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A Leadership ‘Beyond Repair’ - Asma Jahangir 2007-04-02 06:16:07 This interview appeared in the Newsweek issue last week, Asma Jahangir, the Human Rights Activist in Pakistan has some interesting views worth a serious look.
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April 2, 2007 issue - These are tough times for Pervez Musharraf. Under increasing criticism for his inability to control Islamic militants in the country’s tribal areas, the Pakistani […] Read more:Leadership
, Repair
Have Cell, Will Call 2007-04-01 22:33:00 This news item appeared in the ‘Such Gup’ section of The Friday Times, which is known to carry the small tidbit stories that circulate amogst the movers and shakers of Pakistani politics.
A fly on the wall of the real PM’s [Pervaiz Musharraf] camp office that fateful day reports that the “suspended” Chief Justice may […]
Picture Of The Day: Eid Millad-un-Nabi(SAW) 2007-04-01 22:15:46 Jamash:
This van is a part of the Eid Millad-un-Nabi(SAW) procession taken out from Gulshan-e-Iqbal today to show the love and devotion to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and to celebrate His (SAW) Birthday.
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Apr 2, 2007 1:05 AM)
So the KMB watermark addition is up on pics [...] Read more:Picture
Law enforcement agencies above all law? 2007-04-01 22:06:33 Sid:
The Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Police Station next to the Expo Center doesn’t just serve as an example of how might becomes right but also how issues in Pakistan never come to be resolved even among two government departments.
The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan(formerly the Export Promotion Bureau) claims that the 5 acre land [...] Read more:enforcement
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, above
Supply and Demand 2007-04-01 19:49:25 umar:
Today when I went to Itwaar Bazar in Defence to do some grocery shopping, I found out that the Sunday Fair was called off due to Eid MiladunNabi. However, there were countless customers like me who didn’t know about it. Moreover, many sellers were also there who had set up their shops and were doing [...] Read more:Supply
Laurie Baker passes away… 2007-04-01 16:35:18 Lawrence W. Baker
(Laurie
Baker), the legendary architect and a great humanitarian passed away today in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Baker method of building low-cost houses that co-exists well with nature and environment has made an architectural revolution in Kerala.
Low cost is only one of the many aspects of his buildings that set them apart from [...]
Mutiny weekly wrap-up: March 26–31 2007-04-01 06:20:44 Another lovely week went away with mutiny picking on hits and getting more hits and then picking a little more.
Chacko wondered what happened to CNN IBN’S website earlier this week. He usually is very very inquisitive, isnt it? Later in the week he goes all crazy, he wants a CSI team for Jamaica led [...] Read more:March
Globalized Vada Pao 2007-03-31 23:26:26 This is a very chotu <tiny> post.
Did you know Vada Pao (yes that on_the_go Mumbaikar snack) is a brilliant example of Globalization in India?
Vada pao’s pao came from Afghanistan, the Potato first came from Spain, the Gram dals came from Mexico and the Ginger came from China.
Now thats truely a global dish.
Photo courtesy Chriss [...]
Maximum Utilization 2007-03-31 22:08:48 Jamash:
There is only so much one can do with a shop, but some people go an extra mile to get the most out of a single shop. This shop near Iqra University Gulshan campus, houses a real estate consultant, a builder, opticians and even a beauty parlor, which reminds me of a mobile phone manufacturer’s [...] Read more:Maximum
Live: England v Sri Lanka, Super Eights 2007-04-04 14:43:44 I will hunt down my nearest hat shop and munch my way through it if England
beat Sri Lanka
today. Call me a cynic, but let’s be brutally honest: they are underprepared, they don’t know their best side and they’re facing a revitalised Sri Lanka
playing with the same unbridled aggression and joy which earned [...] Read more:Super
Sachin Tendulkar lashes out at Chappel 2007-04-04 14:24:49 The spat between coach Greg Chappell and senior players in the Indian cricket team has taken a dramatic turn.
After media reports which claimed that Chappell was not happy with the World Cup squad and his accusation that some senior players were acting like a mafia, comes another sensational news that SachinTendulkar
has slammed the [...] Read more:lashes
, Sachin Tendulkar
Plastic ki thayli 2007-04-04 11:40:00 MB:
Thanks to CDGK the usage of
plastic bag has been banned with a technical exception. It’s an
appropriate time to pay tribute to a thing that remained an essential
part of our daily lives as long as our memory serves. Apart from the
normal boring usage here is tribute to plastic ki theili. Share your own
plastic stories, if any.
Back [...] Read more:Plastic
The Long Arm Of Law(yers) In Action 2007-04-04 11:30:00 backpacker:
As if the Capital was not already in a state of volatility over the Lal Masjid drama, the rows, rallies and baton charge on the lawyers and their supporters added a new wave of political, judicial, and social unrest here.
A rally by some 4,000 lawyers and political activists opposed to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s [...] Read more:Action
Local Train impeding Traffic! 2007-04-04 10:21:00 Farrukh Ahmed:
With the construction work at the I.I.Chundrigar road progesses at a painfully slow pace, getting to work is getting increasingly frustrating.
For those working after the Habib Bank Plaza, the only way is to take the city station flyover and go parallel to the Chundrigar Road, through the railway crossing, towards the M.T.Khan road, back [...] Read more:Local
, Train
Petsitter Tortures Dog As Punishment For Chewing A Wire 2007-04-04 09:48:41 “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated….I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by people from the cruelty of human kind.”
