Teeth Maestro

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  • IDP Relief Drive from Karachi to Mardan – a Detailed Report

    IDP Relief Drive from Karachi to Mardan The IDP Relief Drive DAY 1, Thursday May 21th DAY 2, Thursday May 22nd DAY 3, Thursday May 23rd Conclusion The IDP Relief Drive On May 15th, 2009, a good friend, renowned blogger and dentist Dr. Awab Alvi emailed his contacts for collecting and distributing relief goods to…

  • Swat Relief Drive – Day 3 – Distribution Day

    Our Swat Relief drive on Day 3 [Saturday] was hectic to say the least. We [Hasnain, Youshey, me & Faris] left Peshawar around 9am without breakfast, our aim was to start bright and early to first head to Bagheecha Deri where around 150 bags had been delivered a night before stored safely in Inam’s house.…

  • Swat Relief – Day 3 Relief disbursement Pictures

    Pictures from Day 3, Saturday 23rd May when we distributed our relief hampers across Mardan, commentary to follow.

  • Swat Relief Drive Day 2 Pictures

    I have uploaded over 180 pictures of our Swat Relief Drive day 2 – I have barely been able to filter / sort / label any of the images and can only promise to get them sorted out once I get back home so until then I leave you to marvel at how bad the…

  • Collection Drive for IDP Relief team to Swat

    UN estimates there are 980,000 people being displaced out of NWFP – there is tremendous suffering and a severe lack of funds and Volunteers. Facebook Event – Collection / Donation appeal for IDP’s in SWAT I plan to lead a team to the affected areas hopefully to depart from Karachi on the 18th of May…

  • Crystal Bags Exhibition

    Well this post is a marketing plug for an exhibition by my wife Sadiqa. She is scheduled to display her exclusive collection of evening bags ranging from over sized clutches to beautifully embellished Swarovski crystal bags including a collection of some stunning feather laced bags tomorrow. Date: Saturday April 11th 2009 Location: Nina Lotia’s Salon…

  • Adventures in Hingol | Appeal for Medical Camp

    A month ago in early February during the recent Kara Film Festival in Karachi there aired a 60-minute documentary about the offroad adventures of the Karachi based 4×4 Club OffRoadPakistan.com – this travel documentary was produced and directed by Mahera Omer of AFewMOFilms who herself is an avid offroad is now available online and can…

  • Offroaders trip to the Dureji & Sorh Valley

    These past few days while the political turmoil was unfolding in Islamabad I was actually busy exploring Pakistan with the offroad enthusiasts from OffroadPakistan.com. We departed Friday morning in a convoy of 12 offroad vehicles to venture into the wilderness of Sindh and Baluchistan. Rounding the Dureji Valley we went headlong into the mystical terrain…

  • Teeth Maestro selected as Best South Asian Blog – Thank You

    A few days back I was informed via a very unlikely & surprising source that I was being nominated by the Brass Crescent Awards for the Best South Asian Blog. The email was from the office of Queen Rania of Jordan congratulating me for the nomination in the particular category. On 1st December I looked…

  • Goran Gatti, Baluchistan – Off-Road Expedition

    Quite often the glamorous sights and sounds of tempting destinations worldwide lures us away from the abundant destinations within Pakistan. These last few days I was actually on a 4×4 expedition trip a secluded mountain called Goran Gatti located deep within Baluchistan within the Hingol National Park. Goran Gatti is a breathtaking 3 km wide…

  • Citizen Journalists cover the Long March

    I mentioned a few posts earlier that an initiative has been launched to help cover the Long March procession through its journey from Karachi to Islamabad. The first day I personally reported on the details of the journey from Karachi to Hyderabad and then Sukkur, it was later followed up by frequent SMS and Phone…

  • Teeth Maestro v 4.0

    Welcome to the new design of Teeth Maestro’s Blog, it is for the record the fourth major re-design of this blog since 2004 when I first started to blog on the world wide web.. The v3.0 had been running for almost an entire year and saw us through some serious political debates here in Pakistan…

  • Karachi Metroblogs pulls an April Fools prank

    The cat is finally out of the bag, and the entire Karachi Metroblog team has come clean accepting the April fools joke being played on its readers. The plan was hatched barely two days ago on our internal mailing list, a number of ideas were floated to finally settle with two options one was for…

  • Blog on the Move >> UPDATE: We have successfully Moved

    UPDATE: We have finally moved over to the new host, I hope things are a ‘bit’ faster Since the past few days I have been having nightmares with my host (dreamhost) either due to a fault in my system or their lackluster response to attending my frantic cries for help. Yesterday I finally pulled the…

  • Server issues – Downtime expected

    Since Saturday I have been experiencing intermittent (frequent) server overload issues. I have been hosted on Dreamhost for over two years and have generally enjoyed the experience. In the past few months the traffic coming into two of my website specifically (teeth.com.pk and bloggers.pk) had gone overboard of normal shared hosting plans and was compelled…