers and 30000 paramilitaries...in the troubled north wziristan and related areas...
14Oct--rockets fired in dera bugti-sui at pipelines, power pylons, tribal leader and PPL pressure plant...two gas pipelines blownup..
14Oct--musharaf really was never popular...his government support was based on about 30% of the population with almost all major parties not in his support group...his popularity has declined after all the wrong things he did like the coup, false cases aginst nawaz, exiling political leaders , not allowing shabaz back, false referndum, not giving up his army position after completing his tenure...fooling people with continuous lies..actions against a fully supportive supreme court...and subsequent actions like teh NRO and trying to get benazir to come back and not allowing nawaz sharif to do so and not accepting the rules that disqualified him and also the duplicity in occupying two positions beyond even the limits he defined himself...the lal masjid fiasco...not controlling terrorism...the north waziristan war which has lasted almost four years without resolution...the killings of opposition supporters in karachi and not having developed any real politicians to take over...include the killing of akber bugti and his support of the mqm killing machine in karachi...and his illogical support of teh USA against islamic extremism...The US behaviour in iraq and towards pakistan also contributes to his downfall...
14Oct--maternal mortality only falling by 1% per annum as UN unable to work in countries with the highest levels...in poor countries it is 456 per 100000 live births while it is just 9 in developed countries...lack of resources,nutrition, ambulances,health facilities and poorly trained professional help main cause..
14Oct--military intelligence even has a soldier in those illegally detained...
Oct13--SC refuses to stay the NRO ordnance which is an action as well as a law...indemnity thru laws is common in pakistan...examples are previous and present martial law rulers and coup plotters some of whom have been indemnified even by the SC..a larger bench tobe formed...The government can easily withdraw the cases as lacking evidence without even the NRO...the NRO is not person specific as it involves over 600 cases dealing with multiple persons...
Oct13--militants cease control of the law in mohamnd and swat...in mohmand militants beheaded six criminals who had earlier killed five militants...militants being dragged into personal confrontations which they describe as islamic punishments...in swat three receive lashings for attempted kidnapping...
Oct13--taleban donot want a permanent ceasefire as attacks on checposts resume and military vehicle runs over a landmine...
Oct13--General kiyani who was probably a very junior officer in 2001 must realize that teh war has been going on for almost six years without results and in the pakistani context the escalation is obvious while there is peace in the USA...the war in pakistan is assuming other connotations and aspects and turning into a local struggle for supremacy in various areas...at the moment the pakistan army which has lost the backing of the people which was mere propaganda anyway has lost considerable prestige in scenarios since the lal masjid...kiyani also seems to lack a thinking cap which is extremely necessary for a military leader...
Oct13--sindhis will vote for benazir as anti benazir graffiti appears on her fathers grave
Oct13--US says they are not running pakistans internal affairs as pakistan army kills and pillages in north waziristan on their appeals....pakistan under US supported military rule is just slightly better than nepal in being subjugated by the USA who is subjugated by india...
Oct13--shahbaz sharif says that farook leghari filed cases against asif zardari and not nawaz sharif...
Oct12--ceasefire talks on between rampaging pakistan army and tribals...tribals accuse military of killing 55 civilians including women and children while pakistan army claims killing 50 arabs...bannu -miranshah road closed..two militanty attacks reported..
Oct12--pakistan army angry at BBC interview of three captured army officers...
Oct12--Nawaz Sharif has surged in popularity compared to musharaf and benazir...over 70% think that musharaf should leave army position...
Oct12--The animosity prone pakistan cricket board has fined shoaib akhter Rs3.4 million and banned him for 13 matches...
Oct12--eid in north waziristan on friday signalling the regions differences with other muslims and pakistan
Oct12--government recovers another 31 missing people...government/armed forces intelligence agencies regard themselves above the law and incarcerate people without any legal provision...
Oct12--APHR a group of ngo's condemns pakistan army bombings in mir ali in which over 250 people have been killed. Even homes, villages and bazaars were not spared. Women and children are among the victims..10000 people have fled the area...
Oct11--shaukat aziz adamant at elections in january despite government being totally stalled and and unable to handle ordinary problems... ...suggesting that PMLq thinks 2007 is jinxed...
