• Apr30--russian explosive MUV2 used in charsadda explosion...sherpao targetted as one of the trio of ruthless government officials involved in eliminating people in north waziristan and elsewhere...
• apr30--in north waziristan a soldier and several militants were killed in a attack on a checkpost while two spies were killed in south waziristan
• apr29--in his charsadda hometown interior minister aftab sherpao gathering bombed by a suicide bomber with over 25 killed...
• apr29--benazir bhutto plans to return by the end of the year but seems to have no definite views about how to deal with any coexistence with military rule with musharaf or otherwise...
• apr28--musharaf assures that his illegitimate rule will be endorsed two months before parliament is dismissed
• apr28--musharafs illegitimate regime is run by intelligence agencies which operate generally under army control as the supremecourt tries to regulate the use of illegitimate disappearances by the pakistan army...
• apr28--four inmates killed as pakistan military blows up a house in north waziristan...government sources say they were making bombs at 3am in the morning that exploded...
• apr27--pakistans leading terrorist chaudhry shujaat wants army opponents tobe gunned down...when nahid khan raised the matter in parliament her comments were expunged...
• apr26--three killed in apparent sectarian attack in DIKhan
• apr26--transmission tower blownup affecting mohmand and bajaur areas electricity supply
• apr25--manmohan singh pathetically suggests that occupied kashmir be divided into three parts ...new jammu, ladakh and kashmir...unless india resolves the issue of kashmir with pakistan such thoughts are meaningless...as they donot address any aspect of the issue...
• apr24--military rule sponsor sharifudin pirzada to represent government against the CJC petition in the supreme court
• apr23--amin fahim says PPPP not striking any deal with military regime...
• apr22--shujaat says lal masjid issue resolved and police to take over responsibility to enforce islam in brothel/gambling ridden islamabad
• apr21--deal with PPPP torpedoed as musharaf refuses to leave power in any form with or without uniform...
• apr21--pakistan army associated taleban offer to provide protection to al qaeda leader
• apr21--rocket fired fazlur rehmans house in di khan
• apr20--SC asks military regime to respond to CJP plea
• apr19--suspended chief justice moves supreme court against biased judges in the supreme judicial council which supposedly has tobe headed by the chief justice
• apr19--iftikar chaudhry cites following reasons for musharafs actions against him..."as CJSC he took notice notice of over 6,000 human rights cases in one year, setting aside privatisation of the Pakistan Steel Mills, inquiring into the land allotment to VIPs in Gwadar and issuing directions to the government in missing persons cases, besides others.
• Apr18--An SHC bench restrains the govt from transferring PTCL assets to Eitesalat on union pleas that the deal was not transparent...
• apr19--lal masjid to restart talks
• Apr18--rumours of a PPPP-musharaf deal continue despite no apparent confirmation from any side...people on the government side who need PPPP votes to win seem supportive while the PPPP sees no deal in the offing...musharaf could easily ease the countries tensions by opening the electoral process to everyone and ending military involvement in governance...
• apr18--government takes measures to ease protests as hearings of the CJSC begin...SHC orders a one day strike against military interference in judicial process
• apr17--lal masjid talks breakdown...
• apr17--reports of meetings at amin fahims farmhouse in chak shehzad reports the daily times...the supposed deal with Benazir to continue musharafs illegitimate stay in power and government to stop pursuing cases against benazir and zardari...sticking points remain such as the military uniform...people however see no difference in musharaf's attitudes towards the people or the PPPP leadership
• apr17--reports of the demise of this government to bring in a neutral government to handle the elections continue to surface...the lack of legitimacy of the musharaf regime cause many to support the rumours of an election deal to bolster musharaf
• apr16--PMLq ranks uneasy about musharafs interference in the judiciary as former CJC is feted in sindh
• apr16--rahul gandhi says the gandhis are the real enemies of pakistan not the BJP types...indian attempts to continuously destabilize states around it are quite well known...and east pakistans seperation due to language politics and its particular strange geographical situation...indian involvement thru weapons and money supply and an invasion are however part of the reason and why pakistan dislikes india...
