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Usman Akram:
“Can I also ask, howcome suddenly in 2007 we had an electricity shortage? and the next wheat shortage?”
Looking at facts won’t hurt, will it?
For your info, load shedding started in 2006.
For example, check these links
Pakistan needs to tackle energy crisis -DAWN – Business; June 24, 2006
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Power load-shedding: chasing the shadows -DAWN – Business; July 31, 2006
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Load Shedding: Are we next? | Lahore Metblogs, July 6th, 2006
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and there is also one from chamcha times (given this name due to the newspaper’s deliberate distortion of facts in support of Mush and Salman Taseer)
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Like people like leaders.
I voice you Nasir.
Can I also ask, howcome suddenly in 2007 we had an electricity shortage? and the next wheat shortage? If this was due to poor policies of musharaf era, shouldnt this happen on a static pace. How did last government manage to provide us electricity untill they were in power. we are certainly missing something. Did no one from opposition alarmed us in last 10 years?
And people who criticise Musharaf for not doing enough on electricity, let me jolt your memory, he fought hard for Kala bagh Dam, even secured funds from world bank but backedoff after politicians opposed the plan.
Had we built kala bagh dam, we would be sufficient in energy which would have kept energy prices and production costs low. this would have giving pakistan stronger exports as production costs would be low.
What about the india factor?, india built couple of dams in kashmir which stopped water to flow into our rivers.
Had Benazir (and other politicions) not stated several times in world press that our nukes technology was not safe (for their political reasons) we might be producing nuclear energy which would be cheaper and more environment friendly then coal or dams
Also for some who beleive Zardari is the nation’s choice as the parliment is democratic and they have choosen him. The politicians in PPP and PML-N are thugs and they have choosen and biggest thug of all times as their leader. If this was public vote he would have lost.
The way PML-N and PPP are behaving they will be up in arms very soon and take pakistan 50 years back.
“It takes most of the sheri rehman’s day in beauty parlor”
All people with concience!
Was Pakistan created to kill the innocent people on the precext of “Kufr” fatwa, was it demanded so that pwoerful be able to throw acid on the face of young girls, did Quai i azam worked for a Pakistan where in the name of religion all sorts of atrocities be suffered by innocent and helpless people?
I there any one who can voice against this religous killing of Ahmadies in Mirpur Khas during thisRamazan, the month of pryers, peace andpiety.
Azhar,
I respect your thoughts and in fits of patriotism, I say the same. Unfortunately the reality on the streets of Pakistan is very different. We are a fractured society. Just one look at the results of the last election tells the story. No single party was able to get a national mandate. Our second largest party has no representation outside one province. The fourth largest is limited to one city.
The other day I was watching the interview of ex C.M of N.W.F.P, Mehtab Abbasi and cringed when I heard that during his rein, he once called Shebaz Sharif and threatened to cut off power supply to Punjab if more wheat was not sent to his province immediately. The message I got from it was that we need a strong federation to eliminate even the slightest chance of one province threatening another for anything.
We need a party with a broad appeal that addresses the issues of the nation, not just a city or an ethnicity. A party that enforces high standards of accountability on their leaders. A party that only keeps the benefits of Pakistan in mind when making any policy. A party that crushes provincialism to make sure our nation is not divided. A party that represents the residents of Islamabad and the residents of Nasirabad equally.
Here comes the bitter truth. If a leadership like that rises from Pakistan, the whole corrupt system from the peon of your local police station to the president of Pakistan will make sure that the status quo is not shaken.
Are you willing to stand up to the call? I am!