TechLahore

This story caught our eye because we’ve experienced something very similar in Lahore. If you are in the Bedian, Mughalpura, Harbanspura or other areas close to the border with India, you will find that your GSM cell phone will pick up at least a couple of Indian cell phone networks! In particular, AirTel seems to [...]

Indian call centers expanded in the late 90s and early 2000s and since then have served as a social laboratory of sorts… a few years ago a stream of articles covered Dell’s outsourcing of their tech support to India. Apparently the accents – despite the neutralization training – were not tolerable to customers in the US, [...]

Two interesting financial news items just appeared in the press. First, once again, foreign remittances coming into Pakistan (forex) have registered a 23.6% increase over the same period last year. Second, the KSE has continued its bullish rise to 14600 from 13100 in Nov when the PCO was passed. We have been encouraging our readers [...]

While the US Dollar has been stressed by other currencies, including the Euro, which is at an all time high, the Pakistani Rs. has been kept relatively stable and has in fact, depreciated a little over 1 Rs. against the dollar. At a time when forex earnings are crucial, this makes Pakistani exports in general, [...]

Mukesh Ambani is one of two sons of Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Group in India. Conde Naste’s Portfolio magazine reports this month that Mukesh has been busily building a personal residence for himself worth one billion dollars. Yes, $1 BN. That’s US, by the way, not the somewhat discounted Australian or Canadian variety. How [...]