Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 4, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Businesses in Pakistan are now making themselves ready for internet; many of them have already proved their presence on internet. Similarly, Print Media organizations in Pakistan are excessively investing their time and workforce to make themselves available on internet.
Newspaper readers, specifically Urdu newspaper readers have multiple options to remain updated with happenings in conventional way. They can now read newspapers online exactly the same way as they appear in print version.
Daily Jang, Dawn, Daily Jinnah (Jinnah is currently offline due to maintenance) and Daily Express update their e-versions daily. Good thing about these papers is, that you can access back dated newspaper editions as well. You would be amazed to know that Daily Express has record of every edition published since July 22, 2006, rest of papers offer 7 days’ record.
- Dawn: http://epaper.dawn.com (Free Registration Required)
- Jang: http://ejang.jang.com.pk/ (Free Registration Required)
- Express: http://express.com.pk/ (No Registration Required)
- Daily Jinnah: http://epaper.dailyjinnah.com/ (No Registration Required)
- Daiky Waqt: http://www.dailywaqt.com/ (No Registration Required)
So give these free online resources a try, and let me know if there is any other paper also offering its e-version.
Meanwhile, check following scan of front page from Dawn from 2020 (Got this image from WCCFtech.com)
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 3, 2008 at 6:31 AM
Geo TV has been airing a famous Islamic TV Show named as “Aalim Online”, which in fact inspired me to name this post as “Peer Online”. (I just took the name, other wise there resembles nothing between this particular show and my this post)
Businesses in Pakistan are in state of transformation, which are turning their concentration towards the internet now, where they obviously get more target audience, hence more leads converting into sales. Though we lack extensive e-commerce infrastructure in our country, but even though medium and large sized businesses are demonstrating their existence on web.
Similarly, our Peers have started adopting internet too, and now they are broadcasting their publicity messages on internet; mainly through BULK emailing; but soon we may expect plenty of websites dedicated to these Peers and their quick solutions to every problems.
Apparently, these Peers spend handsome amount of money for broadcasting their email messages (let me mention here that many email broadcasters charge Rs. 5000 for 10000 emails). These heavy advertisement budgets actually leave a question mark on their legitimacy and the claims they make in emails such as
- Solution to Every Problem
- Meet your love in only 7 days
- Make your husband obey you for rest of life and so on…
These emails normally leave a Mobile Number at the end as a point of contact…! While one must provide a physical address while doing a remote business. So things are quite confusing here…!
This is a very sensitive issue, so I don’t want to discuss it more, but I advice my readers to act sensibly when you get such an email with high claims and low rates.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on August 27, 2008 at 4:18 AM
Many of us don’t own credit card that means we are easily deprived of online shopping. Believe me; at times we find ourselves in deep trouble due to not having a credit card, and life seems impossible without credit card.
I am like many of you, who don’t like the idea of credit card. Just because of tons of service charges they apply for no good reason. So I had no credit card until few months back. Then I decided to start this blog and had to purchase a hosting server. So that was the time, when I came to know how important a credit card can be. Khair it’s a long story about how I managed to get my credit card and leased my server.
So the good news is that, United Bank Limited (UBL) has now started allowing their debit card holders to shop online with their Visa Debit Cards… yea!
So you can now use your UBL Wallet Visa to shop online! UBL is one of the few banks in Pakistan to offer its customers this value added feature, opening a whole new world of choices and convenience for customers.
So guys, go ahead and enjoy the convenience of online shopping. Simply call toll free at 0800-11825 to activate your UBL card.
Note: UBL Debit card comes with every debit account with United Bank Limited. So all you need is an account with UBL to get this facility. For details callL: 0800-11825
Features:
- No activation or annual charges - Facility available FREE OF COST!
- No extra paperwork required
- Nominal per session charges (Call helpline for details)
- Easily activated by calling toll free on 0800-11825
- UBL Wallet Visa card can be used at all international and local websites that accept VISA.
- Customer defined spending limit / duration for enhanced security
- Gold Card Daily Internet Shopping Limits :PKR 100,000
- Silver Card Daily Internet Shopping Limits :PKR 50,000
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 22, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Education boards in Pakistan have gone through a good transition over the time. Majority of these Education boards now offer SSC and HSSC results online. I am putting here the list of all education boards of Pakistan (let me know if I have missed any board).
You can call on Numbers given for these education boards to confirm the final date for Results Announcements for HSSC (11th / 12th) Classes. For your ease, i am offering my visitors to receive their SSC and HSSC results for all education boards in their email, and that too for FREE…
Results of SSC Part 1 and Part 2 are available at same websites.
