Petroleum

Despite Recommendation of OGRA PMLN Led Govt Fails to Pass on full benefit of low Petroleum prices to Pakistani People

As per trend, last few months as well, the petroleum prices declined in international market. Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) also recommended that Pakistan can reduce petrol and diesel prices by at least six rupees. Now  OGRA is main authority which recommends the petroleum prices in Pakistan, so when it is say we can reduce price by 6 rupees or more, we absolutely have margin to do that. Normally, when OGRA decides a price and it goes to Prime Minister office for approval, it is accepted as it is. But this time our beloved PM Nawaz Sharif chose not to pass on the benefit to people of Pakistan, so instead of accepting the OGRA’s price reduction of 6 […]

Basic Needs

Load Shedding in Pakistan and Summer 2015 in PMLN Era

Many things here in Pakistan Change with time but one thing which is stuck as worst issue to be addressed, is load shedding for Pakistani people. Before each elections in manifesto of each political Party, resolving the issue of Electricity load shedding in Pakistan is in top very few priorities. In early 2013 when PMLN came into power they also had electricity load shedding as very important issue to be resolved. In many public addresses Mian Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shehbaz Sharif bragged that they will bring the lights back to Pakistan by resolving the worst issue of electricity load shedding. But seems like the situation did not got much better after they came in Power. In beginning as […]

Inside Story

Electricity Load Shedding Worsens on Start of Summer 2015

Winter 2015 have been worse in terms of load shedding. There have been massive load shedding, despite the fact that winters have off-peak demand for electricity. And despite all those pre-election claims of PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz) about ending the load shedding, the situation just gone worse in winters. We witnessed load shedding of 8 to 14 hours and sometime worse. Now we are on verge of summer 2015, when the demand of electricity is on its peak. It is just mid of April 2015, the weather have just started to get hot and load shedding is already increased to 10 to 16 hours in normal routine. Which is as same as about last year, there seems to be […]

Sports

For Australia vs Pakistan #CWC15 Match Google Releases a Doodle

On different occasions and events world wide, either global or local to a country, the world search giant Google changes its logo creatively to depict the event or occasion in its logo. Meanwhile the word Google is always prominent in logo. Google calls all such logos the “Doodle” or “Google Doodle”. Google have released one such Doodle for Australia vs Pakistan match is showing on Pakistan and Australia’s local Google Websites as well as the Google’s Global Website. Doodle is as follows. Do Follow us on Twitter and Like on Facebook from options on right side of this Page to stay updated with the latest from and about Pakistan. Do share your thoughts in comments section below.

Sports

Pakistan Vs Australia – Hopes are High for the third Quarterfinal of #CWC15

The start of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 (#CWC15) was really not encouraging for Pakistan. Pakistan won its first game against the arch rival India and than they also lost another match against slightly weaker opposition West Indies. After these two blows, the Pakistani cricket fans lost hope of Pakistan in #CWC15. Meanwhile Pakistani cricket management including the Manager of Pakistani team, Captain and coach as well as the top management had to bear lots of criticism from Pakistani media as well as people of Pakistan. Media gone to extent of auditing the accounts of PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) to show how much money (billions) were wasted for nothing. I am not sure that was due to pressure described […]