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PTA as usual have denied the editorial entitled “Cellular companies“ thus technically saying the contents of the Editorial are all false and wrong. I do not remember during my 38 years working life even a single occasion when a Government agency had accepted that the complaint addressed to it...

Much has recently been asked about security particularly after the recent blast in Karachi. The reports have started coming that allegedly due to haste or under some design vital signs which could lead to proper investigation have gone wasted. I am the one from amongst those who believe true...

A reader Dr. Ali Akbar Dhakan Karachi (DAWN 29 October 2007) commenting on today’s banking says that during the last few years the banks headed by executives drawing fabulous perquisites almost millions, unheard of in this part of the world, are allowed to charge and treat the customer at their...

Chief Justice of Pakistan His Lordship Mr. Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhary who showed his real heart towards the unfortunate common man of this country, as I read last month in a foreign newspaper, took suo moto notice that approximately a sum of Rs. 5 crore was taken as award by the...

May 2007 I purchased a Mobilink pre-paid SIM from its Sales Office situated at University Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. For getting it I had to fill up an application forum which was perhaps in triplicate or quadruplicate. After payment I was handed over a SIM packet only. I demanded a...

PIA is the only airline in the world where Reservation is the most difficult task and most of the complaints against it pertain to Reservation. Since decades complaints both at home and from abroad through letter to Editors keep appearing. Both ordinary man and businessmen have the same...

A friend told me about a news item that Sindh High Court has the other day remarked that on the next hearing if the proper information was not brought then the Agency concerned will be find from whom a missing person later is found and it will be given as compensation to the person/or family of...

Noor Nabi Sheikh from Hyderabad cries that National Bank of Pakistan has recently increased locker rental by 600 percent. He says the locker facility it appears now is for profit earning. He wastes his time, energy and money on hopelessly requesting the “relevant authority” to look into and...

BY Javed – 18 September 2007 As in other fields of our national health, to keep PIA breathing high prime value PIA properties in USA are under processing of sale. It will give say a 6 or 8 months at the most an oxygen mask. Then the PIA management as usual will claim and which claim will...

I am in need of Chairman PIA’s direct email address. Can anyone help me in getting it. There are PIA contact emails like contact@piac.com.pk but these are attended by lower staff who give routine replies ignoring what was asked for. They deliberately ignore the question raised to them...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan is taking suo moto notices on important issues. It has come to rescue the people. I do not think if one can in words fully describe the kindness of SC in taking the issue of missing persons. The fact is this was actually the primary and basic job of our so-called...

OMBUDSMAN INSTITUION By Javed – 05 September 2007 Mr. M.M. Khan through DAWN of 26 August on the recent concern of the World Bank on use of funds in Pakistan, refers to the rampant corruption. He says it had been customary to have an ombudsman at the federal level to work as internal...

The last Karachi Telephone Directory I saw was of 1996. When the PTCL was claiming having distributed these to all subscribers, my area Divisional Engineer was telling (and very rightly) that Directories were too short in supply. In my area whomever I enquired he had not received. I...

NO ONE SHOULD UNDERSTAND My inability to translate but I remember a verse from some famous Urdu poet the simple translation of which “I pray God no body may understand anything” {Kuuch na samjay Khuda Karaa Koi”. Perhaps this poet said this decades ago only for today 12 August 2007...

KIDNEY SALE, NO WORTH UNLESS.. By Javed – 31 July 2007 His Lordship Chief Justice Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary became angry on the slow but practically nil progress on the proposed legislation earlier recommended by the Court concerning sale of human body parts. He took serious note on...

CLOSE ALL, DIVERT SAVED MONEY TO SUPREME COURT By Javed – 01 August 2007 A TV channel which though in direct words it does not but indirectly it claims that its channel is the best and has played the biggest role in recent awakening of the civil society in judicial reference by airing live...

WHY HIGH EXPECTATION TO A DYING MAN? By Javed – 25 July 2007 Since Supreme Court decision restoring the Chief Justice every advocate, every person connected with legal affairs, high profile journalists and above all the electronic media is painting a picture as if with this decision...

Chief Justice has been restored to his seat. The people and media in general and the advocates in particular termed it the victory of justice. Advocates, people, intellectuals are labeling it as a landmark judgment and according to them the Courts were now free, Pakistan’s history has been...

Due to the Supreme Court’s intervention the privatization process of Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has for the time being delayed. There is no dispute in privatization but only if a local bidder was entitled to participate or not. There are two views on privatization. The first one is that due...

Staff cars and charity are the two most favourite topics of senior writer Mr. Hafizur Rehman. His 4th July column once again is on Staff cars and to my memories during last 2 years I have seen not less than 5 his columns on this topic. How many did not pass through my eyes, I am not aware of...