Paradigm Shift towards India...!

Two countries having almost similar cultural values and traditions. Two nations but the roots are in the same soil. Two enemies but having the same cause. India posses the same thoughts perhaps which Pakistanis have for Bangladesh after 1971. But both countries now accepts eachother separate entities having separate ideologies and different political and economical scenarios. Then why are we curious on declaring India MFN ( Most Favorite Nation).

I think this should have been done a long time ago, but the hatred due to the wars and separation in 1947 still forbid us to think positively. After taking risk of saying NO to US/NATO Pakistani Government has left with no option except of making friendly relations with all of its neighbor countries. China, Iran and Now India are being added in the friendship list of Pakistan. And a big role was played by AMAN ki ASHA and business community of Pakistan. Because they emphasis to maintain relation with India to get the things in much cheap rates comparatively than others, And India would have an opportunity to promote its business here.

All of us know that Indian movies pirated CDs are easily available in market and the situation of our Industry seems well that where we stands, our trade and production is decreasing day by day. So why not making it legal and profitable for Pakistan. Despite of having all concerns I think we need to build good relationship with india at least on trade and opportunities level. As this will help Pakistan to strengthen its boundaries against foreign countries like US. To build good relation are in favor of both the countries to use each other resources in order to prosper without fighting... lets see till when this relations lasts but We can hope for the good...!

A lady who served Pakistan...!

Begum Khursheed Abdul Aziz (1913 -2010) the lady who will always be remembered. One of the best friends of Fatima Jinnah, the one who has done many things for the country. Founder of Hajirabad Colony near Shah Faisal Colony. 15000 people were settled there and houses were given to them in just 700 in 1960s. She was the architect of many colleges e.g. Sir Syed Girls College and she were the reliable adviser of  Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah.

She was the true leader of women without any discrimination. She was the first who rose voice against the tradition of SATTI in hindu religion to protect the women burning in fire with her husband. She also tried to put the women rights on different forums. A true lover of Pakistan and its people. Do whatever she could for the refugees. Once she was offered the federal ministry too but she refused to get charge because wanted to serve people without being pointed out.

Led the women in Pakistan movement with Rana Liaquat Ali and Fatima Jinnah. Always helpful for needy people. A philanthropist and a great mother. Her husband was a journalist named Mr. Abdul Aziz. Both of them served the country with their endless and best efforts. She had the spiritual vision and powers gifted by ALLAH and with His support she was always blessed. May ALLAH rest her soul in peace.

HEC Ranking... Who is responsible; University or HEC ?

HEC has announced its new ranking and surprisingly NED and IoBM ratings are decreasing down. Can you digest it? Yes there is a criteria defined for HEC grading but HEC shouldn't neglect the current market trend and jobs ratio. Both of these universities are perceived to be the high gentry of student in engineering and business.

But aren't universities liable for this grading ? yes, they are! If we talk about NED, being a university of state its management has few responsibilities to fulfill first. The university producing champs of different engineering fields has not even replaced blackboards from it till yet. Although Private Universities are considered as money making factories but some are very good as they own a good name in Industry too. Is there any mechanism given by these universities that their grading can be dependant upon the student feedback surveys too. In my 6 years of University education I have never filled a University grading form by HEC.

http://beta.hec.gov.pk/INSIDEHEC/DIVISIONS/QALI/OTHERS/RANKINGOFUNIVERSITIES/Pages/CategoryWise.aspx

Being a government institution NED, is also a victim of traditional working trend. The professor who is eligible of a chairman post is forced to sit aside and chairman seat will be awarded to his junior without having any serious claim against him. A dean can have 3 position at the same time including Chairmanship  of 2 departments. Isn't it the monopoly ? Non-professional teachers are hired in faculty just because they are relatives of the person on higher posts. And they are awarded with HEC foreign scholarships too. And as a result we need to face the brain drain.

I think Governor Sindh should take notice of the internal management issues in government universities as he being the chancellor owns this responsibility. Quota system should be removed from every university so as to maintain the merit and proper scholarship awarding schemes should also be introduced for the students who can't afford high fees. If nobody will take any notice then there would be no skilled faculty remains in the universities to teach the students what they should learn.