Alexander Atkind, a 23 year old student at Cornell University near Boston, is being [...] Read more:Punishment
, Chewing
ATM Access in Bihar 2007-04-04 07:50:30 In India’s poorest state, there’s been a new development. Workers from the Vaishali district in Bihar
who earn minimal wages can now collect their money from state of the art ATMs. The workers have “debit” cards, and use them to obtain their wages from the ATM. Since most of these workers are illiterate, the new [...] Read more:Access
Couples can’t enjoy sunsets on sea fronts without looking over their shoulders 2007-04-04 07:06:00 Today I read in the newspaper about how couples were hounded at Bandra Reclamation. This is not the first time that this has happened. Every once in a while the cops go into overdrive and start harassing couples. It was on Marine Drive that they did it some time ago. The cops insist that [...] Read more:enjoy
South Africa beat Ireland by 7 wickets in rain affected game 2007-04-04 06:37:55 Though, SouthAfrica
won the match against minnows Ireland
by 7 wickets but the spark was clearly missing both in the field as well as with the bat. If they have any ambition of wining this World Cup, work needed to be done.
Earlier, opting to field first on a rainy Guyana, South Africa
started quite [...]
U.S. Fails to Act as Fighting Worsens in Somalia 2007-04-04 06:28:54 The situation in Somalia
has grown markedly worse over the past week as the Islamic Courts Union’s (ICU) insurgency gains steam — so bad, in fact, that the Christian Science Monitor claims that the Somalis “haven’t seen fighting this intense since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.” The fighting has produced mass [...] Read more:Fighting
What troubles you about the ICC’s running of the game? 2007-04-04 03:00:46 I was chatting to someone tonight about the ICC and their hopelessness. He, a cricket supporter of some 30+ years, told me that the ICC have ruined the game he once loved. I’m not quite there yet, but I have certainly fallen out of love with it and, moreover, I am worried for its future. [...] Read more:running
Why Are American Officials Meeting With Terrorists’ Supporters? 2007-04-04 02:13:58 The internet sites and cable TV shows are buzzing about the visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Syria today. She’s not the only Member of Congress meeting with the Assad regime - three Republican Congressmen, including the normally sensible and reliable Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia, also met with Assad this week against [...] Read more:American
, Terrorists
, Supporters
Are the Tides Turning for Al-Qaida in Iraq? Signs of an Ugly Rift with the Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI) 2007-04-06 01:26:00 For months, there has been vigorous ongoing debate over the current state of Al-Qaida and its “Islamic
State” in Iraq
–its popularity, its brutality, and its longterm sustainability. The discussion has grown more complex in recent weeks as other Sunni insurgent groups–such as the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Front (JAAMI)–have begun to loudly complain about Al-Qaida’s [...] Read more:Tides
Special Report & Slides Released on Pre-Iraq War Intel 2007-04-05 23:48:34 Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, today released a newly declassified report of the Department of Defense Inspector General about the intelligence activities of Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, before the Iraq
War. Sen. Levin also released declassified slides which Under Secretary Feith used to brief [...] Read more:Special
, Slides
, Intel
, Special Report
, Iraq War
Bajaur: When “Peace” Yields War 2007-04-05 22:24:45 Last year I wrote extensively about the Waziristan Accords, in which Pakistan surrendered a large geographic area to forces aligned with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. (See this blog entry written just after the Accords were signed, as well as this Weekly Standard article that I co-wrote with Bill Roggio.) The Waziristan Accords caused attacks on [...] Read more:Peace
Inzamam not in favor of separate captains 2007-04-05 22:14:07 Inzamam Ul Haq is not a captain of Pakistan anymore but still has quite a saying within the team. He has advised Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to appoint only one captain for both test and one day international rather than opting for separate
captain in different forms of the game.
According to Inzamam,
I just feel that [...] Read more:favor
CENTCOM Reports New Bin Ladin Video Expected Soon 2007-04-05 21:57:27 CENTCOM has issued a press release titled “Al-Sahab Reportedly To Release New Bin Ladin Video Message” with the following message from a jihadist website:
“After a long absence by the shaykh of mujahidin, whom we have missed as well as his speeches, some news is being leaked indicating that Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, God protect and [...] Read more:CENTCOM
, Expected
CENTCOM (Inaccurately) Reports New Bin Ladin Video Expected Soon (updated) 2007-04-05 21:57:27 CENTCOM has issued a press release titled “Al-Sahab Reportedly To Release New Bin Ladin Video Message” with the following message from a jihadist website:
“After a long absence by the shaykh of mujahidin, whom we have missed as well as his speeches, some news is being leaked indicating that Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, God protect and [...] Read more:CENTCOM
, Expected
A BJP Inhouse Presentation 2007-04-05 20:46:19
The BJP seems to be stuck. Atleast ideologically it seems so. Who are they for? Hindus? All Indians? Upper castes? OBC? SC? Will they build a temple in Ayodhya if they come to power?
Will the real BJP please stand up?
Lalji Tandon thought he had an answer to help his party from the misery. He decided to make a video [...]
Don’t give him a Reservation!! 2007-04-05 20:28:38 Well, this is not a post to against all those who ask for reservation, read on..
As I tuned in to NDTV, I happened to watch this story regarding a student’s plight on SC’s stay on OBC reservation. This guy, has already appeared for the IIT JEE once, and now was seeking an admission to the [...] Read more:Reservation
Smash menu 2007-04-05 20:22:59 David Pescovitz of boingboing is wondering if the lady in the painting is about to hammer the gentleman’s head. He saw this painting hanging on the wall of an Indian restaurant in Palo Alto, CA, US.
What do you think?
Is this a famous painting? Isn’t it strange for a resturant?
Read more at chacko Read more:Smash
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