Malik Naureed Awan and MMA Group of Companies Exposed as Scam in Pakistan

The owner of MMA Airlines and many other companies such as the name of MMA have been exposed to be fraud. It is being claimed by TV channels that the owner Malik Naureed Awan is an international fraudster who has fled dubai due to his illegal work.  If you got a chance to be in Islamabad over the recent months, you must have seen...

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Minhaj-ul-Quran Website Minhaj.org Gets Down

Those of you trying to access http://minhaj.org may have noticed that this website is undergoing some problem for last 24 hours now. minhaj.org is down and it is failing to receive a 200 OK HTTP status code as a response at the moment. This means that the website is currently unavailable and down for everybody (not just you). Minhaj-ul-Quran...

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Etisalat Group CEO, Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar Elected to GSMA Board

Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Group, Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar has been elected to the GSM Association (GSMA) Board. Mr. Julfar joins 24 other global CEOs and senior executives reflecting the largest operator groups as well as smaller independent operators with global representation. GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators...

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Why Do Foreign Online Withdrawals Get Delays and How to Receive Funds Timely

Ever wonder why does it take so much time for funds to arrive in you local account in Pakistan or any other part of the world. When you withdraw money online from your abroad account (whether it is forex trading account or any other simple transaction) and wait for its arrival in your debit card or credit card where sender party claims...

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Get Free Downloads of WhatsApp and Other Apps for iPhone and iPad

As shared permanent opportunity to download highly paid apps of iPhone and iPad for free, today we’re adding several other apps and games to our list, including the popular Game Your Video, and the WhatsApp Messenger app, which are currently absolutely free. Following is the list of the apps (just click link to download) just in case...

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Wateen CEO Participates in SAP Conference on Digital Marketing

Wateen Telecom, Pakistan’s leading converged communications provider, recently participated in the prestigious Digital Marketing Conference 2012, held in Karachi on 18th December 2012. The Digit conference was held under the auspices of the Pakistan Advertisers Society as a platform to bring together Pakistan’s marketing and advertising...

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Get iPhone and iPad Free Downloads of Highly Paid Halfbrick Games and Other Apps

Australia-based app-maker Halfbrick Studios announced yesterday a massive end-of-the-year celebration sale.  For the next 24 hours, all of their games, on both the iPhone and iPad, is completely free. The sale is only for 24 hours, so expect it to end early tomorrow morning. This is amazing but what about...

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Google to Drop Exchange ActiveSync Support for Gmail

For iOS and other non-Android devices, Gmail account syncing is about to get a lot tougher. The Mountain View company has just announced that it will be ditching support for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol next month as part of its ‘Winter Cleaning’ initiative, reported idownloadblog. What’s Exchange ActiveSync? It is an...

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Be More Explicit in Search Query When Looking for Adult Material on Google, Not in Pakistan

To prevent users unknowingly tripping on adult content on its image search engine optimization, Google has improved its criteria to make adult pictures a little harder to find, reports CNET. "We are not censoring any adult content, and want to show users exactly what they are looking for - but we aim not to show se*ually-explicit results...

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Wateen Collaborates with Pakistan Advertisers Society to sponsor Digital Marketing Conference 2012

Wateen is looking to support worthwhile initiatives especially if they focus on technology. In this regard they have teamed up with Pakistan Advertisers Society as the official Wi-Fi partner at the Digital Marketing Conference, 2012. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Karachi on 18th December 2012. Pakistan Advertisers...

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Pakistan Hacks Foreign Ministry and 26 Other Bangladeshi Websites [UPDATED]

A cyber brawl started between Pakistani and Bangladeshi hackers when the latter hacked the official website of Punjab Assembly (PA) (www.pap.gov.pk) but Pakistani hackers regained control of the website and restored it within half an hour. Bangladeshi hackers, calling themselves “Cr4ck-Br4iN, RoTating RoTor and Ablaze EVER”, used unknown...

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PTCL Holds Annual Sales Conference

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) held its day long Annual Sales Conference 2012 yesterday at a local hotel in Islamabad. Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP) Commercial PTCL, Naveed Saeed and Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP )Human Resources PTCL, Syed Mazhar Hussain led the conference by sharing valuable insights...

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Wateen Shuts Down Coverage Map and Other Portals

Wateen broadband footprint just got disappeared from internet as Wateen stopped providing coverage information on its map at coverage.wateen.com. Currently Wateen coverage map website is accessible and live, however apparently as per the message “sorry the service is not available now” they no longer wish to provide coverage info to customers...

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PITB and MIC Lahore Organizes Boot Camp On Windows Azure

The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Microsoft Innovation Center Lahore (MIC) invite general public and organizations related to telecom sector at the boot camp on "Windows Azure".  The Boot Camp is organized for IT Pros & Software Developers of Pakistan. The objective of this boot camp is...

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Warid Joins White Ribbon Campaign to End Violence Against Women

Warid Telecom this year again joined hands with White Ribbon campaign which is aimed at spreading the message to end violence against women and girls in all its forms. Men and boys in their various roles as individuals, community members, leaders, educators, fathers, and family members have a responsibility and important role to play in...

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PTA: No decision to unblock YouTube

YouTube was restored in Pakistan by some ISP's as per news appeared on GEO News, Dunya TV and some other channels, they even sent messages to their subscribers for the sake of breaking news that PTA has lifted ban on YouTube even without verification. Update: There has been no decision to unblock YouTube nor was it officially opened...

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No Elections in Pakistan - A Patriotic Caretaker Government is The Right Option

Before we start it merits mentioning here that we as Pakistanis should be unbiased for the sake of Pakistan. Most of you might not like this but to us this does really make sense considering the situations we are in. Right to information of everyone of you, remains the purpose of this article. PTI supporters want that one chance...

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Mobilink to Invest $1b to Enhance Nationwide Network

Mobilink has already invested over $3.9 billion till date as part of its vision to reshape lives through connectivity. Mobilink will be investing over $1 billion towards enhancement of its voice and data services, paving the way towards introducing 3G services as soon as it is licensed in Pakistan, said Jo Lunder, Group CEO, VimpelCom...

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PTA: Who Handles Your Website?

It feels good that Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has started the URDU version of its website www.pta.gov.pk, but it still hurts to know about many things that PTA website lacks that needs to be available on the website. PTA remains unable to recognize the users platform whether it is web version, or...

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PTA Suspends 789 SIMs Activation System

Verification system 789 has been suspended on the directives of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and hundreds of thousands of new SIMs could not be activated on the networks on Friday, reported Daily Times today. This is the first time in the history of the country as the SIMs activation was stopped by mobile phone operators...

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