Still working with SQL Queries?

Are you still working with SQL queries? Select * From EMP.... OR Insert into .... OR UPDATE ___ (sorry I forgot :p )... These queries can never be forgotten but as advancement in the technology is upbringing a hell of changes then you should analyze yourself that where do you stands? Now the era is coming where Rapid Application Development is on its hype. Are you coping up with it?

In 2008, Microsoft introduced Codename Astoria which later became Entity framework. What it tends to do basically works on ORM (Object relational mapping). You can now write queries as like you are programming in C# with your own customized objects. JSQL , although having same capabilities but Microsoft was led its technology to hype and making it easier for beginners to code a program.

Irrespective of its technical details, you just focus on the technique and technology. You will learn it by yourself while making a small program using Entity Data Model, having the .edmx extension. It enable your database in Classes form in your code where you can make their objects and perform database CRUD operations. The demo session will be here soon.

SOLVING A COMMON MAN PROBLEM

Pakistan is the country where people are unaware of their rights. They don’t even know what to do when they are stuck in any problems. There are no such platforms provided to common man from where they can get information and solutions of their problems, queries and rights. Catering the mentioned problem I would like to propose a business plan which can resolve this issue as well as it could generate revenue also.

According to the statistics there are around 80 million mobile phone users in Pakistan and several companies are promoting other options of CDMA and Smart Phones too. In addition to this there are around 30 million internet users all over the Pakistan. And most of them belong to middle class families. Digital abuse, women, children rights, human rights, Text abuse, harassment, emergency information and other queries are generated on daily basis. I would like to propose a solution that we can provide the assistance and support to such users who have no idea to get consultation when they are stuck.

A web based discussion platform, social media campaigns and SMS based support can be provided to such people. The can get the solution of their queries on SMS, online and by Email of Phone call. To cater this issue we need to have a strong integrated media campaign where all TV Channels and Print Media organizations will be requested to initiate the public service messages. A nominal amount of SMS charges and web based revenue generation model can be run in parallel to generate money from this cause too.

In emergency situations, or consultations the experts will be hired or voluntarily provided on support to the people. It may include any legal advises or it can also include the other kind of support like human rights, and other queries. Police cases, or any accidental cases there is nobody who could help the suffering person and this platform can work as a friend in need. 

When a Common Man can get the justice ?

Supreme Court is playing great innings against government or we can say PPP government. But this inning is being played on higher level. I used to enjoy the comments when supreme court says that whole government is involved in corruption. I need to as Justice Chaudhry that has he ever visited Civil Courts of Karachi ?

Does he know about the lawyers, session judges and their staff. There are unlimited vacations/holidays for judges. Most of judges don't give the dates on Saturday as they need to go to their villages, home etc. No judge even show personal interest in solving any case. A criminal is easily bailed and innocents are usually jailed. It is the easiest thing to play with the law of Pakistan and nobody will be caught.

How can masses believes on SC unless it would maintain its own lower courts. Chief Justice can listen a direct application on Memo case but innocents couldn't approach him unless they will ruin their years in lower courts. On the average a family case gets only 1 date per month. And criminal perhaps 2. If somebody wins a case by mistake it will be easily challenged in higher courts.

I think SC should look into its own matters first. Correct their own system first, maintain its reputation and provide justice to common people too. I have no interest in watching PM presenting in front of SC. I would like to see the common people getting fast and immediate justice first. Waiting Waiting & Waiting for the day...!

Need an idea for FYP ?

Final Year Project : Every student in the university has to select a final year project in his last year/semester of university life. It seems that the selection of FYP is the most difficult work to do as many students used to be worried for it. Specially the IT students. Are you the victim of same problem?

What you actually need to do is to observe your surroundings. Find out the problems in your surroundings which can be solved through the technology. I saw many students inspiring by technologies from Microsoft, or the mobile applications craze these days. Without an idea how could you select a technology I couldnt make out this. Teachers asked students to select Android for development or Windows Phone 7. May ask you sir, Why ? Why should anybody waste his one whole year working on a bogus idea on that technology. Most of people do this mistake.

