Sept2003

Sept30--Musharaf's regular and generally useless visits abroad are quite expensive...musharaf's recent four country visit cost Rs17.2 million
Sept29--Amin fahim takes over as the ARD chief
Sept27--1027 army men occupy top civilian positions
Sept27--The chief of the ARD nasrullah khan dies...at 85
Sept27--The opposition critisizes musharaf for calling them immature and filing treason cases against senator sanaullah baloch and other BNM members
Sept26--Balochistan chief nminister comes out in support of new army cantonements...
Sept25--The senate rejects leave applications of three opposition members in retaliation for LFO protests...
Sept25--Nasrullah suffersw a heart attack
Sept25--In what many see as helplessness... musharaf urges india to observe a joint ceasefire on the LOC..he also suggested encouragement of reciprocal restraints on violence inside occupied kashmir and international monitoring of the LOC...
Sept25--MMa hands overcounter proposals to jamali on the constitutional package...
Sept24--The balochistan assembly opposed the estabishment of cantonements at sui, gwadar vand kohlu
Sept24--MMa rejects constitutional package..They will present counter proposals to cover the three issues that the PMLq aims to avoid ie uniform, musharaf's discretionarypowers and the age of judges... --
Sept23--MMA to opt for a country wide movement after rejecting draft constitutional package
Sept22--MMA will probably not vote for musharaf in his attempt to get political validation
Sept21--As usual jamali fails the democracy test by rejecting fresh elections as well
Sept21--Like Benazir Bhutto mushara freluctatntly reaches the conclusion that india is insincere
Sept21--Pir Pagara suggest early polls...
Sept20--draft constitutional package handed over to MMA...PMLq unable to take off musharaf's uniform
Sept19--Bush agrees that saddam not involved in Sept11...iraq invasion a direct result of sept11..
Sept19--Chaudhry shujaat says musharaf refusing to takeoff his uniform while willing to accept constitutional package...musharf already way past his retirement age...
Sept18--Five PML factions merged into the the PMLq
Sept17--differences emerge in the sindh assembly on opposing the greater Thal canal as speaker refuses to allow opposition to raise teh issue...
Sept17--India refuses Kasuri visit
Sept17--Jamali again given more time by teh mNMA to settle the politicians differences with musharaf...
Sept17--Government attempting to create a patriots like group amongst teh MMA led by an MNA from Karak
Sept16--13 hindus convicted of brutally killing an australian priest in Orissa after trapping him in a car and setting it on fire...
Sept16--pakistan despite being denied purchase of new/old F-16's is tobe allowed spares and upgradation of its twenty year old F-16's
Sept16--67 die in riyadh jail fire
Sept16--MMA irked by consistent avoidance of realities by jamali-musharaf on uniform and LFO
Sept16--Gilani takes over APHC again
Sept15--Jamali denies rumours that an in house change is in the offing...Jamali says that his proposals on kalabagh in 1985 had been rejected by Junejo after which he resigned...
Sept15--Musharaf who is more security conscious than any previous army chief has stopped pedestrians from walking near he army house amid an unprecedented police buildup...
Sept14--Musharaf calls for building more reservoirs despite having done nothing about them in the last four years
Sept13--India-US hold exercise in disputred area as US offers PC-ORions
Sept13--Opposition to attempt increase in pressures on government...The government despite a majority is increasingly embarrassed on not moving on any real domestic agenda and is relying on useless foreign visits to imoprove its lacklustre image...
Sept12--PPPP 's Amin Fahim rejects secret deal charges...many regard amin fahim/Benazir as having struck a deal with chaudhry shujaat in which the patriots moved to join the government
Sept12--Musharaf refusestobe called a traitor and insists he is only probing ties with israel..Musharaf was recently praised by israeli primeminister sharon while in india
Sept12--Israel preparing to expel arafat
Sept11--
Sept11--The bodies of 23 pakistanis that washed ashore in turkey after their boat sank
Sept11--The IMF, zafarullah jamali and Nepra working together to provide electricity at the highest cost in the region...KESC prices raised by seven paisa while government is to provide a 7paisa subsidy
Sept11--The US insists that Ossama hiding aroyund angooradda and wana
Sept11--Government wants another 6 weeks to delay LFO resolution
Sept11--Wapda identifies five dam building sites saying that even this year 19MAF of water went waste
Sept10--Storage reservoirs will be silted by upto 25% in 2005 which combined with mixed rainfall patterns and snowfalls causes catastrophic problems...however reservoirs provide only about 15MAF of storage and are more important for winter crops..pakistans water availability swings from about 90MAF to145 MAF and another reservoir would provide greater stability
Sept10--The ARD is suspicious about the noora kushti between the government and the MMA on the army leadership and LFO...
