While Pakistan welcomed the US offer to help it overcome the energy crisis, the US made it clear that it was linked to the relinquishing of long-dreamt-about Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project. The need for natural gas is more imperative than ever both for India and Pakistan. Long-term projections indicate that the demand for gas in India is likely to go up from the present 74 to about 500 million cubic meters per day by the year 2025, necessitating large-scale gas imports. Similarly, gas supply in Pakistan, currently 71 million cubic meters per day, is expected to increase by 50% in the next five years. The longer-term outlook would justify significant imports of gas by Pakistan as well. It is very disheartening that while the world around us is moving towards closer economic cooperation, Indo-Pakistan bilateral relations have been stalled by the 26/11 Mumbai attacks impeding joint economic excursions. Nevertheless, realizing the importance of the pipeline as the most favoured option, negotiations on crucial energy imports remained unhindered by the on-going tense relations between India and Pakistan. Now when both the countries have become willing to extend cooperation to each other, it can be hoped that they will promote their mutual cooperation and create a pleasant atmosphere for promoting economic cooperation and resolving controversial issues, like gas imports through trans-national gas pipeline projects, i.e., Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline (IPI), Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAPI) pipeline project and Gulf-South-Asian, Qatar-Pakistan project etc. extending up to the Indian border.
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The concept of TipJar is quite new though. But there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world, who are successfully using it to fund their welfare projects and also to earn their bread & butter over the Internet. However, in the countries like Pakistan, majority of the Internet users, bloggers and website owners are still unfamiliar with this terminology. Thus loosing potential revenue by not using this technique. So, what is TipJar? And how it benefits to you?
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From the very first day after independence, Pakistan started facing serious troubles. Militarily, our first, biggest and worst enemy fixed its eyes on us and let no chance go uncultivated to harm our sovereignty. Economically, Pakistan was far from good. Lack of resources, corruption and lack of political leadership as well as of established institutes became biggest bottlenecks. Politically, Pakistan enjoyed one of the world's worst political leadership. Corrupt establishment, self-seeking politicians, un-even education system, soul sellers among so-called civil society and almost the whole responsible classes of Pakistan busted up the whole country for their personal aims and objectives. The lust of power, the greed of money, social status and popularity had not only ruined the whole idea of a new and separated homeland for Musalmanan e Hind, but also make our elite class something less than human beings. And the results? The results are horrific.
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 Dams are an instrument of development, yet every dam small or large carries inherent risks of failure. In the case of a larger dam it could be catastrophic for life and property down the valley. Large dams are therefore planned and designed with utmost care to preclude as far as possible any risk of a failure. Keeping in view the risk factor and the growing population of Pakistan in view (estimated at 170 million at the start of 2009), the proposal of Bhasha dam was regulated on 17 January 2006. Inhabitants of the area welcomed the government proposal being truly patriotic.
The project of Bhasha Dam is located on Indus River, about 315 km upstream of Tarbela Dam, 165 km downstream of the Northern Area capital Gilgit and 40 km downstream of Chilas. The proposed dam would have a maximum height of 270 m, and impound a reservoir of about 7,500,000 acre feet (9.25×109 m3), with live storage of more than 6,400,000 acre feet (7.89×109 m3). Mean annual discharge of Indus River at the site is 50,000,000 acre feet (6.2×1010 m3). Thus the dam will impound 15% of the annual river flow. The dam project would cover an area of 110 km2 and extend 100 km upstream of the dam site up to Raikot Bridge on Karakoram Highway (KKH). The planned 4,500 MW Diamer-Bhasha Dam on the Indus in Pakistan is, at US$12.6 billion, one of the largest and most costly planned dams in the world.
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IMF again! I think Pakistan can do more than this, rather much more than this. Only if everyone desires, it can be the one last time IMF monitors Pakistani economy. I think it is just the way most of Pakistani nationals are conditioned under some known or unknown locally and foreign governed circumstances favoring the elites of today and of course, yesterday. It is an old debate that if we try to give something to Pakistan, we can improve as a nation. Slogans like “Pakistan has given us many things. What have we given to Pakistan?” are misleading. Patriotism arises through “ours first” strategies, rather then preferring foreign products over ours. As a professional in IT, I have come about many such experiences where various generous offers from some of the leading Pakistani software/IT had been let down by the government and defense organizations provided by some very lame excuses, which most of the time stated that office automation and work flow management systems cut down human jobs that will increase joblessness. They forget the fact that automation and time saving is first step to economic and financial growth and industrial development. As they say, time is money! The people who will not be serving at their previous positions are mostly low wage or daily wage workers and clerks. They can be offered on some more constructive and beneficial roles.
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