If I have had a penny for every time I have been given advice on how to handle ‘friends’ as clients, well, then I’d hardly have a pound, frankly. I have learned the following the hard way i.e. by making embarrassing mistakes.
Always give some sort of a tangible benefit to your friends over ‘normal’ clients. [...]
That is a powerful line, that. “I am not proud to be a Pakistani” sends a very strong message indeed. If I say this, you are thinking, “OK so this guy is sick of one or the other aspect of the society that we all feel bad about. And has taken his feelings perhaps a [...]
The GHQ at Rawalpindi (Pakistan) was under attack for about 19 hours, with terrorists taking advantage of the no-weapons-allowed rule inside the GHQ. After five innocent lives were lost, the terrorists holed up inside the GHQ were finally captured, by none other than the Special Services Group (SSG) commandos. A very important capture by the [...]
I just read this on Dawn News that a Canadian Muslim group has banned the wearing of head scarf by Muslim women as it, and I quote, ‘marginalizes women’. I find this whole banning business to be quite amusing to say the least. I mean, don’t they know, if you want everyone in the world [...]
A German publisher (Droste Publishers) had canceled the printing of novel about an honor killing because it contained passages insulting Islam.
Droste publishers is being criticized for not upholding the ‘freedom of speech’ doctrine and succumbing to fears of attacks by the Islamist radicals. The sometimes violent retaliation to the offensive drawings of our Prophet Muhammad [...]
No, he doesn’t have one. And if he does, he has not been public about it.
Obama set the standards for using the new media in a Political context to its fullest. Facebook account, Youtube account, Twitter account and what have you… everywhere you saw a Obama presence. But that was before he got elected and [...]
The Internet world is full of scams. Wait, let me rephrase that. The world is full of scams, and Internet is no different.
How do you tell a scam from the real deal?
Rule number 1: If it is too good to be true, it probably is.
Rule number 2: If it is too good to be true, [...]
A blog on how to use the resources available to wrap a business around any opportunity that presents itself (or I could have just said, "A blog on how to be a better entrepreneur" - but I want to keep this as clear as possible)
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I am Momekh and I am the guy behind this blog. I live in Lahore, Pakistan... read more
