Rally for peace

Five score and thirty years ago a boy was born to a middle class family who had just moved from their first lodging in a new Pakistan (kharadar) to a more leafier suburb of Karachi. It had taken this family about 27 years to get into the position of owning the house they were moving…

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Chaos in Karachi

Its been two days since the explosion which took place in the procession taken out by the shia community on the 10th of moharram.  43 people have been declared dead up till now, this is despite the fact that the suicide bomber was stopped by a scout and a ranger both of whom lost their…

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Rendezvouz with sohail anjum

  Sohail Anjum is a name synonymous with photography in the U.K. Born and bred in London, this son of emigrants from Pakistan started his career when he dropped out of college and took up this field of work. Over the years he has taught himself the art of capturing life and has emerged as…

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Debunking myths about shia’s part I

I have always had a fascination with religion and religious history. If one would try to categorize my curiosity, I would be a type A, total fantasist about what lies beyond and the one to always ask the craziest of questions right from childhood about my religion, my ancestry and so on. It has stood…

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Iphone, knowing your way around it

Keeping up with an old habit of mine to dive headfirst into the device I currently use I have not failed with the Iphone 3G so far. I have installed OS 3.12, jail broken it with some help from Farhan Chawla and have found ways and hacks that might generally help many Iphone users. I…

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Legal coup?

At about 8pm yesterday people started closing down their shops and running helter skelter as if some kind of godzilla was approaching. Being at risk myself I had to do the needful and as I stepped out into my car and started driving home I could feel nothing but total disgust at how people were…

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Motorola droid, an iphone killer at last?

Everything has a life and in the tech world, the life of a killer app or a killer phone is about as short as an average consumers attention span. That being said the apple Iphone has and still manages to capture the attention of cellphone users and buyers worldwide, mainly due to the fact that…

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Hp bloggers meetup

Dec 13th saw the blogger community of Karachi gather with great gusto for the Hp bloggers meet up. An event  scheduled at par with the launch of the new Hp mini series in Pakistan and a discussion forum on how to sell/market the product better. The event was organized by the Emagine group who were…

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Rendezvouz with Rez kempton

The first time I saw Rez was in an Indian production called “Harry Puttar” a madcap comedy of an Indian moving to the U.K while his father carries out his secret mission. He played a smallish part of “Amul” but instantly struck home with his natural ease and flair for the craft of acting. Since…

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