Breakfast at Dawn, Go green episode

Before my 15 minutes of fame are up, I must tell you where I was in the morning of the 14th of august. Sleeping on breakfast at dawn live with Naveen Naqvi as I tried to catch up to what she and the other guest sanasaleem were talking about. Women really have too much energy…

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14th Aug and aftermath

When on the morning of 13th Aug sid gave the rallying cry for the #blaggers to assemble it felt surreal. The #gogreen team pioneered and headed by our mad scientist/blogger Farhan Masood had been working hard over weeks for this day. The idea being to turn twitter and facebook into a virtual sea of green…

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Local government suits locals

A few days ago, as I was leaving for work in the morning, my guard handed me a small piece of paper saying government officials had driven by and         handed this to him saying it was a ticket. I unfolded it and saw that the ticket was for the excess water flowing out of my…

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Is this time for real?

Its been a few days since the news of Baitullah Mehsud finally going out in a drone attack surfaced. The initial problems of confirmation were obviously there as this has been heard of before, but when the U.S authorities showed drone footage to our authorities the final word was set in stone. It somehow feels…

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Gourmet Grub

The worlds over cities are categorized as living habitats on a scale of standard according to their culture, art, life style and food. This is because all of these things constitute together the standard of an ordinary citizens living. We on the other hand have knocked the ordinary out of the equation completely with our…

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Blogbuster show featuring me

I was recently invited to blog buster, a show about blogging on Aagtv. Its basically a show which encourages and promotes blogging and the issues we talk about on our blogs. I have not received an official video yet and will put the entire episode up when I get it. However many people wanted to…

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Lawyers gone wild

As of a few minutes ago, lawyers of the Lahore high court just manhandled and threw out journalists from the premises of the court. This was at the hearing of a case against  the lawyers for previous torture on journalists & the police. In this incident tv vans as well as cameras have been damaged….

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Karachi Tweetup 09

A Few weeks ago on a sleepy Sunday here in Karachi, we had a tweet up.  It was seemingly organized at the drop of a hat by CIO and sponsored by Google, Dawn and Red bull with P@sha & Acer as supports.  For the non geeks a tweet up means a meet up organized via…

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Gojra, Why?

On Friday a mob of hate filled Muslims went on a killing and looting spree in the small christian community of Gojra, a village about 160 kms from Lahore. The reason for doing this? An alleged incident of the desecration of the Quran at a christian wedding. 7 People were killed in this rampage Some…

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The unnamed story

I have been absent from my blog for well over a week now, which for me has to be some kinda record, since i even blog when I am traveling. Pssst can you say “addicted” anyways I thought I would give my readers a little clue into what I have been up to. Its a…

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