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Posts Tagged ‘Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’

Multiple Taxation: Stop Playing Havoc With the Nation

By Farid Masood • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Taxes and duties are a major source of income for any government to run its functions. A government, which fails to put economic progress on the right track by introducing certain policies to give boost to industrial, human resource and business sectors, becomes totally dependent on taxation.
After selling the Cash Cows the only option remains [...]



Andaz-e-Bayan (Urdu Column)

By M Mirza • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Electricity for 160 Million People

By Farid Masood • Jun 20th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Citizens of Pakistan are suffering from electric power shortage. Government claims that not a single Kilowatt power was added into the system in nine years of Musharraf era.
Nation accepted the plea and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was nominated as Minister for Water & Power in March 2008. Raja sahib announced that by August 2009 we shall [...]



Khushi Say Mer Na Jaatay, Gar Etabar Hota

By M Mirza • May 31st, 2009 • 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 [...]



From Pervez Musharraf to Pervez Ashraf

By M Mirza • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Profile of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

By Farid Masood • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Federal Minister of Water & Power, an MNA from uphill town of Mandra. He was an average politician and never won before engineered elections of 2002. In those elections many piers of Pakistan Peoples Party were unable to win the elections due to non-presence of party leadership. How Raja sahib managed to [...]