Syria: Will it be another American Graveyard?

It was 2001 when United States Of America attacked Afghanistan, alleged of supporting so called terrorists like Osama Bin Laden, they didn’t find Osama there, but they wasted their money their soldiers killed a lot of innocents men women and children, years later a drama played in Pakistan when they found Osama in Pakistan, killed and dumped has body in sea, well those who love stories will appreciate this one too, however the story plot is quite weak. Attacking Afghanistan was not productive for America, this might be a game to get a base in this region, later they attacked Iraq just two years after attacking Afghans, they came to search the chemical weapons and to get Iraq out of the hands of Saddam and bring democracy (I still done understand the meaning of this word “democracy” as per the American dictionary) however they didn’t got any chemical weapons, but instead they got natural resources like oil, for free! For some of people this might be controversial as they will say that this is not America only, there are other 40 members who are member of NATO, but we all know who is leading them anyway.

Pakistan is a victim too, drone attacks are a normal practice been done in the western part of Pakistan in which many innocent lives are killed. These attacks motivated the people residing there to get transformed into militants and start armed struggle against American army in Afghanistan as well as some of them started with Pakistani army too (for they accuse of Pakistan been a front line ally in this war). However the people of Pakistan doesn’t consider them allies of America, Pakistani government provided support as well as Pakistani bases were handed over by the previous dictator general Musharraf, who nearly sold the country to united States. Sadly, this practice is still been done in the democratic era too.

Afghanistan is however a bad experience for America as well, but despite taking lessons from this experience, America is now planning to attack Syria (due to chemical weapons issue which were used by Assad’s army). Syria, which is already under civil war between the government and the free Syrian army (those who stood against the regime of Assad). If USA attacked Syria, this will be another bad experience, for some people they think that this will not affect America until the wars started by USA will be done on other country’s land, the real lesson will be the day when the wars started by America will be taken to their own lands. I still believe we are heading towards another World War.

May Allah bless the world.

Increase in fuel price - Pakistan

 The fuel prices affect directly the economy of everyone; this is only factor which affects irrespective of his economic condition; however, the low economy person will be affected more than the higher / stabled economy persons.

There is a large fluctuation seen in the prices of fuel in the international market but more fluctuation has been noted in the domestic fuel prices in Pakistan. We know since the attack of USA on Iraq, the war on terrorism has been converted into war for oil, and ever since the petrol price is not constant. Instead of correction for the root cause the people and critics are criticizing the after effects. 

If we take a look at the international oil prices, we can see a constant increase in the price; take a look at the graph below. The oil prices graph trends upward; the price loses its stability at the start of 2005, which shows a distinct upwards increase in the graph. The graph is based on the data gathered from 2002 to 2008 of the oil price in the international market.

The main cause is the world political situation which has a direct effect on the oil prices, the Iranian foreign policy as well as American invasion in Iraq are the two main reason, also the stake holders policy not seem to be on the right path.

The Pakistani fuel price trends look a little more aggressive in nature, the graph trend shows a constant increase but at the last of graph we can see the severity of price increase.

The data for the above graph is given below; we can see this April, 2012 the Rs. 100 limit has finally crossed! There was a perception that how much the price will increase it can’t exceed Rs. 100, but this April this barrier has been crossed. The prices are still on the move!

The impact of fuel price increase directly hits the economy, the most prominent is the increase in transport rates, just after the fuel price increase the transporters increase their rates a series of protests will be announced if they are not allowed to do so, due to the increase in the transport rates the daily household products also increases as they also include transport charges in their costs, thus they also have to increase their costs as well. The food prices increase along with an increase in the agriculture and machinery stuff.

Another cause of fluctuation in the product price is the increase in the cost of electricity, the major fuel used in the generation of electricity is the furnace oil. Thus the increase in fuel also affects the per unit cost of the power generated, this is a chain reaction which also increase all the stuff prices involved power which is obviously almost everything!