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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

First Aman Event Remains An Asha

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Apparently the first big do for and by ' Am(a)n Ki Asha ' - the Times of India / Jang Group collaboration - has bit the dust in the ...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Aamir Liaquat: Further Adventures in Irritating TwitDom

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Can no one rid us of this idiotic twerp? The pseudo-doctor Aamir Liaquat Hussain (sorry, Hardilazeez [Beloved] Aamir Liaquat Hussain, sin...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Afghanistan: Back To The Future?

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One of the most thoughtful pieces about the recently held London Conference on Afghanistan has come from BBC Urdu's Wusatullah Khan , p...
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Some Thoughts On Karachi's Bomb Attacks

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Some people have asked us why he have not "covered" the bomb attacks in Karachi yesterday. This is meant simply to be a brief e...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Samaa Without the PR

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We don't usually put comments from an earlier post into an entirely new post but there are a couple of reasons for doing it this time....
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A Name, A Name, My Kingdom for A Name - Updated

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So, thanks to diligent reader Hamza, we now learn that the following story may, in fact, be rubbish. We have left the original story in plac...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Shahid Afridi Having A Ball, A Bit Too Literally

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Unbelievable! What can one even say? Forget the Khalid Hameed incident. In the absence of anything to say to Afridi that hasn't alre...
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Video of the Day

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Oh the irony...!
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

How To Report The News

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Oh this is effing brilliant! A must watch for all television reporters. The Guardian 's Charlie Brooker, take it away...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

Sunset at DawnNews

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Ok folks, so, I fear we may be over-doing the whole Dawn / DawnNews thingy with yet another post on the same. And some of the epithets hur...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

What The People Really Want

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By far the story of the day. Somehow the absurdity of the event covered was strangely uplifting. You know, people power and all that. Here...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Braaallelujah! Brallelujah!

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I did not particularly wish to do this story. As far as I’m concerned, as long as they’re not hurting/ maiming/ killing/ reading any column ...
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Video of the Day

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One of the funniest versions of the Downfall clip (a true subtitling cult if ever there was one!). Enjoy. Hitler Finds Out About IPL Snub...
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The 'King' Of Urdu Columnists Is Dead. But Is He?

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Most of you kids probably don’t know who the recently deceased Irshad Ahmed Haqqani was, but the dude ruled the daily Jang 's op-ed...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Kaminey! - Updates

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Precisely as I feared in my earlier post . Sigh! This from Dawn on January 21 . C able operators to boycott IPL telecast Thursday, 21 J...
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Video of the Day

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Watch the clip till the end. Three things we know about Imran Khan from this clip of his address to his party workers in Ilford: 1. He...
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Bizarre Inclusion of the Day

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Here's an ad against female foeticide printed in the Times of India today (at least in the Delhi edition of the paper) by the Ministry ...
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Dawn(Sizing)News

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Consider this merely a heads up. From what we are hearing, DawnNews is in the process of massive retrenchments. A number of production staff...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

We Had Nothing To Do With This, We Swear!

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You think we have a monopoly on exposing the underbellies of media organizations? Or think we have a personal agenda? Think again. Here...
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Kaminey!

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Am(a)n Ki Asha, my ass. After seeing what happened with the Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction today, rather than...
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