Inside Story

Flawful energy conservation plan leads to confusion and differences among Pakistanis

Regarding the energy conservation to cope with current energy crisis of country government came up with idea of having weekly holiday on Saturday as well along with Sunday and also they decided to close all markets and commercial centers after Maghreb prayer or Sunset in other words. Now all organizations and banks etc are banned from opening on Saturday. Which in some areas is harming people as well. But irony started when the differences between provinces came in. Every province government have started taking the issue their own ways. Punjab and Khyber pukhtoon-kh0wah have decided to remain open on the Saturday on other side Sindh decided to have a holiday and Bilochistan remained in situation of uncertainty about the holiday. […]

Democracy

Vote registration form for Pakistan elections 2013

The voter verification and registration period was just extended by the elections commission of Pakistan recently after the registration process was not completed within previous deadline. If your vote is not yet registered, get it registered as soon as possible, so that you can vote in upcoming Pakistan elections which are scheduled to held in 2013. Being able to cast the vote is right of every citizen. Where as actually going and casting the vote is responsibility of every citizen. Your vote is very important, it decides your future, so I will insist that you get your vote registered, so that on day of election you are able to actually cast the vote. The vote registration process for Pakistan elections […]

Infrastructure

Electricity load shedding situation brought under control says Minister for Water and Power

The Pakistani minister for water and power Naveed Qamar told the media last night that they have to some extent controlled the load shedding situation and the production is brought to 12400 Megawatts (MW) from the 9000 MW which was being produced before. By the way, does someone did not told minister that the production was down to just 7500 MW, same thing had caused the worst short fall of history. Minister Naveed Qamar also claimed that the production will be back to 14000 MW within next 48 hours. I personally doubt that, as about same is the requirement of country’s power requirement, considering the load shedding which had been there from long time without any pauses, you can tell […]

Sports

Shoaib Akhtar’s new book Controversially Yours upsets many

The famous Pakistani cricketer, Shoaib Akhtar, known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’ have just written a controversial book named as ‘Controversially Yours’. The book is the auto biography of famous Fast Bowler and the fastest bowler of world from Pakistan Shoaib Akhtar. Book is yet to be released, some of the excerpts from the book were made public lately. Exactly as name suggests, book is much controversial and hold lots of controversial stuff about most Pakistani and some Indian players. Also reveals some of stuff which was earlier unknown to people. One of many controversies that book brought with itself was the claim by Shoaib Akhtar that Waseem Akram had opposed the selection of Shoaib Aktar in his first ever international match. […]

Happenings

Mamtaz Qadri fined and sentenced to death over the killing of Salman Taseer

Mamtaz Qadri had shot former governor Punjab Salam Taseer dead on Jan 4th 2011. He had told that he did this over the Salaman’s views about the Pakistan’s Blasphemy laws. He also under oath told that this killing was due to Salman’s views about the blasphemy laws. Court however expressed that this is not the excuse, according to Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Qadri ended up being part of crime by taking the matters in his hand. Court sentenced the Mamtaz Qadri to death as well as he was fined 200,000 Rupees. However, according to the court Qadri’s affiliation with any terrorism plot was not proved, so the punishment can not be via Anti-terrorism Act (ATA). Keeping this in mind, now […]