By Momekh on October 12, 2009
The GHQ at Rawalpindi (Pakistan) was under attack for about 19 hours, with terrorists taking advantage of the no-weapons-allowed rule inside the GHQ. After five innocent lives were lost, the terrorists holed up inside the GHQ were finally captured, by none other than the Special Services Group (SSG) commandos. A very important capture by the [...]
Posted in Life etc, pakistan, Society
By Momekh on October 9, 2009
I just read this on Dawn News that a Canadian Muslim group has banned the wearing of head scarf by Muslim women as it, and I quote, ‘marginalizes women’. I find this whole banning business to be quite amusing to say the least. I mean, don’t they know, if you want everyone in the world [...]
Posted in Islam, Music, Society | Tagged Alcohol, Ban, Banning, Bootleg, elvis, rebellion, rock n roll, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, the king
By Momekh on October 6, 2009
A German publisher (Droste Publishers) had canceled the printing of novel about an honor killing because it contained passages insulting Islam.
Droste publishers is being criticized for not upholding the ‘freedom of speech’ doctrine and succumbing to fears of attacks by the Islamist radicals. The sometimes violent retaliation to the offensive drawings of our Prophet Muhammad [...]
Posted in Islam, Muslims, Society | Tagged Droste Publishers, freedom of speech, offensive
By Momekh on September 17, 2009
The Internet world is full of scams. Wait, let me rephrase that. The world is full of scams, and Internet is no different.
How do you tell a scam from the real deal?
Rule number 1: If it is too good to be true, it probably is.
Rule number 2: If it is too good to be true, [...]
Posted in Business, Reviews, Society, Technology, The Net
By Momekh on May 24, 2009
When people used to say that life is the best teacher, I always assumed that the lessons I will learn will be through my life only – I mean, that is what they call experience, and in ‘life talk’, experience plays a very highly rated role. Experience is considered to be the best teacher. My [...]
Posted in Business, Islam, Life etc, self, Society | Tagged advice, college, Entrepreneurship, high horse, lessons of life, real life
I am Momekh and I am the guy behind this blog. I live in Lahore, Pakistan. I earned my first 12,000 rupees from a website I designed back in 1999, and have had the pleasure of owning a business, very much unrelated to websites design, that generated 9 Million rupees in one year... read more
