Ban on old computers
// March 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // computers
Under a Meeting with LCCI and the President of Pakistan, a ban on used computers is requested.
This is probably for the new computer importer’s as they are having problem selling new computers, due to the used computers being so cheap in the market.
I have been a pro used computer person since i think 1989 when Computer Society President Shahzad Ali Rashid was president.
I was very young, and wrote many times to him to get the ban on the old computers off.
Finally ( by some miracle) the ban was lifted, and today Pakistan lead’s in the used computers pricing.
Not to mention that the industry has grown so much, that the Computer Market in Malaysia for used computers is also now lead by Pakistani Traders.
Under No Circumstances should the ban be imposed, as there is no way a common man can buy a new computer, but today a common man can buy a pentium 3 , with a monitor, good enough to watch a movie, learn basic language, and do basic stuff from it for a mere 3500 rupees.
and there is NO WAY a new computer trader can even come close to that price.
Computer penetration in Pakistan has far exceeded and far more then any of our same GDP Neighbor’s and the used computers are the only reason for it.
We should NOT let any one convince ANYONE to put this ban, and try to facilitate the used computer vendor as much as we can, so more and more computers are brought to this country and computer penetration is increased.
I for one give all my zakaat even for buying used computers, and the computers go to people who work in our factory and home workers, even if they use it for watching cartoon, they still need to learn how to use the computer before they can do that, and that is the first step towards learning how to use it.
I hope that others beside me will try to take a strong , very very strong stand on this one and again not let benfit of the few lead to loss of the most.
Rehan
