Why was the Google chairman in Pakistan ?

Why was the Google chairman in Pakistan?
By Farooq Tirmizi

“Eric is now playing the role of an internet evangelist, meeting with heads of state to see how the internet can help society in those countries,” says a source at Google. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI:
If the Google chairman’s quick, unannounced visit to Pakistan has anyone optimistic about Google investing in Pakistan; they should not get their hopes up. Eric Schmidt was here for nothing of the sort.

By most accounts, the visit was a brief one and kept secret for at least a day. Schmidt was in Pakistan on Thursday and met with the former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in Islamabad, but the official press release was not issued by the prime minister’s office until Friday, and even that only included what Gilani asked Schmidt, not what the Google chairman himself said ...............