I am doing good now. Feeling well. Have been under a complete month of stress, illness. I think feeling good is the key to being good so I am under this thinking for some days and yeah it works. I am back to work and I couldn’t find something to blame so here you are Mr. President. Your website is so awful Mr. Zardari. I simply hate this site. If you want a better website (I hope you should have some good taste except Sarah Palin), I am ready to volunteer.

Have a look yourself. This is not better than a site I made when I studied my first HTML lesson while I was in 7th standard 10 years ago. Enjoy!

Superb (:P ) site of Pakistan President

Check this, it tells the story of Mr. President. Check the headline. Tell him he is representing Pakistan, he should at least behave like a President.

Who likes a President getting hot over another international politician? Even not Pro-Americans. Yeah I know Sarah palin is too hot but Zardari is the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, he shouldn’t be so cheap.

Bob Drogin of LA Times reports on how the conversation happened:

Shortly before Palin met the Pakistani leader at the InterContinental Hotel, aides for the two squabbled about whether they should sit behind a low coffee table. Zardari’s aides wanted a table, Palin’s staff did not. Ultimately the table was taken away. Score one for the Americans.

Entering the room, Palin was introduced not only to Zardari but to Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Quershi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, and Sherry Rehman, the information minister.

“So nice to meet you,” Palin said politely.

“Busy on the campaign trail?” Rehman asked.

“Yes, yes,” Palin replied.

“How does one keep looking that good?” Rehman inquired.

“Oh, oh, thank you,” the governor responded.

At that point, Zardari entered and the conversation turned decidedly flirtatious. He told her she was “even more gorgeous” than he thought.

“You are so nice,” Palin said. “Thank you.”

Zardari pressed on: “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.”

At that point a Zardari handler asked them to shake hands again for the cameras.

“I’m supposed to pose again,” Palin said.

“If he’s insisting,” Zardari said, “I might hug.”

Eventually, real business got underway.

Palin, who has yet to hold a news conference since McCain plucked her from relative obscurity on Aug. 29, even answered a reporter’s question as to how she enjoyed her meetings.

“It’s going great,” she said. “The meetings are very informative and helpful. A lot of good people share an appreciation for America.”

Apparently Zardari, in shoes of Shaukat Aziz, scored a point over The Pit Bull with a Lip Stick.

By Asif Shahzad Associated Press

A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital on Saturday. Many people, including foreigners, were seen running out, some of them stained with blood.

There was no immediate word on casualties at the site, which is a favorite place for foreigners to stay and is heavily guarded. Ambulances rushed to the scene, where a fire also burned.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, and its exact cause was unclear. But Pakistan has faced a wave of militant violence in recent weeks following army-led offensives against insurgents in its border regions.

Mohammad Sultan, a hotel employee, said he was in the lobby when something exploded, he fell down, and everything temporarily went dark.

“I don’t understand what it was but it was like the world is finished,” he said.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – A large explosion has occurred in the vicinity of the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital.

The blast resounded through Islamabad but there was no immediate word on casualties or the cause.

Many foreigners stay in the hotel while visiting Pakistan and it is heavily guarded.

Pakistan has faced a wave of violence in recent weeks following military offensives against insurgents in its border regions.

OK guys here in Pakistan all know about the power outage issues. Its a big disaster of our country. Guys like me who work all the time using their Computers and solely depend on the power to get them going. To get the creative juice flowing, you need power right? So everybody is buying a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). My American Friends always ask me, what is this and hope you all know why. Because they never need it, while here in Pakistan, its a household term.

Anyhow, the Good news is after getting burnt for so many years by PESCO ( That’s whats the new name of WAPDA ), I decided to buy that cool thing called UPS. This is not like APC UPS (widely used with mission critical systems in USA), which gives you backup time for like 35 minutes. Rather I went for the custom solution.

My friend Farhan’s father has his own developed circuitry for UPS that he has started selling recently. He has been in great demand lately for his custom UPSs. I even asked him a hundred times before I got mine and it was specially done for me. Got it shipped from Lahore to Rawalpindi by train. And hand picked on last Friday’s evening after Aftar.

Farhan has done some rigorous testing of the thing as as its 500 watts, I was able to easily run a TV, a Media Server and my brand new LCD monitor and its worked for 2 hours until I switched it off myself. By the way, battery being used was Excide N145. 145 is the Ampere for the battery.

So I have taken all the things back home in Mansehra. Planning to by two batteries one 100 A and one Excide N5200.

The quotes I have got from local market in Mansehra are

Model Price
N185        PKR 9500/-
N5200      PKR 10,500/- (Gonna buy this)
N140s      PKR 7,500/-   (and this)

So the power outage for continuous 10 hours wont be a big deal now. All I have to do is to get a good fast internet connection and I will be able to work from home again after a long long time.

Yeah I am singing this song written by Ahmad Faraz, as he is no more in this world and this song really resembles the situation.
Ab ke hum bichrey tau shayad Kabhi Khabon main Milain
Ahmad Faraz is considered as one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the present times. Born as Syed Ahmad Shah in 1934, he breathed his last at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, last night (Monday, August 25, 2008). Earlier, he was being treated for kidney failure in a Chicago hospital. Ahmad Faraz has a tremendous following. His poetry is understood by common people as well. A revolutionary poet of wit, depth and grit alike, he was in exile during the martial law rule of General Zia-ul-Haq. Like Faiz Ahmad Faiz, some of his best poems are from those days. He wrote 13 books which were published as “Shehr e Sukhn aarasta hai”.

Credits: Article by rumana husain @ http://www.nowpublic.com/np-1-350695

I was looking at my old photo Archives and I found this fascinating photo among these old photographs I have been taking while my trip to Lahore in December 2005. It was fun and I have lots of memories of that time.

Shahi Masjid.. Lahore, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Badshahi Mosque

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Badshahi Masjid
Basic information
Location	Lahore, Pakistan
Geographic coordinates	31°35?19?N 74°18?50?E? / ?31.58847, 74.313787
Province	Punjab
District	Lahore
Year consecrated	1671
Ecclesiastical status	Mosque
Leadership	Aurangzeb Alamgir
Architectural description
Architectural type	Mosque
Architectural style	Mughal
Specifications
Dome(s)	3

The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: ??????? ????), or the ‘Emperor’s Mosque‘, was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city’s best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era.

Capable of accommodating over 55,000 worshipers, it is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, which was built in 1648 by Aurangzeb’s father and predecessor, emperor Shah Jahan.

Badshahi Masjid is one of the locations where Qari’ Abdul Basit recited the Qur’an.^{[citation needed]} The Imam-e-Kaaba (Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais of Saudi Arabia) has also led prayers in this mosque in 2007.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has asked all the ISPs in Pakistan to block YouTube and yeah its in effect from Today. I am a fan of YouTube and I use it for watching Tutorials about the things I like, fun videos, information, literature and no need to mention music. Its a dismay to all Pakistan YouTube community.

Anyhow the possible reason maybe; is the content public usually uploads about Govt Officials and so called dignitaries. Like some one uploaded “Ek General Sala”

Amal, originally uploaded by KamiSyed .

Lahore Fort, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.