Category: Websites

  • Voice of America covers Pakistani Bloggers

    Voice of America did a one hour round table discussion calling in four different bloggers from across the world into a telephonic round table discussion The guests were Adil Najam of Pakistaniat.com, Ramla Akhtar of Next> by Ramla blog, Hakim of micropakistan.org and wrapping up the talk with myself as the fourth speaker. The host…

  • Govt Bans Kamran Khan’s GEO.tv Show

    Today at 11:05pm the regularly scheduled show titled “Aaj Kamran Khan Key Sath which is hosted by the outspoken Kamran Khan was stopped from airing, people witnessing the live feed noticed a sudden block lasting for ten minutes after which the show was replaced by some other programming for the allotted time. There is no…

  • Sign the Petition for Justice in Pakistan NOW!!!

    MAIN HYPERLINK TO THE PETITION ON PROUD-PAKISTANI.COM A petition has been created by Pakistanis condemning this recent attack on the judicial system in Pakistan, if you believe in the sovereignty of Pakistan then you must definitely sign the petition and forward it to all Pakistanis who may join the effort to raise their voice and…

  • Disucssion List for White Band for Justice

    In an attempt to ensure a smooth flow of communication I have just now started a mailing list for all those volunteers wanting to be a part of the Proud-Pakistanis network. Our goal is simply a-political and aim solely to promote efforts that help our nation Pakistan. If you are Proud to be a Pakistani…

  • Wikipedia: The untimely rise and expected fall

    Guest Blogger: Asad Asif at My Chronicles…. Wikipedia… When one hears this name, one thinks of one of the world’s largest encyclopaedia which relies on community members contributing articles. Being a student, I have been a huge, though passive, supporter of this project. I say passive, because I have used it for finding information but…

  • White Band for Justice – Organizational Call

    A number of people have been echoing a sentiment that Pakistanis around the world over must join hands in the form of a peaceful protest to condemn this mockery of our judicial system. We would like to categorically state that this protest WILL NOT carry any type of political affiliation, and will remain impartial as…

  • Stop the Political Clash of Civilizations

    If you are like one of the millions of people who feel that the leaders of the world should stop running around in circles and start working to finally solving the Middle East Crisis, if you are one of those pro-peace activist, then you should definitely join hands with Avaaz.org. Avaaz is the voice of…

  • Don’t Block the Blogs 1st Year Anniversary

    Press Release – Don’t Block the Blog Continues to Fight Pakistan’s Internet Blockade at the 1st Year Anniversary It has been exactly one year since the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority initiated a blanket block on the entire blogspot.com domain. So far there seems no recourse to the ban despite the repeated attempts of a strong lobby…

  • 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…

  • Web 2.0 Phenomenon Explained

    Quite a number of people ask what exactly is Web 2.0, many definitions exist but no definition can adequately describe this phenomenon as this video tries to do in a brief 4:31 minutes. I assure you, you will come out having understood the entire concept and still yet not be able to write a proper…

  • 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…

  • Pakistan Blog Alert ! Do Not Upgrade to Blogger Beta

    The Don’t Block the Blog campaign would like to issue a Blog Alert to all Pakistani bloggers on blogspot.com to resist the temptation to upgrade to Blogger Beta, the improved version of the Google Blogging platform. It apparently seems that once the blogger upgrades to Blogger Beta, all hell breaks loose as the proxy servers…

  • Bypass the Blogspot Ban via SSH

    The woes for Pakistani Internet users continue, it seems as if we have slowly learned to live life half crippled with no one bothering to have a second look at us. Blogspot has been blocked in Pakistan for around eleven months with absolutely no sign of relief, but despite all hurdles created by our own…

  • Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan

    I would like to announce the creation of Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan, it is just a blog created out of necessity since we felt an apparent absence of one concise place where bloggers from Pakistan can come and write about the Pakistani perspective on the world of cricket. There is little doubt that this blog…

  • 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…