Emaar Pakistan
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Lahore
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Top-Rate Attrachtion:
1. Wagah Border Badshahi Mosque
2. Jehangir's Tomb & Kamran's Baradari Pavilion
3. Fort and Shalamar Gardens
4. Anarkali's Tomb
5. Lahore Museum
6. Hafeez Center
7. University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
8. AL-Hammra Art Centre
9. Ali Hajvery's Tomb
Top-Rated Hotels
Mirage Hotel & Banquet Hall
Pearl Continental Lahore
Avari Hotel Lahore
National Hotel, Lahore
Holiday Inn Lahore
The Residency Hotel
Windmills Hotel
Sunfort Hotel
Quick Continental Hotel
Hotel Elites
Links below:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g295413-Lahore-Vacations.html
http://akmalaleemi.blogspot.com/2007/01/lahore-va-usa.html
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1478537.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lahore
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Pakistan: Failed State by 2015
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CIA details at http://soj.weblog.ro/
by Soj
Tue Feb 15, 2005 at 11:44:49 AM PDT
Forecasting a "Yugoslavia-like fate" for Pakistan, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a jointly prepared Global Futures Assessment Report have said "by year 2015 Pakistan would be a failed state, ripe with civil war, bloodshed, inter-provincial rivalries and a struggle for control of its nuclear weapons and complete Talibanisation".
"Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction," said the report quoted by former Pakistan High Commissioner to United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan in an article in the 'South Asia Tribune'.
Read full story at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/144450/961
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What will be left of Pakistan In 3006 (a must read)!!!
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Pakistan In 3006
Year: 3006
Two Top American Executives at IBM , USA
Alex: Hi John. You didn't come to work yesterday
John: Yeah. I was at the Pakistani Embassy trying to get my visa.
Alex: Oh, really? What happened? I've heard that these days they have become very strict.
John: Yeah, but I managed to get it.
Alex: How long did it take to get it stamped?
John: Man, it was a long queue. Bill Gates was waiting in front of me and they really gave him a hard time. The poor guy even brought the property papers for his house in Seattle to show them that he will return to USA . I went there at 4:00 a.m. to get in the queue and there were tons of people ahead of me.
to read full click on below link ->
http://www.buzzvines.com/what-will-be-left-pakistan-3006-must-read#comme...
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Pakistan Real Estate
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http://www.edenhousing.com.pk/
http://www.lahorepakistan.net/
http://www.zameen.com/
http://www.dhalahore.net/
http://www.pakrealestate.com/
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Pakistan Currency March 2008
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KKI'S Currency Notes
* Australian Dollar - 57.95
* Bahrain Dinar - 166.25
* Canadian Dollar - 61.5
* China Yuan - 9
* Danish Krone - 13.3
* Euro - 99.2
* Hong Kong Dollar - 8.05
* Indian Rupee - 1.6
* Japanese Yen - 0.628
* Kuwaiti Dinar - 234
* Malaysian Ringgit - 19.9
* NewZealand $ - 50.45
* Norwegians Krone - 12.35
* Omani Riyal - 162.9
* Qatari Riyal - 17.28
* Saudi Riyal - 16.77
* Singapore Dollar - 45.4
* Swedish Korona - 10.52
* Swiss Franc - 62.85
* Thai Bhat - 1.95
* U.A.E Dirham - 17.15
* UK Pound Sterling - 126.9
* US Dollar - 63.12
http://www.forexpk.com/
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Not just surviving but thriving
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Pakistan
has endured a number of challenges in the recent past — high inflation, insurgency and the assassination of popular political leader Benazir Bhutto being just a few. However, hope is a common denominator among its people. They believe that Pakistan will survive and thrive despite difficult times. February's parliamentary elections were an important step in that direction.
Keys to growth
According to the report, Pakistan has been experiencing the longest spell of strong growth in years. Mansoor Ahmad Bajwa, Commercial Counsellor in Dubai, says that the commodity-producing sectors' (agriculture and industry) contribution was a key driver of growth last year. According to the report, agriculture contributed 15 per cent to real GDP growth while industry's input was 25 per cent. The services sectors contributed the remaining 60 per cent. Per capita income, an important benchmark for economic progress, grew by 11 per cent in 2006-07 to $925 (about Dh3,397), which were an increase from $833 (about Dh3,059) in 2005-06. Acceleration in real GDP growth, a stable exchange rate, and a five-fold increase in the inflow of workers' remittances, which was approximately $5.5 million (about Dh20.19 million) in 2005-06, contributed to the rise in per capitaincome.
Bajwa says that the country's good economic performance was a result of sound economic policies, on-going structural reforms and a favourable international economic environment. According to the economic survey report, growth was also driven by strong domestic demand. Another positive factor was the steep rise in investment, especially private investment which was high despite strong consumer demand.
The privatisation drive, especially in sectors such as banking, telecom, oil and gas and steel, has also helped push the economy (see box for more statistics). The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI), in particular, also reflects Pakistan's growing profile as an attractive destination for international investors. Foreign direct investment was seen in areas such as telecom, energy, banking and finance and food and beverages.
