Michael Crichton passes away

Today is a sad day, one of my favourite authors Michael Crichton passed away at age 66 finally succumbing to his long private battle with cancer. Michael was a Harvard medical school grad and an amazing writer who provided his readers with escapism which could be justified by scientific facts. Most of his books deal…

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Voters to obama : “yes we can”

At about 8am Pakistan time at the start of our day here the results of the U.S election came in and they were not disappointing. Barrack Obama is the new president elect of America and what an election campaign he ran, with turn outs in the high 70’s his genius and empathy made people stand…

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Off with test crickets head!!

Allen Stanford, mention this name around puritan english cricket fans and you would probably get the equivilant of a mental wedgie these days. Such is the horror his presence conjures up in their minds that they have tried hook line and sinker to avoid talk of the dreaded 20 20 debacle the ECB engaged in…

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Muslims at the Vatican

Muslim scholars from all over the world are arriving at the Vatican this week to hold talks with the pope. It seems that the bulb finally lit up over someone’s head to sit down on a table and hash things out between the two biggest religions of the world, by sheer volume of followers at…

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Email @#up

The language at the bottom is  Welsh and reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” This apparently happened as someone emailed a welsh person for translation and the return back was not the solution but an auto message. What did they say about the welsh…

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Terror in Ziarat

A massive earthquake has hit Pakistan yesterday morning in the Ziarat region, 60 km to the north east of Quetta. According to eyewitness reports entire villages have been flattened as the initial shocks were 6.4 on the Richter scale and after shocks around 6.2 and 6.1 which were felt in the afternoon in the same…

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Backward planning

In most countries of the world leaders engage in forward planning to negotiate and bring in prosperity whilst they are in office. Pakistani politicians however are caught between a rock and a hard place as our media tells us.   Personally instead of blaming everyone from top to bottom I  cannot recall when we were…

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