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General Musharraf conducted a coup on 12th Oct 1999 and dismissed then elected government of Nawaz Sharif by abrogating the constitution. Following is the long list of his crimes.

1. Abrogation of constitution and dismissal of elected government.
2. Imposition of dictatorial rule in the country.
3. The Lal Masjid Operation.
4. Murder of Nawab Akber Bugti.
5. Promulgation of the defunct National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
6. Removal of Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan.
7. Incident of 12th May 2007.
8. Starting war against its own people in interest of United States.
9. Illegal transfer of Pakistani citizens including Dr. Afia Siddiqui to United States for dollars.
10. Allowing drone attacks in territory of Pakistan by United States.
11. Abduction of innocent Pakistanis.
12. Pakistan Steel Mills privatization case.
13. Punjab Bank Fraud case.
14. Putting seeds of suicide bombings in country.
15. Destruction of the moral and Islamic values of nation in the name of enlighten moderation.
16. Making the “Beard” and “Burqa/Hijaab” as symbol of terrorism.
17. Eliminating Kashmir freedom movement.

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Economic Comparison 1999-2007.

• Public sector institutions numbers increased from 110,267 (in 1999) to become 164,579 (2006)
• Private sector institutions numbers increased from 36,096 (in 1999) to become 81,103 (in 2006).
• There were 2652 PhDs in Pakistan in 1999 which increased to 6405 by 2009. 3753 PhDs were produced in 10 years.
• IT industry value increased to around $2 billion, including $1 billion exports and employed around 90,000 professionals.
• CNG sector attracted over $70 billion investment; and created 45,000 jobs.
• Telecom sector attracted around $10 billion in investment and created above 1.3 million jobs.
• Industrial Parks were being setup throughout the country for the first time in Pakistani history! M3 estate, Sunder industrial estate, Chakri, etc.
• Major Mega projects like the Saindak, Rekodiq, Marble production, Coal production and Mining & Quarrying were being pursued.
• 4 dams: Mirani, Subakzai, Gomalzam, Khurram Tangi dams.
• Motorways completed or under construction: M1, M3, M8, M9, M10, M11.
• Six major highways under construction.
• GWADAR advance mega Sea port developed under his vision!
• Historic 100% increase in Tax collection of $11 billion.
• Large scale manufacturing is at 30 years high, and Construction activity is at 7 years high.
• Newly found World class copper- gold deposits in Chagai will fetch $600 million per year.
• A new Oil refinery with UAE will fetch $5 billion & will process 300,000 oil barrels a day.
• Industrial sector registered 26% growth.
• GDP growth was 3.1% in 1999 which was recorded 8.4% in 2005 and 7% in 2007.

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I have seen many articles about electricity crisis in Pakistan but couldn’t find any resource on the web detailing Pakistan’s total power generation capacity so I gathered all this information myself from various websites including WAPDA, PPIB and official websites of the power plants. When I compiled this data , I was surprised to see that existing power plants (installed before May 2010) have installed capacity of 22087MW. Power plants normally operate on less than installed capacity which is called net capacity but still  if all power plants operate on net capacity , they can generate upto 20977 MW of electricity. Following table lists all existing power plants of Pakistan with their power generation capacity. (more…)

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