Archive for the 'Pakistan' Category
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Hazrat Darymple on Pakistan
Darymple writes about the possibilies of Pakistan in the NY review of books:
As you travel around Pakistan today you can see the effects of the boom everywhere: in vast new shopping malls and smart roadside filling stations, in the cranes of the building sites and the smokestacks of factories, in the expensive new cars jamming the roads and in the ubiquitous cell-phone stores. In 2003 the country had fewer than three million cell phones; today apparently there are 50 million, while car ownership has been increasing at roughly 40 percent a year since 2001. At the same time foreign direct investment has risen from $322 million in 2002 to $3.5 billion in 2006.
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
“Without science, religion turns to radicalism, and without religion, science is blind and brings the world to danger.”
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Police foil £400,000 kidnap plot by gang in Pakistan
kidnappers/extortionists/blackmailers excellently pwned.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
i’m a cereal killer.
» It makes me sad that the JB seems to be losing steam. [Also, that I can't get my paragraphs to separate, no matter how many <br> tags I stuff in.]
» What do you fellows make of things in Pakistan these days? I’ve been out of touch, but I’ve heard about the dilly-dallying over restoring the judiciary. Although, I don’t know if that would really matters. Scandalous, considering I was briefly involved with the Student Action Committee, for whom the judiciary is a major concern.
» The job search is — or should be — go. Any tips?
» Here are the Arsenal Ladies.
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
we can has rapidshare!
i think it’s a source of great pride that pakistan has its very own official reseller — Aekpani Networks ["To Lead You At The Peaking Edge"] — for rapidshare.
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Deepening Of Democracy
» an article by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar from The News On Sunday on the 6th.
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Tere ishq nachayya
I really liked Jawad’s vocal athletics on Meekal Hassan Band’s work; regrettably he no longer sings for them apparently, which is a shame - Jawad doesnt get half of the publicity he deserves i think.
Its also amusing to see the thinly disguised irriation both the singers seem to have for each other. Ironic, considering what they are singing..
Monday, April 7th, 2008
oh, khuda ke liye!
Apparently this is in chaste urdu, and apparently, its doing rather well too in India.
Though, obviously, it can’t touch this:
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Pakistani men, a gift to women. It’s official now.
Carrying on from Boy’s post… this proves what we always knew was true.
If girls today swoon over the long locks of Dhoni or the swagger of Sreesanth, one almost feels sorry for them. Those of us who lost our adolescent hearts to Imran Khan in the eighties had it better.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I tripped over your paranda
Yeh. Though I think abrar is a whole different paradigm of lyrical bizarrity; and if you can understand Punjabi, some of his songs are fiendishly comical (it helps that they are in Punjabi ofcourse - a language which makes unfunny comedy non-existent)
If I have to own up to an infatuation with an Abrar song, then it has to be nachan main oday naal; which starts with, “I always wanted a laal paranda”. I did indeed. And, unsurprisingly, this proved to be one of my principal failings in life.
Something in a similar vein is making it rounds on the interwebnets (it seems most of those giving out haughty soundbytes remain single, shocking…):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Donadio-t.html