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Newsbreak
NewsBreak is a unique news aggregator that helps you visualize the ever-changing news scapeby using different color shades, font sizes and box size. E.g. the most recent news has the darkest shade. It is an attempt and an experiment inspired by various sources. The original idea is not mine I got inspiration from University of Maryland Treemap research and Ben Shneiderman. The idea is to use the visualizing effect of a tree-map to depict news which often portrays a variety of information including source, date, time, topic, etc.
Team Member
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Assad Ullah is a FAST-NUCES BS(Computer Science) student and the newest member of Teabreak.pk. Assad has joined the TB team as a developer and is working on
Teabreak’s upcoming product; Aperture – Photo blogging Portal. We welcome this talented boy in the family and expect the same zeal and enthusiasm throughout.
Assad’s Blog
Testimonial
Rabia Garib
Teabreak.pk is a terrific initiative. Any blogging platform that can reach out to the community and pull in opinions and happenings from the people, will continue to work. The world's largest 'chai ka dhabba' will hopefully play its role in letting people around the globe have an insight into what we, as Pakistanis, are all about. So when you have a moment and are exhausted from the routine you're stuck in, don't waste your time on any break.. take a Teabreak.pk!
Rabia Garib Editor-in Chief, CIO Pakistan
Sabeen Mahmud
What I find exciting about Teabreak is the fact that a group of young people had an idea and transformed it into a tangible reality. Amidst rampant apathy and disillusionment, it's heartening to see individuals taking action and using their professional skills and talent to create a service like Teabreak.
I wish you all the best as you embark on a journey to evolve Teabreak into a complete blogging suite. Don't ever lose your enthusiasm, keep plugging away, and always sweat the details :)
PeaceNiche/T2F Founder
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Featured Blog Posts
23rd March - Pakistan Day
"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."
"We are now all Pakistanis–not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on–and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else."
* Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta on 15th
June, 1948.Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
International Women Day
If feminism for me could embody in a sentence spoken by someone else it will undoubtedly be:
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. CHERIS KRAMERAE, A Feminist Dictionary
Opinionated in the most simplest way possible like everything that’s natural. However natural and simple the word feminism is often use to accentuate the tug of war between genders. The real essence of it is in-fact contrary to gender imbalance. Feminism is the voice that appeals most profoundly a need for gender equality. A niche where basic rights aren’t subjected to gender.
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Blog Activism – Highly Energized Blogger Meetup in Karachi
CIO Pakistan and Badar Khushnood of Google Pakistan finally held a Bloggers Meetup at a time that I was available in the country and although the schedule yesterday was a crazy one (when isn’t it?), there was no way that I was going to miss it. Read More
Issues
The people have spoken
Today is a great day for this country, a defining moment. It is great not just because the Chief Justice has been restored to his rightful place, not because the leaders have finally seen sense. It is a great moment because the people of Pakistan all got together yesterday and showed their leaders that they will be held accountable fo their mistakes Read More
Peace in Swat
Yesterday, Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan, the commander of military operations in five of Pakistan's seven tribal agencies, reportedly declared "victory" in the fight against the Taliban, noting that his Frontier Corps [FC] had driven militants out of Bajaur. The UK Telegraph reported, "He denied reports –and claims by a militant leader, Faqir Mohammmed – that the military had struck a peace deal. He said that the Taliban had been defeated and that the Taliban's announcement of a ceasefire was 'propaganda.'" Given that many view these peace deals as "surrender," Khan's statements seem an attempt to maintain the perception that the military is still winning in the tribal agencies, that the Taliban is being "defeated." Read More
Featured Blogger
Kalsoom
Kalsoom is Teabreak’s blogger of the month for March, CHUP has two meanings in the context of this website - the word literally means Hushin Urdu but it also coincidentally can stand for ChangingUp Pakistan.The aim of this blog is to raise awareness on the issues impacting Pakistan and tobreak the black-and-white depiction of our country in the news media. Read More