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		<title>Dear dictator, your rally really sucked</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear dictator, Your ‘show of power’ in Karachi was, if I may respectfully say disappointing and anti-climatic. Despite all your tall claims of having massive public support, and an equally large Facebook following, you did not garner enough support to draw even close to 10,000 people at your rally. Leaders from your party proudly boasted that your rally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=197&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salmaan Taseer on Twitter: The gloves-off politician</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Governor Salmaan Taseer was never short of words, be it for his political opponents, militants and extremists, Indians interacting with him or just regular people on Twitter looking to pick a fight. Taseer joined Twitter on October 6, 2009. His initial tweets focused more on the former governor’s daily agenda and self-promotion, but this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=167&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filtering SMS: PTA may ban over 1,500 English, Urdu words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After rumours of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) imposing a ban on porn sites in the country, a new PTA letter floating online orders the imposition of a “system” to ban select words in mobile SMS messages. A set of two extensive lists in English and Urdu have allegedly been compiled by the PTA. The list of English words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=163&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victims need action not rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the government, around 800 people have died in floods that have struck Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Around 270,000 people have been affected by floods in Balochistan, more than 15,000 houses have been destroyed and 25,000 families in Naseerabad are homeless. While we sit in the comfort of our homes up to 300,000 people remain without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=175&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media: From Egypt&#8217;s revolution to Karachi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My family isn’t aware I’m in Karachi right now, they think I’m still in Turkey,” says Egyptian blogger Mohamed El Dahshan as he laughs when he is asked if Pakistan was as dangerous as it is portrayed in the media abroad. Mohamed was in Karachi for ‘Network!!’ – Pakistan’s First International Social Media Summit. An economist by training [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=158&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naval base attack: When will we learn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan has a habit of not learning from its mistakes. We are stubborn and arrogant, and we scoff at others when they tell us we’re wrong, and let’s not forget, we believe our armed forces are brilliant and unstoppable. In 2009, ten terrorists managed to enter the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi and killed 11 soldiers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=193&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The big bra brouhaha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in the online news world helps you develop a certain knack for determining viral stories. Words like sex, death, rape, religion and blast call out to you from the screen. So, when a headline like “Padded Bras are Devil’s Cushions says Council of Islamic Ideology” pops up in the wires I can understand why a bored [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=189&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HR Giger Revealed: Monster maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very rare that a documentary packed with a bunch of goodies is overshadowed by the extras that come with it. That is exactly the case with HR Giger Revealed, a documentary on Swiss surrealist HR Giger, who is known for his work on Ridley Scott’s film Aliens and various music album covers, among other things. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=151&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘The urban future of the planet lies in cities like Karachi and Douala’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaheryar Shoukat Popalzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you compress the work of 50 artists from 17 globally Southern cities in one night? One story. “It was amazing to see the similarity in conversations between the two regions. Issues ranging from movements, relationships, traffic jams – everything is the same,” said Kadiatou Diallo, one of the curators of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=148&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School first, fish later: Little fishermen now getting an education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know something is afoot when a madrassa shuts its morning shift to allow its students to attend the new school that has opened in the neighbourhood. But this is exactly what Qari Ahmed Raza did to make way for the Dawood Usman Goth Primary School in Rehri Goth, Bin Qasim Town. “Most people in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shaheryarpopalzai.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13657628&amp;post=145&amp;subd=shaheryarpopalzai&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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