Oct11--PMLq politician sher jan marri shot dead in quetta
Oct11--There was a ceasefire in effect around mir ali wednesday as tribals fled the area and buried their dead...
Oct11--former wapda chairman shamsul mulk ,aged 70, appointed caretaker chief minister in nwfp...
Oct11--western experts point to the pakistan armies inability to deal with a low level insurgency involving literally untrained tribals as former secreatary FATA says there is a lack of focus and leadership in the government which has left police, bureaucrats, tribal officials and the military reluctant to act...paralysis at federal level say others as primeminister literally a front for a rejected military coup lingering on...
Oct11--benazir regards military doctored constitution and army president with usurped powers controlling government dismissal and armed forces as the root of the problem...a popularly elected president might be acceptable some suggest...
Oct11--a dormant case in the SHC being reinitiated wherein Benazir wants tobe appointed an MNA under womens reserved seats...
Oct11--Rashid Rauf's bail application rejected...
Oct11--FSC wants to know why FCR has not been repealed after it was declared unislamic
Oct11--JI files review petition in musharaf's dual office case
Oct11--a retired AVM Chaudhry Lateef Kamra running a construction company shot dead in karachi..third prominent punjabi killed in recent days...
Oct10--The pakistan army continued bombing villages in north waziristan calling the dead militants despite there being no confirmation on whether ordinary civilians were being murdered...mosque loud speakers asked people to evacuate the villages and thousands have fled their homes...the army said fifty militants and four soldiers were killed as militants attacked the miranshah garrison and a couple of checkposts...requests for a ceasefire were turned down...the villages of khederkhel, Ipi and khushali torikhel were bombed by aircraft
Oct10--CD markets in peshawar and darra admakhel were bombed damging over 50 shops...shopkeepers accused the intelligence agencies
Oct10--nwfp assembly dissolves constitutionally
Oct10--Another judge was added to the SC bench hearing pleas against musharaf and a seven judge bench started hearing teh contempt case of refusing to allow nawaz sharif to enter the country
Oct10--Interior ministry to move SC aginst lal masjid concessions...bullet proof vehicle tobe provided to benazir by the government...
Oct10--The already controversial NRO was not tabled in the national assembly...politicians say the PPPP can still be arrested in non NAB cases
Oct10--The population ministry in a humorous bid to humiliate the countries elite gifted all male MP's 100 condoms each
Oct10--Benazir does not need to worry about being arrested on her return as all NAB cases have become obsolete and she cannot be arrested under them anyway without committee approval...
Oct10--Trade deficit widens over last year by 13% during first three months...government not tobe able to meet $12.5 billion trade deficit target...
Oct10--Another journalist Riaz mengal kidnapped in balochistan
Oct10--Mustafa Khar long regarded as a muslim league spy leaves the PPPP for a second or third time
Oct10--Lt.general ahmed shuja pasha former pakistan army DG operations/ISI director becomes military advisor at UN headquarters
Oct09--The pakistan army suffered more casaulties in the battle around mir ali where the army used aircraft to bomb villages..the losses on the army side seemed excessive since the battle was waged from the sky using aircraft and artillery...since saturday fifty soldiers and 130 tribals killed...the villages hit were khasookhel, mir ali, khadi, harmuz, khederkhel and mir ali bazaar...the pakistan army losses were probably in occupying the mir ali bazaar...pakistan army spokesperson showed utter contempt for civilian or collateral losses...pakistan army attitude almost similar to the US in iraq and israel in palestine...spokesman accuses tribesmen of being armed by india and having afghan training...others also suggest that manmohan fueling terrorism in pakistan
Oct09--The nwfp assembly was prorogued and chief minister durrani immediately asked the governor to dissolve the assembly as the opposition withdrew its no trust motion...speaker bakht jehan resigned...
Oct09--In sindh the SHC issued a contempt notice against the chief minister who condoned graffiti and banners that appeared all around the SHC on October 1as a public reaction...the SHC was accused of accepting bribes in releasing four senior lawyers from police custody...
Oct09--A VIP helicopter crashed in azad kashmir killing a brigadier, two soldiers and a cameraman...a technical fault caused the crash...army spokesman a major general and others jumped from the chopper to save their lives...the crash demonstrates poor maintenance procedures as the army is busy in politics...
