How to add your bank to Moneybookers to withdraw money to your bank account.

The following steps are written to help Freelancers, Outsourcing agencies who are willing to accept money using Moneybookers. These steps were written keeping Pakistani freelancers in mind but they can be followed to add any Bank account in any country. Before getting a new bank account make sure the Branch that is near to you has its own BIC code. Follow the steps below.
1. Check your BIC code from http://www.swift.com/bsl/search.do
a. Enter “BANK NAME” in Institution keyword field.
b. Enter “Karachi” or your city in City field.
c. Select “Pakistan” from drop down menu.

2. Note the BIC code of your branch and keep it safe.

Confirm if the BIC code of your Bank’s Branch is listed. If it has the BIC Code then you can open an account in that particular branch or else try with a different bank or branch. After you get the account follow the steps below to add your bank account to Moneybookers. You will require the BIC Code from the previous steps and your account number.

1. Goto Moneybookers Add Bank page and enter all the information, Moneybookers will show you the branch location and your account title, if the account title does not match do not check your account number and enter it again.

2. After you bank account has been added you have to verify it, to verify your bank account withdraw 20Euro from your Moneybookers account to your Bank.
3. Goto your bank after 4 days and confirm from them if money has arrived, sometimes it takes 8-10 days depending on the holidays and other things.
4. Upon confirmation request a bank statement. Your bank statement will have a secret keyword from Moneybookers.
5. Enter the keyword into the verify bank account page.

Moneybookers charges

Money bookers charges 1.80Euro for all withdraws to your Primary bank account. Withdrawls of more then 350Euro to your non Primary Bank accounts are charged 3.50Euro. There is no other cost for withdrawing your money to your bank account.

If you have have Bank account in PKR currency the money will automatically be converted to PKR using the Statebank’s $ rate.

US made the mistake creating Talibans 20 years ago and now they are repeating…

All I can do is pray that may God give some sense to decision makers in US, they made the huge mistake of funding Talibans against Soviet Union and now they are repeating their mistakes by sending those blind drones (predators) to Northern areas of Pakistan. Out of so many drone strikes and after killing thousands of innocent women and children they were able to hit Baitullah Mehsood but that does not justifies those drone attacks. The hatred against US is increasing in that part of country everyday because after every drone attack the locals go and collect the bodies of children and women from the debris.

Anyhow I just wanted to share this video in which Hillary has accepted the mistake made by US, but unfortunately they don’t see that they are repeating that mistake in another way.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/26/microsoft-photoshop-trainwreck/

August the month of Independence for Pakistan

Its already August 2, means we are already celebrating the Independence month in one way or the other. If you live in Pakistan you must have watch those Flag stalls on the side of the roads, people wearing Pakistani flag badges, cars with Pakistani flags and flags being raised at houses. This is how we have been celebrating our Independence month for quiet long. But this year all of the Pakistanis have decided to some thing more, as 2009 uptil now has brought many changes to us.

Its still 12 days to Independence day i.e 14th of August. The celebrations start from the evening of 13th. So majority of Pakistanis on the Internet have decided to change their avatars to green so they can show the unity. Almost all of the Pakistani people I know on the Internet now have Green display pictures. If you want your pictured to get a green background, mail it to the greenkardo@gmail.com. And this is not the only thing they are doing. They have decided to celebrate the Independence day with the world so from the morning of 13th of August all the Pakistanis who use Twitter will be sharing everything and anything that will be happening around them for the Independence day. They will hashtag their tweets with “#Pakistan” in hope that #Pakistan will make to the top trending topic on twitter.

To help people who does not have twitter accounts send their messages for Independence day to twitter @nizamani has created a web application that will all accept messages and will post them on the users behalf. You can submit your messages here. http://gogreen.sytes.net

Also to show unity there is also one twitter app created for those who have twitter accounts, you can access the App here http://apps.uzeeinc.com/Pakistan/, the App is created by @uzee

This was all about Twitter and stuff, but how about in the real life on the streets of Pakistan. There will be fireworks, dances, cars, bikes. On our street it will be fireworks at exactly 00:00 am, 14th of August. The celebrations on our street will start from around mid-day of 13th of August. I will be tweeting pictures and videos from time to time and then later share links here on blog too. So stay tuned.

