Wednesday, December 13, 2006

PTA/FIA and IT Industry Crisis - Part 3

A ray of hope ....
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This is in the series of articles on the events as they unfold in Pakistan. Please do read the previous articles to make a better sense of the fiasco created by ineptitude by Pak Telecom Authorities. This is what I received from Pakistan....

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Today, December 11, 2006, we had a detailed meeting with Chairman PTA. We also called Tahir to attend on the company's behalf. Me and Saad were along with Tahir were there and General has called his team. After an hour long discussion, presentation of evidence by us and illogical remarks by his team, General agreed that the raid wasn’t correct and it was a mistake.

He agreed for withdrawal of case immediately. We told him that Faisal would be bailed out anyway by Thursday inshallah. So PTA must act and get him released by tomorrow, Tuesday. PTA team is working on this right now as I write this. They’ve to submit a written acquittal report to FIA and FIA would then present this report to Court tomorrow, if things go well and FIA is able to move quickly.

General was hoping that we’d make a mercy appeal to him whereas we contested our case on merits and innocence of the IT company. Finally, he had to agree to what we’ve been saying.

We’d again meet PTA/Ministry after this is done and would ask them to make policy changes in conducting such raids so that they don’t do this again.

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