I found these poster outside some of ATM machines. Click on image below to read.

It is just being reported that Geo.Tv has been blocked in Sindh, initially the reports were coming in that this censorship was limited to Karachi, but a recent update on the Geo.tv website shows that this problem is throughout the province.

GEO.TV KARACHI: Geo Network’s transmission has been stopped on cable in a number of cities across Sindh including Karachi. Cable operators blocked the transmission of Geo Network in a number of areas across the city Monday morning, without assigning any reason for the stoppage. Similar reports of stoppage of Geo’s channels are being received from different parts of Sindh including Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and Sukkur.

The government as well as Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has expressed unawareness about the stoppage of channels.

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Hear ye Hear ye good denizens of the marvelous place known as Karachi.  The government in its utmost genorosity has deemed that we have to pay Rs 10 less per litre for petrol from 12am Nov 16th. The new prices of petrol and diesel have fallen now to 66.66 from 76.66 and Diesel 61.14 from 64.14 respectively.

This is great news not only for the people who were overburdened by the rising petrol cost but specially for the lower income classes of the city which will now have their bus fares slashed down due to the falling diesel price.

Although Ogra (i think Ogre is more appropriate) have managed this great feat today, its been a long time coming as the price of crude oil has been down to 53USD a barrel from 140USD for some time now. Still “der aye par durust aye”

I sincerely hope that the roads of this city of lights will be full of cars at night again as it has been looking like a ghost town after 10pm for too long :)

Now if we could get 5500MW from somewhere we seriously have a shot of turning this back into the awesome place it was some years ago.

Working with the CDGK, Crosby Asset Management is organizing an initiative to plant trees all across the city. The idea is to shed the concrete and dust laden Karachi image to bring out a city that’s cleaner, greener and healthier.

As part of this program, the city govt and Crosby Asset Management will be doing a tree plantation campaign near the City School PAF chapter. Students from the school will also be participating in this plantation drive

Join and lend a hand in helping making Karachi cleaner, greener and healthier.

Date: Nov 16 2008
Time: 1 pm onwards
Location: Opposite City School PAF Chapter.

Comedy for a Cause

Since March 2000, through Concern for Children’s Community Driven Development Project, organization has made efforts to counter the deplorable conditions of Mohammadi/ Machar Colony. Mohammadi Colony is located in Karachi, behind the railroad tracks on Maripur Road. Its illegal status deprives it of water, sanitation, education and health care.

At this point CFC’s most dominating component in the Community Driven Project is Education and Using art to raise awareness and funds is exactly what CFC aimed at as part of its education component in Mohammadi colony. For the same, CFC has arranged a fundraiser, all proceeds of which will benefit this project.

Featuring: Saad Haroon and Shark troupe.

Date: 16th Nov, 2008

Time: 8:00pm

Location: Pakistan American Cultural Center (PACC)

Tickets available at CFC’s office (2203269), Muzika and Hotspot.

A few days back Dawn had reported from a press release issued by the Karachi City District Government that our 36-year old mayor was ranked as the 2nd Best Mayor in the world along with Berlin’s Klaus Wowereit, and Chongqing’s Wang Hongju.

But what has suddenly turned into an embarrassing situation for the CDGK, is when Joshua Keating an editor of Foriegn Policy Magazine revealed in a blog post that we never ranked him in any way. This entire mess could have been avoided with some very basic fact-checking and now in response the Karachi City Government has also scrambled to edit its own website to quietly amend its text to reflect the changed position
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DR. Jurgen Wasim Frembgen, Dr S. Mehdi Raza Shah Subzwari, Dr Marcus Litz and Ameena Saiyid addressing the audience.

Yesterday, 12 of November, 2008 Oxford University Press Launched “Journey To God” a book written by DR. Jurgen Wasim Frembgen. The book is a revised English translation from the original German edition by Jane Ripken. The book surveys the whole Muslim world with special emphasis on Pakistan and India to understand the Sufi Islam as being embedded in wider and social and cultural context focusing on it’s concrete, practiced and live forms, showing how popular Sufism developed into almost ubiquitous mass movement, present in all levels of the Muslim society as a dynamic force until modern times. The book tries to synthesize the perspective and approaches of ethnography, history and Islamic studies to explore the different facets of Sufism which sets this book apart from various other introductory books available on the topic. The book not only address to the Sufi and Dervish traditions as a spiritual path following mystical teachings but also focuses on it’s popular manifestations as a ritualized, performance – oriented part of the local everyday religion.

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The All Karachi Plastic Bags Manufacturers and Dealers Association has demanded of the authorities to lift the ban on manufacturing and sale of polythene bags, saying that the ban was resulting in joblessness and closure of businesses in the province.

Source : The News