@BailaNisar I don,t know about Shia's opinion as far Sunnis ,they consider fasting on the 9th and 10th of Muharram (Ashoora) to be highly recommended (Sunnah Mustahabbah) but not obligatory.Prophet Muhammad fasted on this day and stated it expiates the sins of the preceding year.
Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.
Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.
People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.
What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.
The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.
Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.
Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.
Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.
Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization
Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier
Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.
Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.
Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30
حکومت اگر مذاکراتی عمل سے فارغ ہو گئی ہے تو ملک میں جاری مہنگائی کا فوری نوٹس لے، کیونکہ اس نے عام آدمی کی زندگی اجیرن بنا دی ہے۔ عوام پہلے ہی آٹا، بجلی، گیس اور ادویات کی بڑھتی قیمتوں کے بوجھ تلے دبے ہوئے ہیں۔
@KhSaad_Rafique We Iranians appreciate our Pakistani brothers and sisters and will remember that the great nation of Pakistan stood bravely by our side.
We will remember and honor this, regardless of the outcome of the negotiations.
There is absolutely no justification for attacking Iran.
The only country we should be attacking is Israel.
Our country is controlled by jewish pedophiles and this war is to distract from the Epstein coverup.
@literaturesyrup Literature is the immortality of speech; to read is to engage in a necro-romance, whispering back to the dead until they feel warm again.