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February 20, 2014February 20, 2014Finance

Methods to Pay on Facebook from Pakistan

Its now many years that Pakistan banks are offering Debits and Specially credit cards which are mostly backed with global names like Visa or Master Card. Most of them can be used here in Pakistan on POS terminals, they do work online as well but there are huge limitations when people try to use these cards online. Specially with debit cards, no doubt they features Visa or Master Card logos but most of Pakistani bank except few exceptions don’t allow their usage online. The case of Credit Cards is bit different most Pakistani banks allow usage of their credit cards online but again there are limitation or bans from specific websites which would not accept a specific card from specific […]

February 14, 2014November 3, 2022Happenings

Comatose Shahzaib Bajwa’s family raises USD $46000 plus online in two days to save his life but they will need more

Shahzaib Bajwa is a bright Pakistani University student who happened to go to United States’s University of Wisconsin-Superior through to spend one semester there through a student exchange program between a local university and University of Wisconsin-Superior. In November he was traveling in car which was taking him to back to University from the city Minneapolis, car struck a deer and accident was so bad that Bajwa have got severe fractures on his face. He is also in comma ever since. He had travel insurance but amount is too small, also his visa is expiring on Feb 28th, 2014 and insurance company wants to spend this money on bringing back Shahzaib to Pakistan, also its heard that they are threatening […]

February 7, 2014February 7, 2014Finance

MCB Lite Backed by Prepaid Visa Card Gets Tremendous Response in Pakistan

MCB Lite is the service which MCB Bank of Pakistan have recently launched publicly. It is socially connected Mobile Payment solution which MCB bank claims is first of its kind in entire world. It not only makes transfer of Money easier between and socially connected group of friends, it also comes with Pakistan’s second Prepaid Visa Card after the UBL’s Wiz prepaid cards. MCB lite visa backed card holds plenty of good features which include ATM withdrawal, ATM Transfer, use at POS Terminals while purchasing stuff and most importantly online payments to app stores as well as other websites which accept payments through Visa. In fact for Pakistanis the best part is Online Payments and those all with full satisfaction […]

January 25, 2014January 25, 2014Basic Needs

Electricity Load Shedding in Pakistan continues even in winter 2014 even with new PMLN led government

Its winter 2o14, a new political party is in Power as result of elections held in early 2013. Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) which had done many promises with people of Pakistan including the resolving the power, gas and other kinds of energy crisis in Pakistan during their tenure. Now its more than half a year but people have not got any relief yet. Pakistan is observing a load shedding which is even worse than last year. In urban areas this load shedding is 10 hours day and in rural areas it ranges from 12 to 18 hours a day. Government first claimed that all of this load shedding is due to annual canal closure but recently a news […]

January 19, 2014January 19, 2014Inside Story

Youtube is not blockable, it never was

It is well over one year now that Youtube.com is officially blocked in Pakistan. But are people of Pakistan really unable to access the website? The answer is no, the site is very much accessible. Its not only accessible through few alternate methods in Pakistan, its just being accessed by every eight out of ten people using different methods to get around the ban. People are using the proxy websites or in some cases some free VPN softwares are being used to bypass the blockade of youtube. Plus its an established fact that government have not been able to block any secure links yet, yes I am talking about the links over SSL or put it like this, the links […]