Author: K. Shahzad

Inside Story

People of Pakistan resort to dangerous gas pumping devices for their homes as govt sits idle

It is winter season, we have not seen the first rain of the season yet but as the temperatures are dropping the problem of Natural Gas Shortage is getting worse. Daily more and more house hold Natural Gas consumers are getting deprived of supply of gas supply in their burners and stoves, just let alone the room or water heaters. As the shortage issue raised people have started finding their ways to suck more gas out of Sui Nortren Gas Pipe Lines’ (SNGPL) network. Some AC and Refrigerator technicians have found new application of the gas compressors which are used in Refrigerators and ACs. They have started installing these compressors in homes of people, they run on electricity, so they […]

Basic Needs

PMLN led government fails to deal with Gas and Power shortage issues in winter season

Year 2013 have almost ended, we are approaching 2014 with just two days remaining. The ruling party this year have changed but the problems of people of Pakistan are still the same. Winter season is on rise with chilling weather, temperatures are dropping and people are out of gas in their burners and stoves. PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz) won elections this year with huge number of votes and they have stunning majority in Federal government as well as in Punjab (the highest populated province). Means the people have showed their full confidence in PML-N as they had made lots of promises about dealing with power and electricity shortages. Here we are people of Pakistan having same of those […]

Daily Life Info

Islamabad High Court Orders reopening of CNG in Islamabad and Rest of Potohar Region

In Punjab and Islamabad via an official notification Government had ordered complete shutdown of CNG stations for indefinite period and meanwhile in other provinces CNG (Compress Natural Gas – An Alternate Fuel for vehicles) was being provided on few days of week, each week. As soon as the shutdown of CNG was ordered for Punjab, CNG Filling Stations’ owners contacted Islamabad High Court for legal proceedings against this unlawful decision, according to CNG filling station owners law protects them in way that such shutdown is illegal. CNG Stations in Punjab and Islamabad remained shutdown but now however the stay order is come from Islamabad High court and according to which CNG Stations in Potohar Region would remain open from now […]

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PTCL do not care its old valued customers plus tons of services but no value against them

For those who does not know, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) is currently the only major land line telephony operator in Pakistan. They once used to be fully Government owned organization but it was later privatized partially, so currently the Etisalat (An Abu Dhabi based company) holds the 26% shares of organization along with the administration of PTCL. Still most of its part is government owned even now. Now along with land line telephony and DSL internet, PTCL also provides 3G evo wireless internet services in the country. PTCL currently claims to provide the highest internet speeds over their landline (ADSL) and evo 3G wireless networks. But the main problem with PTCL management is their main focus always is on […]

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Declining Pakistani Rupee and its Affect on Foreign Depts Pakistan have

All the good things which Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) claims to have done, they would have keep tabs on the declining Pakistani Rupee. It is a fact that Pakistani rupee was not stable even before PML-N’s era but as soon as PML-N came into power, the depreciation kept going on and even accelerated at moments. Normally when this happens, if state bank of Pakistan intervene and put out some US Dollars in the Market against Pakistani currency things settle down. But in this case first no move was came from State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Later on they did came in with a move to control the value of depreciating Pakistani Currency but that long due move came […]