Pentagon says that NATO supplies from Pakistani airspace never stopped

Pentagon says that the air supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan were never closed by Pakistan.
Pentagon press secretary, George Little during a briefing Thursday said "only ground lines of communications were closed following the November 26 incident" adding that these ground routes had not been reopened yet. "We are hopeful that they would be reopened soon," he observed while conceding that it is a decision for the Pakistani government to make.
" Pakistan had closed down these routes in protest after the November 26 NATO airstrikes on Salala check-post in Mohmand Agency that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers”.
It may be mentioned here that following the closure of ground supply routes from Pakistan, United States has shifted the bulk of supply for NATO forces in Afghanistan through the northern supply routes from Central Asian states. "Although this route proves costlier for US, but at present almost 70 percent of NATO supplies are being transported through this route".
In a separate briefing, US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland was asked about Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson s statement that the US authorities and their embassy in Islamabad had been apprised of concerns over the discussion on Balochistan in Washington. Ms. Nuland, however, expressed ignorance about any such development. "I am unaware about this. We have not been intimated anything officially by Pakistan in this regard," she pointed out.
A subcommittee of the US Congress Foreign Relations Committee had held a hearing on the killings and human rights violations  in Balochistan on Wednesday. The State Department spokesperson, though, had distanced the administration from the said hearing on Wednesday as well in response to another question.
"The Congress holds hearings on many foreign affairs topics. These hearings don’t necessarily imply that the US government endorses one view or another view. I would underscore that the State Department is not participating or involved in this hearing," she had argued while clearly stating that the US administration was not supporting demands for an independent Balochistan.

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HUM TV ---Drama Serial Humsafar Episode 20 -WATCH FULL EPISODE

Watch drama serial Humsafar Episode no. 20 of Hum Tv below

Promo of Hum tv Drama serial Humsafar Episode 21

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Aishwarya Rai glows at Riteish-Genelia wedding reception

While Abhishek attended the couple’s wedding, the new mom accompanied her parents-in-law to the reception

The wedding reception of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’souza was attended by the who’s who of B-town, but the one guest we were glad to see was Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The new mom looked gorgeous in her blue-and-green churidar kurta. All you Ash fans will definitely agree that we’ve not seen much of her since we found out about her pregnancy. She hardly ever stepped out in public, except for Sanjay Dutt’s Mata Ki Chowki, where she covered her baby bump with a red puja cloth, and to various Durga pujas, where she wore enveloping flowing garments. After the baby was born in mid-November, she attended a press conference organised by husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh. She looked tired (delivering your child by the natural process does take its toll) but glowing in her pale pink anarkali. Just when we thought we would see more of her, she opted to retreat indoors again. Only now, three months later, has she finally stepped out and that too for such a grand event.

Not having seen her in a long time, we assumed she would be busy getting back in shape; especially since it had been reported that she would be ready to start shooting again from January for the oh-so-gossiped-about Heroine (when she was still a part of the project). However, after taking a look at her photos from the event, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. Looks like Ash prefers to keep herself busy bonding with her daughter, changing nappies and bathing the infant rather than thinking about anything else. No wonder then that despite not having attained her pre-pregnancy shape, she is radiating happiness. We also love her bond with her mother-in-law Jaya – so obvious from the photograph. It sure helps to have supportive in-laws. All you women out there, don’t you agree?

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Pakistan's GREENWASH not complete yet

The 3-0 mission accomplished in the most significant format
was monumentally, pleasantly surprising jubilance which no one could have
seriously thought about in terms of a series score-line along those lines, but
the job is not completed yet by any stretch of the imagination and there is
more dominance to follow and many more victories although they won’t quite be
as resounding as the test ones, but ODI cricket is Pakistan’s forte which they
take equally as seriously. Generally the ODI format in this part of the world
has higher viewership, crowd attendances and genuine excitement. Going by how
pessimistic some of the England supporters are about their team’s chances in
the one day internationals which start next week over winning even a single one
day international let alone draw or win the 4 match series, there is almost
every chance for Captain Misbah’s Team Pakistan to whitewash the visitors in
ALL formats and end up with a 10-0 score line once the whole tour concludes on
Monday 27th February in Abu Dhabi.

