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Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal: Sindh, Punjab at Impasse

By Sher Ali • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Punjab government has conceded to the Sindh demand over the Chashma-Jhelum Link Canal, and voluntarily halved its share of water from the Indus zone through this vital link from Sunday.
The decision to reduce irrigation supplies to the southern part of the province to 3,000 cusecs of water was taken after a meeting between high [...]



Load-Shedding Dances Nude in Pakistan

By Gul Raiz • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Darkness has become the fate of Pakistanis. Power breakdowns, load-shedding, power-shedding and the hide n seek of electricity have become the part of routine Pakistani lives. Nobody is taking appraisals of the worsening power crisis, and instead the ruling party’s leaders are pointing fingers at the opposition for the violent protests staged by the [...]



Bijli Kahan Gai

By M Mirza • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Over Billing Orders to Electric Suppliers

By Sameer Shaharyar • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Though the government circles and the management of electric supply companies are vehemently denying this news that they have been ordered to over bill the consumers, the bills of this month speak for themselves. Due to intense load-shedding people are hardly getting any electricity and yet the bills of a common household have passed any [...]



Powerless Pakistan

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Coal has always been a dirty four-letter word in our power vocabulary. Reluctantly and only recently, have the policy makers been forced to look at indigenous coal as a serious power generation option. Contrary to popular perception, coal not oil is the single largest source of global energy.
Of late gas fired power generation is also [...]



Unscheduled Load Shedding Kills

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The situation regarding the power is worsening and there is no respite in sight. Scheduled load-shedding takes the toll for more than ten hours, while additionally people suffer from 6 to 8 hours un-announced power outages in the hot and humid weather and the life has become miserable.
Education, industry and business have been hit pretty [...]



Wake Up Pakistanis; India strikes again!

By Maham Javed • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s not one of the last tumultuous and intricate problems that are in the bag for the Pakistani Nation. Foes and foreign forces are accumulating in the adjoining countries as well as the far away ones like America and Israel; whose recent eagle-eye is fixed upon one of the most lonesome state in this world: [...]



Power Shortage ….. where?

By Emaad Qureshi • Aug 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“India is facing a power shortage of 70,000 MW” said Lok Sabha, power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, “The potential for hydro power generation in the country was 1.5 lakh MW but merely 20% of it was exploited”, he said.There is a serious misconception prevailing amongst most of people that Pakistan is the only country which [...]