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Limited Time Offers by Cell Phone Companies

Posted on March 14, 2010
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Arsalan Mir and Babar Bhatti
Every other day we hear about special offers from cellular operators introducing new packages and rates. Majority of these are limited time offers and it gets very hard to find out if a packages announced are still effective or not.
Consumers have time and again faced instances where the offers are taken [...]

Mian Muhammad Mansha: First Pakistani on the Forbes Billionaire’s List

Posted on March 11, 2010
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Adil Najam
Pakistani tycoon, Mian Muhammad Mansha of the Nishat Group has probably been a billionaire (US$1,000,000,000+) for a while now. But he has finally been ‘officially’ recognized for being one in the latest Forbes magazine “Billionaires’ list” for 2010. He becomes the first Pakistani to make it to the Forbes list.
Mian Mohammad Mansha, from Pakistan, [...]

Pakistan Considering a Ban on Import of Used Computers: Good Idea or Bad?

Posted on March 7, 2010
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Adil Najam
Pakistan is set to impose a ban on the import of used computers into Pakistan. Reportedly, President Zardari has asked the Ministry of Information Technology to draft such a law and the Ministry has now sought public opinion on the matter.
Indeed, there can be good reasons to consider such a ban since trade in [...]

Lahore Ring Road Project - Help Us Build This Post

Posted on February 4, 2010
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Owais Mughal
This is one topic I’ve been wanting to write about for a while now. But instead of me writing on it, we want to do an experiment here. We would like our readers to tell us what do they know about the project. I will then compile the information collected from your replies here [...]

Indus Day and Pakistan’s Depleting Water Resources

Posted on January 28, 2010
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Owais Mughal
Pakistan is in drought. Rivers are flowing with 30% less water than what they normally do in January. For a country whose econnomy depends on agriculture and irrigation water, drought couldn’t have come at a worst time.

The photo above shows dry bed of river Indus on March 14, 2009 downstream of Kotri barrage at [...]

Shazia’s Death: A Call For Introspection

Posted on January 24, 2010
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Adil Najam
The murder of 12-year old child Shazia, working as a housemaid in the house of one Chaudhry Naeem (a former president of the Lahore Bar Association) has been widely reported and strongly condemned by all (including Chief Minister Punjab and the President of Pakistan). It is, indeed, something that we must all condemn.
But it [...]

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