10 to 12 hours of load shedding continues in Pakistan despite of the promises made by the government that the trend of load shedding in the country will decline. Less electric supply is not only faced in the small cities of the country, but it is also witnessed in many parts of big cities like Karachi.
Gizri, a part of Clifton, remains in darkness from 7pm to 1 pm and, in between severe fluctuation is faced by the residencies making electronic appliances unworkable. If this is the case in Karachi then one can envision the conditions faced by small cities due to lack of electricity.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED PRECOGNITION?
Precognition is the direct knowledge or perception of the future, obtained through extrasensory means. Precognition is the most frequently reported of all extrasensory perception (ESP) experiences, occurring most often (60 percent to 70 percent) in dreams. It may also occur spontaneously in waking visions, auditory hallucinations, flashing thoughts entering the mind, and the sense of "knowing."
Usually the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours. In rare cases precognitive experiences occur months or even years before the actual event takes place. Severe emotional shock seems to be a major factor in precognition. By a ratio of four-to-one, most concern unhappy events, such as death and dying, illness, accidents, and natural disasters. Intimacy is also a major factor, 80 to 85 percent of such experiences involve a spouse, family member or friend with whom the individual has close emotional ties. The remainder involves casual acquaintances and strangers, most of whom are victims in major disasters such as airplane crashes or earthquakes.
The most popular theory holds that precognition is a glimpse of a possible future that is based upon present conditions and existing information, and which may be altered depending upon acts of free will. That theory implies the future can cause the past, a phenomenon called "backward causality" or "retro-causality."
Usually the majority of precognitive experiences happen within a forty-eight hour period prior to the future event, most often it is within twenty-four hours. In rare cases precognitive experiences occur months or even years before the actual event takes place. Severe emotional shock seems to be a major factor in precognition. By a ratio of four-to-one, most concern unhappy events, such as death and dying, illness, accidents, and natural disasters. Intimacy is also a major factor, 80 to 85 percent of such experiences involve a spouse, family member or friend with whom the individual has close emotional ties. The remainder involves casual acquaintances and strangers, most of whom are victims in major disasters such as airplane crashes or earthquakes.
The most popular theory holds that precognition is a glimpse of a possible future that is based upon present conditions and existing information, and which may be altered depending upon acts of free will. That theory implies the future can cause the past, a phenomenon called "backward causality" or "retro-causality."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A QUICK OVER VIEW OF ECONOMIC SURVEY OF PAKISTAN
1) Expected growth this year gdp : 3%
2) Oil was approx. 145$ barrel.
3) Pak inflation: 20.8%
4) Last year: 2.4 % growth trend is approx. 6%
5) Developed countries : approx 2-3% GDP
6) Developing countries: 8-9% GDP
7) 2008 – 2009 net exports were high
8) IMF forecasted 1.3 % of decline in world economy in 2009.
9) Pakistan GDP growth rate 2008-2009 = 2.4
10) India GDP growth rate 2008-2009 = 4.5
11) Highest GDP of Pakistan in 2004-2005= 9
12) GNP AGRICULTURE MAJOR CROPS TOP THE LIST: 7.7
13) MANUFACTURING: 7.5
14) NEGATIVE: forestry, manufacturing, construction, finance and insurance,
15) Agriculture sector: provide 44% labor force, 21.8% gdp in 2009 -2009
16) Major crops: wheat, rive , cotton, sugarcane
17) Minor crops: chilies, potatoes, onions, garlic. The crop sector has potential to
influence the overall agriculture sector. Share crops in agriculture declined to 45.4
but share livestock’s increased (cattle’s, buffaloes, assess, mules) due to demand. It
is highly job oriented. Its accounts for 11.3% in GDP.
18) Agriculture sector had growth of 4.7 % mainly due to wheat, rice, maize, cotton and
gram. Sugar cane had below par performance.
19) Forestry: decline. This year 0.2% GDP.
20) Manufacturing: 18% which is lowest in last 5 years. Services sector increased.
21) Due to global financial crises banking system came under stress. Real gdp growth is now
estimated 2% and in the previous year it was 4.1 %
22) Gross fixed investment declined from 20.4 to 18.1
23) Pakistan’s export receipts have begun to plummet since November 2008, with23.9 percent
in April 2009
BUDGET:
Cabinet approves budget of over 2.9 trillion.
Defence budget: 343 billion,
BISP: 70 Million,
Rehabilitation: 25 billion,
Federal Minister Hina rabani Khar,Rs 264.9 bn foreign aid
Expected Allocation for agri sector to be 18 bn,
Education to get 31 bn
2) Oil was approx. 145$ barrel.
3) Pak inflation: 20.8%
4) Last year: 2.4 % growth trend is approx. 6%
5) Developed countries : approx 2-3% GDP
6) Developing countries: 8-9% GDP
7) 2008 – 2009 net exports were high
8) IMF forecasted 1.3 % of decline in world economy in 2009.
