لاہور (نیوز رپورٹر) ٹیلی کوم شعبے نے صارفین کی خدمت کا معیار بلند کر دیا، عالمی معیار کے کسٹمر کیئر اصولوں نے صارفین کی خدمات کو بلند تر سطح پر پہنچا دیا۔ اس بات کو پاکستان ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن آتھارٹی ( پی ٹی اے) کے چیئرمین ڈاکٹر محمد یاسین نے لاہور میں موبی لنک کے کسٹمر کیئر سینٹرز کا دورہ کرتے ہوئے کہی۔ انھوں نے سیلولر موبائل اداروں کی کارکردگی کو سراہا جو وسیع پیمانے پر سرمایہ کاری کررہے ہیںاور ملک میں جدید ترین مواصلات کے بنیادی ڈھانچے کو مضبوط بنا رہے ہیں۔ ڈاکٹر محمدیاسین نے پی ٹی اے کی جانب سے شروع کردہ 668 سہولت کے فروغ کے لئے موبی لنک کے اقدامات کو بھی سراہا۔
June 20, 2011
کوڑے سے توانائی حاصل کرنے کا فیصلہ
گندم ذخیرہ گوداموں کی تعمیر کا فیصلہ
توانائی منصوبوں میں سرمایہ کاری کی یقین دہانی
پاک ایران گیس پائپ لائن منصوبے میں تاخیر
نوکیا کے ڈبل سمزموبائل فونز متعارف
پر پاکستان اور افغانستان میں نوکیا کے ہیڈ اوف مارکیٹنگ حسین احتشام نے کہا کہ نوکیا پاکستان میں اپنی ساکھ اور صارفین کے اعتماد کو قائم رکھنے کے لئے قابل اعتماد ٹیکنولوجی اور سہولیات متعارف کراتا ہے۔انھوں نے کہا کہ ہمیں پاکستان میں ڈبل سم موبائل فون ٹیکنولوجی لانے میں تھوڑی دیر ہوئی ہے مگر یہ ٹیکنولوجی عام موبائل فون سیٹس کی نسبت زیادہ ایڈوانس ہے۔ کراچی (نیوز ڈیسک) نوکیا نے پاکستان میں دو ڈبل سمز موبائل فونز متعارف کروا دیئے ہیں، ان سیٹس میں ایکس ون زیرو ون ون اور سی ٹو ہنڈریڈ شامل ہیں۔ اس موقع
حسیب احتشام نے کہا کہ نوکیا ایکس ون زیرو ون اور سی ٹو ہنڈریڈہائی کوالٹی بجٹ فونز ہیں جس میں زیادہ میموری، لمبے عرصے تک چلنے والی بیٹری، سم سویپ کرنے کے نہایت منظم آپشن کے ساتھ تفریح کے آپشنز بھی شامل ہیں جو کہ کسی دوسرے موبائل فون کی نسبت کہیںزیادہ ہیں۔ نوکیا رواں سال کے آخر تک پاکستان میں مزید آٹھ سے دس موبائل فون سیٹ متعارف کرنے کا ارادہ رکھتا ہے۔
آئی ٹی سکیورٹی ملکی خودمختاری کےلئے ضروری
ترقی کی اس دوڑ میں انفورمیشن ٹیکنولوجی نے زندگی میں خاص اہمیت حاصل کرلی ہے۔ گزشتہ ادوار میں تمام خفیہ معلومات کو کاغذی شکل میں درازوں اور الماریوں میں رکھا جاتا تھا مگر اب دور بدل چکا ہے اور اس دور میں تمام خفیہ دستاویزات اور معلومات کو الیکٹرونک دستاویز بنا کر کمپیوٹر یا پھر ای میلز میں رکھا جاتا ہے۔ان خفیہ معلومات کو حاصل کرنے کے لئے ہیکرز اپنے ہیکنگ آئی ڈی کا استعمال کرتے ہیں، اس لنک کو کھولتے ہی تمام معلومات ہیکر کو مل جاتی ہیں اور بعض اوقات یہ ہیکر ویب سائٹس پر قابض بھی ہو جاتے ہیں۔ ایسے جرائم پیشہ افراد عام یا خاص لوگوں کی خفیہ دستاویزات کے ذریعے ان کی جائیداد اور دولت پر بھی قبضہ کرلیتے ہیں۔ انٹرنیٹ پر جان جرائم کو سائبر کرائمز کے نام سے موسوم کیا جاتا ہے، ان سائبر کرائمز کے باعث روزانہ لاکھوں افراد اپنی قیمتی معلومات سے ہاتھ دھو بیٹھتے ہیں۔
جنگلات کی حفاظت ہمارا فرض
توانائی کا بحران اور ممکنہ حل
توانائی کے مددگار کے طور پر تیسرا بڑا ذریعہ جو ہم شارٹ فال کو کم کرنے کے لئے استعمال کر سکتے ہیں وہ مائیکرو ہائیڈل پلانٹ کا ہے جس پر ہم توجہ دے کر کئی میگا واٹ بجلی پیدا کرسکتے ہیں اور ملک میں ہونے والی لوڈ شیڈنگ سے نجات حاصل کر سکتے ہیں ۔
ترقی یا تنزلی! ایک اہم سوال
موسمی تبدیلیوں کو سمجھنے کےلئے سیٹلائٹ
پاکستان میں ماہی گیری کی تاریخ
داڑھی سے بڑی مونچھیں
A right step at last!