Find out the technical solution of a problem in the society. It doesn't mean that everybody start making an sms application for Patients, or the apps which couldnt be used by the makers themselves. You can find a genuine problem in daily life, in addition to this you can find out the problems even on internet etc. All you need to do is to just observe and noticed the change which is required. For instance I have a problem that I cannot share my word documents on Facebook with people. Can you provide me a solution? (Just make you understand).

The project should not be technical enough but caters the small niches to capture a specific target audience. If your project couldn't benefit anyone except giving you the marks in papers then its better not to do any project. 1000 solutions are freely available on Codeplex and Codeproject just pick one and give it as an FYP. Select a project which could solve a problem, and benefit people. There are hundreds of example of the projects which are technically not strong but made their makers successful in life. 

What I believe FYP is an opportunity for any student to learn the technology and help the society as well. Which is badly needed. I saw students of Singapore, Japan, and Malaysia who used to work on such projects, which our students afraid to think about it. I never saw a robotic project by IT students. I never have seen any social service project from any student. Either you are afraid of doing so or not wanted to do so. Ideas are scattered everywhere in your surrounding. Catch them and arrange them in order and lets see a small but fruitful application will be the resultant in front of you..!

Ghar Ka Samander -- The biggest urdu novel...!

Since my childhood I have been reading the novels of ishtiaque Ahmed and I have a big collection of his books. Ishtiaq Ahmed started writing Jasoosi Novels in 80's. He wrote more than 700 novels including 35 Khass Number. His biggest novel was "Ghar ka Samandar" consisting of 2000 pages.

 Inspector Jamhed is the main and popular character of his novels. Facts and Suspense are the reasons I loved his books. Not only does he make me see the things he sees, he makes me feel the things he feels. There's a lot more going on than just the trial, and the novel tells you all about it.

Children are very much fond of reading his novels and his novels always tried to teach the manners and etiquettes to them. The caption is always given at the start of novel that if a child has to do homework/namaz or any other thing then he should leave the novel and fulfill the required deed before.

The novels of Ishtiaq Ahmed contain the Islamic essence and he usually targets the anti-muslim forces in his novels. So as the entitled novel is. The story starts with the Shokey Brothers, children private detectors who are poor but not greedy. A packet was handed over to them and they need to take care of it but the person who handed it was killed by some foreign agents. And a war begins around that packet who is going to have that packet.

Inspector jamshed was called by shokey for his help but they also trapped by the web of the story and this is the expertise of writer how he managed the whole story. Inspector kamran Mirza also comes into the case and they have to cover the Glasses. The mystery of glasses also remains unclosed. All three parties lost their things due to some unavoidable reasons.

The criminals like Professor Bagran and Shara are the villain of this novel. Both of them are able to shape themselves without any kind of make-up. Means bagran can become a lady with long hairs. And they made the whole story more complex. The reader can never come out of suspense. How the villains revolves the whole story on their hands. And suddenly an area comes into the story that seems like turning a new leaf.

The children party which includes mehmood farooq, farzana, aftab, asif, farhat, shokey, aftab (makhan), ashfaq, rifat played vital role in many places with their elders. Without them case couldn’t be solve properly. Similarly the elders like Khan Rehman, Munawwar Ali and professor daood also played significant role in the story. Their specific abilities are always highlighted in the story and every character get  chance to prove himself.

As this is the biggest novel till yet and it is not expected by any writer or author to produce such a big novel with a unique and heart touching story. The information that is provided in the novel is based on the true facts as we can listen them in different sayings and quotations by different ulemas scholors and leaders. Despite of all the suspense writer never let the attention of the reader lost. Simple wording and complex story make this novel brilliant.

I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this novel and I was certainly not disappointed! Several of my favorite authors have stories in here, and I also found many great new authors that I had never read before. I stayed up entirely too late reading because I couldn’t stop reading! Every one of them are really great stories.

The climax of the story is very much attracting. Although it seems at some places that the writer could write more better than that as people looses their attention at a few places. But Ishtiaque ahmed also promote his Islamic sect through these novels. He should be unbiased in this regard as his intentions could hurt other muslims belonging to different sects. That is why people sometime get deviated through the additional literature but as an Islamic point of view he is serving the religion too through his books.

