When the caterpillars of plain tiger mature, they stop eating and leave the host plant in search of a safer place to pupate. However sometime they even pupate on the host plant. The plain tiger butterfly pupa (Chrysalis) hangs freely head-down from the support. It is widest at the 7th abdominal segment where it has a double chain of extremely tiny golden and black beads. There are tiny golden spots on the shoulders and wing-cases. In the start the pupa is of pale green color, then it turns pink …

Possessive, manipulative and jealous.….People who have these three qualities can easily ruin the lives of people around them. Being manipulative, they are so tactful that nobody notices what they are doing other than the victim. The victim also figures out after a long and close observation that so-called well-wishers have a hidden agenda! I wonder what [...]

Shoaib Akhtar is fuming at his omission from Pakistan's squad for the ICC World Twenty20.Oh yes, he is fuming!He's not fuming over the little information about his genital warts that has become public, but he's livid over the fact that he has been left out of the squad.Shoaib thinks that he is fit to play and he wants to be a part of the World Twenty20.The small problem is that Shoaib missed up in the mountains, and he also missed the practice matches that the …

* PPP rally welcomes military operation in troubled areas of Swat * Similar rallies staged in major cities of Punjab Daily Times Staff Report LAHORE: The Taliban are the enemy of Pakistan, and we have to save the coming generations from their clutches, said the participants of a rally arranged by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday. The rally, organised [...]

Baykhudi Nere nere aa Piya Piya Bolay Aah Ko Chahiya Khwaab Kutch log rooth kar More by Shakila Khurasani Related posts:Elixir - Baykhudi [KM Classics] Elixir was having Zeejah on the lead guitars and Lahu... Related posts:

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Operation Rah-e-Rast has entered one of the most important phases, as Pak military stormed into Mingora (Taliban Stronghold) and Main city of Swat Valley.  This is a major breakthrough, because Mingora is the heart of Swat valley and if Army is able to capture this city, major portion of the SWAT valley would be conquered [...]

By James Cogan A humanitarian catastrophe is taking place in areas of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), as a result of the Obama administration’s expansion of the occupation of Afghanistan into the so-called “AfPak war”. Over the past seven years, ethnic Pashtun Islamist movements in NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have lent assistance [...]

Cheers Do You Love Another One Every Person Is A story Money Not Quite Maniac Serial Time The Day She Left Till There Is Light Again You Need That Fire From his first solo Album “UNSORTED” Mera Pyar Mera Pyar (LIVE) More by Aamir Zaki Related posts:Aamir Zaki - Spiritual and Material (Version 2) Download: Spiritual And Material (2) More by Aamir Zaki...Aamir Zaki - Pepis [...] Related posts:

Since the conclusion of the Aus-Pak series in the emirates we have now won some accolades of merit, as the last series was played against a team who even without their top two players is more than a match for our prowess.  The Pakistan team has earned a reprieve of sort in the face of [...]

First, it was Christopher Hitchens that took the challenge to prove that waterboarding was not torture. His view changed after 15 seconds being waterboarded. Then, Sean Hannity said on his show that he would be waterboarded for charity taking the debate about torture to a sick level - as if it was a comedy. Now, Eric Mancow [...]

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Karachi at times shows very unpredictable trended, may it be weather or the city’s law and order situation It can take a sudden change to a better or worst. And certainly it takes no time for the city to snap back to it’s normal flow. The citizens of Karachi were caught by surprise late last night [...]

Most of us, looking around at the flailing anemic narcissism bred by creative writing programs, will regard Professor McGurl’s book with a combination of wonder and impatience, not to say contempt. The canny Charles McGrath, writing in The New York Times about Professor McGurl’s book, gently mused about the “Ponzi element” that might help explain the explosion of degree-granting writing programs in American higher—or perhaps we should say “higher”—education. There were, he says, fifty-two such …

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Pervaiz Munir Alvi Since 9/11 government of Pakistan has received roughly ten billion dollars from the USA in military and civilian aid. Half of this amount was as rent reimbursement for the use of Pakistani military facilities by the USA for her Afghanistan war efforts while the rest was as direct economic aid to Pakistan.Bush administration had no strings attached to the funds and Government of

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Najam Sethi Special 22 May 2009 Najam Sethi brings a fresh episode of Najam Sethi Special discussing issue of IDPs as fall out of military operation and possible consequences of any mismanagement with Khalid Ahmed (Friday Times)and Khalid Aziz (Ex Chief Sec. NWFP)

