Twirp : Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Republic Pakistan

[Naresh]

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<b>1. Net foreign investment lowers by 31.9% in Jul-Dec</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b><i>* Outflow from stock markets was the main reason</i>

KARACHI : Net foreign investment in the country took a plunge of $1.015 billion or 31.9 percent to $2.1697 billion during the first six months of the current financial year.</b> The country had received foreign investment worth $3.184 billion in the same period of last financial year.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<b>2. TCP buys 500,000 tonnes wheat in tender</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->HAMBURG : <b>Pakistan has purchased around 500,000 tonnes of wheat in a tender for up to 610,000 tonnes, which closed last week, European traders said on Tuesday. The purchase included about 100,000 tonnes of Canadian white wheat at $636 a tonne c&f. The rest was said to be red wheat bought at around $467 a tonne c&f.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


<b>3. Buying air tickets : Pakistan’s World Class IT, BPO & Call Centre Capabilities</b>

MY wife recently had to urgently travel to Lahore. I called the PIAC call-line, booked a ticket and took the PNR. Then went to Karachi airport to buy my wife’s ticket and see her off.

At the ticket counter next to the International Arrivals, I was told to buy my wife’s ticket from the electronic kiosk next to the ticketing counter since I was paying by credit card.

I did just that and paid Rs12,780 for the ticket. When I got the credit card bill, I had been billed for Rs13,125.36. When I called the credit card people, the answer was simple as it was absurd.

<b>They said that PIA’s ticketing kiosks did accept credit card payments but for some God-forsaken reason routed the transactions through some Swedish bank and, hence, we were billed first in US dollars and then converted back into rupees.</b>

Now that is an outright theft on PIA’s part. Using a rupee credit card in Pakistan for a rupee transaction and given a final figure, and then be charged in USDs is daylight theft.

PIA should have had the courtesy and the decency to advertise on the kiosks that the billing would be done in USDs. Shame on PIA if this is the way they want to make money.

<b>SAJAN H. MALIK
Karachi</b>

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