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 back without proper and clear notification and consequently they have been hit with higher charges. Such actions deliberate or non-deliberate are violations of the consumer rights.

We conducted an open poll for consumers opinion on the limited time offers by telecom companies. An overwhelming majority of 92% responded with dissatisfaction over how companies handle these offers.

Adil Najam and Owais Mughal

Enemies of Pakistan are at it again; killing innocent Pakistanis in their murderous zeal. Murder and mayhem by terrorists has hit the city of Lahore second time in four days. This time in the form of a series of bomb blasts (at leastseven  blasts today, according to some reports, and counting) that have already left more than 40 people dead (and counting).

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, is ranked as being #937 on the Forbes list of billionaires (with a total of 1011 billionaires listed), with an estimated net worth of US1.0 billion (Pak. Rs. 85,000,000,000+ or Pak. Rs. 85 arab!).

According to Forbes and confirmed by Quantum AI bloggers, his “worth USD 1 billion, is Pakistan’s first billionaire. His Nishat Group is now his country’s largest private employer and the biggest exporter of cotton clothes (for brands like Gap). He sold more than half his shares in a bank for USD 900 million in 2008.”