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Yestrday, Our style king foreign minister+patroluem minister who most of the time tries to pose himself as Z.A Bhutto, announced a irrational increase of 31% in natural gas. CNG is increased by 13rupees per Kg..LPG is being sold on 65/kg….Patrol is more than USD1/liter
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The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them.
The world according to newspapers [thanks AA]My therapist helped me to build a personalized “toolbox”: a list of a dozen depression busters to direct me toward mental health, and an emergency lifeline in case I get lost along the way. I consult these 12 techniques when I panic, when I get pulled into addictive behaviors, and as armor in my ongoing war against negative thoughts. Here they are: twelve strategies to take us all to the promised land of recovery from depression.12 Ways To Beat Depression
Wesley Clark Stands By McCain Criticism
Wall-e Chaplin. This weekend I caught Wall-e. Aside from the clear achievements in animation (or whatever you call this now), it’s a powerful piece of social satire—I think, a fitting bookend to Modern Times. In that film, 72 years ago, Charlie Chaplin warned of a world in which machines will crush humanity. In Wall-e, the job is accomplished. Humans, who have turned the earth into a huge toilet, have turned themselves into flaccid non-entities. And the one vestige of humanity survives miraculously inside…a machine. Pixar and Andrew Stanton deserve all the kudos they will get for this Bush-era-perfect film. Brodner’s Cartoon du Jour: Wall-e Chaplin
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The most interesting thing about life is you forget too :)I love and hate, both, when I forget the real context of something that was disturbing me … Khair … I think my blog’s going to become a Photo-Blog soon. Transition =PI was tired of the previous post so here’s a yum shot. Cold […]
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Published on telegraph.co.uk - Last Updated: 12:01am BST 17/05/2008Peter Parker reviews Empires of the Indus: the Story of a River by Alice Albinia The River Indus rises in Tibet and flows west through northern India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Like many rivers, it has often acted as a border, marking […]
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Just stumbled upon this incredibly talented mathemagician’s show on the IT Conversations podcast. Arthur Benjamin has an uncanny ability to work with numbers, better than anyone I have come across. In addition, he’s very funny and has a great presentation style. Listen to the podcast by downloading the MP3 file here - he explains in […]
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Pakistan must find the will to fight the Taliban. The state, at both the national and provincial level, must assert its responsibility to protect life and law rather than simply make deals. State functionaries, and even the khasadars, have disappeared from much of the tribal areas. Pakistan is an Islamic state falling into anarchy and chaos, being rapidly destroyed from within by those who claim to fight for Islam. Pakistanis must not be deceived. This is no clash of civilisations. To the Americans, Pakistan is an instrument to be used for their strategic ends. It is necessary and possible to say no. But the Taliban seek to capture and bind the soul and future of Pakistan in the dark prison fashioned by their ignorance. As they now set their sights on Peshawar and beyond, they must be resisted by all possible means, including adequate military force. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Last month I met Ahmed Rashid at a dinner in Islamabad. He told me about his new book. Why was he going west to launch it? I asked. “It’s too explosive. They may not be able to take it,” he said in a serious voice. Ah, yes, I forgot what happened to Ayesha Siddiqa exactly a year ago after she had the courage to take on the army with her book “Military Inc.” The generals went berserk and hounded her out of the country. She fled to London and took sanctuary. Rashid didn’t want a repeat. He didn’t want to cross swords with the powerful ISI, which is the villain of the piece in his book “Descent into Chaos.” Anjum Niaz
The future of the PPP today remains uncertain. Fahim has made it clear he is simply not interested in being kicked upstairs, into the presidential slot. The fact he has chosen to speak also indicates there is considerable discord simmering within the party. The continuing crisis over judicial restoration and the possible impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf adds to the persisting angst. Doubts about Zardari’s integrity (particularly with regard to the issue of restoration) and ability seem to have grown over the past two months. It has also become apparent that he is the man in charge, rather than the prime minister. The News
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Organisers apologised to Haqqani: embassy
‘Enough numbers to impeach president’
KARACHI: Archives wing preserving 1818-1935 record, PA told
Govt increases gas prices by 31%
Women put their heads together for new bill on sexual harassment at work
In Urdu Irshad Haqqani
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Emergence Of Hindu TerrorismBy Subhash Gatadehat is common between Kathmandu - the capital of Nepal ; Thane, Vashi which happen to lie in Maharashtra; Tenkasi, which is part of Tamilnadu and Indore, which lies in Madhya Pradesh? Aprops there seem to be no commonality, although a close look at stray sounding incidents in these places […]
