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DATE: Sunday, 20th July 2008
VENUE: KARACHI MARRIOTT HOTEL
TIME: 9 am – 6 PM
A must-attend event! Some of the leading IT companies in Pakistan are looking for fresh graduates and experienced professionals. They will all be at the P@SHA Career Expo waiting for Computer Science, […]
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Recognized as one of the world’s leading Management & Technology Consultants, BearingPoint have shown their commitment to the support of Human Resource in the technology sector by taking on the National Lead Sponsorship of the P@SHA Career Expo 2008.
BearingPoint specialists in Project Management, Infrastructure, Finance, Telecom, Human Resource, and other career building domains will be […]
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Thank you Adnan Agboatwalla and PixSense for yet again sponsoring the Startup Insiders Session. This session will take palace at the P@SHA Career Expo in Ambassador 1, Karachi Marriott Hotel on July 20 from 4 pm - 6 pm.
By popular request the session will focus on demystifying a Business Plan. What are the first steps […]
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Facilitators: Imad Qamar & Fariha Akhtar
Date: July 20, 2008
Time: 12 pm - 1 pm
Venue: Ambassador 3, Marriott Hotel Karachi
What is it about?
It will be an interactive 1 hour conference highlighting various aspects of CSS and XHTML concepts and their uses in the field of web development. It will serve as a good brainstorming session for […]
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Facilitators: Imad Qamar and Fariha Akhtar
Date: July 20, 2008
Time: 12 pm - 1 pm
Venue: Ambassador 3, Marriott Hotel Karachi
What is it about?
It will be an interactive 1 hour conference highlighting various aspects of CSS and XHTML concepts and their uses in the field of web development. It will serve as a good brainstorming session for […]
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User Interface Design SIG
Facilitator: Mohtashim Ahmed
Date: July 20, 2008 Time: 2 pm - 3 pm
Venue: Ambassor 3, Marriott Hotel Karachi
What is it : A 45 minute interactive session discussing the basics of user interface design principles , with more focus on web applications.
To a person using an application, the user interface is the […]
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This year at the P@SHA Career Expo we are introducing Special Interest Groups. It is meant to bring together small groups of enthusiasts in a particular interest group together to share ideas, show off new technologies , evangelize and basically learn from each other and excite each other with the potentials in the wonderful world […]
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Some brilliant and talented CEOs have signed up as Career Counsellors for this year’s P@SHA Career Expo in Karachi at Marriott Hotel on Sunday, but we need more. If you are a CEO or in senior management, email me at president@pasha.org.pk and volunteer your time to advise and guide young graduates and professionals on the […]
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Privacy International and the UK’s NO2ID launched a campaign to show the dangers of the collection of fingerprints into central government databases. They offered a reward for the first person to collect and submit the UK Prime Minister’s and Home Secretary’s fingerprints. This was done to raise the awareness amongst politicians of the dangers of […]
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You will rarely find me attending a wedding but this was one I could not say no to. When Ashraf Kapadia, Managing Director of Systems Ltd and Immediate Past President of P@SHA, comes over and personally invites you to his only son’s wedding, there is no way you can say no. Add to that the […]
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Tell me, can something like this be remotely considered entertainment? No I am not crazy. I have a reason for asking this question.The other day as I headed home from work after what had been a pretty harrowing day with back-to-back meetings, only 15 minutes to gobble down some fruit at around 3 pm (and […]
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Human Resource has been identified as the key focus area for the further growth of the ICT sector in Pakistan. P@SHA has been holding its annual Career Expo in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad for the past 3 years. This year the series starts with the first event taking place in Karachi on July 20, 2008.The […]
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Bytes4All and P@SHA and holding two events in Lahore and Islamabad on the issue of Privacy which should really concern us all.The first event will be an Open Forum on Privacy which will be held at FAST-NU in Lahore on July 11 from 10.30 am for about 2 hours.The second event is a National Workshop […]
