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Who Actually Recorded Musharraf-Benazir Calls?

“The Way of The World” by Ron Suskind has given new dimensions to the political talks in Pakistan. Ron Suskind, well-known and award winning author, has provided the “details” of intensively discussed “Deal” between Musharraf and Late Ms. Benazir Bhutto.
Content of the book has added more fuel to debates that are being conducted on coalition’s [...]

CIO Pakistan Officially Launched in Karachi

CIO Pakistan Magazine has been launched officially yesterday (August 05, 2007) in Karachi. CIO is considered as the world’s largest business technology leadership magazine, which is being printed in over 35 countries globally and will now be printing locally in Pakistan to help highlight and support our local technology Industry.
Besides the launch the event also [...]

Nokia Cuts Handset Prices

Nokia has announced price cut for many of its handsets this week and putting further pressure on its rivals’ already thin profits.
Mobile phone manufacturers are already going through an increasingly tight battle for market share as demand for pricey phones has started to slow in developed and even in developing countries.
Nokia made the steepest price [...]

Cellular Companies urge higher APC Revenues instead of sharing it with USF

All cellular companies of Pakistan have proposed Ministry of IT and Telecom to eliminate USF’s share in APC (Access Promotion Charge) and let cellular companies enjoy all of APC to increase their revenues and lowering ARPU levels.
APC or Access Promotion Charge is the portion of revenue that currently equals US 0.05 $ per minute on [...]

Mobile Phones Disallowed While Driving in Islamabad

Islamabad Traffic Police, at last has made this a rule that “Any driver caught on mobile while driving will be fined a sum of Rs. 500 per instance from Today (August 1st, 2008)”.
Due to this ban, we may see a rise in hands free phone devices.
Via [Islamabad Metblogs]
law is introduced to minimize the accidents caused.
A [...]