I VERY highly recommend this book! I love this collection with such a variety of different author styles but all together in one great collection of suspense! This book is loaded with massive amounts of talent and is sure to please any suspense fan.

Iran on Strike...!

Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed 140 miles (225km) from the Afghan border.


Images show Iranian military officials inspecting the RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft which appears to be undamaged. US officials have acknowledged the loss of the unmanned plane, saying it had malfunctioned.

However, Iranian officials say its forces electronically hijacked the drone and steered it to the ground.

The question arises over here that if irani officials are claiming right then where does the security of Pakistani lies ? Even we cannot stop these drones to kill our army man? I remember that PAF chief claimed the our Airforce is able to stop such attacks but we couldn't see a single proof in this regard.

Emerging Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Innovation and risk taking in Pakistan is severely inhibited by intrusive role of Government in the marketplace. People are extremely risk averse and that is the main reason they do not start up their new business ventures/ enterprise. Today entrepreneurship is most commonly viewed as undertaking innovation and bearing risk.

In practice, however, many people are entrepreneurial and succeed in implementing new ideas. It is publicly believed that the lack of entrepreneurship together with limited capital, skilled workers and technology have been the main important causes of relatively economic backwardness. Social attitudes, political practices, economic policies and the legal system must support creativity, risk-taking, and the implementation of new enterprises. Entrepreneurs find the new ways of manipulating nature, and new ways of assembling and coordinating people.

The central role that entrepreneurial ventures play in our economy varies from job creation, to innovation and improvements in our overall standard of living. Here a very basic question arises that why might we expect fewer companies founded during recessions, For example, First, entrepreneurs might decide to delay creating companies until the economy into which they anticipate selling products or services is more robust.

This argument applies most strongly to entrepreneurs in service industries where there is little lag time from company founding until first product/service sale.

In the last few years the entrepreneurial class in Pakistan has been on the rise for the first time. This trend has been recognized by the media both in Pakistan and abroad as well as by quite a few bloggers. The interesting thing is that the trend of rising entrepreneurship continues in spite of the growing political challenges and unstable business environment. A young breed of entrepreneurs has shown remarkablecontribution in technology, entertainment, businesses about lifestyle and many more fields. Examples of successful new companies include these US based companies and have their operations in Pakistan, Peanut Labs, Techlogix, TRG, Cavium Networks. Other successful startups are local to Pakistan NetSol, Rozee, Alchemy, Inov8, and BrightSpyre.

Pakistani entrepreneurs need to start inventing their own concepts. As a community we need to teach our young children to be risk taking and promote small adventures from childhood. Instead at present we force them into taking tuitions and memorizing text books so they get good scores in HSSE, SSC exams etc. Together, the committed capital chasing Pakistan is abundant. We need to make sure that we employ the latest cutting edge marketing strategies to look out for potential markets thus ensuring that the young Pakistani entrepreneurs get a chance to prove themselves in the International market.

An attempt should be made to initiate programs for management development of entrepreneurs in order to increase their skills. The university could create an office to promote the interaction with firms and to create mechanisms to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances and networks of knowledge.

There is a need to setup both general and specialist support organizations in the country at various levels. This will increase awareness of existing support programs among entrepreneurs. Also there is a need to support and promote campaigns to counter discrimination against members of the youth groups.

This can be done by financial institutions, business organizations and regulatory bodies. Unfortunately in our social setup women entrepreneurship is not given its due importance. Also social status is one the core cause for getting support from financial institutions regarding start-up businesses. To encourage business support and membership, organizations shouldrecord the age, gender and ethnic status of their clients/members so that equal opportunities may be monitored.

There are the numbers of different ways in which entrepreneurship can be approached. One definition of entrepreneurship sees entrepreneurs as the self-employed; based on the notion that a person can either be unemployed, self-employed, or in wage employment.

Innovation and risk taking in Pakistan is severely inhibited by intrusive role of Government in the marketplace. People are extremely risk averse and that is the main reason they do not start up their new business ventures/ enterprise. Today entrepreneurship is most commonly viewed as undertaking innovation and bearing risk.

