International

Obama’s administration urged to reconsider relationship with Pakistan on Bin Laden issue

The leaders of US Congress are now putting pressure on their government to reconsider the relationships with Pakistan. According to them Pakistani intelligence would have known about the fact that Osama is in Pakistan and they would have helped him stay in Pakistan. This is very unfortunate that US other then recognizing the Pakistan’s efforts in War against terror are still talking against the Pakistan. This is more likely more of US’s war and Pakistan have lost much in this war that includes the man power plus the trust of the International investors only due to the country’s worsened security situation. Still if the efforts are not recognized by US, it is issue on part of US government, they need […]

National Security

Osama Bin Laden dies in Pakistan in a joint US Pakistan forces operation

Osama Bin Laden killed in Pakistan, it is confirmed by senior ISI officials this morning. Obama the current president of United States also confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden was killed in a joint operation of Pakistan and US forces near Abbotabad in Pakistan, where Osama end of up hiding some way. Pakistan and US forces as part of war against terror were in search of this person from long time, he ended up found hiding in an area in Pakistan. According to United States of America Osama Bin Laden was the master mind behind that epic 9/11 (September 11) 2001 attacks on twin towers, the world trade center in the New York City, New York, […]

Basic Needs

No more subsidies on petroleum prices, major price hikes are in place in Pakistan

Another petroleum prices hike was took in place on Saturday in Pakistan to keep up with the price hike going on in the International market. According to government these price hikes were to keep up with International market and they can not provide any subsidies to people any more. I doubt that they were providing any subsidies to people in recent past. This is second major hike in petroleum prices in time period of just few days. As soon as this price hike came in place the price to diesel approaches to the Rs 100 mark with its current price of 97.31 from old price of 92.89 which was set few days ago after a previous raise in price.  The […]

Basic Needs

Electicity load shedding in Pakistan intensifies in summer 2011

Summer 2011 is just starting and electricity load shedding in Pakistan already started to intensify. Power load shedding of 12 hours is already in place in many areas of country, PEPCO claimed that electricity short fall is 2500 Mega Watts (MW) already. We are just into April, May at the moment as we head towards the more hotter months of summer like June, July and August the electricity shortfall is going to reach 6000 MW or even above. Real long hours of load shedding is expected in coming months. Already we are experiencing the worst load shedding of history of Pakistan, now question comes in mind “who is responsible for all of this?”. Before we conclude lets have a look […]

Basic Needs

CNG stations strike in Punjab continues for indefinite period

April 2011 a strike was called by the president of CNG association and came into affect from 13th of April 2011. The reason for CNG stations to go on strike was insufficient supply of gas from SUI Northern Gas Company Limited. This insufficient supply of gas from SUI Northern Gas Company is shocking because we are into the season where gas consumption is lowest of the years. As most of house hold consumption like Room and Water heaters go down in this season, so that provides considerable decrease in daily gas usage. The winter season is long gone but Sui Northern Gas is still observing some lame Gas Load management plan or Gas Load shedding in other words. Load shedding […]