Category: Blogger
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Qazi Jalal arrested in Peshawar for a Tweet
Scroll down for latest updates UPDATE 1: 2:55pm Wednesday 28th October UPDATE 2: 6:40pm Wednesday 28th October UPDATE 3: 4:00 pm Friday 30th October UPDATE 4: RELEASED ON BAIL 11:30 am Tuesday 3rd November Today the FIA arrested a twitter activist @JalalQazi from Peshawar for posting a tweet on 22nd Sept, they placed upon him charges for violating…
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Re-Blogging Social Media Brain Farts
The Teeth Maestro blog has been online for over 10 years, since July 2004, back in the day when Blogging was considered a fad and called citizen journalism and not social media perse, from its infancy, many saw it grow, from the era of Orkut to Blogspot, the era of Google, to Facebook and then…
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TwitterGate & a Response to Nusrat Javed Sb
The fiasco started as #FamilyGate, turned into a #MalikGate, morphed into #MediaGate and suddenly I was thrushed into a weird fiasco which I choose to call as #TwitterGate. Unless you have been sleeping under a rock im sure you must have read Pakistans obsession with the “Gate fiasco” somewhere along the line, watergate to memogate…
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So Imran Khan’s the target of your Goebbels’s Vendetta!
Zain Umar penned a very passionate article on his blog So Imran Khan’s the target of your Goebbels’s Vendetta! criticizing bloggers and writers at Express Tribune on going virulent against Imran Khan, I think this paragraph sums up my passion and the passion of thousands of PTI supporters Imran Khan has his faults; he has…
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I want to Brag a Minute about Pakistan
Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally not that type who boasts but when I thought about it, what is the one thing which I can show off about? It is my very own mother country PAKISTAN. It’s the country where I was born, brought up and now living my life. I have explored most of…
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TEDx comes to Karachi
Many of you may have seen the brilliant work being done at TED.com, they are in the business of promoting “Ideas worth spreading”. I am overjoyed to update that TED is coming to Karachi in the form of TEDxKarachi on the 4th of June at the South End Club auditorium. This has been a tireless…
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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…
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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…
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Brain Drain – Oh Really?
It is a concern habitually voiced now & than on various platforms that because of the untoward state of the state, students (undergrads & graduates) are fleeing the country ensuing brain drain I would say, too many applicants for fewer seats obtainable in universities and consequently failure to get admission in professional institutes is actually…
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The Express Tribune goes Online & in Print
The Express Tribune, partnered with The International Herald Tribune which is the global arm of The New York Times, is slated to finally make its debut today morning, while the online version has just been released to the public, the initial launch is limited to Karachi and many households will be treated with a fresh…
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Laidback Show Episode 9
Show notes after the jump
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Laidback Show – Take Back the Tech
Laidback Show in its 7th episode invites Jehan Ara, President P@SHA to discuss the Take back the Tech initiative, a campaign which is condemning violence against women. Other issues were also discussed, watch the episode and follow the show notes below Show Notes after the Jump
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New Iran – New Intentions
Guest blog by Ishaal Zehra The attack which killed the National Deputy Commander of the ground forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (RG), General Noor Ali Shooshtari and the provincial commander for Sistan-Baluchistan, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh along with some senior officers and 42 others in a homicide bombing inflicted Iran’s worst military casualties in years. Quick…
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Indian bloggers welcome the Pakistani delegation to TEDIndia
Indian technology blogger TechGirl welcomes the Pakistani delegation to TEDIndia. This can possibly be a great opportunity to spread the message of friendship across the digital divide. Here’s to TechGirl, may this meetup in November be the start of a long lasting friendship between the two nations