Extremism, National

Village of 100 houses fully Destroyed by Taliban Militants

In reaction to the on going operation against militants in South Waziristan Taliban militants destroyed the whole village. Village was having about 100 houses in it, all are destroyed to the ground. Additionally Taliban were involved in target killings and kidnappings in same village to hold some cards when they will be fighting with the Pakistan Security forces. people were already leaving the village for the safer places due to the Taliban’ behavior towards them. They were being provided the shelters etc by the government on the safer places adjustment to South Waziristan. Taliban started the destruction on Saturday, they used the explosives to destroy all the houses and explosions were being listened till the Sunday night. Finally they were […]

Lifestyle

Twin cities indeed sleep late Saturdays and early Sundays

It is really fun when you get out late Saturdays and specially early Sundays. Because you will see that the highways of twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad which are normally full of traffic, are almost clear in timings. And by late Saturdays it means something near midnight and afterward. Specially on Sunday mornings most of people off course including me do not get want to get out of their homes, so this is the time when you will see all the roads almost clear. In normal circumstances the exponentially increasing traffic have made the movement extremely difficult. This is why when people find the clear main highways, they seem to be blessing for them. Another thing that highways are now […]

Inside Story, National

Day Light Saving saved about estimated 48750 megawatts of Power

Day Light Saving (DLS) time which was took in place on April 2009 by government actually saved about 250 megawatts of power daily. This rough estimate was provided by the ministry of water and power. Officials also told that one megawatt of power cost about 1 million dollar. So this way this day light saving strategy  saved about estimated 48750 million dollars this year. Day Light Saving was took in place on 15th of April 2009 and lost till yesterday the 31st October, 2009 midnight when clocks all over the world were moved back by one hour. Seeing the amount of energy saved by putting in Day Light Saving time it have been decided that this practice will now be […]

National

Clocks across the country back to normal time

Government of Pakistan had introduced the Day Light Saving (DLS) time back in April 15, 09 for this year to overcome the prevailing power shortage. Now after six and half months after the DLS time was introduced the clocks all over the country are now back to normal time. As in winter sun rise timings are much different so in compared to sun rise the students and the people at many job had now to get up even before the sunrise, so as time moved back to normal it will be big relief. Day Light Saving time is not very much an old concept for this country. It was introduced few years ago for the first time but was very […]

Pakistan Tourism, Pictures

Best of Picture shots captured around Abbottabad and Murree

When last time visited Abbottabad and Murree had taken a number of pictures there, all are already published on infoPakistan’s Facebook page. Today have decided to take 10 best pictures and post them here so here we go. All about more than 137 pictures are available on infoPakistan’s Facebook page, so don’t trust my algorithm of picking the best one and check them out yourself.