The Policy for Power Generation Projects 2002 confirms that electricity will be purchased and tariffs will be set through a process called international competitive bidding. While the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), founded in 2003, has been established to promote all environmental friendly alternative energy resources that have not been developed in Pakistan mainly due to the absence of a high-level national body. Since its inception the most important accomplishment of AEDB has been the creation of awareness amongst the decision makers regarding the importance of utilizing resources in the country. Since long the country is witnessing a proliferation of regulatory agencies, one each per subject or sub-subject, providing plum jobs to majority of retired bureaucrats on heavy salary packages. For instance, Nepra and Ogra, the two state orgnisations working on inter-related sectors – electricity and oil & gas – more or less have the same assignments. This virtually uniform jobs is not serving the purpose in any way rather have multiplied financial burden on the already cash-starved government which is presently removing tax exemptions on various sectors and facilities to narrow down the financial deficit.
Similarly, the AEDB could have been a cell of PPIB instead of being an expensive full-fledged organisation, and might have produced better results in the past. PPIB is not a different case as far as the delivery rate is concerned. The Board has now become stale and outmoded as it is disliked by the stakeholders and is nothing more than just another stop in the process with no facilitating contribution. The USAID has recently indicated to the top government authorities that it is hesitant to extend $320 million funding for the proposed Gharo windmills to generate 150 MW to the AEDB that has miserably failed to produce even a single megawatt of electricity for the last more than seven years. The 450 MW project could have helped avert the prevailing gas and power crisis, however, the AEDB’s total failure in producing power has badly dented the international donors’ confidence in the Board.
Dozens of hydropower projects, IPPs and controversial rental power plants (RPPs) are not progressing according to the agreed schedule due to total failure to take timely decisions by the Ministry of Water and Power and its attached organisations, including Wapda, Pepco and PPIB. The major problem with these orgnisations has been the unclear demarcation of roles and mandates to handle the energy sector. However, the possible merger of AEDB in PPIB has rekindled the hopes that it would post some progress towards renewable energy production.
Energy saving
I hope our leaders learn something from the Ethiopian leaders.Air-Cdre (r) Azfar A Khan —Rawalpindi @thenews.com.pkHarnessing students for researchIn 2001, I read in a Chinese newspaper that more than 400,000 projects designed by university students get implemented every year in that country. All our engineering universities would find it difficult to name 100 projects that were designed by students and implemented.Why don’t we have a competition and ask universities to design projects to produce power from bulls/buffaloes and use running water in rivers and canals which are abundant.All universities should be given a grant coming from donations from the industry. The best design should be recognised in the shape of Rs10m cash prize so that more and more students take up such challenges. It will also sow the seed for competition amongst students.In 2008 our company assigned two design projects to mechanical engineering students from NED University.
We managed grants of Rs 50,000 for each project. One group succeeded in designing and demonstrating power generation using a typical bull-driven water-well contraption. They demonstrated power production with zero fuel input.Trying to give their invention a larger audience, I tried my level best to get them print and electronic media attention but failed to do so and this story never got any recognition.Pakistani students are no less than any other students. If China could implement 400,000 projects in 2001, we can surely aim at 4,000.S. Nayyar Iqbal Raza — Karachi @Dawn.com
June 13, 2011
Holistic approach needed to address biodiversity issues
World Environment Day celebrated with renewed pledge
Federal budget completely ignored farming sector
Pak cellular sector paying heavy taxes on telephony services
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: The tax environment in Pakistan is not business friendly as the tax on cellular industry is high for operators and users alike, making business and communication the most expensive as compared with that in other regional countries.The local cellular sector in Pakistan has been victim of heavy taxes in comparison with entire region as its overall rate reached 31 per cent whereas the regional countries tax heads contained between 10 to 15 per cent.
