Category: Social Media
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Social Media Commentary on Pakistan Budget 2013-14
Budget 2013 Storify by Chowrangi Thu, Jun 13 2013 01:41:06 0 0 Edit Budget 2013 Social Media Commentary on Pakistan Budget 2013-14 Budget Expectations Aisha Khan@Aishaazeemi Instead of giving free laptops, provide free education. #Budget2013 Wed, Jun 12 2013 11:34:15 ReplyRetweetFavorite Budget Announcements Gharidah Farooqi@GFarooqi So no announcement of minimum wage for workers as PMLN…
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Shahzeb Khan Murder: Victimization by Denial
It seems that Pakistani journalists have become slaves to their own hypocrisy. Every time a political entity impinges upon the media’s right to free speech, they retaliate with full force. Yet, today, the very media that was sworn in to protect people’s rights has put away its pen and ink in a locked drawer and…
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ITCN Asia 2012 Review
ITCN Asia 2012 was held at Karachi Expo Center during September 18-20. While the event started on 18th, it was officially inaugurated on the 19th by Sindh IT Minister Faisal Subzwari. I visited ITCN on the 2nd day, well before the good Minister came for the inauguration. I found the event dull and lackluster. Attendance…
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Blogging vs Journalism: Talat Hussain thinks Bloggers are not Journalists
Social Media is abuzz on a statement by famous TV anchor cum journalist, Talat Hussain. The veteran journalist thinks quite low of the bloggers and has high plans for how the social media, especially Twitter, should be used. Talat refers to bloggers as groups who have angled themselves as journalists, while they are not. He…
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Colors of Khewra Salt Mines covered by Bloggers and Social Media Activists
My Desire and Dream to Break the Ice: Geeks, Bloggers, Social Media Activists and the Writers are hard to go away from their Laptops, Netbooks and some old stuff like Pens and some blanks pages to write on. But Me as Social Media Activist and Blogger at same time was thinking out of odds and…
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The Beggar Mafia in Pakistan – An Unexplored Truth
Those 15 seconds, when you’re anxiously waiting for the red signal that is just about to turn green- a small child comes up to your car sticking his face in the window as hard as he can to make himself seen, or holding consumer goods, like tissue packets, biscuits, combs etc. asks you to buy…
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Facebook Discriminatory Policy Against Muslims and Islam
Last night I came across an event on Facebook titled "EVERYBODY DRAW MOHAMMAD DAY". I opened that…
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Farmville another reason to be on facebook
I just don’t know why so many people wanted to play this game again and again. Perhaps so…