We are just told by highly reliable sources that one of Ufone’s data center, located in Islamabad caught fire today evening, around 5 PM. We are further told that fire has resulted into fatal destruction of infrastructure and the building.

A source heading a technical team at Ufone confirmed us that this particular data center was responsible for VAS services, including SMS and blackberry services.

Initial reports say that spark in backup battery was main cause of this fire. Latter on, for some reason fire control system didn’t go though to tackle the situation.

Customers in north region (Punjab/NWFP) may not send SMS during the recovery process, however, some VAS may damage country wide customer base.

Ufone is planning to recover the infrastructure immediately; however, it may take as long as 24 hours to initially deploy the machines from other data centers and the data recovery.

One of Ufone’s spokesperson confirmed us that Fire has damaged datacenter, however, no casualties were reported. He said that Ufone’s staff is fully equipped for recovering the things at earliest.

KARACHI: The Controller of Examinations cancelled today’s Islamiat paper of matriculation examinations being held under Karachi Matric Board, as the paper was leaked out, Geo News reported Saturday.

According to Examinations Controller, he was informed that Islamiat paper in Matric (science group) was let out through SMS, on this he took action and cancelled the paper.

The new date for today’s cancelled paper would be announced later.

It should be mentioned that today was the first paper of the Matriculation exams being taken by the 150,000 students; however, the paper was cancelled ten minutes before it started..

KARAHCI: Deadly fire has broken out in a chemical storeroom located in Mehmoodabad locality in Karachi which has prompted rescue efforts at an intensive level.

As many as 14 fire tenders have been dispatched to area which are taking part in rescue efforts along with people of locality.

The fire is raging aggressively, said fire brigade sources terming the fire as of 3rd category.

The deadly blazes have also left roof of chemical stockroom collapsed, meanwhile, the fire is on way to engulf closely situated buildings which are being evacuated, sources said.

Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. countries most popular and favorite cellular service offers range of innovative value added services. After phenomenal success of Anonymous Chat and Zem Gup Lagao Service (777) now Warid brings ‘IM over SMS’. It’s a great service that allows Warid customers to stay in touch with the world using all popular Instant Messengers.  Warid adds ‘Strings Category’ on Music Club (444) IVR. This addition is especially made for Warid’s brand ambassadors ‘Strings’.  

Knowing that matters the most for the customers Warid introduced another exciting yet informative service ‘BMI’ its an innovative new service for weight and health conscious customers, Warid’s BMI application informs the customer of his BMI (Body Mass Index) based on his height and weight. This SMS based service informs the customer if he is overweight, underweight or healthy and provides specialized health tips for improving BMI customized according to  result.  

On Valentines Day Warid also launched Love Quizzes based on exciting questions related to customer love life. The service consists of a number of love based quizzes eg. are you in love, does he/she like me, how deep is your love etc. The service asks the customer 5 questions and according to his response to these questions, it gives him a reading on his love life based on the quiz he chose to take.   

Warid is always a step ahead in bringing the most advanced value added services to its customers.

Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. the most demanding cellular service brings another great offer for its prepaid customers who have not used their SIMS Since January 01, 2010. All such customers upon reactivating their SIMS will immediately get Rs.30 in their accounts as free activation balance. And not only this, they can also get free balance equal to 50% of their first recharge for three months. So the more a customer recharges the more balance he can get. Another exciting feature is that the customer can enjoy facility of two numbers in their F&F list, one of Warid and one of any other network with the charges as low as Rs. 1 + Tax/min. This offer is valid till 15th June 2010.