tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53077902011-12-11T10:45:14.417-08:00CemendtaurCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.comBlogger1631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-33248876931312047202011-10-12T12:15:00.000-07:002011-10-12T12:22:15.966-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-48110704101953246142011-09-27T23:12:00.000-07:002011-09-27T23:19:31.738-07:00Subversive poetry in a rebellious atmosphereTake a poet regarded as the master of resistance poetry and bring his poems to the audience of a university known for a tradition of rebellion and you would see sparks--resulting from the sheer energy of the event. 'Guftugu: Faiz Ahmed Faiz, A Centennial Celebration' arranged by the Berkeley Urdu & Pakistan Initiatives of the Center for South Asia Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-17820351137189252342011-09-19T12:51:00.000-07:002011-09-19T12:54:15.793-07:00Ten years of violenceSan Francisco Bay Area being a haven for peace movements hosted a plethora of anti-war programs on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One such event organized by the Friends of South Asia (FOSA) and held at the San Francisco Public Library's Koret Auditorium was dubbed ' Ten Years after 911: A South Asian Reaction.' The program started with a screening of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-86460098826926162332011-09-06T20:50:00.000-07:002011-09-06T21:00:04.233-07:00Ten Years after 911, A South Asian ReactionIt has been ten years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the world has drastically changed in these ten years.Unlike other acts of terrorism, the 9/11 attacks were a TV sensation--it was the most horrible reality show one could ever watch. Live telecast of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center and the subsequent collapse of theCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-39506707988781393242011-03-25T08:58:00.000-07:002011-03-25T08:58:00.625-07:00Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-31715185043297940082011-01-29T21:28:00.000-08:002011-01-29T21:52:04.658-08:00Imagining how Jinnah would feel about today's Pakistan: PACC celebrates Founder's DayDelectable food, two eloquent speakers, a short video presentation imbued in good old nationalism, and a scintillating performance by renowned singer Munni Begum marked this year's well-attended Founder's Day celebrations, held at the Chandni Restaurant in Newark, California. The tradition of celebrating the Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-46798871891812149532010-11-21T21:08:00.000-08:002010-11-21T21:20:11.941-08:00Group photo of Urdu Academy organizers and regulars, at the end of a program on Meeraji.Audio recording of the program is here:http://www.archive.org/details/MeerajiUrduPoetउर्दू अकादेमी ने मशहूर शयेर मीराजी के ऊपर एक प्रोग्राम क्या [tags: اردو اکیڈمی، تاشی ظہیر، ڈاکٹر غزالہ انصاری، نصیر ہمایوں، جاوید عمرانی، مکیش ککڑ، وقار خان، عاصم باجوہ، معراج غزالی، ڈاکٹر طاہر محمود، عبدالستار غزالی]Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-47949446483964701022010-11-21T20:53:00.000-08:002010-11-21T21:08:41.388-08:00This month's Urdu Academy program was on Meeraji, an avant-garde Urdu poet.In this picture you see Naseer Humayun emceeing the program.E-flyer of the program is produced below.www.urduacademy.orgURDU ACADEMY of North America'sMonthly Mehfil-e-sher-o-sukhan WHEN: Sunday, November 21, 2010 WHERE: CHANDNI RESTAURANT5748 Mowry School Road Newark, CA 94560 Balentine Plaza, opposite Hilton Ph: 510-668Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-15984106788862803172010-11-05T12:39:00.000-07:002010-12-24T19:45:29.265-08:00Who do they want to take the country back from?'We want to take our country back' is a refrain gaining currency in conservative circles. The refrain is loaded with powerful subtleties: 'our country', 'we want', 'take back.'Look closely at the people chanting the slogan and you would know what each one of these phrases means.'We' stands for Anglo-Saxon, Christian, Straight.'Our Country' asserts Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-75431721894941789012010-11-05T10:56:00.000-07:002010-11-05T11:11:23.174-07:00Obama's India visit costing US taxpayer $3 Million a Day? Here is a simple math.If the figure of 2000 people is correct, we can assume 10% of these people on a $5000 per day budget, the rest (90%) on a $500 per day budget.0.1*2000*5000= $1 Million0.9*2000*500= $0.9 MillionTotal= $1.9 Million/dayWe can play around with the high and low budgets and the proportion of high budget and low budget Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-59323710271719684552010-10-27T22:43:00.000-07:002010-10-27T22:45:46.644-07:00A pattern is emerging. This is how it works. Say you are a regular at your mosque. One day you find yourself praying by a person who shakes your hand after the prayer. Then it happens again, another day, then another day, and then this person strikes a conversation with you. He is your nationality, he dresses up and speaks just like you do. But this person is a mole. He doesn't look Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-43904796536363455832010-10-10T19:48:00.000-07:002010-10-10T19:54:06.894-07:00Copies of collection of Iqbal Azeem's poetry titled 'Ma-Hasal' sold out in a short time. Here you see Anupama Chandratreya at the podium; Anupama beautifully sang two Iqbal Azeem ghazals.Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-13632956705845068702010-10-10T19:16:00.000-07:002010-10-10T19:48:03.345-07:00Almost 100 people attended a program arranged by Bay Area Urdu teacher Hamida Bano Chopra to pay tribute to legendary Urdu poet Iqbal Azeem. Here you see Hamida Chopra at the podium; AliShan Zaidi presided over the literary meeting.Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-88231582146505462842010-10-02T11:18:00.000-07:002010-10-02T11:38:28.720-07:00Another Example of US Media LiesWere you there at the UN General Assembly to listen to Ahmadinejad? Probably not. Do you understand Farsi enabling you to listen to Ahmadinejad's speech broadcasted from several Farsi radio and TV channels? Probably not. Is the Internet your primary source of information and news? Probably yes. When you see news flashes on the Internet do you read the whole Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-68414262532432859982010-09-27T22:08:00.000-07:002010-09-27T22:12:49.203-07:00What does it mean that Dow Jones Industrial Average is down so many points? Down or up from what reference point?We hear it from the radio and TV everyday: Dow Jones up 10 points, Dow Jones down 20 points. Most of us know what it means, but when this question came up today I looked up on the web to see if someone was explaining it in simple terms. I did not find a web page giving a Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-13609154835226991992010-09-08T22:26:00.000-07:002010-09-08T22:33:39.916-07:00These "scholars" are asking President Obama, Florida Governor, and Gainesville Mayor to intervene. Such a request to the elected officials proves these "scholars" neither have any knowledge of the American laws, nor they bothered to consult a lawyer before writing this letter. These "scholars" must understand that the same first amendment to the US Constitution that gives every person living inCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-82538482269617663552010-06-20T06:53:00.000-07:002010-06-20T07:59:00.738-07:00Catching the Wave at the OPEN Silicon Valley Forum 2010Ever since this scribe went to his first OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) Silicon Valley forum the annual event seems to be expanding in the number of presentations. Last year the conference presented three different tracks. This year there were the same number of tracks plus a mini-track on “Birds of a Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-25359623914805532202010-05-03T11:35:00.000-07:002010-05-03T11:49:54.764-07:00The gem of the following news report is here:"The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. In a one-minute video, the group said the attack was in revenge for the death of its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and the recent killings of the top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq."Doesn't this remind you of the hackneyed joke about the famous rape case? A young tigress was raped in the middle of the night. Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-21324211366987449662010-03-29T15:49:00.000-07:002010-03-29T15:51:31.301-07:00World's Worst Industrial Disaster Remembered in the Bay AreaAre you looking for a powerful metaphor that would highlight the clash of personal and corporate greed with the public good? A metaphor in which the greed would ultimately win by putting the dispensable, no-good public in a gas chamber? We already got one. It is called Bhopal. In the middle of the night on December 3, 1984, a Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-22300238391780373262010-03-25T12:56:00.000-07:002010-03-25T13:06:12.921-07:00Movement for the establishment of Khilafat in Pakistan thrown back to the TV StudioNews reports suggest Zaid Hamid’s elaborate plan of passing a historical declaration at Minar e Pakistan—on the 70th anniversary of the 1940 Lahore resolution-- turned out to be a humiliating failure. Fearful of his life (of nuts who consider Hamid to be responsible for Jalapuri’s murder), the organizers changed Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-50151106063984492142010-03-14T23:54:00.000-07:002010-03-14T23:58:29.694-07:00A Dream to Live ForOnce, during a long phone conversation my architect friend Neil Edwards pitied the people who get so bogged down by the meaningless stuff in life that one day when they are very old, their life has slowed down and finally given them the opportunity to look back, they reflect on their own experience and say, “Life is whatever happened to me while I was doing something else.” Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-54772554838372581782010-03-14T15:25:00.000-07:002010-03-14T15:31:44.594-07:00Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal tragedy, Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27TWO Events, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster============ ========= ========= ========= ========= =======FRIDAY, March 26, 2010, 8 PMA Staged-Reading of BhopalA Play by Rahul Varma • Directed by Vidhu SinghAt CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-39457084764021871462010-03-05T13:44:00.000-08:002010-03-05T13:53:29.320-08:00No, The Editor of Jyllands-Posten is Not DeadLies, lies, and more lies. But lies must be stopped. No, Flemming Rose is not dead. The following message that has been making rounds on the Internet is a product of someone’s perverted fantasy.====='Danish Editor burnt alive'The editor of the Danish newspaper ‘Jyllands Posten’ was burnt to death when a fire mysteriously broke out in his bedroom, a Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-82301244620708699462010-03-05T12:16:00.000-08:002010-03-05T12:19:04.555-08:00A Much Needed RecessionA.H. CemendtaurWorld economy hurt, consumer confidence down, consumption reduced, factories closing doors…but is it all bad news? No, not really, especially if you ask the environmentalists. They are smiling ear to ear. Environmental activists are seeing the economic slow down as the much needed respite Mother Nature needed. But things won’t stay this way for too long.Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-60598215785125534742010-03-04T16:00:00.000-08:002010-03-04T16:10:51.380-08:00Israeli Terrorists Caught on TapeIt is a chilling video.It is 8:30 pm. Four men are inside Mahmoud al Mabhouh's room (Room 230) in Hotel Al Bustan Rotana in Dubai, killing him. A woman and a man are walking up and down in the hallway, making sure no one disturbs this operation. It is the same woman, who, most probably, minutes earlier, knocked at Room 230 and said,“Room Service, Please.”Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-10080156370180077122010-02-05T09:40:00.000-08:002010-02-05T09:43:05.830-08:00Salinger fans, Can't find "Go See Eddie"? It is here now.J. D. SalingerGo See EddieThe Kansas Review VII, December 1940, pages 121-124 HELEN’S bedroom was always straightened while she bathed so that when she came out of the bathroom her dressing table was free of last night’s cream jars and soiled tissues, and there were glimpses in her mirror of flat bedspreads and patted chair cushions. When Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-32186233924950104262009-12-26T19:23:00.000-08:002009-12-26T19:31:34.351-08:00War on terror and the Pakistani WildlifeCemendtaurWar on Terror is terrorizing the wildlife of Pakistan. Let me explain how this is happening. Pakistan does not have much wildlife to begin with. The population explosion of the country has either made the hitherto wildlife extinct, or in a few other cases has made the animals shrink in numbers and be confined to challenging environments.Loss ofCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-34130440089758861722009-11-23T18:46:00.000-08:002009-11-23T19:08:26.676-08:00All You Wanted to Know About Noon Meem Rashid [and could not find it on the Internet]This month’s Urdu Academy program was on Noon Meem Rashid. Speakers read papers on the life of Noon Meem Rashid and recited Rashid’s poetry. The audio file of the program is present here:http://www.archive.org/details/NoonMeemRashid--urduAcademysMehfilOnNov222009[Here you see Ijaz Syed reading ‘Hasan Koozeh-garCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-13922993689600099552009-11-23T18:25:00.000-08:002009-11-23T18:46:28.593-08:00The torrent of bad news that regularly comes out of Pakistan makes it hard to believe that country of 180 million people has highly successful engineers and scientists working on cutting-edge technologies. Meet Dr. Syed Ali Khayam of NUST (National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad) to become familiar with the other face of Pakistan. This scribe interviewed Dr. Khayam at Ashok Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-38892698645725348902009-11-23T18:10:00.000-08:002009-11-23T18:22:59.880-08:00Eminent Urdu poet and prose-writer Professor Munibur Rahman (alternatively spelled Munib-Ur-Rahman, Munib-Ur-Rehman, Munib Ur Rehman, and Munib Ur Rahman) recently visited the San Francisco Bay Area. This scribe met him at Ijaz Syed's place.A brief bio of Professor Munibur Rahman is present here:http://www.urdustudies.com/auinfo/rahmanMunibur.htmlCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-13688503834969987332009-11-15T11:17:00.000-08:002009-11-15T21:41:46.406-08:00Mr. Mohammad Nauman, popularly known as Professor Mohammad Nauman and often just Professor Nauman, a community leader and an Electrical/Electronics Engineering teacher at the NED University of Engineering and Technology died early morning on Sunday, November 15. He was a chronic asthma patient. Mohammad Nauman got a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NED and received a Master's Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-9756338689706140372009-11-08T23:31:00.000-08:002009-11-08T23:43:58.553-08:00A Heart in EducationA.H. CemendtaurCarefully contrived acronyms give a subliminal message about the disposition of an organization. Developments in Literacy, a non-profit organization operating schools in Pakistan, has such an acronym (DIL)—for those who understand Urdu; the initialism gives one the warm fuzzy feeling of working with a group that has its heart in education. In DIL’s annual Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-21823525307371774522009-10-26T10:19:00.000-07:002009-10-26T11:10:44.540-07:00TCF Chairman, Arshad Abdulla dies in GermanyMonday, October 26. Losing a long battle with prostate cancer, Pakistani philanthropist and educationalist Arshad Abdulla (alternatively spelled as Arshad Abdullah), died in Germany this morning. An architect by profession--he, along with his younger brother Shahid Abdulla, was the owner of ASA (Arshad Shahid Abdulla, a leading architectural firm Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-43186470576117874362009-09-26T22:12:00.000-07:002009-09-26T22:14:56.611-07:00Why the Brazilian Embassy, you ask.Honduras President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military assisted coup in June this year. He was put on a plane to Costa Rica, purportedly in his pajamas. On his removal from power Zelaya found instant international support. From Venezuela to the USA—yes, the same Uncle Sam who historically supported the army and the big business in that Banana republic*—Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-34472364422206854282009-06-21T22:12:00.000-07:002009-06-21T23:45:18.933-07:00Happy Father's DayI am not sure why but I have always associated the strongest emotions and feelings with color, fragrance, or flavor. If you ask me what hard work smells like, I would say it was the scent that effused from the car that returned at night to our home with the man who would leave for work early in the morning. That I used to smell this aroma climbing the stairs of an office Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-76983539789698958952009-06-14T00:44:00.000-07:002009-06-14T00:55:51.922-07:00It would be surprising if anyone among the Warren Packard audience did not mark their calendar for December 13, 2010. Packard thought the manner in which the technology was getting cheaper by the day, in eighteen months attendees of technical conferences would find themselves receiving free mp3 players as marketing material. "See me if this does not happen," Packard assured the audience.See Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-44112839545005276152009-06-14T00:26:00.000-07:002009-06-14T00:44:39.764-07:00OPEN Silicon Valley Forum 2009Trying to learn new things in an OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) Forum is like trying to drink water from a fire-hydrant. With three parallel tracks of panel discussions going on, scores of knowledgeable speakers to listen to, and hundreds of people to reconnect with the whole day affair is an exhilarating exercise. This years OPEN Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-25276269150440036022009-06-07T13:14:00.000-07:002009-06-07T13:31:10.281-07:00OPEN Forum 2009, A Program Worth AttendingIn Pakistan Eidgahs, the places where Eid prayers are offered have their own unique culture. Eidgah is a place of hustle and bustle, where a small group of people is very serious about offering its religious duties the most solemn way, and where most others are present to show off their new clothes, meet people they normally meet on Eid days i.e., once Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-55231736231773763962009-03-15T22:25:00.000-07:002009-03-15T22:37:13.633-07:00http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=20934The real question is: What is on Iftikhar Chaudhry's mind?What kind of Supreme Court are we going to see after his reinstatement on March 21?Would Chaudhry's old suo-moto style of judiciary now burgeon, or would it dwindle in favor of pragmatism?And whatever style the Supreme Court adopts would determine if future candidates for Pakistan's Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-26938680049352253162009-03-12T15:25:00.000-07:002009-03-12T15:30:34.670-07:00Long March, for long awaited fundamental reformsNow too much relies on Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's well-being. Hope there is a big group of people guarding him, day and night.