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The power crisis is not restricted to Pakistan, rather it is being faced by the whole South Asian region, but unfortunately it is outplayed by media. Loadshedding is done in the whole of India and Bangladesh but we seldom hear any cry from their media.
It is astonishing to note that India is facing a shortfall of 20,000 megawatts, which is met through loadshedding of 8 to 10 hours. Indians are very much aware of the shortage of electricity and they try to compromise with the situation and help their government, but this is not the case in Pakistan, where people get infuriated over outages and damage government property.
..in India, ... according to estimates the power shortfall will increase in the next 10 to 15 years...Despite constructing dams on Pakistan’s waters, still India does not have huge potential of producing hydropower...At the same time, India’s energy needs are increasing by at least 10 per cent annually.
However, Pakistan is altogether different from both of these countries.
from the above link are these numbers real or being pulled out of his Musharaf for Hydro electricity generation
Fortunately, Pakistan has more than enough resources to produce hydropower. The government has already announced construction of a number of dams like Bhasha (4,500MW), Munda (740MW), Kurram Tangi (83MW) and Akhori (600MW). Other dams like Bunji (7,100MW), Dasu (4,320MW) and Golen Gol (106MW) have also a huge potential and will come in the national grid in coming years. These dams will also help to store huge quantity of water.
Based on this Pakistan is going to easily generate around 17500 MW electricity from Hydro electricity.
Narad, yikes, and for so quickly puncturing that balloon, may you wake up tomorrow morning next to a goat with bad breadth who is tickling the inside of your nostril with a sharp hoof.
shiv wrote:
When I read this stuff repeatedly year after year after year it seems to me that I am missing something. There is some kind of disconnect between these policy prescriptions and the ability of "government" in Pakistan to get away with less than the policy prescription. Every year for many years - perhaps more than a decade I find that Pakistan has been doing the same stuff and having the same IMF/World Bank advice delivered to it, but Pakistan simply does not respond or responds with half measures or temporary measures.
Somewhere in the IMF documents is a reference to IMF assumptions about large, undocumented money inflows into Pakistan. The IMF makes some estimate of those flows, and the result influences its policy prescription. It is possible that the IMF is greatly under-estimating those flows.
sanjaykumar wrote:In an ealier avatar I once posted a threat by a Pakistani ex-general that identified Delhi and Panjab as the two targets of the Islamic bomb.
Any one squirrel that reference away? I can't find it.
Are you referring to the Atlantic Monthly article on this subject?
There was a painting with mushroom cloud over Delhi in a Pak general's office.
Thanks, actually it was in the News or Dawn where a military type casually reveals that the Pakistanis seem to specifically have a problem with Panjabis (Delhi being heavily a Panjabi city). I think because of the ferocity of the response they received in Panjab, then including Haryana.
Snake Speaking Sach
ShareThisParliament to decide fate of Nato supply lines: Kayani
JACOBABAD: Pakistan’s army chief said on Monday that the fate of Nato supplies to Afghanistan will be decided by the country’s political leadership.Addressing reporters at the Shahbaz Airbase, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said that the prime minster had given his clear stance over the issue and that the parliament’s defence committee will decide if the key supply line to combat forces in Afghanistan should be re-opened or not.
Referring to the army’s operation in tribal areas, Kayani said that limited force was being used in these areas. The Pakistan army is criticised for securing a large part of the country’s annual budget. Kayani, however, clarified that the country’s defence budget was only 18 per cent and not 70 per cent.“Out of this 18 per cent, army’s share is 8.5 per cent,” he added.Kayani welcomed the induction of new fighter planes in Pakistan’s fleet, saying “the move will strengthen our defence.”Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman on the occasion said that the Shahbaz Airbase was under their complete control.Another senior Pakistan Air Force (PAF) official told journalists that air bases in Pasni and Jacobabad were under use of Americans during 2002-2004.He said that Pakistan had the capability of bringing down drones being operated by the United Stated in the tribal areas, but the policy and decision rests with the parliament
Journalist, professor and writer Anatol Lieven talks to Dawn.com during the Karachi Literature Festival 2012. Lieven, author of a widely acclaimed book “Pakistan: A hard country,” believes Pakistan is not an enemy of the West and it cannot be called a ‘failed state.’Lieven was among the most popular speakers at the two-day festival, which concluded on February 12 and the end of the first day saw his book being wiped off the stalls
One tweet by majorlyprofound about freedom last year had the "literature festival" literally scampering for cover and soiling their arabi burkha brown.
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This year there was a panel on "Solving Cashmere" for which various worthies who have composed books on the said subject participated. They all agreed that India is oppressing everyone and should give up JK.
