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Posts Tagged ‘load shedding’

Disadvantages of Load Shedding

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Load shedding in Pakistan has become one of the major issues like inflation,unemployment,child labour, suicide bomb-blast, illiteracy and last but not least political instability.This issue or problem has made his way in the country due to irresponsible government leaders and unawareness of nation.
The amazing fact regarding the lives and daily routines of poor and patient [...]



Bijli Kahan Gai

By M Mirza • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Over Billing Orders to Electric Suppliers

By Sameer Shaharyar • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



Powerless Pakistan

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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 [...]



Electricity Tariff raised by 31%

By Farid Masood • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Misc

No instance in the world like we have, the tariff raised for a utility item, which is almost not available in Pakistan. The shortage of electricity has become the biggest problem for citizens of Pakistan. As the span and duration of its unavailability is increasing it is increasing different diseases in its consumers like high [...]



Unscheduled Load Shedding Kills

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



Wake Up Pakistanis; India strikes again!

By Maham Javed • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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: [...]



Power Shortage ….. where?

By Emaad Qureshi • Aug 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“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 [...]



Manufacturing Wind Turbines in Pakistan

By Saleem Khan • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

The new government in Pakistan is in place after the February 18, 2008 general elections. It is confronted with major challenges out of which power shortage is the most demanding. Due to energy shortage, the public has been warned that it should tighten its belts and get mentally prepared for massive loadshedding in the summer [...]



Taaveez

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)