Pakistan

The US government is planning to spend $50 million on propaganda for Pakistani audiences. They are calling it a new "communications strategy" and will involve the following:

1. Supporting media organisations that are favourable to the americans
2. The setting up of a "media monitoring group" that will put its own spin on any negative news about the US.

Shahid Afridi was caught on camera biting a cricket ball during the recent Pakistan vs. Australia match. Unfortunately people have misunderstood his motives. Here are some plausible reasons for his biting the ball:

Now that's a mouthful

With inflation slowly eating away at the value of the Pakistan Rupee, there has been a change in which currency notes people choose to carry with them. For a variety of reasons the Rs. 500 note is now replacing the Rs. 100 note as the most convenient note to carry with you when going shopping for daily essentials.

I have created a full featured website that aggregates content from the many Pakistani blogs ( www.pakistaniblogs.net  )  on the Internet. Its automatically updated throughout the day with fresh content.

Unlike other aggregator websites, Pakistani blogs does more than just gather content. Its got a lot of useful features:

Sometime back there was a story floating around cyberspace about how the British PM's blog used a design without crediting the original author and thus violating copyright laws. Now it turns out that the Pakistani finance ministry wants to try their own hand at blogging and its gone and done a similar misdeed by using a design without crediting the original author.