Tweet I was recently in Lahore and I couldn’t help but notice the immense amount of commercial construction happening in the city. Just driving down the Gulberg Main Boulevard one can see numerous high rises being built. This process has been going on for the last many years and does not appear to be slowing [...]
Tweet Over the last few days I’ve come across a number of articles and news stories about Pakistan’s IT expertise being applied to benefit the domestic defence industry. Two items, in particular, caught my attention. The first one was about our very own Integrated Dynamics having sold locally designed and manufactured UAVs to the US [...]
Tweet What’s that, Tech Lahore? Telenor, the cellular telephony company is about to turn into a bank? Surely you’ve finally lost your blooming mind! What utter malarky, Tech! Go take a cold shower! Well, my learned audience, far from losing his/her mind, Tech Lahore is as sharp as ever. A veritable young whippersnapper, frankly. And [...]
Tweet I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. True WiMAX competition in Pakistan, between Wateen’s existing service and Mobilink’s upcoming Infinity WiMAX offering. It’s only competition that will improve coverage, reduce rates and improve service. Currently, Wateen has the run of the house and to be honest, our December 2007 prediction is going [...]
Tweet Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister of Israel, has been caught red handed. And before you ask, let me just tell you, no, he was thankfully not guilty of the, ahem, inappropriate behaviour that got Olmert in trouble, or got Ariel Sharon’s son sent to jail, or even the ‘stuff‘ that the Israeli president, [...]
Tweet Going public can be a knife that cuts both ways. Sure, you get immediate access to lots of capital and liquidity. And yes, as a management team, frankly, you get to tell people you’re the cat’s whiskers for having led your company through an IPO. But, in times when fear is the domninant sentiment [...]
Tweet The Government of Sindh has announced that DTS, a Japanese IT firm, is investing $50M to build a 5 acre software park in the SITE industrial area, along the Superhighway that connects Karachi with Hyderabad. Construction on the project has already started. Once the DTS facility is completed, it will employ between 1,200 to [...]
Tweet The on-again-off-again Saudi oil program for Pakistan has finally come through. And it came with dessert; another $4BN in investment. During his latest visit to Riyadh, President Zardari met with King Abdullah and the two finally shook on it. The formal announcement will take place on the 17th of November at the “Friends of [...]
Tweet I recently heard from Farrukh Jawed over at LUMS. He wrote to me excitedly about a project that he and his LUMS compadres have been working on for quite some time now. No, it’s not a souped up dialup network for people in developing countries, or a submission to an MIT contest. It’s actually [...]
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