Work on Bhasha and Mohmand dams to commence in 2017: minister
Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said that the groundbreaking ceremonies of two massive reservoir construction projects, the Diamer-Bhasha dam and...
Is giving interest forbidden in Islam?
Some prominent scholars such as Javed Ahmed Ghamidi are of the view that while charging interest is haram in Islam, paying interest on loans...
Pakistan’s path of denial
Pakistan’s future seems uncertain, especially in these volatile times when the threat of an economic wipeout is looming on the horizon. The most worrying...
Ufone, ‘Teri mehrbani’!
If Ufone were to put up a comedy show and charged a ticket of Rs500, I would definitely have paid more. But If, I...
Cloud computing in Pakistan
Cloud computing is the next big thing in the Information Technology (IT) development. The concept has come a long way since it first came...
Committee schemes and shari’a
Islam unambiguously prohibits gambling. All acts of betting, wager and gaming fall under prohibited gambling. The prohibited gambling is an agreement between two (or...
Analysing frontiers of growth
GDP discrepancies across the world, especially in the post economic meltdown period, sum up the changing growth paradigms across regions and economies. A growing...
Fear feeds on itself
Last week in my article ‘Europes existential crisis’ I said Europe is on the brink of a major disaster and it would result from...
King of the Apple empire – Steve Jobs
As news of the resignation of the Steve Jobs spread like wildfire on Wednesday night, millions of people across the globe took out their...
The dethronement of human arrogance
The biggest folly of man is that he deems himself infallible. We tend to have pride in our creations, in our theories, in our...
Blog for business
Blogs have become a new ecommerce buzz. Marketers are blogging for organisations, products, ideas and or for other goals and achieving. A business blog...
Pakistan: A dumping ground of used plastics materials
It is a matter of concern for any country which gets reduced to a dumping ground for used materials and discarded articles. Pakistan, being...
Misplaced priorities
While economic managers of the country insist that the global economic meltdown caused economic turmoil in Pakistan, it needs to be understood that the...
A closed economy?
Self-proclaimed economists many a times lead one to experience a fatal cringing and a heightened need to claw. The latest argument encountered by the...
Islamic banking windows
For Pakistan, it is recommended that no new conventional banks be allowed to start their Islamic operations through an Islamic Window model
An Islamic window...
Significance of consumer psychology
Consumer behaviour binds together marketing issues like communication, identity, social status, decision-making, mental, and physical health. Study of how consumers behave plays a very...
With enough creativity, Windows 8 can still sustain the computing industry
This week, Microsoft rubber-stamped Windows 8 as good to go for manufacturers. This means PC makers and other partners can grab the operating system...