May 22, 2009 .  We are conducting our 3rd survey to get the ratings of our choice of Current Affairs Programs in Pakistan. Please let us know your favorite Programs and Talk Shows from any TV channels in Pakistan. Please enter the programs in the correct order, starting with the most favorite one. You can enter up to 10 Programs of your choice, however …

Few if any foreign-policy challenges will command the attention of the Obama administration more than those emanating from the broader Middle East. The scars of the Bush years are deepest there, adding to a long history of mutual suspicion between America and the Muslim world. As a step toward overcoming that distrust, President Obama has said he would deliver a keynote address to the Muslim world in a Muslim capital during his first 100 days in office (though we shouldn't be surprised if that …

Pakistani American Faran Tahir, is climbing the Hollywood ladders with some pace - which no Pakistani actor has ever came close to - After starring in world Block Buster Iron Man (as Militant Leader Raza) he now heads the latest block buster movie Star Trek as Captain  Robau of the Federation space ship in the [...]

کل اخبار میں ایک خبر پڑھی اور پڑھتے ہی خیال آیا کہ پٹھان لوگ بچوں کے نام رکھنے کے معاملے میں زیادہ سوچتے نہیں اور جو بھی پہلا نام ذہن میں آتا ہے رکھ دیتے ہیں یا پھر جو بھی حالات چل رہے ہوتے ہیں اس کے مطابق نام رکھ لیتے ہیں جیسے میلہ ہو [...]

Being a google fan myself i was so pleased to read this story today. Without much tamheed here is it : Pakistan tops Google’s maps experiment By: Afzal Bajwa | Published: May 23, 2009 SILICON VALLEY (California) – Pakistani web users posted localised information and data on Google’s ‘map maker’ more than any of 160 countries’ [...]

The Torture 13 exploited the federal bureaucracy to establish a torture regime in two ways. First, they based the enhanced interrogation techniques on techniques used in the U.S. military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program. The program -- which subjects volunteers from the armed services to simulated hostile capture situations -- trains servicemen and -women to withstand coercion well enough to avoid making false confessions if captured. Two retired SERE psychologists

KARACHI: As many as four buses were set on fire by unknown miscreants in different localities of the city last night, in which a woman died due to burn injuries and two others wounded, while two persons were killed, one in Liaquatabad and another in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.Reports of aerial firing and stone pelting was also received late last night from Patel Para, Nazimabad, Liaquatabad and other adjoinig areas.All of a sudden the terror activities gripped the city last night and the reason was not …

UAE capital Abu Dhabi is willing to host Pakistan’s quota of worldcup matches. It is worthy to note that The International Cricket Council stripped Pakistan as a host on security grounds, forcing the Pakistan Cricket Board to seek an alternative venue if it wants to collect its share of the hosting rights money. Here is [...]

The misery of the IDP’s caused by the Taleban in Swat is all in our hearts and we want to help. But how do we make sure that proper aid actually reaches them? A lot of donation booths seem to have popped up all of a sudden across the city - under bridges and flyovers, [...]

From the streets the feedback that i am getting is that MQM is supporting a strike to oppose the migration of "Pathan" refugees from northern parts of the country to Karachi. Since morning violence has engulfed many areas. And many buses and cars have been torched with many fatalities as well. The fear is that if these refugees somehow get settled in Karachi it would cause increase in Pathan electoral vote in Karachi which in say 15 years which might cause MQM to loose seats. As a...

A visitor of my blog left the following comment on Meebo because the person thinks I am this guy while I am not!   This is not the first time. I have also got a threat via email when someone wanted to kill me because he thought I am that actor and according to that [...]

Lahore School of Economics students of Marketing (MBA – II) have organized a seminar on Integrated Marketing Communication in Pakistan. See the vibrant glimpses of the Seminar LIVE  here.

At the Nokia Blogger Meet-Up yesterday, Mr. Khurram Pradhan, Portfolio and Product Manager (Nokia Pakistan) shared this video in his presentation. This video shows the transformation from the silver screen to the FOURTH SCREEN as he says is all about the paradigm shift. Soon cell phones will no longer be ‘cell phones’. Personal computing is [...]