Oct09--tribal reporter sailab mehsud threatened by MI officer
Oct09--apart from bullet proof vehicles, a retired major general and PPPP volunteers benazir might hire a foreign firm of security experts to gaurantee her personal security...
Oct09--munir mengal charged after almost two years in custody..he planned to setup a balochi tv in dubai which the authorities say would instgate baloch nationalism and the armed struggle for freedom...
Oct09--Sheikh Rashid ran into contempt trouble as he said martial law would be imposed if the SC ruled against musharaf's qualification...with saner voices emerging in the pakistan army many suggest that musharaf would be asked to step aside...even if the judges rule in his favor...
Oct09--benazir whom many are accusing of giving musharaf a lifeline says she will protect nuclear assets not personalities such as nuclear hero dr qadeer khan who as appointed by her father...
Oct09--Two grenades thrown into jamrud girls college...girl students risk their lives for education in troubled areas
Oct09--musharaf losing his memory says ayesha siddiqua author of Military Inc...he accuses her and the pakistani tribals of conniving with india and afghanistan for resources and advice...
8Oct--In what can be said to an escalation in the confrontation the pakistan army attacked militants and killed 65 while losing over twenty soldiers..army also killed three civilians...army attacked militants near mir ali after attacks on two convoys on saturday...
8Oct--Shaukat aziz suggests that NRO used to divide opposition and that it may not be reisssued if struck down by the courts...PPPPsays its position on NRO according to its mandate...
8Oct--growing concern that the SC that will hear cases against musharafs candidacy from the 17th will not be able to give a real decision as they will be frightened as musharaf will try to hang onto his military office...The only way is to kick musharaf out of both his offices and let the system he created take it from there
8Oct--doubts about the NRO could derail PPPP-military talks and the PMLq is already suggesting that it has served its purpose as reports suggest talks ongoing about caretaker setup...nazims tobe powerless in election scenario...elections possibly on Dec27/28...elections tobe announced by end october if SC decision comes on the 17th...
8Oct--Benazir Bhutto tobe accompanied by her sister whom many regard as more intelligent and who could be entering politics in case there are political hiccups from the military such as the cancellation of the NRO etc...
8Oct--MMA leaders try to avoid a split as JI and JUI top leaders not speaking to each other
8Oct--NRO benefits only five from the PPPP...while also benefiting seven Sharif family members, five PML-N leaders, two leaders of the MMA, including a close relative of Maulana Fazlur Rehman�s, two MQM men, 31 PML-Q leaders including the former CBR chairman, five heads of different banks, the Leghari family and others
Oct7--In a sad day for democracy the cursed PMLq elected a serving army chief as their president...musharaf got 57% of the 1170 member electoral college whose strength had declined to 702...the APDM resigned from the assemblies and the JUI abstained and the PPPP boycotted...In the national assembly 197 voted for out of a total strength of 327..musharaf in what canbe termed as a weakened voice was unable to say much expecting that opposition to his rule should now cease...Ayub khans downfall started with his election by the basic democracies but he had already appointed a C-in-C in general Musa..musharaf lacking in confidence has been unable to appoint a COAS as yet...
Oct7--partial APDM strike with quetta observing a complete shutterdown..
Oct7--In the nwfp the government moved a no trust against the speaker bakht jehan seen as a conspirator...lawyers protested the musharaf election all over the country...a police armoured vehicle rammed into lawyers in peshawar severely injuring several who than set it on fire...
Oct7--Yar mohammed rind a minister refused to appear in parliament with his third wife ayla malik...they came to vote after everybody left...?
Oct7--28 paramilitaries kidnapped from speemwam as one soldier died in north waziristan as military convoy ambushed in military style attack...
Oct7--three regions want islamic law..north and south waziristan, malakand and swat...without it a solution seems impossible...barring continuing violence...
Oct7--musharaf already reluctant to appoint a full time arny chief...
Oct7--thousands attended the opening prayers at the lal masjid as the new cleric said that upto a thousand women may have been killed and unless their demands are met and the jamia hafsa rebuilt things would detriorate...
