Author: K. Shahzad

Incidents

8 passengers of Battagram cable car including children rescued

A cable car incident have took place in Battagram in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa early morning, when two cables of a cable car were snapped. Cable cars in the area are used to for transportation. So, the school going children were using this cable car to reach their school, as per their routine. So after two cables snapped in the early morning on August 22, 2023, total eight people were stuck in cable car, thousands of meters high from ground, between mountains, on top of the valleys. Until noon no one had been rescued. However, lateron army aviation took charge, in first few tries, they were not able to stabilize and hover their helicopters near the suspended cable car due to low air […]

Petroleum

Petrol and Diesel prices for second half of August 2023 Increased

Yesterday, for the first time, the new caretaker government of Pakistan have announced the new prices of petrol and diesel. Both the prices were significantly increased. As the prices were increased significantly as well two weeks ago, so people were not expecting them to increase so steeply once again. However, they have increased infact. The details of old and new petrol and high speed diesel (HSD) prices along with difference between them are as follows. Petroleum Product Old Price New Price Change in Price Petrol (MS) 272.95 290.45 +17.50 High Speed Diesel (HSD) 273.40 293.40 +20.00 The old and new prices of Petrol and Diesel in Pakistan The new prices of petrol and diesel are applicable from 16th of August […]

Occasions

Google’s Doodle for Pakistan Independence Day 2023 included a dolphin, here is why

Google changes its logo in different territories on special occasions. The changed image normally includes the text ‘google’ with something with relevance to the occasion. This way google celebrates different occasions along with locals. These occasionally changed images (normally for a day or two) are called Google Doodles. Similarly, yesterday Google released and displayed a Doodle in Pakistan on the 76th Independence day of Pakistan. Doodle included a dolphin image. The Doodle which was displayed to Pakistanis is following. Why Pakistan’s 76th Independence day Google Doodle included a Dolphin When I first seen the dolphin in Pakistan Independence day Google doodle, I got confused. Many of you would have gone through the same. So, after some research, I came to […]

Automobile

PakWheels Sell it for Me service now launched in Faisalabad

PakWheels, which started with website PakWheels.com, is now a big company which not only offers many services in its website but also lots of physical services (outside the scope of websphere) are now offered by PakWheels. PakWheels started with classifieds ads network for cars and other vehicles, then PakWheels forum was added to the site, later on PakWheels blogs, new car prices and much more. If you talk of out of web activities, they started with auto shows and meetups of car enthusiasts. Later on Car Mela events started where people gather on specific place on specific date in a specific city Pakistan and buy and sell the vehicles. Car inspection service was later on added. There is lots more […]

Automobile

Suzuki offers 0% markup installment plan on bike purchases

Now a days, the sales of bikes, along with cars, are also down due to hyperinflation Pakistan is facing. Due to inflation the prices of bikes etc are up and the purchasing power of people is down further due to same old income levels and highly inflated daily and utility expense. The cars and bike maker companies like Suzuki Pakistan and others are offering exciting stuff, never seen before, to attract the customers. One similar scheme came from Pak Suzuki now a days, where they are offering Zero percent Markup plan on purchase of any suzuki bike. Apparently this Zero percent markup plan is valid on purchase of any of the available bikes by Pak Suzuki. Not only this, the […]