Imran Zia aka Zia and/or Imran to friends, is someone that I have an enormous amount of respect for. We ran into each other when he started using Blue Screen of Death to teach entrepreneurship at FAST ICS. Then we worked together on the PASHA platform doing Startup Insider (SI) sessions, as co-judges on the…
Reboot – Order forms
You can now fax or email us your purchase order forms for Reboot – In search for the land of opportunity. The book has been priced at Rupees 990 per copy or 13 US$ plus shipping. Finally we get to see the print edition. All thanks to Abdul Malick, an SP Jain student who fortunately…
Blue Screen of Death – in print
Thanks to a very generous student who helped put the deal together, the Blue Screen of Death (retitled Reboot) will be out in print within the next three weeks. Taking advance orders now for the print edition. The book has been printed in Singapore. Drop me a line in the number of copies you would…
Alternate route to the airport…
As of 10:30 -11:00 am there was a fair amount of standing water immediately after the Shahra-e-Faisal Bridge to the airport. If you need to still get to Karachi airport to catch a flight or pick up a visitor, take a right into Shah Faisal Colony and follow the road into Shah Faisal till you…
The first to cast a stone…
I will break an internal taboo today and a personal resolve to keep politics out of this blog. The last time I did this was post December 27th. There has been a very interesting and at times heated debate going on in the paper world on the fate of the local body system but the…
Looks like rain
Finally it seems that we will get a shower that may be a bit more than the wimpy drive bys we have been getting these last few weeks. About time too, if you ask me. Dark clouds, rolling thunder, light breeze and lots of birds hovering about. Here comes the rain… Update: Spoke too soon……
PASHA CEO Lunch and TPS Tower
I have always had a soft corner for TPS. I met Sohail, Owais and Shahzad for the first time when they were nominated for the APICTA ICT Awards in Macau. Then we together crashed and burned in front of MIT’s E-Lab’s Ken Morse elevator pitching our products. However Sohail came out as the star of…
Where the blankety blank have I been?
I moved to Tahiti. Didn’t like it too much. It was too hot and everything had sand in it. Then tried out Hawaii for a few days, but I can’t surf to save my life and these tropical paradises are someone else’s vision of what the ideal temperature in paradise should be like. What is…
On Expectations and POGs…
Once upon a time I used to think that given a chance most individual will rise up to your expectations. Needless to say this expectation got me into a lot of trouble. Still does. As recently as Monday afternoon! But then despite a few unfortunate exceptions including the one on Monday, most individuals that I…
My name is Taha…
Aneeka picks up interesting quotes to put beside the entrance of her room. Monday morning the board read “The only disability is a bad attitude.” I wonder what it feels like to be the four year old behind my son’s eyes. Aneeka and her approach have made a world of difference. We now have more…