Happenings

Fire in Mobilink MSC in Islamabad took down entire North region on Sunday

On Sunday a fire broke out in Mobilink’s MSC (Mobile Switching Center) in Islamabad and soon the entire north region including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and surrounding areas Mobilink subscribers experienced a total blackout when suddenly no signal bars on cell phone of Mobilink subscribers in these areas. As many of us know, Mobilink is the leading cell phone operator of Pakistan and most trusted as well because of their good quality and uninterrupted service. However last few months have not been very well for Mobilink, fire and such incidents happened on about three places. Most damaging one was Sunday’s incident which took millions of subscribers down for tens of hours. Mobilink also owns LinkDotNet, which is an ISP, as Mobilink […]

Sports

Pakistan meets New Zealand today in their forth world cup cricket 2011 Match

Today Pakistan is going to play their fourth Cricket match of world cup 2011 and its against New Zealand. Pakistan VS New Zealand match will start on 2:00 PM Pakistan Time. Just before World Cup Pakistan had won cricket series against New Zealand and also Pakistan won first three matches of World Cup Cricket 2o11 so they are favorites to win this cricket match. However Pakistan team will have to play carefully and aggressive at the same time. If we see team Pakistan’s previous match against Canada, at one point Canada was looking in good position to successfully chase the score. New Zealand Cricket team is much more experienced team than Canada so team Pakistan will have to put in […]

Pakistan Tourism

Map from Rawalpindi and Islamabad to Rohtas Fort, Map From Lahore to Rohtas Fort

Rohtas Fort in situated near Dina on Grand Trunk (GT) Road on the way to Lahore. It is about 103 KM away from cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, drive of about 90 minutes. If you are planning for a day out these days, Rohtas Fort is one of the places to consider.  Rohtas Fort (aka Qila Rohtas) was captured from Hari Krishan Rai in 1539 by Sher Shah Suri was renamed then to the Rohtas Fort. It is good piece of history, you will find much to see, lots of walking involved in seeing different portion of Fort. Best is to visit the place when its not too hot out there, don’t even think to visit it in summer other […]

Sports

World cup cricket 2011 victories continue for Pakistan, Pakistan meets New Zealand next

The start of world cup cricket 2011 was somewhat pleasant for Pakistan. With three victories in a row, green shirts are now in a very good position of Playing the quarter finals. The challenging match of all was the one which was played against the Sri Lanka other matches were not technically challenging,  but at some point against Canada Pakistan seem in trouble for a while. Lets have a look over performance of our team in previous world cup matches. Pakistan VS Kenya The performance of green shirts was very good in this match. Kenya being the inexperience team, still team Pakistan played so well that they took victory over Kenya with huge margin of 205 runs. Pakistan bated first […]

Disaster

Earth Quake shakes the northern Pakistan

About at 7:48 am 24 Jan 2011 an earth quake shaken the northern Pakistan. Cities include Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Attock, Malakund as well as Khyber agency. According to initial information on Rector Scale the magnitude of this earth quake was 6.3. The epicenter of Quake is told near chitral in the country of Tajikistan and the depth was 69 KMs. With the shallow depth the Quake can be much more destructive. In 2005 an earth quake in same region had taken lives of thousands in Pakistan and lots more were forced to flee. That Earth quake was of shallow depth with 7.3 at rector scale. Few days ago the southern Pakistan witnessed an Earth Quake of 7.4. This was entirely […]