Moeed Pirzada

Moeed Pirzada (Urdu: پیرزاده معيد‎) is a Pakistani political commentator and TV journalist.^[5][6][7][8] He currently works as Director World Affairs and lead anchor person for PTV News-TV channel.^[9][10] He also hosts the popular talk show Sochta Pakistan,^[11][12] a program that discusses national, regional, strategic, social and educational issues with leading politicians, analysts and policy makers. He previously worked with Dunya News-TV channel^[13] as Director World Affairs and hosted the current affairs talk show Dunya Today.^[14][15] He has also been a columnist for the Dubai-based regional paper Khaleej Times.^[16][17] His columns have also appeared in Pakistani papers such as Dawn,^[18] The News, Daily Times^[19][20] and Friday Times. Many of these columns have been reproduced in regional websites like Chowk.com^[21] and blogs.^[22] He has widely spoken in national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and is a member of the Prime Minister’s Education Task Force^[23] that collaborated with British Council to produce the Next Generation Report.^[24][25] He has also contributed policy papers to Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI).^[26][27]

Media achievements

Mr. Pirzada recently moderated the famous interaction of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton with young Pakistani civil society activists and entrepreneurs on 21 October 2011, in Islamabad’s Serena Hotel where a student called Ms. Clinton the ‘mother-in-law of all Pakistanis’.^[28][29] Pirzada had also moderated Clinton’s first controversial interaction with TV anchors in October 2009, when Clinton had remarked that if Pakistanis do not want the Kerry Lugar Bill aid then they should boldly reject it.^[30] As TV journalist he has interviewed leading Pakistani and international decision makers including former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, British Prime Minister David Cameron, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, AfPak point man Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Admiral Mike Mullen and George Galloway.^[31] He also covered the strategic dialogue between US and Pakistan as well as several talks between India and Pakistan including the famous meeting of former President Pervez Musharraf with Indian Prime minister Manmohan Singh at the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana, in 2006. In Sept. 2009, the then US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, appeared in his program and denied the existence of US Contractors “Black Water” in Pakistan; a claim that was proved untrue when Raymond Davis was arrested in Lahore in January 2011.

Kamran Shahid

Kamran Shahid (Urdu: کامران شاھد ) is a Pakistani journalist. He is the main news anchor for the TV show Frontline with Kamran Shahid on Express News.^[1][2] He was a guest speaker for the Oxford University Pakistan Society at Oxfordshire County Hall during Pakistan Young Leaders Conference in February 2011.^[3][4]

Kamran Shahid was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. His father, Shahid, is a Pakistani actor.

Shahnawaz Farooqui

Shahnawaz Farooqui (in Urdu شاہ نواز فاروقی )is a Pakistani journalist and commentator

Biography

Farooqui was born in Karachi in 1964. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, First Class Second Position, from the University of Karachi in 1986. He received a Master’s degree in Mass Communication, First Class First Position in 1988.

Farooqui started his professional career by writing stories for children in the monthly Aankh Micholi, which he contributed to for three and a half years. Initially his writings, popular among children and teenagers, were humorous in nature. Farooqui was then invited by Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman, the head of the Jang Group and Geo TV, to be a columnist for Daily Jang Karachi. Farooqui demanded freedom of expression in his columns, which Jang refused to ensure, thus he rejected the job offer.

Currently Farooqui is working for an Urdu daily newspaper Jasarat (in Urdu روزنامہ جسارت ) and hosts a TV program “Makalma” for Roshni TV. He also lectures on television and at universities. He is member of advisory boards of many Pakistani periodicals and magazines.

Areas of interest

Farooqui’s areas of interest include English and Urdu literature, poetry, political science, religion, and the West. He also writes poetry suffused with anguish at the spectacle of the struggling Muslim tradition in the face of the end of times.

An admirer of Allama Iqbal, Maududi, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, he is a strong opponent of the ideology of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.

