MELBOURNE: Pakistani young pacer Muhammad Amir has become the youngest fast bowler in the cricketing world to take five wickets in a test match innings. Muhammad Amir has achieved this honor of taking 5 wickets in the second innings against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He achieved this honour at the age of 17 years and 257 days, thus, becoming the world’s youngest fast bowler to have this distinction.
Count of Mobile phone users in Pakistan reached 96.7 million in November 2009, reported Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.
With monthly growth rate of 0.83 percent, best in last half year, total amount of cellular subscribers in Pakistan stood at 96,709,585 with net addition of 790,856 subscribers in month of November 2009.
With 96.7 million subscribers, Telecoms industry has reached 59. 03 percent.
KARACHI: At least 30 people were injured in a powerful blast in the front part of the Central mourning procession that just arrived in front of Denso Hall, Geo News reported police sources saying Monday.
Police sources said they are trying to confirm the nature of the blast.
The enraged people pelted the police vehicles with the stones following the blast.
Meantime, some eyewitnesses said they heard the sounds of gunshots on the occasion.
The ambulances soon arrived on the blast site and are currently shifting the injured to the hospitals, where emergency has been declared.
Ufone recently launched a campaign “Ufone SMS Buddies, Become a Star” in which they are offering their valued customers a chance to become a star in one of their upcoming TV commercials.
The response for the Ufone SMS Buddies “Become a Star” contest have been overwhelming and Ufone customers still have time till the end of January 2010 to find a place in the cast of the next Ufone commercial.
It is extremely easy to be a part of the contest where Ufone customers can create their profile so that people can vote for them or for others. To participate in this contest, Ufone customers can simply log on to www.ufone.com and go to SMS Buddies where they can find the link ‘Become a Star’ or simply go to http://star.ufone.com/.
This is pertinent to mention that no one in the telecom industry has given such a chance to their consumer in the past and it is surely to create major hype in the coming days.
Mr. Taimur Faiz Cheema Head of Value Added Services said “The launch of this service has further reinforced that Ufone is the leader in offering the most interactive services in the industry and we thrive to ensure customer convenience and satisfaction”.
SMS Delivery Reports are back with Ufone, but with monthly charges. Exactly as we had anticipated about SMS delivery reports, Ufone has opted for monthly rental of a service that was offered free by some of operators.
We have discussed it earlier, that these add-ons put extra load on network, and it is said that not all of subscribers use this service, so how about disabling it. But then the idea of charging this service came in mind of Ufone and here are we…!
It maybe recalled that Ufone offered this service for free until it disabled it back in March 2009.
If trends remains the same, do expert paid CLI, call waiting, call forwarding and other similar Value Added Services.
If you don’t know SMS delivery Reports are confirmation messages about the status of text messages that you send.
How to subscribe:
Delivery Report is a monthly subscription based service. To subscribe user will SMS ‘SUB’ to 148.
To unsubscribe SMS UNSUB to 149
Charges:
* Subscription Service Charge = Rs. 9.99/- plus tax per month * Un-subscription Service Charge = Rs 0/-
Ufone’s Delivery Reports is an auto-subscription service. User subscription will automatically be renewed with deduction of service charge amount at the end of each subscription month. Users will be required to enable delivery report feature of their handset to be able to receive delivery reports.
If auto-subscription fails due to insufficient balance. Recharge Ur account & SMS ‘SUB’ to 148 to subscribe
Note:
* Service only available for Prepaid Users. * All rates are exclusive of GST * 19.5% FED on usage and 10% withholding tax at recharge or bill applies.
