
Iron Maiden’s vocalist, Bruce Dickinson, has joined a British submarine crew for a three-day trip. All the crew on board was surprised and joyous on the arrival of the rock star. It was a bit surreal. It’s not every day you bump into an international rock star on a nuclear submarine. When I heard that […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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The Massacre of Deir Yassin – Part 1 In the early morning hours of April 9, 1948, the peaceful village of Deir Yassin was attacked and its inhabitants massacred by the Zionist gangs- terrorist Irgun and Stern commanded by Menachem Begin and Benzion Cohen respectively. For centuries, the village of Deir Yassin (5 km west of Jerusalem) was a peaceful place Palestine . The […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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How a country where university admissions are granted through favouritism and nepotism can produces quality scholars and researchers who may unleash innovative and progressive ideas. Though the graft is visible in every public sector university of Pakistan but the University of the Punjab is ‘honoured’ to be at top of the list. Favouritism rules the […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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EA and DICE have put a lot of work into making Battlefield 3 stand out from the rest of the FPS pack and newspakistan.pk looks into some of the game’s Unique Selling Points. The FPS or First-person shooter market is perhaps the most congested and saturated markets in the world of gaming with more titles […]
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Corruption haunts the future of endowed people In the entire history of the world, only those nations achieved a respectable place which eliminated corruption from every department. Corruption, which has become a stumbling block in the progress of Pakistan, has established a firm base in every department of the country and is growing with every […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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National Bank of Pakistan star and former Pakistan International Mehmood has signed with unnamed Vietnamese club in a coaching capacity. The defender was completing his coaching badges from the AFC region and showed promise after the continental body sent him to Spain to observe training sessions in La Liga. However despite his potential, the PFF […]
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Memogate controversy almost fades away In quite a wonderful and unexpected move, the notorious memogate controversy has limped to an impasse. Everyone is surprised what all the upheaval was about in the first place. Surely, the other side of row is that all the concerned parties apparently have been relieved quite lightly. By now no […]

Facebook filed their S-1 document at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, February 02. The move to go public in the summers will certainly lure much wanted cash to the California-based company. Analysts have estimated the net worth of the company in 2012 to be in tune of around $80 to $90 Billion, up […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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Vitali Klitschko versus David Haye not happening confirms Bernd Bonte Former WBA heavyweight champion, David Haye, desperately wanted to take on Vitali Klitschko, who is the reigning WBC world heavyweight champion. However, his hopes have been ended now, as Vitali’s manager, Bernard Bonte, has confirmed he is nowhere in the picture at this point in […]
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In the 24 hours or so since Facebook filed its long-awaited S-1 and started on the way to a second-quarter public offering, some of the focus has been on the near-certainty that the bulk of the social network’s shares being sold will be snatched up by big institutions and high net-worth individuals. There are some […]
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Imran Khan, the chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has moved the Supreme Court to hold on the by-polls scheduled to be held on February 25. On Friday, he submitted a civil miscellaneous appeal to his previous petition seeking removal of fake votes from the voter lists prior to the by-elections. The PTI’s chief filed the […]

As Facebook furthers its move to becoming Facebook, Inc., there are certain things that the world’s largest online social network will have to take into the fold. In addition to around 800 Million users attached to the network one way or the other, investors have entered the equation. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the […]
Feb 3 2012 | Posted in
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