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Busted: Muslim birth-rate bogeyNarendra Modi should take note. The Sachar committee debunks the myth that Muslims have more children than other communities.”Strictly speaking, there is no ‘Muslim fertility’ as such in the sense that Muslims in general cannot be identified as having a particular level of fertility,” says the panel’s report, tabled in Parliament on […]
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The only hulk I enjoyed the most was the old STN/NTM late night series. Being a kid u wudnt notice much but I always wondered how his shape change tears away his shirt but his skin tight pent stays the same on an average Bruce banner and on mighty hulk, (thankfully the did address this […]
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During a chat with several CEOs of IT companies in Karachi recently, most of them were heard to rave about the brilliant young, and talented teams that they have working for them and how they were constantly adding on new youngsters who brought along with them fresh new ideas and a zeal to succeed.However, a […]
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Bias and the police PRAVEEN SWAMIin New DelhiWill more Muslims in India’s police forces help combat communal violence? “SEGREGATED lives,” wrote the scholar Ramesh Thakur in 2002, “lead to ghastly violence.”Much of the public debate on the Justice Rajendra Sachar’s enquiry into the conditions of Muslims in India has so far focussed on the degrading […]
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Community on the margins VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN The Rajinder Sachar Committee finds that the Muslim community in India is deprived and neglected, and makes far-reaching recommendations. MUKHTAR KHAN/AP HOMELESS MUSLIM WOMEN sleep on the pavement in Srinagar. Incidence of poverty is high amongst the community, especially in urban areas. ISSUES relating to the social, economic and political […]
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Manzoor Ali ShahThe situation in NWFP is gradually slipping away from the control of government in the face of mounting militant’s attacks in the province and FATA. Amid the fears that the Peshawar too could fall to the militants, authorities have launched an operation in the neighbouring Khyber Agency against a militant organization Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), […]
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Mr. Husain Haqqani is harming Pakistani interests with his loose lips, his foreign loyalty and his Necon paymasters. This person has crossd the line. His days as an ambassador are numbered as an employee of the Pakistan government. This know-it-all FOB (Fresh of the boat) man jumped on the Neocon bandwagon and stabbed the Civil […]
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I am participating in a competition in which the blogger who gets most subscribers in a month will win. I want to win this competition with your help. At the time of writing this I have 81 subscribers. Let’s see how many more I can get in one month.If I win this competition, I am […]
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Note : This post will make sense to you only if you are from Pakistan.
Some years back, I along with two of my other friends was working on a course project. We were at one of our friend’s home which was in North Nazimabad. If you have some knowledge about programming languages then you may know that there is this ‘assembly’ language. Its just one step ahead of the binary language which is in 1 and 0. Making a final assembly project for the course with the same name, was a perfect recipe for creating the world’s wost headache. After 5-6 hours of continuous work, we were extremely down, but somehow continued to work.
We were discussing some logic, suddenly one of our friend asked us to stop talking and tell her if we can listen something.
Friend 1 : Yaar what is this?
Friend 2 : whats what is this ?
Friend 1: Can’t you guys listen this voice, its so weird.
Me and Friend 2 exchanged looks, tried to listen something which is wierd but finally declared that we can’t hear anything important enough. Our friend, with her bulging eyes and exasperated voice asked us to listen carefully as it was the most wierd thing she ever heard in life. After a few seconds,
Me : I really can’t listen anything apart from this ‘Gol guppay wala guy…’
Friend 2 in an extremely skeptic manner, asked
Friend 2 : Is this a Gol guppay wala…
This was our turn to get skeptic
Me : yeah thats a Gol guppay wala, this is their trademark song. Haven’t you ever heard this song. We are hearing it since childhood.
She declared that she never listened to it but now that it wasn’t a mysterious voice, she found it extremely funny. On the other hand, the rest of us were really amazed. If you live in Pakistan then you would know that this is on of the most famous songs. We told our friend about our amazement and how it is so unbelievable that she lived her whole life in Karachi but didn’t know of this song. She told us that ‘a gol guppay wala’ never came in their area. We thought and thought and then we recalled that she lives in ‘K.D.A. Scheme 1 - undoubtedly the most posh area of Karachi,’ and off course a cart boy won’t be allowed there. We exchanged some thoughts about how posh areas work and how these guys were missing some great parts of actual Karachi life. I won’t write anymore about how stagnated their life must be otherwise many of my friends who live in such areas will beat me to death.
