A few days ago our President visited Quaid’s tomb and this is what he wrote in the tomb’s diary – check out the spellings of GOD and STRENGTH

• Everything you eat is savoured with garlic, onions and chillies.
• You try and re-use gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminium foil.
• You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the airport.
• You arrive one or two hours late to a party, and think it’s normal.
• You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to stamp.
• Your toilet has a plastic bowl next to the commode.
• All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
• You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone’s house.
• You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
• You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it’s the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch .
• You live with your parents even if you are 40 years old. (And they like it that way).
• If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run with whose son and feel it’s your duty to spread the word.
• You only make long distance calls after 11pm.
• If you don’t live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you’ve eaten, even if it’s midnight.
• When your parents meet Indian for the first time and talk for a few minutes, you soon discover they are your relatives.
• Your parents don’t realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs while talking.
• You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
• It’s embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
• You list your daughter as ‘fair and slim’ in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
• You’re alw ays interested to know/interfere in others’ personal matters, what they are doing, where they are going, etc.
• You have really enjoyed reading this mail because you know some, or most of them, applies to you!

Karachi City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has initiated a program named ” I own Karachi ” in which Karachi University Students are helping to manage the traffic on the Karachi Roads in the month of Ramazan.

Twenty-five thousand years ago, haplogroup R2 characterized by genetic
marker M124 arose in southern Central Asia. Then began a major wave of
human migration whereby members migrated southward to present-day India
and Pakistan (Genographic Project by the National Geographic Society;
http://www..nationalgeographic.com/). Indians and Pakistanis have the
same ancestry and share the same DNA sequence. Here’s what is happening
in India:

The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on
the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30
billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and
services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be
left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer
than the forty richest Chinese.

In November, Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex flirted with
20,000 points.. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries
became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65
billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.

In November, comes Neeta’s birthday. Neeta turned forty-four three
weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A
sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom
with mood lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite
television, wireless communication and a separate cabin with game
consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani’s wife, and Mukesh is not India’s
richest but the second richest.

Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a
mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean). At a cost of
$1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the
planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh’s new family residence, for a family
of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six
floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing
and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there’s a
health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for
Ambani family’s guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family
floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea. On top of everything
are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family
and their family home.

In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive foreign direct
investment destination. Pakistan wasn’t even in the top 25 countries. In
2004, the United Nations, the representative body of 192 sovereign
member states, had requested the Election Commission of India to assist
the UN in the holding of elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah and
Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of India and
not the Election Commission of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer
to Kabul than is Delhi.

Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are of Indian origin;
38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36 percent of NASA
scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians;
and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.

For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded Hotmail. Sun
Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel Pentium processor,
that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by Vinod Dham. Rajiv
Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard’s E-speak project. Four out of ten
Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians. Bollywood produces 800
movies per year and six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World
titles over the past 10 years.

For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the
face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives in Bangalore. India
now has more than three dozen billionaires; Pakistan has none (not a
single dollar billionaire) .

The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which India is creating
wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani’s father, left
his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined
wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October 2007, as a result of the
stock market rally and the appreciation of the Indian rupee, Mukesh
became the richest person in the world, with net worth climbing to
US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around $56
billion).

Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome haplogroup. We have
the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker (namely: M124). We
have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our culture, our
traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same movies
and sing the same songs.. What is it that Indians do and we don’t:
Indians elect their leaders.

A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his Customer,
“This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”The
barber puts a five rupee coin in one hand and two one rupeecoins(1+1=2) in
the other, then calls the boy over and asks,”Which do you want, son?”The
boy takes the two one rupee coins and leaves.”What did I tell you?” said
the barber. “That kid never learns!”Later, when the customer leaves, he
sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. “Hey, son! May I
ask you a question?Why did you take two one rupee coins instead of five
rupee coin?” The boy licked his cone and replied,”Because THE DAY I TAKE
THE FIVE RUPEE COIN, THE GAME IS OVER

Moral: When you think  the other person is dumb, you may be making a fool of yourself.

By Shah N. Khan

After 60 years of independence, poverty and ignorance continue to be prevalent in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Yes the literacy rate has gone over 54% but still a great mass of population remains illiterate. Yes now India and Pakistan are now the Nuclear Powers. But misery and want remain the foundation of the social structure, deaths from malnutrition are common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption are taken for granted. In countries like China the elimination of these conditions has been striking. But not in South Asia. We and our leaders have not shown the same commitment and farsightedness as the leaders in China, Japan and Malaysia did.
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Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: -

1. EMERGENCY

* The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112 .* If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. **Try it out.**

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Use these Avatars in your favorite IM program, MSN and Yahoo. Show everyone in your instant messaging program how much you love your country, “Pakistan”.

NASSCOM is India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies, the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce for the IT software and services industry in India with around 850 members, of which nearly 150 are global companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM’s member companies are in the business of software development, software services, and IT-enabled/BPO services.

The Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) was formed in the last quarter of 1992 and has since grown to over 200 members. P@SHA’s membership comprises Software and service companies including call centres and BPO service companies. P@SHA’s main objective is to promote and develop the software and services sector, work with the government in the formulation of policies for the IT and ITeS sector in Pakistan, and to protect the rights of its members.