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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…
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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…
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An Executive Assault on the Judiciary
Guest Post by: Rai Muhammad Saleh Azam The writer is an Advocate of the High Courts based in Lahore The reference filed by General Pervez Musharraf against the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his “suspension of the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) adds to the many instances of attacks on the judiciary…
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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…
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Chief Justice of Pakistan Sacked by Musharraf
BREAKING NEWS: The News reports that the President Pervez Musharraf has just filed a reference against the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmed under section 209 and has replaced him with Justice Javed iqbal who has already taken oat as an acting Chief Justice of Pakistan, the oath was administered by Justice Abdul…
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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…
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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…
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PTCL Fumbles the Censorship to Block Millions of Websites
Over the past few days PTCL has been up to mischief yet again but this time rather then irritating the 0.001% of the population (the blogger class) they stepped on some giant kick-ass toes. They ended up blocking giants like Google.com, Download.com, Microsoft.com, Gmail.com, Yahoo.com, BBC, CNN, Systematic, Akamai, PC World, MTV, Best Buy, Logitech…
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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…
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Kidney Hill, Karachi – The Ongoing Saga
Over the past two weeks the, weekly column of Ardeshir Cowasjee appearing in DAWN has been about a very controversial issue which highlights the battle between the money hungry local government and the citizens of Karachi. His article has been pleading to expose the issue of the Kidney Hill, a 62-acre park between Karsaz Road…
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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,…
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Are you a Fundamentalist?
Guest Post: Fariha Akhtar Few years back in one of the social sciences class, our instructor asked us “Are you Fundamentalists? Our instant reply was “No, Sirno way. Then he asked, “Do you believe that the Holy Quran is meant for all times and for all kinds of environments? This time our reply was “Yes,…
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Letter to CJ from Naeem Bokhari
I would like to share a very interesting letter I just received on email, written by Supreme Court Advocate Naeem Bohkari addressed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. It is a definite ‘must read’ for all Pakistanis Start quote Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Chief Justice Supreme Court…
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Enlightened Moderation: Desi Version of Enlightenment!
Guest Post: Fariha Akhtar Most of us believe that everyone needs to modernize in order to cope up with the dynamics of this world. We feel that its ok to change ourselves with changing times as long as we dont compromise on our religious principles and so Mush came up with the concept of Enlightened…
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Online freedom of Speech – Global Voices
Sami Ben Gharbia the recently appointed Advocacy Director of Global Voices has done a very extensive review of the censorship situation in Pakistan which also includes a very interesting interview with Omer Alvie discussing the issue in quite extensive detail. Link: Pakistan: Online freedom of speech as collateral damage? Do also have a look at…
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