Boston IT Consulting

Posted on 11.05.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 12:05 am    

Information Technology (IT) is all about change. The only constant thing in the Information age is change. Change is a norm in the IT industry and that is what actually drives its astounding carnival. Whether it’s a piece of hardware or it’s a software, it gets updated every year or two or even before with major new features and countless refinements. New technology comes into the market, because businesses demand it to remain at the niche of the market.

Just a Thought

Posted on 11.01.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 3:28 pm    

Nobody in his right mind wants to die. Even most of the so-called lunatics don’t want to die. Despite of the sufferings, miseries and cruelties of life, one wants to carry on with it. Most of the people just spend their lives, and very few live it. Many people just wait for night in day, and for day in night, because they don’t really live a purpose-driven life. They know life is beautiful, but they don’t try to feel, to really see, to know, to understand, to share, to produce any ray of hope in the pitch black of life’s gaping voids.

Blog at Thoughts.com

Posted on 10.20.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 8:45 pm    

World Wide Web is teeming with multimedia blogging, pod casting, social networking, instant messaging, emailing, and discussion forums. New media has taken the world by storm, and a paradigm shift is in progress as how people express themselves and interact with each other. All these enabling technologies are killer apps, and there are numerous sites offering these services. Some are offering blogging, or some are offering pod casting, or some are offering video blogging, or some are offering social networking, or some are offering combination of any two or rarely of three niche services.

Movers NYC

Posted on 10.14.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 2:41 am    

Nothing is static in this dynamic world. Everything is on the move, from birds to animals to humans. But humans have to run this world while moving. HomeBulletin.net eases your burden of moving by guiding you in right direction and so makes sure that you have more time to run the world. During the course of our lives, its an inevitable reality that we are compelled to move our homes, our offices, our companies, our automobiles and other things from one place to another and than to another.

Endowments

Posted on 10.13.07 by Fahd Mirza @ 8:01 pm    

As Eighties and Early Nineties saw an unprecedented surge in the buying of mortgage Endowments, nowadays market is teeming with their selling trends. Multiple factors could be responsible for that trend — from a deficit in Endowments surrender values to the warnings issued by endowment life offices regarding the ‘endowment shortfall red letter’. Due to the advent of Internet and its technologies, people are finding it much easier to explore and exploit new vistas to benefit from their endowment policies. Due to the vast options made available to policy holders at their fingertips by the Internet, now policy holders can receive endowment surrender values much higher than that offered by their life offices.

BoP declares 32.5pc dividend

Posted on 03.01.07 by StockPK Team @ 2:00 pm    

The board of directors of Bank of Punjab in a meeting on Wednesday announced stock dividend of 32.50 per cent for its shareholders for the year 2006 as the bank earned a pre-tax profit of Rs4.8 billion.

In the meeting, audited accounts were presented to the board, which approved it. The accounts revealed that the bank earned 51 per cent higher profit in 2006 compared to 2005.

It recorded after-tax profit of Rs3.8 billion, which was 62 per cent higher than 2005. Similarly, earning per share was Rs13.14 against Rs8.13 recorded a year earlier.

KSE body formed to resolve issues with SECP

Posted on 03.01.07 by StockPK Team @ 12:36 pm    

Karachi Stock Exchange members have constituted a committee comprising the members of KSE Board of Directors and some senior brokers at a meeting held here on Wednesday to take up anomalies and pending issues with SECP.

The committee would look into anomalies in the scheduled implementation of revised Client Level Netting (CLN) on March 05 and to resolve other pending issues with SECP like urging KSE members to provide their clients’ transaction data for a period of January-July 2006 by March 09, which the have denied to do so.

KSE seeks brokerage houses data

Posted on 02.28.07 by StockPK Team @ 12:15 pm    

The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has urged its members to submit trading data of their brokerage houses for the period January to July 2006, by March 9, said a notification issued here on Tuesday.

The KSE made the announcement on the directives of the SECP. The KSE also asked its members to provide details of their clients along with trading data.

In response, the KSE members rejected the notification, saying the KSE held all the day-to-day data that it demanded from them.

SECP for re-evaluating modaraba model

Posted on 02.27.07 by StockPK Team @ 4:00 pm    

Salman A. Shaikh, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, said on Monday, “the basic modaraba model should be re-evaluated and newer model with enhanced shareholders’ rights, eviction of bad management, a clear separation of ownership and control should be considered.”

Addressing top management of modarabas at the launch of 9th-year book of Modaraba Association of Pakistan at a local hotel, he said changes should be expected for bringing the modaraba sector further in line with Sharia rulings and the international best practices to ensure investor protection and to offer quality investment opportunities.

Habib Bank IPO, GDR approved

Posted on 02.27.07 by StockPK Team @ 12:30 pm    

Habib Bank president Zakir Mahmood said on Monday the government of Pakistan has given green light for the issuance of IPO and GDR of the bank, authorizing the Privatization Commission to set a deadline and work out details.

Addressing a press conference on the launch of new corporate identity of the bank, he said the bank had already applied to different regulatory authorities of foreign countries to allow it to start business.

He said HBL has plans to extend its presence in key international markets, which include the United Kingdom, UAE, South and Central Asia, Africa and the Far East.