Category: Personal
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PTA Blocks FIVE more Websites
In a recent development, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has gone further encroaching upon the the free and open Internet to block five more websites that are offending the breurcats in Islamanad. This letter was issued on the 25th of April and required all the ISP’s to comply within 24 hours. It seems as if the…
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Tom Peters and his Presentation Blunders
The Excellence Edge was seminar recently telecasted by Luminary Series as a series of teleconferences on promoting Management Excellence. The show was transmitted to over 60 countries worldwide and an anticipated viewer estimates was above a million viewers to have watched this show. The featured speakers were Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham & Tom Peters, I…
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Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 2)
The second day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace was quite interesting to say the least, which covered issues of technology and legal implications on free speech movement Issac Mao, hails from China and talked about some very interesting ways how the Chinese by pass the GFW (Great Fire Wall). The authorities maintain a…
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Silencing the Pakistani Blogs
On the start of the second day of the Freedom of Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference, I was chosen to project the efforts of Don’t Block the Blog. The PowerPoint presentation is Silencing the Pakistani Blogs PowerPoint presentation (1 MB), an audiopodcast is available in MP3 here(6.4 MB), while I also enclose the entire text…
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Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 1)
Today concluded the first day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Conference. A large number of speakers from across the region spoke at lengths highlighting the battles of free speech being fought within their own countries. Check out the presentations and video clips of all the sessions at Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Blog.…
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Cough – Cough – I’m Back
For the past week my website was undergoing a series of heart attacks and strokes…. My previous hosting solution was up for renewal, though I was satisfied with them for the past 4 years, but in the mean time I had acquired a whole bunch of new domains which surprisingly totalled to be a good…
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Slap the Block
The creative mind of a few local Pakistanis Yasir Memon & Naveed – has created this nifty utility for those individuals in Pakistan stuck behind the Government supported censorship on our Internet The way this service works is that you can simply go-to http://www.pkblogs.com/blogname where blogname is “blogname.blogspot.com” Alternatively head on over to www.pkblogs.com –…
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Karachi On Cloud Nine for Three Magical Hours
Those three magical hours were truly like heaven on earth – Rock on Karachi This collage has been created by yours truly
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Rock ‘n Roll Karachi
Published in Desicritics.org Come 29th January the city of Karachi is going to Rock ‘n Roll with the first ever concert by an international rock star Bryan Adams who is set to appear at the Arabian City Country Club. Pakistan has never been a potential rock concert destination and the entire country holds its breath…
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Eid Mubarak
A wish all my readers a very Happy Eid Mubarak. May this new celebrations and this new year bless you with all the happiness and joy Allah has in store for you. EID MUBARAK
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Welcome 2006
A good 365 days before we were celebrating the incoming year of 2005, sadly how quickly has it passed we stand to again wonder. A new year confronts us with renewed cross-my-heart-to-do promises. But I wonder if another 365 days later we would still be caught napping when 2007 comes knocking on our door. Lets…
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Barmy Army Sent Home Packin’
Today was another proud Pakistani moment, when the Pakistan team pulled out a to-be-drawn test match into a nail clinching victory. On the 5th and final day of the 3rd Pak-Eng test match, the English team went to lunch confident for a draw with eight wickets in hand and half a day left, draw to…
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Eid Mubarak
I wish everyone a very Happy Eid. Celebrate this festival with full vigor but in your prayers please remember the victims of the Earthquake. Upwards of 73,000 have been confirmed dead and 3.3 Million people homeless. Please pray that Pakistan and its People can quickly recover from this tragedy and resume it progress in this…
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She Magazine Pilfers from Teeth Maestro
A month back I had made a post on Karachi Metblog discussing a TV show on AAJ.TV called Begum Nawazish Ali. The review a month back was a sarcastic reivew of the show but now a month later if you pick up the October issue of She Magazine and turn to page 77 you could…
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Question your Knowledge
I would like to start to post a series of interesting questions and allow you to test your knowledge on the issue, it could be a myth or even true but attempt to answer it in the comments section, in a few days I will answer the question, the first question Many people have claimed…