Books

A collection of his articles has been published with the name of Kaghaz Kay Sipahi (Urdu کاغذ کے سپاہی), The Paper Soldiers

Bibliography

• Kaghaz Kay Sipahi
• Akabir-e-Sahafat.^[1]

Famous Pakistani Web Sites

 

 

 

Google.com.pk

Google is on #1. It is the most visited website in Pakistan. People visited this website to make Pakistan oriented searches. Google also offer searches in Urdu language. You can read news, watch videos of programs and also watch live Geo TV.

Olx.com.pk

It is the most popular Free Classified Ads website and is on #2. It is a portal type ads website. This website is categorized by regions, cities and ad types. You can search and post free ads to sell and buy things. 

Jang.com.pk

Online edition of Daily Jang is on #3. It is the most popular Urdu newspaper of Pakistan. Read news, articles, reviews and columns online. 

Geo TV Channels are also owned by Jang Group.

Express.com.pk

Online edition of Daily Express Newspaper is on #4. You can read full newspaper of all editions (Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi) of Daily Express. You can also read old newspapers on this website.

Express News and Express Entertainment TV Channels belonged to this group.

Geo.tv

Geo.tv is the 5th most popular Pakistani website of Pakistan. You can read news, watch programs and also can watch live GEO TV.

Rozee.pk

It is Pakistan’s most popular website for jobs, employment and recruitment. You can post your CV, find jobs and apply online through this web portal. Companies can also post jobs, search potential workers and hire online.

Tribune.com.pk

This is a news website. News is in English language. The Express Tribune presents latest Pakistani news about politics, showbiz, business, sports and life style. You can also post classified ads and search jobs. 

HafeezCentre.com.pk

HafeezCenter is also a famous classifieds website but it mainly deals with electronics items; Computers, Laptops, Mobile Phones, Cameras, UPS and Generators. They also offer discounts on various products under power deals section. This website has various independent websites for all the major cities of Pakistan. These cities specific websites are hosted on sub domains.

PakWheels.com

This classified website emphases on sell and buy ads of cars, motor bikes and other vehicles. While mobiles, computers and properties are also listed on PakWheels.com. Design of this website is more user friendly as compared to other classified websites of Pakistan.

PaperPk.com

It is very popular website among unemployed people of Pakistan. They surf this website to browse newspapers ads. They have database of ads of many newspapers e.g. Jang, Express, Dawn, Nawa-e-Waqt, News, Nation etc. Ads of Jobs, Admissions and Tenders are today and previous newspapers are available on this website.

Dawn.com

This is the official website of English Daily Dawn Newspaper. It is comprehensive news website which covers each and every Pakistani news e.g. Latest News, Breaking News, World News, Business News, Science and Technology, Entertainment News, Sport News, Cricket, South Asia News etc. Dawn group has also its News TV Channel.

News in Urdu are also presented in a separate section of this website.

HamariWeb.com

Hamari Web is a very well designed online portal. It has lot more to offer its visitors from News to Interesting Stories, Cricket to Weather, Urdu Search to Chatting, Online TV to Games, Videos to Funny Images, Directory, Dictionary, Shopping, Web Hosting and much more. They also offer you to create you own personalize web page with them free. 

ZemTV.com

Zem TV is a website for collection of Pakistani videos. Watch TV Shows, Talk Shows and Political Scandals. You can also watch live Pakistani TV Channels. Visitors can also submit their videos.

WhatMobile.com.pk

This is the most visited mobile phone related website of Pakistan. Specifications and prices of mobile phones are given on this website but prices of many mobiles are not correct ant out dated. People often use this website to sell and buy used mobile phones. MobilePhoneRate.com is another very good website for mobile prices, specs and reviews.  

TheNews.com.pk

The News is the English Newspaper of Jang Group and its website is on 15th number. News categorized in various sub categories. Latest News and Top Stories are featured on home page.

