Month: December 2009

Inside Story, National

Bye Bye 2009, What you brought for us

The question is, What we Pakistanis achieved in 2009 which will now be over within an hour. If we look back you will see that this year was not much in favor of Pakistan. The terrorist activity was on its peak in this year and also Army was on war at different places in order to clean up the country from foreign planted militants. In this process many of Pakistan Security forces men lost their lives, we value their sacrifice for the sovereignty of their country and their people. Lots of areas were cleared and lots of people displaced first from their homes because of these battles but and then same battles enabled them to go back to their homes […]

Crimes, National

Murder in an ATM in Karachi, Criminal Caught, incident video

In an ATM of Karachi when a citizen named Ghulam Nabi was using ATM to withdraw money, a criminal entered the ATM and tried to grab the money on gun point. Ghulam Nabi pushed the culprit and tried to get away but the robber fired bullet right into the chest of Ghulam Nabi and got away quickly. All of this was recorded on CCTV camera of bank and later was broadcasted on GEO TV and may be any other channels as well. Later a tv viewer recognized the criminal and told police about him. This way he was caught successfully. Following is the video footage of incident, video aired by GEO News Pakistan.

Happenings, National

Suspected CNG Explosion Injured 19 in Karachi

Explosion took place a while ago in Paposh Nagar area of Karachi near a graveyard. Explosion took place in a car injuring many people, police told possible reason of this blast may be the faulty CNG kit installed in the car. However more investigations will follow on this. As firstly heard the explosion spread panic in the city and people were suspecting it as a militant activity. As the Karachi city has been so far un-effected by on going militancy in the other areas of the country. We will be coming up with more info on this as its released. Update 1: It is not fully clear that the blast was really due to CNG explosion. The injured people also […]

Infrastructure, National, Technology

City-wise service quality of different cellular networks of Pakistan

PTA previously conducted a survey of service quality of different cellular networks in different cities. This survey checked the service in terms of different factors which include service availability, service retain-ability and speech quality. This was a great effort by PTA in order to protect consumer rights, the standards were set against each factor which must be followed by telecommunication companies and finally to let consumers know about current situation of services city-wise results were posted on PTA’s official website few days ago. We have grabbed them in order to let more people know about it, see following results prepared and published by Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. Such measures show that the regulatory authorities like PTA are doing their job well, […]

Basic Needs, Infrastructure, National

Darkness follows the nation, administration unable to fulfill promises

31st Dec 2009 was the third deadline given by ruling party in order to finish off the electricity load shedding from the nation once and for all. But few statements from the officials and on going load shedding in winter seasons when the electricity usage is very less in compared to the summer made it clear that current ruling party would unfortunately will not be able to do it. One thing this country kept seeing right from beginning to date is unfulfilled promises. Current ruling party who claim to have vision to change things and put the country on the way of economic growth have been in government many times but unfortunately they have not been able to tackle with […]