SSC Part 1 Results for Karachi Board will be announced on October 20, 2008
Get Your SSC/HSSC Results in your Email for FREE (Fill below form)
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Note: Results Via Email will be delivered only after official announcement by respective Education Boards. We may get late in replying you due to high load. In that case please check your result online from following websites - However we are trying our best to email all results
Karachi Board of Secondary Education (SSC)
Website: http://www.bsek.edu.pk/
Tel: 021-6610065
(Karachi Board Website is having some issue, Call this number 021-6610065 or, wait for the website to start working. Also you can fill above form to get your result in your email)
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Hayderabad Board
To Check HSSC Results for Hayderabad Board : http://www.bisehyd.edu.pk/
Tel: 0221-9260277-78-79-81-82
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Rawalpindi Board:
To view SSC and HSSC Results for Rawalpindi Board online:
http://www.biserwp.edu.pk/Result.asp
Tel: (92) 51-9290529
Fax: (92) 51-9290552
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Faisalabad Board
To Check HSSC Results for Faisalabad Board http://www.bisefsd.edu.pk/Result.aspx
Tel. 042-9200677, 042-9200836
Fax. 042-9200679
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Lahore Board
To Check HSSC Results for Lahore Board http://www.biselahore.com/
Tel: +92-42-9200192-7
Fax: +92-42-9200113
HSSC (Part 1, Inter) result will be announced on September 15, 2008 At 10.00 A.M
HSSC (Part 2, Inter) result will be announced on August 15, 2008 At 10.00 A.M
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Federal Board
To Check HSSC Results for Federal Board : http://www.fbise.edu.pk/result.html / http://61.5.145.18/
Tel: +92-51-9250651, +92-51-9250666 and +92-51-9250608
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Multan Board:
To Check HSSC Results for Multan Board : http://www.bisemultan.edu.pk/
Phone No: 061-9210029
Fax No: 061-9210012
View HSSC (Part 1/ 11th class) Results for 2008 on 15-09-2008
View HSSC (Part 2/ 12th class) Results for 2008 on 15-08-2008.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 19, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Empty slot for Online PR Distribution service in Pakistan has been filled with the launch of PR Palace that claims to be Pakistan’s first Electronic Press Release, Photo News and Video News Release Distribution Service for Professional Communicators.
This is going to be a very productive start for the public relation managers, who are seen struggling while circulating their Press Releases. PR Palace, launched in private beta, offer businesses to post PRs on their website that will also be distributed electronically on daily bases, for free, to a mailing lists of Journalists, Media Managers, Key Officials of Public/ Private Sector, Civil Society Organizations, Industry Professionals, Universities and Students, etc.
The Beta website can be seen here: www.PRpalace.com, and the official launch is expected at ITCN ASIA 2008.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 18, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Shopping on Internet is gaining momentum in Pakistan, but only for cellular numbers. Following Zong’s Book Your Number Service, now Warid Telecom has offered a similar service, through which you can buy Warid’s number online.
To book your Warid Number online Click here
Highlights of Warid Online Number Booking Service
- You can buy Warid numbers with 0321 code, yea thats good news who were left behind and were not able to get 0321 numbers. Along with, numbers with 0322 and 0323 codes are also available
- You will have to Pay Rs. 250 Per SIM
- option of selecting top 20 Mobile numbers
- You can buy for your favorite number as well (if it is not taken)
- Options to pay via scratch card (credit card payments not accepted yet)
- You can search by exact number, or a prefix (like a number that start with 786) or a suffix (for example you can search all available numbers that end with 786)
- This service is only for Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 9, 2008 at 6:08 PM
ProPakistani.com is now almost 2 months old, and during this I have been getting tremendous response from my friends and readers. In previous couple of months, I had been keenly focusing various opportunities through which I could engage some revenues to meet my server expenses. But, we all know that earning money online is not that easy as it looks, especially when your blog or website is only couple of months old.
I consistently remained in discussion with my friends and fellow bloggers regarding the ways to earn money through advertisements and other ways. At last I was introduced to this payperpost by Nayni, and found that this programme can satisfy my needs by all means.
Advertisers know that only taking a message to the public may not earn them achievement, hence now they are looking for bloggers and other root level publishers to discuss their products; which is in fact good for both advertisers and their customers as users get detailed review of any product/service and in a way more authentic one.
Xxxxxx is a platform where you write reviews and your opinion about certain products, blogs, mobile phones, teleocm services and so on. And you are free to express positively or negatively, I mean you can write both positive and negative sides of the product.
So if you are a bloggers, and you are trying to monetize your blog, then payperpost is an ultimate stop for you. The good thing I found about payperpost is that there are tons of advertisers to choose from, meaning that you never run short of sponsored posts.
So hurry up, and signup now and collect your share from this emerging media of advertising.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 3, 2008 at 7:10 AM
If you are running a blog or a website that caters to Pakistani audience, like mine, then you must be missing lots of potential revenues despite you are using ADSENSE, AdBright, eTology or any of other available ad networks.
The main reason for very low CTR (Click Through Rate, the rate at which ads are being clicked) is because ads being displayed by AdSense or other ad networks are of no interest to our local visitors. Let’s look into this snapshot (from ProPakistani.com) that displayed 4 ads and I see all of them are of no use for a visitor from Lahore; who is actually more of interested in products and services offered in Pakistan.
I personally had been badly missing a localized ad network, which could bring in local publishers and advertisers. There is no doubt that, in Pakistan, online advertising is not that popular, but the potential is there. As the trends are changing we can expect huge online media buying in coming days, specifically from large multi nationals and eventually the local service providers.
Led by Mr. Aamir Sarfraz, Bramerz (Pvt) Ltd launched this Pakistan’s first ad serving network, named as clickClick, with an aim to bridge the gap between the local advertisers and web publishers;
Process for signing up and other procedures seem quite similar to other ad networks, however the edge that clickClick can get you local advertisers is going to make some difference for publishers and website owners in Pakistan. They have taken aboard few publishers and advertisers already; however my application is still pending. Hope they are going to process it soon.
“In addition to our own tweaks that make our solution better than anything out there, we’re promoting local content. Local advertisers and local publishers. After all, it’s all about who and how you network. That’s the kind of support we’re extending to the local industries” read a PR from Bramerz.
As I am not signed up with them yet, so no words about CPC or CPM rates, but my expectations are high.
For more details for publishers click here
For details regarding advertisers click here
Signup for clickClick account here
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