Zong comes up with insurance plan
Taxes, duties on telecom services to stay
Pakistan has potential to conserve 25pc energy
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: Identifying a huge potential for energy efficiency, the National Energy Conservation Centre (Enercon) has Pakistan can save around 7 billion dollars per annum through proper implementation.“The centre has conducted detailed audits and surveys which show that an average of 25 per cent energy conservation potential exists in each sector of the national economy,” Secretary Environment Farid Ullah Khan said .
PTCL launches volumetric IP broadband, IPv6
Abacus Cloud rolled out
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: Abacus Consulting, the region’s leading consulting, technology and outsourcing firm, has signed a strategic agreement with Exelsys, UK, a leading global provider of specialised new cloud computing platform.
“The partnership will enable Abacus Consulting to deliver Abacus Cloud to customers in Pakistan, UAE, and Afghanistan,” Kyriacos Fiakkas, CEO of Exelsys, said on the occasion of the agreement signing ceremony. Abacus Cloud is a complete Human Capital Management Solution, powered by Exelsys HCM.
The solution empowers large and medium sized companies to run their human capital management in the “cloud”, on an infrastructure that provides security, performance, and reliability normally found in only the most sophisticated IT departments.
“The HCM Software-as-a-Service has seen tremendous momentum and validation from customers, prospects, and partners and truly represents the future of software delivery,” said Kyriacos Fiakkas, CEO of Exelsys.
Slow progress registered on environment
PTA deposits Rs 13.56b to national exchequer
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), that is responsible for regulation of different telecommunication companies and network operators. is also liable to pay taxes even it is a government’s organization and has paid Rs 13.56 billion taxes.According to details, in fiscal year 2009-10 total of Rs 109.05 billion tax amount was collected from telecom sector and almost 50 per cent of the amount came from general sales tax.
It has been reported by PTA that in first quarter of 2011, the amount of tax collect by national exchequer from telecom sector was Rs 56.3 billion, but the tax collected in first quarter of 2010 was Rs 49 billion.The tele-density in Pakistan sometimes increases and sometimes decreases. The total tele-density stood at about 65.2 per cent.
Tele-density is basically the amount of users who uses landline fixed and wireless telephones, mobile phones etc.There are various issues that are creating problems for telecom sector like energy crisis, increased competition, decreasing exchange rates and much more.
PTA has taken many initiatives in this regard but the government also has to take certain steps for making the better future of telecom industry.
Pak cellcos add 2.7m users in March-April
P@SHA launches Rs 20m social innovation fund
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) in collaboration with Google has recently launched Rs 20 million worth Social Innovative Fund to finance innovate and constructive ideas of young entrepreneurs and students of Pakistan.
“The all interested entrepreneurs and students should submit their proposal in next three months to the website www.pashafund.com till August, therefore, they will be funded accordingly,” President Pasha Jehan Ara told the media while giving details of the project.
She said that they are certain that they will be able to spark the beginnings of a few unique solutions, finance some great ideas and provide mentoring to young people who have the passion, the talent and the motivation to make a social impact on your society.
Indus flow level highest in 500 years
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: The year-to-year data collected with the help of tree-ring chronologies from the main upper Indus basin in Pakistan shows that the river flow has considerably increased over the last 21 years, possibly the highest sustained flow period of the past 500 years.
This remarkable finding that could be linked to large-scale global climatic changes is part of the final report of a four-year study “Upper Indus river flow reconstruction using tree-rings implication for agriculture and hydroelectricity” conducted under a Pakistan-US project for science and technology through the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
Govt needs to allocate more funds for dams, reservoirs
STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: The government should speed up its efforts for constructing new water reservoirs and dams on emergent basis to cope with the looming water crisis which could badly hamper the economic growth in the country.
“The issue of water shortage has not been given much attention and if appropriate steps are not taken, the country could face a water and food crisis,” Mahfooz Elahi, President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), said in a statement issued here.
He said that Pakistan’s electricity demand is increasing by 7 per cent annually and allocation of Rs 18 billion in budget 2011-12 for new dams and water reservoirs is insufficient.Construction of new water reservoirs and dams assumes additional significance to overcome the rising water shortages problem, he added.
PTCL to invest Rs 16b by 2016
STAFF REPORT KARACHI: PTCL would invest about Rs16 billion in telecommunications sector in next five years in Pakistan.“The company is going to introduce super-speed internet very soon in Pakistan and it would be started from Korangi Industrial Area,” PTCL CEO and President Walid Irshad told the media here last week.
He said that the era of conventional telephone exchanges is now over and most modern exchanges would now be installed in Pakistan. PTCL is not being run just as phone company but as an investment-oriented company which is striving hard to introduce most modern telecommunications services.
He said that first ever new generation telephone exchange would be introduced in Karachi. He said that the company has already minimized the subscribers’ complaints and with the introduction of new services the complaints would become nil.
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