Shoed off (update)
Gosh darnit is that the American flag, but I, but I thought we had shocked and awed them all. Well bubba, guess you were wrong eh? Lookit all the Airaqis waving those signs….don’t they look thankful? Pic credits Newyorktimes
Virtual activism
Youth, the gears of a countries machine, the lifeblood of a nation’s body, the essence of which all great movements have been made of simply because youth means enthusiasm and energy- not even the sagacity of experience can replace that. However energy and enthusiasm are forces of nature which, when misplaced, can wreak as much…
Shoed Off
This is for all the media people in the U.S who have been harping on about the great “rescue” that America has achieved in Iraq and how they have brought the Iraqi people towards a dawn of prosperity pretty much sums it up does it not? For the people who are still out there trying…
Message to u.s stock brokers
Indian jets violate pakistan airspace
Midnight here in Karachi 14.12.08 I am jarred awake by the beeping on my cellphone, another sms I think to myself as i look at the screen, but the next second I am reaching frantically for the remote instead of switching the phone off and going back to bed. The message reads “are we under…
Public sentiment?
Pic credit Times of India AFP
Eid ul adha 2008 (slaughter in gloom)
Tomorrow is Eid Ul Adha here in Pakistan or at least those parts of it that still follow the writ of our government. After going about the business of procuring the animals for the ritual slaughter we engage in every year at exorbitant prices I might add, I decided to take the clan out for…
A dose of strategic courage?
Although it feels good that the England team is flying back to India as a whole unit to play the test series rather than abandon it due to the security situation, one cannot help but wonder just what it is that has made them suddenly so courageous. Looking back just a few months and the…
KBM 08
Its not often that you attend an event where you get to meet people you actually want to meet. The Bloggers meet up 08 held on Dec 6th 08 was just such a place, organized very well by Badar Kushnood of google and Salaina Haroon of CIO it turned out to be a rip roaring…
Stop blaming yourself!!!
In recent days I have been witness to a lot of hand wrangling in Karachi wherever I go whenever the current hottest topic of conversation the “Mumbai attack” comes up. Granted as citizens of this world it is our duty to stand with the Mumbaikars and the rest of India against these ghastly murderers, but…