Screaming Child Labour in Islamabad

I met this kid selling shopping bags at Sunday market Islamabad, located at heart of city. Market attracts millions belonging to different classes of people ; business men ; Government officials ; journalists and many more.

Kid selling shopping bags on the gate of Sunday Market © Awais Yaqub

Visiting these markets tells a lot about performance of relavent organizations working to reduce child labour and accumulating donations in the name of child labour.

I wonder what will be the situation in other remote parts of Pakistan !

PTCL screwing rest of life out of me and my viewers !

In various times of day PTCL broadband connection cannot open websites. Such as mine
www.awaisyaqub.com

alternate link
www.awais.smugmug.com

It is reported there are issues with PTCL DNS name servers. When you change DNS name servers to one provided at opendns websites are accessible !that shows there is problem at ptcl which they don’t want to fix. And they keep telling same old sick argument “Sir check your wire”

PEOPLE use something else if you want clean reach to websites !

Donate for Swat IDP

Portait of complain... © Awais Yaqub

Since Pakistan army has started major offensive against terrorists in Swat valley, millions of people including women and children have moved to Boneer, Mardan and other parts of Pakitan as refugees. Due to massive movement it has become challenge for authorities to manage this people and provide them with basic necessity.

I encourage readers kindly donate for these people who have lost their smiles in the sea of uncertainty and agony.

New Fine art print added

Hello people i have added new classic black and white  image to fine art gallery from where you can order the print of your preferred size. It is simple, easy and secure with money back guarantee. Thanks to SmugMug and their professionalism printed and shipped from USA

Click the link and click on “buy” button to order the print

Don’t worry about watermark it don’t appears on final print it is just to save picture from thieves. Write to me in case of difficulty awais[at]awaisyaqub.com

Lake Saif al malook (click to buy)

Telenor F7 Markaz Islamabad

Telenor F7 Markaz Islamabad customer Care (Photo © Awais Yaqub)

Hey people i was invited to take photographs of telenor head quarter located in Islamabad f7 markaz. It is interesting building and lovely place to work ! seems like i will be applying for the job there after MBA ! I enjoyed taking architectural photos inside and outside of building for one of my client. It was Sunday so there was no traffic inside office.

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92 345 5400315 !

Mobilink Customer Care ! A joke….

My lord!!! thank you lord i don’t use this pathetic service !

I wonder why on earth customer has to pay when he talks to customer service !

Well my dad was out of credit who is brave maybelink user. Asked me to bring a scratch card to our surprise there was NO printed scratch number on the card ok normal it happens. I volunteered to solve the issue. I tried to call customer Service of Mobilink ! and hell i was not able to connect to customer service because i was out of balance.  So i had to purchase one more card…after wait of 15 minutes customer care guy told me to bring the card to office, that will cost me another 70Rs in Taxi….

Yeah Slow....i completely Agree (image (c) Awais Yaqub)

MY GOD save us….Surely i will recommend dad to move to some reasonable service. I will just laugh at that fancy customer care advertisment on the TV mobilink air every time i watch TV…

Lovely Flowers for your Home

Decorate your home with beautiful prints of FLOWERS !!

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Prints in USA at pro lab ships directly to your door.

Or purchase license of the image to use for your promotional materials.

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For Love of Cricket

Here is the ball !

Cricket is most popular sport in Pakistan. Unfortunatly these days are hard on cricket but i hope we are out of bad times soon.

Click image to order printer poster without watermark (c) Awais Yaqub

Canon 100mm 2.8 USM Macro

Well today after long wait i got it. Ordered from Adorama.com total cost to me was 57,000 Pakistani Rupees or 712$ it is a cheap lens but due to non availability at dreaded Pakistan’s official Canon dealer MBM i had to order from USA and all such imports are subject to import duty and taxes .

Intitial expression about lens is good i love sharpness of this lens. I hope focus speed was little fast but it is not too slow either. If you are L edict you will notice difference in operations of the lens they are not bad but L is tooo goood.

Here are two Portraits shot with This lens Shot wide open and converted to JPG from CR2 in DPP default settings. Canon EOS 400D hand held

Click to See Orignal 10mp file

Click image to see orignal 10MP file

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Super Pissed at UPS Pakistan

Few weeks back i ordered a lens from Adorama USA and chose UPS for carrying it to my door. They provided tracking code so i can track the package. It reached Pakistan (Lahore) in 3 days all good then it was detained for Custom clearance. I paid customs and it was released from there and didn’t took more than 1 day shock to see government office operating that fast.

Now this is 4 th day since it is in UPS custody and they are not able to deliver it in Islamabad from Lahore ! and it was a shock to learn they use “Daewoo Cargo Service” for transportation of packages ! I don’t think i will even get it on 4th day ! yesterday they told me it has been departed from Lahore and will reach at my door in evening ! but no sign of Package !

My lord when these multinationals will work in Pakistan as they do in other countries !I even heard UPS is even open on Sundays in other countries but not in Pakistan !

ARE YOU LISTENING UPS ! YOU SUCK IN PAKISTAN