ProPakistani.pk

ProPakistani is the most popular blog of Pakistan. This blog mainly covers Telecom, IT and Politics News. 

Siasat.pk

Siasat.pk is the most popular forum of Pakistan and overall it stands on 17th position in Pakistan. People mainly discuss Pakistani politics on this forum.

vu.edu.pk

This is the official website of Virtual University of Pakistan. This is an online university and students use this website to get in contact with the university. They get lectures and ask questions to their teachers online via this website. They submit their quizzes and assignments online. Every student has its unique user area where he can access to be updated about his learning activities. 

Songs.pk

Listen and download Pakistani and Indian Songs, Ghazals, Movie Songs and Bhangra Songs etc. You can also read reviews of latest movies here.

DunyaNews.tv

Website of Dunya News TV Channel is on number 20. You can watch Dunya TV online or listen audio only of these programs.  You can also watch videos of Dunya TV Programs. Dunya TV also presented many entertainment programs; Hasb-e-Haal, Butt Tameezian…

Travian.pk

Travian is an online multi player strategy game. As a player, you can build your own empire. Travian is one of the most popular browser games in the world. Other countries have their own country specific domain names for website of this game. 

Mustakbil.com

It is a Jobs website; destination for jobseekers and a perfect HR solution for companies in Pakistan. Mustakbil.com offers online job search. Job Seekers and Employers have separate sections. 

IlmKiDunya.com

It is a favorite educational website. It has colleges, universities, programs, admissions, educational news, jobs, test preparation, photos, videos, directories…

Shophive.com

Shophive is Pakistan’s premier online shopping portal for mobiles, laptops, cameras, LCDs, projectors, home appliances, gadgets, printers, home electronic appliances, electronics, car audio, DVD audio video and many other things. You can pay money at the time of receiving gadgets.

PakistanHotline.com

Pakistan Hotline is one of the most popular blogs of Pakistan. People visit this weblog to read latest and trending IT and politics news about Pakistan. You can also comment on posts and articles.

HomeShopping.pk

Home Shopping is another online shop. It has wide variety of products, you can order online without paying in advance. You will pay money at the time of receiving your parcel from courier service at your doorstep. Their rates and customer support is superb.

Telenor.com.pk

Telenor is a GSM based mobile phone service provider. This website provides tariff and packages details and online Telenor account maintenance. 

Ufone.com

Ufone is a PTCL owned mobile phone service provider and this is its official website.

WaridTel.com

Official website of Warid Telecom, a mobile phone service provider.

Nawaiwaqt.com.pk

Read online Daily Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper. It is published from three cities; Lahore, Karachi and Multan and you can read all these editions on this website.

Samaa.tv

This is website of Samaa News TV Channel.

nts.org.pk

This is official website of National Testing Service which held various types of tests for students, universities and other departments. NAT and GAT are two very popular tests in Pakistan. These tests assess the talent, aptitude and caliber of students.

wi-tribe.pk

Wi-Tribe is a wireless broadband company in big cities of Pakistan. You can order products, pay bills, see packages and coverage map of wi-tribe on this website.

Nation.com.pk

Website of Daily Nation Newspaper stands on 34th position in Pakistan.

pknic.net.pk

PKNIC administrates Pakistan Specific TLD .pk domain name including registration and DNS for .pk domains. 

forex.pk

This is a website for forex market of Pakistan. It provides open market; inter bank and international currency rates and gold rates. There is also an online currency converter. 

ptcl.com.pk

This is the official website of Pakistan Telecommunication Limited. View latest packages of PTCL and PTCL news. You can also get customer support of PTCL through this website.

FashionCentral.pk

It is the most popular fashion and style website of Pakistan. It has latest beauty, style, fitness, fashion, health and lifestyle articles and news. 

creativeon.com

It is the most popular web hosting and designing website of Pakistan. It offers domain registration, web hosting, web developing and reseller hosting services in Pakistan. A dedicated team is running this website.