In practice, however, many people are entrepreneurial and succeed in implementing new ideas. It is publicly believed that the lack of entrepreneurship together with limited capital, skilled workers and technology have been the main important causes of relatively economic backwardness. Social attitudes, political practices, economic policies and the legal system must support creativity, risk-taking, and the implementation of new enterprises. Entrepreneurs find the new ways of manipulating nature, and new ways of assembling and coordinating people.

The central role that entrepreneurial ventures play in our economy varies from job creation, to innovation and improvements in our overall standard of living. There is a need to setup both general and specialist support organizations in the country at various levels. This will increase awareness of existing support programs among entrepreneurs. This can be done by financial institutions, business organizations and regulatory bodies. Unfortunately in our social setup women entrepreneurship is not given its due importance. Also social status is one the core cause for getting support from financial institutions regarding start-up businesses. To encourage business support and membership, organizations should record the age, gender and ethnic status of their clients/members so that equal opportunities may be monitored.

There are several organizations that are developed in order to provide loans or funding to the small level firms or entrepreneurs. It includes: Small & Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA), Women Entrepreneurs Information Networks, Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation, Business Support Fund, Agribusiness Support Fund, National ICT And R&D Fund, IGI Funds, Abraaj Capital, Pakistan Dairy Development Company and Pakistan Software Export Board.

Let’s see how Media In our country, it is easier to start a business with an idea, but the difficult thing is to run that business successfully. The above mentioned organizations help the startups so that they can run their business successfully. And that business could be a milk shop or an IT company.

Media formats such as newspapers, TV and radio are important mediums to transmit cultural values and ideas. They can also help to structure people’s perception of entrepreneurship so as to foster an entrepreneurship spirit through society. Ten papers and book chapters dealing with these issues were found.

Human resource development and its capacity building are vital factors in support of competitive innovation and an entrepreneurial system. Keeping in mind the problems faced by Pakistani entrepreneurs it can be easily concluded that only about one-half of new business ventures offers job.

Innovation is about partnerships which entail advancing new and innovative ideas which are relevant to various communities. Partnerships create and promote entrepreneurship, the development of technology and its commercialization. 

Who will bring the change ?

In my opinion, nobody could...! I know people are supporting Imran Khan these days and there is nothing new in it. I have been watching this since 1990. BB comes up and ask people to change, people vote to PPP. Nawaz Sharif arouse with the change and then people vote to him, again  BB shouted for change, People voted to her and after her government broke down people again voted for Nawaz Sharif.


When Musharraf brought up the Change in Pakistan, then everyone supported him. Media got changed, People got changed and economy got also changed. But we tried to change the chief justice then he was changed by the Change. I don't know what type of change we want? What can Imran Khan do alone by shouting for change? Can he take the votes from Nawaz Sharif's area ? Is he be able to fight in elections on Larkana seat of PPP? or can he go to D I Khan and beat the Moulana Fazlurr Rehman on his seat. What do he think himself, as a Khan, can he get the votes of ANP. Or JI and MQM will allow him to capture their seats in Karachi and Hyderabad. The only thing that is usually change is the Government.


Some new faces and new comes up to make us fool as the system remains the same. We do appreciate Mustafa Kama and his efforts but after CDGK went, whats the status of city government activities now? They are again become the same culprits. No public issues are being solved by them. In the presence of CDGK, the people who Unfortunately lives in the cantt. areas except Clifton Cantt. nobody would be able to meet with the right person to get his issue solved.


Yes we can bring up the change, but that is only possible when we change ourselves. We are FREE:

To spit on the roads.

To fight on political statements.

To break the traffic laws.

To throw the garbage on roads.

To cheat with others.

To kill our Citizens.

To snatch the cell phones.

To elect the most corrupt people as President/Prime Minister.

To enjoy our life as we want.

To pass the exams by cheating.

To make fun of laws.

To insult the pics and sayings of Quaid e Azam.

To insult the Green flag replacing it with colored ones.

To promote discrimination.

To disobey our parents.

To leave our country for opportunities.

To indulge in criminal activities.

To follow other nations.

To forgot our culture and adopt others'.

We are happy with it.... How can we brings up the change then ?

