Travel and Transportation

Islamabad Lahore Motorway M2 Toll Tax amount increased

Islamabad Lahore Motorway Toll Taxes Increased

National Highways Authority (NHA) have increased the toll tax rates of motorway M2, the motorway which connects Islamabad to Lahore. The new rates have took effect immediately on August 25, 2023. The new rates are as follows. Vehicle Types End to End Amount Per KM Rate (Rs) Cars, Jeeps & Pickups Rs. 1100 3.07 Vans Rs. 1840 5.15 Coasters Rs. 2590 7.22 Coaches Rs. 3690 10.29 Trucks Rs. 4800 13.39 Trailers Rs. 6170 17.22 People are already not happy with how deterioration in the local currency and other factors are resulting in the increase in fuel prices. Which results in overall increase in the travel and transportation costs. This new increase in the toll taxes will further add to the […]

Incidents

BBC released the drone footage of Battagram Cable Car Incident

In certain areas of KPK province of Pakistan, due lack of road infrastructure, the students and teachers have to use the cable cars to reach schools in the morning. These cable cars are suspended thousand feet or more higher from ground. Couple of days ago, when six students and two teachers of KPK were using a similar cable car to go to school, two of the cables snapped and only one cable was holding all the weight. This cable car was suspended more than 900 feet higher from the ground level. In such situation, when two cables broke, it was very difficult for the cable car to operate. So, as this incident took place in the early morning, the rescue […]

Incidents

8 passengers of Battagram cable car including children rescued

A cable car incident have took place in Battagram in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa early morning, when two cables of a cable car were snapped. Cable cars in the area are used to for transportation. So, the school going children were using this cable car to reach their school, as per their routine. So after two cables snapped in the early morning on August 22, 2023, total eight people were stuck in cable car, thousands of meters high from ground, between mountains, on top of the valleys. Until noon no one had been rescued. However, lateron army aviation took charge, in first few tries, they were not able to stabilize and hover their helicopters near the suspended cable car due to low air […]

Petroleum

Petrol and Diesel prices for second half of August 2023 Increased

Yesterday, for the first time, the new caretaker government of Pakistan have announced the new prices of petrol and diesel. Both the prices were significantly increased. As the prices were increased significantly as well two weeks ago, so people were not expecting them to increase so steeply once again. However, they have increased infact. The details of old and new petrol and high speed diesel (HSD) prices along with difference between them are as follows. Petroleum Product Old Price New Price Change in Price Petrol (MS) 272.95 290.45 +17.50 High Speed Diesel (HSD) 273.40 293.40 +20.00 The old and new prices of Petrol and Diesel in Pakistan The new prices of petrol and diesel are applicable from 16th of August […]

Occasions

Google’s Doodle for Pakistan Independence Day 2023 included a dolphin, here is why

Google changes its logo in different territories on special occasions. The changed image normally includes the text ‘google’ with something with relevance to the occasion. This way google celebrates different occasions along with locals. These occasionally changed images (normally for a day or two) are called Google Doodles. Similarly, yesterday Google released and displayed a Doodle in Pakistan on the 76th Independence day of Pakistan. Doodle included a dolphin image. The Doodle which was displayed to Pakistanis is following. Why Pakistan’s 76th Independence day Google Doodle included a Dolphin When I first seen the dolphin in Pakistan Independence day Google doodle, I got confused. Many of you would have gone through the same. So, after some research, I came to […]