Automobile

Luxury tax on imported vehicles lifted in Punjab

Government of Punjab just announced the waiver of luxury tax which was applicable to imported cars category of 2000 cc and above. For 2000 cc to 3000 cc vehicles this was two hundred thousand rupees and for more than 3000 cc vehicles this was three hundred thousand rupees. This was the extra amount which had to be paid at the time of vehicle registration after the amounts spent on other taxes and custom duties etc. This tax was not there for long for the imported vehicles, this was made applicable just a year or so back and now suddenly waived. Interestingly the year before the tax was made applicable 1250 vehicles were registered in luxury cars category but after the […]

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PTA fails to keep people informed about banned and unbanned websites

It is 30th may today and the last update on PTA’s website about the blocked websites was on 2oth of may. They even didn’t even mentioned any other blocked websites other than the Facebook and Youtube on their website. Hundreds of URLs were blocked and some of websites like Facebook , wikipedia, youtube and many more had faced blanket ban but PTA never mentioned about these banned websites on their website. Youtube is already unblocked few days ago but still no update about that on their website. Whats more important is Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) never published the details of blocked websites over the internet nor they have updated people about when certain websites are being banned or unbanned. It […]

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Proxy websites blocked in Pakistan, Whats the point?

In connection with the issue of blasphemous violent content, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked many websites and many people including me supported this decision of PTA. Banning the websites in Pakistan should have not mainly to prevent local people from accessing the blasphemous content but to make a statement to sites that your racism regarding the religion will not be accepted. Considering the fact that Pakistan is an Islamic state and people at least have love for prophet Muhammad, no one would be willing to see that blasphemous content. But unfortunately PTA took things here differently, they gone few steps further and also blocked the proxy website. Chairman PTA: We have blocked a number of sites having the blasphemous content […]

Interesting Stuff

Google brings Pacman fun on 30th anniversary of Pacman game

Google is rightly believed to be the fun loving organization. They have proved it once again, on 30th anniversary of Pacman Google have embedded the special Pacman plug in into its logo as shown above in the image. Please notice the insert coin button which is placed on place of “I am feeling lucky” button and it initiates the Pacman game. This was the fully featured playable game plugin with proper scoring in place. The plugin is embedded in to Google search page into the logo for 48 hours as part of Pacman’s 30th anniversary celebration.

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Ban on Facebook in Pakistan, right or wrong?

One would say why are we even talking about the ban being right or wrong when Facebook proved to be racist in matter of removing the draw day. Making one thing clear here, Facebook guys remove any page with more than 10,000 fans on just 700 terms of use violation requests against it, but this was not the case about the page which was setup to hold that blasphemes cartoons contest. Coming back to the original topic, why are we even thinking on the ban being right or wrong, most would say it right because of the Facebook’s resist behavior in this matter. But there are people  who are not in support of this ban, they think that the URLs […]