An Israeli tourism poster is being pulled from the London subway after the Syrian Embassy complained that the map on it appeared to show the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories within Israel's boundaries, officials said Friday. Britain's Advertising Standards Authority received more than 300 complaints about the ad, a promotion for the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat, according to the agency's spokesman Matt Wilson. The Syrian Embassy and pro-Palestinian groups complained about it …

Enjoy! Source: Deewan e Transport on The PakFellows Forums Similar Articles at PakFellows Blog: Enjoy Free V to V and V to PTCL Calls With Vfone Unlimited Save Our Children Killing time online with flash games Google Chrome Browser PTA takes a severe notice of current advertising practices of cellular companies

Sharif's political beginnings were rather ignominious. He rose to power during the 1980s as a protege of General Zia ul Haq, the military dictator who overthrew and later hanged Benazir Bhutto's father in the late 1970s. Sharif, whose family's influence grew out of its significant industrial holdings, ran an iron foundry until 1983, when he became finance minister, and later chief minister, of Punjab. He was elected prime minister in 1990, and, during his two terms (which were interrupted by …

Lahore School of Economics students of Marketing (MBA – II) have organized a seminar on Integrated Marketing Communication in Pakistan. See the vibrant glimpses of the Seminar here LIVE.

What has marred the wisdom of mankind today is tendency to misconceive mirages as Isles of realities. What has enshrined the apathy of majority is justification to remain gullible in accepted denials. Certainty brims many images of surrealism but I wonder if that certainty in itself envelops ambiguities of many bemused. Bridges that had patterned [...]

In the wake of the credit crisis the call was made, here and there, for the adoption of something called "Islamic banking," operated according to principles laid down in the sharia. Now the Prophet Muhammad certainly objected to taking interest. But he did not object to borrowing, and was familiar enough with the credit mechanism, since without it the longrange trading across the Arabian Peninsula, in which he participated, would have been impossible. And of course the rule against interest has …

In his article, "Islamisation: Cure of all evils," Qazi Hussain Ahmad wrote in The News of April 20 that "Pakistan is a result of the Two-nation Theory that clearly spells that the life of Muslims is governed by the Islamic system based on Quran and Sunnah. Until we harmonise our lives, economy, society, Constitution and legal system with Islam, our society will continue to suffer from internal strife and friction."The All-India Muslim League never officially defined or elaborated on the so-c …

As the world moves on in technology, advertisement initiatives also change. Internet provided one such opportunity for companies to grow their market. In Pakistan, these days there is increasing competition among companies, especially TELECOM. From MSN to YAHOO MAIL and many others, companies are investing more into Cyber war apart form the prevalent TV/newspaper. My [...]

2004-05 : Pakistan[*] and India[^] enjoying cordial relations. Pakistan joins the War on Terror [%].2005-06: Pakistan becomes the frontline state in War on Terror and enjoys complete support of the United States [#] . India and allies not happy for being neglected.2006-07: India comes close to U.S. Pakistan being unsure about its position is still fighting the WoT somehow.2007-08: …

Relief organizations have calculated that as much as 75% of foreign aid by industrialized nations is directly tied to promoting exports of goods and services that support jobs in donor nations, achieving greater trade access in receiving countries or other economic and political strategies. Some of the aid comes with so many strings attached, including preferential tendering on contracts and the hiring of expensive consultants, that only 30-40% of dollar value is ever realized for the intended …

Posted by Raza Rumi Read this crisp, fresh and youthful perspective on a blog entitled Koolmuzone: Pakistani Underground Media. The real Lahore lives beyond the cliches of terrorism and media-cooked crisis. I am cross-posting this as the readers would get a flavour of the youth and their interaction with myriad facets of Lahore. The fact that I [...]

Entertainment has been one of the major factors of Sony Entertainment being preferred by the masses to the sedate and out dated concpets of Balaji’s Starplus (oopss i hurt a few feelings there). With a variety of shows that totally rock the world of its viewers Sony has been a helm of entertainmet for [...]

Almost a month i have been away from this arena and woof what a month has that been, it was filled with alot of different adventure i went on starting from my comprehensive to the launch of b-insight (a vision of my friends and me) till the last night triumph of Deccen Chargers in the [...]

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There is a massive humanitarian crisis going on in the country, with over 2 million people displaced. We have heard and seen harrowing tales of despair, misery, poverty and more over the past two weeks alone. A war rages on in the country, and there are reports of over 200,000 people unable to leave their [...]

I have uploaded over 180 pictures of our Swat Relief Drive day 2 - I have barely been able to filter / sort / label any of the images and can only promise to get them sorted out once I get back home so until then I leave you to marvel at how bad the [...]

بس یہی ایک کسر باقی رہ گئی تھی یعنی حکمران سفیر کو اپنے نائب کیساتھ حضرت مادھولال کے دربار پر جاضری دینے کی سعادت نصیب ہوئی۔ ہم سوچ رہے ہیں کیا مادھولال کے دربار کے متولی مقامی عیسائی کو بھی اسی طرح دربار پر حاضری دینے دیتے؟ سارا کھیل پیسے اور طاقت کا ہے بابا۔ اگر پیسہ ہے [...]

NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, Pakistan - An al-Qaeda-linked cell led by veteran Kashmiri guerrilla commander Ilyas Kashmiri had completed all plans for the assassination of Pakistan's chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani, in 2008, but when the matter was sent to the top al-Qaeda hierarchy for approval, it immediately ordered the plan to be shelved. Al-Qaeda, the ideologue said, felt at the time that had the assassination attempt been carried out, Pakistan would have been turned into …

With our household in the throes of gastroenteritis this week, I found little time and energy to work on lace. Instead I cast on another top for my dd. This was a very quick knit mostly because of the aran weight yarn (Rowan All Season Cotton) on 5 mm needles. I'm proud of the fact that I managed to knit it with the two balls of yarn that I had. I used up nearly all of the 196 yards. The pattern is my own and it is size four year so my daughter can have a couple of years wear out of it, …

Slang is something most of us use every day without thinking, unless we avoid using it as a matter of principle -- which probably takes more conscious thought than using it does. "Slang is always with us," writes Michael Adams in his meticulous and shockingly readable It is also, he concedes, a big subject, one that could probably fill twice the number of pages he uses (238, including footnotes and references).

International Incoming Traffic of Telecard and Dancom has been suspended by PTA for not paying APC for USF, told us  by a higher official at authority. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been very strict these days with LDI operators for not paying their APC, and this extreme decision was made by the authority to make sure that [...]

Even before the Psephocratic rituals had been consummated in Delhi the armies of prevaricator and the  Uncle Toms had come out of the woodwork like roaches–making all sorts of nonsensical claims about the Slumdog country. INDIA: Reality of “Slumdog’s” extreme poverty in Indian cities irks Hindus living in Bollywood dreams.  Certain pseudologisthave been hired by Delhi to spread a [...]

Warid Telecom is celebrating its fourth anniversary of its operations in Pakistan today. Warid won the GSM license for operations in Pakistan from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority by paying 291 Million US Dollars, in 2004. Operating in GSM 900/1800 network, Warid officially launched its services in Pakistan on May 23, 2005, with covering 28 cities in Pakistan; [...]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka celebrated victory Tuesday after defeating the LTTE's 25-year long and bloody insurgency against the Lankan government. LTTE terrorists' main contribution to the world of terror is their invention of the dreaded explosives belt that unleashed the scourge of world-wide . Initially trained and supported by , the Indian intelligence agency, in the 1980s, the Tamil Tigers met their bloody end at the hands of Lankan military using arms

With the clear mandate for his Congress Party in recently concluded general , Indian Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh has won the right and responsibility to deal with huge challenges in front of him. In addition to the well-known social problems of hunger, poverty, lack of sanitation and poor infrastructure, Mr. Singh has to contend with the effects of the oppressive and ingrained caste system and religious intolerance as well as the growing nexus between crime and politics in Indian …

Comparison of the benefits of having a PVT. Ltd Company instead of Public Limited CompanyBenefits:1) The company remains with in the family or partners2) If the company's Paid up(PU) capital is less than 3 million, any body can be an auditor3) If the PU capital is less than 7.5 million, u don't have to submit the accounts with the SECP4) You don't have to give public notice to the members regarding AGM e.t.c.5) Any member just can't sell out his/her share easily in open market, has to …

Take a look in ur self in mirror; who do u see looking back?Is it the person you wanna be? or is it some one else you meant to be; the person you should have been but felt short of.If some one tells you; you can't or you won't because you can't then just kick the idea and make it happen because there is nothing you can't do!Believe that Dreams comes true every day because they do!and you know what?Some times happiness doesn't come from money or fame or power. It comes from friends, family …

Saturday, May 23, 2009Unknown lawbreakers have set as many as four busses on fire in different areas of metropolis burning to death a woman while a person was shot dead in an another incident of indiscriminate firing, Geo news reported late on Friday.Meanwhile, many areas witnessed aerial firing incidents leaving people in panic, sources added.According to details, at least four busses have been torched by unidentified miscreants in separate places including Gulistan-e-Johar, Garden, Risala …

City Nazim Mustafa Kamal issued orders for suspension of Works & Services Department Additional District Officer Abdul Muttalib-an for not solving a complaint received at CDGK CCIMS 1339 on time and for giving wrong information about the case. He directed to dismiss those officers who showed negligence in the solution of the citizen’s problems. The action was taken on a complaint of a citizen residing in Sakhi Hasan area who had registered his complain at 1339 for accumulation of water in front …

Ok guys.. been thinking of this since ages. And due to the busy schedule I will be dissallowing comments on the blog. So until further notice there won’t be any comment posting on any future posts.. including this one. So just read and chill :D

Jrod of fame, who just became the first ever cricket blogger to write a and get it published, was just on the radio.It was his first ever radio interview, carried by a ; and I had the privilege of listening to it.I'll try and reproduce what was said, however the humour that was there in the chat might be missing. But here it is anyway.The presenters welcomed Jrod by calling him a senior Australian cricket correspondent from …

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Microsoft continues to tease us with a RC release of the upcoming operating system in the Windows franchise, Windows 7, which was released for public earlier this month on May 5th. We have seen many Windows 7 transformation packs for XP and Vista but one for Linux is new to me. But unfortunately, it’s not for [...]