I think that it was a "safe" thing to discuss. Discussing Baluchistan and/or Qadri would have reduced the life expectancy of many people.
ramana wrote:Is this Krachi Literary Festival an imitation of Jaipur Lit. fest?
yes and there are some interlinkages as well.
KLF is a british and US embassy sponsored jambooree. Look at the sponsors, not one single company all embassies only. William Darlymple among others was a keynote speaker - he was the organiser of Jaipur one as well. http://www.karachiliteraturefestival.org/sponsors
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The blasphemy of promoting Kuffar Books needs the kind attention of Ghazi Qadri Abbadi.Bringing Books after Book in Poaq Nook is not a crime to be over looked and deserve the Illam Din rebuke for the organizing crook .
Q Mobile Company again clarified that they are not Qadiani Company. Company told in advertisement that Q-Mobile Means Quality Mobile but some jealous factors propagating their brand as Qadiani Mobile which is totally false. On other hand a joint advertisement of Aalmi Majlis Khatme Nabuwat and Q Mobile has been published on different newspapers to give surety that Qmobile is owned by Muslims.
Ameer of Aalmi Majlis Khatme Nabuwat Karachi region, Maulana Muhammad Ejaz Mustafa said in this ad that their team met with owners of Q-mobile. Maulana said that Q-mobile owners are Muslims. On other hand, Q-mobile said sorry to its customers who faced problem in writing “Muhammad” and “Rasool” words in Urdu due to technical fault and which became cause of rumors against q mobile.
Names of the 3 potential successors to Pasha:
Commander Wahid Arshad, very involved in the Pakistan Army’s secret diplomacy, particularly in China, is the most likely to be appointed.
He was the spokesman for the Pakistan Army in 2007 before becoming army staff director of planning in 2008.
Karachi regional commander Muhammad Zahirul Islam
Peshawar regional commander Khalid Rabbani.
Locked in a cellar where she was allegedly raped and beaten for nearly a decade, a young deaf and mute Pakistani woman told a U.K. court on Monday how she was trafficked into Britain and forced to work as a virtual slave.
Speaking through an interpreter and using sign language, the woman - thought to be 19 or in her 20s - described how she was allegedly hit with a rolling pin while forced to work for no money, made to sleep on a concrete floor in a bolted cellar and sexually abused.
When prosecutors showed her a picture of Ilyas Ashar, she said: "He's the one who has sex with me."
They traffic a deaf and mute 10 yr old girl into UK, keep her in captivity as a sex slave for 10 years. Great going UKpakis.
Zaheer Ul Islam was DG Security in ISI and is a top candidate. Other fellow is Lt Gen Tariq Khan who heads 1 corps in Mangla and also Inspector General of the Frontier Corps.
The Pyongyang English Literary Festival ("Festival") will be the first ever English language literary festival to be staged in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK") and will be held in September 2012 in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK.
The Pyongyang English Literary Festival ("Festival") will be the first ever English language literary festival to be staged in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK") and will be held in September 2012 in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK.
Anup why don't you add that as a comment on the site?
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Seven men detained by Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, appeared in court Monday in a landmark case that places one of the nation's most powerful institutions under the scrutiny of its highest court.
The men -- who appeared to be in pain and poor health -- hobbled into the courthouse, surrounded by dozens of armed police officers and family members. Several of the detainees covered their faces. At least two carried urine drainage bags in their hands.
"We didn't have proper food and (were) never offered a doctor while in custody," detainee Abdul Basit said. "I challenge anyone who says I am guilty. We were told we were innocent. Is this a result of our innocence?"
A lawyer representing Basit and the six others detainees argues that they were arrested without due process and injured while in Inter-Services Intelligence custody since 2010.
"When they (the court) asked us to bring them forward (Monday), most of them couldn't even walk. We had to give them support," attorney Tariq Asad said.
ISI attorney Raja Muhammad Irshad offered an explanation for the detainees' condition.
"You can imagine, when somebody is in custody or jail, you can't have the facilities you have at home," he told CNN after Monday's hearing.
Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the government to give each detainee a medical exam and report the results in four days. The court also ordered the spy agency to produce all documents related to the detention of the men by the first week of March.
Monday's hearing came after the court gave the spy agency a deadline to bring the detainees to court. The deadline was originally set for last Friday, but later it was extended to Monday.
The ISI has also been ordered to explain the deaths of four other detainees.
A police van was attacked on Monday with a remote-controlled explosive device in the Dera Murad Jamali area of Naseer Abad district, killing at least two passing children and destroying the police vehicle.
At least 17 people were injured in the bombing, including a senior police official and three other policemen.
Obama administration Monday proposed $2.4 billion in financial aid to Pakistan for the fiscal year 2012-13 while unveiling its annual budget of $3.8 trillion that calls for tax hikes on the rich.
