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May 17th, 2012

Wasim Akram – The Legend is Back !!!

To see Wasim Akram in advertisement is a treat all the times and now it is nice to see Waseem Akram in an advertisement of Ufone on a TV channel the other day. No doubt, the name of Wasim Akram is associated with exuberance, style, success, leadership, hard work and learning. And it was real treat to know that he is back with a bang again but with Ufone this time.

Most of the advertisement viewers are discussing that Waseem Akram has changed his loyalties and has become brand ambassador of Ufone after Mobilink. For those people, let me put the record straight that the legendary cricketer was associated with Ufone when it was at an infancy stage. Most of us can easily recall the ‘Salma and Faisal’ advertisement campaign and Waseem Akram was seen in an advertisement where the legendary cricketer is seen visiting a Ufone office for some reason. Even now, the charismatic team consisting of Faisal, Adeel Hasmi, Jawad Bashir and Mehreen Raheel etc are still at their best to picturise new ideas and the addition of Waseem Akram has added more colors to Ufone’s ads. Read more »

May 16th, 2012

Discourage dirty Politics in Pakistan

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar

A paradox lies at the heart of politics in Pakistan. Political polarization is at its peak in Pakistan ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Pakistani brand “democracy” has not been able to deliver anything to the masses during a long tenure of more than four years. There has hardly been any positive and radical transformation into the life of Pakistani populace or people belonging to the lowest strata of the society.Today Pakistan is the country facing the maximum terrorism and other problems due to the dirty politics and sick law & order situation in the country. Every criminal & terrorist thinks he is more powerful than law due to his linkages with the corrupt and power hungry politicians. If the vast and silent majority is taken into account, they certainly deserve better than what they have been getting in the form of this so called political government. Our politicians are so sick that they love their chairs rather than their country. Everyday, there are headlines in every single News Papers and TV Channels which includes the name of Zardari, Gilani, Rehman Malik and so on. Most are in negative way and rare in positive way. Capacity of the politicians to inspire citizens, resolve conflicts and deliver public services has been drastically undermined by their own actions. Today, criminals join politics to gain influence and ensure that cases against them are dropped or not proceeded with. The law disqualifies convicted criminals from contesting elections. But this does not keep criminals out of politics because legal delays, often abetted by political pressures, make convictions of resourceful crooks rather rare. Read more »

May 15th, 2012

Ufone Spreads Smiles at the SOS Children’s Village Islamabad

Ufone Spreads Smiles: Develops play area and hosts a carnival at the SOS Children’s Village Islamabad. Advocating its commitment of spreading smiles and bringing joy to the children across Pakistan, Ufone held a fun carnival for the children of SOS village on the 14th of May 2012 to inaugurate the recently developed play area.

SOS Pakistan recently built a new establishment in Islamabad boasting a spectacular facility but was in dire need for swings for the children to enjoy. Ufone took up the task of putting up the swings and hosting a fun filled carnival which comes in the wake of a successful plantation activity at the SOS villages of Lahore and Islamabad. The members of the Ufone Volunteer Group took a dynamic part in all the activities.

For the entertainment of the kids jumping castles along with carnival rides were set up which were thoroughly enjoyed by all and sundry. The children were fascinated by the cotton candy treats and the mischievous clown who danced and did tricks for them. A refreshments corner was arranged with an unlimited supply of drinks and food for the children to snack on in between all the fun they were having. Additionally a dance competition and musical chairs was also organized and gifts were distributed amongst the winners.

Akbar Khan, Chief Marketing Officer at Ufone, joined the children in their enthusiasm and shared a special moment of bonding with them as together they enjoyed the magic show and story-telling competition.

Ufone, one of the leading telecom companies in the country, has been at the forefront of many social initiatives which have been taken to benefit the populace. Since inception Ufone has been a socially responsible organization, and over the last few years, has carried out various CSR projects related to child health care, mentor and counseling programs for school going children and on highlighting the need for a green and healthy environment.

