Monday, April 11, 2011

**JP** Land-Cruiser in Saudi Falls down a 60m Well

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**JP** Daily Quran and Hadith

IN THE NAME OF "ALLAH"
Assalamu'alaikum Wa Rahmatullah e Wa Barakatuhu,



 



 






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**JP**

Assalam o alaikum ...
Some times we feel happier in life as we never loose these moments but we forget , every thing in this life is just temporary, and we make many hopes and build a big dream , actually we have begun our destroying cermony , coz when the hopes or dreams destroy , we  can nevr  help it nor stand that. and then we always do nothing and pretend to it .. we blame others , as long as we were wrong in decisions ... so brothers and sisters its life and its very invaluable gift by Allah ... we have to make it blessings for us and for others ... we have to reacognise our true destination and then suppose to go for that .... life we live but the life we live for others thats the blessful life , its just those can realise , those have true aims of life ... so make it ur aim and goals now to the mirror of being muslim ...
JazakAllah Khair
 



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Re: Banned in Boston: Soda Pop

Cost = $10 million.

Atta boy Mumbles

On Apr 8, 10:02 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Diet soda is ok.
>
> "Mumbles" Menino is a dunce
>
> The first thing our doctor(s) said to my wife for each of 3
> pregnancies?
>
> No diet soda.
>
> Why that might be Mumbles?
>
> Duh
>
> On Apr 7, 4:50 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > [[  I thought only Rusty Warren was "Banned In Boston".  ]]
>
> >http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/04/banned-in-bosto-1.html- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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Re: How to Eliminate Social Security and Medicare

Al Gore was actually right about the "locked box".

Problem is you need the box before the lock.

The "Social Security Fund", is among the biggest lies ever told.

On Apr 8, 12:23 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So where the fuck did it all go?
> Zero-sum?
> ----
> - double indexing
> - illegal immigrants do end up receiving Social Security and other
> benefits, through bureaucratic mistakes and deliberate fraud.
> The Government Accountability Office has called this a "serious
> problem and that the full extent of benefit fraud is unknown."
> - inflation
>
> On Apr 8, 9:37 am, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Math is hard for Barbie and gubmint.
>
> > EVERY dollar that has EVER gone into SS, was predestined to go out.
>
> > So where the fuck did it all go?
>
> > Zero-sum ain't that friggin hard, Barbies!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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The News Tribe (English)

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan after 7.1 magnitude quake

Tokyo:Japan has issued a warning for 3-foot (1 meter) tsunami after a powerful earthquake,measuring 7.1 at Richter scale, with epicenter near crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant , hit the country on Monday. No loss of life and property has been reported so far.Sources said rail service was suspended...  No Comment

Tsunami warning issued in Japan after 7.1 magnitude quake

Pakistan

India hands over Pakistani prisoners

Lahore: Indian authorities on Monday handed over 39 Pakistani prisoners to Pakistan who have been languishing in Indian jails sine long. India handed over the prisoners at Wahga border. The prisoners... 
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S-Asia

India claims presence of Chinese troops along LoC

New Delhi: Indian authorities have acquired confirmation about the presence of Chinese troops along the line of control in Pakistan controlled Kashmir, Times of India claimed. The report published... 
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World

Shooting erupts in Syrian seaport city

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Uncensored

CID arrests three target killers

Karachi: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Karachi, the southern city of Pakistan, Saud Mirza has claimed to arrest three target killers and recovered illegal weapons and drugs from their... 
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Business

PIA's restructuring plan being finalized: Defence Minister

Islamabad: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that a restructuring plan for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is being finalized aimed at improving its efficiency and making... 
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Japan planning to bid for 2020 Olympics

Tokyo: Japan is planning to bid for the 2020 Olympics as part of its recovery from the devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit the country in March.  Read More →
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Prominent Pakistani theatre actor Mastana passes away

Bahawalpur: Prominent Pakistani theatre actor Murtaza Hasan Mastana died after a protracted ailment in Bahawalpur on Monday. He was suffering from Hepatitis C since long and was admitted in  Bahawalpur... 
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Science

China launches 8th Beidou satellite

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Scientists grow kidneys in lab

London: Scottish scientists have made a breakthrough in organ transplantation by successfully growing... 