KhabrainGroup.com

Khabrain Group is also one of the largest news groups of Pakistan. Daily Khabrain newspaper and Channel 5 News TV Channel are part of this group. 

Read Urdu news on this website.

PakGamers.com

This website provides games related stuff and news to Pakistanis.

PakistanToday.com.pk

It is an English news website of Pakistan. 

UrduPoint.com

Urdu Point is an online source of Urdu News, Urdu Newspapers, Urdu Poetry and many more things in Urdu language.

ITDunya.com

IT Dunya is an IT related Urdu forum for Pakistanis. 

Defence.pk

This is a popular forum mainly about Pakistani Defense, political, geo-political and world issues. This forum stands on 45th position.

ForumPakistan.com

This is a Pakistani Forum for gup shup, Lollywood movies, showbiz, songs and dramas.

Symbios.pk

Symbios is one of the top online shops. You can buy online from this website. Thousands of products are available.

LahoriMela.com

Lahori Mela is a fun website for showbiz news, sports and educational news, Islam and events in Lahore and Pakistan.

Mega.pk

Mega.pk is an online shop. You can buy mobiles, laptops, tablets, printers, LCDs, Gaming Consoles, scanners and projectors on this website.

PhoneBook.com.pk

It is a Yellow Pages trade directory of Pakistan. Any one can search businesses or find businesses by category.  You can also search PTCLs 2006 directory. You can find companies and persons or can find phone numbers of persons and companies by entering names.

Agha Hasan Abedi

Agha Hasan Abedi also known as Agha Sahab (May 14, 1922, Lucknow, India – August 5, 1995, Karachi, Pakistan) was a banker and philanthropist who founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in 1972. BCCI was at one point the seventh largest private bank in the world, but it collapsed in 1991 after regulators in the United States and the United Kingdom found it was involved in a money laundering scandal. Mr. Abedi underwent a heart transplant operation in 1988, and died of a heart attack on August 5, 1995 in Karachi.

Early banking career

Agha Hasan Abedi was born in a well off Shia Muslim family in Lucknow, India and migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India, in 1947. Beginning his career with Habib Bank before independence, he brought about significant changes in Pakistan’s banking culture when he founded the United Bank Ltd (UBL) in 1959 in Chittagong. Starting as its first general manager, he quickly rose to the position of president and chairman of the board of directors. Under his stewardship, UBL became the second largest bank in Pakistan. Mr Abedi introduced a host of professional innovations, including the concept of personalised service and banking support to trade and industry, paying particular attention to the bank’s overseas operations. One of the first to comprehend the opportunities offered by the oil boom in the Persian Gulf, Mr Abedi pioneered close economic collaboration in the private sector between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE President, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, extended his patronage to UBL operations both in Pakistan and abroad.

BCCI years

 

When banking was nationalised in Pakistan in 1972, Mr Abedi founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce International with the Bank of America NT & SA as a major shareholder. Registered in Luxembourg, the BCCI began its operations from a two-room head office in London. Over the years, it developed into a worldwide banking operation with branches in 72 countries and 16,000 employees on its payroll. Mr Abedi was personally responsible for inducting a large number of Pakistanis into the field of international banking and almost 80 per cent of the BCCI’s top executive positions at the head office and in branches in various countries were held by Pakistanis. Mr Abedi severed his connection with BCCI in 1990 after suffering a heart attack and led a retired life in Karachi until his death of heart failure at Karachi’s Aga Khan hospital in 1995.

Unlike regular banks, the BCCI was from its inception made up of multiplying layers of interwoven entities – which related to one another through a near impenetrable series of holding companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, banks-within-banks, insider dealings and nominee relationships. BCCI’s fractured corporate structure, record keeping, regulatory review, and audits, allowed the complex BCCI family of entities created by Abedi to evade ordinary legal restrictions on the movement of capital and goods. In creating BCCI as a vehicle essentially free of government control, Abedi’s BCCI became the ideal mechanism for facilitating illegal activity by others, including such activity by officials of many of the governments whose laws BCCI was breaking.

