Happenings

Pakistan faces countrywide blackout after all the power plants trip

Earlier today on Sunday, 25th Jan, 2015 after 12 am, whole country is now in total darkness after the major power plants trip. The water and power ministry is blaming the high load as cause of trip but it does not add up. In winter how much the load may by, which can cause countrywide trip. Tarbela, Mangla, Gudu and more power plants are affected. Including Islamabad, whole country is in darkness as we speak. The Water and power ministry told that restoration of power will be started after 5am in the morning. I am sure it would be for just some areas, and it is 2:30 am in the morning. According to a dawn news article Pakistan’s power production […]

Petroleum

Lawyer Downgraded from Car to Motor Bike and than bicycle due to Petrol and Gas Shortage of Pakistan

Today I came across a video which is making quite a buzz out there. It is story of lawyer who used to travel in his private car earlier. But not few months ago when CNG (Compress Natural Gas) was closed down, according to him he ditched his car and Purchased a motor bike to save the traveling expenses. Now as the petrol shortage prevailed in all cities of Punjab and overall in Pakistan, he was not able to get petrol for his motor bike. He downgraded to a bicycle, to save himself the headache of going after the petrol. He also advised other to take this step, which according to him is a healthy step and will save people the […]

Petroleum

Petrol shortage of Pakistan Worsens as Time Passed

Its now days after petrol shortage started, the queues of People waiting for the fuel are getting longer and longer but more than half of petrol pumps are now closed. Other ones are only providing the petrol worth of just 500 to 250 Rupees per vehicle. Shortage started when PSO was denied by suppliers because it did not had payed for the petrol it had got earlier on credit as PSO (Pakistan State Oil) had exhausted its all credit lines due to non payment. Non payment due to circular debt 200 billion rupees. Much of that was created due to non payment of govt departments to PSO for the petrol they had acquired. Most notable non payment of this kind […]

Inside Story

Are We United as Pakistanis or as Muslims, for that matter

It is fact that we have searched and dug up many divides for ourselves, these divides set us apart from each other. And when I use the word us, I am referring us Pakistanis. These divides are of many kinds, which include religious, cast & creed, localities, languages spoken and than finally new kind of divide here is political. Religiously, we have been divided in many sects, each one is busy telling other that the path of religion they are following is the right and other one is wrong path and will have to pay for that later. Similarly, based on language we speak or province we live in, we have divided us on those bases. The most interesting divide […]