Archive for February, 2007
Yeh Hum Naheen - Say No to Terrorism
Yeh Hum Naheen¸ (This is NOT us) is an NGO headed by Waseem Mahmood and a number of like minded popular Pakistani vocalists have choosen to join hands and raise their voice on behalf of the Muslim world coming together in the form of a an amazing soul touching sound track, featuring names like Haroon, [...]
Are you a Fundamentalist?
Guest Post: Fariha Akhtar
Few years back in one of the social sciences class, our instructor asked us “Are you Fundamentalists?� Our instant reply was “No, Sir…no way�. Then he asked, “Do you believe that the Holy Quran is meant for all times and for all kinds of environments?� This time our reply was “Yes, [...]
Letter to CJ from Naeem Bokhari
I would like to share a very interesting letter I just received on email, written by Supreme Court Advocate Naeem Bohkari addressed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. It is a definite ‘must read’ for all Pakistanis
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Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Islamabad
Pakistan
My Lord:
I [...]
Enlightened Moderation: Desi Version of Enlightenment!
Guest Post: Fariha Akhtar
Most of us believe that everyone needs to modernize in order to cope up with the dynamics of this world. We feel that its ok to change ourselves with changing times as long as we don’t compromise on our religious principles and so Mush came up with the concept of Enlightened [...]
Online freedom of Speech - Global Voices
Sami Ben Gharbia the recently appointed Advocacy Director of Global Voices has done a very extensive review of the censorship situation in Pakistan which also includes a very interesting interview with Omer Alvie discussing the issue in quite extensive detail. Link: Pakistan: Online freedom of speech as collateral damage?
Do also have a look at [...]
Egyptian Blogger Imprisoned for 4 years
Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt’s al-Azhar university, an Islamic institution, was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, in the country’s first prosecution of a blogger.
Nabil, who used the blogger name Kareem Amer, had sharply criticized his college on his blog, which is [...]
Bush’s ongoing War on Terror
This video is hilarious, takes Bush’s War on Terror to an different level altogether - Enjoy
Tale of a Ship
Guest Blogger: Kamran Suhrwardy
I am a resident of a ship, since I opened my eyes in my mothers’ arms nearly thirty seven years ago. It has been captained by tin-pot saviours and their hunting traits and habits remains common, except for the one it started its journey with. Every new saviour comes with [...]
Teeth Maestro Open to Guest Bloggers
Teeth Maestro’s blog has been running on the steam generated by its owner Dr. Awab Alvi for over two years and counting, I remain grateful to the hundreds and thousands who have visited this blog to read my ramblings on wide variety of topics, this blog continues to be updated simply for the love of [...]
Don’t Block the Blog & Google
Don’t Block the Blog (DBTB) is happy to announce to the Pakistani bloggers that some serious progress has been made during the last few of days regarding the internet censorship (blogspot ban ) issue in Pakistan.
Google Inc.’s key representative (Policy Analyst) has been in direct contact with DBTB members in reference to the [...]
In Support of Mahmood.tv….. (Brainfart Libel Suit)
If you recall a few months back I had reported that Mahmood.tv was blocked by the Bahraini Government since he was instrumental in exposing the Jamal Dawood scandal. This time around he has continued to be vocal yet again hitting hard at the Minister of Municipalities and Agriculture in Bahrain for his involvement in [...]
Democrat Tim Ryan Lashes out at Bush
This is a video of Rep Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) who spoke to the congress a few months back, its interesting to see him eloquently voice his frustration at the way George Bush continues to give the American people the roller coaster ride of their life.
Pakistan Blogging Situation - Update
For the past few days especially yesterday I have exchanged a number of emails around the globe to figure out a solution for the deteriorating blogging condition in Pakistan which started a few days back as reported by Don’t Block the Blog, Press Release of 3rd February and also my blog, I have a few [...]
Web 2.0 Phenomenon Explained
Quite a number of people ask what exactly is Web 2.0, many definitions exist but no definition can adequately describe this phenomenon as this video tries to do in a brief 4:31 minutes.
I assure you, you will come out having understood the entire concept and still yet not be able to write [...]
Bloggers Pakistan gets a Face-lift
After many days of procrastination, I finally got down to doing a revamp of the blog aggregator that we run at bloggers.pk. Barely two months back in early December I quit on the ever faithful wordpress CMS system simply because it was not designed to be an efficient aggregator. I moved away from [...]
Kneel over Pakistan - 1st ODI Report
Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan- Pak vs SA 1st ODI - Centurion Park: Kneel over Pakistan could literally have been the one more last thing that the South Africans could have asked while they ransacked the Pakistan cricket team. The batting performance but almost every South African was par excellence, they beat, they raped and [...]
Pakistan Blog Alert ! Do Not Upgrade to Blogger Beta
The Don’t Block the Blog campaign would like to issue a Blog Alert to all Pakistani bloggers on blogspot.com to resist the temptation to upgrade to Blogger Beta, the improved version of the Google Blogging platform.
It apparently seems that once the blogger upgrades to Blogger Beta, all hell breaks loose as the proxy servers are [...]
Supreme Court questions Malik’s Ban
Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has questioned the life-ban imposed by Pakistan Cricket Board on Saleem Malik back in 2000. The court has for now delayed the hearing for a week upon the request of the PCB lawyer as he would need a little time to provide sufficient proof as [...]
