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CNG price and shortage related protests continued today in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar

Like yesterday, today as well people hit the roads of Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar. Protests are against the government which committed the act of unnecessarily increasing the CNG prices as well as the off days of CNG filling stations were constantly being increased. Transporters were also on strike and were on roads due to the fact that they were being denied the relaxation which was given to public transport within the off days of CNG. It was that CNG filling will be allowed few hours daily to serve the needs of public transport only. As the relaxation of filling hours gone away from the public transporters, they gone on strike and hit the roads, so do the people who couldn’t […]

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Prices of LPG increased from 10 to 15 Rupees per KG all over Pakistan

Already when people of Pakistan are furious about the recent CNG prices hike and shortage, today the Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing companies increased the prices of gas from 10 to 15 Rupees per KG. This adds 150 to 170 additional Rs to the price of domestic gas Cylinder. These domestic cylinders are now available from Rs 1870 to 2050. About 70% of Pakistani people are living in Rural areas, about all of gas users in those areas rely on LPG cylinders. Now even people of urban areas who have to gas lines coming in houses, often have to rely on gas cylinders due to low pressure in supply lines. This way this increase in price will effect most of […]

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Public and transporters stood against recent CNG prices hike today in Pakistan

Today in Pakistan the transporters were mostly on strike against the recent Rs. 13 per KG increase in CNG price. As well as the CNG filling stations observed the strike all over country. People who in the morning came out of their homes to go to offices, after not finding any public transport ended up gathering in form of protests. They blocked roads and registered their protests against recent CNG price increase by government. In capital Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi alone on many many places people registered the protests, the traffic of twin cities was total mess and more than 60% of even those people who own private conveyance were not able to reach work. Availability of fuel […]

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Worst power load shedding of history brings people to the roads

Recently the worst power shortage and load shedding in response hit the country. The power requirement of country in these days is about 16500 Mega Watts (MW) but the production is down to all time low in recent times which is just 7500 MW. In response the electricity load shedding of hours is being observed all over the country. Most effected in recent times are the business people and industries, which are all shut down due to power outages. Common people who rely on power for their living are most affected and furious, hence loads of people have hit the roads once again to remind the current government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) about their unfulfilled promises of putting an […]

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Now others have to tell Pakistan to solve our own problems

It is unfortunate but it is true that the current political party of Pakistan in power called Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have lived up to its reputation of incompetency in every trait of life, other than identifying and rectifying the problems which their country is facing, they lately seem to be causing the situations where others seem to telling us what our problems are and how we have to solve them. One such situation came forward when recently US secretary of state Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan and in one of her public speeches she said and I quote United State can not and should not solve the problems of Pakistan, Pakistan have to identify their own problems and have to […]