Youtube first fully and now partially banned in Pakistan, Ban imposed by Govt of Pakistan

On Sunday youtube was again total down for users all over Pakistan. PTCL blocked it for all other ISPs country wide. Also other ISPs having their own Internet wireless or wired links with other countries were instructed to ban the site. The full website ban lasted about 40 minutes to an hour.

Later website was back except for few videos. Ban was imposed to restrict the Asif Ali Zardari’s shut up videos. President Zardari was addressing people in a public address, few people who were apparently distracting and trying to get President Zardari’s attention, Zardari gone angry on them and told them openly to shut up during his speech.

Now people cut up this portion of speech – including the portion in which the president of country telling the public to shut up – and uploaded these videos to youtube.

After a while when these videos spread like fire and people were sharing these to their friends and relatives, mr. Zardari probably got embarrassed by this and ISPs were told to block this video.

Rightly so, as being president of the country how could you tell your public to shut up and in a public speech. What message you are sending other countries.  This thing more fired up when these videos were blocked country wide. But their are not many things that Zardari administration can do about this, because the videos are still available worldwide and even in Pakistan people can see them using other means like proxy websites.

However if you try to access those specific videos directly using youtube address a page appears with text “This Site is Restricted” centered on the screen.

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Pictures from inside Khewra Salt Mines

Khewra slat mines are situated in Khewra District Jhelam. Location is about 160 KM from capital Islamabad, Pakistan. Salt generation per day is about 15000 metric tons per day. About 700 people work in salt mines to cut out the salt daily. Khewra salt mines are largest in Asia and second largest world wide. Following is the albums of some photo shots taken inside Khewra Salt Mines.

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Pictures near Khewra Salt Mines

Here are few shots taken near Khewra Salt Mines, Pictures from inside mines will also be available later.

Asthma Resort Near Salt Mines in Khewra

The resort shown in picture above is built specially for Asthma patients and connects directly to inside mines via stairs. It contains hospital and place for patients to rest as long as they want.

A hill just outside Khewra salt Mines

Hills in Khewra near Salt Mines

Path Between Hills Near Khewra Salt Mines

Next you will find the pictures from inside Khewra salt mines.

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Information and Pictures from Khewra, Jhelum

Khewra, Jhlem is situated at 160 KM away from Islamabad. It is connected with the rest of country with a broader networks of road which all connect to Islamabad to Lahore Motorway (M2), Islamabad to Lahore GT Road and Islamabad to Chakwal Road (Also called Rawalpindi Road). It  houses the coal mines as well as the Salt mine which is Biggest rock salt mine in Asia and second biggest in the world.

Following are pictures from Khewra Jhelum, pictures near and inside salt mines will also be provided later.

Hilly Road Turn in Khewra

Khewra Hill Road with Traffic

Khewra Roadside Hills

Khewra Hills Landscape

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Roadmap from Islamabad to Khewra, Map from Lahore to Khewra

Are you planning a round trip to khewra from anywhere in Pakistan? Well this map will help you reach the correct place. So don’t forget to take a print with you.

Roadmap from Islamabad or Lahore to Khewra

From Islamabad or Lahore you can use three ways.

- First the motorway M2 then exit from motorway at Kalar Kahar interchange and follow the Map to the Khewra Salt Mines.

- Second get on Islamabad to Lahore GT road, exit the GT road from Mandara, go to Chakwal and follow the Map to Khewra. Its about 40 KM from Chakwal.

- Third Exit the Islamabad Lahore GT road at Jehlam and follow the Map to Khewra Salt Mines.

If you are going from Islamabad, use First or Second one. If you are coming from Lahore side, use the First or Third one.

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Petroleum product sales on halt, prices hit the top

Prices hit the top, may not be technically correct because you can expect more from current administration but one thing for sure, this is gonna be hurting the economy much more. Also unlike the last the last government which was giving subsidy this one is earning lots of bucks per gallon. If one is sure that the money is going into the national reserves and being used correctly this sounds much fair. But there is no info ever released where this all money going. Is it being used for the betterment of people of Pakistan.

The news here is that the petroleum prices increased, petrol price increased Rs. 6.10 per litter similarly prices of other products also increased similarly. Diesel which used to be half of petrol or even less reached on equal levels. Also the CNG load management plan is in effect which also makes the things worse.

The petroleum product sales hit the halt across the country when the petrol pumps stop selling in protest to the increased price. CNG already closed in some cities, people facing the real difficulties.

When the prices of fuel increase, the prices of each and every thing increases because of the increase in transportation costs, this price hike was totally unnecessary considering the fact that the government still getting profit on current price. The reasons told are the degradation in rupee value, again who is responsible for that? Certainly the current administration.

