Category: Pakistan
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Unaiza on a Mission for the EQ
Unaiza Nasim, a co-blogger who I have known for sometime, has embarked on a very noble mission where she is collecting funds for making a “Shelter for the homeless. There are over 40,000 people still living in tents in the earthquake zone in the northern areas of Pakistan and the upcoming winter will be the…
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Stone Age… Revisited
A few days back on Sept 23rd 2006 I wrote an article on OhMyNews.com titled – Pakistanis Unsurprised by the ‘Stone Age’ Remark, was an altered version to the post I made on my own blog a few days prior – Bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age, or else. where I discussed the threat made…
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Have You Forgotten? October 8th 2005
October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan which devastated the entire country over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced resulting in millions of dollars in damage. The entire country joined hands in unison to help the suffering, but…
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A1GP Pakistan
A1GP is the creation of Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum who has truly envisioned the creation of a racing circuit parallel to the world famous Formula 1 series. AiGP tries to bring the fast paced motor racing away from cutting edge developers permitting individual nations to compete on a level playing field. The technology…
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Pakistani Diplomats – 10th Most Parking Violations
A recent study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that 13 Pakistani Diplomats based in NY with the United Nations have violated New York Cities Traffic codes a whopping 900 times over a period of five years averaging a medallion of 180 parking tickets per year. The title of the study Cultures…
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Linux here I come….
For a computer geek like me who has remained mesmerized in the world of computers from the hey days of an Apple IIe moving into the 8086’s and slowly creeping up to the 486 era and now living the Pentium age. I have migrated from Windows into Linux. The reasons why I switched from Windows…
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Inzi and the Pakistani team Acquitted of Ball Tampering
Its great news to hear that the Pakistan team has been cleared of any wrong doings in the cricketing fiasco which occurred a few weeks back during the Pakistan vs England 4th test match at The Oval. The ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle did not find credible evidence to push for any ball tampering charges,…
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Om Puri to Play Zia-ul-Haq
Om Puri will soon share celluloid space with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in the upcoming film Charlie Wilson’s War, where he will play the character of General Zia-ul Haq, late President of Pakistan. The film is being produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and directed by Mike Nichols and is expected to hit…
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Bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age, or else….
A threat made by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage immediately after 9/11 threatening Pakistan to Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age. It was revealed after five years during an interview for CBS 60 minutes (video) with Pervaiz Musharraf expected to be aired on Sunday. Be prepared…
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Nancy Johnson (R-CT) hits out at Pakistan
Nancy Johnson (Wikipedia) a republican congresswoman from Connecticut has recently launched a TV commercial where she actually depicts Pakistan as the source of terrorism. Watch the short commercial here. We as Pakistanis object to such accusations and must work against people who label Pakistan as a terrorist state. Ever since 9/11 Pakistan has stood shoulder…
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Salary of a Pakistani MNA
I have recently come across a few interesting facts regarding the pay scale and fringe benefits enjoyed by each member of our National Assembly. One tends to wonder what we are doing at wasting so much of money on a ghost assembly whose job is to do …… NOTHING, everyone knows they have no powers…
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KarachiBlog.com Hacked
Karachiblog.com has been hacked by the_flash & Absorb belonging to the THX-Clan. Karachi blog was at one time considered to be a competitor to Karachi Metroblog in 2005, KMB opened its blogging flood gates in February 2005 while the first reported post on Karachiblog was when we I just stumbled across an old Karachi based…
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Hockey World Cup – Germany
I have been a very serious Hockey fan and generally follow all the matches whenever Pakistan has played around the world. This sport was once considered to have an avid fan base almost along the lines of cricket, but with an inconsistent performance of the past few years, people have lost touch of this sport.…
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Blocking of Websites to get Worse
Sept 2nd 2006, The Government of Pakistan has dealt yet another severe blow to the Internet community in Pakistan, as it has now created a body constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology which would examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material and block them off in Pakistan.…
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“The Media is Definitely Playing Havoc with your Mind”
This was the recent comment from a very respected online acquaintance, who wrote in response to my recent US-Bashing barrage, We Will Not be Silent and also in the post titled Muslims Dont Hate Freedom, They Hate Oppression. You are very right, and I too feel this sentiment coming through on all of my posts,…