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Pakistan India Semi Final - Overview

By Imran Haider • Mar 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

The first thing I must say is that better team won last night. India was a better team on paper and on the ground; at least last night. We must appreciate this. This is the one thing that we had to learn when it comes to the game of cricket not only for our cricket [...]



About Ponting and 3rd and 4th Quarter Finals

By Imran Haider • Mar 25th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The ingenious of Yuvraj has taken India to Semis and they will be meeting Pakistan at Mohali. We can start counting the days now for perhaps the biggest match of this world cup. It also means that Aussies are finally going back home without the trophy. As Ravi Shastri rightly pointed out last night [...]



First Quarter Final and India-Pakistan Probable

By Imran Haider • Mar 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I have second thoughts whether to write this one or not last night. I was just tired so much after coming back from my native town (With that said you can guess that I missed the match yesterday). So I went to sleep. But when I woke up I keep remembering the words, my wife [...]



Why Australia Can’t Win World Cup?

By Imran Haider • Mar 21st, 2011 • Category: Entertainment

My last post started a long discussion between my friends and me. The question asked from me too frequently was why I always stressed on the point that England will somehow do something they have never been able to do before (Win the World Cup). I just quoted a few examples of 1992 and 1999 [...]



Love for Cricket Not England!!!

By Imran Haider • Mar 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics

These days I am facing a kind of series criticism from my friends, colleagues and most importantly family as well. Why I keep on favoring the English team although this is the same team that lost to Bangladesh and Ireland. This reached to its climax yesterday when there was a do or die match for England. After the first innings [...]



Decision Making Inspiration

By Imran Haider • Aug 3rd, 2010 • Category: Misc

group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the  rest on the operational track.
The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the disused track and [...]



Is Shahbaz Sharif Responsible for Terrorism in Lahore?

By Imran Haider • Jul 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

If we start speaking the lingo of governor Punjab Salman Taseer and blame the chief minister of Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Shairf for the terrorists attack in Lahore, then wouldn’t it be logical to blame President Asif Ali Zardari for the terrorist attacks in the Islamabad, and Asfand Yar Ali for terror attacks in the [...]



Double Shah of Rawalpindi, Kamran Khan

By Imran Haider • Mar 28th, 2010 • Category: Misc

It is said that more than Rs. 100 million have been submitted to one Kamran Khan of Sadiqabad, Rawalpindi by the people of the area.
The story is same and old.
These people wanted quick cash without any sort of hardwork. They wanted to double their money in short time. Kamran Khan exploited the ancient instinct of [...]



Nawaz Sharif Play With Kitten

By Imran Haider • Mar 26th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Its true that the method proposed in the constitutional committee of the parliament regarding the appointments of the judges was faulty, controversial and somewhat farcical from the onset, but PML-N never raised its voice before and played the ball for months.
It was thought that the biggest hurdle in the way of passing of 18th amendement [...]



Restore Points

By Imran Haider • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Transaction mechanism is one of the most important aspects of any database and likewise every database implements it. Transaction is an atomic block of SQL statements that can be executed against a database. Committing a transaction means that the changes made by the transaction should be made permanent. And likewise rollback means that the changes [...]