What happens when the 'BOOT' camps

Disclaimer: People who know me, know very well that I respect every individual and institution even PIMSAT, PRESTON, University of Sunderland, Aamil baba bangali and Hakeem ***** etc.


Thanks to our media, people are now waiting for an early elections or 'BOOTS'. Early elections are fine with me but as far as the alternative is concerned I am not sure whether it will materialize itself or ... Politicians are warning that any takeover will not be tolerated this time, we will go to the masses and so on (the list goes on and bear in mind this is not a unanimous decision of all the politicians. People have a right to disagree, though public don't count politicians in this particular category). Whatever happens the masses don't care it seems that they just want freedom (from the parliament they elected).


If the option # 1 is exercised i.e. early general elections, the system will need few more parliaments to lay down the foundations (so be patient) BUT if the later one is opted there will be promises everywhere (every time it starts with the same promise and after this there will be more promises and more and more ... WAIT! aren't things getting confusing i mean do you remember the latest waida? so there will be promises in any case). Things will be very much same (except for few things, like some key positions will be filled by the personnel and let me tell you they do very good mathematics and they don't hesitate to have an expert's opinion on any issue unlike our democratic governments). They always gives you a closer to you leadership in the form of local bodies (which every democratic government don’t like. Why? How could I know, I have never been part of any government).


People (elected local body members and their families and friends) like this government for many reasons. Everything is fine but what I don't like about them is that, it ends and when it ends, another democratic government comes and the cycle starts (once again). Once again people vote the same politicians and soon they realize (Oops! what we have done, they say and wait for another 'something' to happen).

CNG stations remain closed: A parable untold

Few days ago, when I heard our respectable Prime Minister saying, 'We will end electricity and gas load shedding in few months'. I was laughing my *** out, the reason was, I didn't see any good reason to do the load shedding. We have accepted electricity load shedding a part of our daily lives and we look at the faces of each other with our facial expressions asking how the KESC people didn't switch off the power button (However, they are strictly instructed to do so with the bosses' approval). So, I am not talking about electricity load shedding here or otherwise this may lead to a contempt (of whom I don’t know yet and why I am avoiding, I don't want to know at all).

Coming back to the gas, I mean natural gas which we often call 'Sui Gas' or 'CNG'. You must be very glad to know that according to a research (done by ‘Goora Sahab’) Pakistan has total proven gas reserves of 31.3 trillion cubic feet and ranked 25th in the world (I was happy too but all my happiness gone away when I read this). Iran’s reserves are 32 times higher and Russia’s are 54 times greater. Even tiny Qatar has 29 times more gas than Pakistan, story from 'The Express Tribune' continued.

Agreed! We have limited reserves of gas and if we continue what we are doing we will use all of this very soon. (But, few days back I had the honor to read the 'Economic Survey of Pakistan' and I found that) The survey revealed that the major consumers of the natural gas are power, industrial, fertilizer and household. They use more than 95% of the total gas and on the other hand CNG stations (I mean CNG stations! where we seriously don't expect to see a power generation unit or an industrial unit getting its gas tank filled, do we?) are remaining closed for several days, misery for masses. What we should do? (I have spent couple of hours researching it, so you don't need to). In my opinion, household units waste much of the gas using old fashion water heaters (I have seen many who turned their water heaters on for the whole winters and some of them heaters are on whole year). Other industries waste the gas too (and this is the reason why we experience electricity and gas shortage. Imagine if our power generation was doing a great job we wouldn’t have to face at least one of the load shedding). What we can do now is, either we stop wasting the gas (and Please! CNG stations are not the only culprit) or force oil and gas companies to do further exploration (in case if we can't find the gas as per the research at least we can proudly say, 'Goora' is not always right).