Author: K. Shahzad

International

33 miners trapped underground for months in Chile have been rescued

In Chile 33 people were trapped 700 meters underground 69 days ago in a mine collapse. They have been trapped for 17 days without anyone on surface knowing about them, are they even alive or not. But on 17th day the first contact was made and it was via a phone set normally used by miners when working inside mine. Soon the rescue efforts were started by starting to dig down the tunnel to exact place where they were trapped. Soon after completion of that part the real rescue effort involving the pulling out each of miners one by one, started about 21 hours ago. They used a capsule connected to a puli-system to rescue each of person. On each […]

Pictures

Faisal Mosque Islamabad Pictures

Faisal Mosque is situated in Islamabad Pakistan. It the biggest mosque at the moment and have been the world’s biggest mosque in the past. Was first thought of after the visit of King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz back in 1966 and construction was started in 1976. I had a chance to last visit it back in Ramadan, so captured few shots while moving which are worth sharing, so here we go. Do subscribe to our email and facebook page. You can also follow us on twitter.

Basic Needs

Electricity shortfall continues, PPP’s Policy making skills byte the dust

Its well over the 2 years since the so called Pakistan Peoples Party is power but they came up with lack of policy making skills in every aspect. Same is the condition of electricity. I am safe to say that the power production capabilities of country decreased over the last years instead of increasing. As dawn reports current capability of country’s power production just hangs on 11,725 megawatts which seems less then the capability we had earlier, clearly more than 12000 megawatts for sure. The current requirement varies around the 16,662 megawatts. Which means that the demand and supply gap is still 5000 megawatts. Either its non functional power plants or reasons are no matter what, the thing is that […]

Politics

Musharraf to launch All Pakistan Muslim league on October 1st – Event details

Former Pakistan Army chief and President Pervez Musharraf is to officially launch the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) on the 1st October, in this regard a number of events will be held in different cities. To be exact these events would be held in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Pervez Musharraf have already created the events page on Facebook where you can confirm whether you are attending the event or not. Following are venue details and Pervez Musharraf ‘s words inviting people to these events being held in different cities, Musharraf says and I Quote Dear Friends & Supporters, final venues for all three cities shall be posted later. Please confirm if you shall be attending in your city to be […]

Interesting Stuff

Kids’ world’s longest running universally popular show sesame street is back with season 41

Sesame street first premiered on 10 November 1969 on 200 TV stations simultaneously, this American based show was great source of entertainment and preschool education for kids world wide. Even here in Pakistan lots of us watched this show in our childhood on the only available terrestrial TV network PTV back in our childhoods. This world wide recognized show have until now broadcast 40 seasons, the reason for success was only the idea of providing education through cartoon characters which were very attractive to children. Sesame street is premiering its 41st season from tomorrow and in this regard world’s most popular video site Youtube have featured Sesame Street youtube channel. This channel was yesterday was hyperlinked with youtube logo, also […]