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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 […]



Electricity Tariff raised by 31%

By Farid Masood • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Misc

No instance in the world like we have, the tariff raised for a utility item, which is almost not available in Pakistan. The shortage of electricity has become the biggest problem for citizens of Pakistan. As the span and duration of its unavailability is increasing it is increasing different diseases in its consumers like high […]



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 […]



Manufacturing Wind Turbines in Pakistan

By Saleem Khan • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The new government in Pakistan is in place after the February 18, 2008 general elections. It is confronted with major challenges out of which power shortage is the most demanding. Due to energy shortage, the public has been warned that it should tighten its belts and get mentally prepared for massive loadshedding in the summer […]



Taaveez

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



Mind Blowing 100 Days

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Yeah not only the mind, but everything has blown and though Asif Ali Zardari doesn’t like the count up or count down, the bad news is that the promised golden 100 days of Pakistan People’s Party government haven’t ended yet.
The prices of petroleum products have been increased again. The prices of natural gas has been […]



Kalabagh Dam Abolished : Tall Claims Made by Raja Pervez Ashraf

By Ali Yar Khan • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

For the new government of Pakistan People’s Party, it’s easy to talk and implement the national reconciliation on the issues, which directly deals with the vested interests of its co-chairman and his buddies or on the issues which deals with the government formation.
Infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance and the waiving of BA Degree clause was done […]



Musharraf’s Good Faith

By Gul Raiz • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Just keep aside all the grudge against President Musharraf and think about his resolve and his passion for the country. Political parties like PML-N, Jamat-e-Islami, Tehrik-e-Insaf and some nationalist parties are doing nothing but lashing at Musharraf day in and day out.
Media have also nothing else to do. Pick any program and you would find […]