Lights out in Islamabad!
It had been a long time since I updated the magazine website, and since it's been ten years already, I finally decided to take this much awaited step.. Congratulations and Happy Tenth Anniversary to all!. We will be making some changes in the team since some members have moved on to more challenging roles as managers, actors and yes a few mothers :) I have requested some good old friends and hopefully you will see some pretty famous people of our time writing for us in a while.. lets hope for the best.
This week the national power crisis exacerbated for the worse.. (not that power! although we've had that crisis for some 60 years now).. but this literal power (electricity) crisis is the worst that I can remember of and has clearly crippled the whole country in a few weeks time.. lets just hope and pray that it rains soon enough to ease the load.
We shall be working on the magazine improvements for a while so bear with us if some links are not working for a while. We hope to have the final updated version ready for you by November'08.. we are also looking for focal persons in the UAE, UK and US, so if you think you can contribute to this online magazine from these areas or from within Pakistan.. please send us your contributions at; humpakistan@hotmail.com
or fill out the contribution form here
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Who reads humPakistan online?
We did a small analysis of where our readers came from and this is the overall distribution.. Amazingly most readers are now accessing from Pakistan, as compared to a decade ago when nearly all readers were overseas Pakistanis. While our readers comes from all across the world, from places like Estonia to Australia, the graph below shows countries where majority of our readers access from.. And still a significant proportion of readers are not identified by the server, so in case you read this magazine and do not see your country's name in the list above, please do let us know on; humpakistan@hotmail.com
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The Director General of the
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad
Shireen.M.Mizari shares her views on the proposed MNNA badge for Pakistan.
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Pakistan as a Major Non-NATO Ally of US. Does this affect US-India strategic co-operation? Views from across the border.
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'Jeet lo Dil'...Pakistan-India Cricket series is finally underway and cricket fever has taken the Sub-continent by storm. PM Vajpayee and General Musharraf resorted to good ol' Cricket Diplomacy but will this series really bring the people on two sides together? Can the two people just forget about Kashmir and go on with their lives?
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The much delayed Opening ceremony of 9th SAF Games got more delayed due to security risks to the 'overly popular' President. Although underlit, the ceremony was an overall good presentation, much thanks to chinese assistance asusual. But the commentator on PTV and GEO spoiled the show. How a person so utterly outdated and inept was put there in the first place is hard to imagine..
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Islamabad becomes the SAF village as it hosts the prestigious 9th SAF Games 2004 - Pakistan's biggest ever sports event with over 2000 athletes from 8 member states, and a Rs 600 million tag on it. SAF Expo 2004 and SAF Cultural Village are just few of the various happenings in the Capital these days.
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The National Anthem
Blessed be the sacred Land
Happy be the bounteous realm
Symbol of high resolve
Land of Pakistan
Blessed be thou citadel of faith
The order of this sacred land
Is the might of the brotherhood of the People
May the nation, the country, and the state
Shine in glory everlasting
Blessed be the goal of our ambition
This Flag of the Crescent and Star
Leads the way to progress and perfection
Interpreter of our past, glory of our present
Inspiration of our future
Symbol of Almighty's protection
hPK team Dr Haq, MZ | Chief Editor
Dr Haq, AH | Co-Editor
Zareen Rana | Web-Editor
focal persons & contributors Saleh Mirza | LHR
Zain Masood | KHI
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