Petroleum

Huge Increase in Petroleum Prices Announced amid US-Iran War

Govt of Pakistan have announced new Petrol and High Speed Diesel prices, effective immediately from mid-night 7th Mar, 2026. These prices, according to govt sources, have been increased to contain the demand of Petrol and Diesel against the limited supply of both commodities during the US-Iran War. Pakistan imports huge portion of its Petrol, Diesel and even the Natural Gas from the gulf states. Now as the movements of ships being restricted from the Strait of Hormuz passage way, Pakistan is likely to be highly affected by this, like many other nations of world. While the Govt of Pakistan previously claimed that they have at least 28 days of supply of fuels, later on we also heard some contradictory statements […]

IT & Telecom

Cloudflare outage causes downtime for many sites and services globally

Many local and international sites and services are facing downtime due to an outage in Cloudflare network. According to them they are already aware of the issue and working to resolve. International services like Canva and millions more got affected. In Pakistan as well sites like dawn.com, propakistani.pk and thousands more got affected. It is a developing story, we will keep updating this article and will provide more updates. Cloudflare is a global infrastructure company which helps keep sites and services, fast, safe and secure. It is trusted by millions of other sites and services. It is used as defense against cyber attacks on sites, its defense of many site again distributed Danial of Service (DDos) attacks. It also provides, […]

Agriculture

New Pakistan wheat policy 2025-26 sets a wheat price and commits to no movement restrictions

A statement issued from the Prime Minister Office (PMO) revealed that the Govt of Pakistan have come up with wheat policy 2025-26. According the new policy it has been agreed that there will be no restrictions of movement of wheat between provinces. According to the statement the representative of KPK province was present at the time policy was finalized. It is important to notice that previous some reports had surfaced where Govt of Punjab had imposed some restrictions on wheat, so it was not allowed to be moved to KPK. Though the Govt had denied any such act on top level but on administrative level, it had happened and people we stopped to move the Wheat. Anyways, its good that […]

Education Sector

Dates for Summer Holidays in Punjab for 2025 Announced

Every year in warm provinces and areas of Pakistan, students and teachers enjoy two and half to three months of summer holidays. These usually start from June 1 and go until mid or sometime right to the end of August, depending on the weather situation. As the weather goes above 40 degrees, so it only makes sense to give the students and teachers the space and ability to rest at home in extreme weather conditions. As the weather becomes moderate, they have to report back. Summer Holidays in Punjab in 2025 According to the information coming out from the provincial school education department of Pakistan, it have been decided that the summer holidays in Punjab will start and end on […]

Petroleum

Petrol price reduced for April 2025 First Half

Again as usual Govt. of Pakistan announced new petrol and diesel prices, which will be applicable for first 15 days of April 2025. The price of Petrol have been reduced mere Re. 1 on the contrary the price of Diesel is kept unchanged. So following are the details of old and new, petrol and diesel prices applicable from April 1, 2025 to April 15, 2025. Petroleum Product Old Price New Price Difference Petrol 255.63 254.63 -1 Diesel (HSD) 258.64 258.64 0 As Govt of Pakistan reviews the petrol and diesel prices every 15 days, next review will come up on 15th of April and those prices will be applicable for second half of April 2025. Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority […]