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Pakistan’s First Homemade Electric Car
Can somebody post a topic here for “First Electric Car in Pakistan”?
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Here is more info.
Alexander 212
The Real Leader
There are two types of leaders found in a society. The first type of leaders are those who have big issues, big bunkums and big promises. They always talk about a high profile issue. Thus they are publicized everywhere. They feather their nest by playing fool with the people and this is what they call “politics”. So these are the people who come in the front light but poor masses could never be able to get a real benefit from them.
On the other hand there is a second type of leader who is a real philanthropist. He has a higher yearning in his breast for providing relief to common man and has a pain of every individual in his heart. Such an act though doesn’t give him any personal fame but every citizen of a nation is equally benefited by his motivation. He makes every common man a hero in his own circle. The pomp worshipers though worship the first type of leader but the real well wishers of humanity are the second type of leaders.
But unfortunately the second type of leaders are very rare and perhaps in Pakistan they are totally eclipsed.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Bakhtawar Ali
Chitti Sheikhian, Sialkot
Shows for people with special talents
Re: Pakistani channel launches hunt for Pakistan-India singing sensations
I honestly think that Pakistan should be looking for a lot of young people with special talents such as singing, acting, etc.
I am one of them!
There should be talent shows and concerts. Actually, I HATE Indian or Pakistani music, I’m more interested in Hollywood! In fact, I know Western style better than our own! I’m a total western girl!
So please… Don’t waste people like me.. I mean, there must be a lot of young teens who want to have a career in music, acting etc… But they just want it to be of some other style.
So my point is, we should have shows in which, for example, people like me would have a chance to sing English songs(’cause honestly I don’t know any LOLLYWOOD or BOLLYWOOD song!) Hope you will understand!
xx Maddy xx
Demonising Pakistan
This is a very old post I guess, but I’m sure many people have noticed over and over. This is NOT about bridging the gap between Pakistanis and Indians. This movie is so sick and demonising of Pakistan it’s almost insulting.
In the movie the mother of this girl will say to the Indian guy:
”beta kya tumhari mulak mein sabb mard aise hote hain?” (as in ‘are all men in India like this good?’ — Giving the clear impression that Pakistani men are dirt and Indian men are better for Pakistani women…)
Hello???? Pakpositive??? There are many more Indian movies depicting some Indian guy ending up marrying a Pakistani woman. You’d think they’d ever show a Pakistani guy coming over to India, converting a Hindu girl to Islam and marrying her???? Not in a million years. And then the list of Indian movies demonising Pakistan goes on and on.
Where as the government banned Indian movies ages ago, private rental stores care more for the bollywood love in our people than for the insult and shame many of these movies will bring.
Hasnain
Cricket Horrors
When an American TV is to show some horror film, they announce that people of old age and heart patients should not see this film. So also should our TV do, when showing a match of our cricket team. Since our players are going to make such mistakes that when on the verge of winning, they would be sure to loose. Call it lack of confidence or match-fixing.
Our present cricket team is not half as good as the Australian and the Indian teams. There is not a 20% chance of winning the world cup. With the present entire PCB setup, selectors, and players, the entire team except a few, can be replaced. There is no dearth of talent. Injured players and out of form players including the captain should be replaced.
As I write this, with the television open before me, one of our fielders has caught an amazing catch which was bound to make a 4 at least, my heart leaps, then all of a sudden it seems there is a hole in his hands, for the ball finds its way out of them. A sigh escapes me. I shake my head, and return to my work.
KH
Land Reforms
The biggest menace that has had its evil effects on democracy, illiteracy, poverty in Pakistan is landlordism. The landlords of Punjab and vaderas of Sindh have been ruling this country since its inception. Land reforms are a must if we want to build a strong democratic country.
Who is going to bell the cat. One, the judiciary, particularly the Shariat courts can do it. Islam teaches us to spend whatever is beyond our needs, on the poor. The maximum land holding of a person should be two hundred acres, while the minimum should be twenty-five acres.
Secondly, how long can you keep the poor from snatching their rights which means a bloody revolution.
Thirdly, the takeover of the country by a dictator like Husni Mubarak of Egypt where land reforms have been carried out.
Kh
Blackwater and their friends
Blackwater remains the hot topic these days with no one any wiser listening to the pronunciations of all the experts. Well here is the truth to nail all denials and settle the issue once for all.
Blackwater came to Pakistan in 2007, with Mr Eric Prince meeting his potential helpers personally. The activities of two companies Kestral Logistics and Special Projects are dedicated to Capacity Building (Their Own!), servicing and supporting Blackwater (XE). These two companies are involved with USAID programmes.
After their parent Trading House was BLACKLISTED as reported in Nation on September 24, 2009, stories have started surfacing.