[Photo, courtesy of Dawn.com]Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-70746504356972208092009-03-08T22:43:00.000-07:002009-03-15T22:51:01.739-07:00Waiting to have a cup of tea with Greg MortensenApproaching Greg Mortenson from a distance you would first encounter a very large circle of glossy advertising material featuring poor but fair-complexioned, photogenic children learning in schools built by the Central Asia Institute (CAI), Mortenson's non-profit organization; you would then meet a huge readership of 'Three Cups of Tea', Mortenson'sCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-69377466459449498532009-03-04T14:48:00.000-08:002009-03-04T15:11:47.569-08:00Cricket, A Dangerous GameOr, at least when played in Pakistan. For that matter, anything you do in Pakistan comes with huge risks these days. When the rest of the world refused to play cricket in Pakistan, the Sri Lankan team said 'No' to that boycott. The Sri Lankans wanted to show their support for Pakistan and its cricket fans. Little did they know they would be punished for their empathy.Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-61239461900065162372009-02-27T11:17:00.000-08:002009-02-27T11:23:52.936-08:00US Government now owning more banks and other businesseshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_bi_ge/citigroup_rescueIt has something to do with Afghanistan. One socialist superpower went to Afghanistan, became bankrupt, and changed its economic system to capitalism. Now another superpower, this time a capitalist one, went to Afghanistan, is getting financially weak, and is in the process ofCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-32600447501827604842009-02-09T09:15:00.000-08:002009-02-09T09:20:31.680-08:00A non-state actor's response to the Mumbai Attacks DossierIt has been almost a month that the Indian Government handed over a 'Mumbai Attacks Dossier' to Pakistan . It has been claimed that the dossier clearly implicates Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based organization of religious leanings, in the Mumbai attacks that killed over 170 people. The dossier given to Pakistan , and to other countries, Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-7631672789414249372009-01-21T20:01:00.000-08:002009-01-22T12:44:24.971-08:00A Terrorist Sworn InImpeach Obama Now campaign has distributed the following letter on the Internet.Dear Fellow Countrymen, The morning after horror has dawned on the conscientious people of this great nation of ours. As if a faltering economy, two wars going bad were not enough to sap our spirits we now have a terrorist as our president. It is hard not to notice dark clouds gathering over us.Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-83353350763453207712009-01-05T17:44:00.000-08:002009-01-05T17:55:51.727-08:00Palestinians look for a sliver of hope in Obama PresidencyAllen HafmanRemember Barack Obama's pre-election visit to Israel and his position on the issue of Hamas rockets being fired at the Israeli town of Sderot? Newspapers quoted Obama saying that "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-46056657196454773832008-12-12T08:36:00.000-08:002008-12-12T08:57:19.338-08:00Mumbai Attacks: Big tragedy, large holes in the storyLook at the two pictures of the alleged sole surviving perpetrator of Mumbai attacks. Do these faces match? NO.Why should we trust the police? Ajmal Kasab's father is talking, but he does not know how, when, and in what circumstances his son was captured by the police.Photo on left, courtesy of ReutersPhoto on right, courtesy of http://Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-17803186157855701392008-10-31T20:47:00.000-07:002008-10-31T20:53:14.431-07:00Noshi Gilani Now TakenFamous Pakistani poetess Noshi Gilani got married to Australia based poet Saeed Khan on October 25. The wedding took place in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Valima is scheduled to be held on November 2 in Khanpur, Hazara district. That leaves Noshi Gilani’s fans wondering if the couple would settle in Sydney, California (Gilani’s adopted home), or in Pakistan.[Photo courtesy of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-49603050537872283052008-10-31T08:36:00.000-07:002008-10-31T08:37:28.873-07:00Sponsorship from hell: Osama endorses ObamaBY ALLEN HAFMAN – 1 HR 10 MINS AGOIt has only been twelve hours since the bombshell audio tape was handed to Aljazeera TV’s office in Peshawar, Pakistan, but the tremors generated by the recording are being felt across the length and breadth of the American political landscape, if not across the globe. Osama Bin Laden has struck again. In his latest Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-22469293194235298372008-10-10T10:16:00.000-07:002008-10-10T10:20:25.406-07:00A Pop Singer With Failed Kidneys Being a perennial skeptical about email money appeals, a message about Alamgir’s health and plea to wire transfer money to a bank account made me decide to check the veracity of the news. I looked up Alamgir’s telephone number in Georgia and called him up. Luck was with me, I was able to talk directly to Alamgir in quite detail. Here is what I gathered from Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-4393988916840389022008-10-08T22:13:00.000-07:002008-10-08T22:19:00.552-07:00A Pentagon conversation1. Pakistan needs $100B for its economic survival.2. Well, money is tight right now. Everybody is asking for bailout.What would happen if we don't provide $100B assistance to Pakistan?1. Pakistan is a key ally in the War on Terror. If we don't help her,the country will destabilize and go in chaos.2. What do these things mean? Destabilization and chaos.1. It would mean Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-80415652343606267762008-09-22T20:34:00.000-07:002008-09-22T20:45:00.868-07:00Let me start with an extra-large disclaimer. The purpose of this post is not to