Tag: celebration
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A Very Happy Eid Mubarak & My Sincere Prayers for Pakistan
For all my regular readers, it will not be too hard to figure out my Dua for this Eid-ul-Adha. I sincerely wish each and every Muslim in the world a very happy and joyous Eid, while at the same time I urge them to take a moment to pray for Pakistan asking Allah, God Almighty…
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Chief Justice, Aitezaz & other Judges to offer Eid prayers at Faisal Mosque
Posted on the Emergency Times website The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, will offer Eid prayers at the Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, for which he has been granted ‘temporary’ release from his illegal imprisonment. The other Honorable Judges will accompany him as well. Fellow Pakistanis are urged to gather at 7.30am tomorrow at…
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Universal Human Rights Day marked as a Black Day in Pakistan
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), along with other civil society groups, will be observing December 10 (Universal Human Rights Day), as black day. The idea is to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the government against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on media and…
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American Bar Association rallies alongside Pakistani Lawyers
As a Pakistani engulfed in this crisis it is really heartening to see the entire American Bar Association rallying to the support of the lawyers here in Pakistan, Thank you American Lawyers March to Supreme Court to Show Solidarity with Pakistani Lawyers on 11/14/2007 Video of ABA President Neukom’s speech before the march Op-ed: Standing…
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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…
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Eid Mubarak
I would like to extend my warm greetings to all my readers, on this Eid-ul-Fitr wishing you all a very Happy Eid Mubarak. At this joyous occasion please take a moment to offer a prayer for the hundreds and thousands of innocent lives being lost in North Waziristan for the sake of ‘someone else’s [read…
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‘Sir’ Salman Rushdie, Up Yours!!!
This recent move to (dis)honor the author Salman Rushdie with the highest British award of Knighthood a bold step which attempts to continue to alienate the Muslims of the world. Since 9/11 the Muslims have been in the cross-hairs of all investigations in any unforeseen mishap in the world, the first thing that the media…
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I Support, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa
The Government of Pakistan (read Pakistan Army) has been trying its best to suppress the release of the book titled Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy which was written by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Since Friday, the proposed release date the military has pulled all stops to prevent the release of this all-exposing book going to…
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The 5/12 Massacre
For the past few days I have been writing quite openly on Karachi Metroblogs about the carnage served up by on the fateful day of 12th May 2007. The more I logically try to reason what happened I continue to fall deeper into the corner of laying the blame squarely on Musharraf who used MQM…
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Silencing Saddam
Its been barely two weeks since Saddam Hussein was sent to the gallows. There is not a soul on the earth who would have been sympathetic with this murderer but strangely after watching the ‘assassination’ haphazardly orchestrated by the American forces he may have potentially become a hero. I look beyond the jeering crowds, I…
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Eid Mubarak & a Happy New Year
I wish all my readers a very Happy Eid Mubarak and a joyful and exciting new year. Lets hope we can together make this new year be a more peaceful year for the entire world. As in tradition of my Eid-ul-Fitr post I have again initiated a blogroll of bloggers around the Pakistani Blogoshpere who…
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Crowe after Muralitharan’s Doosra
Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has emailed the ICC to review Muttiah Muralitharan’s bowling action, specifically the doosra. Which has been an-issue-to-whine-over by a number of English, Aussie & New Zealand cricketers for a long time. It was the infamous Darryl Hair who took it upon himself to get into a tussle with…
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Eid SMS Messages
There is no doubt that in the recent years, almost every EID is filled with a massive exchange of SMS Eid Greetings. To be honest Eid has not even started in Pakistan as its midnight on chand raat and I have already received over 25 eid wishes on SMS, I can only wonder what will…
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Eid Mubarak & Blog Eidi (gift)
I wish all Muslims a very Happy & Joyous Eid In an effort to enjoy this Eid in true blogging style I have created a blogroll of all websites that are wishing their readers a very Happy Eid. If you are a blogger then simply make an Eid wishing post and it will be included…
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A1GP Pakistan
A1GP is the creation of Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum who has truly envisioned the creation of a racing circuit parallel to the world famous Formula 1 series. AiGP tries to bring the fast paced motor racing away from cutting edge developers permitting individual nations to compete on a level playing field. The technology…