Musharraf’s Recent Gift to People: Huge Slump of Electricity, Flour and Gas in Pakistan

 

Hi Guys,

Pakistan has become a more famous country in the whole world. Anything happens in Pakistan becomes an issue and people are always wishing to know more. Well, there is something more that i can share with you guys.

Musharraf has given an excellent New Year Gift to people of Pakistan. These gifts are the following:

• Consistent Power Failures for Long Hours
• Deficiency of Flour
• Non-Availability of Natural Gas

Consistent Power Failures for Long Hours

Pakistan Government was saying that power failures will be controlled in 2006. Now, 2007 is also passed and things are even worst than ever. Musharraf ruled Pakistan for 8 years and still his government was not good in planning. They did not plan that how much electricity would be required to meet the consumption needs of people. Less electricity is produced and people are paying the price.

Initially, few months ago, government made a rule that all shops and shopping malls (except food related ones) must be closed till 8:00 PM so that government may save some electricity. Business related people got severe problems with that but all they could do was BEAR IT. And now, many cotton and steel mills, clothes manufacturing industries etc. are being closed by force by the government so that they may save some Natural Gas and Electricity to meet the needs of common people. Industry was already down and these actions by government are just causing the industry to die. I don’t know how will be Pakistan growing where government is discouraging industries to work. With the closing of factories, mills and other industries, people are also being unemployed that is again increasing frustration in common people. So, government is doing it to provide facilities to common people but it would be a joke when common people won’t have money to pay for those facilities. It means, common people are not again being facilitated by such government actions.

Even with all these stupid and unplanned actions of government, there are consistent power failures in all cities of Pakistan. In some cities, there are power failures of 14 hours in a day, somewhere 10 hours per day and in my city, we daily experience power failures of 7-8 hours per day. Mostly, power failures occur during peak business hours and i don’t know h0w factories, mills, institutions, hospitals and other industries would be managing this. Definitely, they will be using power generators or other sources to get temporary electricity at higher prices.

I think, it’s necessary for Pakistani Government to consider building Atomic Power Houses to produce electricity through Atomic Energy. This way, they can provide cheap and consistent electricity to common people.

Deficiency of Flour

The most hot issue these days is that people are not able to find wheat flour. If it’s being sold somewhere then at very high prices and government can do nothing. Just wait and watch. This is what they can do. We can listen that meetings are being hosted to discuss about the deficiency of flour but no action.

Earlier this year, we were listening from government sources that this year, we had huge crops of wheat and Pakistan will also even export wheat to other countries. Now, it looks like that they exported all wheat to gain profits that caused this deficiency. Now, they are importing wheat from other countries to meet the needs of people. But, this time, due to import, wheat prices are higher. So, the point is that we produced huge wheat this year and we should have sold it to common people at lower rates. But, NO, instead they just exported it and then imported it again to make it worst for people. I think, government doesn’t have any planners. They just do what they see. Alas, they don’t see future, they just see present. They just see that they are going to fill their bank accounts with huge money but it creates a miserable situation for common people.

So, i think, whenever we grow huge crops, government should not allow exporters to export wheat or such things (that are also needed in country) higher than a specific limit otherwise, people will face problems like this. Poor government’s poor planning.

Non-Availability of Natural Gas

Now, this is another issue. As i shared earlier, government is forcing many industries to shut down to save Natural Gas and this is still not helping because people are also suffering from the availability of Natural Gas. In my city, sometimes, it just stops, sometimes, starts but with low pressure and sometimes works normally. But, it’s not still consistent. Anyways, problems with Natural Gas supply are not that severe as with the problems mentioned above. But, these problems still show that Pakistan Government is not capable to manage the country matters. They are not able to provide basic living facilities to common people. But, General Pervez Musharraf still says, Pakistan has improved from economic point of view. I think, it seems more like a fairy tale.