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Day: November 4, 2007

Emergency – a guide for our non-local friends, and our local friends who are no longer local…

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Jawwad

Guys, listen. Yes it is a big deal. Yes it means an enormous amount to go through what we are going through. No, this does not mean that life in Pakistan will come to a standstill, that your interests will be hijacked or held hostage or that we will not deliver on our contracts or…

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Chin up…

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Jawwad

Dear Osama Living in this country require that we take what destiny, fate and our combined stupidity and greed throw our way, in our stride and move on. I have now been a thinking state resident of Pakistan for about 20 years. My earliest recoverable memories are from school days; getting on G-3 at Regal…

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Status update on Karachi

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Jawwad

City is calm and peaceful. I drove between 20:00 hours and 23:00 hours from Hassan Square, Sea View and back via Karsaz and Shahrae-Faisal. The traffic is normal, no major deployment of police, army or rangers and it feels like just any other busy night. We had a pre planned class dinner with an old…

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You just lost my vote, Mr. President…

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Jawwad

Oh sorry, my mistake, I don’t have one anymore… One step forward, ten years backwards and the sorriest speech I have never heard… In essence, here is the deal and the rationale. Since the Judiciary went Rambo, and the media got out of hand and the investors were leaving in droves, it was thought prudent…

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