June 2012
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BT - Good Morning Kaia (Album: This Binary...
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8:52 pm // uber exhausted
need to sleep or just switch my brain off somehow.
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“The characterization of Pakistan as failed state is one which has become so...”
– Maz Hussain, Why Pakistan is Not a Failed State
While Pakistan’s dysfunctions are well documented, it also possesses certain innate strengths which have allowed it to survive an incredibly tumultuous and painful decade. Pakistan has been overwhelmed with refugees from the war in Afghanistan and...
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Ars Technica: Confirmed: Flame created by US and...
The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame espionage malware to collect information that would be useful in disrupting Iran’s nuclear program, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed Western officials with knowledge of the operation.
While important, the report isn’t entirely unexpected. Researchers said last week they had conclusive proof that developers of Flame...
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5:32 pm // No exotic accent here, sorry!
I do not have any of those exotic Scottish or South England accents. I speak pretty plain Islamabadi-English (or whatever that is) which sounds like a mixture of standard BBC and American English accents. Hope that helps with apologies for any disappointment that might have caused!
And no it isn’t this or even this.
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10:46 am // Karachi
I was supposed to be leaving for Karachi later tonight to attend a two day meeting of HEC (Higher Education Commission, Pakistan). Which if you remember reading about (from the one in Islamabad few months back) is not a fun place to be since few hours in to the thing, the whole meeting just turns into a Mega Semantics Event. To this by the way Hasny has to say that when Baghdad was about to be...
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“if you are looking for Sympathy it is in the dictionary between Shit and...”
– Danny Bhoy, Scottish Comedian.
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“Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.”
– Stephen Hawking (TED)
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Best comment of the month!
helpmeflyyy replied to your post: My dear Pakistanis
Now if only they can get the lights on in Lahore so everyone can find out :P
It is unfortunately so appropriate. In Lahore you can have a decent quality of life by maintaining a good mix of UPS (Uninterrupted Power System) with a Generator these days. Some of my staff just told me that they did not have electricity for 5 hours straight last...
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My dear Pakistanis
we seem to have lost our Prime Minister!
And I am sure no one is upset about it.
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“Moment when you realise you are not angry but just extremely sad. Maybe need to...”
– me
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9:00 am // reason for getting some interesting...
Thank you all for your support. Interestingly I got to face some interesting comments one of which you saw calling me “a racist” and “uneducated piece of shit”. It was probably because I think my Muslim brethren have been slacking for last few hundred years while rest of the world has been innovating. We kill our own people and burn down our own properties in our own land...
Anonymous asked: You are a racist, uneducated piece of shit.
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“I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) a German philosopher
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8:55 pm // whatever you do with Malik Riaz, make...
Watched Prometheus in 3d with my brother Bakr at Arena. I personally think it is one of the best cinemas in Pakistan. Good thing of course that movie was great too.
So hey CJ I’m no fan of yours anyway but please make sure at end of your game the cinema is still running! (mobile)
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2:49 pm // Recap of my Satuday night in Lahore
Since I just woke up now (in my defense it is Sunday!) here is what happened last night.
Finalised my first very serious social venture. I will not be able to share much about it at the moment except for that it is aimed at empowering ordinary citizen with information. At the moment it has been decided to have a public release by 14th August. And no I am not being driven by patriotism, rather I...
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Anonymous asked: yomalik! I'm not going to take another #13! And I promise I won't take a month again.
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“The future is too good to waste on lies…And life is way too short to care...”
– From emails of Bowe Bergdahl, a 26-year-old U.S. soldier from Idaho captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009. Major news outlets have been pressured by Pentagon and White House to not mention Bowe or report about him according to this latest Rolling Stone article (news).
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2:49 pm // a serious confusion!
Since I believe that I have a very good amount of intelligent people following me, here is a serious problem I am facing since the morning.
- If something which happens once an year is called Yearly. - Something which happens twice an year is called bi-annual. - For 4 times an year, Quarterly. - Then what do you call something which occurs regularly 3, 5 and 6 times an year? I am in particular...
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9:00 pm // Rule # 121
If I don’t respect you professionally, I am least likely to handle your bullshit beyond normal conventions of courtesy at a work place.
Rule # 122
Whatever happens between 9-5 is never taken personally.
Rule # 123
First mistake is your right, but same mistake twice just shows your incompetence.
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“Look, what the Americans did to me was expected. But the way I was treated by...”
– Qari Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni, an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee released after 7 years of torture and illegal detention without given any explanation (news). 