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JEWISH IN PAKISTAN

2009-07-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

According to the census that took place in 1801 there were 153 Jews in the province of Sindh. Aitken Gazzetter,a document of the government at the time of British-era was published from Karachi in 1907 which stated that the number of Jewish enumerated in 1901’s census was 428 and all of them were in Karachi. By 1947 there were 2,500 Jewish in Karachi. These included Jewish of Bani Israel,Baghdadi,Sephardi,Mizrahi,Bukharan descent. Some organizations were established to serve the Jewish community in Pakistan, such as, Magain Shalome Synagogue(1893) constructed by Shalome Solomon Umerdekar and his son Gershome Solomon; some sources claim Solomon David(surveyor of Karachi municipality committee).Abraham Reuben, member of this synagogue became a councilor in the Karachi City Corporation(1936).Young Man’s Jewish Association(1903) aimed to encourage sports, religious, and social activities of Bani Israel. Karachi Bani Israel Relief Fund supported poor Jewish.Karachi Jews Syndicate(1918) provided homes to poor Jews at reasonable rates. The Bukharan Jews formed a small community in Peshawer which was served by two Synagogues. When Pakistan came into being some 2,000 Jewish (Bani Israel) remained in Pakistan. The creation of Israel in 1948 experienced the evacuation of Jewish from Pakistan because the Karachite Jewish became the site of anti-Israel demonstrations. In the Second Summit Conference Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto declared, ‘’To the Jews as Jews we bear no malice, to the Jews as Zionists, intoxicated with militarism and reeking with technological arrogance, we refuse to be hospitable’’. Magen Shalome Synagogue was destroyed in 1980s to make way for shopping plaza. In 2008 in conversation with Syed Intikhab Ali(a Pakistani journalist) a karachite asserted that Jews were peaceful people, used to remain away from political activities. The igniting of Arab-Israel conflict isolated them and they started migrating Israel silently. In Ramla, Israel many of karachite Jewish reside now.Presently, there are 15 independent Jewish communities in Pakistan. Efforts are being made to unite them into larger community of Pakistan and Kashmir; demands are rejuvenation of Jewish synagogues, right to exist as free individuals, religious liberty, the right to vote and separate representation in the Assembly.

STAGGERING PAKISTANI CINEMAS

2009-07-20T06:45:00.000-07:00

In order to create cinemas first look at the giant building of schools,colleges and universities.Demolish these buildings and construct cinemas.Many students run away from studies let them manage cinemas.Some people would have to sacrifice their studies in order to bring a revolution in Pakistani film.Lollywood is facing a constant deterioration in its standards.Probably because their is a sole man ownership:the director and producer is the same person,who has also written the story and screenplay.They have kept very nightmarish names of their movies,such as,''Channah suchchi muchchi,Haseena 20 20,Channay kay khait main’’.It seems like games played by small children.These horrible names scare the audience;the thought that dawns upon their mind is indescribable.It might be similar to Punjabi Folk horror movie.'',Chanay kay khait main-What happens there! Remains a mystery.Haseena 20 20-What is she trying to say? Probably,she is the first women telling her age.This is the reason that in these cinemas only rickshaw and taxi drivers visit not to watch movies but to sleep in the dead silence-a lucrative sleep which they can not avail at their house because of the presence of their witch(wife).

SOLUTION:

The minimum budget in Pakistan to create a movie is 2 khokay means 2 crore.So,the best solution is that a graduated story writer should approach a business tycoon of middle-east,such as an Arab ruler,because the graduated human being has maturity of thoughts and must ask him to donate 2 crore.The directors of dramas and telefilms will flock towards money.The film should cast Nawaz Shareef as its hero-only on the condition the he wears a wig of Elvis Presley,Shah Syed as the Pashto heroine and there should be no villain.It will be a romantic story more likely to be a counterpart of 'Titanic'.Imagine Nawaz Shareef and Shah Syed making the pose of Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet as they did in Titanic movie.In case of loss Aqeel Karim Daddy won't care he would think as if he had paid for the flood victims.To insure against loss the movie can be sponsored by Amrus Candy and Chooran Chatni.Then as a result it would earn an Oscar Award without being nominated.And finally the families will divert their attention towards cinemas making our film industry earn its lost identity back.

Call Center's trauma

2009-07-08T07:50:00.000-07:00

THE SPIDER WEB

The trend of call center in our society is spreading its tentacles like highly contagious germs;especially in the hub of Pakistan which is ''KARACHI''.The meaning of call center to a lay man would be:''a place where C.S.Rs(Customer.Service.Representatives) or employees through telecommunication medium dial a belligerent country and engage in selling process''.This is known as 'Telemarketing'.When a foreign firm(not necessarily a multinational)aims to quadruple their profits by keeping its average cost of production as low as possible,it would not prefer making heavy expenditure on advertising and the establishment of a telemarketing department or company in their homeland requires paying higher wages to the domestic workers;it would leave the firm with fewer profits.

Mostly such firms have based their headquarters in United.States,Canada and Unite Kingdom where the state has established the system of minimum wage rate for their workers.These firms invests their capital in developing countries,such as,Pakistan,India and Bangladesh.It's a piece of cake for these firms to exploit the workers of developing nation as agents(C.S.Rs) charge far lesser than the foreign labours.As in these countries there is mass unemployment and cheap labour supply,businesses are not very much under the thumb of the government.

When the teenagers are over with their board examinations,boredom prevails their life thus they start rifling the newspapers for internships and apprenticeships,haplessly their eyes catches the attention of a fascinating advertisement headed with ''JOBS AVAILABLE IN A CALL CENTER'' and further its mentioned''R.S 10,000 MONTHLY SALARY''.A teenager already have an itch for money and advertisement becomes a fat in the fire for him/her.The renowned and well-reputed companies never mention their salary package along with their vacancy advertisement.

Through word-of-mouth teenagers gather their cronies and try to apply for that job.The call center carries out their activities at the evening and at night,and parents only allow their children to work in the evening but the telephone pick-ratio is low because the time scheduling in the dialed location is different;Pakistan follows Greenwich.Mean.Time(G.M.T),when there is evening at Pakistan there is morning at the dialed destination,so the majority of the prospects are in the rush hour(going at their work place) thus for juvenile C.S.Rs to achieve their targets become a herculean task.On the average an agent dials 150-200 calls per day but still is very less.

The supervisor or the floor manager arrives to motivate the agents,supervisor informs them about the fruitful output they could have if they opt for night shift;it's like pouring oil on troubled waters.Agents envisage that supervisors are their job's comforter,so they wheedle their parents to allow them to pursue night shift in the call center and parents come under duress.Working in unsociable hours disrupt person's routine life.The boys/girls can not fraternize because after returning to their dwelling;what they can see is sleep,sleep and sleep.

And finally when one's ship comes home(agents start earning money) then it affects their studies,as they still have to continue it an nobody after earning wishes to study diligently or many even put a brake over their student life.Who wishes to compromise then?

A research was carried out in Canada in which it was found out that per day a Canadian receive 15 to 20 telemarketing calls.This irritates them to an extent of torture that they sometimes even abuse the telemarketers,plummeting their prestige.

By working in a call center the students may wreak havoc over their life,because their top most priority is the 'studies' which can give them a hand in future,nobody would even care about telemarketing experience in their retrospective,it is just a short cut to or most probably a short-term way to earn money.

Vertu launches crumpled gold phone...

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Wodden Speakers

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USB-burger

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i-pod 3g

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i-mate

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TV-B-GONE

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hot keyboard

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