General

Paypal Pakistan – ? ? ?

What is taking Paypal so long to introduce their services for Pakistan? Online Banking has started already here and there have been laws too regarding Internet and what not. We do need Paypal’s payment services since it’s reliable and affordable too. Everyone can easily use the said service.

Sending money to someone abroad or someone abroad sending money to Pakistan is always pain. I remember ordering a USB kit from a shop in China, I had no other choice but a TT and that was costly. I had to pay a fee equal to the amount I was sending… Other options for sending money to Pakistan are through Western Union and Money Gram. Never tried International Money order. UBL also offers sending money to Pakistan from abroad, they have very little presence in other countries though. There are other Private Companies working too, like Maliks Exchange but it was no use for me and yeah the “DESI” style of sending money is always there. You pay someone in Dubai, that someone calls his brother back home and gives the said amount to the person for whom it is meant.

I really am wondering what is taking Paypal so long to arrive here. We have got Online Banking now, not all banks but a few, UBL – I have personally used their netBanking and it’s “AWESOME”. They offer managing multiple Bank accounts, debit cards, transfering funds to any UBL Account holder in Pakistan – I hope they offer this for all Banks very soon, if you want to send money to someone in Pakistan who does not have a UBL Account then you can send them an eCheque, just write their name and address, set an amount and send it. The person will be sent a Cheque on their name through Courier. Plus I feel it is very secure, you will know that the moment you try to login there.

I tried to see if Paypal has registered any domains for Pakistan. I hit a few results, paypal.pk is registered by Paypal! Bad news for Paypal though, not really bad since they can WIN over the guys owning “THEIR” domain names. Yes, paypal.com.pk is registered to “Mr.Tanveer Aslam of Bahawalpur!” and paypal.net.pk is registered to “CyberCottage of Lahore”. I guess these guys were thinking of selling off their domain name to Paypal when it wanted to arrive in Pakistan? or something else perhaps. They will be either paid by Paypal or own3d by them. I am listing paypal.pk ONLY. The said domain was registered in January 2006. A year now, c’mon Paypal!!!

Domain Name:
paypal.pk

Registrant:
PayPal International Limited
eBay Admin
Dublin

Create Date:
2006-01-20

Expire Date:
2008-01-20

Agent Organization:
VeriSign, Inc.

Technical Contact:
eBay Inc.
eBay Hostmaster
San Jose, CA95125

Billing Contact:
VeriSign, Inc.
DBMS VeriSign
Mt View, CA94043

Nameservers:
sjc-dns1.ebaydns.com
smf-dns1.ebaydns.com
sjc-dns2.ebaydns.com
smf-dns2.ebaydns.com

Palestine – Peace Shattered

Sorry folks but for not replying to your comments, esp. on P5B Deluxe issue was away. Back now so will answer all insha’Allah. Meanwhile, I am finding it very hard… Palestinians KILLING each other. Someone who say slept in the year 2000 and used to hear Palestinians getting killed by Israelis, say he slept in 2000 and wakes up today, while hearing TRUCE broken, he would be like the hell with Israel but as soon as he hears it’s Hamas and Fatah fighting with each other and killing one another, he most probably would commit suicide.

With due respects, I am not a fan of Fatah, they are what you can call the “traitors” but what the hell. HAMAS? Why? I do know Fatah and Western countries are not being just with you but for heaven’s sake don’t kill each other over a damn Government control! Just have patience, do peaceful protests and the people of Palestine and the muslim world will be with you but if you start acting like this, sorry to say but you (and Fatah) are mocking Palestinian Freedom movement and muslims and not to mention saving Israel some precious “ENERGY”.

May Allah guide us all on the right path.

International Reverts Conference

Assalaamu alaykum brothers and sisters,

The International Revert Conference registration is now set. This event is a first of its kind and has stirred a lot of interest. We are so pleased to hear of so many who wish to attend from so far away.

Because of the interest and limited seats we recommend early registration so that your seat can be assured.

The conference is in English, and the lectures and workshops are structured in such a way as to allow for Muslims of all levels of knowledge to benefit from the information presented. We are focusing primarily on the newly reverted Muslims. The conference will also serve as a networking opportunity for Reverted and born Muslims.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Labbaik Ya Hujjatullah – “Preparing the foundation for Imam Mahdi (as) eventual return.”

The conference will be held tentatively Friday, April 13th thru Saturday, April 14th 2007. The location will be in Toronto, ON , Canada and will be announced once secured.

Please visit the following link for updates and details regarding this wonderful event.

http://www.revertmuslims.com/IRC/

Look forward to seeing you there!
Masalaama
Sister Jennah of Revert Muslims DOT com

Wordpress 2.0.6

Upgraded to the latest version 2.0.6 today.

We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.

Here’s what’s new:

* The aforementioned security fixes.
* HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
* Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
* Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

For developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query” which allows you filter any SQL at runtime. (Which is pretty powerful.) Thanks to Mark Jaquith for handling this release and Stefan Esser for responsibly reporting the security issue.

As always, you can download the latest version of WordPress here.

As a side note, this is probably our last release before 2.1 is out, which will be our first major feature release in quite a while. 2.1 just entered beta stage, so if you’re interested in helping out with that process consider joining our beta group. As a reminder, if you’re a plugin or theme author you should check your code to make sure it’s compatible with 2.1 before the release.

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Happy New Year

A very Happy New Year; 2007 and a belated Eid Mubarak to all visitors of The Patri0t’s Palace. Thanks to everyone who supported the website. :-)

A few stats for 2006:-

• Around 10,000 Unique visitors since I changed from Blogspot to Wordpress and own domain name, thepatri0t.net, this July. More than half, yes! 5000+ Unique visits in December 2006 alone . . . [I should thanks Asus for this one, if P5B Deluxe had not buggy drivers, that would not happen :D]
• 31,000 views were generated.
• 94 posts were posted.
• 380 comments were posted.
• 293 votes were casted.
• Got 10$ [HEHE!!!] off Google Ad-Sense, keep clicking the Ads people and I would have 20$ till end of 2007 :D.

Apple’s Ad – Have a few laughs!

I visited Apple’s Website few days ago, noticed an AD. Apple’s minds are indeed creative and I am looking forward to experience their system & OS but I don’t know why do they always have to hit PC and in particular Microsoft. You cannot directly compare Windows and Apple’s OS [more on that later].