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AS if it were not enough that Pakistanis have to deal with a deepening power crisis with each passing season, it now appears that they have to grapple with mysterious discrepancies in the data proffered by the various players in the power sector. Amazingly, Pepco, Wapda and distribution companies are now sparring over how much electricity is being supplied throughout the country
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
THIS is apropos of Ranga Kalanseoriya’s report ‘Using checkpoints to beat urban terrorism’ (March 13) that puts a question mark on the performance of our men in uniform at different checkpoints in different cities.
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
THIS is apropos of news report “The Ganga Ram’s village chugs on horse train” (March 11). The Karachi Circular Railway is dead and buried but luckily for us the steel tracks are still fine. Sir Ganga Ram’s concept can be used for KCR. Instead of a horse driven carriage we can have a bus on wheels in place of their traditional tyres. We can also modify the bus tyres with a small contraption to run on train tracks. Paris Metro runs on rubber tires without any noise and the ride is smooth.
Posted in Current Affairs, Movies, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
“Known as Ug99, the disease could potentially decimate the country’s highly vulnerable wheat crop and cause a huge food security problem”.Wheat under Ug99 threat in Pakistan
Noorani was the guest speaker at Mohatta Palace Museum. He is a distinguished historian lawyer and political columnist. To listen to him, the lecture was well attended and the guests included historians, authors, prominent lawyers, intellectuals and pacifists.
Posted in Organizations, poetry, Terrorism on Mar 19th, 2010
THIS refers a news report (March 
wherein CDA bosses are asked to apprise the National Assembly of the significant expense — exceeding Rs9bn — made on the beautification of Islamabad.
The spending will be done on eco-friendly features like its health and sanitation, medical supplies and services, sewage waste management and air pollution, schools and educational centres, public services like electricity, water, gas, public transport and traffic congestion.
Posted in Articles, Current Affairs, Funny Videos, Hollywood, Movies, Pakistan, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
THE most effective shortterm step that can be taken to ease the power crisis and help prevent its spread is to improve load management.
Electricity customers need to be given incentives to conserve energy, when it would do the most good from a power market standpoint.
Posted in Cars Prices in Pakistan, Nuclear, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
RECENTLY the Punjab Assembly has taken the initiative of banning the latenight packages by almost all cellular companies. This is appreciated.
There is no gainsaying the fact that cellphones have become a basic necessity and the easiest mode of communication and accessibility.
Posted in funny stuff, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
THIS is apropos of Zahid Hussain Khan’s letter ‘Tampering with record’ (March 7). I agree with the writer that for survival of any peaceful and prosperous society it is necessary to maintain accuracy in properties’ record. This is most relevant as far as agricultural lands are concerned.
Posted in Current Affairs, Hollywood, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
Most of our problems are not new to the world. When nations begin to industrialise, economic disparities are bound to increase. The worker’s wage, the industrial conditions, the need for specialised labourer increase poverty and unemployment.
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has criticised Interior Minister Rehman Malik for using the term Punjabi Taliban for militants.
In a statement on Thursday, Khan demanded that Mr Malik withdraw his statement and tender an apology to the nation for linking militants with provinces or communities.
Punjab Governor Salman Taseer said on Thursday that more academic disciplines would be introduced at the Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) to extend more opportunities to students in diverse fields.
Mr Taseer was talking at the university’s ninth convocation held at Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad.
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
The multi-billion Leh Expressway is again in the limelight as a revised summary of the project has been submitted to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif after being recommended by the PML-N lawmakers from the city.
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
Roshanara is a dominating housewife and her husband, Mohsin Ali Shirazi, is her slave. She pulls the strings and he dances like a puppet.Bossy wife and mousy husband crack up PNCA audience
Posted in funny stuff, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
A highpowered judicial commission comprising three retired superior court judges will be set up soon to look into the highly emotive issue of missing persons, the Supreme Court was informed here on Thursday.
Tweet Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday it was time for the United States to address Pakistan’s security concerns and economic development needs. “We have already done too much … Pakistan has done its bit, we have delivered; now it’s your (the US) turn. Start delivering,” he said at a media briefing on [...]
Posted in poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed Senator Mian Raza Rabbani and Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh as advisers.
A five-year-old British boy arrived back home on Thursday after a 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan which triggered an international police operation.
Sahil Saeed flew into Manchester airport, in northern England, with his father, Raja Naqqash Saeed.
Posted in Afghanistan, Health, poetry on Mar 19th, 2010
The National Accountability Bureau NAB is sending its team to the United Kingdom to bring back 12 boxes containing record of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss cases, sources told Dawn on Thursday.NAB team to bring back Swiss case record from UK
Posted in USA on Mar 18th, 2010
Rozee.pk one of the biggest website is now infected from virus and is marked dangerous by Google. Many websites are facing this problem but this is the first time i have seen website of that much magnitude is effected from virus malware.
Posted in Pakistan on Mar 18th, 2010
Corruption Problem in Pakistan is getting worse with every coming day.Corruption, a menace plaguing the basic existence of developing countries, leads to destruction of a nations’ social fabric.Singapore; a tiny city-state devoid of natural resources yet a leading developed country has the distinction of being among the top three least corrupt states.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2010
NEW DELHI: With seven months to go until the start of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, the partially completed main stadium is a messy building site and the swimming complex a pile of rubble.
Posted in Pakistan on Mar 18th, 2010
AT a time when road accidents have become the bane of society, sometimes result ing in loss of life, the advice given by the Grand Mufti is timely and needs to be taken seriously by all those who sit behind the wheel of a motor vehicle in the Sultanate
Posted in Funny Videos on Mar 18th, 2010
THE single event that triggered the financial meltdown and the onset of global reces sion in September 2008 was the collapse of the 154-year-old blue-blood US investment bank, Lehman Brothers.
Posted in Pakistan on Mar 18th, 2010
DESPITE family reservations, I flew in from New York to participate in a peace rally in Swat on International Women’s Day. For the first time in the history of Swat, local women and girls representing the pupils and teachers of Saidu Sharif and Mingora came out on the streets.