Pakistan not to Participate in GITEX!: ProPakistani

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 04:18 AM PDT

Pakistan not to Participate in GITEX! is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan will not have its pavilion in GITEX this year (in Dubai from October 17 to 21) as PSEB has failed to gain required approvals from the government, as communicated to us by sources in industry.

GITEX is the only international event where Pakistani companies have been participating as a group under the umbrella of PSEB for last 10 years, hence is considered as only chance for local industry to meet the global clients.

PSEB used to setup Pakistan's country pavilion, every year in GITEX, while it offered 50 percent subsidy for local companies to participate in the event.

This is not going to happen this year and India is going to cash the situation to reap the benefits.

Apparently, it seems like budget remained a primary concern for disapproval, however, lack of government's interest in ICT sector is said to be a major factor.

Infamous bureaucratic procedures have confined the PSEB and ultimately the Pakistani companies to remain deprived of this business boosting opportunity.

This year at least 16 Pakistani ICT companies were to join JITEX. They were relying on PSEB's shoulders for their arrangements. But today, PSEB sent out an email informing these companies that PSEB will not go to GITEX.

“We were all prepared, we had announced our participation, we had PRs issued but its impossible for us to make arrangements at our own now, when there is only a week left. All prominent locations are taken at this point of time. Even if we manage to make it, surely we gonna get the worst possible stands”, told us a company who was to participate in GITEX.

No wonder, the government is busy in its political games and destroying the economy. One may ask, what is preventing the government to appoint an IT Minister – yes, we don’t have IT minister for over 2 years now. Like a character use to say tin a TV drama: “What a Country – What a Country”

Following was the letter sent to all ICT companies in Pakistan by PSEB;

Dear All,

With reference to PSEB participation in Gitex 2010, I regret to inform you that PSEB has not received the mandatory approval from the relevant government quarters despite all possible efforts.

No effort was spared by PSEB in attempting to ensure the participation of local IT companies in Gitex 2010. In an effort to reduce the cost, PSËB reduced its own space use to a chair and a desk instead of a full cubicle. In addition the visits of the Managing Director PSEB and Director International Marketing to attend Gitex were also cancelled to make the trip more affordable.

The selected companies apparently also lobbied the government quarters in order to obtain necessary permissions to Gitex. All these steps however were apparently still were not sufficient for the proposed participation to go through.

The participation therefore stands officially canceled. We are extremely sorry that we will not be observing a tradition that has been in practice for the last 10 years but we hope that you will understand our situation. We also regret the inconvenience it has caused to some of you who have started to make travel arrangements.

Regards

Manager Intl Marketing

Pakistan Army Officer’s Name Wrongly Used for Scamming: Letters to Editor

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 11:37 PM PDT

Pakistan Army Officer’s Name Wrongly Used for Scamming: Letters to Editor is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Army Officer Name Wrongly Used for Scamming

Hello,

I received following email that is like Nigerian scam. Now they are using Pakistani Col Name and pakdef.info site reference to seem it legitimate, where as Reply-To address (col.50s@rediffmail.com) is some Indian site. Also to mention, the header of this email shows that the email was sent from Germany/Poland IP address.

They have made up a story of Pakistan's origin to trap Pakistani internet users.

I think our readers must go through this email to must be told that this is just a scam, they must not reply to such emails.

Thank you,

Following is the email:

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 01:09:55 +0100 [05:09:55 AM PKT]
From: Col. Fareed
Reply-To: col.50s@rediffmail.com
Subject: Seeking Investment Partnership.

Dear Partner.

Request For Partnership Investment & Protection. Please do not think this is a junk mails, I plead for your tolerance and understanding. I have found myself in a situation that has made me to contact you in this manner. The situation is connected to Funds Investment Management outside my country.

My name is Yasir Fareed, (Col) in Pakistan Military. During our military offensive in South Waziristan against the Jundollah Militant Group, We discover a Safe Boxes that contains $ 76 Million Dollars that belongs to the Jundollah Militant Group which i believe they use in buying of weapons and ammunitions. At the end operation, We the top rank officers agreed to share the funds amongst us.

My share from the total funds was $ 14 Million I request for your speed assistance to evacuate my share of the money for partnership investment outside Pakistan for
Joint Investment.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this e-mail
as any leakage of this information will be too bad for me.

Please if this proposal is acceptable by you, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest including your most confidential contact details for quick
communication.

Reconfirm Your Acceptance.
Your Full Name:
Your Country full Address:
Comprehensive detail of your line of business:
Your Private Telephone and Fax:

Upon confirmation of the above requirements, I shall supply you with a copy of investment agreement ( MOU ).

Waiting for our urgent reply.
Thanks
Col. Fareed.
E-mail: col.f4505@rediffmail.com

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To whom it may concern,

I have extremely peeved at Ufone for the latest Uth ads that they are currently producing. They keep talking about being a mufta and the horror is only extended by the fact that they just showed their characters crashing a wedding.

This is the wrong thing to promote – a wedding is a family occasion and it is very wrong to go ahead and crash such an occasion for free food – i am a personal victim of such an incident only a few days ago.

This promotion of mufta culture is going to be embedded in the youngsters minds and by the time they grow up they will eventually become full time muftas and will think that it ok to evade taxes, beat up people, break the law etc.

It is very disappointing to see a company like ufone getting desperate enough to a)promote such a wrong mufta culture and b)not be able to discriminate between right and wrong just to promote their own agenda of increasing revenues.

Yours sincerely,

Owais Khan

Karachi

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