Wrong perception halting progress of solar panels in Pakistan

Wrong perception about the unreliability of technology is halting the progress of solar panels in Pakistan that needs to be removed in order to promote the solar energy option.

“The general public are led to believe that the technology runs the risk of developing faults,” said Shaaf Mehboob, Director of Green Center.“People need to understand that solar panels aren’t off-the-shelf items. The solar technology is an ‘engineered solution, whose capacity must be in accordance with the expected load,” he maintained.

He said that the likelihood of their batteries running down earlier than expected and the effects of moisture, dirt and rain on solar panels discourage people from investing in clean energy sources.Green Center, a Karachi-based company that offers energy efficient solutions to industrial, commercial and residential customers by doing energy audits and selling energy management equipment.

Mehboob further said that there are no regulations on the alternative energy sector in Pakistan. There is no supervision and quality checks this has resulted in customers losing trust in the solar technology.
He adds that it is the lack of regulation that solar panels of poor quality are being sold in Pakistan. A good quality, Korea-made solar panel can cost up to Rs400 per watt.

From this news i think the solar panel users or customers will not stop buying this solar technology. They will become more conscious about the way the solar technology is used and will also spend time and money on its maintainance.

Karachi Target Killing & Views...

Pasban-i-Tauheed is the organisation who said that they are responsible for the target killing in Karachi, according to the article which was published on Dawn.com yesterday. The article says that Pasban-i-Tauheed publish that on their website Ansarrullah & Babul Islam which is the platform of communication for the terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda, Tehriki-Taliban & Al- Shahab. Pasban-i-Tauheed further admitted that the recent bomb attack on Rangers ( Armed force) was in response to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Moeedd Alias Abu Omer.
Mostly the news of main pages  were covered with target killings in Karachi. Orangi Town, Qasba Coloney & Banaras were the areas badly affected by target killings. News said 15people were shot dead, 20 were severely injured and almost 50 vehicles were destroyed. An ASI was killed in Garden Area, two youths of political parties were killed along with 2workers of MQM & ANP.
In my point of view these target killings are done by foreign agencies working in Pakistan and with their killings the political parties & pressure groups are taking advantage by taking revenge from each other. They kill their own people and then hide, when somebody ask them they say we are not involved, Police & Rangers should catch the real criminals. On the other hand, Police & Rangers are already fighting against crime and dont have enough evidences to catch the political people involved in target killings as everything mixes up.
The International Herald Tribune columnist, Zeeshan Mujahid, says that Police submitted a report in Sindh High Court which says that media is giving wrong figures of people killed. The report says that 16people were shot dead in last 24hours, out of which half were due to targety killed and other killings were due to personal & ethinic reasons. Police arrested 7criminals with weapons and Rangers are doing operations separately.
From his column we can also say that media, whose duty to verify the facts and figures and then share it with the public, is also responsible for publishing unauthentic news. The media is also not doing its job properly to support the law enforcing agencies of the country....