If you have met Dr. Arshad Ali, Director General of the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (SEECS), NUST, you could not have failed to be impressed by the energy, enthusiasm and total sense of commitment that this man exudes. He is a self-made man who got his early education in a village. He says [...]

Bolta Pakistan - 22 May 2009 Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed brings today’s of Bolta Pakistan.

Hasb-e-Haal - 22 May 2009 Aftab Iqbal,Sohail Ahmed and Najia Baig in today’s episode of Hasb e Haal.

Second Opinion 22 may 2009 Bashir Bilor and Syed Khurshid Shah in fresh episode of Second Opinion & discusses current issue with Asma Sherazi.

I share all the 90+pictures that I took on Day-1 of our Swat Relief Drive. It more or less includes the trip to Inam’s village Bagheecha Deri and his farm land in this remote corner of Mardan

Day two in Mardan was seriously very adventurous. We started off around 10am, taking the Motorway to Mardan, we first hooked up with our two trucks from Lahore and keeping them in tow we were frantic to find a location to offload the good and repack them our planned bags. Calling up many go’s we [...]

To document the entire relief drive transactions for the sake of transparency here are the official makro receipt is as follows

Live With Talat  22 May 2009  Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb in fresh episode of Live with Talat and discusses current issue with Syed Talat Hussain.

Rangoli is a themed buffet restaurant inside the ARENA club at Karsaz. If we talk about its ambiance, non-smoking zone is little informal in its setting whereas smoking zone is little formal, though you can’t make out that difference easily. Overall except their food bazaar idea and some details on walls, tables and costumes, nothing [...]

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On Friday, Dawn reported that tribesmen near Swat Valley are forming militias, or lashkars, to prevent the Taliban from expanding their influence in the region. Maj. Gen. Sajjad Ghani, who is leading the offensive in the upper part of Swat valley, told the news agency, “They are resolutely defending against the advance of the Taliban. [...]

Ayaz's column is full of fury and ... and can be overlooked. But not the tailpiece.~~tTailpiece: The families of fallen officers and soldiers are setting an example in fortitude all of us could follow. Whether it is the family of Lieutenant Najam Riaz in Kalhut, Kahuta, or that of Major Abid Majeed Malik in Lahore, they are shedding no tears and instead saying how proud they are of how their sons/husbands died for the country. With such proud fathers, mothers and wives how can Pakistan ever be …

Downloads: Blowin Smoke on Haterz Face Ma Moda Yana Sean Divine Forever Bio: HIS promoting rap culture in Pakistan was formed in 2003 they consist of Mustafa kamal, Rameez Arif, Amir Jamal Alvi and Talha Waheed Baloch. Hashes in silhouette, which is the full abbreviation of the name, The term has been extended to describe the sight of a person that appears dark against a lighter  [...] Related posts:

Google has been working with books for a while. I like the trend of bringing books to the mobiles. Right now the collection is very small but I think it has immense potential for learning and spreading knowledge in a scalable way. There are already some people in Pakistan who are working on cool Urdu [...]

Last week on facebook, I mentioned that Well Pitched had received an invitation to Lord's for the launch of a new innovative bat.We couldn't make it to Lord's since none of us are based in the UK. The launch event, however, was in the UK and it took place at Lord's this morning.Thanks to , who sent us the invite, we have all the information about this new bat - what its all about, where its going to be used first, and who all is going to be using it.When we received the invite …

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NOTE: Unexpectedly, Rep. Bono Mack (R-CA) voted "yes" -- and the bill passed 33-25! She later , “"While I still have significant concerns about this bill, particularly with regard to its cost and its failure to recognize innovative technologies like advanced nuclear energy, I believe this is the right direction for our district, for our nation and for our future.”UPDATE: Al Gore's statement is at the end. The New York Times labels Waxman-Markey "

From John Kerry to Hillary Clinton and from Washington Post to New York Times, every color of... Read More at http://www.pakspectator.com