9) Pakistan GDP growth rate 2008-2009 = 2.4
10) India GDP growth rate 2008-2009 = 4.5
11) Highest GDP of Pakistan in 2004-2005= 9
12) GNP AGRICULTURE MAJOR CROPS TOP THE LIST: 7.7
13) MANUFACTURING: 7.5
14) NEGATIVE: forestry, manufacturing, construction, finance and insurance,
15) Agriculture sector: provide 44% labor force, 21.8% gdp in 2009 -2009
16) Major crops: wheat, rive , cotton, sugarcane
17) Minor crops: chilies, potatoes, onions, garlic. The crop sector has potential to
influence the overall agriculture sector. Share crops in agriculture declined to 45.4
but share livestock’s increased (cattle’s, buffaloes, assess, mules) due to demand. It
is highly job oriented. Its accounts for 11.3% in GDP.
18) Agriculture sector had growth of 4.7 % mainly due to wheat, rice, maize, cotton and
gram. Sugar cane had below par performance.
19) Forestry: decline. This year 0.2% GDP.
20) Manufacturing: 18% which is lowest in last 5 years. Services sector increased.
21) Due to global financial crises banking system came under stress. Real gdp growth is now
estimated 2% and in the previous year it was 4.1 %
22) Gross fixed investment declined from 20.4 to 18.1
23) Pakistan’s export receipts have begun to plummet since November 2008, with23.9 percent
in April 2009
BUDGET:
Cabinet approves budget of over 2.9 trillion.
Defence budget: 343 billion,
BISP: 70 Million,
Rehabilitation: 25 billion,
Federal Minister Hina rabani Khar,Rs 264.9 bn foreign aid
Expected Allocation for agri sector to be 18 bn,
Education to get 31 bn
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
A MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: will the boys in green bring the trophy home again?
I still remember the mass jubilation in the streets when Pakistan won the last edition of ICC 20 world cup in England 2009. It was something that the people of Pakistan needed desperately. Caught in the vices of a recession, state of civil war and an overall sense of listlessness’, every Pakistani was praying for it, especially considering the form our team was during the earlier stages of the tournament.
The celebration was at par, and reminded many of the cricket fans of the time when Imran khan, the legendary Pakistani captain lead a team of misfits and out of form of players to the win the ultimate prize of ODI cricket. It was another khan at the helm, this time and Younis khan dint let anybody miss that fact. But sadly this time around, there is no one like the great Saeed Anwar, Inzimam ul Haq or Waqr Younis. Rocked by the allegation of match fixing, ball- tempering, on the off field politicking and over all lack of discipline, Pakistan team is stripped bare of the stalwarts which brought the twenty 20 world cup home to the Pakistan people in 2009. The squad selected for the tournament does not lack experience in any discipline but there is bubbling tension between the players which could possibly cause the team to implode when it matters most. Nine members of the Younis world champions have been retained. Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi ar reportedly leading the boys in green into the field in the West Indies when the tournament begins on may 1st.
Top seeds, Pakistan are grouped in pool A with fearsome Australians and Bangladesh. Along with Pakistan, Srilanka and India are hot favorites. …
Now let’s see that whether the answer of a million dollar question turns out to be “YES” OR “NO”
The celebration was at par, and reminded many of the cricket fans of the time when Imran khan, the legendary Pakistani captain lead a team of misfits and out of form of players to the win the ultimate prize of ODI cricket. It was another khan at the helm, this time and Younis khan dint let anybody miss that fact. But sadly this time around, there is no one like the great Saeed Anwar, Inzimam ul Haq or Waqr Younis. Rocked by the allegation of match fixing, ball- tempering, on the off field politicking and over all lack of discipline, Pakistan team is stripped bare of the stalwarts which brought the twenty 20 world cup home to the Pakistan people in 2009. The squad selected for the tournament does not lack experience in any discipline but there is bubbling tension between the players which could possibly cause the team to implode when it matters most. Nine members of the Younis world champions have been retained. Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi ar reportedly leading the boys in green into the field in the West Indies when the tournament begins on may 1st.
Top seeds, Pakistan are grouped in pool A with fearsome Australians and Bangladesh. Along with Pakistan, Srilanka and India are hot favorites. …
Now let’s see that whether the answer of a million dollar question turns out to be “YES” OR “NO”
Monday, April 26, 2010
AN OTHER EARTH QUAKE :(
A week after 6.9 magnitude earth quake struck in Qinghai province of China which killed more than 2000 people, injured 12,000 others and left 10 of thousands homeless. China observed a national day of mourning. On April 21, flags flew, entertainment activities were shut down and citizens across the country bowed heads.
report on Bhutto's death
a UN panel has concluded that the December 2007, assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was preventable. this panel's report blames the government, local police and intelligence agencies for lack of proper investigation of threats against Bhutto. after the report's release, 8 senior officials were removed from their posts.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
COMMUNISM
Communism (from Latin communis = "common") is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general. In political science, the term "communism" is sometimes used to refer to communist states, a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof, even if the party does not actually claim that it has already developed communism.
