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Zouhair A. Khaliq has stepped down as Board Member of Wateen Telecom, Pakistan after completing a 3 year-tenure that led to the restructuring and reorganization of Wateen, said official statement issued by the company.
It may be recalled that Zouhair was appointed by Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, to the Board of Wateen and Warid in December 2010. However, later on he resigned from Warid Board while continued to remain the board member of Wateen Telecom.
Naeem Zamindar was appointed CEO at the same time and together this team brought in key new members to strengthen the management team and address the challenges at the Company.
Zouhair led the restructuring effort as Chairman of the Board Executive Committee.
Working with the CEO and shareholders Zouhair played a key role in strengthening Board Governance bringing in additional independent members to the Board, and reorganizing the operational team, including the appointment of a Restructuring firm to successfully negotiate new financial terms with its lenders.
Zouhair’s leadership consolidated and refocused Wateen’s businesses leading the effort in carving out the WiMax business and planning a merger with QuBee.
The Company went private by de-listing from the Stock Exchanges, strengthened the LDI business and charted a new strategy for its fibre business.
His contribution enabled Wateen to emerge from a loss making entity to one which is generating positive EBITDA and is now viewed as a stable organization set to build on these successes.
Zouhair is currently based in the UK and continues to work in an advisory capacity in the Telecom and Technology sector where he has had a successful and productive career over the last 22 years.

Wateen Telecom has announced its support for the Second annual Lahore Literary Festival (LLF).
As part of its continued support for the Lahore Literary Festival and Lahore’s revival as Pakistan’s cultural capital, Wateen Telecom has become a silver sponsor for the three day event and will be providing guests and visitors at the festival with continuous high-speed wireless broadband experience.
Commenting on Wateen’s involvement with the Festival, Mr. Naeem Zamindar, CEO Wateen Telecom, said, “The Lahore Literary Festival 2014 promises to be an exciting event, with some truly amazing delegates. We at Wateen wanted to demonstrate our support for this fantastic effort by ensuring that visitors to the Festival are able to live blog or Tweet or post pictures or even videos online, sharing their experiences with friends and loved ones across the country and the world at large.”
After the great success of LLF 2013, this year the event is being held on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of February at the Alhamra Arts Center. Like last year, LLF aims to revive the Lahore spirit of art and creativity.
The event promises to enrich the cultural experience of the city’s residents by creating an institutional platform for fostering and furthering Lahore’s literary traditions.

Today Federal Investigation Agency ( FIA ) has arrested a Pakistani hacker who was involved in hacking of different Telecom companies databases and he upload their databases to his own website, with the help of National Response Center for Cyber Crime ( NR3C ) , FIA was able to trace the hacker and arrest the hacker who hacked into the databases if Warid Telecom and other Abu-Dhabi based telecoms which provided services to Pakistani , Congo and Uganda. Mubashar Shahzad is believed that he have downloaded the databases of different Telecom companies and uploaded it to his own website and exposed it online on his site which was earlysms.com which was hosted by HosterPK. Investigation was started after one complaint submitted to senior manager if cellular companies saying , ‘information of its consumers till 2006 had been exposed over the internet.’  Usman Anwar , Director of FIA told The Express Tribune that , " A technical/forensic analysis found that the website was being hosted by HosterPK. The FIA traced the IP Address , email addresses and phone numbers of the suspect through the hosting company." The IP Address was traced to Ghala Mandi , Kasur from where the authorities arrested Mubashar Shahzad and seized his laptop , there was a folder on his dekstop named "Waird Data" and many of the external hard drives were also seized by NR3C and the website on which he exposed the telecom companies data is also shut downed.