Khuda ne aaj tak us qaum ki haalat nhi badli,

Na ho jisko Khayal aap, apni halat badalny ka

An Interview with Innovators..!

By: Junaid Ansari

Introduction

Zohaib Shoaib and Yusra Siddiqui are the students of NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi. They developed software named as Electrical Power Utilization Manager (EPUM) and they have won several students/IT related competitions on that software. Their biggest achievement till now is that they won the P@SHA ICT Awards 2011, as Runners-Up in Student Category. Reading magazines, playing games, Loves Horse Riding & playing chess, long drive are the activities which yusra and zohaib likes other than studies and software development. We took an interview with them to share the spirit of young achievers with our readers.

Q:            Being an undergraduate student, could you expect these achievements in this age?

Yusra & Zohaib: Never, if we didn’t win ITEC (Information Technology Exhibition & Competition) 2010 competition…. It was our first competition at student level. We participated there with very less hope of win because there was a lot of competition expected. The students of third & final year brought their projects in competition and we couldn’t expect a win there. At that time we only developed simulation software on C++ based on logic gates. Judges liked our idea and appreciated us a lot, and we won that event. After winning we used to Participate in different competition & now we believe that if you have guts, you should bring in front of the world. 

Q:            How the idea of electrical power utilization manager came into your mind?

Yusra & Zohaib: Basically that was the idea of our teacher; we just take the initiative to work on it. Our teacher, Sir Amjad guided us a lot in order to accomplish the goal of completing this application. He proved to be a best mentor and we successfully completed our software in his supervision.

Q:            What actually the software does? How it is beneficial for the public?

Yusra & Zohaib:            The software allows a consumer to keep track his electrical power utilization and even the billing cycle. Tariff has already uploaded in the software and it will be updated on daily basis. EPUM software is actually attached with a device that works in parallel with the electrical meter provided by the electric supply company. The software can be used at any place like home, company or any kind of industry. It is also helpful for the companies who want to cut their cost. The software is capable to give you the rates according the electricity usage and excessive use can be sent to the consumer mobile number through an SMS. Software also provides the graphs and charts according to the daily, monthly and even hourly basis.

Q:            Do your families help you in this cause?

Zohaib: Yes, our parents supported us very much. They helped me in determining the requirements, completing the analysis and funding extra than our pocket money on this software.

Yusra: I think every girl is curious about participating in such events, but being a female it is very difficult to manage the work, studies and families together with such extracurricular activities. I am thankful to my parents who allowed me to not only participate in such events but to build my personality by meeting the people from IT industry and work with them.

Q:            Whom do you acknowledge the most for your achievements?

Yusra & Zohaib: First of all our Teamwork, Mentors like Sir Amjad from NED & Jibran Jamshad from MIC (Microsoft) and specially our Parents. In addition to this we also acknowledge different people from the IT Industry, MIC Catalyst Program, and P@SHA who supported us in shaping our efforts in a sweet fruit.

Q:            Which event did you enjoy a lot?

Yusra & Zohaib: We have participated in many events and we enjoyed almost every event. In competitions, we compete not to win but to learn how to win. And we learned a lot by our mistakes and shaped our software that it would be able to compete with the final year projects of the students of several universities. We enjoyed MIC a lot and PASHA ICT Awards which gave us a good name. We have also put our project in ITCN Asia 2011 with the help of Microsoft. Thousands of people came there and acknowledge our application. We also enjoyed their valuable comments and feedbacks.

Q:            Is there any company who is supporting you in your project?

Yusra & Zohaib: Not Yet. We had discussions with different companies in different events like Nestle, KESC, Microsoft etc. But companies are afraid of supporting us as they think that our project is the direct competitor of KESC and has no business values. Through this interview we also want to communicate that our project is for the masses to empower them that they could control their electrical expenses.

Q:            You have 1 year in NED more, what are the future plans then?

Yusra & Zohaib: We are trying to achieve another goal in final year & that is to become an entrepreneur. We are working hard to commercialize our project but it requires a lot of efforts and support. Further we are planning to develop some more innovative and business oriented products so that we could achieve our goals.

The first thing we learn while starting to develop any software is to make its feasibility analysis. If the project is worthy then it should be started otherwise not. We have some more ideas to work upon them and we will try to complete them in our final year of bachelors.

