Telecoms, internet in Pakistan

Faisal Chohan writes in.

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Dear All,

Every one has read about the story of Faisal Chohan written by others. I just started writing what has happened with us in the past.

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It was the morning of 5th December, an ideal time to be in Islamabad, the coldness and drizzling made it a wonderful day. I had a few meetings setup with my clients from morning from 10:30 to 1:00.

I woke up a bit late and rushed to office without breakfast. I reached office at 9:30. Spent 30 minutes talking with different colleagues on different project and left office at 10. I accompanied my sales guy and went to a client that was from one of our 3 years old clients. We discussed a few ideas, some new projects and leave the meeting with some new prospects, promised to give him the draft of the work in next 2-3 days. It took around 40-50 minutes.

Then we had a meeting with one more client, that we were trying to get engage for more than 1 year, and now it was our first meeting with the client went well and he agreed for a presentation in the next week.

When I left the office of the second client the drizzling was stopped and it was a nice time to hang around, enjoy the drive to the Margalla hills and enjoy the lunch in Pir Sohawa. But I preferred to go to office to follow-up the clients work.

Around 1:00 PM, I entered the corridor of our office block and was surprised to see the door closed, I thought may be door is closed to avoid the noise of the office besides us that was in construction phase. When I reached in front of office door could sneak through the glass door saw a lot of people inside the office. All the employees sitting at one place, sitting surprised, helpless. I entered the office no body took notice of me, I asked from one of the employees what happened, who are these guys and what are these doing here. They told me my home (I still remember the days when we used to sleep in the office for months) was raided on the offenses that we are using VOIP for making and terminating calls.

I wondered when we did it, or thought, about doing this kind of activity. I asked myself did you spent 16 years of education thinking about negative use of technology? Did you ever earned a single rupee from illegal activities?. The answer was straight no. I could only remember 700 rupees bribe in 4 years of operations . A 2% commission given for getting a cheque after 2 months of completion of work.

Then it was start of the ordeal. It was the start of a tragedy, battle between good and evil. It was start of a show of a proof of strength of unjust, corrupt, false, incompetents in Pakistan versus miserable, young, dynamic, innovative, innocent entrepreneurs in Pakistan.

To be continued…………..

Regards,

Faisal Chohan
CEO Cogilent Solutions
www.cogilent.com