Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’

ShahCar Offer: Ufone puts U in the driving seat!

For the month of March, Ufone has launched an outstanding offer which will put 10 of its valued customers behind the steering wheel of their very own cars! Ufone’s ShahCar offer has paved the opportunity for Ufone customers to take part in a lucky draw and win a smooth and sleek Toyota Corolla car! Ufone [...]

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Masses want Pakistan a welfare state

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Accoding to John Adams: “Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system [...]

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Media – A Ruling Class Tool

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Life used to be much simpler for the people of Pakistan. About a decade ago, to talk about “private media” would have seemed either tragic or laughable. Everybody knew that the news media were little more than instruments of the mixed information. There was only one state-owned television and one radio, [...]

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SAP to Arm SMEs with Real-Time Analytics Powered by SAP HANA™ in Pakistan

SAP AG has announced two new offerings that will deliver the benefits of the SAP HANA™ platform to small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan. With analytics powered by SAP HANA for the SAP® Business One application and SAP HANA, Edge edition, SMEs will be able to leverage powerful in-memory technology from SAP. By [...]

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Pakistan’s economy: during military civilian regimes

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Pakistanis are not mature enough with democracy regime; while most of the politicians are morally bankrupt! The country’s current misfortune is due to civil leadership, who has demonstrated no appetite for sustainable change, economic or social. The effect of the stronger economic performance during military regimes translated into something more meaningful [...]

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Drug Prices go up by upto 100 Percent

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar The prices of 350 medicines increased from 20 to 100 percent in the wholesale and retail markets across the country increasing inflationary pressures. Almost all local and multinational pharmaceutical companies notified the increase to their respective distributors, dealers and wholesalers. The increases – some as high as 100 per cent – [...]

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The Education System Enhanced by the Internet

Since the Internet experienced an explosion of growth near the turn of the century, it’s had a revolutionized the way that we do a number of things. No single area of our lives may have been as impacted by the Internet as education. Even with the Internet still in its relative infancy, it’s already changed [...]

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Rising inequality in Pakistan: Elite should remember rest are 98 percent

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar There is a mess of political parties in Pakistan; all talking a lot about poor people and their problems. Nobody knows who is actually a true representative of people? If we look back, the picture for the last four years of “Democracy” has remained bleak. Political parties across the country are [...]

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Food insecurity: A big threat to Pakistan

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Food is a basic human need and it’s the government who has to ensure a dependable food security system for the nation. For a country like Pakistan, this is crucial, since now a large part of the income of the population has to be spent to procure food. High grain prices [...]

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Telenor Pakistan moves to Islamabad High Court against Nokia Seimens and Huawei

Telenor, a Norwegian operator, operating for providing cellular telecommunication service in Pakistan has filed cases against its long standing partners i.e. NSN (Finland based company) and Huawei Technologies (China based company). It has revealed that two cases have been filed against NSN in the last week of January, 2012 which was fixed for hearing before [...]

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