Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Last month, My National ID card was expired. One week before expiry, I went to NADRA, Pakistan office on Abbot Road, Lahore. There was long queue in front of Ticket window. I went to inquiry office to confirm the procedure. The person on the insuquiry was very rude and did not guide me properly.
There were different people, who said that the inquiry counter officer and Ticket window officer both are not asking people for complete papers. Due to this they have number of trips to collect complete document for ID Card.
So, due to some other works, I left the NADRA office at that time.
After that, I went to NADRA office on November 3, 2008. It was 6:20 PM when I was there. Again there was a queue of 30 people. I also joined that queue.
From 7:30 to 8:30 was official break for Dinner. So, till 7:30 only 10 people could take TOKEN for ID Card.
After finish the break, The person on the Ticket window came back on 8:35 PM. I was lucky person that My number came before the end time which is 10 PM. It was 9:30 PM when I got my TICKET for ID Card.
I have entered into hall, Where again I did wait for 15 minutes for my number.
There were number of issues. There is a Board on the building where the slogan is “Computerized Shankhti Card – Sahoolat Ke Sath“. While
- There is no sitting place
- There is no shelter to cover from sun and rain
- The staff has no NAME badges. Now, If I have complaint from any person, I can’t tell exact person name just because nobody tagged with name.
- Don’t know, Why the person on Ticket Window is working very slow. He only gave Tickets to almost 40 people in 2.5 hours
I think, NADRA should have separate window for quick process for the peoples who want to renew their cards.
Also there should be facilites, like chairs, water etc. And need to trained people to work quickly.
Tags: NADRA, National Identicy Card, Pakistan
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
I have received very interesting picture made by Khaliq Khan.
Read “PTCL will charge local call on telephone inquiry 17” for detail
Tags: Pakistan, PTCL, Telecom
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Ah… very sad… Two bomb blast in the heart of Pakistan Lahore. This was 3rd time at Lahore in Year 2008. When bomb exploded in FIA building. It seems that a bomb was planted somewhere in the building,” local agency chief Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed told AFP.
City government Lahore said that the building is not able to stay. They also evacuated the people from other buildings near the FIA building. In FIA building at least 22 people were dead and around hundred peoples were injured. Almost 500 people were in FIA building when the bomb blast. This happened at 9:25am (approximately)
on same day another suicide bomber attacked on advertising agency in Model Town Lahore. In which 4 people were dead on the spot.
Last week, 5 people were killed when two suicide bomber blew up on the gate of Nevy College, Lahore.
Now Australia cricket team also canceled the tour in Pakistan due to same security issue.
Why this is happening in Pakistan. Is it due to wrong government policy or due to USA??? Who is behind this???
O ALLAH, PLEASE SAVE MY PAKISTAN and SHOW THE RIGHT PATH IN WHICH YOU AND YOUR NABI MAY HAPPY WITH US. AMEEN
Tags: Bomb Blast, Lahore, Pakistan, Suicide Attack
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
On January 08, 2008; Another column by Javed Chaudhry.
Tags: Javed Chaudhry, Pakistan
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Khalid chaudhry wrote this article. He wrote the point of view of former prime minister of Singapur Mr. Li Co`on U about Pakistan.
Tags: Khalid Chaudhry, Pakistan
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has introduced a new
package under which its subscribers will be able to make free long distance
nationwide calls.
The call can made to all PTCL landline and wireless phone (vfone) numbers for a
modest fee of Rs. 199 per month under the facility called “Pakistan Package.”
According to the Company sources, all of its customers will initially be provided this facility and if any customer do not wish to continue, it can de-activate the facility by simply calling the 1236 helpline 24 hours a day. The customer can either speak with an operator or use the computerized system (IVR) and can also visit any customer care center or revenue office.
An official at PTCL said a fair usage policy will be in place and added a customer exceeding 5,000 nationwide minutes in any month will be charged Rs. 2 for each subsequent minute.
He said with the introduction of this new package, the green package will be discontinued as off December 1, 2007. The official said this is a landmark change in the history of Pakistan’s telecom industry.”Now, businesses, private entrepreneurs, students and residential users can stay in constant touch with anyone, anywhere in the country, as often as they want,” he said.He said the availability and affordability of mass communication are vital
for a nation’s progress and added PTCL has a renewed commitment to provide efficient and state of the art telecom services for its customers.
The official said along with the local call promotion of Rs. 3.99 per hour, the Pakistan Package represents the beginning of a new vision and a new era of customer service.
Tags: Pakistan, Pakistan Pacakge, PTCL
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Machine translation (MT) is the application of computers to the task of translating texts from one natural language to another. One of the very earliest pursuits in computer science, Machine Translation (MT) has proved to be an elusive goal, but today a number of systems are available which produce output which, if not perfect, is of sufficient quality to be useful in a number of specific domains.”
There are different transaltion websites working. some are
Altavista
Applied Language
SDL Internation
Google
InterTran
Systran
Same as another project working as PakTranslations.com to translate into Urdu. Although this is beta but it is a good try in Pakistan.
PakTranslations.com project marks the first attempt of its kind to set Pakistani audience free, to reach out and no longer let language be a barrier to information and technology. The translations would be always free of charge for the end user, constantly improving, evolving and supporting more local languages.The features are:free website translation service;
free text translation service;
free dictionary service; or
enable translation on your website via free offerings.You can translate your website from
www.paktranslations.com or by entering the URL in the following format
Tags: Pakistan, Urdu Translation
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