Category: National

Eight years back, army chief of the time Musharaf had claimed that prime minister had hijacked the plane denying access to any airport in Pakistan for landing. Musharaf himself was traveling in that plane. Soon in an hour Pakistan army had got control of everything and the Army chief musharaf turned into the chief executive of Pakistan. Soon after an anti-terrorism court in karachi had charged Nawaz Sharif with “plane hijacking” and decided the life penalty for him. Nawaz was soon deported from his own country via deal between Nawaz and the government. Now after coming back to country after 8 years when nawaz submitted the petition again the plane hijack case, supreme court of Pakistan does not find him […]

In Karachi and Hyderabad first rain was observed. The rain was 84 mm in some area and was recorded as 24 millimeters in others. After the rain these cities seem drowned in the water. Due to having the bad infrastructure in these cities 18 people were killed due to this rain. More then 50 were injured. Also in many areas for hours electricity was not there due to several KESC links going down. First time electricity was restored after 4 hours but then next time electricity gone down again and didn’t restored even after 14 hours. Rain was continued about more than 36 hours, flooding the low-lying areas of the cities.

About a week ago government had imposed the extra carbon tax to the petroleum products, which significantly increased the prices of these products. Soon this tax was suspended via court order and petroleum prices were again back down. After wards president Zardari issued an ordinance called “Petroleum Development Levy Ordinance”, this suspended whatever said in court order and again imposed the carbon tax increasing the petroleum prices. This way in matter of two to three days petroleum prices were raised, decreased and then raised again. Now this petroleum development levy ordinance is again challenged in supreme court and soon another decision is expected about it.

Once again in South Waziristan area of Pakistan, a drone air craft struck again, bombing missiles over the area killed 11 more people in the area. However local officials claimed that this attack have killed the militants who were hiding in the area, and US had taken their information through their on ground agents. What ever the truth is, when Pakistan forces having problem targeting the militants via air strike due to problem in differentiating the locals and the militants how can drones be used for this purpose.