Afghanistan wants Pakistan to export furnace oil
Afghanistan has asked Pakistan for the first time to allow import of furnace oil to meet the requirement of its power plants.
“The government charges General Sales Tax (GST) on use of furnace in local power plants and Afghanistan will have to pay the same if exports are allowed,” the official said. Pakistan’s furnace oil demand is 9 to 10 million tons per year. Local oil refineries produce 2.5 million to 3 million tons per year while the remaining amount is met through imports. (Source)
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Karachi brass art, amidst a hail of bullets
In the midst of violence and chaos in Karachi, master craftsmen are giving birth to art-in brass. Unfortunately, business has taken a down turn in the recent years due to instability in the city.
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A Pakistani Christian girl sits among religious posters on display for sale in a public park during Easter celebrations in Peshawar.
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Still not inspired Pakistan? A mechanic decides to make a light aircraft and his brother learns how to fly it. (via umalik)
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Los Pakistaníes de Barcelona (by Imran Yusuf)
BARCELONA: El Raval is in el centro of town but it’s the one area avoided by tourists in Barcelona. What a timid creature is the modern sightseer, for El Raval is a fascination, packed as it is with pimps, prostitutes, peddlers of drugs and doner kebabs, and Pakistanis.
Of this last sector, official statistics put the number between 15,000 and 35,000. Either way, this gives Barcelona the largest Pakistani population in any city in Europe outside the UK. Most of them live or work (or both) in El Raval and their main businesses are barbershops, fast food, mobile phones, net cafes and minimarts.
The pimping and peddling of less halal services is done by everyone else: the Morrocans, East Europeans, Romanians and others of seemingly untraceable origin. Not everyone is an immigrant; on the pavement outside a Pakistani butcher stood a Spanish woman. She was also in the meat business, advertising her goods to all male passersby with a word and a wink. (Complete article)
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BBC: How Pakistani city of Mirpur became ‘Little England’
The Pakistani city of Mirpur is known as “Little England” due to its large British Pakistani community. So what is life like for the city’s many expats?
Mirpur’s connection with Britain has made it a place quite unlike anywhere else in Pakistan. You can see it in the huge villas.
“Where could I get a place like this in the UK?” says Zahoor from Ilford, as we crane our necks to get a full view of his dazzling palatial creation, complete with terraces and towers.
But even that is nothing compared to his most recent foray into development Mirpuri-style. He has now finished building an entire “British street”. (complete article)
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Uncredited photograph of a rural area in Pakistan. (via liketencents)
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Ricksaaf: For those hard to reach places in Karachi, a rickshaw that wants your trash
KARACHI: The rick-saaf is a combination of a rickshaw and a garbage truck that can collect waste from those hard to reach places where the onus is generally left to the scavenger.
“There used to be a time when we used to have daily door-to-door garbage collection where I live,” says entrepreneur Khayam Husain, “now we don’t even have a proper dumpster in my neighborhood. The closest one in Clifton Block 5 is on Mai Kolachi.”
Husain’s own neighborhood and his work in Sindh’s flooded areas with the Karachi Relief Trust inspired him to find solutions for waste management. “A lot of our urban centres in Sindh are actually just slums because of the waste management system. I wanted to design a vehicle that could get into small areas.”
The prototype Husain’s company Autocom has designed takes a rickshaw and adds a steel container that can take up to 200kg. This, then, operates through hydraulics with an independent power pack that uses a separate car battery, which doesn’t put any strain on the engine or fuel consumption. He adds that it is a simple system that can be operated by virtually anyone. (complete news)
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Working Man’s Death - Brothers
Pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal.
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