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Zardari-Palin encounter Punjabi style
Courtesy the brilliant producers at AAG TV
Cyber Crime Law promulgated by President Zardari
It has just been reported that President Asif Ali Zardari has promulgated the Cyber Crime Law with effect from September 29th 2008. Though this is may surely be an important law but the problem with the initial draft as it was presented in 2007 by the Ministry of Information that it literally did not [...]
P@SHA ICT 2008 Awards
Last night P@SHA held its annual ICT Awards 2008 Ceremony in Karachi recognizing Pakistan top leading IT companies for their excellence in promoting the ICT Sector in Pakistan. The event was held at the Karachi Marriott and was attended by a large crowd quite a few of which had flown in specially from around the [...]
[MiniLinks] Sony recalls PS3 game Little Big Planet because of ‘Arabic’ words
Sony Entertainment has announced that it is recalling the Playstation 3 video game, LittleBigPlanet, from retailers after it learned that the soundtrack featured some Arabic-language lines which were also in the Quran and backed with music Sony said that “one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game [...]
[MiniLinks] Humvees being built in Taxila
Saleem Shahzad of Asia Times Online reports that an order has been placed by the US Army for about 1000 military grade high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles Humvees at Heavy Industries Unit in Taxilla, Pakistan. The report does voice a concern to say that this new influx of military business is a worrisome understanding [...]
CollegeHumor Movie: Head of Skate, featuring Sarah Palin
From the producers of College Humor comes the wackiest family comedy of the year, an Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President Sound familiar? Enjoy
With comments like “you pucked with the wrong ice president”
Interview with ABC Darwin on Islamabad Bombing
Early Sunday morning hours after the Islamabad bombing I was interviewed by an ABC radio station in Darwin, Australia more specifically by Michelle Crowther who does a Sunday morning show called Hair of the Blog, giving them feedback our perspectives on the tragic events in Islamabad. Being Australian show they were also very much concerned [...]
Google Doodle for Muslims or Pakistanis?
Google Doodle for Beijing Olympics 2008
Google has over the past years becoming one of the most successful IT companies practically out-gunning most of its competitors in every possible field where it has any presence. The success of Google has predominately been due to its commitment to provide service far before the thought of minting [...]
The Zong Mystery
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In Pakistan as we all know that Zong is the brand name of a pre-paid mobile SIM offered by China Mobile Pakistan, a subsidiary of China Mobile that has already invested over $700 million in Pakistan to the launch of their cellular company in Pakistan.
Momekh a fellow blogger and a recent twitter acquaintance [...]
Video - Aafiya Siddiqui and Her Son’s Interrogation
The video, obtained by Cageprisoners shows the media conference following the ‘arrest’ of a woman and a teenager identified by Afghan police as Saliha and Ali Ihsan. The US allege that this is Aafia Siddiqui and her 12 year old son, Ahmad.
Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US on 4th August 2008 on charges of [...]
Shahid Masood, a Journalist or a pack of lies?
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The day after the fall of the Musharraf dynasty, Shahid Masood goes on record to write a detailed Urdu column in Jang sharing his experiences with Musharraf in the Presidential House while the dictator bid a tearful adieu to his nation nation. For the record we should recall that Musharraf and Shahid Masood were [...]
Say NO to Terrorism - Yeh Hum Naheen
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Almost a year back in February of 2007 we had on this blog, participated in campaign launched by Waseem Mahmood, where a number of popular Pakistani vocalists had joined hands to raise their voice on behalf of the Muslim world coming together in the form of an amazing soul touching sound track called Yeh Hum [...]
GVSession08: Day 2 Session 3: When Biases Meet Biases
MODERATOR: Xiao Qiang.
Speakers: Isaac Mao(Entrepreneur and Researcher, China), Rebecca MacKinnon (University of Hong Kong and Global Voies), John Kennedy (Chinese Language Editor, Global Voices)
The March 10 protests in Lhasa on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule immediately won the sympathy and support of Western media outlets, bloggers, and human rights [...]
GVSummit08: Day 2 Session 2: The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies
MODERATOR: Solana Larsen.
SPEAKERS: Daudi Were (Kenya), Onnik Krikorian (Armenia), Hamid Tehrani (Iran), Luis Carlos Díaz (Venezuela)
The rise of blogging, social networking and micro-blogging services like Facebook and Twitter, video- and photo-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, and the spread of mobile technology ave given ordinary citizens the means, at least potentially, to participate [...]
GVSummit08: Day 1 Wrap up
A good roundup by Rebecca MacKinnon at the end of the first day of Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008. Budapest, June 27, 2008