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**JP** Gulf Jobs

Dear All

Please follow the links to view the details

Italian/ Continental Sous Chef / Dining Room Attendant / Restaurant/Cafe Manager / Kitchen Helper - Bahrain
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/italian-continental-sous-chef-dining.html


Client Servicing Executives - Bahrain
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/client-servicing-executives-bahrain.html


Multiple Job Positions for a Holding Company - Saudi Arabia
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/multiple-job-positions-for-holding.html


Secretary for a Consultancy Establishment - UAE
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/secretary-for-consultancy-establishment.html


Multiple Job Positions for a Construction Company - Qatar
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/multiple-job-positions-for-construction_10.html


Lead Safety Engineer - UAE
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/lead-safety-engineer-uae.html


Telecom Technician - Saudi Arabia
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/telecom-technician-saudi-arabia.html


IBM Maximo EAM Software and Database Administrator - Bahrain
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/ibm-maximo-eam-software-and-database.html


Project Manager - Qatar
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/project-manager-qatar.html


Oracle DBA - Saudi Arabia
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/oracle-dba-saudi-arabia_10.html


Senior Sales Manager - UAE
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/senior-sales-manager-uae.html


Risk Management and Control Analyst - Saudi Arabia
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/risk-management-and-control-analyst.html


System Administrator - Saudi Arabia
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/system-administrator-saudi-arabia_10.html


Software Developers - Bahrain
>>Sunday, April 10, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/software-developers-bahrain.html


Internal Auditor - Saudi Arabia
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/internal-auditor-saudi-arabia_08.html


Secretary and Receptionist - Saudi Arabia
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/secretary-and-receptionist-saudi-arabia.html


Multiple Job Positions for a 5 Star Hotel - Bahrain
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/multiple-job-positions-for-5-star-hotel.html


HVAC Engineer - UAE
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/hvac-engineer-uae_08.html


Secretary Required - Saudi Arabia
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/secretary-required-saudi-arabia.html


Process Analysis and Documentation Officer - Qatar
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/process-analysis-and-documentation.html


Multiple Job Positions for a 4 Star Hotel - Qatar
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/multiple-job-positions-for-4-star-hotel.html


Logistics Manager - UAE
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/logistics-manager-uae.html


Oracle DBA - Saudi Arabia
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/oracle-dba-saudi-arabia.html


Chief Economist - Saudi Arabia
>>Friday, April 08, 2011
http://www.jobshob.org/2011/04/chief-economist-saudi-arabia.html


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**JP** 1209~*Safeed Lamhoon Main*~Pak Old...

1209~*Safeed Lamhoon Main*~Pak Old...

Udas logoon se pyaar karna koi to sekhe.
Safed lamhon main rang bharna koi to sekhe
 Koi to aye khizaan main paty ugane wala.
Guloon ki khushbo ko kaid karna koi to sekhe
 Koi dekhaye mohabbton ke cherag mujh ko
Meri nigahon se baat karna koi to sekhe
 Koi to aye nayi ruton ka pagaam le kar
Andheri ratoon main chand banna koi to sekhe

**JP** Some rare historical pics

 


Some rare historical moment of my loved PAKISTAN
 

Pakistan

 

 

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Rutten Bai Petit around the time she married Jinnah in 1918. Born a Parsi, on her 18th birthday and left her father's mansion with two pets only to marry Jinnah. Exactly eleven years later she was died of abdominal cancer. Jinnah never married again and died a lonely man. Known as the nightingale of Bombay, Ruttie died on her 29th birthday on 20 February 1929

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Miss Dina Jinnah - beloved daughter of Mr Jinnah. Born on 15 August 1919 she turned 91 in August 2010

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Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru on their wedding

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Subhas Chandra Bose with Mr Jinnah

An ICS officer from Bengal, S C Bose (1897-1945) resigned from service and was twice elected president of the Congress but had to quit due to ideological differences with Gandhi and Nehru. He later became President of the Indian National Army during World War II. He travelled to Germany but disillusioned with Hitler, he moved to Japan and fought for the independence of India from British rule. Here he is seen in a meeting with Mr Jinnah. Bose commonly known as Netaji in India is believed to have died in an air crash on 18 August 1945 over Taiwan but his death is shrouded in mystery. He may have died as a Russian PoW in Siberia.

