Month: June 2013

Basic Needs

Why Resolving the Issue Of Power Shortage Is Critical for Pakistan or Any Other Such Country

There are countries of world which are planning to launch their next probe in outer space and thinking on the lines of reaching the far-flung places of the universe. Then there are countries in which people are deprived of their basic needs of modern world. Needs like uninterrupted supply of electricity for people to run their homes as well as businesses. Yes, I am talking about Pakistan and other countries which have not been able to resolve their basic issues like uninterrupted supply of electricity. Unfortunately the reason of not achieving the uninterrupted supply of electricity doesn’t have to do anything with their ability to afford. But it is more related to having the corrupt leaders elected in elections from […]

e-commerce

Future of Online Businesses is definitely bright in Pakistan but they still face few hurdles in getting global

It was not much more than three to four years when I came across a bunch of first few Pakistani websites which started offering sales of products online mostly for their Pakistani audiences. Now these sites are growing tremendously. People of Pakistan still are hesitant from purchasing online due to lack of trust and frauds due to lack of effective implementation of cyber laws in Pakistan. But the sites offering the products have tackled this with introduction of “Cash on Delivery” options. So they just showcase the products online payments are handled manually, specially when the products are delivered. I also came across some Pakistani administered Facebook pages which were selling T-Shirts and other stuff via cash on delivery option. […]

Cyber Watch

Mobilink takes down registrations for prepaid users on its e-care portal immediately after launching the service

While browsing the web I came across an attractive ad about Mobilink. Ad featured their new logo as well as mentioned of their new services they launched. Being their customer it got me excited and I followed the link. After reaching the target site I found a whole new look which was refreshing, what made me excited was their new feature for prepaid customers which was offering a signup for them. This meant that now I will probably enable more control over the usage specially the call records will be available. So I immediately gone for registration form and started feeding the required information. As soon as I hit registration a message came and surprised me and it was some […]

Documents

Constitution of Pakistan Published Online by Info Pakistan

Constitution of Pakistan is supreme law of Pakistan, which makes the boundaries and borders clear, talks about the people of Pakistan and their fundamental rights. Constitution of Pakistan also talks about the establishment of state’s institutions, armed forces as well as the parliaments houses including the ones in provinces. It was formed in 1973 and being used on as it is bases except a small number of minor amendments which were done over the years right from 1973. Law defines the role of Islam in the state, sharing of power between federal and provinces and talks about the roles of President and prime minister of Pakistan. Over the time law was modified which somehow been affecting mostly the powers of […]

National Development

Bill Gates contacted Imran Khan to help eradicate Polio from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The owner of Microsoft (the developers of windows and services like Bing Search Engine / hotmail) Bill gates today contacted Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and offered his assistance for eradicating the Polio from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Let me remind you, Pakistan tehreek-e-Insaf won elections from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa recently with most seats in the province. Also emerged as third biggest party on national scale according to seats won, right from no existence at all in last parliament. Also according to highest polled votes to any party in Pakistan elections 2013 PTI was second biggest party. This increase in confidence People of Pakistan in Imran Khan was result of charity work Imran Khan had been doing from […]