Oct7--Bungee jumper Nilofer Bakhtiar says that musharaf will quit if the SC kicks him out...both the SC and nilofer bakhtiar are extremely unreliable...
Oct7--senators term musharaf election as shameful, unconstitutional, illegal and immoral...while one termed it a joke..PPPP said they wanted musharaf elected by the new assemblies and out of uniform...
Oct7--NRO runs into trouble as SC moved onits discriminatory nature...did NRO get musharaf elected...certainly looks like softening up the PPPP...
Oct6--In what can be said tobe a divided judgement both sides were smiling as the judges allowed the already discredited presidential election/farce to go ahead as the nwfp assembly could be dissolved and the situation changed irrepairably if delayed..However the results are tobe okayed only after the courts judgement on musharafs qualification...Musharaf is legally disqualified however the SC has wavered inits commitment tobe an independent judiciary and favors musharaf to a large extent...and are thus unable to give an honest judgement...the judges might want to see how the situation develops and if musharaf takes off his uniform...court to hear furthet arguments on the 17th...
Oct6--The PPPP which has been sort of soft on musharaf is still undecided on the farcical presidential elections...they wont resign but might abstain...
Oct6--NRO promulgated in which over 600 cases will be withdrawn by NAB against politicians and officials...NAB can also not order a parliamentarians arrest directly...If such measures had been taken seven years ago they would have resulted in goodwill for the military regime...now they are sort of ending an era of political victiomisation initiated by nawaz sharif...the change comes after a beaurocrat was appointed to head the previously army led NAB...most of the cases were already stalled for lack of evidence...
Oct6--36 APDM members resign from nwfp assembly while JUI/TI did not and might soon jump ship..JUI possible PPPP coalition partner in next government
Oct6--a dailytimes analysis suggests musharaf has ruled by creating controlled paralysis and chaos thus frightening civilian leaders to stay away from the country
Oct6--The SC orders government to recover all missing people by the 11th (or lose the presidency...)
Oct6--usual militant and army activities continued in north waziristan leaving one civilian dead..such activities are said tobe typical of the area since the sixties...when the mullahs/tribals used to practice by snatching cars while nobody watched...they still think that they can approach people and the military checposts without being noticed...arrive out of nowhere and disappear...
Oct5--The NRO meets PPPP approval as MQM also granted indemnity..NRO to end all politically motivated cases inside and outside pakistan initiated by the pakistan government...mqm generally involved in murder cases while the PPPP involved in corruption cases...nawaz sharif should indirctly benefit too...PPPP says no agreement on 58-2b, third time premier and uniform...amin fahim theoretically should now drop out of presidential race and withdraw his case against musharaf's qualification..If SC disqualifies musharaf than PMLq candidate to benefit...many thought PPPP should have held on for presidential elections by new assembly...SC to decide today on elections stay...
Oct5--The situation worsened in north waziristan as three captured soldiers were executed by baitullah mehsud to revenge the humiliations suffered by the mehsud at the hands of army interrogators
Oct5--Baitullah mehsud who has 35000 followers and a suicide squad waiting to welcome benazir says fata senator...he says musharaf and benazir both project american views...
Oct5--Razmak cadet college in north waziristan an army affiliated educational institution has been closed for six months due to insecurity...its building was damaged in one attack...students airlifted to bannu...
Oct5--pakistani taleban now free to fight military and police..reports suggest that they coordinate with afghan taleban
Oct5--APDM calls for a strike on Oct6 if the elections are not stayed by the SC
Oct5--Benazir almost becoming a parrot for musharaf and the ISI...
Oct5--ANP, PMLn and Ji to resign from the nwfp assembly on Oct5..JUI not to resign
Oct5--Raza rabbani to resign as opposition leader in senate after the formation of the APDM...PPPP has nine senators...
Oct5--NAB almost extinguished as now a parliamentary committee wouild have to recommend cases aginst serving parliamentarians and all previous cases recommended by NAB would be ended...no let off for financial scams...?
