Hoping to be human someday!

Temporary Peace

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I just woke up to hear that Geo News had been blocked today across Karachi, Hyderabad and various areas of Sindh.

I heard that it was done by cable operators. Well, you can’t really blame them, people like to have a little peace once in a while. And it also coincides with the date Geo was banned on last year. Perhaps the cable operators were celebrating the anniversary of the longer, although temporary, peace of mind they got a year ago!

Or maybe it was a bamboo from the government. Maybe, they decided to relieve their own anger on getting bamboos from all countries over financial aid, even Friends of Pakistan who just declared that they are not here for monetary aid but to support the damn Bhuttocracy in Pakistan.

Right now, Geo is having a smashing time showing how poor little Geo channels were banned by bad bad Mushy. Way to go Mushy, do put this on your resume to let people know you did some Geo butt-kicking in your last days. If we ignore your other acheivements, this is the single greatest one that can get you a Nobel peace prize, or if it exists, a Nobel ass-kicking prize! :D

URGENT ALERT: Brasstacks Website Closed Down By US Govt!

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Dear all,

Assalam alaikum.

Alhamdolillah and shukar in all tests and trials. I have just been informed by our webmaster that US government has forced the site hosting server to close down our site and now www.brasstacks.pk is no more available for the time being. We had taken some space on a third party server in US but it seems that it was not so good idea.

We are in process of shifting it to another server, in Pakistan this time, but may loose some data like mailing list or videos which were uploaded. Please bear with us and remember us in your dua always.

These kind of reactions were always expected though we never thought they would come so soon :)) so much for their “freedom of media and information”. :)))

Khair inshallah and Wassalam

Zaid Hamid