Minorities in Pakistan and the (un)justice with them.

Yesterday I was reading ‘Pakistan’ Search feed on twitter and noticed there are few tweets that mentions that Muslim mobs burnt 100 Christian homes in Kasur district. They got my attention and I tried my best to confirm the news from some authenticated and credible source. Unfortunately uptil now no confirmation from a credible and trustworthy news agency. What makes this news item more suspicious is that there are no pictures/footages of the incident and yet people claim there are people on the scene. In this era of Faceboot, Twitter and twitpic when every other cell phone has a decent camera there are no pictures?

Few of the friends that were reporting this news item mentioned that the same type of incident happened back in April 2009 in Karachi. Yes it did happened and I remember we all condemned it and it was the main news story for like 2 days on our electronic and print media. The April incident was not that big as this suspicious incident of yesterday. In April incident people chalked the wall of the church and beated few Christians and destoryed few shops with sticks. There were shots fired in air too. But no homes were burnt and no shops were burnt. Where the yesterday news item claims that 100 homes are burnt that is something that can’t be neglected.

Now if in case this news item is true then should we as Muslim support it or protest against it? What Islam teaches us about people that belong to other religion. Islam clearly says that you shouldn’t hurt or kill someone until and unless you are in war with them or if they have attacked you and you have to kill them to save your life which in simple terms means that an individual killer can only justify and should be forgiven if and only if he has killed someone in self defence. If someone said something bad about our religion by any mean you can report it to the law enforcement agencies, because Pakistan being the Islamic state we  already have the law for this kind of situation.

So, if and only if the incident is true I support the arrests of all the people part of Mob and also the arrest of the Imam of Mosque who provoked other Muslims to do that voilent act against my country people. I think I shoud say it again clear and loud. I SUPPORT the arrest of all the people part of the Mob and also the arrest of the Imam of Mosque who provoked other Muslims to do that voilent act against my country people. They have no right to take law in their hands and do such extreem voilations.

Now let me share something about Mulims and how they differ from other and why we are religion of peace. First thing I would like to tell is if you want to judge a Mercedes then do not judge it by the expertise of its driver. So if someone calls himself Muslim and goest 5 times to Mosque and kill innocent people in the name of Islam does he truly represent Islam? No he don’t. You have to study your self about Islam to really understand Istalm, do not judge it by those mis-guided people who thinks that they are following Islam but actually they aren’t.

I am the Muslim and I have Christian Friend (who is sweeper and sweeps the road in front of my house), yes he is my friend I do spend time with him. I had a Hindu friend when I was in School and still remember him. I am friends only with many Christians, Hindus and Sikhs (probably some of them may be jews too).

Our Prophet has stricly forbidden us from destroying other people religous places and yet people attack churches in Muslim countries and unfortunately this has happened in Pakistan too, does that mean Islam is not peaceful religion? No, the followers of Islam didn’t follow the teachings and orders of Prophet as they should have. I do not remember anything from Muslims that makes fun of other people religions but such things agains Muslims can easily be found everywhere on the internet and real life. And even if I would have found something like that I would have stand against that. Many things that I wanted to say for quiet long has come out in this single post. Every Pakistani regardless of religion is Pakistani and has it rights as per the law. The post will not be complete if I don’t mention this link that I just found. Gurudwara Baba Ram Thaman ji at Kalu Khara Distt Kasur. Though there are surely many more things, but I have to take my attention from this news as I have to resume working. May be after writing this post I might be able to focus on work now.

By the way those exteremists not only attack churches and Christians if you count suicide attacks in Mosques in Pakistan the numbers will be much higher then those of Churches, so making the hype out of nothing is useless, baseless and everything less . I am not a good writer but I tried to express my feelings against the possible attack and/or the false news that is still uncofirmed from credible news sources.

Why I still think the news is false is because of the difference in number of homes that are burnt and families. Few sites mention use of petrol bombs to burn homes other mentions that only electric meters were destroyed. While other mentions there were loot of valuable goods too. Still controversial and un-confirmed and still without any footages.

TeamPakistan will be playing final of T20 Cricket today

Dear TeamPakistan,

Don’t want to take much of your time. Just want to let you know, that the eyes of 160million people are upon you. The IDPs need some news, they need something to be happy about. We know you put all your efforts when ever you are on the field. We love you, and we love all of you.