On the occasion, Akbar Khan said, “Just looking at the elation and eagerness on the faces of all these young children gives us so much satisfaction. Ufone wishes to strengthen its bond with SOS Children’s Villages as these children are our future. He stressed upon the need for maintaining a healthy environment for the children of Pakistan and emphasized that physical exercise was very important which will be facilitated by the newly set up play area. He said that these children should be nurtured into becoming leaders of tomorrow and committed that there would more such fun initiatives in the forthcoming months as Ufone believes in spreading smiles and bringing delight to the children of Pakistan”.

May 13th, 2012

Pak U.S Ties at Odds

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar

A US Congressional committee in its budgetary proposals for the year 2013 has prohibited economic and security assistance to Pakistan unless the government of Pakistan is cooperating with the US on counterterrorism efforts and other issues and takes action against groups like Haqqani network, Taliban, al-Qaida, LeT and JeM. Even Pakistan is facing the possibility of being left out of the coming Chicago meeting on Afghanistan, although military-level contacts are continuing and ISAF commander John Allen has met Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Saturday.

While inflicting such type of conditions, US has totally ignored that Pakistan has already suffered financial loss of more than $ 68 billions in America`s so called war on terror in addition to human loss of around 42000 people including 35000 civilians and around 7000 security personnel, complete destruction of infraustructure in NATO supplies, erosion of investment climate, low production and growing unemployment, and several other indirect losses. Pakistan used to claim between $100 and $140 million per month from the US; it is facing difficulty to get even that meager amount for the last about one year. Initially, it was estimated that the cost of this war to Pakistan would be $2.669 billion dollars, actually reached up to more than $ 68 billon. Pakistan’s involvement in the war on terror has had detrimental consequences for Pakistan’s economy. Read more »

May 11th, 2012

Minimum wage of labour increased to Rs 8000

The minimum wage of workers in Pakistan has been increased to eight thousand rupees, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani announced. Additionally, the Employees’ Old-Age Benefit Institution pension has been increased to Rs 2,000 from Rs 1,500.

Gilani, addressing an event at said “Our democratic government is committed to bringing a socio-economic revolution in the country, as was envisioned by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,” Gilani told the attendees.

In addition to the thousand-rupee wage increase, the death grant for labourers has also been increased from Rs 150,000 to Rs 500,000 and grant for labourers’ children’s weddings has been raised from Rs 70,000 to Rs 100,000.

Gilani also urged a prompt announcement of the Labour Policy 2012 and implementation of the Industrial Relations Act (IRA-2012). “PPP is the party of labourers and workers. We have always worked for their rights but some elements did not like our love for the labour community,” the PM said.

Amid pro-PPP sloganeering, Gilani claimed that the PPP government has fulfilled 80 per cent of its promises. “Restoration of labour rights, IRA-2012, Labour Appellate Tribunals, Labour Policy 2010, reinstatement of over 6,000 sacked government employees, right of appeal to government servants in labour courts are the big achievements of our government,” the PM boasted.

Gilani also announced the construction of 12,000 houses, seven schools, seven industrial homes and four community centres for the labour community.

“Our democratic government made workers shareholders in for the first time in the country’s history and distributed shares worth Rs. 100 billion among half a million workers,” the under-fire PM told the convention. Steps such as nomination of workers in the Board of Directors of the institutions will empower the working classes.

In the last I want to mention that Government has to look into the private sector as well, and their should be some policy of increment in private sector.

May 9th, 2012

Matloob Ahmed wins COAS Open Golf Championship 2012

Matloob Ahmed, one of the Ufone sponsored golfers, won COAS Open Golf Championship – 2012 which concluded recently at Rawalpindi Golf Club.