England have been woeful in sub continental conditions and
lost 5-0 in India last year whereas in the World Cup only managed 3 victories
in 7 encounters. They are below the men in green on the ICC ODI rankings by
some way. Last two ODI series they have played against the men in green away
from home have ended in defeats for them. Cook and Broad are inexperienced
captains and England is vulnerable to spin on the slow and low wickets.

For the hosts majority of the overs will be bowled by the
slower men who control the flow of runs, take wickets and are consistently
reliable performers. It’s a squeezing process to overcome for the batsmen and
each of the trio of spinners is different which never allows you to settle as a
batter. With anything even over 200 on the board batting first and Pakistan
will fancy their chances by turning to their spinners under lights, who get
through their overs quickly not allowing batsmen to think on their feet, build
pressure with dot deliveries, can come on early with the new ball to surprise
the top order and with varieties in repertoire can break partnerships and cause
panic in the dressing room at any moment. Lastly, they also have the skill,
experience and confidence of bowling in the batting power play and can be
extremely difficult to get hold of and subsequently trigger collapses courtesy
of Saeed Ajmal’s mesmerising mysteries.

The off spinners Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez are ranked at 1 and 2 on the ICC ODI bowling
rankings which just shows how impressively they have delivery in ODI colours
over the last year whereas the multi talented leg spinner Shahid Afridi was the
2nd leading ODI wicket taker last year with 45 scalps in 27 outings
including 4 5 wicket hauls with his canny flattish sharp drifting leg spinners,
sliders and top spinners. The talismanic leg spinning all rounder has kept him
busy by playing for the Melbourne Renegades down under while the national test
team were up against Bangladesh and England and had a decent time of it over
there from a personal point of view. How well England can negotiate and tackle
these gifted, accurate and unorthodox spinners will be the deciding factor in
the brief ODI series. The Men in Green are firm favourites, looking forward to
the contests and the tourists will be up against it. We shouldn’t be surprised
to see Pakistan win this series 4-0. It will be a challenging ride for Cook’s side and even harder than what they were
up against during the test series which they’ll want to put behind them as
quick as possible after suffering the humiliation of a clean sweep.

The visitors will be taking on their Lions squad for a warm up fixture on Friday who have just
beaten the Sri Lankan A team 3-2 in a 5 match unofficial ODI series whereas
Misbah and company they will be heading to Sharjah for a one day international
against Afghanistan on the same day where they will be looking to dominate and
perhaps experiment.

Only 2 of 8 KP writers had The Asian Side definitely claiming the series in the preview which was published on the 3rd of
January titled: “England will be put through a tough Pakistan test”and that too
by only a 1 match margin with a 1-0 scoreline. 1 of our writers hesitatingly
sat on the fence at 1-0 either way, 2 said 1-1 including myself, 2 said 0-0
whereas one thought England would bag the series 1-0. Few of us expected
Pakistan to win the series, compete and draw respectably perhaps yes, but
winning it was not what we expected in all honesty. None of us said we would
win the series by a 2 match margin, but it turned out to be by a 3 match
margin. In the preview I also mentioned that 2 results was pushing it and 3
results was close to impossible, but as it stands the Greens have won all 3
tests with all 3 tests having results. We expected docile tracks, high scoring
draws and uneventful action, but it was nothing but fast paced test cricket with
wickets falling in clusters and tests continuously progressing forward towards
an outcome with every session and none of the 3 tests went into day 5 believe
it or not. 110 wickets fell in 11 days with over 3 wickets falling per session.


