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Fancy a Date with General Musharraf? Cough up $1000

By Kashif Aziz on March 8, 2013 in Current Affairs

Pervez Musharraf, the ex-SSG Commando cum Army Chief turned Marshal Law Dictaor, came up with another cheap publicity stunt. Now you can have a date with Musharraf that includes a dinner, hand shake, and chance of photograph – if you are ready to part with $1000. According to an advertisement posted at Eventbrite, online event [...]

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HyperStar comes to Karachi

By Kashif Aziz on November 24, 2011 in Business, Current Affairs

HyperStar in Dolmen City Mall at Sea View, Karachi is talk of town these days. HyperStar is brought to Pakistan by Majid Al Futtaim Retail of UAE. In UAE, Majid Al Futtaim Hypermarkets represent (and thus known as) Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer. Majid Al Futtaim Retail manages around 40 hypermarkets in the Middle [...]

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Shahid Afridi Back In The Side; Selected For ODIs Against Sri Lanka

By Mohammad Yusha on November 3, 2011 in Sports

Shahid Afridi, who announced his retirement in May, recently said that he would like to come back to the side (after PCB chairman Ijaz Butt left). He was then told that he could not come back immediately as he would have to be “cleared.” However, he has now been selected for the upcoming ODIs against [...]

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Gitex 2011 review

By Kashif Aziz on October 14, 2011 in Technology, World

Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX) is the largest IT exhibition of the GCC and MENA. Every year thousands of exhibitors and visitors attend Gitex to network, do business, and learn about the latest IT trends and cutting age hardware and software solutions. Gitex has two parts, the Technology section, more of a B2B event, is [...]

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Erik Prince founder of Blackwater building a mercenary militia for UAE

By Chowrangi Team on May 16, 2011 in Current Affairs, World

Erik Prince, the founder of BlackWater Worldwise (now re-branded as Xe Services) has now moved to UAE, allegedly building a private militia of mercenaries for the Emirates. Following are excerpts from a report in New York Times by Mark Mazzetti, Emily B. Hager, Jenny Carolina González, Simon Romero and Kitty Bennett. Erik Prince has resettled [...]

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Post OBL in-Camera Parliament Session

By Truth Denied on May 16, 2011 in Current Affairs

I tried to revisit my memory for an instant like this in history, and not surprisingly my mind says “your search is invalid”… hmm logical. Things have lately turned from not so ordinary to highly extra ordinary. Rift between CIA and ISI over the crown trophy of Afghanistan, Obama’s not so noble outlook toward Pakistan [...]

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Ajman Super Dad, Father of 88, marrying a 18 year old in India

By Chowrangi Team on November 10, 2010 in Lifestyle, World

Wow. Another starrer from shining India. On one hand the slum dogs of Mumbai become millionaire by selling their kids or renting their wombs for foreigners, rich men from abroad chose India to build their harem. According to a report in UAE newspaper, 64-year-old Daad Murad Abdul Rahman of Ajman, father of 88 children, will [...]

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