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Posts Tagged ‘Petroleum’

Petroleum Prices : Where They are Heading?

By Altaf Khan • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

At least I don’t have no idea and my limited imagination fails to predict the ultimate price of petroleum products where it will become stable for a while.
The new bogeyman of the town, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), has once again given the jolt of the year to the nation, just after a fiasco [...]



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 [...]



Kya Hoa Tera Wada ???

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On the fourth day of the operation in the Khyber Agency, empty residences and so-called central structures of the three banned outfits of Lashkar-e-Islam, Ansar-ul-Islam and Tanzeem Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munqar are under perpetual shelling of the security forces, and the escapted militants are now threatening for the retaliation and all the [...]



Shaukat Aziz’s Figure Fudging

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Throughout his tenure, the former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, more commonly known as Shortcut Aziz didn’t tire of telling us as how well the economy was performing, and how the national exchequer was brimming with cash and the foreign reserves were all time high and all the economic indicators were showing nothing but positive signs [...]



Ministry of Diesel

By Amna Gilani • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

JUI-F, the party which in the disable leadership of Maulana Fazlur Rehman did all what it could do covertly to facilitate President Musharraf throughout all these years and which was the rift-creating agent in the cadres of opposition. From 17th amendment to the re-election of President Musharraf, Fazlur Rehman played his nefarious role.
Now to the [...]



Beware of Establishment

By Fatima Tassaduq • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The winds of change has scared the forces of status quo and there is a panic in the stale, dark corridors of establishment. All the ministries are preparing tough briefings for the new government and they intend to give them hard times from the day one.
They have already compelled the caretaker government to raise the [...]