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Muslims all over the world are part of the grand victem mentality. Although a lot of sinister stuff does happen to and around us we tend to raise a hue and cry at anything seen as remotely challenging what we consider normal. This is why we do not fit in anywhere as immigrants, regardless of […]
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Nothing makes me sicker than this guy, i think he should stick to dancing as they do not do drug tests before that atleast. What a fucking waste of talent.Video posted by Tazeen
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I think this is it…. Jonty has been topped finally… Kemp just pulled off the impossible in an ICL match between the Lahore Badshahs and Hyderabad. Look at Inzi’s face, Alu is aghast!!! To top it all of the batsman was so shocked he would not leave the pitch!!!
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I have in the past spoken about the serious need for any new president elect in the U.S to take a good long look at foreign policy review, specially where their Israeli friends are concerned. It seems though that Obama the symbol of new found hope has stumbled on his first appointment by giving the […]
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FROM DAWN“An award winning American magazine Foreign Policy, has chosen Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal as second among the three best mayors in the world for the year 2008. The magazine has included the names of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing as the other mayors of the moment, said a […]
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Well just as i had swept ODI cricket and specially Pak cricket under the rug of ancient “feel good” memories, the first match of the fortune cup in Abu Dhabi between Pak & WI turns out to be a smasher and a half. Lets face it Pakistan cricket has not seen a lot of […]
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The two minutes silence begins. Some of the people in the room stand, but I sit, head bowed, in a pose of solemn remembrance.But all I can think of is the moment I crushed your little paper poppy when we hugged, and the feeling you are somehow as lost to me as the fallen were […]
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Ladies and Gentlemen,We proudly present to you… The Rope, by Alfred Hitchcock. The time has come to unravel the mystery of who strangled Hasan! A game of cat and mouse, interjected with amusing scenes by the aunt and the housemaster, heated debate between old lovers, and rekindled romance between the housekeeper and her crush - […]
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FROM DAWN“An award winning American magazine Foreign Policy, has chosen Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal as second among the three best mayors in the world for the year 2008. The magazine has included the names of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing as the other mayors of the moment, said a […]
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There are only a few topics the media here in Pakistan is more obsessed with than India and its nefarious “unseen hand”. Foremost among these is ‘Amreeka’ our ally of good and useful times since Independence, and frequent ruler through various quasi governments here. Kindly referred to here by pundits and journalists alike as “Mai […]
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Ayat Al Sayf (the verse of the sword) Chapter 9 verse 5Frequently quoted by fundamentals and terrorists the world over to justify their barbaric and inhuman acts this verse is perhaps one of the most controversial of the verses of the Holy Quran. It has been thrown in the face of peace loving Muslims the […]
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Today is a sad day, one of my favourite authors Michael Crichton passed away at age 66 finally succumbing to his long private battle with cancer. Michael was a Harvard medical school grad and an amazing writer who provided his readers with escapism which could be justified by scientific facts. Most of his books deal […]
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At about 8am Pakistan time at the start of our day here the results of the U.S election came in and they were not disappointing. Barrack Obama is the new president elect of America and what an election campaign he ran, with turn outs in the high 70’s his genius and empathy made […]
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I’m not a Democrat. I’m more of a Republican. I’ve grown up Republican, I dabbled with the donkeys, but finally grew into my “right” roots. Its a lot more complicated that Bush and Iraq, but that’s how elections usually go. I like the Republican party for its history, albeit as checkered as it may be. […]
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Allen Stanford, mention this name around puritan english cricket fans and you would probably get the equivilant of a mental wedgie these days. Such is the horror his presence conjures up in their minds that they have tried hook line and sinker to avoid talk of the dreaded 20 20 debacle the ECB engaged in […]
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Muslim scholars from all over the world are arriving at the Vatican this week to hold talks with the pope. It seems that the bulb finally lit up over someone’s head to sit down on a table and hash things out between the two biggest religions of the world, by sheer volume of followers at […]
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Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has described Pakistan as an “international migraine” and argued that the South Asian country will be one of the hot spotsthat the next American president will have to contend with.Albright, who served President Bill Clinton in his second term of office, said Pakistan gives you “an international migraine” […]
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The language at the bottom is Welsh and reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” This apparently happened as someone emailed a welsh person for translation and the return back was not the solution but an auto message.What did they say about the welsh again? […]
