Inside Story

Power tariff to be raised 2 percent every month

A meeting held with IMF officials in Islamabad. IMF have criticized the progress of our government in raising the taxation and power tariff over recent past. 35 percent power tariff hike was to be adjusted in this year’s power tariff increase, now this will be adjusted by adding 2% of power tariff hike every month. Already past month have seen such 2% hike and 2% for this month as well will be added this month. This will continue till next eight months and policy is to be revised in next budget. Continues power tariff hike is no good for the country, as this means continues inflation as production costs of all goods depend on power. Power tariff goes up, production […]

Disease

Spread of dengue virus in Pakistan now picking pace

Next challenge now for the people of Pakistan is to cope with the spread of dengue virus, which is now spreading very much rapidly. Official figures report that 2000 people in Punjab and 1700 in Sindh are affected by this virus. These figures depict that most of Punjab affectees are from Lahore Punjab. However all areas of Punjab have a number of dengue virus affectees. PIMS Islamabad alone is dealing with 155 patients of dengue virus similarly in Rawalpindi 165 cases have been already reported which include one doctor as well. This is not all, these above figures are official, so it is believed that on ground situation is much more worse. Already there have been sprays led by government […]

Inside Story

Every murder is not target killing claims government

Currently target killing is the biggest problem of Karachi. People are scare of leaving their houses and going to public places in fear that they will even be able to come back safely or not. Now for months the conditions are same and getting worse day by day, government which was supposed to take some solid measures to put an end to such a violence seems to come up with excuses every now and then. Now in a recent conversation with media the interior minister said that every murder can’t be said the target killing. Yes this is very true you can’t categorize every murder as target killing but you can’t use this as an excuse for Karachi as the […]

Inside Story

20 more Parliamentarians with fake degrees

What a disgrace that this country is being run by illiterate idiots who can’t even honestly complete their own education honestly. How on earth such illiterate parliamentarian can run the country. Latest in this regard is that Election Commission have summoned 20 more parliamentarians, among them 13 are from Punjab, Sindh and Baloachistan Assemblies and the Members of national assemblies are  Jawad Hussain, Deewan Aashiq, Mir Ahmed N. Bugti and Hussain Bukhari. Way back in July this year the number of these fake degrees was reached 47 and now we have lots more such cases. Real insult to injury is that how these evil souls reached to assemblies. Didn’t we have a procedure to check the documents of before even […]

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 […]