Month: September 2011

International Relationships

US Admiral Mike Mullen accuses Pakistani Intelligence agencies of supporting terror in Afghanistan

Since 2001 after the 9 11 attacks on world trade center towers in US, Pakistan have been the main ally of US in war against terror. Pakistani soil as well as resources have been and being  used to cope with the bad guys in Afghanistan. All supplies to US soldiers in Afghanistan were through Pakistan. Also 70 billion dollars was the money Pakistan had spent to facilitate the war against terror where only 20 billion dollars were provided by United States. Now when the war against terror is going to be over soon and control over the bad guys have been pretty much gained, United States instead of endorsing or appreciating the efforts of its main ally, the blame game […]

Politics

The story of Pakistani youth and their trust in politician named Imran Khan

The former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan have certainly became the hope for Pakistan in politics. Specially Pakistani youth thinks if he is given chance to lead the country, he can do the wonders and can bring the country out of darkness where we are facing many unsolved problems like breaking economy, deteriorating currency, bad security situation, mishandled foreign relations, increasing poverty, electricity/gas load shedding, inflation, corruption, lack of quality education facilities, lack of medical facilities, joblessness and what not. The Irony is that current political parties and even few of previous governments as well mishandled these issues and in fact were not able to do any thing to cope with these issues. Now many, specially the educated youth of this […]

National

Election Commission of Pakistan revealed issue of bogus votes continues in the new voter lists

As the finalization of new voter lists is underway and the due date for those lists completion is round the corner as they were suppose to be completed by the up coming 30th of September. But with just five days remaining, the election commission identified the issue with the newly prepared voter lists. According to Election commission they found the 37 million people on voters lists which could not be confirmed. These unconfirmed voters belong to areas all over the country. FATA had about 7 million, Punjab 8 million, Sindh over 5 million and Islamabad found to have 1.2 million unconfirmed voters on newly created voter lists. Same is the story with the voter lists prepared from other areas of […]

Disease

Dengue situation worsens in Pakistan, specially in Lahore, as it claims more lives

Dengue claims six more lives in Lahore last day, with this reported death toll increases to 70, also reportedly more than 8000 people are effected from the disease. Unreported cases are told to be twice as much as the reported figures. In just last three weeks 130,000 people in Lahore got them tested for dengue disease. Lahore High Court recently have set a standard unusual Rs. 90 price for dengue test all over the hospitals. All the hospitals and the laboratories in province will have to follow this standard price till 15th November for now, afterwards they may continue charging their usual prices for the test. Court was earlier informed via petition that some laboratories are tremendously over charging for […]

Inside Story

Zardari to initiate several short term power generation projects in Sindh

Apparently very much into the third year of Pakistan Peoples Party in government, Mr. Zardari finally thought something about treating the power shortage situation in the country. So he have recently advised the authorities of Sindh to start getting bids for several energy projects in Sindh, which will serve the province’s power needs. These projects will start as part of Sindh’s electricity generation policy and will be completed with in 12 to 18 months. Now question is electricity problems were there since beginning, why Mr. Zardari didn’t thought of doing something as soon as he came in power. Doesn’t it look like some kind of popularity stunt before the next elections?, which are not more far away now then just […]