In the fiscal year ending June 2007, the country attracted FDI worth $5.12 billion (about Dh18.8 billion) — a 46 per cent increase over the year earlier, says Bajwa. He says that during the first four months of the current fiscal year, Pakistan managed to attract FDI worth $1.23 billion (about Dh4.51 billion), an increase of almost four per cent.
The government has also announced a number of incentives for foreign investors, including setting up special economic zones, a five year tax exemption and duty free import of machinery.
The banking sector is also a major beneficiary of the country's economic transformation. "Mergers and acquisitions of local institutions by foreign banks include Standard Chartered Bank's purchase of an 80.86 per cent interest in Union Bank (the country's eighth largest bank in terms of market share) for $413 million (about Dh1.51 billion). Further, enormous profits in recent years have attracted more foreign banks to Pakistan and local entrepreneurs to step into this sector," he says.
Poverty, a serious issue in Pakistan, has also been reduced by economic growth, high levels of remittances and social development and poverty related programmes. According to the finance ministry's report, Rs2,217 billion (about Dh130.3 billion) was spent on these programmes from 2001-02 to 2006-07.
At the national level, the count of poor people fell from 49.23 million in 2001 to 36.45 million in 2004-05. Rural poverty declined by 11.13 per cent while urban poverty fell by 7.75 per cent.
However, the gap between the rich and poor segments of society is still a bone of contention, especially with the growth in population and the resulting pressure on resources.
reference:-
http://archive.gulfnews.com/supplements/pakistan_march2008/main_story/10199418.html
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Innovation Creates Success - Be Innovative
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"Innovation . . . is generally understood as the successful introduction of a new thing or method . . . Innovation is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services"
If a company is to truly hit the spot with innovation time and again with any consistency and wishes to achieve profitable growth and create an advantage, it must do three things.
First, it must understand the people it is trying to serve as the individuals they are -- apart from any connection or interaction with the company.
That is, it must be able to temporarily forget and let go of its current business, strategies, products and brands as it observes how people (not just customers and potential customers) go about their daily routines. It must understand their behaviors in context, and develop a deep, inner conviction of the changing outer world -- an objective view of how changes in people's ecosystem of life affect that behavior.
Second, it must know how to go beyond its own perimeters of products, markets, and competencies; let go and challenge the assumptions, common practices and golden rules of doing business still held today: and go beyond what it has learned from consumers.
Only then can it conceive of entirely new opportunities by innovating across those people's behaviors -- as Apple has done across the changing ways of how consumers buy and listen to music. It must know how to define the spaces of greatest opportunity that nobody has yet even imagined.
Third, it must see itself "from the outside in" and formulate strategies around people's behaviors, not just seek to satisfy consumer needs and wants or customer requirements. It must execute activation plans that engage consumers and seamlessly fit all kinds of innovations into peoples' and consumers' behaviors -- or a customer company's work processes -- so that the people absorb and assimilate them.
"All innovation begins with creative ideas . . . We define innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization. In this view, creativity by individuals and teams is a starting point for innovation; the first is necessary but not sufficient condition for the second".
It must create transformational life experiences, not just communicate features and benefits. Only then can companies spot and consistently and successfully bring to market winning innovations, achieve profitable new growth, and reinvent their business for the future. This is not easy. But it need not be terribly difficult. The right instinct already exists in most companies. We are, after all, customers and consumers -- people -- ourselves. As our examples will show, managers must learn to protect and direct that instinct to lead, and embed it in the organization, despite, and along with, the nature and ever-growing complexities of business.
"Innovation, like many business functions, is a management process that requires specific tools, rules, and discipline."
references:-
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/03inno.htm
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/538/Lesson-4-Be-Innovative.html
http://www.jimcarroll.com/weblog/archives/000790.html
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HAPPY 23rd March 2008
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Land & peopleArea:
796,095 sq km
Population (July 2007 est.): 164.74 million
Capital: Islamabad
Languages: English is the official language and Urdu national language. Regional languages include Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi and Pushto
GDP per capita (2007 est.): $2,600
Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC)
Head office, 22-A, Saeed Plaza, Blue Area, Jinnah Avenue,
Islamabad – 44000
Tel: +92-51-9203772
Fax: +92-51-9207427
Email: info@tourism.gov.pk
Website: www.tourism.gov.pk
Pakistan is situated in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, and borders Iran on the west, India in the east, Afghanistan in the north and northwest and the People's Republic of China in the northwest to northeast. A land of many splendours, Pakistan's scenery changes from coastal beaches, lagoons and mangrove swamps in the south to sandy deserts, desolate plateaus, fertile plains and dissected upland in the middle and high mountains with beautiful valleys, snow-covered peaks and glaciers in the north.
The country's terrain includes the flat Indus plain in the east, mountains in the north and northwest, Balochistan plateau in the west and desert in the south. Administratively, Pakistan is divided into four provinces (Balochistan, North West Frontier Province, Punjab and Sindh), one territory (Federally Administered Tribal Areas), and one capital territory (Islamabad Capital Territory). Its largest cities include Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/supplements/pakistan_march2008/main_story/10199421.html
Compiled by D. Hari NairPublished: March 23, 2008, 00:17
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Milad an-Nabi - 12 Rabi-e-awal
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Politicians of pakistan in March 2008
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Women of Pakistan
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Vision Of Pakistan
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