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Shabbir Cleared of Bowling Action
Each passing day it seems that the bowling prospects for the Pakistan Cricket Team to the forthcoming World Cup seems to be getting better and better as a number of impressive contenders vie for the four or five bowling slots in the team. Starting with Shoaib Akhtar & Mohd Asif being cleared of the drug…
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Time: Person of the Year – YOU
TIME Magazine has just named their Person of the Year and the winner is You. It seems that you, me & us control the information age which has resulted in a paradigm shift in the world as we know it. By You they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content – everything…
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Bronze to save the Day
Two days earlier when the Pakistan Hockey team showed a dismal performance at the Doha Asian Games 2006 in their semi final match with China to loose in the sudden death extra-time 2-1 (Doha 2006 PAK-CHN Score Card) it was like a nail driven into the aching heart of an old Hockey fan like myself.…
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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…
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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…
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Psiphon: Censorship Circumvention Solution
The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has just released an open source application which allows users from countries where there is Internet censorship to utilize anonymous servers located worldwide. The system is a far improvement from the over burdened anonymity software called TOR.
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Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men
This is too funny and I simply can’t resist the temptation to post this news report which has just appeared on BBC A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men. The study found that more than…
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The Truth about the Israeli Lobby
The following letter was sent to Jeff Blankfort by James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota. The letter is important to read as it does lend an interesting light to the impact of the Jewish lobby upon the American politics. The response could be in reference to the article written by Jeff Blankfort titled…
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Asia 21: Wrap up
Apologies for the delayed report Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit was a great event to be a part of as it was an opportunity to meet some brilliant people from across the world. The last day of the event started off with a good discussion on the citizen media revolution where five digital journalist shared…
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Shoaib & Asif Acquitted…. Justice Served?
In a very surprising decision served by the appellate committee today which was reviewing the decision of banning Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif for substance abuse. The three-man committee, headed by Justice Fakhruddin Ebrahim, voted two to one in favour of the acquittal. Haseeb Ahsan, former Test cricketer, and Ebrahim were in favour of the…
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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…
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Asia 21: Day 1
The first day of the Asia 21 convention was truly brilliant with over 250 delegates attending the conference from practically 50 countries ranging from anywhere from Australia to Vietnam; it was undoubtedly a mind blowing experience. This meeting probably creates a social network of entrepreneurs, businessmen and even philanthropists who come together to exchange ideas…
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Asia 21: Young Leaders Summit
I have been invited to attend a meeting of the Asia Society called Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit Shaping an Asia-Pacific Century: Challenges and Choices. To be held in Seoul, South Korea Novemeber 17th – November 19th.
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Karachi – Dubai ‘A Cruise to Hell’
To follow up on my initial report of the Karachi – Dubai Cruise liner which I posted a week back practically a day before it set sail for its first maiden voyage from Karachi to Dubai. The ship left the berth with the cruise management and Geo.TV (Jang) promoters literally patting themselves on the back…
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ICC praise Hair before showing him the Finger
A few days back cricket governing body ICC met in Delhi and had voted to expel Darrell Hair from the ranks of the ICC elite umpiring panel, a decision which has been lauded by a number of nations across the world except for the English & the Australians who continue to deny that there was…
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