With rampant misogyny, homophobia, Punjabi-Sunni supremacy, Pakistan wonders why the world isn’t buying its ‘pro-Human Rights’ Kashmir stance on September 11, 2019Pakistani leaders have been screaming human rights violations in the Indian-held Kashmir all the while wondering why isn’t the world taking them seriously now that they appear to be championing ‘human rights’. The only explanation they could come up with was — the Prime Minister and other top leaders have said this repeatedly- world’s bias […]
Don’t let FaceApp own you on July 20, 2019The shocking number of people in Pakistan including prominent activists have been taking to social media to boast about their altered looks through the creepy FaceApp but privacy experts around the globe have warned people to consider privacy before using this app. And this once again proves there’s little to no real awareness en masse […]
Dear Facebook, why are you allowing banned Hizbut Tahrir to influence Pakistan election? on July 23, 2018Recognised as a banned terrorist outfit in Pakistan, Hizbut Tahrir’s video ads about how only their version and model of ‘Khilafah’ can bring the needed change to save the country creeped into timelines of the Pakistani audiences last night just 2 days before the national election. This despite the fact that Facebook promised measures including […]
Dear Jibran Nasir, please abort before it’s too late on July 21, 2018With independent NA 247 candidate Jibran Nasir’s campaign running in full swing, we’re not only watching history being made with a young man’s incredible and unprecedented resistance to extremism, we’re also witnessing everyone else chickening out and leaving him all by himself… with his team of even younger volunteers. Now, this wouldn’t even be a […]
Notch notch! Who’s there? Every phone! on June 16, 2018When Apple launched its iPhone X last year with an edge to edge display from all sides except the top where it had to have a notch to house its sophisticated infrared, camera and facial recognition hardware, people were cynical and mocked it. Less than a year into it, several competitors have copied the idea […]
Snapchat now lets you delete a sent message on June 15, 2018Snapchat has recently unveiled a new feature this week which most users never thought would happen. Yes, we’re talking about the message delete feature which up until now wasn’t possible. Snapchat now lets you delete messages you have sent to other users. The non-Snap users reading this and going; haha, every other app has a […]
Is ISI behind Quantico’s ‘anti-India’ episode? on June 9, 2018Indian social and mainstream media is abuzz with imagery of people protesting in the streets with signs carrying Priyanka Chopra’s crossed-out portraits and claims that American network ABC’s popular spy drama Quantico’s Hindu terror plot episode was a conspiracy by Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Now we know that this was not an innocent mistake or […]
PTI’s pandering to the religious right. We should all be worried on June 4, 2018Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has entered the battlefield with full force ahead of the general election 2018 and isn’t keeping its ambitions to secure right wing votes a secret. PTI wants to play the holier than thou game even if it has to pander to the murderous narrative of extremist parties such as the Tehreek i […]
Why is ‘Ducky Bhai’ trying to bring down Sham Idrees and ‘Froggy’? on May 9, 2018If you’ve been to YouTube in the past couple of days you’re bound to have come across a brewing storm among the Pakistani YouTubers weighing in on clash between social media celebrity Sham Idrees versus newly entering ‘Ducky Bhai’. Over the past 48 hours, Sham Idrees and Froggy released two separate videos reiterating their stance […]
Snapchat capitalising on Star Wars Day on May 8, 2018You’re either completely oblivious of the phrase ‘May the fourth be with you’ or you’ve heard it way too many times that this just annoys you now. If former, you truly have to be living under the rock all this time and if latter, bear it one more time please. In any case, May the […]