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Re: Samsung Phones Are Sending User Photos and Messages to Random Contacts

Faried Nawaz — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:09:44 -0000

Telenor was supposed to launch RCS in Europe and Asia, according to a Google blog post last year. Is it launched in Pakistan?

Re: Fiberlink Brings 500 Mbps to 1 Gbps Consumer Internet to Pakistan

Faried Nawaz — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 06:39:39 -0000

The service they fail to deliver, you mean?

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:32:11 -0000

Really? Pray, tell, who am I bigoted against? Who am I prejudiced against? Which of my comments can you quote to support your claims?

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:13:05 -0000

I don't need to read between the lines to see the open hostility directed towards people who expose problems in Pakistani society. People just sit around simmering, waiting for a chance like this to come along.

I am educated, that's how I know you for what you are.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:50:45 -0000

Oh, he has FOUR KIDS?! I guess we should let him get away with whatever he does. Wouldn't want anything to happen to his FOUR KIDS!

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:47:57 -0000

Functional English? Is that where I confuse "harassment" with "rape?" Oh wait, I didn't do that -- the people whose viewpoint you support did that. Maybe you should teach them English?

> You are coming through as some obsessive compulsive with your unbalanced overreaction.

Is that my wholly unbalanced overreaction where I neither defend Sharmeen's action nor defend the doctor's? Maybe you should learn English yourself?

Re: Xiaomi’s Low Cost Mask is Exactly What You Need to Combat Smog

Faried Nawaz — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:07:19 -0000

Search for the comment he used on Google. He just copied it from elsewhere, verbatim.

Re: Smog in India and Pakistan Looks Even Worse from a Satellite

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:34:49 -0000

> Even civil society seems content with it.

The only pollution and air quality data we have for Lahore today is from a private citizen who set up monitoring systems in two locations in the city. The only seminar/workshop related to the smog and how to deal with it was held by private citizens recently.

Read the posts in the "Citizens for Clean Air" group on Facebook and follow @LahoreSmog on Twitter for more examples.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:31:42 -0000

Maybe Agha Khan has a policy against such behavior.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:26:17 -0000

Where have I supported her? Where have I said her use of the label "harassment" was correct or valid? If you had asked me about the incident instead of accusing me, I would say that it looks like an overreaction. But, then, I don't have all the facts. (Neither do you, by the way.)

If you don't want me to reply to you, you could always block me.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:24:05 -0000

> There's no evidence of either scenario.

And yet, you did write "there's no way she didn't brag about it" -- as if you were certain. You often say such things without evidence, I take it?

> But you defending her like this makes it looks like that you know all the facts.

Not at all. I haven't defended her, or anyone in the incident.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 06:06:15 -0000

By the way, I just read that a doctor trying to continue a non-professional but personal relationship with a patient might be against PMDC's guidelines. A single act of trying to pursue an emotional relationship is specifically listed in their ethical standards (section 11).

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:51:22 -0000

When Chaudhry Shujaat's doctor's consulation was leaked, people didn't care either. After all, who cares about patient confidentiality in Pakistan?

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:49:50 -0000

Okay, I'll stick with "facebook request", not that I think it makes much of a difference. Do you think facebook requests are appropriate for a doctor to make? A doctor who knows a patient's name and looks her up (note that there are many different people/profiles with her name, he has to locate the right one), and makes the request? Perfectly fine?

What about the same kind of request in other situations? Is it okay for him to go through all patient records, find attractive women, and send them friend requests? Or, how about a woman goes to a bank to deposit a large amount of money, and a few hours later gets a friend request from the male bank teller. Also okay?

It seems you're more upset by the use of the word harassment than what the doctor actually did.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:47:12 -0000

> I notice a lack of comments by our female counterpart in every article. Why is that? Care to tell?

Maybe they don't want your friend requests.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:45:37 -0000

I think comparing the complaint to "rape", "sexual harassment", "abuse" -- all of which you can see on this page -- are also out of context and inaccurate. And yet, that's what people are saying.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:43:24 -0000

It's interesting that you think he sent a request to her because she's the sister of someone famous. We actually don't know if that's the case, and we don't know if he's tried to friend other patients as well. (Wouldn't it change things if we knew he friends both male and female patients?)

> There is no way that Sharmeen's sister hadn't bragged something about her elder sister being Sharmeen etc

There is no evidence of this.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:16:45 -0000

Is it harassment for a doctor to send SMS to female relatives of yours, Danish? Or to call them up for non-medical reasons?

Regardless, whether it fits the definition of harassment or not, it's certainly not professional behavior. I think you can at least accept that.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:14:52 -0000

As I understand it, they suspended him pending an investigation.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:37:02 -0000

In this site's comments, I notice a lack of comments by women who support the doctor. Why is that, do you think?

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:36:04 -0000

I'm interested in how Salman feels about the doctor.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:09:13 -0000

She didn't use the phrase "sexual harassment." She didn't compare the event with rape, either.

You're making stuff up now.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:08:15 -0000

> that what these feminist women will do to men when they get in power.

Would you like that doctor to treat your female family members?

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:30 -0000

> But over reacting and calling it the same as rape is quite a stretch.

She didn't say it was rape or use the phrase "sexual harassment". She just said it was harassment. Right or wrong, that doesn't mean you can make stuff up about her.

Re: Sharmeen Obaid Got a Doctor Fired and Social Media is Bashing Her for It

Faried Nawaz — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:05:24 -0000

> While the rest of world hide the ugly side of their society

That is not true at all. Google around and you will find investigative news reports, in-depth articles, news shows, documentaries, and petitions in many countries around the world where people expose and condemn things in their societies that they dislike.

For an example local to us, whenever you see an article in the media about the land mafia in Pakistan, do you honestly believe it should not have been written? That we should "hide" such things?