3G Consultants: Member Tech Terms the Hiring Illegal: ProPakistani

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• 3G Consultants: Member Tech Terms the Hiring Illegal
• Get Your Final Year Project Funded by ICT RnD Fund
• Maximum 5 SIMs Allowed on 1 CNIC: Time to Block Your Inactive SIMs
• App Development: A Game Developer’s Perspective
• HTC Butterfly, A Variant of J Butterfly Unveiled

3G Consultants: Member Tech Terms the Hiring Illegal Posted: 10 Dec 2012 12:34 AM PST اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Dr Khawar Siddique Khokhar, in a letter written to Principal Secretary to the PM, the cabinet secretary, secretary information technology, has termed recently appointed three consultants for 3G auction as illegal, in violation of telecom and PPRA rules and without the knowledge (and approval) of authority. This was reported by "The [...]

Get Your Final Year Project Funded by ICT RnD Fund Posted: 09 Dec 2012 11:52 PM PST اسے اردو میں پڑھیے ICT R&D fund has announced the launch of National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative for Undergrads for year 2013, with which undergraduate students can get their final year project funded by ICT R&D Fund. ICT R&D Fund said that this initiative aims to promote, enable, and encourage R&D culture at the grassroots [...]

Maximum 5 SIMs Allowed on 1 CNIC: Time to Block Your Inactive SIMs Posted: 09 Dec 2012 11:37 PM PST اسے اردو میں پڑھیے As per directives issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, all cellular mobile operators are asked to check the number of SIMs issued against one CNIC before selling new SIMs to customers and that new SIMs should not be sold to anyone already having over 5 SIMs registered against one CNIC. With this [...]

App Development: A Game Developer’s Perspective Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:55 PM PST By Hassan Baig “Ask not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” – John Donne, Meditation 17 Every once in a while, we need to get our head out of the day-to-day rigmarole that consumes us and look around. This is the only way to get perspective on the big picture. And [...]

HTC Butterfly, A Variant of J Butterfly Unveiled Posted: 09 Dec 2012 08:33 PM PST اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Earlier in the month of October, HTC had unveiled the first smart phone in the world with a full-HD display, HTC J Butterfly and now HTC has announced the GSM variant of the J Butterfly, which it is calling HTC Butterfly designed to run on GSM networks worldwide. HTC Butterfly features [...]

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Zahida Kazmi: Pakistan's ground-breaking female cabbie

Zahida has had to drive long distances on treacherous routes to northern areas

Zahida Kazmi has been hailed as Pakistan's first female taxi driver. She has driven from the crowded markets of Islamabad to the remote tribal country in the north. Here she tells Nosheen Abbas about her two decades in a male-dominated world.

In 1992 at the age of 33, newly widowed Zahida Kazmi decided to take her fate in her own hands and become a taxi driver.

Born into a conservative and patriarchal Pakistani family, she flew in the face of her family's wishes but with six children to support, she felt she had no choice.

She took advantage of a government scheme in which anybody could buy a brand new taxi in affordable instalments. She bought herself a yellow cab and drove to Islamabad airport every morning to pick up passengers.

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I saw her and the first thought that came to my mind was that she's my mother's age. I liked her driving and in these days where one feels insecure in Pakistan I felt very relaxed ”

Adnan WaseemPassenger

In a perilous and unpredictable world, Zahida at first kept a gun in the car for her own protection and she even started off by driving her passengers around wearing a burqa, a garment that covers the entire body.

Her initial fears soon dissipated.

"I realised that I would scare passengers away," she said. "So then I only wore a hijab [head covering]. Eventually I stopped covering my head because I got older and was well-established by then."

Exposing herself to the hot, bustling city streets of Islamabad and by driving to the rocky and remote districts adjoining Pakistan's tribal areas, Zahida says she learned a lot about the country she lived in and its people.

The Pathans of the tribal north-west, despite a reputation for fierce male pride and inflexibility, treated her with immense courtesy on her journeys.

Eventually she became the chairperson of Pakistan's yellow cab association. Once she was established, she offered to teach young women how to drive taxis, but there was little interest. Even her daughters didn't express enthusiasm.

Passengers say they feel secure with her

"They don't need to make a living," she says wistfully. "They are all married."

Zahida is not one of Pakistan's metropolitan liberal middle class - there are plenty of educational and career opportunities for privileged women in Pakistan but not for women from Zahida's background.

Pakistan has an exceptionally low number of women in work: 33.7% according to the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. Most women who work come under the category of "unpaid family workers".

Pakistan's legal system does little to protect women, so harassment is commonplace. Campaigners say it is little wonder that women do not choose livelihoods that make them even more vulnerable.

"Girls shy away from non-traditional jobs in a setting where there is a particular mindset... of intimidation," says Anees Haroon, chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women in Pakistan.

'Curious and amazed'

But had Zahida been starting out now, things would be quite different as she would be entering the workforce in a country torn between the forces of liberalism and Islamic radicalism.

Pakistan in 1992 was a more moderate place: it was opening up to the world; the dish antenna had been introduced; Pakistan had won the cricket world cup. Zahida says society felt fairly open to her.

But the Taliban presence in many parts of Pakistan has intensified over the years.

The roads in the northern areas of Pakistan can be perilous

Zahida has had to drive long distances on treacherous routes to northern areas such as Balakot, Chitral, Dir and even the Swat valley.

"Police at checkposts would be interested in why I was driving a taxi, but they were simply curious and amazed," she said.

Passengers seek her out as well. Adnan Waseem, a businessman from Haripur, told me that he always books Zahida for his journeys.

"I saw her and the first thought that came to my mind was that she's my mother's age. I liked her driving and in these days where one feels insecure in Pakistan I felt very relaxed," he said.

Another traveller, Sohail Mazhar, had to be driven through rocky terrain up to the northern city of Abbottabad.

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"Even the policemen who stopped us at security checkpoints also knew her... we were so happy to see a woman driving a taxi."

Although Zahida has been feted for being Pakistan's first female taxi-driver, she still has many bitter memories of her struggles as a single mother working hard on the road.

Her own mother disapproved of her career choice and only resentfully accepted it when the media gave her positive coverage.

And she is estranged from her children now.

"I am old now and I get tired. It's hard for me to drive all the time but what can I do? My sons don't help," she said.

"If I had a chance I would have become a doctor."

Just as she said that to me, a passing taxi driver stopped his car and got out to reverentially greet Zahida.

Despite her travails, she is clearly a respected presence on the streets of Islamabad.

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