Power and Energy

Pakistan experiences big electricity shut down across the country

A power break down in early morning, about 7:30 am sent the whole Pakistan in blackout. Almost all major cities affected as due to some unknown fault the frequency on national grid dropped. It tripped the electricity systems across the country. As we speak, all the major cities of Pakistan like Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar and more are without power right now. Prime Minister office have already took the notice of the incident and asked the power ministry to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Also reportedly, the PM office asked about the reason of shutdown in writing from the power ministry. On the other side, the federal minister for power Khurram Dastgir Khan said that the […]

Incidents

Interview of the father of Scarsdale school beating victim

An interview video of the father of the recent Scarsdale School bullying and beating victim came forward. This interview was recorded by the management of Pakistan’s famous website called siasat.pk. They have uploaded this to their youtube channel, you can watch it below. In the interview the father, Imran Younas, of the victim Aleeha Imran have made some very important revelations about the incident. He spelled out the whole incident, how it all started, how girl was taken to cafeteria then torchered for 30 to 40 minutes according to Mr. Imran Younas. Then he goes on further to tell how parents of aggressors have tried to pressurised him with the threats. He also mentioned how the boys involved in the […]

Finance

Govt agrees to accept IMF demands including electricity & Gas price increase

There was an on going deadlock between Government of Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on disbursement of next iteration of funds to Pakistan due to four demands of IMF. As after the floods and the political instability Pakistan’s economic situation got worse, so IMF thought until and unless Pakistan takes some more measures to collect funds, it will not go forward with disbursement of next over one billion US dollar funds. Government first has been hesitant on accepting the different action items on the IMF’s demand list but after the foreign reserves got dangerously low and other lenders have linked their lending process to IMF’s fund disbursement, govt of Pakistan left with no other option to accept the […]

Incidents

Scarsdale school breaks silence on the girls beating incident

Recently a video of school girls gone viral in Pakistan in which a herd of three to four girls are bullying a girl, then they first started with pull the hair, kicking the girl, later she was thrown down. Afterwards, two girls can been seen sitting the helpless one on the ground and a third on pulling her hair. This incident took place in Scarsdale International School Lahore, where the bullying and torcher kept on going for several minutes and no one took notice. Many students can be heard around the incident site, when it was taking place but no student, teacher or school staff can be seen or heard trying to intercept the incident. School which should have took […]

Incidents

Girls involved in bullying and beating classmate at a school in Lahore are granted pre arrest bail

Currently a video of female students from Scarsdale International School is going viral all over Pakistan. In the video, girls can been seen grouping up and beating a fellow student. In the video not only girl is beaten, kicked but later on girl is thrown down on the floor and two girls can be seen sitting on the victim while another on pulling her hair. Also other students can be seen and heard laughing and making videos of incident. In the whole video and the many versions of it which are gone viral on the internet, no one came forward to help the helpless victim. Also for several minutes this student was being torchered on the floor of Scarsdale International […]