Category: Pakistan
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“Halwa pakao”
Guest Post by Uncle in a Pickle This is a short story that depicts the unfortunately sad 60 years of Pakistan. It is written in in a mixture of English and Urdu (italics) to fully understand. In a bygone era, when, instead of large countries there were small Bastis owned and ruled by Raja’s. The…
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Twitter in Pakistan
There are so many web products being launched on a daily basis that it becomes mind boggling to filter through the good and the bad. Twitter is most definitely not a new name to the internet and has literally captured the imagination of millions of mobile and internet users around the globe. Quite surprisingly it…
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MQM the Big Bad Wolf
Enough of our speculations on who could be at fault, for the sudden loss of transmission to over six channels in Karachi. ARY Digital, ARY One World, Geo TV, Geo News, Geo Super & AAJ YV. The mess started at around 5 pm and a few hours later Mustafa Azizabadi, MQM Information Secretary has been…
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Geo the Drama Queen
Barely an hour ago I was up in arms trying to break the new about the nonavailability of Geo.Tv and Aaj.tv in a number of localities of Karachi. A number of reports have come through some claiming it to be blocked while others saying Aaj is on the air but Geo is blocked. Puzzling reports…
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GEO and AAJ Pulled off Air
Breaking News: it has come to my attention through reliable sources that the GEO.TV & AAJ.TV have both been pulled off the air in a bid to issue them a stern warning and also curtail their press freedom. I suspect this has all to do with the CJP crisis and the tussle the Govt had…
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Has Pakistan Lost Nuclear Material?
BBC has just reported that the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority has recently published an advertisement in the Urdu dailies across Pakistan informing people to alert officials if they find any “lost or stolen” radioactive material. BBC goes on to report a clarification issued by the Information Services Director of Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority that the…
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Miandad & Alam Refuse PCB Coaching Job
Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: Just two days back the PCB issued a advertisement on its website asking for people to apply for a coaching job in Pakistan. The salient features of the memo were as follows (PDF) NATIONAL COACH Pakistan Cricket Board seeks applications from interested Cricket Coaches for the position of National Coach. The…
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The Presidency, Islamabad
Feast your eyes on some pictures of ‘The Presidency in Islamabad’ which has been the home of our dictator cum President General Pervaiz Musharraf. No wonder he does not want to leave this position.
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Orkuting in Pakistan
There is little doubt that Pakistanis simply love to Orkut and I would not be wrong to state that Orkut.com is probably one of the most visited sites from Pakistan second only to search engines like Google and Yahoo. I personally have been orkuteering since 2004 when there was not much awareness in Pakistan about…
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Lal Masjid issue and its Blocked Website
I am sure many have heard and read about the Burqa clad women armed with sticks who were protesting in Islamabad. The set of images has been displayed across millions of websites showing yet another extremist element in Pakistan. I have a slightly different take on the entire issue, but before you start rapping me…
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SAVE Karachi’s Beaches
For a good many days a heated discussion has been in progress talking about the sale of the Karachi beach front to a Dubai based real estate developer. The entire Clifton Bay beach is to be developed and then linked to Manora Island by a bridge. This real estate development will continue along Sandspit and…
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PPF-Aslam Ali Award – Nominations Open
Pakistan Press Foundation has announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2nd Annual PPF-Aslam Ali Press Freedom Award before the 15th of April. The award, instituted by PPF with support of UNESCO, carries a cash award of one hundred thousand rupees (US$ 1,650). Individuals as well as professional and non-governmental organisations working in the…
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Overdosage of Religiosity !!!!
Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: Seriously will PJ Mir in cahoots with Naseem Ashraf shut up and stop accusing the team for overdosage of religiosity blaming it as the sole reason which lead to the devastation in West Indies. I remain a moderate Muslim, but was definitely proud to see a good side emerge from within…
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Benazir, Eyeing a Return
Can you for a moment imagine a situation where our next Prime Minister of Pakistan becomes Benazir Bhutto a person who was found utterly corrupt not once but on both times she was in office, to now plan for a return to lead us for yet another stint as the Prime Minster of Pakistan. Have…
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Whither freedom?!
Guest Blog by Urooj Zia The past few days have been bleak. Not because the issue of the suspended chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) hasn’t been resolved yet. Not because inflation continues to rise in the country, or that new taxes are being imposed, or that the I.I. Chundrigar road has been FUBAR-ed. No. The…