Inside Story

Ban on Facebook in Pakistan, right or wrong?

One would say why are we even talking about the ban being right or wrong when Facebook proved to be racist in matter of removing the draw day. Making one thing clear here, Facebook guys remove any page with more than 10,000 fans on just 700 terms of use violation requests against it, but this was not the case about the page which was setup to hold that blasphemes cartoons contest. Coming back to the original topic, why are we even thinking on the ban being right or wrong, most would say it right because of the Facebook’s resist behavior in this matter. But there are people  who are not in support of this ban, they think that the URLs […]

Sports

Pakistan cricket is to play T20 World Cup semi-final against Australia today

Today Pakistan cricket team will be playing semi-final of T20 world cup against Australia. Reminding you that Pakistan Cricket team is this time defending their T20 world cup championship as  being the previous T20 world champions. Pakistan cricket team’s performance have not been good in “Test”  and “One Day International” cricket lately. Even in this T20 Pakistan team was once out of the tournament and their only chance was the victory of England over New Zealand which put the Pakistan team back in the tournament on basis of their run rate advantage over the new zealand team which had to head back home after England’s victory. Pakistan team is not playing today’s match with full strength, also they have not […]

Technology

Another web design masterpiece from Pakistani Government sector

Above screen shot is of national savings organization which is the most visited website of all of sites from the Pakistan government sector. But seems like this site was once designed years ago and seems like the people who are responsible to update the website are even not able to keep up with that old design and updates are being added the bad way. Starting with the menu items the highlighted links which are added at bottom even don’t match to the ones which were part of original design of website. Also seems like the people responsible are too lazy to check the website for cross browser problems, as you can see the broken round corner. Then comes the search […]

Inside Story

Electricity load shedding in Pakistan only due to defective policies

The electricity load shedding in Pakistan would have not been a big problem to cope with but its made much bigger by adopting the defective policies. One of the causes of load shedding is called the circular debt, which means the private electricity generation companies keep generating the power but they do not get the money for the electricity they have provided, in that case they can generate the electricity for limited period and after that when the outstanding amount to be paid by government to these companies cross a limit, by being not able to fuel costs these companies stop the production till they have get paid back by government. This have been happening very much lately, current approach […]

Sports

Bahria town drag racing event April 2010

This is the second drag racing event of Islamabad, Pakistan going to be held on 25th of April 2010 in Bahria Town Phase 8 Islamabad. The previous one held on same place two months ago in Feb 2010. This one seems bigger as the sponsors include ARY Television Channel, FM 100 Radio channel and Cine Pax. The previous one was also gone awesome but this one seems to be much more organized. There is proper seating arrangement this time which consists of 2000 seats. The tickets of this event are available in Rs. 300 for individuals and for family of up to 5 people in 1000 on following places Islamabad – Haroon’s – Ye Olde Hangout – Book Fair – […]