• apr15--in what seems to suggest a military failure in handling key areas the corp commanders of quetta, bahawalpur and peshawar have been replaced...
• apr15--in the lal masjid standoff chaudhry shujaat has agreed to start implementing sharia and reconstructing seven demolished mosques while the military prepares to use female cops to raid jamia hafsa
• apr15--a pakistani missing from its mission in delhi found in pakistan
• apr14--significant increase in protests at military regimes suspension of the chief justice...
• apr13--musharaf admits pakistan army is distrusted by the USA as US starts container scanning at port qasim...
• apr14--pakistani diplomat says military approach cant stabilise north waziristan, iraq or afghanistan
• apr12--musharaf minister Ejaz Ul haq says he is an extremist...
• apr12--supreme court indicts seven officials for roughing uo the suspended chied justice
• apr12--Supreme Court upholds reinstatement of 93 PIA airhostesses fired for poor appearance...?
• apr12--balochistans suppressive regime bans an urdu magazine
• apr12--musharaf who had taken power for three years will find it dufficult to become president for a third time legally as the MMA intends to scuttle his bid by disssolving the nwfp assembly and withdrawing support in balochistan...
• apr12--the jamia hafsa issue took a serious turn with the mqm demanding use of force and the mullahs ready to retaliate with firearms and crudebombs...
• apr12--benazir bhutto upset over criticism of errant PMLq women minister as she says contacts between her and the military have been ongoing but there has been no resolution of major issues barring mild cooperation on reform issues...musharaf expects to drag her back to pakistan to extend his illegal military rule...many suggest another family member might be brought to the fore to lead the party aggressively instead of the present lame leadership of amin fahim...
• apr11--richard boucher erroneously suggests that the USA is working with the peopel of pakistan rather than the military regime...this contrasts with US attempts to destroy pakistans democracy and cooperation with the resultant military regimes thruout pakistans history...
• apr11--nawaz sharif suggests that he had no idea that a military coup was about to take place...
• apr11--workers in kot addu set a contractors office on fire attempting to burn managerial staff who escaped...over non payment of wages.
• apr10--possibility of fresh army leadership a possibility as present set of generals have been declared an abject failure in ruling pakistan
• april9--this military-industrialist regime seems unable to deal with religious issues of any nature be it north waziristan, the cricket team or lal masjid...frightened of mullahs and unaware of islamic concepts personally they cant even deal with issues themselves...they sent in an mna in the shape of shujaat who was informed that the government had blocked their website and that sharia is being enforced in two madrassas related to the mosque...contrary to the impression that they wanted to Talibanise the entire society. they also said that they had not warned the government of suicide attacks if it cracked down on the two madrassas.This supposedly free press government could not take the anti government statements on the website...!!!The government had apparently even arrested female madrassa students...and than backed off as a confrontation loomed...the mullahs kidnapped several police officials in retaliation and the government released the arrested taliban...The government and army think that islam means lip service and hiring mullahs for intelligence and counter terrorism...!!!
• apr9--musharaf has been unable to control sectarianism...15-40 people were killed in parachinars sectarian violence as shiites burnt 400 sunni shops after being unable to stand sunni criticism...shiites known for wailing and crying and being unable to control their emotions over deaths in the religious sphere...
• apr9--according to sharia neelofir bakhtiar an indianised liberal federal minister and an indian-american funded politician was declared unislamic and ineligible for responsibility after she was shown hugging an unrelated male in france...
• apr9--four soldiers injured in tank blasts and a police vehicle stolen...
• apr9--the karachi sunni tehreek is to exact revenge for the nishtar park bomb blast in which its entire leadership was blown up
• apr9--rumours persist in pakistan that either aziz or musharaf maybe be gotten rid of in an effort to appease the PPP or judiciary...the army apparently sick of its illegitimacy might strike a deal with its former proteges benazir and nawaz sharif...since the military run government has been shown tobe incapable of even selecting a cricket team properly...or dealing with its own appointed judiciary..