Sept10--The army after having usurped literally every aspect of governance in pakistan is still going after pakistani land...having built housing estates for faujis all over pakistan they still want another 23669 acres...something must be done to limit the armies land grabs..probably a limit of one plot per officer during their careers or ending the giving of plots to faujis...
Sept09--Musharaf who is generally regarded as an anti punjabi.. sindhi-mohajir in political terms backs away from his statement that the kalabagh dam construction will begin next year...
Sept09--the three week US-india wargames in the ladakh area of kashmir are being held at the same time as the sharon visit to india in the shadow of the musharaf attempts to recognize israel and confirm india's occupation of kashmir...The war games seem tobe aimed at propping up india against china and pakistan militarily and probably are the first step towards a possible invasion of india...?
Sep09--The MMA thinks that the LFO must be approved by parliament and musharaf must take off his uniform and be legally reelected for army rule to end... while the chaudhry shujaat group want to continue as musharaf's/armies subordinates and want to let musharaf do as he pleases which they think is the only way to restrict nawaz and benazir from coming to power ...
Sep09--The army, PMLq and PTV are mounting a vilification campaign against Benazir and even her children... PMLq with no development populist agenda has nothing to stay in power apart from supporting musharaf in opposing/victimising/vilifying Benazir...
sept08--The ARD will oppose the LFO amendment bill if it does not remove dictatorial provisions destroying democracy and the constitution
Sept08--Apparently more people die in wapda than in the pakistan armed forces and while wapda earns over Rs200 billion the army spends over Rs200 billion...Electricity losses are highest in hyderabad and karachi
Sept07--In the recent IRSA meeting sindh continues it strange attitude of trying to restrict water to punjab from the indus while balochistan calls punjab and sindh cruel for stealing its water since 1991...Sindh continues to fight for an irrational increase inits water share...
Sept07--Three rockets fired at Bannu airport
Sept07--The sindh govt challenges the Hyderabad Pucca Qilla massacre acquittals in which over 300 were killed in sept 1988.The accused includes Dr Qadir Magsi.
sept07--Chaudhry Shujaat accuses sindhis of abusing punjabis
Sept 07--Pakistan makes another attempt to beef up its F-16 fleet by bidding for old Belgian planes...The army however seems only interested in overseas training programs and the acquisition of teh Phalcon radars by india..
Sept07--a bomb blast blows up an army jeep in occupied kashmir killing seven while 13 die in other incidents related to the liberation struggle..This brings to 87 the deaths in occupied kashmir last week
Sept07--29 die as lightening and rain plays havoc in upper Dir
Sept07--cracks appear in the PMLq-MMA lahore round of negotiations...while the MMA thinks that an agreed set of proposals will be presented to parliament/party heads... chaudhry shujaat thinks otherwise and wants the constitutional position about individuals nawaz sharif, Benazir Bhutto and musharaf tobe retained...MMA thinks that musharaf's uniform will have tobe torn off while shujaat thinks that he should be allowed to take it off when he pleases...MMA however disagrees with PMLq policies in general and will not join coalition...Howver the Nation suggests that it is only a face saving measure and the confusing LFO dealing with the presidency and schedule six will not even be touched...
Sept07--PMLn suggests that army stay away from politics and that they remember the fiascos of east pakistan, siachen and kargil which they say are teh negative legacies of the last three army rulers...PMLn itself is the legacy of one army ruler..
Sept06--Pathetic troop maneouvres in Bannu end...
Sept06--The death toll in the latest US attack on the taleban rose to 124 as the US pursued fleeing taleban...
Sept06--The government has been sufficiently damaged by the LFO issue and the MMA aims to help it out by moving quickly to resolve the issue...ie before teh army takes over again...
