The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘Oil’

We Have Broken it, So We Ought to Fix it

By A Khokar • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Although we may be right in blaming US for the prevalent mayhem and anarchy in Pakistan but this was surely Pakistan’s own choice that they see themselves now gutted in this hell fire. It is their own created inferno which is eating it up and is turning this heavenly country’s western area into rubble and [...]



Petroleum Prices : Where They are Heading?

By Altaf Khan • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

At least I don’t have no idea and my limited imagination fails to predict the ultimate price of petroleum products where it will become stable for a while.
The new bogeyman of the town, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), has once again given the jolt of the year to the nation, just after a fiasco [...]



There is victory in sight for George W Bush?

By A Khokar • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Politics

Where as purported presence of Al-Qaeda among Taliban on Pak-Afghan border has so far served as a tool and a lynch pin of Neocons dream hegemonic policy in Middle East and Central Asia. US has virtually been showing its craze to depict Al Qaeda as an omnipotent force, an imaginary, invisible enemy in disguise to [...]



D-8 Summit

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

THE D-8 eight Muslim countries decided to embark on joint ventures to boost food production and endorsed a 10-year blueprint to expand trade cooperation.
 
In a joint statement, the D-8 summit warned that the shortage and rising prices of food posed a serious threat to socio-economic stability. The summit agreed to take [...]



America Can Afford to Attack Iran

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

America is using mainly English soldiers in Iraq with its own soldiers and taking massive help of NATO forces in the Afghanistan, and now it intends and has planned to use Israel to attack the Iran. For Pakistan, it has got Indian in the store. With no burden at all on it’s exchequer and with [...]



It’s all about oil

By Arun R. Zaheeruddin • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Fuel prices have risen to record-levels now. With petrol and diesel prices soaring the sky, what I fear is a severe civilian angst and an uprising.



Shun Petrol in Governemnt Institutions

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

As the imported bill of oil has devastated our economy, and there the rising oil prices in the world market are taking their worst toll, there is a dire and inevitable need on the part of government to take some drastic measures to address this alarming issue, lest its too late.
Though our premier Yousuf Raza [...]



Bring a can of petrol!!

By captainjohann • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The price of petrol in India have already gone through the roof. Reason?
Global oil prices are at all-time high levels (about $139 per barrel) and
the nation’s public sector oil companies can no longer sustain the heavy
subsidy on petroleum products.
So which are the nations where the price of petrol is [...]



Shattered Rupee

By Gul Raiz • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The sharp fall in the rupee against the steadily falling dollar in the backdrop of horrendously rising oil prices, and the melting down economy with no outside investment whatsoever coupled with contorted inflation has posed grave challenges for the new government.
The above worries have become even more worrisome as the new government in its fourty [...]