Esra Bligic (Halima Sultan) from Diriliş: Ertuğrul Wants to visit Pakistan - Confirmed

Ankara (Routers) Turkish Female actress Esra Bligic aka Halima Sultan from Dirilis Etugrul has confirmed on her social media account that she is interested to visit Pakistan.She has received over-whelmed response from Islamic Republic of Pakistan. She is eager to visit Pakistan after Locked Down will end over the World to meet her fans here. It is reported that she has received more than million followers just after couple of weeks on-airing Turkish Series Dirilis Etrtugrul on Pakistan Television Network - PTV in Pakistan.

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WhatsApp accounts being banned

WhatsApp has been banning users from its platform for being a part of WhatsApp groups with "suspicious" names. In the past few weeks, there have been reports of a number of users who have been getting banned from the social messaging platform on a permanent basis. Sounds scary?

A spate of recent investigations has revealed that the banning could have taken place from the messaging platform because they were a part of the group which has a "malicious" name, ergo, suspicious.

The reports of WhatsApp banning accounts was first encountered by a Reddit user Mowe11 who stated that their university group's WhatsApp name was changed to "child pornography" post which the group and its members were banned. The user stated that WhatsApp just did not ban the group, but also banned the members from using the messaging platform.

A different Reddit user also stated that WhatsApp put all their group members under a permanent ban. The social messaging platform did not leave a reason for their ban.

The reason for the ban was provided to another user who faced the same ban after the group name on WhatsApp was changed to something malicious. A separate Twitter report also stated that she got banned for being in a group with a malicious name. 

According to WhatsApp, the legal and acceptable use defines, "You must access and use our Services only for legal, authorized, and acceptable purposes. You will not use (or assist others in using) our Services in ways that: (a) violate, misappropriate, or infringe the rights of WhatsApp, our users, or others, including privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights; (b) are illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, harassing, hateful, racially, or ethnically offensive, or instigate or encourage conduct that would be illegal, or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting violent crimes; (c) involve publishing falsehoods, misrepresentations, or misleading statements; (d) impersonate someone; (e) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialing, and the like; or (f) involve any non-personal use of our Services unless otherwise authorized by us."

However, in regards to how WhatsApp detects such malicious group names to ban them in the first place. In its blog post, WhatsApp stated, "To protect the privacy and security of our users, WhatsApp provides end-to-end encryption by default, which means only the sender and recipient can see the content of messages. To help prevent sharing of child exploitative imagery (CEI), WhatsApp relies on all available unencrypted information including user reports to detect and prevent this kind of abuse. Over the last three months, WhatsApp has banned approximately 250,000 accounts each month suspected of sharing CEI.

For example, we use photo-matching technology called PhotoDNA to proactively scan profile photos for known CEI. Should our systems detect such an image, we will ban the user and associated accounts within a group. While we may not be able to distinguish between a user sending or receiving CEI images, our zero-tolerance policy means we ban all group members from using WhatsApp."

We recommend refraining from changing the group info into something malicious, even as a prank. This is considering that could result in a ban on you as well as the group members.
 

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Ali Baba Acquired Pakistan's e-Commerce Giant Daraz.pk

Karachi (Routers) - Alibaba Group has bought the entire share capital of Rocket Internet's South Asian ecommerce platform Daraz Group, Daraz Ceo' Bjarke Mikelson & Jonathan Doer Announced on Tuesday Morning.

It did not disclose financial details.

Daraz, founded in Pakistan in 2012, operates online marketplaces in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The unit will continue to operate under the same brand following the sale to Alibaba, Rocket said.

Rumors of a deal have been rife for the past couple of months.The deal is part of Alibaba’s second wave of international expansions which see it enter South Asia.

The company initially focused on India — where it has backed Paytm — and Southeast Asia with Lazada, but this year it has spread its wings into lower profile but hugely populous countries in South Asia. Pakistan, for example, has a population of over 190 million. The acquisition of Daraz follows a fintech investment from Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial, which runs Alipay and other Alibaba financial services.

Back in March, Ant paid $184.5 million for a 45 percent stake in Telenor Microfinance Bank, a fintech division from Norwegian operator Telenor, which operates Pakistan’s second largest telco. That one-two punch of e-commerce and fintech (particularly payments) is a common move from Alibaba-Ant, which has made similar deals in India and across Southeast Asia.

Beyond Pakistan, it looks like Alibaba is also eying nearby Bangladesh, which has a popular of over 160 million and rising internet adoption.

According to reports last month, the Chinese firm is pushing to buy a 20 percent chunk of payment firm bKash, a move that would again push its reach deeper into South Asia.

