Category: Personal

  • Divide Pakistan TV Commercial on CNN

    For the past few weeks CNN has been seen to be running 15-second spot on its network which is actively promoting the division of Pakistan. The promo is for a book being sold on Amazon for $15.95 called Divide Pakistan to Eliminate Terrorism, the surprising thing is this unknown author has the spare change to…

  • Kidney Hill – Rumors of Progress

    The grapevine of Karachi claims that a resolution has been reached as regards to the issue of Kidney Hill, which has been a burning issue for the past month which lead to a post a few days back titled Kidney Hill & the Ongoing Saga & later Kidney Hill, a Pictorial. In the few days…

  • Yeh Hum Naheen – Say No to Terrorism

    Yeh Hum Naheen¸ (This is NOT us) is an NGO headed by Waseem Mahmood and a number of like minded popular Pakistani vocalists have choosen to join hands and raise their voice on behalf of the Muslim world coming together in the form of a an amazing soul touching sound track, featuring names like Haroon,…

  • Tale of a Ship

    Guest Blogger: Kamran Suhrwardy I am a resident of a ship, since I opened my eyes in my mothers arms nearly thirty seven years ago. It has been captained by tin-pot saviours and their hunting traits and habits remains common, except for the one it started its journey with. Every new saviour comes with a…

  • Teeth Maestro Open to Guest Bloggers

    Teeth Maestro’s blog has been running on the steam generated by its owner Dr. Awab Alvi for over two years and counting, I remain grateful to the hundreds and thousands who have visited this blog to read my ramblings on wide variety of topics, this blog continues to be updated simply for the love of…

  • Bloggers Pakistan gets a Face-lift

    After many days of procrastination, I finally got down to doing a revamp of the blog aggregator that we run at bloggers.pk. Barely two months back in early December I quit on the ever faithful wordpress CMS system simply because it was not designed to be an efficient aggregator. I moved away from WordPress and…

  • Teeth Maestro’s Blog Stats

    There is little doubt that statistics are the bread and butter for any blogger, practically all bloggers have an addiction to look at their statistics page on a daily basis to see the rise and fall of their blog readership. For many bloggers these stats are probably the closely guarded secrets and I too have…

  • Eid Mubarak & a Happy New Year

    I wish all my readers a very Happy Eid Mubarak and a joyful and exciting new year. Lets hope we can together make this new year be a more peaceful year for the entire world. As in tradition of my Eid-ul-Fitr post I have again initiated a blogroll of bloggers around the Pakistani Blogoshpere who…

  • Happy Holiday’s

    I wanted to send some sort of New Year/holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is so difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So on the advice of my attorney, I wish to say the following: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best…

  • Sony p990i or I-Mate JASJAM

    Its sad but true, thieves live everywhere. For over two years in my heart I kept dreading that one day while walking on the streets of Karachi I would be nabbed of my old yet faithful Nokia 9300. Who knew that I would end up being stripped of this faithful contraption across the world in…

  • Halal & Wine Culture

    A few days back when I was returning home from a pleasure trip to South Korea and Thailand I was a witness to a very interesting incident which irritated me tremendously to an extent that I felt the need to discuss this with all my readers. On my last leg home after enjoying the chilly…

  • I’m Back ….

    Sorry for the brief hiatus of about 15 odd days as I was on a pleasure trip literally disconnected from the digital world. I return refreshed and ready to blog with intersting observations about my trip to Seoul, South Korea and Thailand (Patong Beach and Bangkok). You will very soon start seeing the posts appearing…

  • Karachi – Dubai Dream Cruise – A Review

    Yesterday I had the opportunity to have dinner on the ‘hype of the town’ Dubai Dream Cruises. Before I begin, I would like to issue a disclaimer more so to make you aware of the frame of mind I had while walking up the gangplank to enter the Gulf Dream Cruise vessel. I have previously…

  • Eid SMS Messages

    There is no doubt that in the recent years, almost every EID is filled with a massive exchange of SMS Eid Greetings. To be honest Eid has not even started in Pakistan as its midnight on chand raat and I have already received over 25 eid wishes on SMS, I can only wonder what will…

  • Pakistan asked to keep Religion Private

    The new chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board has actually told his players to curb the public display of practicing their religion. “There is no doubt their religious faith is a motivating factor in the team,” Ashraf told Reuters. “It binds them together. But there should be balance between religion and cricket.” …. “I have told…