The news has been in for last two days and almost every news resource quoting it.

Haaretz quote Vatican source:

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.

The most interesting comment came from a Jew on Haaretz website. Yered Shmuel says:

Australia loses its Judeo-Christian status. Not because I am racist, but because Arab Islamic culture is dirty - one only must look at Cairo or suburbs populated by Arab Muslims in any other Judeo-Christian society.

I fear the day when Israel loses its Jewish majority, and it will - it will be that day that my respect for the comparative paradise to the surrounding countries is gone.

Jewish Israelis better start breeding big!

This is the first time I experienced a jew admitting something which we have been told long time back via Quran and hadith sources. The issue is that like Muslims, there are communities among Jews as well who don’t listen what their “Imams”, the Rabis say. They also mock their religious scholars and talk about modernism in the name of Secularism. There were wickeds among them who even made attempt to alter Psalms and injected their “own” teachings, just like our modern libsrals and secularists have been trying to do these days in the name of distorted and twisted version of Sufism so naturally they shifted away from what orignial message God had given via Moses(AS).

Irony is that Muslims ain’t united. They are in various sects which we had already been told by The Prophet Muhammad(SAW). As long as Muslims don’t learn to criticize themselves first , they can’t dominate the world. Only waiting for Imam Mehdi and Jesus(AS) and doing NOTHING is not gonna be fruitful for us. They have to come on time which we can’t change but atleast it’s in our hand to fix ourself up. No?

On a a related note, A Nation Challenged.

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and most important thing is that Amin Fahim endorses it. He says he will be going Islamabad to vote for Gillani

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Five years of Bush’s victorious Iraq invasion and it still goes on.

David Flanagan, the author of of famous Javascript book  Javascript-The definitive Guide,exposes the cost of this victorious war.

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I just opened my laptop and logged on Gtalk. I found various mails by friends who gave me a bad news that Youtube has been banned in Pakistan. I had not believed it because I was able to access it since 3.00 PM but just tried again and found out that it has been banned. Following is the result of ping to both youtube.com and uk.youtube.com:

Pinging uk.youtube.com [208.65.153.238] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.65.153.238:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Shakeel helped me to find out that blockage is at PIE level which  I found out by executing tracert utility.

Tracing route to uk.youtube.com [208.65.153.251]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  local.gateway [192.168.1.1]
2    28 ms    26 ms    32 ms  116.71.32.1
3    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  203.99.170.106
4  khi77.pie.net.pk [202.125.128.134]  reports: Destination host unreachable.

I exactly don’t know what’s the actual reason but yaar log says that there were some videos published on Youtube which were singing praises of free and fair election in Pakistan.

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It seems that British scientist have finally heard the “voice” of women rights champions a.k.a feminists and have found a way to throw men out from their lives From Dailymail:

British scientists are ready to turn female bone marrow into sperm, cutting men out of the process of creating life.

All children born due to this process will be females due to absence of Y chromosomes. So other great wish might come true since they will not give birth a “man” regardless of high chances of birth defects.

the news reported by Slashdot. As usual nerds gave some interesting funny remarks which you can read yourself.

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Pakistan is a very unfortunate country that it has lot of talent in various fields of life. The reason I said unfortunate because we always get failed to take advantage of our local resources and outsiders take full advantage of them and use them for their economy. We have habit to ofend local talent due to some lame reason whether it’s field of science and technology,education or arts, we love to ignore our talent and when it’s respected by others then we run after them. The very latest example is Pakistani comedians like Shakil Teeli,Kashif Khan and Rauf lala who were never respected in Pakistan but when India gave them respect then they are now invited in different cermonies. Irony!

Two and half years back I made a post about some local talent which were not respected in home which made an excuse to leave this country and earn outside. I mentioned about Adnan sabzwari who had made Pakistan’s first animated movie back in 90s when we could not think about animation in Pakistan then I made a post on the occasion of Pakistan’s 60th birthday and made an attempt to pay tribute our IT stars who made us proud in outer world. Most of people mentioned in that post left Pakistan for sake of better future since they were not able to do much in this country which actually pays more respect to ignorant and illetrate politicians than talented people.

Recently I came across an interview about a local IT talent in Jang paper who made a software to overcome plane hijacking.

Meet Ibad Ahmad who belongs to IT field. Ibad has made an anti-hijacking system which can regain the control of plane with in a minute!Yes, within a minute.