exonerate the Pakistan Army or the government of Pakistan from its follies and the misguided policies. It is not to say that whatever is happening in Pakistan’s northern areas is either right or is needed. The sole purpose of this message is to make people think, to not blindly accept any statement, to question theCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-26129219745093636402008-09-18T07:32:00.000-07:002008-09-18T07:38:37.759-07:00First the story:An Indian Lady went to Sabzi Mandi ( Scarborough) to shop for grocerie. She was buying Bhindies & as A Good Shopper she was checking each bhindies carefully & of course trying to get the best ones from the bottom of the Box. Little later she noticed some blood on her finger & not making a big deal out of it she sucked out the blood putting the finger in the mouth. Couple minutes Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-78233256493367407072008-09-15T20:26:00.000-07:002008-09-15T20:34:14.101-07:00Sad but UntrueThe forwarded email message reads:Hi, my name is AmirthaI am 7-years old, and I have severe lung cancer ... I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings. Doctors say I will die soon if this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills.The Make A Wish Foundation has agreed to donate 7 cents for every time this message is sent on.For those of you who send this alongCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-64800710939696977062008-09-07T12:09:00.000-07:002008-09-07T12:13:09.841-07:00My friend JD speaks with a thick Filipino accent. Long time ago he shared with me a wisdom that has been hard to erase from memory. Discussing office politics one day, JD waved his pointed forefinger in the manner pastors and politicians do when they are saying something important, and confided in me, "Ip you cannot be trusted for smaller things then you cannot be trusted for bigger things." Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-64296991990156301002008-08-04T23:32:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:43.938-08:00Disappeared in Pakistan, hysterical screams heard in Afghanistan, and now appearing in a New York courtDr. Aafia Siddiqui, the MIT graduate of Pakistani descent, who the US FBI claims to be an Al-Qaeda affiliate disappeared in Karachi on March 30, 2003. At the time of her disappearance Siddiqui was with her three children, aged 9 years through six months; the four of them were in a taxi headed Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-85054671831200924642008-06-16T17:01:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:44.102-08:00Media barons ready to paint Obama blackerWhat was the hottest news story this Father’s Day? It was Obama’s visit to a new church--after his fallout with preacher Michael Pfleger--and his comments on black fathers acting irresponsibly. http://www.southernledger.com/ap/141590/Obama_tells_black_fathers_to_engage_their_childrenIt is hard to miss the sinister angle of media exposure Obama received Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-8864723057760358012008-06-16T16:10:00.000-07:002008-06-16T16:14:33.305-07:00Spammers are now creating secured web sites to phish your informationPS. 'Wachovia' in the URL is missing 'h'! Terrible!Dear Wachovia client,You have received this email because you or someone had used your account from different locations.For security purpose, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.In order to safeguard your account, we require that you confirm your banking Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-35316054904505271882008-05-08T20:03:00.000-07:002008-05-08T20:05:01.311-07:00Don't agree with everything he writes, but here is Mr. Hafman's short piece on Pakistan's judicial crisis.C.PS. Allen's mother is married to a Pakistani guy—so that makes him an expert on Pakistani politics!Why Zardari's logic about constitutional reform of judiciary is flawedAllen HafmanPPP head honcho Asif Ali Zardari says he has been a victim of politicized judiciary, that politically Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-73857626328550355082008-04-16T18:42:00.000-07:002008-04-16T18:45:44.505-07:00Trump University, the truthIn the Forbe’s list of the wealthiest people of the world Donald Trump is a nobody. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.htmlBut Trump has been pushing himself on TV--to the extent that a lot of ignorant TV watchers think of him as the only billionaire in the country. And now, after creating an image of being America’s Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-62990333397599978672008-04-16T18:13:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:44.300-08:00In Goa, it was 15It is way past midnight. A 15-year old drugged British girl walks in a bar in Goa. There are predators in the bar who see an opportunity…the rest is a couple of months old bad news—it is called the Scarlett Keeling rape and murder case.Scarlett Keeling’s case has many dimensions to it. A 15-year old girl, a minor, let loose by her parents; this minor girl high on drugs and Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-56312155241087960922008-04-10T14:48:00.000-07:002008-04-10T15:09:36.604-07:00Monkey business all the wayFor the personal sacrifices he has made in striving for the rule of law in Pakistan, I have great respect for Aitzaz Ahsan, but it was disconcerting to see him on TV yesterday repeating ad nauseam that Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the latest turmoil. Well, Pervez Musharraf WAS responsible for a lot of things in the past, but the past is no more. Pervez Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-29287290211090531322008-04-08T22:47:00.000-07:002008-04-08T22:53:17.272-07:00Shame on you Pakistani political party workers and lawyers!First Arbab Ghulam Rahim manhandled by PPP workers and now Sher Afgan beaten up by lawyers. Shame on you Pakistani political party workers and lawyers! With this assault on Sher Afghan the so-called lawyers' movement has nosedived into filth. Disgusting! The truth is, there was no lawyers' movement, it was just a mob--a couple of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-8219341403304395792008-04-06T21:32:00.000-07:002008-04-06T21:38:48.234-07:00Muslim Chain letter Spammers GaloreRead the following that appeared in my mailbox:Aslmo alaikum Wa Rahamatullahi Wa BarakatuhuI pray that this finds you well and in the best of health and spirits. May ALLAH grant you all good and success in this life and the next.Dear brothers and sisters, It has been brought to my attention thatthere will be an awful film appearing soon in America which Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-41890928194737871242008-03-26T10:05:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:44.463-08:00The following email messages tell you how ignorant Muslims are. They pass on messages without checking their veracity. If Muhammad PBUH were around he would have slapped these people very hard and would have said, "You idiots! You do all this in my name. You are my greatest enemy, STUPID."First email message, being circulated in Muslim mail groups.