ISPR Photoshop Fail No 4

July 9, 2011

Earlier Fails recorded here, and here. This is supposed to be a profile picture of [then] Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen. Tariq Majeed. It seems ISPR probably couldn’t get hold of a profile shot, so they decided to create one themselves. The General’s head from one picture, the medals ribbon from another, the [...]

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Toilet Reporting

July 6, 2011

Jang Group is a pathetic and disgusting media house, there is no doubt about that. The News just a pathetic excuse of a newspaper where one can see perfect examples of personal vendetta and agenda on display. Jang Group hates Asif Ali Zardari, there are no two doubts about that too. But to what length [...]

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On Terror

July 3, 2011

The trial of David Coleman Headley is finishing in Chicago. A spectacle is coming to an end. The true story of 26/11 might never unfold entirely. Headley’s statements must be taken with a pinch of salt. A lot of contradictions exist. He probably made a lot of stuff up in hindsight to secure a plea [...]

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Preserving Territorial Integrity

July 2, 2011

From  “Militarism in Pakistan: The Yahya Khan Interregnum” by Lawrence Ziring (Asian Affairs Vol. 1, No. 6 (Jul. – Aug., 1974), pp. 402-420), a gem of a conclusion. Both Ayub and Yahya talked about civilian groups that had the capacity to govern, and that displayed a proper fidelity to the state. But neither did very [...]

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Excerpt of the day (and some useless observations)

June 20, 2011

The excerpt is from Nichola Khan’s “Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and transformation in the Karachi conflict“, which Ahsan was gracious enough to lend me (it costs bloody $119, something I seriously cannot afford). Ahsan himself posted an excerpt earlier drawing similarities between the MQM and Jamaat and recently posted a very interesting, academic conversation [...]

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Quotes from Zia and S M Zafar

June 12, 2011

I was going through ‘Meray Mashoor Muqadmay‘ (My famous cases) by S M Zafar, published as a legal memoirs of sorts with case stories extending from the 1950s to the 1990s. S M Zafar has been a mini version of Sharifuddin Pirzada, having served Ayub, Zia and Musharraf and a legal whiz kid for the [...]

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Rawalpindi City – 1960

June 10, 2011

This is a detailed map of Rawalpindi City from the year 1960. I found a 3 feet x 3 feet map of my hometown and since there seemed to be no online old map of Rawalpindi, I thought I should produce one. I then scanned it in 6 steps via a top-down book scanner, joined [...]

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