Basic Needs

No more subsidies on petroleum prices, major price hikes are in place in Pakistan

Another petroleum prices hike was took in place on Saturday in Pakistan to keep up with the price hike going on in the International market. According to government these price hikes were to keep up with International market and they can not provide any subsidies to people any more. I doubt that they were providing any subsidies to people in recent past. This is second major hike in petroleum prices in time period of just few days. As soon as this price hike came in place the price to diesel approaches to the Rs 100 mark with its current price of 97.31 from old price of 92.89 which was set few days ago after a previous raise in price.  The […]

Basic Needs

Electicity load shedding in Pakistan intensifies in summer 2011

Summer 2011 is just starting and electricity load shedding in Pakistan already started to intensify. Power load shedding of 12 hours is already in place in many areas of country, PEPCO claimed that electricity short fall is 2500 Mega Watts (MW) already. We are just into April, May at the moment as we head towards the more hotter months of summer like June, July and August the electricity shortfall is going to reach 6000 MW or even above. Real long hours of load shedding is expected in coming months. Already we are experiencing the worst load shedding of history of Pakistan, now question comes in mind “who is responsible for all of this?”. Before we conclude lets have a look […]

Basic Needs

CNG stations strike in Punjab continues for indefinite period

April 2011 a strike was called by the president of CNG association and came into affect from 13th of April 2011. The reason for CNG stations to go on strike was insufficient supply of gas from SUI Northern Gas Company Limited. This insufficient supply of gas from SUI Northern Gas Company is shocking because we are into the season where gas consumption is lowest of the years. As most of house hold consumption like Room and Water heaters go down in this season, so that provides considerable decrease in daily gas usage. The winter season is long gone but Sui Northern Gas is still observing some lame Gas Load management plan or Gas Load shedding in other words. Load shedding […]

Education Sector

Petition in supreme court against dissolution of HEC

Higher Education Commission HEC is set to be dissolved by government of Pakistan under the 18th amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan. The decision is unjust as commission is doing too well for development of higher education and research in Pakistan. Students and teachers from leading universities of Pakistan are constantly opposing but Government is not rethinking over the issue for now. Latest update is that finally the decision have be challenged in Supreme court of Pakistan. The petition against the decision came from University of Lahore along with few others. Many from Pakistan are hoping that some way this decision of dissolving the HEC is reversed. Also a number of protests all over the country are going on from […]

Education Sector

Higher education being strangled in Pakistan by dissolving Higher Education Commission

Either you are reading it here or you have already heard about this in media that HEC is being dissolved, when you may have read/heard this first time, I am sure it struck as a big shock. Unfortunately if it is not stopped, it is going to happen, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan which is respected World Wide due to it’s very structure which enabled tremendous development in higher education in Pakistan in just 7 years, which is epic even if we compare to what we achieved in 55 years before that after Pakistan came in to existence. For those who don’t know much about this, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) as part of 18th amendment to constitution of Pakistan […]