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Mountbatten negotiating with the Founder. Due to the text below this photograph, the book Freedom At Midnight is technically 'banned' in Pakistan ever since its publication more than 30 years ago. They titled the picture "Pakistan's improbable prophet"

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The Founding Fathers attend the Round Table Conference, 1930. Mr Jinnah is second from right in the front row and Sir Zafrullah Khan is second from the left. The Ali brothers are also there, while Begum Shahnawaz sits next to Sir Zafarullah Khan.

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The 6/3 Plan - Nehru, Mountbatten and Jinnah. On 3 June 1947 all the Indian leaders got together and put their seal on the Partition Plan. Seated by the map on the wall is Lord Ismay, Mountbatten's Chief of Staff who probably tampered with the Radcliffe Award and gave Gurdaspur to India to keep the two new countries in a perpetual state of war over Kashmir till eternity!

For 3 days only Mountbatten, Ismay and Abel (Private Secretary to Viceroy) had access to the Radcliffe Award before it was announced amidst bloodshed on 15 August 1947. Both Muslim members of the Punjab Boundary Commission Justice Din Mohammed (later Governor of Sindh) and Justice Munir (later Chief Justice of Pakistan) denied that this was the award they had agreed to. When Sir Cyril Radcliffe was sent his cheque of 2,000 pounds as the fee for services rendered, he simply tore it up. Need more be said !!.

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A map of British Indian states

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The map of Pakistan proposed by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali

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What Mr Jinnah actually got. He called it a 'moth eaten' Pakistan, but agreed to it

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Karachi welcomes Mr Jinnah in 1943. A plane monitors the situation on McLeod Road, Karachi

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Mr Jinnah deliberating whether or not to pluck a rose. He had a dream - we all combined to mess it up

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Mr Jinnah with a black Doberman and West Highland Terrier in Bombay during the forties

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Mr Jinnah's first and last birthday in Pakistan - 25 December 1947. Reading about the felicitations on his birthday in the 'Dawn'. The headline says '71 today' The main headline is a statement given by Sindh Prime Minister Khuhro and reads 'Khuhro doesn't want Hindus to leave Sind'.

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Mohamed Ali Jinnah on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946

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Jinnah and Liaquat - Uneasy relations?

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The Founder takes the salute, 14 August 1947. His ADCs include Gul Hassan Khan later the last C-in-C of the Pakistan Army and Syed M Ahsan C-in-C of the Pakistan Navy and Governor of East Pakistan

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Prince Karim Aga Khan disembarking from a PIA flight during the fifties

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Two Sardars - Sherbaz Mazari with Akber Bugti, 1954

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WHERE THE ROT STARTED :Justice Munir deals a death blow to Pakistan. When Governor General Ghulam Muhammed dismissed the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1954, the Sindh Chief Court declared his action ultra vires of the constitution. However under a lure of Deputy governor General ship offered to Justice Munir he validated the order under the Doctrine of Necessity and dealt a death blow to the judiciary. Subsequently sodomy cases were filed against the honourable judges of the Sindh Chief Court, who ruled against the Governor General

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Comrades in Arms - Four Future Air Force Chiefs in the Royal Air Force. Seen in the picture are Air Chief Marshal Mehra Indian CAS from 1973 to 1976, Air Marshal Asghar Khan, Air Marshal Nur Khan and Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry. While Asghar Khan opted for politics after retirement and never cared for power, Nur Khan was Deputy CMLA, Minister for all the Social Sectors and Governor of West Pakistan. Like Asghar Khan and Nur Khan, Zafar Chaudhry also headed the PIA before heading the PAF

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Three trusted comrades of Ayub Khan. Air Marshal Nur Khan, Gen Musa and Vice Admiral A R Khan headed the three services during most of Ayub's rule.

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A young Air Marshal Nur Khan

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Gen Ayub Khan - Prime Minister for 13 hours. Gen Ayub Khan was appointed Chief Martial Law Administrator on 7 October 1958. 20 days later President Iskander Mirza appointed him as Prime Minister and he is seen presiding over a Cabinet meeting. 13 hours after his appointment, Mirza was deposed and Ayub Khan became the second President of the country. To his left civilian Deputy CMLA Mr Aziz Ahmed fixes his knot while Generals Azam, Burki and Sheikh, Manzur Qadir and 29-year old Z A Bhutto look on.

