Posts Tagged Islamabad

Modernism vs. Extremism – The End Result (Published in Us Magazine)

pakistan islamic university islamabad bomb blastBlasts, blasts and some more blasts. Shehzad Roy was right: Pakistan waakaee ek naazuk morr say guzarr rahaa hai. We’re at the point where nobody knows where the next bomb will explode. Everyone is the target.

Terrorists attacks were previously limited to Government offices but now, the terrorists (be they the Taliban, America or RAW) are targeting students – the Talib-e-Ilm.

I don’t remember Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) or Allah stating or even so much as hinting to harm innocent students!

What kind of dumb idiots are exploding these bombs!?

I won’t be giving reasons as to what the terrorists are doing wrong. Instead, I’ll tell you something else: the end result… Which is something rather interesting.

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A Look at the Telenor Blogger’s Meetup in Islamabad

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Telenor Pakistan or to be more specific: Telenor Islamabad held a Blogger’s Meetup today (that’s 27th July) at the Paris Plaza in F-11 Markaz. It started off at 6PM and ended at about 9PM. The purpose of the event, in the words of their Facebook event page:

The agenda of the meetup is to provide a platform for bloggers of Islamabad to interact with each other, share their experience and build healthy relationships among themselves.

This was my first ever meetup. Pretty much everyone from the Islamabad blogging community was there, including the likes of @SaadGh, @dj_bubble, @hamaddar, @alzeee, @bites85, @aamir7, @Waisybabu (hey, that’s me!), @DreamzDweller and some others who’s names I clearly don’t know… :(

Read more about the meetup, after the jump.

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3 Ways of Looking at Faisal Mosque

1. As a monumental architechural achivement.

1. As a monumental architechural achivement.

The Shah Faisal Mosque is the largest and essentially the most beautiful mosque in South Asia, Pakistan. It can support more than 300,000 worshippers and is the fourth largest mosque in the world!

It was designed by famous Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay. He received the Agha Khan Architectural Award for the highly unique and captivating design.

It is one of the most outstanding and modern Islamic architecture examples in the world.

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