There were several reasons for this –

a) Highquality bowling, both teams bowled exceptionally and it was refreshing to see
some top class spin bowling in particular from both of the sides because as
Nasser mentioned we had seen some ordinary, average, mediocre spinners for some
time in world cricket, but here we had talented finger spinners from both sides
and a mystery bowler from Pakistan in the form of Ajmal who injected fear in
batsmen and posed some serious questions

b) DRS and batsmen being paranoid as a result of getting struck on the pad with a
record number of LBWs falling for a 3 match series in this tour

c) Out of form batsmen who were short of runs and confidence

d) England’s batsmen struggling to adapt to the slow paced nature of scoring rates in this
part of the world and lacking patience and application to play long old
fashioned dogged test match innings

e) Ajmal’spre series talk really playing in theminds of England’s batters

f) England’s preparation not being up to scratch while Pakistan were playing the Sri Lankans
and Bangladeshis as I incidentally said in my preview for why they had a slight
advantage over England coming into this series


g) England Not being able to lift themselves after losing 5 wickets in the opening session
of the series of their top 5 batsmen without 60 on the board at the lunch
interval with Ajmal bagging 3 wickets in his first 10 deliveries he sent down.
Starting a series well is so often so important for what goes to happen at the
end of it all


h) Underestimating the Pakistan team after the spot fixing scandal and how far they had come under
Misbah ul Haq and talking of underestimating they also did so for the Pakistani
bowler Rehman and Gul whereas they were taken a bit by suprirse by Hafeez who
got 5 left handers dismissed at just 16 as all the talk was surrounding Saeed
Ajmal

Combined Series 11

1) Mohammad Hafeez
2) Alastair Cook
3) Azhar Ali
4) Younis Khan
5) Misbah ul Haq (C)
6) Asad Shafiq
7) Matt Prior (WK)
8) Stuart Broad
9) Abdur Rehman
10) Saeed Ajmal
11) James Anderson

Pakistan’s ODI Squad

Batsmen

Misbah ul Haq (C)
Younis Khan
Azhar Ali
Asad Shafiq
Imran Farhat
Shoaib Malik (added on the request of Misbah ul Haq)

Wicket Keepers

Umar Akmal

Adnan Akmal

All Rounders

Mohammad Hafeez
Shahid Afridi
Hammad Azam

Fast Bowlers

Umar Gul
Wahab Riaz
Aizaz Cheema
Junaid Khan

Specialist Spinners

Saeed Ajmal
Abdur Rehman


Sessions WON

Pak 21
Eng 12

1st test: 6-3 Pak
2nd test: 6-6

3rd test: 9-3 Pak


Pakistan's cricket captain Misbah-ul Haq gestures as he holds the trophy after victory in the third and final Test match between Pakistan and England - AFP

Pakistan's cricket captain Misbah-ul Haq gestures as he holds
the trophy after victory in the third and final Test match between Pakistan and
England - AFP

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5 Lessons from Imran Khan & PTI Branding and Marketing Strategy

Last two events of PTIJALSA both in Lahore and Karachi presented a new, and for many an unexpected support to this relatively new political force in Pakistan. Tahreek-e-Insaf was formed in 1997 as a movement for justice. There were handful supporters who continued their loyalties for a party that did not have any backing from the masses.

So what changed public perception about the party and how did Imran Khan managed to raise its brand equity to a level that pulled out the most lethargic people to support his Jalsas in the two major cities of Pakistan.

Before we start analyzing it deeper, one must realize that the most powerful global brands are using entertainers and sportsmen in increasing their brand value. The reason is simple, people follow entertainers and sportsmen, and hence they are able to create massive market for the brand.

Lesson 1: Imran Khan realized this and combined the two, his value as sportsman and team captain together with entertainers such as Shahzad Roy, Abrarul Haq and the Salman Ahmed. This classic combination worked in the early days and started creating some vibes.

Lesson 2: PTI realized that the older generation in Pakistan has become somewhat rigid and youth is easily transformable because they are frustrated with the usual politics. He focused at youth as the segment that he wanted to market PTI brand to and youth is mostly attracted to music. A job well done by Shahzad, Abrar and Salman for early mobilization for youth power.