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I must admit I am more than a little pissed at what i just saw on TV. I was watching Hamid Meer’s capital talk and he had invited “Yvonne Ridley” and two other women activists for a talk on Dr Afia Siddiqui. First of all he casually mentioned that it has now been established that […]
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A massive earthquake has hit Pakistan yesterday morning in the Ziarat region, 60 km to the north east of Quetta. According to eyewitness reports entire villages have been flattened as the initial shocks were 6.4 on the Richter scale and after shocks around 6.2 and 6.1 which were felt in the afternoon in the […]
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In most countries of the world leaders engage in forward planning to negotiate and bring in prosperity whilst they are in office. Pakistani politicians however are caught between a rock and a hard place as our media tells us. Personally instead of blaming everyone from top to bottom I cannot recall when we were not caught […]
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On 30th October 1947 Qaid E Azam the founder of Pakistan and the greatest leader we have ever said the following on reaching Lahore where several brutal acts were committed against minorities.“We have, undoubtedly, achieved Pakistan and that too without bloody war and practically peacefully by moral and intellectual force and with the power of pen which […]
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Recently the Oxford youth business development organization held a contest for young entrepreneurs and their mentors in this region of the world to pick a business venture along the following criteriaWhat is the venture’s quality of business planning? I.e. have the team developed a focused and viable plan for implementation success What is the venture’s […]
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Its very common in today’s world to commercialize the needs of a “metro sexual” man and sell him everything from designer briefs to designer gadgets and ties all at the expense of his large bank balance and causing even more inflation of his over inflated ego. Personally I feel objectified catagorized and over exploited!!The following […]
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I am picking up apples from the garden. Again. I have given bags of the fruit away to everyone who wants them, but still they tumble from the tree. Sometimes they even have the audacity to fall on me as I am gathering their compatriots beneath, the little green bastards. But still it feels like […]
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I never thought religion was sexy…any of them in fact but I was a bit taken aback at this..what do you think?
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Finally the government is showing some signs of being alive in some form since the elections. Why is this so? well dear readers all 8 of you that is, we again stand at the brink of the famous cavern we keep visiting as a country the one called “doom”. Matter of fact we have […]
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Dr Shamshad Akhtar,, Governor of State Bank of Pakistan is living in a fool’s paradise. She thinks that the Central Bank has been addressing monetary policy issues of Pakistan rather efficiently and working round the clock.If working round the clock means screwing up the economy further, they have done a great job. The Rupee has […]
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Well it was bound to happen and I say this trying to be PC because I do have very strong reservations about Fbook and the effect it is having on people’s lives. It jst has too much power over its users and now it has driven an estranged husband in a recently seperated relationship to effectively […]
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Come on Obama!!!!!! End the hold of brutality your country has over the world, end the stupid war on terror that has taken us all to the brink of meltdown!!!!Why do I sitting here in Pakistan support him??? simply because Mccain represents the old America, the hawks, the naysayers and the colonists and Obama alsthough […]
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It seems Pakistan is not the only place where insanity comes into play every day in life. A couple estranged and seperated recently in Cambodia have taken the weird and hilarious step of cutting their house in two as a seperation of property exercise. I can just imagine if this practice is adopted in say […]
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Pakistan’s loss in the twenty twenty cup in canada yesterday displays the myopic policies of the Pakistan Cricket Board(PCB). One must commend the PCB for its consistency in making stupid decisions. They have, however, outdone themselves by declaring Shoiab Akhtar fully fit and raring to have a go at the other competing teams. With all […]
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With stock exchanges tumbling like dominos the world over all of us have lost not just a pile of our hard earned savings but a lot of our trust as well. We as citizens of the world normally believe thata) The financial system has backup plans and checks built inside to aide the economy and […]
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Having spent the last week in Dubai a destination I visited after seven long years a sojourn by any standards let alone Pakistani I must say I am overwhelmed. That is the best way to describe this city in my humble opinion, its got too much of everything, too much wealth, too much power, too […]
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I am a wearer of hats. One day – four hats – same head underneath. I think.Hat 1 – 6.15amThis morning it’s a struggle to leave the house; so much to do and I daren’t be late. Dirty washing flung into the machine, sandwiches made, fruit sliced, yoghurt poured, cake cut, bags packed, coffee machine […]
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