It is 16th December. Every year this day reminds me of the painful event in 1971 when Sonar Bangla, the East Pakistan fell and hundreds and thousands of patriotic Pakistanis became prisoners of ego and lost everything including their citizenship and became stateless. After 38 years those Pakistanis along with the next two generations born in the mean time are still stateless. About 300 thousand of these people are living in miserable conditions in 70 camps scattered in various regions of Bangla Desh. There hopes of repatriation to Pakistan have been exploited by different governments and political parties every now and then. The Secretary General of Stranded Pakistanis General Repatriation Council (SPGRC) Mr. Haroon ur Rasheed in a recent interview disclosed that Gen. Zia ul Haq was committed to repatriate these people and a Rabita Trust was established in 1988 for this purpose but unfortunately he was killed in the plane crash.
Listen to the interview of Haroon ur Rasheed with Dr. Mujahid Ghazi from ABN Chicago this last week
He also said that the only other person who was sincere was Nawaz Shareef, who started the repatriation by providing houses in Mian Chunnoo in Punjab. After only 325 persons of first 56 families were repatriated his government was taken over by General Musharraf and the whole matter went into cold storage.
He also said that if Mutahida Quami Movement would have desired this issue could have been resolved very easily. He said that repatriation of Pakistanis in Bangla Desh was the foremost clause in the manifesto of MQM from the beginning. He said he had a discussion with Dr. Farooq Sattar during Pervez Musharraf’s rule. He claimed that Dr.Farooq Sattar said that the Sindhis are not willing to accept these stateless people and since we are in partnership with these people in the government it is difficult for MQM to demand repatriation. He said a lot of divided family members are voters of MQM and it is pity that they are being ignored.
I asked Haroon Rasheed about the recent move of Bangla Desh government of giving citizenship to the people in these camps. He said it is nothing but a scam. He said that the BD government has an eye on the property where these camps are located and they want to dislodge us by giving so called citizenship. He said the government is not giving any assurance of education or jobs or return of our properties or jobs which we had prior to 16th December 1971.
Today we are celebrating the rule of justice in Pakistan. A full 17 Judges’ Superior Court has declared the National Reconciliation Ordinance unconstitutional. All cases of corruption, murder, kidnapping, extortion and other irregularities are ordered to reopen. Whole nation is celebrating the victory of civil society and judiciary.
I wish a full bench of our respected judges do a hearing of a case of people who are forgotten and reopen their case too. These are the people who are forced to live in 8 x 8 cubicles, with their children and grand-children, in unhygienic and miserable condition. A bench which could examine the fact that for an average of 600 people there are 3 restrooms and people have to wait hours in lines to use them.
A full court reference which could examine the factors responsible for forcing the Pakistani women in those camps to sell their dignity and honor to overcome poverty and hunger. A bench which could examine the 50% infant mortality rate in these camps along with the prevalence of TB, Typhoid, measles and cholera. A panel of judges who could call witnesses from these camps and examine who is responsible for the death of 2500 children due to exposure to cold in winter last year.
Most importantly I wish Chief justice of Supreme Court use his Suo Moto to initiate inquiry as to who is behind the conspiracy of getting this ordinance part of constitution:
16-A. Certain persons to lose and others to retain citizenship
(1) All persons who at any time before sixteenth day of December 1971, were citizens of Pakistan domiciled in the territories which before said day constituted the Province of East Pakistan and who:
(i) were residing in those territories on that day and are residing therein since that day voluntarily or otherwise shall cease to be citizens of Pakistan.
If this trial is ever conducted it would definitely declare us as the culprit. We the government, the opposition, the people, the civil society, the media, the intellectuals, the capitalists and the judiciary of Pakistan who is guilty of ignoring, forgetting and exploiting the misery of these 300,000 people
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to raise power tariff by 13.6 per cent from 1st January, the Water and Power Ministry Secretary Shahid Rafi announced on Monday.
According to Shahid Rafi, power tariffs were to be raised by 12 percent under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while 1.6 percent hike, withdrew last time, has also been included in the new rates.
The new tariff will also be applicable on the consumers, using less then 100 unit a month.
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BOMB BLAST AT 4:13 P.M 28/12/2009 AT LIGHT HOUSE INTERSECTION.
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