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All those who have been writing to find out about the next SI session, here is some good news. After a bit of a break we are back on track. SI#9 will be held in Karachi on July 20 at the Marriott Hotel in Ambassador 1 from 4 pm to 6 pm.This will be held […]
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I thought it might be nice to bring to you over a period of time the faces of the local IT industry - a few at a time. Those of you who know these people may add your views about them if you so wish. I will only do a one-liner that, in my opinion, […]
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During a chat with several CEOs of IT companies in Karachi recently, most of them were heard to rave about the brilliant young, and talented teams that they have working for them and how they were constantly adding on new youngsters who brought along with them fresh new ideas and a zeal to succeed.However, a […]
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There was a time when IT companies in Pakistan were reputed to pay low salaries and operate out of dingy home or make-shift offices. It appears that time has long gone and many companies are growing and moving into independent campuses and spiffy offices. Of course we still have start-ups that are cropping up in […]
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What’s the story of the 3 covers, Mohammad Hanif was asked, at a ‘breathing-space-only’ reading of his book “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” at The Second Floor on Sunday. He confessed that he had provided little input on the covers - it was mostly the publishers decision.His personal preference is the one in the middle […]
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Emails are being sent left, right and center by Osama Manzar and his colleagues announcing the launch of Manthan Award South Asia 2008 recognising Best ICT & e-Content Practices and Innovations for Development.If you are an E-Content creator or innovator from Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Maldives; Nepal; Pakistan or Sri Lanka, please note that if […]
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I was watching Ankahi the other day on Samaa Television - Faisal Qureshi focused on the Impact of Art (or rather the lack of it) on our society. He said that art and sculpture appeared to live in art galleries and museums or in private households and is not visible to the public. They are […]
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It all started when I phoned Sabeen to wish her Happy Birthday and asked her where she was going to be in the evening. That is when she told me that Geo was recording a panel interview of Sabiha Sumar regarding her latest documentary Dinner with the President.For those who have not heard of Sabiha, […]
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Amaar Ikhlas is an acquaintance I have just made through my blog. If his startup, a design and web development studio, based in Lahore is going to take the same path that his Free monthly magazine ‘The Fourth Article’ seems to follow, I for one will certainly be watching them with great interest. The magazine […]
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At the Dawn Banking & Technology Conference yesterday, one of the speakers kept referring to me as Doctor Saheba. He said it so many times during his speech, and then again during Q&A, that at the end of the session, even I began to wonder if I had got a doctorate at some stage when […]
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Young people coming back from Universities like Stanford, Columbia, Caltech, McGill, MIT, Cornell, Duke, etc. and setting up IT companies in Pakistan is becoming quite the norm. Techlogix, Sofizar, Alchemy, VahZay, Amaana, Si3, Lootmaar, Trivor, PixSense, Folio3 and Ikonami are to mention a few. This is not to belittle our own home-grown talent who are […]
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I couldn’t help smiling the other day when I saw Imran Zia (CEO of VahZay) trying to pitch the cool features of the iPhone to Monis Rahman (CEO of Naseeb Networks) and, as you can see, he probably has a convert on his hands.Yesterday at a meeting of P@SHA CEOs in Lahore, I was […]
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No matter how tired or stressed you are, there are some people you just have to meet if you are visiting their city - sustenance for the intellect, food for the soul.Of course this doesn’t mean one should skip lunch so when Zafar Khan invited me to Stevie’s Wok, a Chinese restaurant that is the […]
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I believe Badar Khushnood, Google’s Consultant in Lahore, used to think I was a nice person. But this is true no more. What have I done to get in his bad books? Nothing very atrociious by my standards but I will let you be the judge.Whenever I am travelling, I try and utilise every moment […]
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Jawwad Farid and Amer Hashmi caught on camera yesterday . Amazing , isn’t it, the concentration with which those steaks are being attacked!
