Karachi Voice

Here is a video which beautifully highlights the essence of Karachi, the Bus Art, Rickshaws, Pan, the Graffiti everything! For everyone who love Karachi and every bit about it. Amazing video Enjoy :)

It has been a lovely weather in Karachi today, cloudy skies with relatively pleasant temperature and a nice breeze. One of those days when you can really enjoying just being in Karachi, we should cherish these days, as a large part of the year in Karachi is either clear sky with sun shining on our heads or once in a blue moon, it rains! cats and dogs! (Yea I know, there can't be a blue moon when its raining cats and dogs and the phrase "cats and dogs" was last used in the 18th Century) :-) Enjoy! PS: I found this weather widget on the BBC website, shows the latest weather observations of Karachi. You<br>must have a browser that supports iframes to view the BBC weather<br>observations

I saw this car at bahadurabad today, very interestingly what it says is "Mairay Maan Baap ap per qurban, Ya Rasul Allah SAW". (sorry for the poor quality picture, it was dark at night) :) This seems to mean that the person is willing to sacrifice his / her parents in the name of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw), unless it means that "Only my parents are a big fan / devotee of Your's (saw) and not me", it is quite an irony to see the big sub-woofer stuffed at the back of the car with some very good quality speaker system. I'm pretty sure that none of the Tilawat-e-Quran needs a big sub-woofer system to be played on. As we know that a sub woofer is used to produce bass, which is a low frequency below 150 hz down to 20hz or low, while the vocals are best when the ranges b/w 500Hz and 2 Khz are high (arrange your media player equalizer to see the results) Although, I did not hear it playing music so I can not blame the person for being a lier or a show off ma...

You might have seen this hoarding all over Karachi by now. Today I thought I should blog about it and see what people think about what it could be. At the top of my head, it stuck me as www.bestbuy.com , some of the teasers do say best buy as well. But some say great vale and some say things about experience. I think the chances for it to be bestbuy.com is pretty great, most of the signs leads us to think that. Specially the color scheme is exactly the same. If not then it will most probably be something digital or onlinr, I suppose. To save me from embarrassment I'd like to hear what you people think of it. :)

In reference to my previous post , I would like to add yet another point. It is not just the media who is stupid enough to not highlight the good points of the country and city, it is everything everywhere from internet, blogs groups and what not. We are so stupid that we don't even realize that we ourselves tell the world that we are (a). stupid, (b). Illiterate (c). at fault, and living in a (d). politically and economically unstable country which is supposedly (e). hub for terrorsim!?. What is up with you people! I will try to make my point clear by using a very recent example from the website Karachi Metblogs (KMB). I, myself was once an author on KMB, but before I tell you what I am about to say, I should tell you why I joined the blog. I found so many good posts, open-minded people posting everything about Karachi, posting about events, places, and restaurant reviews etc (which were sometimes very useful too). But the reason for me to quit was that "some" of the ne...

I have recently received an email about someone who went out of country for a while and have experienced how the world is portraying Pakistan. I agree to all the concerns, thoughts and the proposed plan of action, highlighted by my brother. I am reproducing this email on my blog so every one can read and understand it. I do feel guilty of not highlighting these issues while they were in my head for a long time. A few points are how the mega-media of India and around the world is portraying Pakistan as center of terrorism, while we prove them to be right via our "miniature" media. We have more than 80% international channels on our cable TV and the ones which are supposedly ours, feels / sounds no different than Indian media. On the other hand, just a few years back people of Pakistan were making an issue if a woman appears on television with dupatta on her head, today if you see how the cloths have shrunk up to a considerable minimum you would be amazed to see that there is ...