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The art and practice of Trackback
2007-12-04 03:47:00 Blogs are dynamic. The beauty of blogging is in its ability of two way communication. A reader coming to a blog can leave his comment and can get the response from the writer of the post in no time. It is this quality of blogging that has made even corporate world to indulge in maintaining ... More About: Technology , Blogging , Practice , Trackback , Ping
Stammering Association Pakistan
2007-12-03 21:36:00 Yesterday when I was watching the Dawn News, I happened to see an interview of a lady named Julia. She was there to introduce this problem of stammering and Stammering Association Pakistan . She gave away this web address and I wrote it down with a thought to visit it as soon as I am online ... More About: Health , Stuttering , Erin
Buzz around me-1
2007-12-03 05:29:00 I have been reading some very fine posts of many bloggers around for quite sometime. I never give it a try to share these posts with you but it just clicked my mind and I thought to write about my blog readings one regular basis. This post is first of this kind on my blog ... More About: Review , Buzz , Blogsphere
Beacon Techonology of Facebook is still a privacy nightmare!
2007-12-01 19:49:00 Beacon advertising technology is a controversial service with Facebook. It is there to tell friends and businesses about the shopping habits of Facebook users. The trouble started when Facebook users started seeing Beacon as an intrusion in online privacy and started a campaign to gather support against this service. The petition was signed by more ... More About: Technology , Online Privacy , Nightmare , Opinion , Privacy
Craving for Kot Diji
2007-11-30 20:21:00 Nations take pride in associating themselves with their past. The heritage sites of any country are the physical representations of their history. Keeping in view the significance of heritage, literate nations use to take special interest in conservation of what they inherit but, the situation in Pakistan is on the contrary. What does it symbolize? ... More About: Opinion , Ravin
Do we really need one laptop per child?
2007-11-28 18:39:00 One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was started in 2002 by Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Its mission is to provide low-cost laptops, known as the XO, to children around the world specially living in third world countries. The machines are planned to cost $100 and have been especially designed for ... More About: News , Opinion , One Laptop per Child
Interview of CSS candidates 2007 at Karachi Center
2007-11-28 16:20:00 Today, I faced the panel for final interview of CSS 2007. I am writing the questions for those who are having the interview this year and it might give an idea to aspirant also since they have to get through it at some point in time. So, here you go: The interview was on sort of ... More About: Interview , Karachi , Candidates , Center , Candidate
Search Engine optimization (SEO)-My Journey
2007-11-26 21:57:00 Going through all this makes me think that how things are inter-linked. Qurratulain?s reply clicked my mind, I started searching for related stuff, learnt couple of things about SEO, Teeth Maestro provided me the insight, SAJ Shirazi impressed me with his helping attitude and I learnt a great deal. While writing all this, I am ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Journey , Search , Search Engine , Optimization
Revisiting Mohenjo Daro
2007-11-24 13:17:00 Mohenjo Daro came to limelight after 1922 when R.D. Banerji, an officer of the Archeological Survey of India discovered it. Latter, John Marshall, K.N. Dilkshit, Ernest Mackay and numerous other officers of Archeological Survey carried out excavations through 1930s. At the moment, further excavations are banned due to problems related to conservation of the exposed ...
Qurratullain?s interview
2007-11-23 21:45:00 Those of you who are users of CSS Forum Pakistan must be familiar with our very own economist friend Qurratulain. She is a blogger and a very kind soul who is there to help anyone asking for some. Today, while I was surfing the blogsphere, I came across this very good piece about her in ... More About: Blog , Interview , Bloggers
Psychological Testing of CSS 2007 Candidates
2007-11-22 23:07:00 I have published a detailed post about my psychological testing held on 21-22 Nov, 2007 at FPSC Karachi Center for CSS 2007. The post carries sample questions as well. Please click here for reading the complete post. Feel free to post your queries out there. I will be happy to help you out. More About: Testing , Candidates , Psychological , Logi , Candidate
Psychological Assessment of CSS Candidates 2007
2007-11-21 21:33:00 Today, I happened to appear in the psychological assessment test of CSS Pakistan 2007. The day went very hectic. Before us, a group went through it yesterday. Today it was their interview. They procedure started around 0800 hrs PST and continued till 1400hrs PST. There, many different tests were administered to us throughout the day. ... More About: Candidates , Assessment , Psychological , Logi , Candidate
America vs Pirates of Caribbean
2007-11-18 14:00:00 George W. Bush has branded the nations against America n foreign policy as Axis of Evil. The tug of war going on between Neoliberal ideologist in US and Latin America is age long with Fidel Castro of Cuba and now Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia. This clash of interest between ... More About: Pirates , Caribbean , Irate
He got released! (an unconventional interview)
2007-11-17 10:46:00 by Farrukh Malik and Sagar Unnar Caution: This is an unconventional interview of a conscientious prisoner taken by a panel of experts (least likely experts). The Panelists The panelists are five in number from different backgrounds, one landlord cum businessman (A), a middle class struggling fellow (this scribe refer me as B) and other three are metropolitan ... More About: Pakistan , Interview , Karachi , Released , Southeast Asia
Our Great Morals
2007-11-15 12:04:00 by Sagar Unnar It is almost forbidden for our nation to speak about the almighty ?ISI? publicly. Just to give you an overview about the Great Morals of our prime Intelligence Agency, times online published an article on Nov 11, 2007, highlighting some of tactics used by them. For reading the complete article click here I ... More About: Pakistan , Discussion , Southeast Asia
Top Ten Pakistani Blogs???
