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Double-Take Software is presenting a series of seminars in the Middle East region with Microsoft and Intel on how to create disaster recovery solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and Hyper-V environments.
Attendees will have the opportunity to discover more about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 architecture, discuss features for high availability […]

Pakistan's foremost sculptor Shahid Sajjad at the Retrospective exhibition at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Feb 2010

My monthly column for Hardnews, India, also published in The News on Sunday, (March 7, 2010)
Feb 25, 2010
Beena Sarwar
“New Karachi literary festival hopes to turn page on bombs,” trumpeted a headline in the Independent, UK.
Inspired by […]

Pakistan Ordnance Factory needs Rs21bnISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ordinance Factory (POF) Wah is bordering on a financial crisis and needs immediate assistance to continue operations without a hitch. According to details the POF administration has told the government it urgently needs Rs245 million to run the works smoothly. Chairman POF, Lt Gen Shujaat Zamir Dar gave voice […]

CHINESE Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s remark, during a press conference at Beijing the other day, that his country has neither changed its policy on the Kashmir dispute nor would it abandon Pakistan in difficult times, is only an expression of the reality on the ground. The Chinese have gone out of their way to help […]

Being a resident of the twin cities of Islamabad/Rawalpindi, few days back my eyes caught a strange advertisement on the back of a local taxi. Here is what it said “Search on Google - Taxi Driver Asif Hussain Shah“.  My initial reaction was a  bit of indifference. However, later on when i was in front […]

ISLAMABAD (March 11 2010): The country’s trade deficit has narrowed by 19.45 percent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year with reduced imports and increased exports compared to the same period of last year. The trade deficit during July-February 2009-10 stood at US $9.422 billion against the deficit of US $11.698 billion […]

 
A young democracy reverts to corruption as a battle ensues between two Pakistan Government titans over a commission worth US$ 20 million  Pakistan hit a new high in corruption when ‘state actors’ joined a resourceful cartel to create a fake nationwide shortage in a major commodity – sugar – and made millions. Now some very powerful […]

Wednesday, 10 Mar, 2010

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani chairing the ECC meeting at the Prime Minister Secretariat. – Photo by APP.

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of federal ministers and senior finance ministry officials chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday was informed that the country’s financial position might improve by the end […]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has given one-year extension to Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha as Director General Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) with effect from the date of his retirement, a PM House statement said on Wednesday.

This cup of tea was served by: Pakistan First

 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has objected to New Zealand’s request that their Davis Cup tennis tie be moved to a neutral venue due to security concerns.
Pakistan is scheduled to meet New Zealand in an Asia-Oceania Group II semifinal from July 9-11, but New Zealand has asked the International Tennis Federation to move the tie […]

There is no one better human being than Mr. Tayyip who could have won the award. Recep Tayyip has helped Muslim causes all over the world, and helped to bridge gaps between Muslims and other cultures. For example, it was Tayyip who worked tirelessly to bring peace to the Middle East between Syria and Israel. […]

P@SHA and Google are on the road again. This time Badar Khushnood and I are headed for Islamabad. With the successful Karachi and Lahore workshops on “Marketing your software or technology online” behind us, there was a great demand that we run it in Islamabad.
There was no question about where we should hold it. The […]

Prime Minster Gilani, President Ahmadinejad, and President Karzai met in Tehran, alone, then in Turkey with all of Afghanistan’s neighbors (sans India) and finally in Lond with 61 other countries (where Delhi got what the Times of India called a second row seat). Pakistan’s Chief of Army staff visited Kabul last week. Mr. Karzai is visiting […]

The Bush (41) Administration blamed President Zia Ul Haq for duplicity and imposed sanctions on Pakistan for pursuing Nuclear weapons. During the Clinton Administration Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spurned $5 billion and refused to roll back Pakistan’s Nuclear program and publicly responded to Indian explosions (which turned out be atomic fizzles). The Bush (43) Administration […]