Author: K. Shahzad

Automobile

Pak Suzuki offers vehicles price lock for bookings in the month of August 2023

In past two to three years, the prices of all kinds of vehicles, including cars, have increased very much rapidly. There are several factors involve in this, those factors being the local inflation in the country and specially the decline of local Pakistani Currency, Pakistani Rupee (PKR), against US dollar and the other world currencies. Obviously as most of Pakistani automakers import the Completely Knocked Down (CKD) car kits and then manufacture them locally in to a finally produced vehicle, the impact of local currency devaluation is very high on the car prices. So, due to rapidly increasing car prices in last two to three years, people’s power to buy the cars have gone down significantly. Due to this the […]

Crimes

Islamabad Police crackdowns against drug dealers and illegal weapons bearers

Islamabad was once cool and calm city with almost no crime as compared to cities like Karachi. However, now the crime rate is increasing here too. However, Islamabad police is also active against crime, at least to some extent. Specially, several arrests are being made daily to catch the drug dealers and the illegal firearms bearers. As in Pakistan, you need a govt permit or license to carry firearms, without that arms license, carrying the firearms is punishable crime. So in that regard too several arrests have been made by the Islamabad Police. Islamabad Police have a very active twitter account, where they constantly post updates about the criminals or the suspects they arrest. These updates include photos of drugs […]

Petroleum

Huge increase in prices of Petrol and Diesel announced for first half of August 2023

The new petrol and diesel prices have been announced for first 15 days of August 2023 by the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. Huge increase increase in the prices of Petrol and High Speed Diesel have been announced. High Speed Diesel price have been increased by Rs. 19.90 PKR per litre and the price of Petrol have been increased by Rs. 19.95 PKR per litre. The details of change, old and new petroleum prices are as follows. Petroleum Product Old Price New Price Change in Price Petrol (MS) 253.00 272.95 +19.95 High Speed Diesel (HSD) 253.50 273.40 +19.90 Ishaq Dar announced these new prices via press release today. The new prices will be applicable from 1st to 15th of August, 2023, […]

General Information

Two holidays announced in Islamabad due to a delegation visit

A foreign delegation is expected to visit Islamabad from 30th of July to 1st of August 2023. This reportedly includes the vice premier of China. So it is expected that, to give the security to the delegation, several routes of city will be closed from time to time. So govt have announced two holidays in Islamabad, Monday 31st July and Tuesday 1st of August 2023. Irfan Nawaz Memon, the district magistrate ICT Islamabad, via an official notification have notified the holidays. By the way, it is not happening first time in the capital Islamabad. Whenever some high profile delegation gets schedule to visit the city, often citizens get these holidays to enjoy. According to some online sources, the delegation is […]

Education Sector

How to check Federal Board 2023 annual exams results for SSC and HSSC

Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Pakistan (FBISE) have already announced the results of both SSC part 1 and part 2. Both metric and intermediate exam results can be checked on the official results page setup by federal board for results by just selecting your program like SSC or HSSC and the part 1 or 2 and entering the role number in the field below. However, at the time of writing of this article, only the results of metric 2023 are available and the results of intermediate 2022. However, as soon as the results of intermediate 2023 are announced, they will be updated on the results page. Also the official results page of FBISE (linked above) also lists the […]