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The transporters have decided to reduce the bus fare by 50 paisas.
I would like to thank the transporters that due to this reduction we might be
able to see the 50 paisa coin in circulation once again.

Its been a long time I have seen a 50 paisa coin and I hope that transporters will help me see it once again

Quaid's birth and death anniversary incidentally coincides with 2 major events of the world.
The Birth anniversary being 25th December coincides with Christmas and the death anniversary being 11th September coincides with 9/11 attacks on the USA.

On both the dates we tend to forget the importance of quaid e azam in our life . The people and media are seen celebrating and wishing Christmas on 25th December and again on 11th September, people and the media once again condoles the day and are full of analysis, comments and reviews of 9/11 attacks on the USA giving little light to the death anniversary of the Quaid e Azam.

Such is the propaganda of 9/11 that once my brothers asked me if it was a holiday on 11th September.
I inquired if he means for quaid's death anniversary, on which he replied, to commemorate 9/11 attacks on the USA, having no idea on quaid's death anniversary.

We have already forgotten much about the father of the nation, but steps should be taken to atleast preserve the importance of his birth and death anniversaries.

We once, with the help of the USA, created Taliban to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and offered them support and weapons to fight the russians. The Taliban after the soviet war became powerful and ruled Afghanistan before the world and Pakistan turned its back on them after 9/11

Now the Pakistani government and army with the support of the USA is set to breed another version of Taliban with the name of "Lashkar" to fight the talibans in the tribal area and giving them weapons and training to fight the taliban.

One needs to wonder how long will the USA and Pakistan accept the legality of Lashkar, before turning its back on them. "Lashkar" seems just an alterego of "Taliban" and this need to be checked that they do not turn out to be another version of taliban after beating them.

Tourism is the 3rd largest sector after oil and weapons.
Toursim has been majorly ignored in Pakistan , with no real or maintained tourist locations and no world class tourist facilities.

We have a huge coastal line in Karachi and gwadar.
The Karachi coastal line is hugely ignored. Government has not initiated any beach villa or beach hut rentals on hawksbay , or sandspit.

There is no toilet service, no water service, no proper place to eat or refresh.
Would it have been anyother country, they would would have introduced beach villas and huts for rentals , and facilities for restaurants, toilets, showers etc -
Which is highly neglected in karachi.

We have a good prospect of Jet Skii and Parasailing, but that is also ignored.

One would argue that toursim is mainly for foreginers, but the government should realize that it is the facility that they should first extend to locals and then it is extended to other people and foregners.

Then we have high mountains , and again there are no such facilities there , like at nanga parbat or jeheel saif ul mulk.

[ ok , got some work now , will write bac ]

AS per news report, Wapda is planning to have a new billing measure where electricity will be charged at various slabs. The electricity used at night will be more expensive than that used in the afternoon or morning.

One thing which the policy makers have missed out is the mechanism on how they will really know what amount of electricity was used in the morning and what amount of electricity was used at night or afternoon.
All electricity meters are placed in our premises or outside the premises. A meter readers comes once a month to take the reading and then we receive an aggregate bill.

What were the WAPDA people thinking when they put forth such a suggestion ?
This means they will be sending a meter reader at our location every morning, noon and night to take the meter reading for the specific time period / slab ?
Or they will import some new meters which will have time recording feature and will show how much electricity was used during what time period ?

In both cases it means WAPDA will be spending enormous sum of money to record the electricity reading at various time slabs, which may not be at all cost effective.

This approach shows an inept thinking of our policy makers, who just make statements without knowing its implication.
More so no newspaper or tv channel challenged or debated on this issue on how in real practical world, a record can be maintained for the electricity spent a a specific time slab ?

Please think before you speak.