The Pakistani Spectator

Though the government circles and the management of electric supply companies are vehemently denying this news that they have been ordered to over bill the consumers, the bills of this month speak for themselves. Due to intense load-shedding people are hardly getting any electricity and yet the bills of a common household have passed any [...]

The word ‘rival’ comes from the Latin ‘rivalis’ meaning ’some one sharing a river’. A water war between two Sumerian city states Lagashand Umma 4500 years ago is recorded on a stone carving showing vultures flying off with the heads of the impoverished and defeated Umma people.
Only history itself can convince one of such a [...]

Coal has always been a dirty four-letter word in our power vocabulary. Reluctantly and only recently, have the policy makers been forced to look at indigenous coal as a serious power generation option. Contrary to popular perception, coal not oil is the single largest source of global energy.
Of late gas fired power generation is also [...]

The situation regarding the power is worsening and there is no respite in sight. Scheduled load-shedding takes the toll for more than ten hours, while additionally people suffer from 6 to 8 hours un-announced power outages in the hot and humid weather and the life has become miserable.
Education, industry and business have been hit pretty [...]

It’s not one of the last tumultuous and intricate problems that are in the bag for the Pakistani Nation. Foes and foreign forces are accumulating in the adjoining countries as well as the far away ones like America and Israel; whose recent eagle-eye is fixed upon one of the most lonesome state in this world: [...]

“India is facing a power shortage of 70,000 MW” said Lok Sabha, power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, “The potential for hydro power generation in the country was 1.5 lakh MW but merely 20% of it was exploited”, he said.There is a serious misconception prevailing amongst most of people that Pakistan is the only country which [...]

Now that the so called Constitutional Package is being revealed in media (in a piecemeal fashion). It was sad to see that this package would be another dreaded legislation just like the NRO we have had. Dreaded because one of its points seeks indemnity for the dreadful dictator’s acts of Pre Nov 3, 2007. Indemnity [...]