Tag: Peshawar
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ITCN Asia 2013 at Karachi Expo Center
ITCN Asia is annual Information and Communication Technology event in Karachi. The 2013 edition of ITCN Asia was organized on October 8-10 at Karachi Expo Center. ITCN Asia had two segments, the technology workshops and the exhibition. The workshops covered eBanking & Finance, eGovernment,  Digital Marketing and eLearning among other topics. My observations of ITCN Asia 2013 are based…
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Electricity Consumers in Peshawar to get 50pc discount for utilizing non peak hours
Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) has started installation of Time of Use (ToU) meters for domestic and commercial consumers of 5 KW in a bid to encourage customers to use minimum electricity during peak hours and get 30 to 50 percent relief on electricity bills. With installation of these meters the use of electricity during…
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Prize Bonds mega scam
I had heard before that prize bond draws were manipulated, but there was no way of proving this. But in the Rs. 15000 prize bond draw (no. 45) held in Peshawar on 3rd January 2011, there is circumstantial evidence that this is indeed true. In that draw, three consecutive numbers (018845, 018846 & 018847) won…
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Why Pakistan celebrate two Eids every year?
For some reason, a cleric in Qasim Masjid in Peshawar has been able to collect about twenty men (having remarkably good eyesight) who claim they saw the moon, when it wasn’t there. This has been going on for over fifty years. I was in Peshawar in 1973, and saw Eid-al-Azha being observed on two days…
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Jhelum: Alexander the Great’s Naval Station
Name Jhelum reminds of Alexander the Great from Macedonian who came to the South Asia sometime in…