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Businessmen without foresight

Large businesses are run by the state. Smaller ones are privately owned. The privately owned have problems in their way conducting their affairs. Shopkeepers for instance will not have ready change, they will not have all the items one requires so customers have to go from one shop after another to purchase the things they need, instead of being able to buy everything they need from the one shop. Particularly in the case of general stores, the one which is successful is the one which is well supplied, provides discounts - particularly to regular customers and always has the right change. This ensures customer loyalty. A number of mobile service companies have opened in the past number of years - it has taken them some time to improve their standard of service. But even the improvement is still below international standards. For instance if someone is regular subscriber and has always paid his bills over several years - that subscriber is treated in the same way as someone who i

No sex please we are Pakistani

There is an organisation the initials of which are WAR - it stands of War Against Rape. Lots of people condemned the name of the organisation and said it should be seen, because it is shameful. The purpose of that organisation was as stated, it was to help women who have been victims and want justice. A great deal of coverage has been given to several women. The twisted values is that a woman deserves to be raped if she dares to be intimate with someone or if she has offended some influential men. An entire category of people who are abo ve the law and they rape with impunity, they cannot be stopped. This being said, the media is supposed to portray an asexual society which knows nothing about sex, detests sex or anything related to it. The anti-AIDS campaign is a complete failure because there is hardly any mention of sex - because of the fear of offending anyone. Sex is like something which the rich and powerful can talk about out loud, while the weak and impoverished have to

Karachi sinks

What happened in Karachi was not a natural disaster, it was a man made one. The city sank and no one is taking responsibility for it because there are bureaucrats and military officials everywhere - none of them are prepared to take the blame for their incompetence. Everyone knows that the military namely its Frontier Works Organisation was responsible for rebuilding the Clifton road and took over a year to do so because every military officer wanted his share in the kickbacks for building the road. Neither the Karachi government nor the Karachi Port Trust are to blame, the fault is with Frontier Works Organisation which built the Clifton Underpass which got flooded there was not drainage system - the reason why there was no drainage system is that Frontier Works Organisation will start rebuilding the Clifton roads again with a drainage system. But that will not do, because is greed is a disaease. The drainage system which is going to be built is going to so defective that it wil

Arrogance

The countries which had been occupied, enslaved and exploited to extreme poverty - by Europe are called Third World Countries. The occupiers are unrepentant and call themselves First World Countries. The wealth that Europe has today is all stolen. Now that the 'Third World' countries because of the terrible condition want to settle in Europe. But the Europeans and other 'First World' countries do not want them. The 'First Worlders' do not want to be reminded of the atrocities they committed, the looting and the pillaging which they carried out on a mass scale. When they save their loot in banks it was alright, today it is called 'money laundering'. 'Third Worlders' are always considered a threat, the truth is that 'First Worlders' are guilty and are afraid of reprisals. Extensive visa restrictions are imposed on 'Third Worlders' because once more of them enter 'First World' countries they would take away a large

Tax on talk

Talking is one means of communicating there are others - but list is too long - anyway the junta has to decided to tax it anyway. Such idiocy can only expected from a military regime. What has the army done for us. In the past 59 years it has lost two wars still it receives 95% of the budget money. Not to make the country stronger but to make the generals richer. The military is the biggest racketeer in the land.

PIA fares out of control

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) another corruption riven and extremely loss making organisation has in the past two months increased its international fares by 240% of all its destinations. It does not matter to the military regimes toadies those who run PIA and others, travel everywhere free - so it does not matter to them. If PIA thinks by increasing fares to this level will make it profitable it is seriously mistaken. People will be forced to travel by other means and if possible use other airlines. Whatever stupid reaspmPIA has to increase its fares by 240% is inexusable. The objective should be to make money by having more passengers not reducing the number of passengers. No one flies by PIA because its management is filled with blithering idiots who make tall claims of being profitable when in realithy they are losing money on every route. There cheaper airlines for every route. Besides the military regime has turned PIA into its personal carrier. When the absolu

Fighting cyber-crime

The Federal Investigation Agency have been given the responsibility to fight cyber-crime. To carry out such an endeavour requires tremendous resources and funds, which do not exist. The FIA does not have the resources to combat ordinary crime - the new responsibility would require divereting scarce resources to a sort of crimw which needs lots of manpower and lots of money. The maximum this FIA would probably do is keep a track of people who have write blogs and send emails condemning the military regime.