Teeth Maestro

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  • Update @ 0055: Geo TV Pulled off air from Dubai

    About a few hours ago, Geo TV (www.geo.tv) which is a private tv channel that is financed by private investors in Pakistan, and broadcast (land to air) from their base in Dubai were ordered by the UAE government after being pressurized by the Pakistani Military/Musharaff’s government to shut down the television station from broadcasting to…

  • Update @ 0130: Geo News DDoS’d

    On Friday at around 2030 the Geo.tv started to received a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Serice) attack and they were able to recover from this surge of artificial traffic after two hours of down time by around 2235. Geo.tv reports that this is the second time such an attack occurred on its servers resulting in…

  • Asia Society Town Hall Meeting: Crisis in Pakistan

    Asia Society is arranging a special Emergency Town Hall Meeting on the Crisis in Pakistan to take place at the Society’s New York Headquarters, Thursday 11/8 at 8:30 am eastern. The speakers include Robert Templer of the International Crisis Group, Saeed Shafqat of the Centre for Public policy and Governance, and Daniel Markey of the…

  • Avvaz.org Petition: End the Emergency in Pakistan

    If you sincerely believe in calling for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan the please sign up for the petition at avvaz.org Pakistan is on the brink. Unpopular president General Musharraf has imposed martial law, sacked the Supreme Court and shut down the media and basic freedoms. Now he is abusing the threat of terrorism…

  • Citizens Campaign to Reclaim Karachi

    Yet again Karachi is in the midst of terror and violence. As citizens and stakeholders we have decided to raise hell and make a nuisance of ourselves. What we are aiming to do is to express our outrage and let our leaders know that we have had enough. Join us is our struggle to reclaim…

  • October 8th 2005, Two Years Back

    Help-Pakistan.com : October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced ultimately resulting in millions of dollars in damage. A few of my older posts Have You Forgotten? October 8th 2005, Stories from…

  • Western Union for Adsense in Pakistan

    Google Adsense has finally finalized the work for allowing Google Adsense publishers to receive their check via Western Union Quick Cash. This option is available to only individuals based in Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Philippines and five other countries, I assume these were those sore spots where publishers were facing a genuine problem in receiving their…

  • Support Burma: International Bloggers’ Day

  • Quinge.com

    As some of the readers of my blog and those in the Pakistani blogoshpere may well know, Omer Alvie and I have been involved in a number of projects together. It started from raising funds for earthquake victims at Help-Pakistan.com, followed by the Don’t Block the Blog and the subsequent launch of Bloggers.Pakistan, with a…

  • Understanding the E-Crime Bill

    A few days I had posted about the Draconian Cyber Crime Law in Pakistan where I attempted to discuss a small part of the bill trying to convey the gravity of the issue in that short write up, but I feel it probably did not do enough justice to the actual presentation made by Zahid…

  • Google Criticized for Honoring Anti-Israel’ Author

    Last Thursday, Google put up a special Roald Dahl logo on its main page google.com to celebrate the birthday of the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Some hours later the logo was gone, not getting its customary one day in the spotlight. The company acknowledged that it took down the decoration known as…

  • Teeth Maestro Interviewed by Pakistani Spectator

    I was recently interview by Ghazala Khan at The Pakistani Spectator – here is the published version as found on their website – I thank her and the entire Pakistani Spectator team for all the kind words they have repeatedly mentioned about me. Interview with Dr. Awab Alvi : Blogging Maestro Teeth Maestro is one…

  • Draconian Cyber Crime Law in Pakistan

    Yesterday a few concerned Pakistanis gathered together at The Second Floor to discuss the Cyber Crime Bill (Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2007). The event was hosted at T2F and sponsored by Alchemy Technologies allowing Barrister Zahid Jamil an opportunity to explain / interpret in simpler terms the impact of this bill on our daily…

  • Practical Internet Marketing in Pakistan with Google

    Today I just wrapped up an all day session attending a workshop by Google on Practical Internet Marketing delivered by Badar Khushnood the Country Representative for Google and it was organized by Octara wrapping up the three day Media and Marketing Festival in Karachi. I have known Badar for barely a few months and have…

  • WordPress.com Blockage in Thailand

    Don’t Block the Blog (DBTB.org): Barely a few days earlier Turkey had gone through a similar blockage of the entire WordPress.com domain being blocked for Turkish users. Reports are now coming in that Thailand has also sadly scummed to a similar bout of censorship effectively blocking the entire WordPress.com domain for all internet users in…