At the time of his death, Abedi was under indictment in several countries for crimes related to BCCI. However, Pakistani officials refused to give him up for extradition, claiming the charges were politically motivated. Even without this to consider, it is likely he would have been too sick to stand trial; he had been in poor health since suffering a stroke in the mid-1980s.

Philanthropist

Infaq Foundation

Mr Abedi founded charitable organizations in UK, India, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

The Infaq Foundation has only one office in Karachi, Pakistan. It has Capital and Reserves of over Rs.2.50 billion, which in 2009 are equivalent to just over US$30 million. Major beneficiaries among the known institutions are, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Lady Dufferin Hospital and Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, and GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology in Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan was the first Chairman of the Foundation from 1983 through 1995. Another personality, a supreme court judge and a former Governor of Sindh – Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim took over and is now the Chairman.

The Foundation has been managed by various Chief Executives. From 1981 to 1999 retired federal secretaries were Secretaries General of the Foundation. From 1999 to 2008 the position was held by Mr. Sohail Kizilbash, a Chartered Accountant qualified in UK and a person with long banking experience. From 2009 another Chartered Accountant and former banker Mr. Anwar Gillani is the Honorary Secretary General.

 

Higher Education

Mr. Abedi also founded BCCI FAST in 1980 with a donation of Rs. 100 million, to promote education in computer science. It is now the first multi-campus university of Pakistan, known as National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. It has five campuses situated in Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad.

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology was also the brainchild of Mr. Abedi. He felt that Pakistan should have another university for higher education, at Ph.D. level, for engineering and sciences and it should be comparable to universities in any developed country.

Abedi and Orangi Pilot Project

“In 1980, Akhtar Hameed Khan moved to Karachi where Agha Hassan Abedi, President of the BCCI Foundation and a renowned banker, asked him to use his expertise and knowledge to improve sanitation and employment in Karachi, Pakistan (LT 2000, 4). Dr. Khan immediately agreed, but under the condition that he would be able to do things his own way without any interference from Abedi or anyone else. Abedi agreed to this, and work was begun on what would become one of the most renowned projects in the world: The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP). Thus, in 1980, the Orangi Pilot Project was started and Dr. Khan remained associated with it until his death in 1999.^[1]

Trivia

• Agha Hasan Abedi Auditorium at GIK Institute, Pakistan, was named after him.
• The Gold Medal at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), awarded to the highest CGPA Holder of the batch, is known as the Agha Hasan Abedi Gold Medal.
• His London home was in the London outskirts, in the affluent Harrow on the Hill, and was previously owned by Anthony Trollope
• In the words of former BCCI Chief Financial Officer Masih ur Rahman, who worked alongside Abedi for nearly three decades, his sister had once commented that “I remember looking into his eyes and seeing God and the Devil balanced equally in them.”^[2] Agha hasan abedi.

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Masjid e Tooba

Masjid e Tooba in Karachi

Masjid e Tooba or Tooba Mosque (Urdu: مسجد طوبٰی‎) is in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Locally, it is known as the Gol Masjid.

Masjid e Tooba was built in 1969 in Defence Housing Society Karachi, Karachi. It is just off main Korangi Road. Masjid e Tooba is often claimed to be the largest single-dome mosque in the world. It is also major tourist attraction in Karachi. Masjid e Tooba is built with pure white marble. The dome is 72 meters (236 feet) in diameter and is balanced on a low surrounding wall with no central pillars. Masjid e Tooba has a single minaret standing 70 meters high. The mosque is the 18th largest in the world with the central prayer hall having a capacity of 5,000 people.

It was built keeping acoustics in mind. A person speaking inside one end of the dome can be heard at the other end. This mosque was designed by Pakistani architect Dr Babar Hamid Chauhan and the engineer was Zaheer Haider Naqvi.