Some days later, we did combine study at our Friend’s place who lives in K.D.A. Scheme and discovered that light don’t go in their area - no matter how much load shedding is going on. We discussed it and concluded that it really is a posh area. But now after all these years, news is that even ‘K.D.A Scehem 1′ witness quite some load shedding and I really felt like giving my tribute to K.E.S.C. All I can say is,
Aik hi suf mein kharay ho gaye Mahmood-o-Ayaz,
na koi banda raha or na koi banda nawaz
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ہسپانیہ میں اموی سلطنت کے بانی عبدالرحمٰن اول نے آٹھوین صدی کے اواخر میں یہ مسجد تعمیر کی۔ المنصور اور دیگر حکمرانوں نے گراں قدر اضافے کئے۔ رمضان کی راتوں میں مسجد اسلام کی عظمت کا مظہر ہوتی، پیتل کے شمع دانوں میں ان گنت بتیاں جگمگاتیں۔ حق کے متوالوں سے صحن اور دالان پُر […]
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Last day, I’s seeing a promo of a program on Geo about female acid victims. This program is done in collaboration with Musarrat Misbah’s NGO, working for such women. In that promo, a female with a totally burnt face was shown being interviewed.
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After the Karachi loss to India in the Asia cup, Shoaib Malik chose not to face the media. Pakistan’s coach Lawson did and proceeded to insult the entire bunch of journos present with his opening speech in which he remarked “please do not make statements but ask questions” after a reporter asked him something, he […]
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Riding with the paramilitary convoys was Haji Namdar, the chief of the self-proclaimed pro-Taliban organization Amal Bil Maroof Nahi Anil Munkir that is based in Khyber Agency. His presence was meant to be a secret as his organization was supposed to be one of the targets of the operation.He was taken along […]
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Looking at this pic it’s hard to imagine that Pakistan will not be part of this oil bonanza. It is simply surrounded by oil producing countries and I cant imaging nature being so painfully selective as to deprive this region alone of oil. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise that we haven’t hit any major well yet as this will allow us to come in when the oil price is at its highest
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Sourceٹوکیو(عرفان صدیقی/نمائندہ جنگ) جاپان میں قادیانیوں نے مذہب اسلام کے نام کئی جاپانی خواتین اور مرد حضرات کو قادیانی مذہب میں تبدیل کر رہے ہیں، جاپان میں قادیانی فرقے کی بڑھتی ہوئی تبلیغی سرگرمیوں کے باعث جاپان میں مقیم مسلم کمیونٹی میں تشویش پیدا ہو گئی ہے، جسکے بعد بعض مسلم تنظیمیں حکومت جاپان سے […]
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* Manan Ahmed published in the guardian.co.uk,* Friday June 27, 2008The migration of thousands of Pakistani men to Gulf states since the 1970s has had a huge impact on the character of the country“Pakistan is in a leaderless drift four months after elections”, concluded Carlotta Gall in the New York Times on June 24. Just […]
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By Beena SarwarAn evening of classical dance at the Arts Council Auditorium, Karachiwas a moving tribute to young, upcoming dancers — and most of all,to Sheema KermaniSheema Kermani shines through her students. At an evening ofclassical dance in Karachi on May 24, she performed and showcased thework of sixteen students, ranging from newcomers to experienceddancers. […]
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As the operation is going on full throttle in the Khyber Agency and security forces are taking ov…
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We had a little downtime on our server due to which for a certain amount of time buzzvines was not accessible to some people around the globe. So far the servers are back online and we are investigating the cause to the problem. As a precaution we have disabled a few features from the site temporary that include
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Read this news on the newspaper website this afternoon and was surprised that no one here mentioned this.
This is what the paper says:
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Today Islamabad and Rawalpindi got quite some scare of the explosions. Speculations are they could be some supersonic jets.As geo reports:Police officials in Rawalpindi say there is no evidence of any actual explosion having taken place. A senior police official in Rawalpindi told he was unaware of any actual explosion, and suggested the sound […]
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I heard a distant bang about an hour back and assumed it was another bomb blast. Suddenly there was speculation that it could be in retaliation to the recent renewed offensive against militants by the Army. The news said there were two explosions somewhere around the Army House in Pindi, but nobody could figure out….. Read more
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An independent research organization, that compiles an annual list of dysfunctional states has pl…
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The announcement by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement) by its top commander, …
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Raza RumiA little news item that appeared a few weeks ago was ignored by our all-knowing analysts and TV channels. Reportedly, the Federal Public Service Commission failed to recruit all the vacancies that were advertised for the CSS competitive examination held in 2007. Out of 290 available posts, the number of successful candidates in the […]
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Spain defeated Germany 1-0 in an exciting finish to the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament. Spain dominated the game throughout and Germany didn’t seem to stand a chance at all. What a sport soccer is!