> Assalamualaikum>> You all heard what that Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-5854811302039488622008-03-26T09:24:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:44.799-08:00If only spammers could write better...they would have been a lot more successful in fooling people.From The Official Co-ordinatorUN/AiR U.S Visa Green Card Lottery Program 2008. KPN Tower 195 Wireless Road Panthumwam Bangkok Thailand.WEBSITE:http://www.uniair.com.tw Case Number:- MM-2008XZX923800 Congratulations,you have been selected as one of the lucky winners of our U.S Visa through our Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-366223888788136282008-03-14T12:08:00.000-07:002008-03-14T12:36:41.465-07:00How to identify a spam message?There are viruses, there are phishing scams, and then there are insidious messages like the following where the originator of the message gets kicks knowing people are blindly forwarding his creation. Please don't forward spam. How do you identify forward-spam? Look closely at the language. It does not give any specific information ["at a Local hospital"; which Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-18712422505861150242008-03-11T14:37:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:44.952-08:00Pakistani- Americans Observe Anniversary of Illegal Sacking of Chief Justice of PakistanMarch 9, 2008SAN JOSE , CA , March 9, 2008—A small crowd gathered outside the Superior Court of Santa Clara County to observe the first anniversary of March 9, 2007. On that day, Pakistan ’s military ruler General Pervez Musharraf had illegally removed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry on made-up Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-68753300313622082842008-03-05T17:39:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:45.279-08:00Admitting its mistake, Pakistan gives Kashmir to Indiahttp://dawn.com/2008/03/05/top3.htm[Photo courtesy of IndusKashmir.com]Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-86406511439524104022008-02-28T11:42:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:45.439-08:00Senator Obama's dark sideObama practices a religion that is a mixture of Christianity, Islam, and Shamanism. Every night followers of this religion gather around a fire and do some chanting (reading from the Bible); then they do a clockwise dance around the fire. The service ends with everybody facing towards Mecca; a doll resembling Christopher Columbus is passed around and each member gets toCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-26582671516974977372008-02-26T11:36:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:45.631-08:00Pakistan's attempt to block access to YouTubePakistan did the most stupid thing while trying to block YouTube web site. Pakistanis wanted the YouTube connection requests to go nowhere so they created a dead-end (a black hole) where requests made to connect to YouTube would end up. Pakistan Telecom was connected to routers in Hong Kong, so Hong Kong thought (electronically--all of this was done Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-80214691821686180112008-02-20T09:42:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:45.939-08:00How Hina Jilani made a fool of herselfNow that the results of the recent Pakistan elections have been, by and large, accepted by all, it is time to look back at the predictions made by pundits in the run up to the elections. First the experts who claimed there won't be any elections and came up with various theories on how political assassinations and other scenarios would be staged to postpone Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-13731609548671487062008-02-14T18:42:00.000-08:002008-02-14T20:21:30.831-08:00
For whatever it is worth, here is Allen Hafman's review.C.A film with the President’s son—a review of “A dinner with the President”Allen Hafman“A dinner with the President: a nation's journey” is a timely documentary film released in a charged atmosphere when nearly all have ganged up on President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. The movie is an attempt to show the humane part of Musharraf, Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-8810152913326096452008-02-13T09:46:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:46.447-08:00Save Parviz KambakhshAccording to news reports, the 23-year old man shown in the picture above has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan. Why? Because he wrote things which some people did not like and conveniently termed un-Islamic--whatever that means.Why is the Bush administration keeping mum about this case? Because the trial took place in Afghanistan under a government loyal to the US. Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-31304900630728479002008-02-08T12:13:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:46.863-08:00Have you received a friendship request from a Lilly Uddin, on Facebook?Don't bother. It is a fake profile. There is no Lilly Uddin--probably a Lallu Uddin, a jerk who has used model Mariyah Moten's picture to create a profile, and is probably getting kicks watching men eager to befriend a bikini-clad bimbo.Read about Mariyah Moten here:http://drishtikone.com/?q=content/Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-4610509563066494282008-02-03T18:18:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:47.030-08:00Dear Manager, Microsoft Lottery,I won the Microsoft email lottery! Hurray!I knew I would get it--even when I am not sure what I have done to get it. I was told big money would come my way from an unexpected source. And then came this email message. You guys are angels!And rest assured no matter