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Tag: Karachi

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Karachi – Dubai Dream Cruise – A Review

    Yesterday I had the opportunity to have dinner on the ‘hype of the town’ Dubai Dream Cruises. Before I begin, I would like to issue a disclaimer more so to make you aware of the frame of mind I had while walking up the gangplank to enter the Gulf Dream Cruise vessel. I have previously…

  • KarachiBlog.com Hacked

    Karachiblog.com has been hacked by the_flash & Absorb belonging to the THX-Clan. Karachi blog was at one time considered to be a competitor to Karachi Metroblog in 2005, KMB opened its blogging flood gates in February 2005 while the first reported post on Karachiblog was when we I just stumbled across an old Karachi based…

  • A Life so Cruelly Extinguished

    On Aug 4th a very close neighbour of mine Aamir Parekh was crushed to death as a loose Cargo container fell on top of the car he was driving. It was because of a speeding truck which lost control while entering a cross section while coming off a ramp on the bridge. The container was…

  • Tom Peters and his Presentation Blunders

    The Excellence Edge was seminar recently telecasted by Luminary Series as a series of teleconferences on promoting Management Excellence. The show was transmitted to over 60 countries worldwide and an anticipated viewer estimates was above a million viewers to have watched this show. The featured speakers were Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham & Tom Peters, I…

  • The Excellence Edge

    Yesterday I had the chance to sit in on the live telecast speech by the three top leadership consultant gurus Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham and Tom Peters. It was an event organized by Octara which took the initiative to host the satellite up-link at Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. The telecast started at 8:00pm sharp and…

  • Three Days of Mourning

    I was in receipt of this article received by a chain of email it appears to have been written by a certain Naeem Sadiq, talks in depth about the present issue of the aftermath of the bombing in Karachi which claimed the lives of 57 people and over 100 injured A bunch of carefree schoolboys,…

  • We Will NOT Retaliate

    Today at around 7:00 pm a massive bomb blast was detonated at Nishtar Park, Karachi. Nishtar Park was the venue to a peaceful Islamic meeting which was organized to celebrate the birth of Hazrat Muhammed (PBUH), the bomb blast occurred under the main stage where the entire congregation was offering their Maghrib prayers essentially targeting…

  • Protocol That Kills

    A few days back the President of Pakistan Pervaiz Musharraf graced our city to inaugurate the Expo Pakistan. Naturally a visit by him means all hell breaks loose, road blocks are placed around town resulting in massive traffic jams without even a second thought. The only and primary concern is to protect the life of…

  • Don’t Block the Blog

    As I write this post on the morning of 4th March 2006 all sub domains of Blogspot.com carrying thousands of free blogs continue to remain censored for all internet users in Pakistan. The mess all started on the 27th of February when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued instructions to all ISP to block all websites…

  • APDC 2006, Karachi, Pakistan

    Starting from the 23rd Feb to the 27th Feb, Pakistan is going to be honored be the host of a very elite dental conference titled the 28th Asia Pacific Dental Congress. This is a prestigious Scientific Seminar conference which Pakistan has obtained after some serious negotiations amongst the 28 Asia Pacific nations with some severe…

  • Tag me along

    I’ve been tagged with a few interesting questions by Zag……..