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Goran Gatti, Baluchistan - Off-Road Expedition
Goran Gatti Expedition 2008 - The Lineup
Viigo with the Goran Gatti in the background
Quite often the glamorous sights and sounds of tempting destinations worldwide lures us away from the abundant destinations within Pakistan. These last few days I was actually on a 4×4 expedition trip a secluded mountain called Goran Gatti located deep within [...]
Citizen Journalists cover the Long March
Pakistan Long March Live Coverage
I mentioned a few posts earlier that an initiative has been launched to help cover the Long March procession through its journey from Karachi to Islamabad.
The first day I personally reported on the details of the journey from Karachi to Hyderabad and then Sukkur, it was later followed up [...]
Teeth Maestro v 4.0
Teeth Maestro v 3.0
Welcome to the new design of Teeth Maestro’s Blog, it is for the record the fourth major re-design of this blog since 2004 when I first started to blog on the world wide web..
The v3.0 had been running for almost an entire year and saw us through some serious political debates here [...]
Karachi Metroblogs pulls an April Fools prank
The cat is finally out of the bag, and the entire Karachi Metroblog team has come clean accepting the April fools joke being played on its readers. The plan was hatched barely two days ago on our internal mailing list, a number of ideas were floated to finally settle with two options one was [...]
Blog on the Move >> UPDATE: We have successfully Moved
UPDATE: We have finally moved over to the new host, I hope things are a ‘bit’ faster
Since the past few days I have been having nightmares with my host (dreamhost) either due to a fault in my system or their lackluster response to attending my frantic cries for help. Yesterday I finally pulled [...]
Server issues - Downtime expected
Since Saturday I have been experiencing intermittent (frequent) server overload issues. I have been hosted on Dreamhost for over two years and have generally enjoyed the experience. In the past few months the traffic coming into two of my website specifically (teeth.com.pk and bloggers.pk) had gone overboard of normal shared hosting plans and [...]
OffroadPakistan: Goran Gatti Trip 2008
A few weeks back in the middle of January I went on an off-road adventure trip to Goran Gatti one of the highest mountain deep within the Hingol National Park. It was a four day trip filled with adventure fun and excitement. The group had over 13 tough off road vehicles with over [...]
BBC Radio Five Interview: Pods & Blogs
Sabeen Mahmood and I were interviewed late last night (election night) by BBC Radio 5 it can be heard here while the show notes can be read on the BBC Radio 5 website (we are in the first 10 minutes of the show)
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
People’s Resistance Activists Inteviewed in GT (Good Times) magazine
Good Times Cover Page
The latest publication of GoodTimes has around 36-pages of pictures and interviews with various civil society activists from Karachi and Lahore predominantly from the Karachi based People’s Resistance network.
For the sake of posterity I have scanned the relevant pages (in low quality) and is now available for download, but to [...]
Teeth Maestro on Breakfast with Dawn
Teeth Maestro off to Hingol, Baluchistan
Just a personal update for my blog readers, I am off to a four day 4×4 adventure cum camping trip to Hingol, Baluchistan. An estimated 14 off road vehicles are set to brave the dunes of Baluchistan in an attempt to reach Goran Gatti a mountainous region deep inside the Hingol National Park
The group [...]
A Very Happy Eid Mubarak & My Sincere Prayers for Pakistan
For all my regular readers, it will not be too hard to figure out my Dua for this Eid-ul-Adha. I sincerely wish each and every Muslim in the world a very happy and joyous Eid, while at the same time I urge them to take a moment to pray for Pakistan asking Allah, God [...]
People’s Resistance faces Police Resistance
A flurry of SMS’s were posted on this blog which started of first on that I might actually be arrested by the police and my car impounded and a good 30 or so minutes later I posted that I was free to go credit to some intense on street side negotiations by the men and [...]
Eid Mubarak
I would like to extend my warm greetings to all my readers, on this Eid-ul-Fitr wishing you all a very Happy Eid Mubarak.
At this joyous occasion please take a moment to offer a prayer for the hundreds and thousands of innocent lives being lost in North Waziristan for the sake of ’someone else’s [read USA] [...]
Travelogue: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In the past few days I have been out of Pakistan traveling to Cambodia and Malaysia. In the due course I have visited four cities and hope to do a small travelogue about the city and my observations and pictures to boost.
Cambodia for many may very well me an odd place to head off [...]
