Category: Inside Story

Basic Needs, Inside Story, National

No CNG for two days each week for Punjab and NWFP

What else can you expect from a Government which is highly not capable of managing things. Now after having all sufferings from the electricity load shedding Pakistanis had finally to see this day when they will be facing so called “Gas Load Management Plan”. According to this plan initially the people of Punjab and NWFP will remain without CNG for two days each week. This will not happen for days or week or a month, the plan is to repeat it the whole winter, initially it would be from 15th Nov, 2009 to 15th Mar, 2010. This is the time when the people of Pakistan were expecting that government will fulfill its promise of ending the electricity load shedding they […]

Inside Story, National

Day Light Saving saved about estimated 48750 megawatts of Power

Day Light Saving (DLS) time which was took in place on April 2009 by government actually saved about 250 megawatts of power daily. This rough estimate was provided by the ministry of water and power. Officials also told that one megawatt of power cost about 1 million dollar. So this way this day light saving strategy  saved about estimated 48750 million dollars this year. Day Light Saving was took in place on 15th of April 2009 and lost till yesterday the 31st October, 2009 midnight when clocks all over the world were moved back by one hour. Seeing the amount of energy saved by putting in Day Light Saving time it have been decided that this practice will now be […]

Basic Needs, Infrastructure, Inside Story, Pictures

The dark age continues, Govt still says, lights ahead

In 2008 first time the ruling party had claimed that the load shedding will be taken away from the people of Pakistan once and for all on 31st Dec, 2008.  But they didn’t make it, in fact they were not able to bring any improvement. The things were better before, as compared to their rule. Soon after the ruling party changed their statements, probably they would have checked and planned on back-end, they came up saying the issue of power shortage will be resolved till the June 2009 and the people would have to bare with them. This time this seem to bit realistic and people thought, ok believe them. But again, as history repeats itself, ruling party was unable […]

Inside Story, Pakistan Blog Sphere

Pakistani Bloggers, What are they up to, Money or Origional content

There were times when there were few bloggers in Pakistan blog sphere, then came the time when there were a quite a number of Pakistani bloggers. Quality was the main concern those days and posts were almost original, word by word typed by blogger him/herself. First the existing blogs started monetizing their blog sites, quality was again main concern till that time and focusing on just quality these bloggers started earning some money via these existing blog sites using some advertising programs like “Google Adsense”, Kontera and few others. But then after this Google Adsense thing got really popular, and people seen these bloggers making good money out of it then came new type of bloggers, these are not in […]