Oct5-- militaries reconciliation with PPPP defeat of the chaudhries says shah mahmood qureshi
Oct5--Balochistan MMA expels agha faisal dawood for refusing to resign en masse
Oct5--Three persons found dead who had apparently been tortured in lahore
Oct4--PPPP to resign from assemblies if musharafs takes part in uniform and as expected talks breakdown with musharaf's negotiators
Oct4--Musharaf has no plans to resign till Nov15...after that who knows...he says there is no problem if the electoral college is incomplete as only 164 of 1170 members have resigned...he plans an amnesty for nawaz sharif too...he says kiani is a loyal subordinate but many doubt that...with the COAS hat Kiani might ask him to move aside to remove a major irritant to solutions with militants...
Oct4--two Fc men and ten militants killed in attack on north waziristan checpost as 14 civilians die when their vehicle runs over a bomb...
Oct4--Justice sardar raza stepped down from the bench hearing pleas against musharaf and was replaced by two judges to raise it to a ten judge bench...pleas for a full court hearing were rejected...
Oct4--Justice Falak Sher said that musharaf is not qualified to participate in elections as he is the COAS however denying the petition on a meaningless ground that it did not affect the petitioners fundamental rights and remedy should be provided by parliament despite existing laws....
Oct4--Aitezaz ahsan says that PPPP could challenge the NRO in court
Oct4--The APDM could not disslove the frontier assembly and now will have to decide whether to attend the election session or not...plans to dissolve after Oct6 to embarass the military government are meaningless...
Oct4--two mma mpas in balochistan assembly move BHC to say that their resignations are fake...
Oct4--baitullah mehsud to put 300 kidnapped pakistan army soldiers on trial if his ten comrades are not released...
Oct4--Lal masjid reopens for prayers on SC orders
Oct4--apparently five members switch sides from opposition to government and vice versa in nwfp assembly on no trust motion...
Oct4--rowdy scenes in nwfp assembly as no trust motion cancels possible dissolution by chief minister
Oct4--militant dies as bomb blowsup while being planted in mingora...
Oct4--In swat bomb threats scare away teachers and students from girls scholls as government writ ceases to exist and insecurity mounts..attendance drops to 25%
Oct4--Lt gen kidwai who runs the militaries nuclear bombs division and largely responsible for accusing Dr. AQ Khan resigns after being superceded
Oct3--Pakistans development and poverty is indicated by the fact that only 3.3% of the people have internet connections showing wealth, education and computer literacy standards
Oct3--musharaf's educational degrees are said tobe fake..his masters degree in war studies is a little more than a course and the balochistan university degree probably honorary...the courts have already declared that honorary degrees are not educational qualifications..the pakistan army, politicians and judiciaries mockery of laws and qualifications leaves musharaf's presidency floundering, inadequate and illegitimate...many suggest that military courses are just organization training mechanisms and should not be given any educational equivalence...The pakistan armies limited understanding of politics, education and democracy shows there poor education
Oct3--The SC has constituted a nine member bench headed by javed iqbal to hear objections against musharafs qualifications and the approval of his candidature by the EC and has at least two accused as government agents..javed iqbal gave the lame explanation that parliament is the cause of musharaf's illegal candidature and refused to listen to the case ...
Oct3--former ISI head ashfak kiani appointed VCOAS and will eventually takeover as COAS and tariq majid to takeover as chairman joint chiefs...musharaf seems to have made the appointments early as a safety measure in case something happens to his candidature...both generals are considerd musharaf loyalists and have been part of the pakistan armies colossal failure in handling even minor operations like akber bugtis assassination, north waziristan , lal masjid and to some extent the afghanistan issue...ashfak kianis handling of the benazir negotiations did not inspire confidence in anyone...with nadeem taj at the ISI a known participant in political dirty tricks one really does not know what the pakistan army is signalling...
Oct3--National Reconciliation Ordnance moves forward
Oct3--162 APDM mna's and mpas resign from various assemblies...in balochistan 25 mpas resigned including fourteen ministers
Oct3--Inzamam Ul Haq the hero turned world oneday cup losing villain has resigned from cricket...he will play one last test and will be given a Rs10 million donation by teh PCB suggesting that he might have lost on PCB orders...
Oct3--militants kill three in attack on the home of nwfp governor's brother in hangu
Oct3--two militants and one paramilitary kiled in north waziristan in attack on checpost..FC attacked several marble factories in swat after which locals blocked roads to demand compensation...
