My first trip to Pakistan was during the pre-suicide bombing era – May 2000. I checked-in the Islamabad Club. I was in a pair of sneakers, jeans and a T-shirt. Visibly disappointed receptionist of the Club gave me a condensed course on dress-code. He concluded, “You have to wear a tie in the bar.” I immediately asked for a taxi and the address of a shop from where I could buy a tie. “We only sell Coke and Lassi (Yogurt drink) in the bar,” replied the stone-faced receptionist while pushing back the key of my room.
India has raised US$14 billion from auctioning the 3G licenses. Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices have launched the services accordingly. But India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked Tata and Reliance to “suspend the service until they are able to provide live monitoring of the video calls. Bharti Airtel is also reported to have received the same order blocking it from launching video services in the future,” reports Cellular News. It reminds my first day in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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