There were more than 400 participants in the event from all across Pakistan. The tournament throughout was led by Matloob Ahmed and Muhammad Nazir both Ufone sponsored golfers but at the end this was Matloob who stood strong to take away the winning prize. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani handed over the winning cheque of Rs. 2 million to Matloob Ahmed at the grand prize distribution ceremony. Read more »

May 9th, 2012

Cameron Munter-A Great Man From American Lands

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER

History is going to repeat itself very soon. The people of Pakistan must be ready for another episode like that of the Abbotabad Hunting. Zawahiri is in Pakistan; assured the gracious lady Hilary Clinton talking to media in Kolkata, a few days back. She further said in the same interview, “You have to go over those who are trying to kill you. You have to be focused on that.” Hilary is no doubt very much true in her concept of pursuing those who are trying to kill you. Her approach in this regard must be sincerely followed by all those who are being consistently under the target of their oppressors, sometimes in the form of terrorists and sometimes in the shape of exploiters. It seems that the so-called Islamic extremists are also following the same philosophy of chase n hit as expressed by Hilary Clinton. They are always going over those who are trying to kill them. It is simply the game of Cat and Rat but the positions of Tom and Jerry keep on changing. Unfortunately this game is going to end nowhere; neither the Tom nor the Jerry seems willing to give up but what about millions of those who have nothing to do with either of the two opponents. Be it the 9/11 incident or the Mumbai Blasts or the every day showering drone attacks on blameless people of Pakistan; we find millions of guiltless lives at stake. Who is going to compensate for this wholesale massacre; world is looking towards Hilary for a satisfactory answer to this question. Read more »

May 8th, 2012

Banglore Blast – RAW Drama

By Zaheerul Hassan

On May 8 2012, Indian Intelligence agency staged “blast drama” in Banglore with the purpose of displaying solidarity to her strategic partner “US”. The blast has been carried out when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on her three days visit to India. In this so called blast 15 individuals have got minor injuries. On the promise anonymity sources said that India alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for these blasts and claimed the arrest of one suspect. According the source the person was already in Indian intelligence agency’s custody since couple of years. The arrested suspect been declared patient and is under treatment of psychotherapist.

Mrs. Clinton during her tour kept on yelling against Pakistan instead of pressurizing New Delhi to stop fomenting terrorism in neighbouring states. She even failed to ask Indian rulers to discontinue brutality against her “Christianity” and others minorities of India. Her visit would be taken as Pakistan specific with the aim of mounting pressure before forthcoming NATO Conference.

May 8th, 2012

Illiteracy a Path to Ruin

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar

Education has always been and continues to be one of the most important needs of mankind. Every Government is thus obliged to not only strive towards providing access to education to all its citizens but must also improve the quality of education in the country. Contrarily The Pakistani education system is increasingly challenged with many complex problems. There is a general outcry that the standards of education are falling and morals flagging. In recent times, we are witnessing a new trend in Pakistan and due to this trend; today education has become a way of earning lot of money by businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats. The corporate sector has discovered a huge and ever growing service industry in education where the students are consumers, teachers are service providers and expert speakers, and the institutions or companies catering to education services are organisers, and the teaching-learning process is no longer for the building of a nation but a business for profit-making. Education no longer is a noble profession but a business enterprise, a profit-making opportunity. For most of these entrepreneurs education is nothing more than a way of making good returns from their investments and due to this reason, they are charging huge amount of fees from students, while students mostly have no option in their hands except giving this fees in the hope of getting a good education and later good future. One thing which is poison for the quality of education is the idea of students as customers. Read more »

May 8th, 2012

KSBL Social Media Meet

The Karachi School for Business & Leadership hosted a Social Media Meet at Olivetto Restaurant this past Sunday on May 6, 2012. Guests were the cream of the Pakistani social media community and they were given presentations by Mr. Rizwan Amin Sheikh, Associate Dean MBA Programme, KSBL, Mr. Humayun Javed Khan, Head of Marketing and Communications, KSBL, and Mr. Sarfaraz A. Rehman, CEO, Dawood Foundation, on KSBL’s background, its collaboration with Cambridge University Judge Business School and its ambition to develop the future business leaders of Pakistan.

After attending, it seems that KSBL has definitely done enough research, has successfully identified the gaps within the higher education framework, and plans to setup shop this coming September with a bang!

Based on their presentation, they are hitting all the Critical Success Factors that will make for an international standard academic institution, including state of the art infrastructure, a world class and modern campus facility, affiliation with Cambridge University (including visiting Faculty), a work-study program, ready and waiting employers, and an innovative curriculum which incorporates entrepreneurship and leadership.