Sept06--The PMLq-PPPpatriots want to try Benazir Bhutto for treason after she suggested that ten years ago musharaf wanted to start an insurrection in occupied kashmir aimed at occupying srinagar...This is to out maneouvre the opposition which wants to try musharaf for treason under article6--The opoosition feel if Musharaf is sentenced to death than no other general will dare initiate a coup...
Sept06--While the army rule continues musharaf and jamali continue to harp on the helpless national assemblies tenure...
Sept05--Benazir suggests that authorities were negligent in maintaining the LBOD causing havoc in certain sindh areas while others suggest that it was due to the unnaturally heavy rains
Sept05--US seeking of UN support for iraq is opposed by germany and France...
Sept05--As the army buildup in the tribal areas continues the nwfp assembly comes out forcefully against the move aimed at blocking taliban entry who are being battered in afghanistan..In television presentations the buildup looks like a weak attempt to show power but fails inits attempt as the pakistan army appears to lack a modern trained appearance...
Sept05--Hopes are rising that musharaf might hand over power by October this year as a Jamali trip to the USA is suddenly scheduled...
Sept05--Zafarullah jamali weakly supports kalabagh and thal projects while inaugurating the zamzama gas field in sindh...while refusing to budge on the LFO
Sept05--At least eight peopel have been killed recently in karachi in what seems tobe a resurgence of mqm infighting...
Sept05--Pakistan critisizes US for providing india with the Phalcon air radar system which india will develop into into an AWACs system
Sept05--US kills over 124 taliban in an operation in Zabul
Sept04--In rawalpindi no mosque can be constructed without the nazims approval...
Sept04--US now accepts that it needs UN help and a truly multinational armed force..
sept04--Musharaf says no nuclear help to iran and refuses to freeze n-program..
Sept04..World bank suggests that musharaf's economy fragile and social growth especially in rural areas remains far behind the facile economys rosy picture..
Sept04--SNGPL and SSGCL to have a monopoly till 2010
Sept04..Army moves helicopters and trucks to Bannu to check afghan and US rising militarism against pakistan
sept04--The Iaea suggests that pakistan supplied centrifuges and technology to generate enriched uranium to iran...
Sept04--Pakistan-China test fly their copy of an SU27 called JF17/FC1 Flying Thunder/Fierce Dragon..pakistan claims it is a co manufacturer although no facilities for manufacture exist......China says it is its export model...looking a bit unwieldly it goes against the concepts of a sleek modern fighter/bomber
Sept04-- US-pakistan suggest that taliban 's top leaders surrounded
Sept03--MMA suggests that the government moving towards presenting a constitutional package to end army rule despite jamalis total support to the LFO and musharaf
Sept03--eight killed in karachi in mqm violence
Sept03--ARD moving towards thoughts of organizing a movement as government refuses to budge on ending army rule...
Sept03--Pakistan suggests that india's hand of friendship is suspended somewhere
Sept02--Shujaat rejects suggestions that Zafarullah Jamali may soon be replaced by a pro musharaf punjabi clique opposing him in the PMLq..many suggest that Jamali has been ineffective in ending army rule...shujaat reportedly has taken over all LFO negotiations after the speaker/musharaf/,jamalis failure and is willing to negotiate on a joint constitutional package...?
Sept02--Ossama many suggest maybe in the pakistan tribal areas..others say he has left pakistan dressed as a nun
Sept02--The ARD chief suggests that musharaf is undemocratic and that if a cock(zafarullah) crows at midnight it does not suggest that it is morning...
Sept02--At least pakistan army officers under investigation by the USA for supporting al qaeda
Sept02--Pakistan reportedly asking for $9 billion as military aid
Sept02--The PMLq frustrated by musharaf's non developmental attitude is left with little todo but attack Benazir Bhutto whose antics actually brought them to power..It is the general consensus that the anti Benazir military rule continues...
Sept02--The government sues its own organization PNSC for $1billion in damages for teh Tasman Spirit oil spill
Sept02--The MMA too is moving towards ending negotiations on the LFO while shabaz sharif moving to Dubai
Sept01--third round of LFO negotiations today..the government explains why it is frightened of changing army leadership
Sept01--Upto twenty army officers under investigation for al qaeda links...
Sept01--MMA wants to dislodge army dictatorship says Fazl