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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

An Alternative Tour of the 6th Karachi International Book Fair

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The 6th Karachi International Book Fair was held in Karachi this week. More than 300 publishers/ booksellers, more than a quarter million v...
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Changing Course?

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I had been contemplating writing an update on Geo for over a week but the latest news has forced my hand. According to our very credible in...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Loco in Motion, Again?

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So, Dr S&M sent us an email this morning asking us to place his statement on our website. At first we weren't quite sure whether it...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Where Sensitivity Is Needed and Where It Isn't

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The gang-rape case in Karachi's upmarket Defence area - where two women were driven off the road by men in another car and one of them w...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Storm in ARY's Teacup (Updated)

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The journo bulletin boards are abuzz about confusing goings-on within ARY . According to the reports (among them, this one from Journalism...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

What's Billions of Dollars Between Friends?

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Kudos to Pakistan Today for increasing the potential GDP of Pakistan by US$10 Billion. Alternatively, shame on the Express Media Group for...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

So You Want To Be A Pakistani Talk Show Host?

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So, taking the cue from that previous video I posted and the pointing out by a reader that, in fact, one could make one's own videos on ...
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So You Want To Be A Journalist?

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This is obviously rather American-centric but I think journos everywhere can relate. If only I could animate or even re-edit this, I'd d...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Matrix?

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Remember, it's a whole system! Road to protective custody? (Photo: Adnan Ahmad)
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Open Letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan

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Dear Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, I am writing this open letter to you because the righting of wrongs ...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

You Can Plug A Leak, But Can You Plug A Plant? (Updated)

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Thanks to Nadeem Farooq Paracha 's blog in Dawn , we have the first acknowledgement from a Pakistani news organization about our role i...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Leaking Away (Updated)

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Reading through the top story in today's The News and Jang , my eyes grew progressively wider and wider. Not so much from the latest Wi...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Faux Pas of the Year

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How NOT to introduce the British Culture Secretary ... even if he is a Tory...
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A Challenge To Tut-Tut

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So here's the deal Syed Tut-Tut Hussain . I might have simply ignored your live interview on CityFM 89 tonight (which I happened to cat...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Video of the Day

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Sometimes we like to share things that are actually brilliant... From the BBC 's documentary series "The Joy of Stats" , fea...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

Have Cake, Will Eat Too

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Much can be said - and is being said - about the latest Wikileaks saga. Around the world, the two biggest issues being grappled with are th...
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