Lesson 3: Imran Khan used the success stories of Shukat Khanum Hospital and NAMAL College as tangible examples of successful projects initiated by him that are considered as most transparent and corruption free private sector initiatives. He used these two projects in projecting his leadership and team building capabilities.

Lesson 4: PTI clearly outran its competition through effective use of technology. Pakistan has around 22 million internet users of which 5.5 million are hooked at facebook and about 0.5 million are twitter users. Imran created a dedicated team of techies to capitalize on this massive opportunity. As result of this, PTI has over 200,000 fans on Facebook. Imran’s own page has over 300,000 fans and around 150,000 twitter followers. This helped PTI mobilizing massive crowd at both Jalsas. During the Karachi Jalsa, at onetime 98 tweets per second were being sent that helped in trending PTI, PTIJALSA and IK on global Twitter trends.

Lesson 5: PTI has been branded as a political force that will address the issues of corruption, nepotism, injustice and inequitable treatment to poor masses of Pakistan. This careful positioning of PTI brand has now established that the people of Pakistan can count of them as a true movement for justice.

Media support was cherry on the cake, and why don’t they support the Tsunami. PTI brand has become so powerful that it started attracting political giants from other parties. This is however also a caution point for Imran Khan and his team, they really need to carefully evaluate the individual for credibility before offering party membership. Any wrong decision at this stage will hurt the brand image!

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Direct Mail, is that still a good promotional tool?

Remember those days when we used to wait for postman to deliver our mail? Things have changed; we now receive most of our bills, invoices and notices via email. Marketing and promotional material that used to flood our post box, now being sent to us in our spam box!

I recently conducted a random survey asking people about their preferences on receiving promotional material. Whereas most respondents expressed their preference to receive promotions via email, there was an alarming commonality, “It was easier to delete the email”.

Obviously when marketing and promotion is one of the major costs in any business, such a finding is scary. A major challenge for email marketing companies is to increase the “Open Rate”. There are various estimates and researches. But most experts agree that a 10-15% open rate is good. More important stuff is the action that the reader takes after reading the email. Logically speaking, a reader could delete, forward, respond or take no action.

I was reading a report done by Constant Contact (one of the top email marketing companies in the US) based on a survey done in Fall 2011 that shows that 81% small business prefer face-to-face contact with the potential customers. Hence the importance of human contact is undeniable, particularly in case of small businesses.

Major companies around the globe have now reduced their spending on print and broadcast mediums and budgets for internet based advertisements have increased significantly. Considering the human nature, stuff that we can feel with our hands leaves a lasting impact on our memory, is that the right move? Or significance of printed promotional material will remain intact?

Perhaps, while deploying a campaign, a vital question every brand manager needs to ask is the ratio and mix between broadcast, internet based and printed promotion tools.

In case of small businesses, Facebook is one of the most popular medium for promotion. Every corner shop in jumping on to the Facebook bandwagon, but in reality, this might not be the most effective tool. Its popularity is based on the ease of use, cheaper cost and large demography around the globe. In reality, not many businesses understand or have expertise in engaging potential customers on Facebook. Hence the results usually are not as desirable!

I wonder how many can still deny the fact that receiving a personalized letter has much bigger psychological value as compared to a digitally prepared mass marketing email?

Strike a balance is the message here!

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Ary Digital – Qudussi Sahab Ki Bewah Episode 1 – 10th February 2012

After outstanding performance Of Hina Dilpazir in Drama Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah, ARY Digital Channel now Telecast again , Drama Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah is written by Fasih Bari Khan , and Directed By Mazhar Moin , and Cast in Drama , Hina Dilpazir , Shabbir Jan, Babar Khalil,Uroosa Siddiqui ,Mirza Shahi, Shehnaz Pervaiz, Maqsood Bhai , waqar , Ubaida Ansari , and others , so Watch today And Every Friday at 8:00pm.

