The other day i heard one friend talking about a conversation at his office between a CSR and a customer who was complaining that he had already spent RS.3000 but didnt get any gift (that was never coming at first place lol) he was promised by the guy/company, to whom this innocent guy kept on sending scratch card numbers for sometime now.

” At the moment almost every Mobile Service Provider has offered balance transfer facility (except ZONG) between their pre-paid customers. Initially offered by Telenor as smart share it immediately got noticed and everyone else replicated it (Ufone: UShare, Mobilink’s Jazz Share, Warid’s Balance Share). However none of them initially realized that our market is not literate enough for such service. This eventually gave birth to a scam that is still in its full swing and there are hundreds of complaint on daily basis about customer’s mobile credit stolen by anonymous people.

The scale is so big that during Warid’s balance share launch almost everyone was getting fake messages of getting their balance doubled (asking them to send messages having balance transfer string). Thanks to Warid, the service couldn’t work during initial few days and it saved us all the pain. Even though actions against these numbers involved in this fraud are taken, there is still room for minor structural changes (we will come to that later). ” READ FULL POST

Almost 2 years back i wrote this on KMB & i didn’t know i had to repeat something similar in 2008, that the DONKEY example still holds relevance.

First of all thanks to Cowasjee (not updated yet on DAWN website) & Mr. Mansoor (KHI) & JC (Express, Feb 26) for addressing this issue in papers. I always wonder if our print/electronic media had not been highlighting issues (especially their role in recent times) we were doomed to be lost with available leadership. In the midst of BIG political battle these issues seem so minor but this is where the mistake lies.

While the social divide keeps on increasing alarmingly & just yesterday an inevitable increase was gifted in oil/diesel price our dear PM Mr. Soomro (interim gift by Mr. Musharraf who has been expert in bestowing us with thieves for 8 years & whose eyes were too weak to find a person sympathetic to people & their miseries from 170 million souls) has finally decided to make the most of limited time he has. After knowing our earlier masters had left no blood to suck from its people earlier he has now decided to go for the bones.

The chaudhries are in Karachi & are(will) try(ing) to persuade MQM on their side but will MQM learn some lessons from past & try to form a coalition with PPP for the betterment of this city. While make/break continues in political circles i just wonder if anyone (MQM/PPP in Karachi’s case) really gives two hoots to such an injustice to the exchequer with public money? Will MQM/PPP now do an ehtijaaj on this plundering (couldn’t find an advance version of this word) when there is no daal,roti,makaan,aata,tail,cheeni & inflation is in double digits?

Will Mr. Soomro follow just 1% of his own words delivered few months back if he really knowns the definition of corruption, as, once again, ironically, he is an highly educated professional. And will someone convey this message to him?

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In a crowning ceremony organized by the All Pakistan Memon Federation, Mustafa Kamal refused to be adorned with the gold crown saying there was still a lot to be done to solve Karachi’s problems.

At the occasion, he also announced a number of new development projects:

He told the gathering that work on Rs 8 billion Greater Karachi Sewerage Plan is to start during the next 2 months for which all arrangements have been finalised where after city’s industries will be supplied 600mgd of treated water which will also be utilised for plantation.Kamal said SITE Ltd would start receiving 500mgd clean water within one year while Clifton is going to receive 6mgd water within 10 days. He stated that for the first time 300-year old seven islands of Karachi are being supplied tap water and work on this project has completed by 90 percent.

On December 31, he declared, a new gift of five flyovers would be given to Karachiites. The nazim pointed out that land has been acquired on Northern-bypass to shift showrooms outside Karachi while Memon Community would be given 100 acres of land for University.

Source: National News

The Sindh Chief Secretary (CS) Ejaz Qureshi has taken serious notice of the allotment of billions of rupees worth of land in the city at highly concessional rates to “favourites” during the last few days of the Sindh government and directed the authorities concerned to stop this illegal practice immediately.

Sources disclosed that the CS took action on Saturday after receiving reports that the Board of Revenue (BoR) and scrutiny committee have cleared 150 cases of illegal allotment of worthy city land in just one month on the directives of Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim. (The News.)

The chief minister is part of the government set-up that the general has hailed as a success. It’s a good thing that this government wasn’t any more successful.

