So perhaps Judge Pearson might like to sue Bank al Habib or might they have teeth and bite back!  

Good point, Dawn: Judge Pearson is only targeting the Chongs because he thinks they are defenceless.  

PS.: Dawn, your blog is great. I love your writing.  

Well the similarity is pretty much obvious. I mean why these people can't just create something original and I think that the cost of making that imitation would be somewhat similar from making it from the scratch.  

Actually, let me shed some more light on this...

This is not the first instance of major copyright violation by the "advertising" industry of Pakistan. Last year, Ufone, one of the mobile service providers in Pakistan, took an Airtel India ad and changed a few items and broadcast it as their own creative work. That lasted about a week before someone figured out that it was a copy of the Airtel India ad.

Recently, like last week, Telenor, a Norweigan mobile company that has operations in Pakistan, took an add for a digital camera and again changed a few items, broadcasting it as their own.

What I feel is the sadest thing is that there are some amazingly creative ad agencies in Pakistan, but they have trouble getting work because the actually charge for the creative work, whereas these other "advertising" agencies make their money on the placement of the ad, not the creative work.

AdAsia will be in Pakistan next year I think, so we are all gearing up for the embarassment that will be when great international marketers see their concepts being reproduced.