Forerunners of communist ideas existed already since antiquity and then in particular in the 18th and early 19th century France, with thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and even more radical Gracchus Babeuf. The egalitarianism then emerged as a significant political power in the first half of 19th century in Western Europe. In the world shaped by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, the newly established political left included many various political and intellectual movements, which are the direct ancestors of today's communism and socialism – these two then newly minted words were almost interchangeable in the time – and of anarchism or anarcho-communism. The two by far most influential theoreticians of communism of the 19th century were Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto (1848), who also helped to form the first openly communist political organizations and firmly tied communism with the idea of revolution conducted by the exploited working class.
Karl Marx posited that communism would be the final stage in human society, which would be achieved after an intermediate stage called the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism in the Marxian sense refers to a classless, stateless and oppression-free society where decisions on what to produce and what policies to pursue are made democratically, allowing every member of society to participate in the decision-making process in both the political and economic spheres of life. Some "revisionist" Marxists of the following generations, henceforth known as socialists or social democrats, slowly drifted away from the radical views of Marx after his death in 1883; other communists, like Vladimir Lenin, continued to prepare world revolution.
The communist left, led by Vladimir Lenin, successfully came to power in Russia (1917), disrupted by the World War I. After years of civil war (1917–1921), international isolation and internal struggle in the Communist party, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin emerged as a new global superpower on the victorious side of the World War II. In the five years after the World War, communist regimes were established in many states of Central and Eastern Europe and in China. Communism began to spread its influence in the Third World while continuing to be a significant political force in many Western countries. International relations between Soviets and the West, led by USA, quickly worsened after the end of the war and there began the Cold war, a continuing state of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries' respective allies. The "Iron curtain" between West and East then divided Europe and world from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Despite many communist successes like the victorious Vietnam War (1959-1975) or the first human spaceflight (1961), the communist regimes were in long term unable to keep up with the West.
People under communist regimes showed their discontent in events like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prague Spring of 1968 or Polish Solidarity movement in early 1980s. Since 1985, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to implement market and democratic reforms under devices like perestroika ("restructuring") and glasnost ("transparency"). His reforms sharpened internal conflicts in the communist regimes and quickly led to Revolutions of 1989, a total collapse of European communist regimes outside of Soviet Union, which dissolved itself two years later, in 1991. Some communist regimes outside of Europe survive till now, the most important of them is People's Republic of China, trying to introduce market reforms without rapid democratization.
Forerunners of communist ideas existed already since antiquity and then in particular in the 18th and early 19th century France, with thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and even more radical Gracchus Babeuf. The egalitarianism then emerged as a significant political power in the first half of 19th century in Western Europe. In the world shaped by the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, the newly established political left included many various political and intellectual movements, which are the direct ancestors of today's communism and socialism – these two then newly minted words were almost interchangeable in the time – and of anarchism or anarcho-communism. The two by far most influential theoreticians of communism of the 19th century were Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto (1848), who also helped to form the first openly communist political organizations and firmly tied communism with the idea of revolution conducted by the exploited working class.
Karl Marx posited that communism would be the final stage in human society, which would be achieved after an intermediate stage called the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Communism in the Marxian sense refers to a classless, stateless and oppression-free society where decisions on what to produce and what policies to pursue are made democratically, allowing every member of society to participate in the decision-making process in both the political and economic spheres of life. Some "revisionist" Marxists of the following generations, henceforth known as socialists or social democrats, slowly drifted away from the radical views of Marx after his death in 1883; other communists, like Vladimir Lenin, continued to prepare world revolution.
The communist left, led by Vladimir Lenin, successfully came to power in Russia (1917), disrupted by the World War I. After years of civil war (1917–1921), international isolation and internal struggle in the Communist party, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin emerged as a new global superpower on the victorious side of the World War II. In the five years after the World War, communist regimes were established in many states of Central and Eastern Europe and in China. Communism began to spread its influence in the Third World while continuing to be a significant political force in many Western countries. International relations between Soviets and the West, led by USA, quickly worsened after the end of the war and there began the Cold war, a continuing state of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries' respective allies. The "Iron curtain" between West and East then divided Europe and world from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. Despite many communist successes like the victorious Vietnam War (1959-1975) or the first human spaceflight (1961), the communist regimes were in long term unable to keep up with the West.
People under communist regimes showed their discontent in events like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prague Spring of 1968 or Polish Solidarity movement in early 1980s. Since 1985, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to implement market and democratic reforms under devices like perestroika ("restructuring") and glasnost ("transparency"). His reforms sharpened internal conflicts in the communist regimes and quickly led to Revolutions of 1989, a total collapse of European communist regimes outside of Soviet Union, which dissolved itself two years later, in 1991. Some communist regimes outside of Europe survive till now, the most important of them is People's Republic of China, trying to introduce market reforms without rapid democratization.
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