Month: August 2006
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“The Media is Definitely Playing Havoc with your Mind”
This was the recent comment from a very respected online acquaintance, who wrote in response to my recent US-Bashing barrage, We Will Not be Silent and also in the post titled Muslims Dont Hate Freedom, They Hate Oppression. You are very right, and I too feel this sentiment coming through on all of my posts,…
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We Will Not be Silent
With the ongoing media bombardment by the US government they have slowly hypnotised all of its citizens to be suspicious of all middle eastern people who may even accidentally walk around the corner. A number of stories have continued to come through of people being harassed by everyone from airport authorities to even some casual…
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Hair Caught with his Hand in the Cookie Jar
A few hours ago a stunning press conference in London literally shook the cricketing world, this developing hot story resulted in a post on this blog moments later titled Hair offers $500,000 to quit. Malcolm Speed made a startling revelation of an exchange of emails between ICC and Darrell Hair. The actual copy of the…
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Hair offers $500,000 to quit
Malcome Speed the Chief Executive of ICC while addressing a press conference has said that Darrell Hair maybe offered $500,000 to quit as an umpire. Speed told reporters that he had received a copy of a letter from Hair to Doug Cowie, the ICC’s umpire manager, on Tuesday in which he asked for “a one-off…
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ICC a White Commonwealth
Article written in the Guardian by Stephen Moss talks about the ongoing controversy in the corridors of cricket in the past few days, the actual issue has been beaten to death by many but Stephen talks about about another genuine problem that has continued to create hurdles in this game that we call cricket. The…
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Stunning Video Choreography
A music video produced by the band OK Go for their track Here it goes Again. Its truly some amazing choreography to pull this stunt out and simply watching the video makes me wanna run and buy a couple of treadmills and try this at home, most likely I would fall flat on my face…
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Pakistani Hacker hacks Kevin Mitnick
On 21th August Kevin Mitnick the legendary hacker of the 90’s who got sent to jail for his suspicious social engineering based hacking activities for a five-year prison term in 1995 was at this week at the receiving end of a massive defacement of four of his websites defensivethinking.com (Defacement) , mitsec.com (Defacement), kevinmitnick.com (Defacement)…
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Pakistan ‘Should sue Hair’ – Imran Khan
In an exclusive interview with Stick Cricket, Imran Khan has made some interesting observations of which the loudest statment was “Unless Darrell Hair can supply concrete proof of ball-tampering, then I think the Pakistan management should seriously consider suing him,” “When a ball is 55 overs old, it is absolutely impossible to tell if a…
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It’s about respect – Inzamam
In an exclusive interview with Cricinfo, Inzaman-ul-Haq has been very vocal and to the point – stating that the issue of cheating is not about a game but more about the respect of an entire nation – How true…. Inzamam-ul-Haq has confirmed that the Pakistani stance on their forfeited Test at The Oval is a…
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Internet Governance in Pakistan
A very interesting post made by TEE EMM (Tariq Mustafa) a veteran Pakistani Blogger who has been blogging since 2001. I had been following his blog for some time but then all of a sudden he disappeared and has reemerged recently back into the blogging world (though I now see a few posts in between…
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Darrell Hair the Racist Cheater
Just a few moments ago, Pakistan while playing in the 4th Test Match vs England on the 4th day has been accused without evidence of ball tampering. Darrell Hair who has repeatedly been a very biased umpire ruling many times against the cricketers of the Indo-Pak region has yet again proved his bias today. The…
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The True Essence of Life
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, “WOW! What a ride!”
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Muslims Don’t Hate Freedom, They Hate Oppression
I came across this article written by Khalid Amayreh, its well written and quite adequately explains the present dilemma regarding Muslims being termed as Islamic Fascists. I have partially reproduced this article the areas which I feel need more attention, though I would recommend reading the entire article found at ZioPedia – Muslims don’t hate…
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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…
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For the Love of Pakistan
This is a commemorative post made on 14th August to mark the 59th Independence Day of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I am born and bred Pakistani and I assure you I am emotionally patriotic enough to even die for this country of mine. This 14th August to me is a proud moment to see my…