Details of the system are not mentioned( and I can understand the reason) . The article says he and his pals started this project but all of his pals got disappointed and leave him but this courageous guy never gave up and kept trying and one day he became successfull.

The thing which actually impressed me is NOT the technology but his passion for this country. When the interviewer asked him that why didn’t he sell his solution to some foriegn or 3rd party company, he said, “My objective is not to earn money only, I want to open the doors for other youngesters as well. If I would have sold this system to someone then could I serve my country?”

Amazing, simply amazing. This guy deserves to be respected but the question is, can our appreciation be helpful for him? Like majority of youngers, Ibad is pretty much disappointed about the future of software development in Pakistan.

Ibad has given a deadline of 18th Feb. After that like many other fresh brains, he would also fly to US or Europe where he would be given a respect which he deserves and money which he could not get in Pakistan. I am sure Ibad would not feel comfortable since it would give him pain that his services are not being helpful for his own people. When Ibad will get famous in western world due to his work then we would come out of ignorance and think, “Oh , he’s the same guy who made something for our comfort but we threw him out”. we will then respect him and give him job offers. In urdu there is an idiom, Thook kay Chaatna. we are like such people. Curse upon us. I don’t know how many more Ibads we have to lose. All I know that we have to stop this brain drain anyway. If we really have to export something then we should export our flith in the form of politicians so that it could be helpful for us. I just hope that someone read about him and can do something for his product.

Ibad also claims that he could make a security system which can guard banks,pumps etc and there would be no need to hire guards. Ironically he’s not being taken seriously. We literally going to lose a gem due to our ignorance. I don’t know how to stop this guy. Can you stop Ibad for sake of this country?

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Australian wicket keeper and one of my favorite batsman Adam Gilchrist decided to quit the game of Cricket. From telegraph

I have come to this decision after much thought and discussion with those important to me.”

Gilchrist recently made the world record of 414th dismissal. He played 96 test matches and made 5,556 runs. Watching Gilchrist’s batting was always a wonderful experience for me. Below is the video of his performance in which he made 2nd fastest test century:

The way he used to face Akram was outstanding. Wasim Akram also admitted in an interview that Gilchrist was one of very very few batsmen who faced him easly. In the end, a classic moment when Gilchrist faced Akram in worldcup 99 match.

Surely Gilly will be missed. He gave a new name to wicket keeping. Good luck dude!

Image: CricInfo

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Happy new year Muslim Ummah

May Allah give enough strength to at least make attempt to follow Islam in true shape.Ameen.

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سال نو مبارک….مبروک عليکم سنة جديده

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Asusual my mobile phone is filled with various SMS messages about current crisis. Several lame messages are being spread via mobiles like one which was spread was about making water supply to Karachi poisonous by mob at Gharoo which was later denied by chairman water board.

Though this is not a situation to have fun but just got an SMS which brought smile. Read following:

Hamid Karzai is the most disturbed person these days because last sentence Benazir said to him was see you soon and now he’s much worried about his future.

Please just don’t believe and spread every SMS you have been recieving these days.

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Former P.M of Pakistan Ms.Bhutto expired last evening when she was targeted after her address at Liaquat Bagh,Rawalpindi. The same place where first Pakistani Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was also assassinated.According to online resources, she was killed by blasts plus two bullets hit her head and neck. Confirm details yet to come.

Ms.Bhutto had already blamed Musharraf and she was very much aware of her fate.

Though I can’t ignore what her party has done in Karachi in 90s. I can’t ignore how much corruption was done by her and her husband . I can’t forget what all I saw last night on roads of Karachi and I also can’t ignore that it was not only bhutto who died last evening, several others also injured but since theyy were ordinary people hence not mentioned nor they they are Shaheed but I also know she was also a mother of 3 kids who have lost their mother so I am sad for kids who have lost their mother.

The same Punjab Elahi(Ch.Pervaiz Elahi) who used to curse BB all the time was shedding crocodile’s tears and mourning. Duniya O Duniya Tera Jawab nahi

BBC made an effort to discuss her entire life in images which you can see here. More images are available on flickr about her life journey.

Also, Mark Steyn writes about her former neighbour, Ms.Bhutto:

As I always say when I’m asked about her, she was my next-door neighbor for a while - which affects a kind of intimacy, though in fact I knew her only for sidewalk pleasantries. She was beautiful and charming and sophisticated and smart and modern, and everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be - though in practice, as Pakistan’s Prime Minister, she was just another grubby wardheeler from one of the world’s most corrupt political classes.

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Image Credit: BBC

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