October2005

Oct27--shiite killed in quetta..
Oct27--oil prices to climb to $150 if US invades iran..?says iranian sources
Oct27--pakistan sends 14 taliban prisoners to their doom in afghanistan
oct27--ossama sons in iran says western media...
oct27--donors approve $580 million in relief aid as pakistan literally begs thru ngo's and UN...pakistan still not doing enough on its own despite huge reserves and over a Rs700 billion budget...many suggest that pakistan government should at least match donors efforts...
Oct19--As pakistans military shows its inexpertise at even logistics handling kashmiri militants kill minister as musharaf plays politics with disaster relief
Oct19--pakistan military regime amongst twenty most corrupt regimes worldwide...
Oct19--Military bans tent exports from punjabs 37 tent factories which make 75000 tents a day......
Oct19--quake statistics--about 3.2 million affected, 42000 dead, 67000 injured as military complains of a shortage of tetanus vaccines...
Oct19--118 relief planes have so far arrived as armies logistics experts show their lack of real expertise in emergency handling...
Oct19--8000 schools destroyed in nwfp affected areas of shangla, mansehra, batagram, kohistan, abbottabad...
Oct14--Two rangers and three shiites killed in sectarian violence in gilgit as the rangers shoot at shiite protest...earlier two shiites were killed on tuesday...rangers apparently arrested a shiite mansoor changezi for shooting on them and refused to acknowledge it...
Oct14--over 70 aftershocks recorded on the 13th...
Oct13--As death tolls mount and quake hit people are increasingly troubled...Musharaf all praise for himself as usual..many suggest that musharaf is totally blind and deaf to reality....
oct12--4748 confirmed dead in nwfp...8970 injured...almost 3000 killed around mansehra
Oct12--1000 hospitals destroyed by quake says UN..almost all local doctors and nurses dead in quake devastated towns many say...
Oct12--5.1 quake hits balochistan and a milder quake rumble's karachi...
Oct11--sikander hayat ajk primeminister ruling out of a tent says he is ruling a graveyard
Oct11--shireen waheed an ajk minister was buried alongwith fourteen famly members
Oct11-death toll expected to rise to 50000 as army critisized for its animosity to civilians, internal rivalries and slow response to disaster...
Oct11--SHC unseats a PPPP mpa elected in 2002 after a three year vote recount...!!!
Oct11--lahoris donate 60 million and 1000 trucks for relief/aid
Oct10--top leaders of the PML shujaat hussein and pervez elahi enjoying sons wedding in london as quake destroyed country...
Oct10--Balakot, muzaffarabad, bagh worst hit as death tol in muzaffarabad alone rise to 11000
Oct9--Earthquake death toll in Pakistani Kashmir estimated at 30,000: minister ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 (AFP) - An estimated 30,000 people were killed in Azad Kashmir by a massive earthquake, the AJK Minister for Works and Communication Tariq Farooq told AFP Sunday. "There are cities, there are towns which have been completely destroyed. Muzaffarabad is devastated," he added, Around 3,000 people were killed by the quake in Muzaffarabad. The worst hit place was Bagh, 40 kilometres southeast of Muzaffarabad, Farooq said. Between 6,000 and 7,000 people are estimated to have died in the town and adjoining areas, Farooq said. "There are no survivors in villages like Jaglari, Kufalgarh, Harigal and Baniyali in Bagh district," Farooq said. "People have been devoured by the earth." Pakistan's Minister For Kashmir Affairs, Faisal Hayat, said that half of Kashmir has been "severely affected by the earthquake". "Out of the total population more than half is affected," apparently referring to those displaced, injured or killed. (Posted @ 13:15 PST)
Oct8--As the military government was busy in using even the earthquake for self praise almost 3000 were supposed dead with the toll climbing steadily...the most cruel news being being the 250 girl students dying in the collapse of a girl school in the nwfp..(3,000 die as quake causes devastation * 1,600 dead in Kashmir, over 1,700 in NWFP * Several villages ‘wiped out * 200 Pak Army soldiers killed.)
oct8--despite hoopla in pakistan on kashmir options india denies any discussion on any kashmir solution...
oct8--eight ahmedis killed in mong mandi bahauddin
oct8--councillor votes sold for as high as 2 lacs inn nazim electins allege PML mna's...present local body elections have shown the military-pml combine tobe undemocratic and unable to tolerate the opposition even at the local body level...
oct7--rocket attack kills three in nwaziristan
oct7--opposition routed in pml-military controlled local body polls..
oct6--State bank governor being replaced...possible choices include a female dr shamshad akhter(ADB), dr javed hamid(ifc), naveed ahsan(secretary finance), dr ashfaque(pakistani government economist/planner)
Oct6--Government supporting tribal leader kidnapped and killed in continuing nwaziristan imbroglio...
Oct5--Six killed in explosion at dosti gate on pak afghan border
Oct5--Bomb blast destroys pakistan army convoy in nwaziristan
Oct5--Punjab chief secretary kamran Rasool replaced by salman siddiqui after corruption allegations...both close to pervez elahi...
Oct5--pakistan and india have been unable to solve the kashmir issue thru their bus services...now they are trying a truck service to srinagar...?
Oct4--pakistan and india fail in resolving peripheral issues such as siachen and sir creek...indians continue to accuse pakistan of infiltration while no progress is expected on kashmir...indians want a ceasfire line in siachen which pakistan opposes as it regards siachen as its territory while kashmir is disputed
oct4--Baloch liberation army bombed two main sui gas pipelines on monday
oct4--pakistan army kills six at zara mela and admit to massacring over seventy in khatti kalli village using fighters and cobras...yesterday they had expressed surprise at why the villagers had vanished...
Oct4--kasur, jhang and khusab taken over by paramilitary rangers as violence was expected in third phase of elections.
oct3--tribals lash out at pakistan army killing four in attacks on an army base and killing a tribal informant
oct2--shaukat aziz seems terribly confused at the meanings and utility of enlightened moderation...despite supposedly being a nuclear power he wants the west to resolve muslim issues...?
Oct2--USA/israeli policies that have kept the middleeast contantly unstable and the excessively high oil consumptions of USA/japan/china/india etc. have kept oil prices moving upwards to record highs and any further US orchestrated instability in iran/middleast might push prices over the $100 a barrel and cause a spiral economic effect that might be even worse than the recent US typhoons or category 4 storms...!!!
Oct2--Qadeer khan who is supposedly the only political rival who could apparently topple musharaf's military regime being kept in solitary confinement with not even access to newspapers and the internet.