When we criticize you it is also because we love you, we care about you. We want to see you as the best team in the world. So, please today go in the ground, keeping one thing in mind. That you are here to win and all 160million people are praying for you to win. You have been performing very well and hope you will do well today.

Take some rest, listen to some patriotic songs, look at the flag for five minutes before going into the ground and play your best game. Our prayers are with you.

Take care and play well. Best of luck!

Help Pakistan win against Talibans, by helping displaced people of SAWAT.

The people of SAWAT who have been displaced in their own country because of War against Talibans.  Need YOUR help.  The war that was started by US in Afghanistan has now been brought to SAWAT, because of heavy Talibanization which is needed to eliminated all at once. But the operation against Taliban has caused almost million people to leave their homes, they are now displaced and are living in tents. They need HELP. The more you will donate to these people, the more Pakistan will be able to go strong on terrorists, the more the displaced people will be able to survive, the more the war will be easy for people of Pakistan. Do not send any money to people you don’t know, send your valuable even $1 to UNHCR, on their site listed below.

Below is the link that lists many ways to help them, for the readers from other countries I am giving instructions for sending your donains to UNHCR, the more you donate, the more those who have been displaced because of “War against Terrorism” will be able to survive like normal human beings. Seriously the conditions are not good. So donate to UNHCR, they are starting their operations form 12th May, 2009.

UNHCR via Our Foundation (Canada) — With Online Donation option

Our Foundation Canada has streamlined a process with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to direct all funds raised towards efforts to help Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Pakistan. UNHCR is currently responding to the emergency with relief supplies (tents, plastic sheets, buckets, jerry cans, and kitchen sets) for all the internally displaced people, while procuring additional supplies for an additional 200,000.

How can you help?

US$50 – Registers 150 exhausted refugees in order to assess their needs and trace their families.

US$80 – Provides 20 wool blankets to protect refugees from the cold.

US$100 – Puts a survival kit, which includes necessities such as blankets, and a cooking & heating stove, into the hands of a refugee family.

US$200 – Provides a tent to shelter a family of five from the elements in all seasons.

US$500 – Sinks two wells to provide clean water for refugees.

US$1,000 – Provides a therapeutic feeding kit, which helps feed 100 children.

How to donate?

https://www.strategicprofitsinc.com/hosted/unhcr/index_s.php

Donation goes toward: Emergency Operations Comments: Our Foundation Canada – Pakistan (Swat)

For more information, visit: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – http://unhcr.org

UNHCR (Direct, Global)

http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistan/global_landing.html

How you can help

$80 Provides 20 wool blankets to protect refugees from the cold.

$100 Provides a survival kit to a refugee family, with essentials such as blankets, cooking and heating stove.

$200 Provides an all-season tent to shelter a family of 5.

$500 Sinks two wells to provide clean water for refugees.

$1,000 Provides a therapeutic feeding kit to feed 100 children.

Pakistanis can see more ways of donating at: http://pakistan.wikia.com/wiki/Internally_Displaced_People

Why my following number is bigger then my followers

I like to know everyone’s point of view that has something to say about topic of my interests, so whenever I find someone on twitter that say something good or bad about things that interest me, be it polictics (I hate most) or any other thing, I just start following them, I do not care about people following me or re-tweeting my tweets. Because I think whenever I will have something useful and about other people’s interest they will automatically re-tweet it and new people will follow me.

I am not saying that it is bad to ask people to follow you, or I will not ask you to follow me, but I am saying tweeting just for the purpose of having more followers is killing the purpose of twitter. Please don’t kill the purpose of twitter. So if you are on twitter for tweeting, communicating, sharing then leave your twitter username in comments and I will follow you, but again you should be tweeting about my intersts and you can figure out my interests from my blog.

Now in the last, I will ask you shamelessly, if you are interested in linux, open source, pakistan, python, django, ruby, web development and web 2.0  you can follow me on twitter (@hameedullah)

Anti-Pakistan conspiracy and Talibans

Why on the earth the Afghan war has been brought into Pakistan? Why Talibans are fighting with Pakistan Army? Why Talibans are bombing Mosques, tombs, schools and Hospital?

