current affairs

Election commission allotted election symbols to all major political parties

It wouldn’t be wrong if said elections 2018 is the only topic of discussion everywhere around. Whether people at gatherings , occasions, ceremonies nobody remains quiet to make contribution of their prospective and the possible consequences on politics of Pakistan. ECP (Election commission of Pakistan) allotted symbols to 77 political parties on Tuesday. Major turnovers was  observed by the different parties regarding their  electoral symbols. PML-Q decided to not go with the bicycle symbol in this election and have chosen tractor this time. PPP shaheed bhutto, and  PPP workers tr seeks the sword as their electoral symbol but it goes into the hands of Pakistan peoples party. Where the affectionate Political parties like PML-N, PPP parliamentarians the electoral front of […]

Infrastructure

Pakistan Losses 90% of Water in Rivers Each Year Due to Lack of Dams

Water situation in the country is becoming worse than it seems, our rivers are now drying and one of main reasons for this is a large number of dams built by India on rivers coming to Pakistan. But if I blame India for worsening water condition in Pakistan it will be very unfair and here is how. There are seasons when our rivers are full of water, all our big dams like Mangla, Tarbaila and other smaller ones are full of water, this is time to store all the water for bad times. But what happens is all the access water goes to the ocean due to less storage or in other words due to less dams are available. Even […]

Lawmaking

National Assembly denies 530 Percent increase in President’s Salary

The ruling party moved a bill recently in National Assembly, bill called for the humongous increase of 530% in salary of President of Pakistan. However, the opposition stood tall against the bill, saying the federal government is proving to be unable to pay salaries to the teachers on government non permanent contract, how can they justify this salary increase after this. The current salary for President of Pakistan is 133,333, which government was hoping to rev up to 846,550 through this bill. Last time president’s salary had been increased back in 2004 from previous 80,000. This is however difficult to understand why government thought a humongous increase of 713,217 Rs (550%) is needed, specially when they are being revealed of […]

Basic Needs

Electricity Load Shedding Continues in 2018 in Pakistan Despite all those Promises

In 2013 before coming into power, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) leader made many promises with people of Pakistan to end the load shedding for once and for all from the country. The Promises made by Shehbaz Sharif to end electricity load shedding ranged from six months to two and half years during his election campaign. However, later after coming into power, the big brother, Nawaz claimed that the promises made during the election campaign were made in “Joshe Khitabat”, means there were emotions involved and in flow of speech he did made those promises. But also Nawaz Sharif and his team re-iterated that realistically the problem of Load Shedding will be solved three years time for sure. Which […]

Internet censorship

Pakistanis locked out of millions of websites as Login with Facebook is not working due to social media blockage

In Pakistan after PMLN led government failed to disperse the protestors at Faizabad, basically to prevent the people from knowing the current situation, government took steps which affected lives of millions of Pakistanis. One such step was blocking the social media. Blockade of social media in itself is act which tried to prey on the people’s right of information. But there even more damaging consequences of it, which people of Pakistan had to bear. One such example is “Login with Facebook”. Almost every internet user knows it very well what “Login with Facebook” is. Also, almost every website which requires users to login to their system provide the feature to people to login to the via Facebook. So People instead […]