Extremism

Pakistan witnessed more than 49000 reported deaths in so called regarding war on terror

An Indian news article, based on news reports from Pakistan stated that 49000 Pakistanis lost their lives in activities regarding war on terrorism. These include innocent people died in blasts and attacks on civilian population as retaliation to actions against so called militants residing on Pakistani soil. This number is much more than the reported number stated above. As lots of deaths would never have been reported. Some here believe that thing have been mishandled by previous governments, specially Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the Zardari led political party in power. For example, they were unable to settle terms about drone attacks with United States on Pakistani soil. Which, Americans say, were carried out to target militants but according to all […]

Economy

Pakistani Rupee fell 66% in last 5 years of people’s party in government

In last few years Pakistani Rupee (PKR) lost its strength more than ever. Never before rupee fallen so much over such a short period of time. This all shows how much grip Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had over the economy. In simple words absolutely none. Rupee’s worth against US Dollar (USD) was 60 Rupees against one USD 5 years ago but now as PPP ruled and left, rupee fallen to 100 rupees against one USD. Not only this also over the last 5 years foreign investors only pulled out, Pakistan does not seen any new investment cumming in. Stock exchanges only seen downturn all the time making the lots of investors lose their faith in investing into the shares. Let […]

General Elections

How to get your vote transferred to current residential address in Pakistan for General Elections 2013

In recent years while election commission of Pakistan was in process of generating the revised voter lists, they gone door to door in each area and registered the residents as voters from that specific areas. In this process there were some people (many) who were for some reason left out of process for such people Election Commission workers just registered their votes on their permanent address instead of current residential address. In this case for example votes of people currently living in Islamabad was registered on their permanent which may be Jehlam or where-ever they belonged. For most such people traveling back to where they belong for just casting the vote is impractical. Good news is you can just get […]

Cyber Watch

Website of Meezan Bank is Down

Meezan bank is bank which claims to be practicing the Islamic banking. It operates countrywide in Pakistan and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. As of this hour I was trying to access the bank’s website, as the new organization I joined is operating the accounts in same bank. I noticed that the website of the bank is now down for hours. Isn’t it strange for a bank when it’s site is down and no one is there at their IT department to keep track of things. Organizations of Pakistan, specially those operating on such a big level, should make sure that are accessible all the time on the internet. The website we are talking here is meezanbank.com By the way, […]

Democracy

Opposition thinks constitution now in response to Qadri’s long march initiative

A private meeting of opposition parties is being held in leadership of PML-N Chairman and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif where all so called well wishers of country now decided that whatever Qadri is up to, is unconstitutional. Big names like Molana Fazal-ur-Rehman are also into this with Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif along with several other so called political leaders. I am not Qadri fan but these opposition leaders are same people who have been talking about the corruptions of government from years but have not done anything yet. A man (Qadri) suddenly stands and leads people to capital wishing a positive change, now why are these so against him right now. Why they suddenly now remember the constitution of […]