Pakistan, roughly the same population as Nigeria, is struggling with a 700,000 backlog in passport applications, with 45,000 new applications PER DAY, as people desperately try to flee the crumbling economy of the country, for 'greener pastures' in US, UK, Canada, Germany, France etc..

The country's passport office cannot print the passports fast enough to meet demand, and has now run out of PAPER to make the passports!

Start at 20:50


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CekDXOJk5o&ab_channel=Firstpost

Pakistanis make light of frequent power blackouts

By Ariba Shahid and Waseem Sattar

January 24, 2023

KARACHI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Pakistan's worst power outage in months became a source of humour for some in the country of 220 million, where an energy network desperately in need of an upgrade can lead to frequent blackouts and electricity rationing.

The nationwide outage, the second since October that left schools, hospitals and businesses without electricity, was resolved on Tuesday after 24 hours. Pakistan's energy minister blamed it on a lack of investment in the network and said lessons had been learnt.

Although the outage affected the internet and mobile phone services, it didn't stop many Pakistanis from taking to Twitter and other social media to share jokes and memes.

"Scenes at the home of that friend who has solar panels," Twitter user @zoeneedstherapy captioned a photo showing a single power outlet with five mobile phone chargers sticking out of it.

Millions of Pakistanis suffer partial blackouts almost daily, including scheduled "load shedding" power cuts aimed at conserving electricity.
The disruptions have fuelled years of strong demand for alternative power supplies and some local governments offer subsidised solar panels.

''I'm tired of this country'' - Pakistani man's expression shows exasperation.


In a village outside the southeastern city of Jacobabad in Sindh province, a Reuters correspondent saw a single solar panel on the roof of the one-room home of a family of melon farmers.

"Nowadays everybody has solar panels ... but they face trouble at night because they have no other source of power," said Sara Khan, the principal of a girls' school in Jacobabad, which regularly goes through scheduled blackouts that last up to 18 hours a day.

In many big cities, including the capital Islamabad and financial hub Karachi, many residents have installed at least three backup sources: solar panels, uninterrupted power supply (UPS) units and fuel-powered generators.

"Electricity problems are common here," said Karachi-based lawyer Ishtiaq Ahmed. "People have alternative arrangements, but these also have their limit."

A popular meme taken from a Spiderman comic book showed three "Spidermen" standing in a circle, pointing to each other and saying "I have a UPS but it isn't charged"; "I have a generator that runs on fuel, but there is no fuel"; "I have a solar panel but there is no sunlight".

But the outages also take their toll.

Irfan Khan, a 30-year-old student preparing for an upcoming exam, said he lost power even before Monday's major outage.

"It was terrible," Khan said in the northeastern city of Peshawar after leaving his tribal area to prepare for the exam.

"I didn't charge my phone, I didn't study for two days and I didn't have water in the washroom."

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistanis-make-light-frequent-power-blackouts-2023-01-24/

U don mean it! But some Nigerians want to Japa to Pakistan nah.

U want to go and turn the west into a bomb centre

Can we ship those who always talk ill of Nigeria to Pakistan.

Life should be better for them there as according to them, Nigeria is the worst country on earth

They must come and occupy the East its empty. All the men are busy developing other regions

Iwantslavesgone:
They must come and occupy the East its empty. All the men are busy developing other regions

East is already an Eldorado. They have developed it so tey the indigenes dey japa enmass from the region

Complaints rather than solutions-inclination

Exporting terrorists to Europe

Catapault:
Pakistan, roughly the same population as Nigeria, is struggling with a 700,000 backlog in passport applications, with 45,000 new applications PER DAY, as people desperately try to flee the crumbling economy of the country, for 'greener pastures' in US, UK, Canada, Germany, France etc..

The country's passport office cannot print the passports fast enough to meet demand, and has now run out of PAPER to make the passports!

Start at 20:50


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CekDXOJk5o&ab_channel=Firstpost

they wont go to iran or qatar.

Stupid people will not migrate to Sharia countries ...

Nigeria = Pakistan = Afghanistan = Yemen = Somali = Bangladesh


all thanks to evil party called APC, Buhari and now druggie Tinubu

Good for them


Once I get my green card , I'm definitely relocating all my family both immediate and extended

This is same Pakistan some of our youths are trying to relocate to.

Embrace Liberalism and humanity and life will gradually get better…. You can’t have so much believe in the era Mohamed and his horses as the standard in 2023… Let them learn for UAE

Nigeria is next 😂😂😂

So Nepa get younger brother for Pakistan😂😂

They should japa to countries like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc.

The world is in chaos, even those developed countries will soon feel the heat...

Pakistan is another Nigeria. In fact it is the closest thing to Nigeria. Population. Development. Attitude. Corruption. Economy. Migration pattern. Remittance level.
If countries were to be classified by similarities, Pakistan will be our twin country.

Lungdick:
Nigeria is next 😂😂😂

Yo