Going back in the days of 56Kbps modem
From the Blog smartchoice Even the thought of using the internet on 56Kbps is utter masochism. This is the because of the rapid technological breakthrough, in the form of wireless Internets with fast speeds, that occurred just within a decade. Grown-ups of this era who are often annoyed and ungrateful even at the internet we use today, have no idea about how it was almost a decade ago. We, grateful, 1990-ers are lucky enough to have ever had a chance to use the very first kind of internet protocol. The television static, the Windows 95 start-up chime, earliest nokia ringtone, the sound a VHS tape made when it gulped up into the VCR, the tone of 56Kbps internet connection- really triggers nostalgia. Even though, every little sound of the lengthy connecting process of the PC to 56Kbps modem made, the excpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Begari Wah
From the Blog odysseuslahori When the first Dombki and Jakhrani farmers turned to agriculture along the Begari, they would surely have been surprised by the fertility of this virgin land - from Begari Wah. pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Silencing dissent
From the Blog mehmalOne would think that a nuclear-armed state with the world’s fastest growing nuclear programme would not be afraid of a discussion being held at a private university on a ‘sensitive’ topic. Think again. The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) was going to hold a round-table yesterday (Thursday, April 9) on human rights in Balochistan titled ‘Un-silencing Balochistan’ but due to the intervention of state agencies, LUMS was forced to cancel this academic discussion. According to a report published in *Pakistan Today*, LUMS faculty member Dr Taimur Rahman said: “A delegation from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) visited LUMS and presented a letter calling for cancellation of the talks. They said that Balochistan is a sensitive issue and that the moot could be used pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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