Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Rating Services, the world’s foremost source of credit ratings has acknowledged Pakistan’s leading cellular company Mobilink’s strong market position.

Although the credit rating for Mobilink is at “B+” with a negative outlook, this is in response to the overall economic slowdown of the country and difficult business environment.

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Pakistan’s first global telecommunication congress, TeleCON’2008, opened here on Tuesday with full-fledged participation from a large number of telecom companies from Pakistan.
Industry leaders from all over the country attended the well-arranged Inaugural Ceremony which was presided by Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Member Technical, PTA as the Chief Guest; while the keynote address was given by Mian Mohammad Jawed, a former Founder Chairman of PTA. (more…)

US software giant Microsoft has won recognition for its key Office software package format as an international standard, the body charged with regulating such matters said on Wednesday.

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Struggling US telecom giant Motorola will close its mobile phone manufacturing plant in Singapore as part of the company’s 500-million US dollar global cost cutting exercise, it said Thursday.

Motorola said the move, which will affect 700 employees, is aimed at aligning the company’s operations to grow the business.

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Faithfuls offer Dua after watching moon of the holy month of Ramadan at Memom Masjid.

Following the launch of its new corporate look and identity, PTCL has now comes up with a great offer to make its consumers “feel the difference” in its real sense.
PTCL announced its new rates for International Direct Dialing (IDD) that enables the landline consumers to call a number of destinations worldwide just for Rs 2 per minute.
PTCL after its acquisition by Etisalat is going through a process of revamping and revolutionary steps are being taken to enhance its image as a customer-oriented services provider.
With the introduction of revised IDD rates the customers will now be able to call 16 destinations worldwide including England, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Holland, Spain, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, USA, Canada, China and Hong Kong for as low as Rs 2 per minute.
It may be noted here that International Direct Dialing service is activated by default on all landline numbers and international calls can be made from any landline number just by dialing the country code and required number with its prefixed city code.
With these and a number of other upcoming initiatives PTCL expects to make telecommunication services more affordable and help its consumers enjoy maximum benefits of technology advancements.
PTCL said steps are also being taken at administrative level and the customer services outlets are being improved as the centers of customers’ convenience.

Night sweeping is being started in Shah Faisal Town from August 5 during which cleanliness work will be carried out at all the important roads, vegetable and meat markets and around shopping centres.
During a visit to UCs 3 and 4 to see the cleanlines work, the Nazim Shah Faisal Town, Mohammed Imran said Wednesday that 100 sanitary workers have been recruited on adhoc basis to further improve the working of saolid waste management department and they have been
distributed at UC level.
He said more sanitary staff will be recruited for a better sanitation system at the mohallah and street level.
On the occasion, the Town Nazim distributed 50 hand trolleys and over 100 grooms among the sanitary staff and directed them to carry out sanitation work with a sense of responsibility.
He made it clear that providing a healthy environment to people in every mohallah and alley is our foremost responsibility.
He directed the Town Officer Infrastructure and Deputy Town Officer Solid Waste to provide uniform to sanitary staff with logo.

A view of traffic jam on Shahrah-e-Faisal after the angry people set a bus on fie which hit a motorcyclist to death.

Dear Real Karachi members yesterday when I open my Yahoo Mail to check my emails I found following message in my inbox.

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It will let you know that you are using older version of browser, please click here to open link, and when you open it , it will request you to download a file. and when you download and run the fill it will damage your computer.

Good day.

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National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has decided to establish 70 computer training centres across the country under its ‘Literacy Programme’ in two years.
Initially the institutes would be opened in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, a Geo TV report said Thursday.
Under four-week courses, 25 students at each centre would be imparted training including data entry and about operating system.

Youth burn tyres along a road-block during a demonstration against continued power failure, at Sohrab Goth. Hundreds of people protesting against power outage had ransacked a fast food outlet and two banks in the southern city before some days.

Dengue fever cases are finally on a decline due to the cold weather which discourages the mosquitoes… But we are not out of danger yet. The Pakistan Medical Association fears that even though the number of cases have subsided now, they’ll be back with full force next year. The dengue virus present here is identified by AKUH to be of Sero-type 3 and is characterized by symptoms like acute head and body ache and high-grade fever but the virus mutates and the next mutation could be even deadlier, where a patient would not suffer fever but rather go directly into dengue-shock.

The best way still to prevent the fever from occuring is still going after the mosquito. But how does one find out if there are dengue mosquitos in the vicinity? I received an email attachment today, issued by PSO on how to do just that, and i thought i’d share it with all of you.

Following steps may help to detect the presence of dengue mosquito in and around the close vicinity of your home.

1. Take an empty transparent clean and clear glass.

2. Place a plain white paper inside the glass in such a way that it covers the entire inside of the glass from top to bottom.

3. Fill the glass with water up to mid level in a manner that the upper half of the glass remains dry.

4. Place a green leaf of appropriate size (of any plant) in the glass.

5. Keep the glass outside the house but under the shade (Gallery, terrace & balcony etc.) to avoid exposure to sunlight. Let this glass remain for 5-6 days and keep observing it daily.

6. If dengue mosquitoes are in your locality, they will lay eggs inside the glass. These eggs look like small worms.

7. In such a case, please get proper fumigation/spray of your house and contact the area NAZIM of your locality for spray in the adjacent localities as well.

Source : Metblogs
Posted by : Mansoor
Modified by : RealKarachi Team