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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #315 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . I would like to share an incident which happened just last week. Saturday 11 April. It was off and I was home. At 3.20PM, I received a phone call on my mobile. The CLI showed the call was coming from State Bank of Pakistan. I may mention that I do not have any number of State Bank of Pakistan saved on my phone. However, the number displayed on the screen said ‘State Bank of Pakistan’; the number below was +92 306 8134359. I also noticed that it was a ‘Viber Audio’ call. I picked up the phone. The person on the other end introduced himself as Farhan. He said he was calling from State Bank of Pakistan. We had this conversation...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #230. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Pharma Community. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   A Common Man’s Hajj – Day to Day Recount of Hajj 2019 – Part 1 First Words I seek refuge in Allah against the devil, damned I begin with the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent; the Most Merciful "My Lord! Expand for me my breast (with assurance); and ease for me my task; and untie the knots from my tongue; that they may understand my speech." Aameen. (surah Taha) "All Praise be to Allah; And to Him Alone belongs All Grandeur within the Heavens and the Earth; and He is the Exalted in Might; the Wise. He is Allah, other than Whom there is no deity; Knower of the unsee...

Dear Colleagues!   Today is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #147. Pharma Veterans shares your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others for the benefit of entire Pharma Community. It aims to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry Professionals.  Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  Please share your stories, ideas and thoughts. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from last…… Blogging is sharing. And we, as a nation, are reluctant to share. You may say there is a lot of noise on the media. Too many people are trying to speak. Talk shows are particularly bad because participants leave decency behind and start cross talking, cutting each other and speaking into each other. It becomes real noise. All talk shows with multiple participants end up with poor quality noise. This is anything but sharing. We do not share. We either ‘expr...