Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath ISI Special Episode

Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath ISI Special Episode

Is She Aafia Siddiquee?

An eye opener article by Irfan Siddiquee published in Daily Jang

No one has power to dissolve assemblies: PM

Strange Statement from the weekest ever prime minister of Pakistan. He hismself do not know who is actually running the Govt. Rehman Malik? Zardari? or Mushharaf ?

Here is the original news

“ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gillani Friday stated in unequivocal terms that no one has the power to dissolve the country’s assemblies.

Talking to senior journalists and columnists here, the Prime Minister said all the issues including judges restoration and President’s impeachment will be resolved in the Parliament.

He said unlike previous governments, the purpose of his scheduled visit to the US is not to strike any kind of deal. All the decisions will be made for the greater interest of the country, he added.

The Premier said important issues including the scourge of terrorism will come under discussion during meeting with the US leaders.

Replying a question regarding US and Saudi aid, he said the good news will be shared with the people as soon as the country receives it.”

Bilawal House security officer shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI: Security officer of Bilawal House Karachi Khalid Shahanshah has been killed in a firing incident here on Tuesday.

Spokesman of Bilawal House Ijjaz Durrani has confirmed the reports of Khalid Shahanshah’s demise.

Earlier, Khalid Shanshah sustained severe bullet wounds when unknown persons opened fire on him in Defence area. He was shifted to ZIauddin Hospital where he sccumbed to injuries.

Source: The News Pakistan

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Adress Verification Required for New Phone SIMs in Pakistan

Interior Ministry Comes up With Remedy of Pakistani Mobile Users

Daily times has reported in its July 22, 2008 edition as following

The federal government has decided that Mobile SIMs will now be posted to the addresses given by applicants and not handed over to the purchaser on the spot. An Interior Ministry spokesman told reporters that any violation of this procedure shall be punishable under the relevant laws and necessary instructions had been issued to Chairman PTA in this regard.

Aamir Atta wrote in his blog

This is a very sharp step taken by government. Maybe it was only solution left with the government; given that PTA and cellular companies were not showing good results regarding the sale of illegal SIMs.

I think that this method may delay the process of SIM activation and may result into problems for users, but the legislation may lead us to a safer Pakistan. We must remember that this situation is reversal of what we were 8/10 years ago when we used to wait for a PTCL line for months. So these delays are due to problems created by ourselve.

On other hands, sales of cellular connections may further go down, which are already witnessing a decline in recent months. Even bangladesh defeated us in Cellular SIM’s sale in June 2008. It merits mentioning that Pakistan added

Well in countries like UK address verification steps are already being used and are very successful. I agree to Mr. Aamir Atta that it is a good step taken by the Govt. Now let us see how it will be implemented in a true spirit.

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Wheel-jam strike, fuel price-hike

The transporters here observing a wheel-jam strike all across the
sprawling mega-metropolis on the call of several transport
organizations protesting government’s unjust fuel price-hikes, while
the citizens although sharing the sentiments of the transporters and
having all the sympathy with them, find themselves in a state of
twice-hurt bearing the main brunt of fuel price-hikes as well as the
miseries let loose by transporters’s strike.
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Manipulation of stocks with SMS a cyber crime

Guest Post by Dr. Awab Alvi
In light of the recent stock market debacle the government is attempting to prevent incidents like these from happening again. Today a news report appeared in Daily Times where the usage of SMS in spreading disinformation about the stock market are deemed as a Cyber Crime and ironically the FIA has been entrusted to ensure that it does not happen in the future.

Overtly it may seem to be an interesting way to solve the panic of any future stock market debacle, but I personally see it as an odd way to solve the underlying problem. One could argue that if a simple SMS message communication to my broker to “SELL SELL SELL” can be attributed to a punishable cyber crime. Then we should hold liable all phone calls made during the stock-market-rumor-mongering period as an equally important punishable crime.

* Fundamentally I believe you cannot condemn the usage of a specific medium (in this case SMS) for its probable repercussions, instead its imperative to develop safe guards to instead hold the traders on the trading floor directly responsible for their actions which may contribute to panic. Deny all you might we all some how knew that this over inflated stock market bubble was going to burst which was all the more evident considering the miserable economic indicators within Pakistan, suffice to say it was on the cards
* Secondly I shudder to see an even more powerful FIA entrusted with dispensing the Cyber Crime law at its own free will, considering the drafted of the Cyber Crime law was shady at best as it failed to provide safe guards for the innocent.

Manipulation of stocks with SMS now a cyber crime

ISLAMABAD: Manipulation of the stock exchange market through short messaging services (SMS) from mobile phones will be treated as a cyber crime, the federal government decided on Sunday.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) will deal with creating disinformation about the stock markets through SMS. The government has also directed the agency to take immediate notice of such cases in future.

The decision to bring the practice under the agency’s supervision comes in the backdrop of a major stock market decline last week, which saw small investors, the most affected by the slide, demonstrating violently outside the major exchanges at Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.

Would anyone have a different twist to this recent development

Islamabad High Court Verdit in Dr. Qadeer Khan case

IHC has given the verdict in Dr. Qadeer Khan case on Monday this morning.

Dr. Qadeer’s house arrest has been eliminated. He would be
allowed to carry out research work, can move inside the country and
meet with his relatives after getting the clearance. He, however, could not
allow giving interviews to the media.

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