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Why is it … ?That a nun can be covered from head to toe and she is respected for devoting herself to GodBut when a Muslim woman does that, she is considered “oppressed” ?Why is it … ?That a Jew can grow a beard and he is just practicing his faith,And when a Muslim […]
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — When government troops pushed their way into a local warlord’s stronghold just outside one of Pakistan’s major cities over the weekend, what they found followed a familiar pattern. With plenty of warning from officials that troops were coming, Islamic insurgents in the mountainous Bara district outside Peshawar, the provincial capital, had simply melted away, disappearing into a remote valley to the north.”It was a drama to make the Americans happy,” said Abed Turangzai, who was watching over his mother’s home in Hayatabad, a Peshawar suburb from which many people fled when troops and tanks massed there Friday. “In the longer term, where the Taliban are concerned, I do not think it will make any difference,” Turangzai said. “When they are ready, they will be back.” Pakistani operation against militants raises questions
And here is forewarning the paper beards to melt away:Forces clear Khyber, Tirah is next
American legislators are lobbied 24/7 and are pretty blasé about such lofty assertions. As for the linkage between the war on terror and a free judiciary, they hear that sort of thing all the time and it is in through one ear and out the other. The fact is that it is the administration which is calling the shots and not Congress. Perhaps Aitzaz should have sought a meeting with one of Dick Cheney’s sidekicks since it is the Veep who runs the Pakistan show in liaison with the Pentagon. It seems that when it comes to choosing powerful friends, Aitzaz errs as much in picking them in Washington as he does in Islamabad. Khalid Hasan on Aitezaz’s Washington Visit
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We knew that already Sir:A new PPP running govt, says Fahim
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This is really Off Topic Please tell Chris to read Urdu Media also
It’s not only the Kunda system that is the problem…
In Urdu Hamid Mir’s warnings
In Urdu Mirza Ikhtiar Baig on Bibi
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So while sex appeal is largely based on looks, while it is unfair measuring stick, while it is what guys think about constantly, I say embrace it. Flaunt those curves as you shimmy across the room, wear that dress that shows off your cleavage, legs, and bsilky smooth back. Don’t hide what was given to you to expose. Its the tools that gives us the upper hand over guys. They be stronger or get paid more….but we know how to get them to use that money and strength on us, and its called a little peek of skin.
This first thing that crosssed my secreen was this post by fabulously classic. It reminds me of Madam Bovary, and a case that was filed in French court against the auhor. I dont agree with this. Do you?
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I often visit Pak Spectator to read interviews of Pakistani Bloggers, I am talking about people who consider themselves Pakistanis at heart even though they might not be born or live in Pakistan. I decided why not work on a post that would include Alphabetical List of Pakistani Bloggers who blog in ENGLISH (some blog […]
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I recently visited a site greenwhite.org
I found it highly interesting since it caters to the
industrial issues and problems and it also looks forward to the solutions. It
also highlights the social issues and informs its views about the new aspects
of dealing with societal issues and making a difference …
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کبھی تو کسی کی دلہنیا بنو گیمجھ سے شادی کرو گی؟ مجھ سے شادی کرو گی؟ واہ واہ کیا گانا ہے۔ یہ ایسے گانے بھی انڈیا میں بنتے ہیںSimilar Posts:None FoundRandom PostsSeptember 19, 2007 — فرانس کا کندھا (0)January 8, 2008 — The Big R (2)September 18, 2007 — ووٹ ڈالیں اپنے لئے قوم کے […]
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Tay ferr hoyaa yoon that recently i watched famous series from distant past known as “Fifty-Fifty” and one thing i wanna’ talk about is this skit where they made “Bashera in Trouble”, a beautiful mix of Punjabi and English, making it Punglish (OoopSss!!) 
, yes, they gave the concept of making a Pujnabi Movie […]
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Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program. Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets” in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature. The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh
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Tomgram: The Urge to Surge
Mia Farrow: My Photos of Darfur, Eastern Chad, and CAR
Pakistani operation against militants raises questions
The papers report an impending showdown between Pakistan and the Taliban.
Tactics that ended apartheid in S. Africa can end it in Israel
War and Consequences- M J Akbar
Spain crowned Euro champions
Obituary: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
Lighting lamps: cartoons from the Middle East
‘Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi’ by Jon M. Gibson and Chris McDonnell
Doonesbury@SLATE
Paul Jay presents RealNews
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Raza RumiA little news item that appeared a few weeks ago was ignored by our all-knowing analysts and TV channels. Reportedly, the Federal Public Service Commission failed to recruit all the vacancies that were advertised for the CSS competitive examination held in 2007. Out of 290 available posts, the number of successful candidates in the […]
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Reasons UnknownAs Dawn reports:An explosion was heard in Islamabad Monday, residents said. The cause of the blast was not clear. Police in Islamabad said they had no immediate information about it. A private television channel reported two explosions were heard in the nearby city of Rawalpindi, about seven miles from Islamabad. It
