Unnecessary Bans

Social Media including Youtube and X face outage in Pakistan once again

On Sunday, Dec 17, 2023 in the late hours, suddenly the users all across Pakistan have started facing the issues accessing the social media sites. I too was facing same issues while trying to access youtube and twitter. So naturally, I opened the downdetector.pk to check if something is going on with these services here in Pakistan. And Yes, there were many more other users who were complaining about these services not being accessible in Pakistan. On further research it came forward that there is some virtual gathering or ‘jalsa’ in other words is organized by PTI. So these services are being restricted to stop all those from reaching the people of Pakistan. Specially a dawn.com’s article about interruption of […]

Occasions

Iqbal day holiday announced in Pakistan for 9th of Nov 2023

In a latest development government of Pakistan have decided to give holiday on 9th of November 2023. Holidays being given for the Iqbal day. Iqbal day was an old holiday which used to be given for a long time but it was discontinued later on. After laps of several years government of Pakistan had restored this holiday in 2022. In accordance to the Iqbal day holiday restoration decision of 2022, the cabinet division have notified the holiday for 9th of November 2023.  According to the latest decision all the educational institutions including schools, colleges and Universities as well as the offices of the public and private companies, banks etc will remain closed on Thursday, November 9, 2023 to remember the […]

Petroleum

Petrol and Diesel prices to remain unchanged in first half of Nov 2023

Every month from 1st or 16th. government of Pakistan changes the prices of petroleum products in Pakistan. However for the month of November 2023, government of Pakistan have decided to keep the prices same as the last 15 days of october. The petroleum prices in Pakistan depend on the different factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, the value of local currency against foreign currencies like US dollar and also the crude oil prices in the international market. Recently the Pakistani currency have gained some value against foreign currencies and also the crude oil prices are going down significantly in the international market. So there was some room in the prices of petroleum products so that they could […]

Automobile

PakWheels Car Mela Coming to Islamabad in October 2023

PakWheels.com Islamabad Car Mela October 2023

Car Mela is a PakWheels.com event where you can buy and sell cars. PakWheels organizes these kinds of Melas all over Pakistan in different cities on different dates each year. This Sunday PakWheels Car Mela is coming to Islamabad, Pakistan. The exact day and date for the PakWheels Car Mela event of 2023 for Islamabad is Sunday, October 22, 2023. The event will start at 10:00 am and it will end on 05:00 pm. Sellers who are interested in selling the cars on the event have to pre-register their car or vehicle. They can even come and register on the date but then they will have to pay much higher. The pre-registration rates are much lower for some vehicle types. […]

Education Sector

Punjab announces holiday on Sep 28 to contain the Pink Eye infection

Government of Punjab in Pakistan have announced a holiday to contain the Pink Infection, which is spreading like wildfire these days. It is also affecting the school going children. Holiday is announced for Thursday, September 28, 2023. All the public and private schools to remain close on Sep 28, 2023. Friday, September 29, 2023 is already a holiday in Pakistan as it is Eid Milad un Nabi day. So school will now open on Monday, Oct 2, 2023. The viral Pink Eye infection and related disease is said to be highly contagious. So starting from the monday, all the students, specially in the schools and colleges, will be screened on gates and will be denied entry into the school or […]