The answer to all above questions is simple and straight, because Talibans are enemies of Pakistan and Islam. So whats up with the “Nizam-e-Adal” regulation and Taliban deal in Sawat? The deal and regulation was nothing but to bring peace to Sawat. But now it looks like that Talibans took the message incorrectly and they thought the Govt is afraid of them. But it was that collateral damage that cause Govt to sign that deal. So, now it looks like the real test for the Govt is to send the message to Talibans that Govt is still in control and they have to go by the rules of the deal or there is no way to escape for them.

How are Talibans surviving the war? What are their motives? From where they are getting funds? If one look at the war duration, its really difficult to figure out from where those idiots are getting their food? The money to buy the ammunition? From where they getting those Launchers with capabilities of pin-pointing targets, I have not seen such weapons even with the Fronteir Core (the security force in that area). How come Talibans are able to feed their children, their families? The answer is simple. They are sold. Talibans have sold theirselves to enemies of Pakistan and are getting every type of help from those enemies of Pakistan. If you really think this is not true then you are living in fools heaven, see this

Now, if you take a closer look at the timing of this conspiracy being going on in Dubai and the rumors that Talibans are organizing in Balochistan? Why those 2 things happened at the same time? Now everything should be clean enough! All the questions asked in this post should have been answered if you have read the new of Anti-Pakistan Conspiracy.

To all the conspirators: Dude, it is Pakistan and it will always be, if you are thinking about dis-integration of Pakistan? Take my advice? practice to walk over dead bodies as you will have to walk over 170million dead bodies before you actually dis-integrate Pakistan.

To Talibans: Sufi Muhammad, Fazlullah, Muslim Khan and Izzat Khan stop all your anti-Pakistan activities before it is too late for you and your external supporters (who ever they are). And stop calling that lame Sufi Muhammad a Hazrat, who calls democracy is not allowed in Islam and himself run for a concelor election, the idiot couldn’t win and hence the democracy is not allowed in Islam.

I am not an expert on external/internal affairs, but I know one thing that Talibans are enemies of Pakistan and Islam and they are being funded by external sources who are working with the motive to dis-integrate Pakistan. And until there is at least one Pakistan alive on this earth the enemies of Pakistan will never be able to succeed.

I am seriously thinking about starting a separate blog about Pakistan .

We are a nation!!!

We are a nation, my answer to, “We are a Crowd, not a Nation, not an Ummat …!“. According to a survey conducted by critic magzine they compiled the data and found that the participants have really dispersed views on issues of Pakistan and etc etc. After reading it few things came into my mind and I thought I should address them somewhere and that is where my blog comes in .

The very first thing that came into my mind was “How many people participated in the survey?”. Yes, it really does matter as Pakistan’s population is now 170 million and to really say that survey result represents all Pakistan’s view point or the result is accurate we need to know how many people participated in the survey? Because If the numbers would have been listed with the results, The readers or at least I have could have better decided if the survey represents the People of Pakistan or the readers of critic magazine or may be something else…

What really made me think about that survey was the statement,

“The data made us think that we are infact a gigantic crowd living at the same geographical location called Pakistan, we are not connected by any means.”

They really missed the point here, The above statement has the answer to their own statement, “We are connected by Pakistan“. For critic magzine Pakistan might be a geographical location but for us, “Pakistan Eik Ishq Eik Junoon“. So we are connected.

The other thought that came into my mind was, havin a difference in opinion and importance of issues really proves us a nation. Because if there is only one person who thinks that “Open main wholes” is the more serious issue then anything else, I will just say alteast there is someone who is going to raise his voice on that issue and hence there is a hope that it will be resolved.

I might have missed the point of that survey and of that hypothesis that was concluded based on the result, but I am happy that again there is a different in opinion and that is a good thing.

Now in the last once again, We are a nation, a very strong one and we are connected by one strong mean which is strong enough that one can really ignore all other mean. Becuase Pakistan might be just a geographical location for some people but for the majority, “Pakistan Eik Ishq Eik Junoon” (Pakistan a Love, a Passion).

Setup your timezone on linux box

Its April 15th, and the clocks in Pakistan has already been moved one hour ahead.

So if you are:

• currently in Pakistan
• using linux
• do not want to wait for your distribution to release the tzdata update

The instructions below will let you fix your timezone data to accommodate this 1 hour shift.