Dr. Syed Islmail Shah has been appointed as Member Telecom in Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom in the place of Dr. Mushtaq Bhatti who retired in February 2011. Dr. Shah has vast experience in the ICT industry and academics at national and international level. He is a Qualcomm certified trainer on 3G technologies and a Life Member of the Pakistan Engineering Council, Senior Member, [...]

We are a tech blog; hence we don’t speak much about other (humongous) social problems that we face in daily lives. For instance we never said that this KESC, IESCO or any other electricity company are worst possible businesses that exist on planet earth. They won’t provide you electricity for hours, for unlimited hours in fact, and now look at this KESC guy who is [...]

Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation’s website is found to be using Adsense on almost every page with bloopers as smallest possible font, iFrames and Google Translation for different languages. www.tourism.gov.pk is considered to be an official gateway to Pakistan’s tourism corporation and since it got .gov suffix so with great power, comes great responsibility and that is what they lack here. If you go through the [...]

In response to an open letter that was sent to PTA, Ministry of IT and Supreme Court, regarding the free and easy access of po*n websites in Pakistan, PTA has asked the complainant to send the list of po*n websites that are supposed to get blocked, said a news report published today in ‘The News’. Citing the Director General, Law and Regulations, newspaper writes: PTA is [...]

According to a survey conducted by LirneAsia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank, Pakistan has topped in Asia Pacific for having best telecom regulatory environment. Pakistan topped the charts by hitting 3.3 TRE scores. LirneAsia says that the TRE (Telecom Regulatory Environment) Survey asks senior level stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness of the telecom regulatory environment in the fixed, mobile and broadband subsectors along [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued orders today to revert the license suspension notices of 3 LDI Operators issued by the authority on 30 June 2011, citing the Sindh High court stay orders granted to Redtone, Worldcall and Multinet, said a statement sent to us by LDI consortium. Statement said that PTA, in it’s today notice, directed all  of the aggrieved operators be restored immediately. Check [...]

‘Power of Social Media’ is a vastly discussed topic which, in my opinion, needs no more explanation at the moment. In Pakistan where ‘social media’ has already breached enough through our veins, we usually mean Facebook by social media. Facebook, in no doubt, is providing an unmatched platform, at the moment, to the individuals as well as organizations. Be it an advertising campaign or awareness movement, Facebook [...]

Apart from going political, Imran Khan has been very active these days. Be it a motivational speech or gathering youth to get its rights, Imran Khan is trying everything. Earlier we had seen Imran Khan appearing in the TEDx event recently held at Karachi. This time he has appeared in the first ever webinar of Pakistan. For those who wonder what actually the webinar is, [...]

There has already been a lot of discussion on the penetration of obscene content in the society. Considering the young ones, we did a story in past to raise the voice against this circulation of p*rn content. And not so long ago, once again we suggested the concerned authorities towards this serious issue and may be this is the time we all are in a [...]

Hosted with COMSATS, Pakistan’s Navy’s website that is responsible for recruiting through online system is reportedly down, due to excessive use of bandwidth. Following is the message being displayed at website: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. We wonder why government websites with almost unlimited funds go for limited [...]

An alarming flaw which was recently pointed out here at ProPakistani about online NTN verification system at  FBR’s website has been rectified now. Earlier, as we  had discussed, FBR website was exposing all personal and sensitive details of taxpayers by merely inputting his/her CNIC. Thumbs up to FBR guys that they took notice and managed to do possible measures to overcome the flaw. Now you can get NTN number of any individual, which [...]