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Ideas to Save Pakistan

By Hassan Baig • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Several people sometimes ask me what can us individuals with scant political and socioeconomic clout really do to make a difference in our motherland. Especially in recent times this question has taken on an unprecedented urgency. Now whereas I can intellectualize possible answers to this question in terms of fruitless abstractions, I have thus far been unable […]



WebTrend - StumbleUpon

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Stumble upon means to come across or to meet in general sense …. This idea has been brought into the World Wide Web first by four persons namely Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They first established the company on test basis before finalizing the product “Stumble Upon” […]



Where the Buck Stops

By Gary William Murning • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

This is my first piece for The Pakistani Spectator and I’m delighted to have this opportunity to share it with you. The piece originally appeared on my blog a few days go. I hope you enjoy it. –
I’m getting just a little bit tired of the current assault on social networking sites by people […]



Muballigh at Twitter

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Just came to know about this Twitter based service
http://twitter.com/muballigh
In case you are not aware about Twitter: Wikipedia
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, […]



Happy Valentine, said Internet

By Rohail Butt • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

It’s 14 February again, the much awaited date for the lovers to say each other Happy Valentine and share some nice presents, even on internet we observe many writers and bloggers taking notice about this loved event in their own ways even some social websites and community blogs greet their users with the valentine theme.
This […]



Come On: Bilawal is just a Kid

By Amna Gilani • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Yeah, what the heck. Why are we getting so jealous, angry, or choked-up, if our would-be future Prime Minister is enjoying the colorful life of London? Let him enjoy the company of London dames, and let him celebrate Halloween, and let him extract the juices of youth-ful life.
Though Bilawal’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, who also […]



My Computer My World

By Faisal.k • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: Entertainment

If something is really killer, you are bound to see plenty of chitchat going on about it really fast, in numerous ways at numerous forums. You will find that people would be discussin it in the mailing lists, in the forums or as they were called bulletin boards, or in the blog posts or blog […]