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Entries Tagged ‘CBR’

CBR’s National Tax Number verification service creates privacy nightmare

Feb.05, 2010 in Cyber Security, Living in Pakistan

Electronic government initiatives are excellent, in general. They increase efficiency, make information more accessible to the public, prevent people from standing in long lines and wasting their entire day with the most mundane of things, and generally lead to a happier populace. But when they aren’t thought through properly, they can also result in some [...]

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Postmodern Pakistan

Mar.25, 2009 in Economy, Infrastructure, innovation, Law and Policy, Living in Pakistan, Politics and Society

Pakistan is such an absolutely amazing place. If you put that copy of Newsweek down for a moment and think what we’ve built in the last 60 years, I think rationality would require you to be close to awe-struck. Today we are a country on the verge of ascent into globally acknowledged greatness. We were [...]

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