how many times my Windows crashed, I never had anything bad to say about Bill Gates.Can this prize Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-29635840837638369092008-02-02T12:29:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:47.296-08:00Review of Olympus VN-4100PCThe following review is not a comparison of VN-4100 PC with comparable models by other manufacturers.Olympus VN-4100 PC was my Christmas gift to myself. This digital voice recorder--my first pocket size recorder--is an amazing productivity-enhancement tool. We know how fiction-writers zip through the field of ideas--often not able to catch even 10% of things they Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-11702429957739615182008-01-30T21:18:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:47.445-08:00------------------------------In his recent European tour General (retired) Perverz Musharraf was dogged about the emergency he had imposed in Pakistan and his dismissal of judiciary. Someone in his entourage came up with the brilliant idea of creating a document summarizing how inept and corrupt Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry really was. Allegedly that white paper was handed out Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-33638066012123366722008-01-30T15:19:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:47.634-08:00Dear Shahryar Shaikh, Great news! Your missing friend Shumila Ahmed has been found. She is right here sitting with me, smiling. Since your email message has been making rounds on the Internet for some time, and we found Shumila a couple of days ago, it means she was not seen for many months. Most girls who are not seen for that long are never seen again. Remember Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson,Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-9462390922205316002008-01-30T14:56:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:47.958-08:00Hi Nirosha Silva,Don’t feel so bad about your brain-dead husband--you really don't know what he was up to. Well, let me summarize. Your husband was an illegal winemaker (a Tari maker), and he bootlegged to unsuspecting people. Incidentally, the "drunk lorry driver" who hit your car was high on booze your husband had supplied. See, how it all comes back to you!God bless AOL for paying you 5 Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-5394471283352148072008-01-23T23:40:00.000-08:002008-01-23T23:43:09.325-08:00Are you ready to fight back, Sherry Rehman?If you are a feminist—and you don’t need to be a woman to be a feminist—and you have not felt enraged in a while, do view this video for an opportunity to cry.Here is a young, energetic woman who has a dream for a just and democratic society for her country; she is sacrificing a lot to see her dreams come true. In a conservative country where many womenCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-75037038150240484362008-01-21T13:30:00.000-08:002008-01-21T13:33:45.091-08:00Amazing poetry!And what an amazing history behind the song!Not sure how Habib Wali Mohammad discovered this gem in Jalalvi’s poetry, but it is HWM’s musical genius that gave this ghazal the unique composition that made the song an instantaneous hit. And the saturnine music should not be listened to only in HWM’s voice and the harmonium, enjoy sarangi, tabla, and sitar too—in fact the song startsCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-67328934246696916202008-01-17T14:29:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:48.089-08:00Bhuttos of PakistanWhy is the western media so enamored by the Bhuttos of Pakistan? There is hardly any other family in Pakistani that has received as much media attention as the Bhuttos have? Why? Is it because in these times when the ‘war on terror’ is being fought in Pakistan and that country’s political future appears uncertain, the contingent of foreign correspondents working in Pakistan Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-54730414702776262962008-01-09T09:30:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:48.259-08:00There will come a time when we would learn to benefit from every changing weather condition. In that age we would read writings like the ones below with amusement and laugh at the Neanderthals who complained of power (energy) outage when they were blessed with a storm packing hurricane winds.Photo courtesy of Indybay.org------------------http://www.news.com/Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-36376633442945408832008-01-07T00:50:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:48.424-08:00Say No to Lara LoganMusharraf was interviewed by Lara Loganhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/05/60minutes/main3678203.shtmlIf I were Musharraf I would have refused to be interviewed by Lara Logan, or for that matter any other woman who looks more like a fashion model than a journalist--the looks of these beauties are too distracting. You are bound to smile at wrong occasions and say foolishCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-56099615031362958162008-01-04T16:20:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:48.706-08:00This-he: a small gift to the English language(This-he, thishe, this he; feminine: this-she, thisshe, this she)I, What a terrible word? Single-lettered, skinny, but still so pompous. That is why writers hate to use it. 'Yours truly' [as in, Yours truly was present there] is a good substitute, but it has an air of funniness about it. How about 'me'? As in, ‘Me favors going with you guys.’ YesCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-74033885351451636642007-12-27T08:19:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:48.898-08:00My alarm was set for 6 am this morning, but as it always happens I got up almost an hour earlier than that time. I tossed and turned in bed, and waited for the ceremonial alarm to let me know it was officially morning. Just as I rested in bed, thinking about the wonderful life I have been blessed with, Benazir Bhutto was being killed in Rawalpindi. What amazingly different lives people on Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-52885406437077125452007-12-20T10:43:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:49.152-08:00http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idBANGLA82646Bangladesh is saying enough is enoughThursday December 20, 2007 9:43 AM ALLEN HAFMAN DHAKA, Bangladesh – In a most unusual, unprecedented diplomatic move, head of Bangladesh's interim government, has warned the West especially the US to drastically cut down its Carbon dioxide emissions and has demanded money for Bangladesh to mitigate Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-61947031981433424792007-12-11T12:29:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:49.253-08:00This poem was NOT nominated by the UN as the best poem of 2006 - and it was NOTwritten by an African kid:When I born, I blackWhen I grow up, I blackWhen I go in sun, I blackWhen I scared, I blackWhen I sick, I blackAnd when I die, I still blackAnd you white fellowWhen you born, you pinkWhen you grow up, you whiteWhen you go in sun, you redWhen you cold, you blueWhen you scared, you yellowWhen youCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-33449007529166466712007-11-25T21:12:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:49.630-08:00The mystery of young Pakistani-American men dying in their sleepThere is a mystery I need to solve—the puzzle involves murders. In my personal knowledge there are three, but my friend Annie Akhter tells me she knows of six (6) cases involving young Pakistani-American men dying in their sleep. All six of them were 22 through 28 years old. They all lived pretty normal lives. Some were good Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-10619517775067595632007-11-19T21:00:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:49.854-08:00War on Terror is depriving Pakistanis of their basic rightsGoing to bed yesterday I counted the nights many prominent Pakistani lawyers have spent in jail this month. I tallied 15, for it has been 15 days since General Pervez Musharraf proclaimed emergency in Pakistan. Whereas, ostensibly, the purpose of emergency was to arrest the advances religious extremists had been making, in the wake of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-52664608828209207082007-11-08T00:26:00.000-08:002007-11-08T00:27:32.714-08:00You ain't no Lincoln, Bozo!Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-38455004456460694192007-11-07T12:38:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:50.034-08:00Emergency in PakistanWhat’s on their minds?Pervez Musharraf: I know what is good for the nation. And I feel very secure doing what I wish to do. The Army is with me and I don’t face an internal coup. Americans are with me because they need me to fight a war against extremism in Pakistan. Other players and 160 million idiots don’t count.General Kayani: I can see it is time for my promotion, Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-14692666428523527712007-11-05T00:15:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:50.217-08:00FOSA's 2007 Eid-Diwali celebration held on Sunday, November 4 turned into a brainstorming session to work with other organizations and people in Pakistan to resist emergency rule. The following media advisory sent to various publications was read in the meeting.MEDIA ADVISORY FOSA Demands the Restoration of Democracy in PakistanThe military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, has imposed a state of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-21016072831368735202007-11-05T00:07:00.000-08:002008-12-11T03:27:50.410-08:00Abrar Hasan Advocate, President, Sindh High Court Bar AssociationIs it all coming to a grand finale?http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C05%5Cstory_5-11-2007_pg12_1Munir, Abrar arrested, raids to arrest moreBy AR QureshiKARACHI: Munir A. Malik, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Pakistan (SCBAP) and Abrar Hassan, the president of the Sindh High Court Bar Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-10874456911676987672007-10-25T23:10:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:50.574-08:00Gone PhishingA very official looking email message from IRS, with the above logo, landed in my mail box. It read:After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined thatyou are eligible to receive a tax refund of $89.46.Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order toprocess it.A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.For example submittingCemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-56493037135827578072007-10-23T23:39:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:50.643-08:00Allah is smoking out depraved Hollywood people, says Maulana Ahmad Shah ThatviAllen HafmanThatta, PakistanMaulana Ahmad Shah Thatvi has expressed contentment with the latest news of raging fires in California that have burned homes of many Hollywood stars.“They are the textbook examples of na-farman (disobeyers). Allah's wrath has finally caught up with them," a smug Maulana Thatvi told a large Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-17206047862129220142007-10-19T12:32:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:51.060-08:00People from South Asia are at a greater risk for heart diseases than most of the world.People over 40, and even younger ones if there is a history of coronary diseases in the family, should get their Cholesterol (and Glucose) checked annually. With extraordinary advances that have lately taken place in medical technologies it does not make much sense to die young with a failed heart.Cut down on Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-80932398067915900072007-10-18T09:14:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:51.218-08:00A fraud about an alleged fraudThe following email message about an alleged swindling scheme at Indian airports has been making rounds on the Internet.--------------------------------PASSPORT FRAUD Important Information. Please pass it on to all you know.. Dear All: Be careful At the Indian Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307790.post-35431139717668870112007-10-13T01:14:00.000-07:002008-12-11T03:27:51.461-08:00Information highway banditsSaeed Ahmad (not his real name) is a good friend of mine. This morning I got the following SOS message from him.From: saeed @yahoo.comDate: Oct 11, 2007 9:21 PMSubject: Emergency !!!To: @yahoo.comHow are you today? I went to Australia for a program called (world summittion child labour and child exploitation ).On our way back to our hotel we were robbed by a gang of Cemendtaurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097743324955603316noreply@blogger.com1