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Those of you who have been hankering for my job might as well know what awaits you. The word “rest” does not exist in our dictionary.This is a picture of some of the P@SHA CEC members who met at the NetSol Technology Park on Sunday for a meeting to discuss ongoing strategy (sorry Shehzad you […]
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The NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) continues to surprise me. I remember on my first visit there a few months ago, I was totally floored by the number of young people with brilliant start-up ideas and the passion to carry them through.Last week I attended my first Corporate Advisory Council Meeting […]
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In a country of 90 million young people, isn’t it amazing that the Budget does not even mention the dynamic Information Technology area. The least we were expecting was the removal of the 15% GST from computer equipment, exemption from loadshedding for the IT sector similar that which has been made available to the Banking […]
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A visit to the new offices of Sofizar in Lahore revealed some very interesting sights. The dude who donned this T-shirt and these unusual boots was none other than my friend Zafar Khan, the CEO of Sofizar - yes yes he is a friend now since he not only gave me a couple of TicketNest.com […]
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This group of CEOs - Amer Hashmi of Si3, Faisal Khan of Net Access, Sultan Hamdani of Maison Consulting and Rehan Allahwalla of Super Technologies - adjourned from one restaurant at the PC in Karachi (after having met there for the last P@SHA CEO Lunch) and moved into the Coffee Shop.Must have been quite an […]
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On a flight to Islamabad last week, I heard an American gentleman ask his Pakistani host if there was an hour’s difference between Karachi and Islamabad. One can forgive the poor chap for being confused. After all, PIA has not yet fixed its clocks and passengers can still see the old time on aircraft screens.Is […]
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At a recent meeting of the Asian Oceania Computer Industry Organization (ASOCIO), I noticed something very significant which should possibly start to make men in the region a wee bit nervous.Four of the regional IT associations were represented at the ASOCIO Plenary meeting by women (left to right in the above picture are Ms. […]
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As World No Tobacco Day was commemorated all over the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) released some photos. This one disturbed me the most.Over the years, I remember telling a number of people off for holding infants in one arm while they held a cigarette in the other hand. Did they know much harm […]
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This is what happens when there are parallel events taking place in one city. At WCIT 2008, apart from the main event, there were a dozen other events taking place simultaneously that week.They had told us that WCIT 2008 incorporated a congress to address global impact issues, a Link Program for business matching that includes […]
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So what does it mean? It means letting the fish nibble on the dead skin of your feet as part of the healing process. The Kenko Reflexology & Fish Spa at the Pavilion Shopping Mall in Kuala Lumpur offers this “spa experience like no other” with prices starting at RM30 (Rs. 600).I learnt about this […]
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The School of Leadership is showing Taare Zameen Par on the big screen on Saturday 24th May 2008.They are selling the tickets for this on Lootmaar. All the money raised will go towards the enablement of specially abled children, and for each ticket sold, 1 ticket would be given to a especially abled child so […]
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Vint Cerf was at WCIT 2008 in Kuala Lumpur as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google but most of the world know him better as the Father of the Internet. Sitting there listening to him yesterday, I couldn’t help but reflect on my first experience with the Internet - how I had […]
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I hadn’t known that John Gage of NetDev, Schools Online and Sun Microsystems fame was going to be in KL for this conference so when I found out I made sure I would be in the first two rows and wide awake to listen to what he had to say. He was on a panel […]
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These two young girls were amongst 400 young volunteers who were dressed in these colourul shirts, on the back of which were the words “WCIT 2008 Volunteer - May I assist you?”They certainly lived up to these words. The young people were everywhere on all 4 days - smiling, offering their assistance and making […]
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I thought I was going to be the only Pakistan delegate at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2008 in Kuala Lumpur. Imagine my surprise therefore when I landed in KL and got into the car the organizers had provided. There were two men in the car - they looked as if they were […]
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On May 18 2008 P@SHA joined the ranks of associations from 60 other countries from around the world when it was unanimously accepted as a member of the World IT Services Alliance (WITSA).The World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) is a consortium of over 60 information technology (IT) industry associations from economies around the […]
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Vodafone announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the […]
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No this isn’t another story of me nearly falling off an escalator again. It is actually the title of a new book released under a Creative Commons License. Authored by Ansar Muhammad and Rahim Hasnani, this book tries to explain, in a story-telling style, the key concepts of managing large software development projects.Ansar Muhammad holds […]
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The Qatar Foundation has announced a worldwide competition - the Stars of Science Competition - to find and support the development and funding of original, creative new inventions (in any field) by young inventors of Arab origin and others. The website actually says only young Arabs but in the information leaflets and emails that they […]
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My visit to any city is never complete unless I am able to visit its main hub of gadgetry. That would be unforgiveable. So the first chance I got, I took the train to Lok Yat Plaza and Imbi Plaza - both within a few metres of each other and rumoured to be havens for […]
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I went out last night. Needed to get out of the hotel where I have been cooped up for the past few days. The Roundtable is in the Ballroom of the hotel where I am staying - the Seri Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.I decided to take the Light Rail instead of a cab. Always […]
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IP is being created within the Pakistan IT industry as more companies are developing products and there is an ever-increasing number of idea entrepreneurs who are making their mark on the technology scene. Hence when I was invited to attend the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Roundtable which focused on Software Copyright, I felt it […]
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