Last night, after Uzi’s seminar at T2F, I headed off to Park Towers to buy my wife a (belated) birthday gift. On reaching there, I found out that it is the venue for a Sind Festival being held till the 6th of November. It looked pretty interesting. There’s a stage with local performers singing folk and traditional songs of Sind, some stalls selling Sindhi mithais, Sindhi books, even the bangles that cover your whole arm. One of the best stalls is a potter’s stall where the potter was helping a cute little kid make his own bowl. All in all, something worth commending. Do go there, and buy something to support the local craftsmen.

Since pictures are worth a thousand words, there’s a few thousand words for the readers after the jump.
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PTCL has quietly activated answering service on its phone lines. I called various places in Karachi today for official purposes and ended up at listening to the answering service prompt.

If your home or office phone number gets a bill of Rs 1,400 per month or more, your line has been crowned with this unsolicited ‘facility’. Of course it is not necessary for PTCL to tell you how to retrieve the messages that your dear callers have deposited in your mailbox by paying Rs 2.01 each time your phone number was engaged and they were presented with an prompt in English language!

To disable the recent gift aimed at turning each engaged tone generation into a sweet little Rs 2.01 for PTCL, get yourself acquainted with the commands that manage this service. Please disable this service from your phone line and save your callers a few hundred therwise-wasted rupees a month!

Here is the complete procedure for all kinds of Call Transfers/Forwarding.

1) call Forwading Unconditional/Immediate

To activate
*21*Telephone number#

To deactivate
*21#

2) For Busy

To activate:
*09*Telephone number#

To deactivate
*09#

3) For No Reply

To activate:
*06*Telephone number#

To deactivate
*06#

Credits: PTCLDude@TGP

Have we become that cowardly a nation, that we now have to let the air out of someone’s tires to let out our aggression? Yesterday, while performing an errand on Tariq Road, i parked my car in a small side lane taking care to press my car as much into the sidewall as i could to let other people pass. When i returned, i find one of my front tires is flat!

First, it used to be this guy in my apartment building, who didn’t like me or where i parked my car. So he would leave me a gift of letting me change my tire every morning till i just got fed up and parked on the opposite end. Now, this happened.. I mean, where is decency any more! Next thing you know, someone would have bashed your car or break your windows if they don’t like you. As our morals decay on a daily basis, a bashed up car doesn’t even seem that far fetched.

Follow-up Question: Whats the worst act of passive aggression you’ve faced (or doled out) while out on the road? (Passive aggression is something someone does intentionally but in non-threatening manner to piss you off)

*note: comment moderation is still in effect! be civil and remain on-topic or be silenced*

A pocket size book, or you may call it a booklet too comprising of some quotes is not a very unusual thing to see but when a pocket size book comes from a leading book publisher, The Oxford University Press and the quotes too are not just any but the quotes from the Quaid-i-Azam him self than one takes pride into holding such a book, a book which our nation need to read again and again, a book which every Pakistani should read.
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Just watched the news, apparently both sides of Shahrah e Faisal near the Malir area, leading to National Highway & Malir Cantonement have been blocked by some ANP protestors who are on the way back from some rally. Apparently weapons have also been found in one of the vehicles.

What they are protesting, I don’t know, and frankly speaking, I don’t want to know.

I have simply had enough of everyone trying to treat this city like their daddy’s gift and blocking, rioting and causing inconvenience to its residents. I don’t care what political parties these people belong to. I just have one thing to say. Leave my city alone.

Our political leaders want democracy. Democracy works when the nation is aware of its rights and responsibilities. Not when everyone and anyone carries a gun and decides to kill the opposing party.

Yesterday I experienced something which made me think about the values in our society. Values that we say come from our religion Islam.

I had a big basket full of bakery stuff which I wanted to get wrapped up nicely as it was a gift for someone. I was at United Bakery in Bahadurabad and when I came out with the big basket trying to find a gift shop where I could get it wrapped up nicely, I spotted this gift shop next to Untied Bakery.

I went inside hoping that I would be able to get the job done. However, the nice looking bearded gentleman at the counter refused to do gift wraps. I then requested him to let me do it myself in the shop, without occupying too much space, as I had all the stuff with me including the wrapping paper, he refused again. I then purchased a greeting card from the shop, thinking he would allow me to wrap the gift now that I made a purchase from him, he still didn’t allow me to use a corner of his shop to do it. It really wouldn’t have bothered him or his customers, but nevertheless, I had to leave the shop without success.

I was really wondering if I would have been at his place, I would have been kind enough to not only let anyone use the space but help the person in every possible way.

This was a small incident that made me wonder if Islam is only about keeping a beard? Whatever happened to Huqooq-ul-Ibad, being courteous and kind, and leaving a good impression on your fellows?