Kareena and Karishma
From the Blog Speak Your Mind!!!: Kareena and Karishma - Kareena and Karishma Kareena and Karishma on Dus Ka Dum This is a very cute dus ka dum episode when Kareena and Karishma Kapoor came together. They are all being very cute and funny. . Read Full Post
Cricket and UNESCO in Galle
From the Blog Newsline: Cricket and UNESCO in Galle - What got us really excited was that our day trip to Galle Fort coincided with the first day of the recent Test match between Sri Lanka and West Indies. . Read Full Post
Wesley Snipes awarded 3 year jail term
From the Blog Speak Your Mind!!!: Wesley Snipes awarded 3 year jail term - Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes has been ordered a three year jail term for tax-related crimes. Florida Judge William Terrell Hodges rejected a request from Snipes’ lawyers to review his sentence and grant a new trial.In April 2008, Snipes, 48, was found guilty of deliberately failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001.He then launched an appeal and has been on bail ever since.But finally the judgement has been passed and people feel that it was the right decision. His lawyer will appeal to Supreme court now. Wesley, however, remained calm and positive throughout. He showed no anger or bitterness. But I don’t really get it…the man must be quite rich. He has a name in the industry and has done many cool movies. And tax related crimes is not good. This is bad. . Read Full Post
Telenor – Expanding Easypaisa, Targeting More Revenues, No 3G Plans
From the Blog State of Telecom Industry in Pakistan: Telenor – Expanding Easypaisa, Targeting More Revenues, No 3G Plans - In the mobile money discussion at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress 2010 , Aamir Ibrahim, CMO- Telenor Pakistan highlighted the progress of easypaisa which very recently completed its first anniversary . Ibrahim noted that easypaisa has potentially a huge market share as Pakistan was "grossly under-banked," even compared to neighbouring countries such as India and Bangladesh. He also shared that easypaisa accounts for 0.4 percent of Telenor Pakistan's revenues as of today and it is targeting to take this to 10% in three years time. It also plans to at least double its number of payment products from the four services it currently offers. New easypaisa products in the pipeline include salary dispersals, ticketing, insurance, loans and leasing, Ibrahim said. At another session discussing the unique requirements of operating in emerging markets like Asia, Sigve Brekke, head of Telenor Asia, noted that while Telenor has controlling stakes in its Asian businesses, it is not attempting to harmonise its brands, products and services across its different markets. "Our operational model is not to take out a lot of common operating platforms across many different countries. We operate under different brands, we have different types of pricing concepts and different types of services, because we think it is so important to be close to where the customer is. In every market where we operate, they are different". The company does enable staff to transfer between businesses in order to share best practices – "we try to take our synergies through people," he said. Interestingly, talking about technology rollouts, Brekke also highlighted a strategy of taking small steps. "We are very careful about moving into 3G. We are operating on 3G in Malaysia, we have experience. We choose to stay out of the 3G race in India and in Pakistan, and in Bangladesh we are also operating on 2G and we have seen very promising growth in data coming from a pure 2G platform." Thus the operator has no plans to step-up to 3G in near future. via Mobile Business Briefing . Read Full Post
The average Pakistanis
From the Blog The True Perspective: The average Pakistanis - (Photo: Independence.teabreak.pk) The hunkering politicians of Pakistan have lost it. They are going nuts over everything that doesn't even come into the daily agenda of the average Pakistani. I'll give you an example of what Hanif Abbasi was shouting on TV today: Anyone who supports Musharraf or is his friend, the people of Pakistan will eat him alive! I have just one question to ask of the new chaperone of the PML РNawaz, who in God's name cares who Musharraf's friend is or isn't? When the Nawaz party isn't bashing Musharraf, they're giving pernicious statements against the government which is detrimental to all the stakeholders in Pakistan aka the poor "awam". And if they aren't busy swooning over the magical re-growth of the Sharifs' hair, they are busy legislating on issues such as Hindu cartoons are corrupting our youth and children. Touch̩ gentlemen, touch̩! If you leave the PML РN alone for a while, you will find that the PPP is up in arms throwing tantrums against all and sundry. Sometimes it is against other political parties, other times it is against its political allies. Still other times, they're busy throwing tantrums against the myriad corruption that we find ourselves in. And yet, the PPP tells its government officers to boycott Transparency International because it's a bad kid, and mommy has forbidden them to play with bad kids. While they acknowledge they are corrupt, they really don't want to do anything about it. If the two largest political parties of this country could get their heads out of their asses for a change, a lot of important things would fall into place. We would have a government that actually worked for instance; and the lives of the average Pakistanis would register a surprising positivity, which seems absolutely impossible in the current scenario. Life is sad. Life was always sad, but this, right now is just agonizing. Sugar isn't available anywhere for less than a hundred rupees; parents cry in despair over the raped bodies of their little kids; and quacks pretend to be doctors and end up murdering innocent people who dared to fall ill. The lawyers protest after beating media personnel, and the army pretends to be the god of Pakistan . The flood stricken people live life as if hell has come upon them in this lifetime while the donors willing to help Pakistan keep castigating the government to mend its ways. The rich simply refuse to pay taxes while the poor are forced to pay for the sins of the rich. In all this commotion and hullabaloo one never gets to know the plight of the average Pakistani who suffers, as he used to, and will continue to do so. While the government busies itself over petty issues, it doesn't fire known corrupt officials and ministers because that would mean it isn't the PPP anymore. And yet, they fight over Musharraf as if there is no bigger malady facing this nation than his sorry self. The PPP has no answer when it is asked about the 230 MW electricity producing ship that will supply power to the residents of Karachi at a whopping Rs 15.66 per unit; it also has no answer when it is asked to comment on the 19500 MW of energy production capacity available in Pakistan. But nobody talks about that, because talking about it would mean talking about an issue that relates directly to the average Pakistanis. In the angst of living life in misery under the government of Pakistan, with people of varying degrees of mental calibres comparable to monkeys and rats ruling over us, it has befallen this calamity struck nation to fend for its own self. Let God be my witness today, for I refuse to be a part of the blood sucking, leeching process that has been initiated against the average Pakistanis; because it is the average Pakistanis who make us all proud of being Pakistanis in the first place. . Read Full Post
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