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Pakistan, still not a failed state

Sheheryar Sewani — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:28:48 +0000

The west has been forecasting Pakistan’s demise since the 70’s, first when Pakistan’s eastern half seceded to become Bangladesh in 1971, then during the violence that preceded General Zia ul-Haq’s coup in 1977, then again when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, when Zia was killed in 1988, again after 9/11, once more after the 2007 death of Bhutto and now after yet another political crisis.

But Pakistan is still at it, still not a failed state.

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KSE Redesign

Sheheryar Sewani — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:36:30 +0000

KSE’s website has been redesigned. What were they thinking? Aleem, any comments?

I can’t make sense of their new daily market feed either, but I did notice a new data portal where they’re selling real-time, historical, level-1 and level-2 market data directly. They haven’t posted any prices yet, but this looks like a step in the right direction.

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Historical quotes from Karachi Stock Exchange

Sheheryar Sewani — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:26:00 +0000

Trading in the Karachi Stock Exchange has picked up since the KSE reopened late last year. If you’re trading or investing in the KSE and you want to track your positions then you’ll find a script I created helpful.

Nemo is a Perl script which downloads historical quotes from the Karachi Stock Exchange web site and saves them to a CSV file which you can open in excel, all you have to do is tell the script which month and year to download the quotes for.

Instructions on how to set up and use the script are available on project’s wiki, you can download the initial release from the project download page.

Sorry guys, had to take it down.

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First Meeting: Unit Testing With NUnit

Sheheryar Sewani — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:09:03 +0000

I’m really excited to announce that I will present Unit testing with NUnit at AgilePakistan.org’s first meeting!

In the presentation I will introduce unit testing, discuss the advantages of unit testing and then we’ll look at how to apply unit testing to your .NET application with NUnit. Time permitting I will also talk about the motivation behind AgilePakistan.org and the agenda for the next few months.

The first meeting will be held at Alchemy Technologies (across from Sammad Clinic and Dadabhoy University near Hill Park) on August 23, 2008 at 4PM. Seating is limited, please register by email before 11AM, Friday, August 22, 2008.

Hope to see you there!

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AgilePakistan.org

Sheheryar Sewani — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:37:21 +0000

When I moved back to Pakistan I made a promise with myself, I promised that I would help improve Pakistan. (Yes, I’m arrogant enough to believe that I can make a difference)

The Software Development industry is young; as with all young industries, it’s changing rapidly, new technology is introduced daily, methodolgies are developed and old ideas are abandoned quickly. Keeping up with the changes is exhausting, books aren’t easily available and while the internet is useful, you can’t find answers for open ended queries. Software developers in Pakistan need a forum where they can learn about the latest trends in our industry, share knowledge and network.

Mohtashim’s and Aleem’s presentations at the PASHA career fair inspired me to get off my ass and do something– introducing: AgilePakistan.org. Agile Pakistan is a community of software developers, the goal is to meet once a month to discuss software development, to learn and improve ourselves as software developers. Anyone and everyone is invited to the meetings, membership is not required, but if your are interested in presenting a topic then please email me at Sheheryar [at] AgilePakistan.org

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Sunday Bazaar

Sheheryar Sewani — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:03:38 +0000

I’ve posted pictures from my trip to Sunday Bazaar on my flickr account– Here’s a preview:

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Pakistan Software Industry (ish) links.

Sheheryar Sewani — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:03:18 +0000

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State of Emergency

Sheheryar Sewani — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:44:31 +0000

A state of emergency has been declared in Pakistan, the country’s constitution has been suspended, all news channels including the foreign news outlets BBC, CNN, Sky News and Al-Jazeera except the state run PTV are off air.

Edit: Under the Provisional Constitution Order the following articles have been suspended: 9, 10, 15,16,17,19 and 25. These articles include the following rights:

Security of person
Safeguards as to arrest and detention
Freedom of movement, etc.
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech, etc.
Equality of citizens

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