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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 [...]



Fouad Farhan, Saudi Blogger Released

By Fatima Tassaduq • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday.
Fouad Farhan was detained in early December after running an online campaign over 10 men arrested since February 2007 on suspicion of financing militant groups, but whose supporters say they are being punished [...]



Porn Movie Business in Pakistan

By Amna Gilani • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

In Pakistan, Internet is steadily become ubiquitous everywhere, especially in the cities. Due to the illiteracy and ignorance and the lesser opportunities, majority of Pakistanis are unable to truly reap the benefit of the revolution, which Internet offers.
Internet cafes and Internet shops are present now at the corner of every street and market. These internet [...]



Hellish PTCL : Phone n Net, DSL, VPhone

By Ghazala Khan • Nov 20th, 2007 • Category: Entertainment

Here is a trivia for you. If you guess it right, you would get a rare pleasureable oppurtunity to let your anger out, and if you dont guess, well you get the same reward of letting your steam out. So the question is, Guess which is the most disgusting, useless, screwed-up service in the world?
Ok [...]



Myanmar : Internet Services Blocked and Death Toll rises

By The Pakistani Spectator • Sep 28th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

I just received a phone call from Yangon, Myanmar from a friend, who is actively participlating in protests against the military governments. He informed me that Internet services have been blocked in whole of Myanmar, and start army is blindly shooting anything moving in the streets.

He said to me that though media is able to [...]



Momentum Investors

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 8th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Because most investors are dealmakers rather than technology people, they generally don’t understand what you’re doing. I knew as a founder that most VCs didn’t get technology. I also knew some made a lot of money. And yet it never occurred to me till recently to put those two ideas together and ask “How can [...]