Watch 1st EPISODE below

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Quratulain Balouch new Drama OST Behkawa Audio [Download Free]

After singing title song for hum tv drama serial Humsafar named ‘Wo Hamsafar Tha’ Qurat ul Ain Baloch aka QB has become the heartthrob of the nation. Qurat Ul Ain Baloch aka QB now has sung song for Drama serial Behkawa on geo ost title song by Quratulain Balouch.Quratulain
Balouch has also sung famous title song of Drama serial HUMSAFAR. Quratulain Balouch got lot of fame after HUM TV drama serial HUMSAFAR.



Quratulain Balouch Behkawa (Drama OST/Music Video)
Singer: Quratulain Balouch
Song: Behkawa OST Geo Tv
Music: Waqar Ali
Lyrics: Faseeh Bari Khan
Watch music video below:
Download Audio [Free]: Behkawa CLICK HERE

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Amir Khan Vs Lamont Peterson Rematch Set For May 19

LONDON: Amir Khan will fight Lamont Peterson on May 19 in Las Vegas after the Briton was granted his wish for a rematch after his controversial loss to the American last December, his promoter said on Thursday.

Khan lost his WBA super-lightweight and IBF light-welterweight belts in Lamont’s home city of Washington in December on a split decision having been docked two points by the referee for pushing.

His camp criticised the referee’s actions and were shocked by television replays showing a mystery man in a hat talking with a judge ringside, prompting the WBA to order a rematch.

The ‘mystery man’ was identified as Mustafa Ameen, who is an IBF volunteer helping cash-strapped boxers. He denied interfering with the judges’ scorecards. (Reuters)

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Reopen Zardari case, get relief: SC to Gilani

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's supreme court on Thursday promised to drop contempt proceedings against PM Yousaf Raza Gilani if he reopens graft cases against president Asif Ali Zardari.

The court had earlier summoned Gilani to appear before it on February 13 for the formal framing of contempt charges for defying its orders on writing to the Swiss authorities about accounts that Zardari had allegedly used to launder about $12 million in bribes. The PM had a day earlier appealed against the order and asked the court to suspend it.

"The money in the Swiss banks belonged to the people of Pakistan. It will not come into our pockets. If the PM writes the letter to Swiss authorities, we will end contempt proceedings," said chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudary, who heads an eight-judge bench hearing the appeal against the SC's order to frame contempt charges.

The judges insisted that the PM should have taken the initiative in reopening those cases during Thursday's proceedings. They expressed their displeasure over certain parts in the draft of the appeal. It had said it would be ironic to send to prison a democratically elected PM who had released the detained judges.

"The country's PM should have high ethical standards and that the language of the appeal gave the impression that the premier wanted to influence the court's judgment,'' the court said.

Justice Chaudhry said the court had been patient for over two years since it ordered that the matter be taken up with the Swiss. "If the PM is refusing to write a letter, he should just dismiss all the judges and appoint his party's workers in their place. We cannot understand why the prime minister is so rigidly against writing the letter," Chaudhry asked. The prime minister should not be the person to undermine any institution.''

"Forget about the letter for a minute and tell me why PM's actions are equal to contempt,'' Gilani's counsel Aitzaz Ahsan asked the bench. "I will prove that the premier has not taken any illegal action and acted as per rules. My client should get the benefit of the doubt.''

Ahsan pointed out that the Swiss had closed the cases in 2008 when Zardari took office on the grounds of immunity and that there was no third party to claim the funds.

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3 Tools to Measure Social Media Engagement & Referrers on Your Blog

While it is great to add social media sharing buttons and toolbars to your blog or website, it is even better to know how they are actually helping with your social engagement. The following free tools will help you learn just how well your site is doing on the social engagement front.

1. Topsy Analytics

If you want to see information about how many tweets your site is getting, you can start with Topsy Analytics. Simply enter your site:yourdomain.com to see the tweets for your site for the past day, week, two weeks, or month. Beneath the graph, you can also see the top links in the past 24 hours at a glance with the number of tweets each. Use this tool to see your own site’s activity, or enter two other competitors to see how their site is trending compared to yours and what their most popular posts & pages are.