Oct3--the militaries sad handling of the lal masjid crisis still echos in the SC where many suggested that many more had been killed than the governments numbers...The SC appointed prayer leaders and ordered the lal masjid open and asked government to pay compensation to those killed...one report suggests that over 400 might have been killed and they saw at least 30 girls killed by the pakistan army in just one room...
Oct3--Justice Wajiuddin says that the SC's September 28 judgement delivered under pressure from government and agencies.....
Oct2--IG islamabad, DC and SSP suspended on SC orders for dealing with journalists harshly on constitution avenue...The IG also charged with contempt of court for not appearing and using tear gas on the court premises...
Oct2--lawyers on countrywide strike against police mal treatment...
Oct2--The military sponsored regime might go for a national reconciliation ordnance that would provide a general amnesty to all accused in political victimisation/anti corruption cases since 1985 but not yet convicted...? PPPP which is now distancing itself from a deal might again eat humble pie if musharaf exits from the army before the oath..
Oct2--benazir to openly seek US bombardments against ben laden site if pakistan army unable to deal with information if he is located ...a posture considered worse than musharaf's by the public...musharaf's posture would be that the US did it without our knowledge...
Oct2--a suicide bomber in a burqa blewup in a rickshaw killing 16 in bannu...
Oct2--militants killed a paratrooper in dattakhel while over 100 militants surrounded a checpost in bakka khel near bannu and 35 soldiers are reported kidnapped...
Oct2--pakistan was ranked number one with over $5.1 billion in arms purchase agreements in 2006...
Oct2--In nwfp the PMLq stopped the dissolution of the assembly by moving a no trust motion as well as going to the the high court against the dissolution
Oct2--IB threatening dissident PMLq MNA's and MPA's
Oct2--PMLq mna saira tariq resigns from party and the national assembly in protest against the uniform
Oct2--PMLn to move SC for shahbaz sharifs return...
Oct2--two 500KV electricity towers blownup near hub...
Oct2--Justice wajiuddin names three SC judges as government agents for accepting government positions and accuses one of participating in pre-poll and post poll election rigging...
Oct2--A US embassy counseller says musharaf to become a civilian before taking the oath while sheikh rashid says musharaf will have to change his attitude from that of a coup plotter to a president...
Oct2--PPPP preparing a constitutional petition in SC against musharaf's nomination...
Oct2--an anti government lawyer involved in paint/ink spraying case being harassed by the governments goons...
Oct2--Faryal talpur files writ in SHC against musharaf's EC nomination approval saying musharraf, who is also COAS , is working against the interests of the Pakistan Army, as its members are not safe, and are targeted and killed by terrorists as terrorisms spreads to every nook and cranny of the country
Oct2--Benazir files bail before arrest application in assets,sgc, cotechna cases in SHC
Oct2--porters hurl tomatoes at trucks as first indian truck crosses wagah border
Oct1--two soldiers were killed in attacks on four checposts, a bomb blast on a convoy and an attack on an army camp in and around miranshah...
Oct1--The SC seems more interested in handling minor operation/maladministration/appointment problems such as the police beating of journalists etc. rather than the real issues of illegal military rule and the constitution...such minor matters should be dealt with by the lower judiciary rather than the SC...many suggest that the superior judiciary , armed forces and PMLq are the axis of evil in pakistan...
Oct1--Salvation army chief murder suspect escapes from police detention...
Oct1--Pakistan seeks extradition of hayerbiyar marri from the UK who should realize that he is a political opponent of the military ruler and is in a similar class to altaf hussein another terrorist hiding in the UK...
Oct1--journalists observe black day against musharafs use of excessive force and suggest that musharaf's ruthless nine year rule has seen the killing of 24 journalists,68 kidnapped and 81 injured
Oct1--militants blowup girls school in kabal, swat as girl students refuse to wear burqas...two ngo offices blownup in Orakzai agency
Oct1--Benazir Bhutto says Ossama against her return while the historically anti bhutto pakistan army will provide her security in pakistan...?
Oct1--The PMLq whose leader cursed lawyers recently to go to the courts against dissolution of the nwfp assembly according to the law in which a chief minister can ask for the dissolution...