Q:            Are these activities affecting your studies?

Yusra & Zohaib: Initially it seems like that but we became used to it. No our work and efforts not at all effects our studies. We are thankful to our teachers in this regard who helps us in making us understand the missing lectures and co-operate us in participating in several competitions.

Q:            What extra did you learn other than competition?

Yusra & Zohaib: Other than the competition we learnt many things like how to meet with corporate sector and how to present the ideas in front of hundreds of people. We have met with the tycoons of industry and we learnt many things from them. They guided us to further improve our software and make innovative changes in it.

Q:            Did any company offer the job?

Yusra & Zohaib: Usually people meet us and want to know about our software. Many companies have contacted us, but right now we are the students and we need to complete 1 more year in NED University. After completing our bachelors definitely the doors in the company will be expected to open for us. But our mindset is to be an entrepreneur rather than doing a salaried job. We would like to find out business opportunities because through this thing only we can bring up more innovative ideas to serve the people of Pakistan.

Q:            What do you want to say about Job Crisis and Recession?

Yusra & Zohaib: Recession comes in the economy when people leave all things upon the fate. Unfortunately our students and even our people are now becoming careless about their future.

Khuda ne Aaj tak us Qaoum ki Halat nahi badly,

Na ho jisko Khyaal aap apni halat badalny ka..!

We should always be in search of new opportunities. A person can be an entrepreneur while opening a computer shop in the market as well as he can be a bankrupt while having a company with him. That should be learnt by our people. All this recession and economic crisis will not affect our economy and country’s financial conditions, but it could be done collectively. Every individual have to think about it.

Q:            Comments on Current situation of Pakistan?

Yusra & Zohaib: Pakistan is the country which is full of the talented people. Unfortunately our talent is being wasted in negative deeds more than the positive one. Either it would be politics or any other field. You can see this in students too, who don’t pass the exams honestly. In our opinion Pakistan is facing such crisis because of us. If we are right then the system will automatically be corrected.

Q:            Any message you want to give to your generation?

Zohaib:   I would like to say other students like me; never be disheartened with the defeat. Always ready to compete, as if you don’t bring your things in front of the people then nobody will know you. You should tell people who you are. The talent in Pakistan cannot be easily defeated. The thing is to provide support and mentorship to such students so that they can also portray their ideas, product and services to the people.

Yusra:     I have learnt many things while participating in such competitions. And I noticed that now females are also participating with their complete efforts. All we need to do is to support them and their ideas. Although I have seen a discrimination aspect too but I wish that if you are in this field then you should learn to compete. Every student can bring a new thing to the environment and it will effect collectively on the society.

Kia na becho gay jo mil jayenge Sanam Pathar k...?

A conspiracy or a planned strategy? I am still confused.. How could a muslim state allow an architect to promote a non-islamic creature through his architectural designs? Initially I didn't believe this but when I saw the pictures I was shocked..... Burj Al Arab is the biggest cross on the earth that has been nailed on a Muslim state..

This is probably an outdated news and it is all over the internet, anyway, Burj al Arab was designed by Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC, during the designing stage, the world was told that it was built to resemble a sail, but critics are claiming that Wright designed the cross after he had a dream to have a Christian influence in a Muslim country. http://blog.miragestudio7.com/burj-al-arab-world-largest-christian-cross/1419/

I was proud on dubai that they are being developed more than any other muslim state and they are becoming a symbol of dignity and peace all over the world. But may I ask you that why UAE is the only arab country left which is not facing any chaos these days? Why isn't any so called REVOLUTION striking over there ? The whole islamic nation is suffering but there is no movement in UAE.

I think UAE should clearly declares its policies. Every non muslim has a right to follow his/her religion in an islamic state but they should follow the rules of the state too. I think mufti hazraat and islamic scholor should discuss this issue that is it allowed for any muslim nation to accept such things or not?

It was not a mistake. Its architect was a christian and he proposed such design. although he claimed that this idea never crossed his mind but if it wouldn't be a planned conspiracy then why shouldn't dubai government took an action against it. Designs can be changed accordingly ...