Rising air crashes in third world countries on June 8, 2012 Sir: According to media news, 153 people lost their lives in the Nigerian Dana airline airplane crash near the Nigerian capital Lagos. It was the fourth airplane crash of this year. In the Nigerian airplane tragedy, the pilot was trying to land in bad weather in a populated area but lost control; nearly 63 […]
GRE examinations on June 7, 2012 Sir: This is with reference to the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) conducted by the National Testing Service (NTS) recently. I appeared in the test in Electronics in Karachi. However, I was surprised to see that the test was not formulated according to the paper distribution available on the website where it bifurcates the 70 […]
Advice to students in Sindh on June 2, 2012 Sir: Population wise, Sindh is the second largest province in Pakistan. Every year many students apply to Sindh’s engineering universities. In view of the specific number of seats in engineering universities, most students do not get admission because of a high merit requirement. There is the largest semi-government Information Technology University in Quetta. It […]
Energy production in Punjab on June 2, 2012 Sir: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has claimed that load shedding has caused his province a loss of Rs 500 billion that has rendered hundreds of thousands of people jobless and made fields barren. I would like to ask him why he has not established any power policy to attract local and foreign investment […]