The trading company has previously done enormous business in the Defence area, some say its success has been unprecedented. But of late the Air Force, Navy and Army are unhappy with their self seeking ways and unhelpful approach. A well known businessman worried about their attempts to undermine the Submarine deal for the Navy claims that their strong defence team has broken up. The response of this company has been to set up a Trust “Faucet” through which the US AID, CNTPO, UNDP, they hope, will do business.
Their involvement with XE is however, well known and the Logistics and Special Projects Companies have only to be questioned to verify facts. The two companies own a warehouse in I-9 ( Does CDA care?) where there is tight security and no one is allowed. WPNs, Hummers, Arms and Ammunition are brought here with no End User specified. The companies have built Barracks and Killing Houses at Tarbela, Warsak and Gwadar for Blackwater, their clients. These facilities are on the ground and can be visited. The Companies also work with Customs, Coast Guards, Maritime Security, KPT etc. US funding is made available direct to these organizations with the help of the Logistics Company as confirmed by Finance Deptt insiders to a Citibanker.
No Govt or Official Agency is kept in the loop. The Presidents of these two companies based at F-8 and F-7, should be able to explain all this. The Logistics Company has also created a Security Company in Islamabad, “Global Responsibility”. Overseen by a Two Star and several One star Officers. They have hired SSG Commandos for whom Foreigners are arranging advanced training. Does this ring a Bell? Shades of the Inter Risk scandal? Blackwaters’ whereabouts should no longer be doubted.
As reported in Newspapers recently, these programs are run from USA, Washington and CENTCOM HQs Tampa where the CEO and a naval officer along with Mr Noriega, Eric Pendleton and CHRISTINA ROCCA mastermind all this at considerable cost.
(You may get confirmation by visiting either the warehouse or office on the addresses given above.)
Abdul Rehman
Good Governance
The words would need to be changed by myself again and again to keep this post publishable. Feel free to substitute the choicest of words from your own vocabulary. There could be a dozen or more topics that I could write about where good governance would be badly needed.
Could someone tell our esteemed ministers (no matter which one) that to blame the past 8 years or the ones before that would not solve anything. A saying goes “where there is a will, there is a way”.
Swat Exodus or the IDPs they can easily blame from Jinnah till Musharraf that they made the mess, who #$%$^& errr messed up, by not planning properly for handling them. Or was it again a fault of people before them that they do not plan anything.
I would for this post at least focus more on Electricity Crisis. Stop blaming the west. Stop blaming everyone else. Let’s start blaming ourselves. Why can’t an elected person (a Minister) be put to task, if they fail to increase the output in a given time. After all how hard would it be. I would like to think that to establish small generation systems (preferably green) would not take more than 4 months. After all if someone can privately order a windmill or solar panels and have them working for them within a short span of 2 months, why can’t they as being part of government sanction a 100 if not 1000 of these projects.
Heck the amount they are charging for each unit, i sometimes fear what would the electricity bill be if the electricity is there for the whole month.
Mujinks
Googled Positive News Pakistan and Wow!
All day I have had a bitter taste in my mouth, combined with this choking heavy feeling. Whatever I do, whatever I read gets overshadowed by the negative coverage our media broadcasts. I am all for freedom of speech, justice and bringing forth the truth… but… there are ways of going about things. Anyways that is altogether a different discussion.
As I was about to switch off my computer tonight I thought, “There is not one positive thing i have read or heard today.” Not wanting to sleep under this blanket of pessimism, I opened Google and typed positive news. Didn’t get a hit to my liking so did a second search and googled “positive news Pakistan”.
What i saw was not something i was expecting. An article or two is what I was expecting to get. But a whole site dedicated to positive Pakistan.
WOW!!!
Haven’t looked through the site as yet. Even finding such a site was enough to disperse all negativity. If your site is what I think it is then count me as a regular.
Just wanted to THANK YOU in advance for thinking of this.
Sharmeen
PakPositive: It’s been online for a while now, and you’re most welcome. Thank you. 
Pakistan Among Fastest Telecom & Data Services Growth Countries
Pakistan is mentioned as one of the fastest growing country for telecommunications in a recent UN report on technology. It is very encouraging to know that there is realization in Pakistan that mobile phones and mobile telecommunications can help developing countries like us to improve our economy. The report says specifically about Pakistan that “Some developing countries, though, have moved up considerably in the Index over the five-year period, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China and Vietnam. This is partly due to high mobile cellular growth, coupled with an increase in Internet users.”
Many new technologies, especially mobile data services, have taken a strong footprint in Pakistan. Wireless GSM devices are very popular amongst Pakistani consumers. Text Messages and multimedia messaging services (SMS, MMS, etc) have experienced tremendous growth. Like SMS, GPRS backed internet on cellular phone is also becoming quite popular. Unlimited GPRS and time-based hourly internet packages by Zong, for example, are appealing to more customers for mobile internet access.
According to a recent report by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Pakistanis, on average, exchanged 68.51 Million text messages per day during January-March 2008, a phenomenal rise with 85 million users in the country.
Ali Nizari
