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Receiving Paypal payments in Pakistan

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:23:25 -0800

Paypal is the most widely used payment system on the Internet. Unfortunately Paypal does not support Pakistan but now it is possible to accept paypal payments via third party payment processors. This means that talented Pakistani freelancers are no...

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Review of Google Adsense payments via Western Union

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:25:00 -0800

Back in late September Google announced that they would give publishers in Pakistan and other mostly south and south east Asian countries the option to receive adsense payments via Western Union (WU). This announcement created a lot of buzz in the...

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Geo.tv in a state of emergency

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:52:00 -0800

Click on thumbnail for larger image As you may already be aware Pakistan is now in a state or emergency. I won't go into the details of this as you can get much more information from the hundred and one blogs and forums covering this....

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PKNIC's archaic procedures

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:37:00 -0700

PKNIC is the registry responsible for the .pk country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan. .pk domains are very popular in Pakistan and with good reason. There are lots of premium word .pk domains still available and companies that purchase...

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Do block the blog!

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:40:00 -0800

A little bit of photoshop work and... A year or so ago the Pakistani Government decided to block access to the entire blogspot and blogger domains in response to inappropriate content placed there by sick foreigners. This blanket ban meant...

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Dialup prepaid card comes with FREE ads

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:15:05 -0800

Stuck as I am on an ancient slow as molasses dialup connection, I find myself rather annoyed by the new practice by some Pakistani ISPs of redirecting scrath/prepaid card user's requested pages to their own ad filled pages. Cybernet and gerrys are...

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Rotten Pakistan for sale!

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:19:44 -0800

Yessiree! Throw us a few a billion dollars in "aid" and you'll own the sixth most populous country on the planet. Think about what you could do with such a large body of human resource. Checkout some of our recent "projects":...

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Lahore photos

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:46:10 -0700

I visited Lahore and Murree on vacation recently. My sister took some pictures of the shahi qila or fort of Lahore and the mosque built inside it. The size of the shahi Qila cannot be truly appreciated in these pictures. It is truly...

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Scratch card Internet connections in Pakistan

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:38:13 -0700

I usually connect to the Internet using dial up prepaid scratch cards. For a long time now I have been using supernet cards despite their cost. Supernet Rs. 100 cards cost around Rs. 13 per hour for most of the day. But things get really bad at...

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