Loud Thinking January 20, 2015 at 03:50PM
January 20th, 2015 | 
Author: HATE TO LOVE
Charmingly villainous
Imran Khan brought out my ambivalence as a journalist. The patriot in me wanted to see Imran’s team defeated; the critic in me conceded that he was a visionary. We often see people as black or white; Imran I saw as black and white. Quite like the boy Cardus, who prayed that England should bowl Australia out for 137 but that Victor Trumper should get a brilliant century
MUDAR PATHERYA | JANUARY 2015
Loud Thinking January 20, 2015 at 02:13PM
Don’t Give Feedback When You Don’t Need To
While feedback should be a regular part of work, not every behavior warrants input. For example, you shouldn’t offer corrective feedback just because someone has a different work process — even if it stresses you out. So before you deliver feedback, think about what you’re trying to achieve. And avoid giving it when:
You do not have all the information
It concerns something that the recipient can’t control
The person appears to be highly emotional or especially vulnerable
You don’t have time to explain it thoroughly
It’s based on a personal preference, not a need for more effective behavior
You haven’t come up with a solution for how the person can move forward
Adapted from “Giving Effective Feedback (20-Minute Manager Series).”
Loud Thinking January 20, 2015 at 09:09AM
SHAME on whom the PTA or the PMLN’s govt or on both of them..?
SMS Service for Shaukat Khanum Donations Banned by PTA
Syed Talal | 19 Jan 2015 01:13 pm
The management of Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Peshawar recently started a campaign for collecting donations to help with establishment costs. The campaign included an SMS drive, which has run into issues as PTA has banned it without providing any reason. Through the SMS campaign, people could easily donate PKR 20 by sending a blank SMS to…
Loud Thinking January 19, 2015 at 02:04PM
Prioritize Good Communication on Your Global Team
Global virtual teams are becoming more common. And because it’s harder to keep people in different regions of the world on track, you need to make sure that people are communicating as effectively as possible. Here are some ideas to try:
Make email a priority. Instant messaging relies on everyone being there at the same time. Email, on the other hand, can be totally asynchronous as it fits time zone differences and keeps teams in rhythm together.
Be intentionally positive. It’s easy for things to sound negative in an email. Sarcasm and humor can come across the wrong way, but being friendly and approachable is always welcome…even if it means using emoticons.
Offer suggestions, not critiques. “I don’t get it” can steer the conversation into a dead end. People should always suggest an alternative instead of simply sharing their dislike for an idea.
Adapted from “Communication Tips for Global Virtual Teams” by Paul Berry.
Loud Thinking January 18, 2015 at 11:25PM
A sensational news item published today by the daily “The News”.
France’s Le Pen says Paris attacks work of US or Israeli agents: report
January 18, 2015 – Updated 1430 PKT
From Web Edition
PARIS: According to a report, published in The Independent, founder of France’s far right Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen has said that the Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been the work of an “intelligence agency”.
In an interview with a virulently anti-Western Russian newspaper Komsomolskaïa Pravda, Mr Le Pen, 86, gave credence to conspiracy theories circulating on the internet suggesting that the attack was the work of American or Israeli agents seeking to foment a civil war between Islam and the West, the report said.
The independent report further says, “The shooting at Charlie Hebdo resembles a secret service operation but we have no proof of that,” the newspaper quoted Mr Le Pen as saying. “I don’t think it was organised by the French authorities but they permitted this crime to be committed. That, for the moment, is just a supposition.”
To justify his comments, Mr Le Pen pointed to the fact that one of the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, left his identity card in a crashed getaway car. He compared this to the “miraculous fact” – beloved by conspiracy theorists – that one of the passports of the 9/11 hijackers was found on the ground in New York after two planes collided with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001, the report added.
He further said that the 1,500,000 who marched “against hatred” in Paris last Sunday were not “Charlies” but “Charlie Chaplins”.
Loud Thinking January 18, 2015 at 04:20PM
Petrol Shortages in the province of Punjab ONLY.
The nation needs answers to the following questions.
1. Minister for petroleum says the shortage is due to the 25% increased use which was the result of steep price reductions. Please note that Karachi alone consumes 50% of the total country’s petroleum consumption. As such, how come this shortage is NOT in Karachi and all the other 3 provinces? Why only scarcity of petrol in Punjab?
2. Country’s domestic petroleum production increased from 60,000BPD to 1,00,000 BPD. Why this production is NOT available for Punjab?
3. If PSO is bankrupt and its MD was inefficient then how come three provinces are getting normal petrol supplies and Punjab is singled out?
4. If ministry of finance didn’t release the funds timely for purchase of fuel, why again its consequences are NOT falling upon on three provinces and Punjab is facing the brunt of fuel shortages.
5. Why ALL marketing companies failed to maintain mandatory reserve stocks of 20 days and why no action taken against OGRA over dereliction of duties on this account?
Loud Thinking January 18, 2015 at 12:52PM
Janab Ishaq Dar Sahab where you taken Pakistan’s economy?
Today Pakistani government can’t pay to PSO for its debts and the most vital and most strategic asset has gone bankrupt and people are running from pillar to post for Electricity, gas, water and Petrol.
Sir, what else is called the collapse of the government?
Sir, it is high time that the government realised that you miserably failed to run the economy of the country?
As such, the government has a moral responsibility to immediately resign for its 100% failure for which it also owe an apology to the nation for causing rather increasing the troubles and miseries of the nation.
Let there immediately be a National Unity Government in Pakistan, for which the PMLN must play its positive role, to salvage of whatever is left about its image and reputation.
Else the public knows that PMLN’s failure of governance has dwarfed the failures of the last PPP regime.
IMF loan
By Letter Published The Express Tribune: July 13, 2013
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LAHORE: This is addressed to the finance minister, Ishaq Dar. Without an iota of doubt, it is sheer disaster for Pakistan’s economy to seek a loan (that too at an interest rate of three per cent) from the IMF to repay its old loan. Moreover, the minister’s argument that this was the only option to avoid a default does not hold water.
There were many viable options, and in any case, default is still better than the destruction of the very foundations of a country’s economy. I hope the minister knows that in the recent past, many countries have bravely negotiated with international lending agencies and succeeded in getting reduction of up to 60 per cent of their loans. However, in Pakistan’s case, our loan amount is increasing with alarming speed. It was recently reported that when the PPP government took over in 2008, our debt liability was $40 billion and now it has increased to over $60 billion.
There is still time to explore other options to avoid the IMF loan. Nothing is impossible.
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Published in The Express Tribune, July 14th, 2013.
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