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Chinese to Acquire Pakistan Post through hostile takeover

After failing to acquire TCS , Chinese firm is interested in Acquiring State Owned Pakistan Post by investing $1 billion under its reform agenda to become a profitable entity.

Pakistan Post has embarked on a comprehensive reform agenda to become profitable. These reforms include: (i) Establishment of Mobile Money Transfer Solution (ii) Pakistan Post Logistics Company and (iii) Re-Branding of Pakistan Post.


Briefing the Senate Standing committee on Communications, Director General Pakistan Post said that a Chinese Company has shown interest to invest $1 billion in the logistic project, besides connecting it with China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). However, it will be carried out through Public Private Partnership and open bidding process. Committee chairman Daud Khan Achakzai said that that the reported company also approached him and showed its interest in investment.

The committee was further informed that feasibility study for the Mobile Money Solution project has been completed in partnership with Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) and the Request for Proposal (RFP) was approved by the Steering Committee.

RFP was published in the national newspaper on January 24, 2018 and it was also circulated to the companies who participated in the EoI published earlier. Pre-bid investors’ conference is scheduled on February 22, 2018.

The Committee expressed its displeasure over the insufficient staff at National Highway Authority offices in Balochistan and directed the NHA to appoint sufficient staff at lower and higher levels for efficient service delivery. The Committee was given a detailed briefing on the overall breakup of staff deputed in Balochistan.


The Committee also directed the NHA to repatriate the deputationists to their parent departments as per Supreme Court decisions. It was informed that the NHA is working on preparing a detailed report in this regard which will also be shared with the committee. Committee members observed that many officials in NHA are posted on deputation on nepotism, which is negatively affecting the performance.

The Committee expressed its concern over the delayed services of the postal service in Balochistan. The Committee was briefed that shortage of staff and security situation has hampered the efficient service delivery; however, new recruitment is being made under Aghaz e Haqooq Baluchistan and 171 posts in postal service department will be filled to improve the service delivery.


The committee expressed annoyance over non-implementation of its recommendations by the Finance Division with respect to Pakistan Post which could otherwise oust the entity from losses and asked them to attend the next meeting.

It is also noted that Rumors of Ali Baba acquiring Daraz.pk is also in headlines.If Chinese take over Pakistan Post with Largest e-Commerce group than it will be a revolution in technological Sector, creating 5 million Jobs across country.

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Daraz has become largest Site from Pakistan

Daraz.pk has become no.1 Site excluding social sites & Search engines.

Courtesy : Similar Web

Daraz is home to the a wide selection of fashion, electronics, home appliances, kids items and lots more - all at best prices. Daraz.pk offers nationwide delivery directly to your home or office with innovative and convenient payment methods like cash on delivery.

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Colorful Friday in Pakistan - Annual Grand Sale

In November 2015, Daraz.pk started a trend of Grand Annual Sale in Pakistan by the name of BLACK FRIDAY.Every brand & their competitor adopted this concept and started their own White, Blue Friday.They give Lame reason regarding spiritual concept of this Holy Day.Most of the persons who raise finger towards its name hardly offer Friday prayers.While it is observed during this mega sale,mostly khalifa persons who has a issue with Black Friday shops most rather than other liberal guys.Even a person with Dark Skin has a problem with BLACK color of Friday.So he/She accept whatever racism they face from world is right.

Now come towards the concept of color BLACK associated with BLACK FRIDAY.So the world black comes from business term which associated with Early 17th century (as school slang, in the sense ‘Friday on which an examination is held’). The shopping sense dates from the 1960s and was originally used with reference to congestion created by shoppers; it was later explained as a day when retailers’ accounts went from being “in the red” to “in the black”.

Mostly retailers believes that as the sale started at 12:00 a.m Friday night as compare to normal day Sale that's why they call it as BLACK FRIDAY.

Islam never teaches to consider color black as hateful or dirty.Holy Kaba has a Black Color.Hazrat Bilal was Black Abyssinian.

Whereas in Ramadan , we observe these religious retailers who feels pain in their belly after listening the word BLACK FRIDAY, raised the prices of products so that they can live luxurious life entire year.However the adopted BLACK FRIDAY introduced in the western world to allow people having the products which they will need in the coming new year at best price.

So in the end , I want to say people who has problem with BLACK FRIDAY they should start their own GRAND SALE especially in RAMADAN or they should keep their ass in the commode.GRAND SALE like BLACK FRIDAY has ended monopoly of many hoarders.So they should not intervene between the legacy started by E-Commerce giant DARAZ.

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