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Ayub Khan signing the Tashkent Agreement in 1966. Commerce Minister Ghulam Faruque, Foreign Minister Z A Bhutto and Foreign Secretary Aziz Ahmed look on. Prime Minister Shastri died the same night of a heart attack. A member of Pakistan entourage woke up the Foreign Minister and told him on the telephone, 'The bastard is dead'. Still in his sleep Bhutto asked 'Which one?'

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Ayub Khan's dejection may be seen more in his slumped posture, because his dark glasses hide much of what he may have been feeling. ZAB's carefully orchestrated aloofness, his sullen detachment from the "peace-making" charade, and his pensive 'head-down' posture, were meticulously executed by him with his eye on the launch of his leadership role in the near future.

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Third President of Pakistan 1969-1971. Deposed and placed under house arrest

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President Yahya Khan arrives in Moenjodaro Airport in January 1971. Mr Bhutto received him

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Remembering Zaibunissa Hamidullah 1921-2000

Zaibunnissa Hamidullah was a pioneer amongst women journalists of South Asia. A column writer for English newspapers, including Dawn, Zaibunnissa launched Pakistan's first woman's weekly in English, The Mirror. Even though a socialite magazine, it often created ripples by its strong political editorials critical of the policies and actions of the rulers of the day in a language and style that at times earned her the wrath of the wielders of power. The power of her pen rattled Ayub Khan when she lashed out at him for elevating himself to the rank of Field Marshal, and in November 1957, his predecessor Iskander Mirza, shut the paper down for six months when Mirror flayed him for dismissing the Suhrawardy ministry. The paper was read as much for its social content as for the biting sarcasm and wit that characterized the writings of its editor. The magazine closed down in 1972 after twenty-one years of struggle against authoritarian trends in our politics and bigotry and fanaticism in society. The sting in her writings earned her quite a few enemies, but even her detractors admired her for the courage of conviction and the strength of character she displayed throughout her professional and personal life.

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Sir Abdullah Haroon with his daughter Doulat Haroon

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Friends turned Foes - Sherbaz Mazari with Z A Bhutto in 1959

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Z A Bhutto with Indira Gandhi in the lush lawns of Simla 1972 negotiations

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Zeba and Waheed Murad. The most popular couple of Pakistan's film history seen here in the movie 'Armaan' in 1966

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BRISTOL HOTEL – KARACHI (1910-1994)

For those who may remember the Bristol Hotel Karchi was constructed by a Welshman in 1910 near the Cantonment Railway Station-Karachi, parallel to the rail tracks between Karachi Cantt and Karachi City Railway Station. It is in close proximity to the current location of the British Council. Initially a Tavern & Bistro for the affluent ones..mostly the high echelons and army officials under the British Raj of early 1900s. The hotel was also mostly the venue of the most talked about New Year parties, May Queen Ball and wedding parties and became the most popular place of Kolachi or Kurracchee then which continued till the late fifties when the Welshmen's son Grout, left for UK selling it to a Pakistani namely Mr Rizvi, an income tax officer in 1960. At that time, Karachi had hardly a few hotels, which were worth a stay; Metropole, Palace, Beach Luxury, Grand, Excelsior, Taj…with Intercontinental (now PC) commencing its operations in May 1961. Mr. Rizvi maintained the grandeur of BRISTOL and it's BAR and particularly it's cuisine, which was probably the best in Karachi attracting people from far and wide. The New Year Parties and May Queen Ball continued with the same fervor and glamour. During the sixites the price tag of NYP entry for a couple was Rs.300 - a small fortune in those days. Bristol continued to attract affluent Karachi-ites for it's cuisine, large rooms, lush green lawns with Saturday Night Discos and Night Club with groups from Thailand, Germany and France were in attendance later adopted by the Minwallas of Metropole for their ever popular SAMAR night club and dine out of the seventies. The BRISTOL Hotel breathed it's last when it was attacked by some dacoits and Mr. Rizvi suffering injuries in 1994 which re-occurred and within six months. Mr Rizvi was virtually forced to call it quits. The building of the hotel, however, remains as a home now. It is said that the American movie star Donna Reed stayed at Bristol sometime in 1961 during her overnight visit to Karachi enroute to Cairo on the arrangement by PAN AMERICAN airlines which used to house it's crew at Malir's GRAND Hotel of Minwallas, near Karachi Stargate Airport of 1935