2007-11-12 22:30:00 Today, I searched Google for top ten Pakistan i blogs with all the possible key words but all my efforts seemed going in vain. Every then and now, Google fetched me only one link of a post by SAJ Shirazi regarding top ten blogs of 2006. Having this thought up my brain, an idea clicked my ... More About: Blogs , Pakistani
Sonofabitch: Is this freedom of speech?
2007-11-12 12:35:00 My attention was drawn by a fellow blogger to this post at Islamabad Metroblogging by A for [pine]Apple and I felt disgusted with the word sonofabitch. Here is my immediate reaction without any alteration or adulteration: Honestly, President Musharraf has done wrong to an extent that I have no sympathy for him but being a student ... More About: Freedom , Journalism , Pakistan , Ethics , Opinion
He got arrested!
2007-11-11 18:40:00 This is a post to pay my respect to my dearest friend, Kazim Ali Abbasi, who got arrested few days back after proclamation of emergency in Pakistan . Kazim is son of Haji Munawar Ali Abbasi the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPA from Larkana Sindh and nephew of Senator Safdar Abbasi. He is one of ... More About: News , Diary , Arrested , Opinion
Presence of Sindhi blogs in Blogsphere?
2007-11-05 17:33:00 Sindhi is regional language of Pakistan along with Punjabi, Pashto and Balochi side by side. Apart from this, several other languages are also being spoken in Pakistan e.g. Siraiki, Hindko etc. Urdu claims the status of National language. Since blogging, even in English, is not that common in Pakistan; it was hardly expected to find blogs in Sindhi. The Pakistani blog aggregator blogger.pk has no Sindhi blog listed. Having this idea in my mind, I started search for Sindhi blogs in Cyberspace. My first step in this regard was to run a search in some search engine. Since Google stays my first priority regarding web searches so I knocked at the Google's door and results were not disappointing ... More About: Analysis , Opinion , Blogs , Presence
Pakistani Bloggers after emergency
2007-11-04 13:50:00 With declaration of emergency rule in Pakistan , the fundamental rights of the citizens of Pakistan are suspended as guaranteed in 1973 constitution of Pakistan. Along with other articles, the article 19 of the 1973 constitution of Pakistan that provides the safeguards to Pakistani citizens of freedom of expression stands suspended too. Leading blogger and ... More About: Opinion , Bloggers , Southeast Asia
Text of Pakistan emergency declaration
2007-11-04 05:40:00 Following is the text of the "Proclamation of emergency", declared by Pakistan i President General Pervez Musharraf on 3 November. Whereas there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, IED [improvised explosive device] explosions, rocket firing and bomb explosions and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to an unprecedented level of violent intensity posing a grave threat to the life and property of the citizens of Pakistan; Whereas there has also been a spate of attacks on state infrastructure and on law enforcement agencies; Whereas some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism thereby weakening the government and the nation's resolve diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace; ... More About: News , Declaration , Text , Southeast Asia
Musharraf?s address to nation?
2007-11-03 21:13:00 It is reported that President Musharraf canceled his live address to nation and preferred to release a recording to different media channels. The transcribed version of his address can be found here More About: News , Pakistan , Nation , Address
Provisional Constitution Order (constitutional articles suspended)
2007-11-03 19:01:00 President General Musharraf promulgated the Provisional Constitution order (PCO) and declared the emergency in Pakistan . This order may be called as Provisional Constitution order No. 1 of 2007. Under the PCO, the Fundamental Rights under Articles 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 25 of the Constitution shall remain suspended. In following lines, I am putting forward suspended articles in accordance with PCO...... More About: News , Order
Emergency declared in Pakistan???
2007-11-03 17:05:00 Moments back, on my way back to my home from office, someone told me that TV channels are off air in Karachi. I rushed to my apartment and confirmed the news. Yes, the channels are off air, no Geo, no ARY, no, BBC and CNN. The BBC world’s website reports that President General Pervaiz Musharraf ... More About: News , Pakistan , World Politics , Southeast Asia , Emergency
Rebellion?.
2007-10-30 19:41:00 Hmmm say whatever you want to but remember that there is always an extent to which a person can bend and beyond that he is bond to bounce or break. You have pushed me so hard that I have developed this rebellion. It’s alarming to feel enslaved than being loved. Give a serious thought to ... More About: Diary , Love , Fiction , Relationship , Emotions
Halal Vaccine: Thinking point for Pakistan
More articles from this author:2007-10-20 14:28:00 Yesterday, I happened to read a news item in daily Dawn about Malaysia joining hands with Cuba to produce Halal vaccine for meningitis. It is estimated that the project will cost 3.6 million ringgit ($ 1 million) of which 2.0 million ringgit will be provided by Malaysia and remaining 1.6 million ringgit will be added by the Cuba. It is reported the Halal industry is spread over $ 580 billions annually and Malaysia is trying to capture this Market for long. Malaysia is a regional as well as international economic hub and their excellent track record is quite evident of their ambitions. The made themselves appear on the international economics radar screen with their innovative ideas. Dr Mahathir Mohammad, who ruled the country for around 22 years...... More About: Vaccine , Pakistan , Point , Thinking 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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