Dec 20
Muslims around the world would be celebrating Eid today and tomorrow. I wish all of my readers (of any religion) a happy Eid.
Eid Mubaarik!
May Allah shower His blessings upon all of us.
On this day, My homeland (Pakistan) is being ruled by a dictator and constitutional judges are facing all kinds of brutality at his hands. I appeal my readers (of any country) to contribute to restore the judges and rule of constitution in Pakistan.
“Dark clouds surround us on all sides for the moment but we are not daunted, for I am sure, if we show the same spirit of sacrifice as was shown by Ibrahim, God would rend the clouds and shower on us His blessing as He did on Ibrahim” — M. A. Jinnah (Eid-ul-Azha message, 24 Oct 1947)
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Dec 14
Today I received the attached photo with the following comments:
Police at work in Lahore. If you needed visual proof of pre-poll rigging here it is. The bicycle is the symbol of Musharraf’s PML Q. So much for Musharraf’s claims about fair elections! Every instrument of state will be used to ensure the results are according to Musharraf’s plan, his life depends on it as he knows he violated Article 6.
Even if we say the comment is exaggeration of political activists, isn’t Musharraf trying everything to save himself. He admitted himself on Al Jazeera the other day that he imposed emergency (and sacked the judges) because they were going to give their verdict against him.
My opinion is that, like any desperate man, Musharraf has started to put everything on table.
here’s the photo
Technorati Tags: pakistan politics, musharraf, q leagu
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Dec 08
I just finished Who Moved My Cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson (I hope I spelled that right 
) after it had been lying around for about 6 months. It’s a great short story, takes about 45 minutes to complete and nicely describes different behaviors when a change is encountered.
I didn’t like the discussion in the later part of the book though, It seems, may I say, too artificial.
And btw, while I am not Sniff or Scurry, I do try to be Haw. (if you don’t understand what I mean, go read the book )
Technorati Tags: change management, spencer johnson, who moved my cheez
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Nov 19
I have not been writing my blog lately because work is keeping my totally tied up. But ever since Mush imposed emergency, I have not been able to concentrate on anything, and today when I came across the following column in nawaiwaqt, i had enough.
Here are a couple of suggestions from me (before you get to the column):
- wear black strips on your arms to signify your hatred for this monster (Mush).
- Post to your blog about it (better add a message to all the pages of your site (header/footer)).
- Change your nick/message in your IM clients to “Go Musharraf Go!” or something similar that reflects your hatred for him
- Participate in protests taking place at your location
Please, it’s time we come out of our shells, A good job, a house and a car should not be our primary objective. The least we can do is to wear a black strip and change our nicks.
Watch a video of shameful brutality of the police at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_yrgaYTxU
Taken from: http://nawaiwaqt.com.pk/urdu/daily/nov-2007/19/columns2.php
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Sep 07
Whenever an installation is interrupted, you may get this message e.g. I just issued
and then realized that it was also uninstalling ubuntu-desktop which is a meta package, so I pressed Ctrl + C (while it was still “Reading the database”). A couple of hours later, when I tried to run Adept Installer, it snapped back with the error above. The solution is simple, open the terminal and issue:
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