The first suicide attack occurred on 17 March 2002 by a foreigner in a Church in Islamabad in which a Sri Lankan high commissioner was killed. It was followed by a series of suicide bombings, as their pace gained momentum gradually.
In 2002, two suicide bombs exploded which were targeted against foreign nationals, killing at least 19 people. In 2003, two suicide bombs exploded, killing about 67 people, in which one was sectarian in nature and the other was targeted against President of Pakistan. In 2004, seven suicide bombs exploded killing about 86 people in which one was targeted against Prime Minister of Pakistan, one against security personnel whereas one of them was sectarian in nature.
In 2005, four suicide bombs exploded killing about 101 people and all of them are perceived as sectarian in nature. In 2006, seven suicide bombs exploded killing at least 155 people, in which only two were sectarian in nature whereas one was against US national while rest of them were against security personnel of Pakistan. In 2007, 56 suicide bombs exploded killing 729 people and nearly all of them were targeted against security forces. In 2008, 59 suicide bombs exploded killing 893 people. Likewise in 2009, 76 suicide bombs exploded killing 949 people; in 2010 the number of suicide attacks decreased on 49 which took almost 1167 lives.
In 2011, 41 suicide attacks were counted which killed 1183 lives, while in the first month of the 2012, 2 suicide attacks have been observed which as taken 9 lives of the innocent people.
It is very clear from the data that suicide bombing started by targeting foreign nationals, then they gained pace in a sectarian nature in 2003, 04, 05 and initial months of 2006. From mid-2006 till now, most attacks were against security personnel, and their supporters (jirga leader). The frequency of the attacks has increased.
The main purpose of the suicide bombing is to gain political objectives and the sudden increase, especially against security forces, can suggest that their main objective is to compel Pakistan to change its Afghanistan policy and withdraw its support from US led coalition in war against terrorism.
Another observation suggests that the attack on Lal Masjid where hundreds of people were killed is also one of the main causes of the increase in suicide bombings, especially against security forces because the operation was conducted by security forces of Pakistan. If we analyze the data from the when Lal Masjis operation was conducted on 11th of July 2007, before that period of about six months 13 suicide bombs exploded and after that military operation there were 43 suicide bombs exploding in the same period of 2007.
The other thing which supports this connection of the Lal Masjis operation and the increase in suicide bombings is that the Lal Masjid Madrassa belonged to Deobandi school of thought. The Deobandi Madrassa network is well organized and it has its branches more than any other Madrassa network in Pakistan.
During the first two years of war against terrorism, the tendency of suicide bombings was either against foreign people who were living in Pakistan or it was against the President and Prime Minister – or it was sectarian. But we have observed that the tendency of suicide bombing started against security forces from mid 2006 and it was at its peak after the incident of Lal Masjid operation, this operation also led to break down of the “Miranshah peace agreement.”
Fantastic piece on the state of TSP. From that article.
And that’s when it all made sense. Pakistan is Chaos Country. Nobody is in charge any more. In the battles for our soul – for freedom, for journalism, for jihad, for governance and law – all the combatants are right, and everybody else wrong. The intel officials and my television bosses thought it would be better to know more and do less, for giving the relevant groups’ actions public coverage would only serve their purpose. But when I was advised to “move for the night” and asked if I could “handle a weapon” by some very important, powerful people, I realised that in spirit, maybe the DPC’s message, if not the DPC’s (or its supporters’) tactics is right: We should do what it takes to survive.
That country is already broken down.
When the writ of law cannot be imposed in Islamabad, let alone vast tracts of Balochistan and in NWFP, when no one is in charge anymore, the P in the TSP does not have no meaning. And there is no semblance of anyone emerging out of this with a clear mandate. It will be a free-for-all pretty soon. But even before that, the post 1971-Pakistan does not exist anymore.
We need to propagate this image ( that there is no entity called Pakistan anymore.)
THE complexity that is Pakistan was on full display over the weekend in Karachi. Yesterday, the Difaa-i-Pakistan Council held another sizeable rally, this time at a stone’s throw from Jinnah’s mausoleum. Speaker after speaker called for the reinvention of Pakistan in line with a muscular, reactionary and religion-driven nationalism.
The Pakistan envisioned by the DPC would be out of step with the modern world, harkening back to a mystical past whose recreation in present-day Pakistan would apparently be the solution to all that ails the country today. A narrative of hate, intolerance and xenophobia dressed up as ‘independent’ foreign and national-security policies is what was on offer at the DPC rally.
So which is the ‘real’ Pakistan, the one on display at the DPC rally or at the literature festival?
Didnt the k'rachi literary festival turn into an India-bashing free-for-all?