2. Google Analytics

Have you ever wondered about how visitors from social media sites compare to the rest of your visitors? If so, don’t just look at your traffic sources to find your social media referrers. Add an Advanced Segment to your Google Analytics instead. To create one, click on the Advanced Segments dropdown and then the + New Custom Segment button. Name your Advanced Segment Social Media (or similar). Then start adding in referral traffic sources by changing the dropdowns to Include > Source > Containing > domain.com. Click the Add ‘OR’ statement to include more than just one traffic source. Social media traffic sources and related tools / shorteners include, but are not limited to, the following:

• facebook.com – Includes traffic from the main site and the mobile site (m.facebook.com). Consider adding the Like button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• twitter.com – Includes traffic from the main site and the mobile site (mobile.twitter.com). Consider adding the official retweet button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• plus.google.com – Google’s own social network. Consider adding the +1 button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• linkedin.com – Top professional social network. Consider adding the LinkedIn share button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• youtube.com – Top video social network. Consider adding video networks like vimeo.com and others if you use them.
• hootsuite.com – Twitter management tool.
• paper.li – Service that allows users to create a custom or automated “newspaper” with the latest tweets from their followers, hashtags, or Twitter lists.
• twitterfeed.com – Service that allows users to automatically update their social accounts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) with the latest blog posts from an RSS feed.
• t.co – Twitter’s official link service – one of the few shorteners that is trackable in Google Analytics.

You can continue on to add social bookmarking sites like the following to your Social Media segment, or create a separate segment for them”

• stumbleupon.com – This social bookmarking network can lead to more visits in one than all other social media sites combined if you’re lucky. Consider adding the StumbleUpon badge for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• digg.com – While traffic is down, it’s still a great social bookmarking network to get featured on. Consider adding the Digg button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• decicious.com – Delicious has changed a lot since it’s Yahoo days. Consider adding a Save this link for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• reddit.com – Reddit took over the social bookmarking scene when Digg dropped off. Consider adding the Reddit button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• bizsugar.com – If your content is focused on business related topics, this is the perfect community for you. Consider adding the BizSugar voting button for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• blogengage.com – This bookmarking community is dedicated to blogging. Consider adding the Blog Engage vote buttons for more traffic and sharing on this network.
• myseocommunity.com – This is the new bookmarking community on the scene for SEO lovers and Internet marketers.

When you’ve finished adding social media referrers, click the Save Segment button. You will now be able to see all of your Google Analytics data based on visitors from social media and bookmarking sites. Select multiple segments (including All Visits) from Advanced Segments to compare social media visitors with all of your traffic to learn more. Creating other segments for your search-related traffic, direct traffic, and traffic from other sources can help you determine which area of online marketing is working the best towards bring traffic to your site. Add goals in Google Analytics to further determine what traffic sources (including social media) are driving the right kind of visitors to your site as well.

3. Google Webmaster Tools

Want to find out how much impact Google’s +1 button (the equivalent of the Facebook like button for their social network) has on your rankings and click through in search results? Find out in Google Webmaster Tools. If you have Google Analytics set up, then add your site to Google Webmaster Tools and verify it using the Google Analytics tracking code. Wait a few days, then start looking under the +1 Metrics section. Under Search impact, you will see a graph of the times people saw your website in search results with the +1 count annotated. Below that, you will see statistics about the click through rates of impressions with the +1 count annotated vs. those without. Under the Activity section of your +1 Metrics, you can see the number of +1’s you have attained on your website and its content. Beneath that, you will see details of specific pages on your site and the +1’s they have received. Under the Audience section (if you have enough +1’s), you will be able to see some demographics about the people who are socially engaging with your site via the +1 button. This is a screenshot from Distilled showing the types of demographics you’ll see.
This will give you a better feel for the type of audience that is socially engaged on your site and help you to see what type of content gets the most interest by your targeted demographic.

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