Teeth Maestro

Author: Dr. Awab Alvi

  • BBC Urdu Interview at Karachi Press Club

    A BBC Urdu Interview I had immediately after the Press Conference, shares my genuine point, but near the end of this short you would notice the charged up rally outside which was definitely worrisome

  • Facebook Censorship Press Conference, My Position

    I think a clarification is needed regarding my Press Conference on the Facebook issue on 20th May in Karachi. My position at the Press Conference was to vehemently condemn the blasphemous cartoons. There is absolutely no compromise on this issue. What was being argued by us and is open for debate was to question the…

  • PRESS CONFERENCE: Protest Against Nationwide Government Ban of Facebook

    For Immediate Release Defenders of Internet Freedom Protest Against Nationwide Government Ban of Facebook On Wednesday 19th May 2010, the Lahore High Court ordered the banning of Facebook across Pakistan. Facebook is the world’s most popular social media network and is used by over 400 million globally. In Pakistan, over 2 million people use Facebook…

  • Lahore High Court orders Facebook blocked till the 31st of May

    Following hot in the footsteps of the controversial Draw Mohammed Day, Lahore High Court has issued orders to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block facebook up till the 31st of May on an petition lodged by Islamic Lawyers Movement on Tuesday Daily Times: Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued…

  • Draw Muhammad Day – The Muslim Response

    I fully support the suggestion of this response to the Draw Muhammed Facebook page controversy, makes a compelling argument to strive for peace and tolerance. This issue was previously discussed previously on this blog Join the Facebook Group page to Honour the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) and also the Fan Page here, not in reaction, but…

  • Karachi: Protest Against Fake Degree Holders being elected into Parliament

    Pictures from the Karachi protest against the election of fake degree holders being elected into the Parliament where citizens demand from the election commission the verification and ouster of all fraudulent degree holder parliamentarians. [nggallery id=82]

  • An Election Pretense

    An election is taking place in Faisalabad for Punjab Assembly today. There are three more bye elections in other areas of Punjab. All are taking place after the resignations of the members of parliament due to their fake degrees of graduation submitted to Election Commission during the 2008 general election. It took two years before…

  • Drone Attacks in Pakistan have a 2.5% strike rate against Al-Qaeda

    The Pakistan Body Count, a website run and managed by Zeeshan Usmani, a professor at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute has documented over 124 drone attacks since 2004 and as per the last documented attack on May 11th 2010 in Miranshah shows that only 30 Al-Qaeda operatives have perished in the last six years but more…

  • Protest Against Fake Degree Parliamentarians – Islamabad & Karachi at 5pm on 15th May

    Citizens demand verification and ouster of all fraudulent degree holder parliamentarians. If you wish to see Pakistan change for better , do not repeatedly elect the same dishonest people. Join Citizens’ protest and say NO to fake degree holders. The scale of the problem is now enormous with over 200 fake degree holders in the…

  • Ex-CIA official reveals Waterboarding Torture & the Iraq Invasion

    In a video interview John Kiriakou, a former CIA counter-terrorism official reveals new information about the capture and torture of “high-value” detainee Abu Zubaydah. Abu Zubaydah was arrested in March 2002 in a joint operation with the CIA, FBI and Pakistani intelligence agents from Faisalabad, according to intelligence reports from the Bush administration who had…

  • Sana Saleem speaks on the Role of Citizen Media in Pakistan at GV2010

    Sana Saleem a fellow blogger in Pakistan represented Pakistan in a panel discussion at the Global Voices Summit 2010 in Santiago, Chile, she shared her views on the impact of Citizen Media in Pakistan – her 11 minute discussion is shared below, I believe she did amazingly well – Give her a shout out on…

  • Benazir’s Murder: The Pyre Must Burn

    The assassin displayed remarkable cool. At least once, he chose to delay his fire and then moved in very close to an advantageous position with the bomber following him. The man who grappled and brought him down deserves a citation. Benazir Bhutto, the Daughter of the East is dead, buried and treacherously abandoned by her…

  • Will the Supreme Court get the parliamentarians’ degrees verified?

    A dozen or so of these unworthy parliamentarians have been already disqualified on grounds of fake degrees. Many more continue to be our MNAs and MPAs. For how long shall we suffer and tolerate these unethical characters? Why must the SC not task the HEC to verify their degrees and get rid of those who…

  • Op-Ed: Flogging my Sentiments

    My first Op-Ed for Express Tribune Flogging my Sentiments has been published in the Saturdays The Express Tribune, talking about the ever controversial flogging video which has already been extensively debated on my blog running into a very heated debate. In the Op-ed I again take a swing accusing the Pakistan Army and our covert…