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ZONG Eid Offer

By sumaira • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc

8 Aanay/call
ANY NETWORK ANY TIME
Just 50 paisas per 30 second
People claim of simplicity and yet give you half the truth. Only ZONG gives you the full truth at half the price. Now make calls to any other mobile network for 8 aanay i.e. 50 paisas per call and you can change that number any time […]



For Americans, Zardari is Horny Over Sexy Sarah Palin

By Gul Raiz • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Pakistan’s new president called Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin “gorgeous” when the two met in New York, and then Zardari said,”If he’s insisting, I might hug,” when a handler from Zardari’s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.
That has triggered a little tsunami of ridiculing statements from the […]



Euphoria

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Fiction. Euphoria is the story of a neglected child who grows up a wasted youth. An incident in the village makes him flee. On his journey he experiences life as it is and returns homes several years later entirely a different man.
‘PLUTTT..’ went the pebble in water as Baboo stared at […]



New Currency Notes Black Marketing

By Farid Masood • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

From a cashier to vice president of different banks are involved in black marketing of new currency notes despite several orders issued by the State Bank of Pakistan.
The State Banks allows only one packet of new currency notes of any value to be issued against a computerized national identity card (which can be verified […]



Classification of the Human Beings

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

I would classify human beings into four categories. The first kind is of the people who see, hear and speak. People that fall under second category see and hear but they don’t speak, though they are not dumb. The people of third kind see and speak but they don’t hear, though they are not deaf. […]



For Ebrat of Everyone

By M. Waqas (MPA) • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Misc



GEO NEWS CASTER - Sana Tariq IN DUBAI

By Amna Gilani • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Nowadays, some apparantly family pictures of Sana Tariq, a former newscaster and host of GEO television and now attached with ARYONEWORLD network are circulating through the emails. These pictures doesn’t contain any explicit nudity, rather they are just seems to be a family pictures, which seem to be stolen from the family of Sana. Even […]



Cost of Medicines in Pakistan

By Farid Masood • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I had muscular pain in back and went to doctor who gave me two type of medicines (capsules). I had a habit to read expiry date and the chemical formula. One of these capsules was ‘INDOMETHACIN’ which was manufactured by Taiyuan Pharmaceutical Factories Weixing, Taiyuan, China.
I asked the doctor that Pakistan is importing medicines […]



Quality from Scratch

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

When quality consultant Azfar A Khan visited a tiles manufacturing factory in Pakistan he discovered it had a long way to go when it came to quality. Here he explains how he helped the management team embark on their quality journey and how it’s often the obvious things that […]



John Locke

By Awais Aftab • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Misc

(1632-1704)
One of the common things among Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz is that they are all rationalists. Rationalism is the system of thought, which believes in reason as a primary source of knowledge. A rationalist may also believe that man has certain innate ideas, which exist in his mind a priori, i.e. not derived from experience. […]