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Peace keepers shaken the peace in Quetta

When it comes to police department, the most honest people are meant to be in this department. You not only have to stop crime as part of your duty but you also need have fully aware of, or in fact have the moral and ethical values. Unfortunately the people of Pakistan in most areas lack their trust in the local police mainly because the culprits or bad fishes in the department who get able to make lots of extra money by illegal means, e.g. helping in the illegal acts etc. They are the people who subsequently jolt the normal public’s trust in the whole department.

Leaving the other things a side now few day back Quetta police seen in another kind of form. They were apparently out in form of a rally to demand the increase in their salaries. They rally would have been peaceful but that was not the case, they were seen burning the tyres, throwing stones at glasses of buildings and beating the hell out of people.

Their demands were very much legitimate but the way to demand was highly disgusting specially for police department which hold the responsibility for the countries peace. This weird display also shown that before are after appointing the people to police, in their training no attention is payed towards the moral and ethical training of the recruits.

Other reason which is also cause of keeping the more deserved people away from joining Pakistan police is the very low salaries of Pakistan police individuals. This low wage not only restrict lots from choosing this profession but also is cause of the police individuals adopting illegal ways to fulfill their needs.

In some cases they are even not payed to keep up for the costs of fuels of the vehicles used on work and costs of stationary used at work. This is again the case of mismanagement by current and few previous political parities who have been in the power.

Specifically the Quetta police was demanding the appraisal in their salaries according to the police salaries in other three provinces, according to them in their they were being payed half of what the people getting in other provinces of Pakistan. But still this does not give them license to wonder on roads as bullies and destroy the peace in the city.

So whats required here is appraisal of salaries of these individuals across the country to more acceptable level, increased checks and balances, more effective way of recruiting them, their ethical and moral training by telling the true essence of the greatness of their job if they do it the right way. Only capable individuals in power who really have interest in the wishes of the people of Pakistan who really love this country and want to see it developing everyday will be able to this other the a bag full of selfish and self centered politicians. May Allah bless Pakistan.

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Disk failure at the webserver, life goes on

Info Pakistan uses the leading web hosting services of Pakistan. The web hosting provider claims to biggest in the country and hosts the websites of many multinationals across the country.

Unfortunately they had a disc failure few days back on the server where the Info Pakistan was hosted along with some other sites. Disc failure means all data is gone and not recoverable. However its fortunate that the company had the backups on separate machine or disk. So they restored the data from there and most of data was back causing us the loss of a number of most recent posts.

Fortunately we had taken backup of site few days back by ourselves. So that also saved us few more posts but we had suffered with loss of few most recent posts. Few posts were lost by this disc failure and afterward we were busy taking the site back at work.

Most recent comments on few posts as well as most recent customizations were also lost. So feel free to submit your comments back again. We will keep working to bring you the latest information and improving the website for you.

Thank you for sticking to us in our bad times!

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Roads and bridges network at faizabad Islamabad

Above is the satellite view of the bridges and roads in Faizabad area of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. It actually manages huge traffic in great manner. I think its the only one of its kind in Pakistan or at least in Rawalpindi Islamabad.

The point is that on more areas such plans must be thought of and executed. We all know many places which are always congested with loads of traffic and passing those places is a misery. So such plans may thought for those places as well. Traffic on roads will no keep increasing so thinking in advance is a better strategy.

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Water flow in rivers and water storage down to minimal, who is responsible

Indus River PakistanWhen compared to the last year the water flows in the rivers this year are very much about more than 34% less. Also storage overall is about from 32% to 40% of total capacity. Indus River System Authority (ISRA) is planning a meeting to revise the water management plan for this year and this meeting will held on 1st Feb, 10.

The water flows in four major rivers declined from 10,000 to 37,000 cusecs, which is huge decline. Also the decline in the Mangla and Terbela dams is 34% less than the next year.

Country is now facing huge water shortage, this shortage is now most likely to effect the agricultural activity around the country.

The thing here to think is untill when we will be depending on Mangla and Terbela dams. Have government thought something about starting the new water storage projects. Now its very much necessary because India is now in implementation phase of many dam on same rivers which take water to Pakistan. So naturally in future we will have to make sure that none of water which come in go to the sea but its stored in many water reserves.

If situation stays the way it is and more water management projects are not thought of, it would definitely be more hostile food commodities and power shortage in the country.

There are lots of things which need to be planned from now to survive after 10 years of time, nearly no planning for water, gas or power is going on. Looking at the on going increase and expected increase in demand of these all, the revolutionary development project are now due. God bless this country with a capable leadership which manages every thing as required.

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