Archive for October, 2006
Bahraini Blogger Blocked By Bahrain
Pakistanis don’t need to be told how much it can hurt to be at the receiving end of a censorship on their own blog, we sadly have had a massive blockade on the entire Blogspot.com cordoning off more then 10 million blogs for over 11 months and counting. Its sad to note that a [...]
Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested for RSS Linking
In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a [...]
Bush Heading Towards Martial Law?
President Bush has signed into law a provision which will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with [...]
Eid SMS Messages
There is no doubt that in the recent years, almost every EID is filled with a massive exchange of SMS Eid Greetings. To be honest Eid has not even started in Pakistan as its midnight on chand raat and I have already received over 25 eid wishes on SMS, I can only wonder what [...]
Muhammad’s Christian Covenant and Benedict’s Indictment
By: Dr Arif Alvi
Article published in Dawn Tuesday 24th October 2006 & a digital newspaper version of the printed article can be found here, while the original full version with all relevant images is being reproduced below
In his lecture on ‘Faith, Reason and the University  Memories and Reflections’ Pope Benedict the XVI, stirred the [...]
Eid Mubarak & Blog Eidi (gift)
I wish all Muslims a very Happy & Joyous Eid
In an effort to enjoy this Eid in true blogging style I have created a blogroll of all websites that are wishing their readers a very Happy Eid. If you are a blogger then simply make an Eid wishing post and it will be included [...]
Pakistan asked to keep Religion Private
The new chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board has actually told his players to curb the public display of practicing their religion.
“There is no doubt their religious faith is a motivating factor in the team,” Ashraf told Reuters. “It binds them together. But there should be balance between religion and cricket.” …. “I have [...]
Zune is the ‘F’ word in Hebrew
Many must already know that on November 14th Microsoft is set to launch an iPod rival with the name of ‘Zune‘. Its a feature full media player which is being touted to challenge Apple iPod (I doubt it), Zune has a significant number of variations which can suit any persons needs.
Interestingly ZUNE is actually [...]
In the Line of Fire - Free PDF
For those of us (including me), who refuse to contribute to the Pervaiz Musharraf Foundation (does it really exist??) as reported a few days prior, I now present you Pervaiz Musharraf’s Book - In the Line of Fire - A Memoir in scanned PDF version freely available for you to download and try to understand [...]
Drug Nandrolone Haunts PCB
Nandrolone is the drug which has been found in the urine samples taken from Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif. Nandrolone is similar to testosterone which is also banned by the International Olympic Committee if found in alarming quantity (Floyd Landis). Nandrolone is used my athletes as performance enhancing drug, as it contributes to [...]
Pakistani Cricketers Fail Dope Test
In an embarrassing development of events in the ICC Champions Trophy in India, it has just been revealed that Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif both have failed an internal Pakistan Cricket Board performance enhancing drug test just prior to their match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Both the cricketers are being immediately sent back [...]
Musharraf - Book Profit to Charity
A few weeks back I was very critical of Pervez Musharraf when he started his book tour in the United States to the extent of making a statement in my post
Bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age, or else….: “I sincerely hope that the People of Pakistan see some of the royalty being submitted into our [...]
Coup Attempt in Pakistan
We may recall a few weeks back a strong rumor made its rounds within Pakistan that a coup was under way in the absence of Musharraf who happened to be in NY attending the UN General Assembly and simultaneously doing a book tour in the Untied States of America.
It was also reported that [...]
Immediate effects if you STOP smoking
Smoking is an addiction which claims over 3.5 million premature deaths every year throught out the world, Pakistan has a huge population of cigarette smoking addicts. Beating any addiction requires a person to make a choice and a decision that they will stand by no matter what it costs or how difficult it may [...]
Unaiza on a Mission for the EQ
Unaiza Nasim, a co-blogger who I have known for sometime, has embarked on a very noble mission where she is collecting funds for making a “Shelter for the homelessâ€Â.
There are over 40,000 people still living in tents in the earthquake zone in the northern areas of Pakistan and the upcoming winter will be the biggest [...]
Stone Age… Revisited
A few days back on Sept 23rd 2006 I wrote an article on OhMyNews.com titled - Pakistanis Unsurprised by the ‘Stone Age’ Remark, was an altered version to the post I made on my own blog a few days prior - Bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age, or else. where I discussed the threat made [...]
Have You Forgotten? October 8th 2005
October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan which devastated the entire country over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced resulting in millions of dollars in damage. The entire country joined hands in unison to help the suffering, [...]
A1GP Pakistan
A1GP is the creation of Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum who has truly envisioned the creation of a racing circuit parallel to the world famous Formula 1 series. AiGP tries to bring the fast paced motor racing away from cutting edge developers permitting individual nations to compete on a level playing field. [...]
Pakistani Diplomats - 10th Most Parking Violations
A recent study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that 13 Pakistani Diplomats based in NY with the United Nations have violated New York Cities Traffic codes a whopping 900 times over a period of five years averaging a medallion of 180 parking tickets per year. The title of the study [...]
Linux here I come….
For a computer geek like me who has remained mesmerized in the world of computers from the hey days of an Apple IIe moving into the 8086’s and slowly creeping up to the 486 era and now living the Pentium age. I have migrated from Windows into Linux.
The reasons why I switched from Windows [...]
