Bahia Bakari, The only Survivor of a Plane Crash

It was 1st of July 2009, search and rescue parties were in action in Indian ocean near Comoros. They were all looking for the survivors of a plane crash that took place some 13 hours back in Indian ocean. Yemenia Flight 626 from Sana(Yemen) to Moroni (Comoros) was thy unfortunate flight that crashed in Indian Ocean 1:50 local time and had 152 people onboard.

After intense rescue operation the authorities had already left the hope for any survivors of the flight but a miracle was about to take place that left them and all the world astonished. On the wreckage of the plane among the dead bodies was a 12 year old miracle girl, Bahia Bakari. Miss Bakari survived for almost 13 hours in hope for life, little girl had been severally injured as she was burnt below the knees her pelvis and collar bone had broken, while face was hurt too but she never left the hope and came out as the lone survivor of the incident.

After one month of hospital treatment she return back to her home country France to be reunited with her family, her mother who was there with her along other people had already died in the crash. On her return she was welcomed back with warmness and wonders in her home land and was give the name of Miracle girl. She gained much fame after that and had co-authored a book about the incident. Although the sands of time has covered the incident some what but Miss Bahia still feels the horrifying sea around her.

Jeff Bezos, The new expected Steve Jobs

Jeff Bezos is owner of World’s Famous shopping Website Amazon. He recently introduced Amazon’s new Kindle lineup that was entertaining and memorable. After his presentation, we may expect that we have found another Steve Jobs.


Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 12th, 1964. His maternal grandfather was a director at U.S Atomic Energy Commission and after his retirement Bezos spent most summers of his youth with his grandfather.


Bezos was interested in Science and inventions from his early age and he converted his parents’ garage into a Laboratory for his science projects. Initially he planned to study physics but soon he returned to his love of computer technology and completed his graduation with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science.


After graduation, he worked with several companies like Wall Street, Fitel and Bankers Trust, where he became a vice-president later on. He also worked for D. E. Shaw & Co.


Bezos  found Amazon.com in 1994, initially his office setup was established in his garage. His work with Amazon led him to become a billionaire. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin. According to Forbes, Amazon’s shares have jumped 55%.

Mohenjo-daro, The City of Dead

Mohenjo-daro means City of Dead in Sindhi language, is an archaeological site in Pakistani province of Sindh. It is believed to be one of the earliest urban settlement of the human history. Mohinjo-daro was built  around 2600-2500 BC and nearly 1800 BC this ancient settlement of Indus valley was ruined.


Mohenjo-daro was rediscoverd from the sands of time in 1922. The site when fully recovered showed some amazing facts about the city and its citizens. The archaeological tests proved that this city was existed in  same age when Egyption civilization was at its peak. The system of the city is very advance as compared to that times. The sanitation system of the city is very impressive and even can be seen in the ruins of the city.


After its discovery many Indian, Pakistanis and foreign archaeologists worked on the site but its still a very much unsolved mystery. As till date no body has been able to properly understand the language of Mohenjo-daro, most of the knowledge is derived from artifacts and archaeological diggings.


It is believed that this city could just survived for some centuries because of the peacefulness of its citizens as archaeologists have hardly found any weapons on the site. Its large food storage halls, its water system, its sanitation system is somewhat that has amazed most of the archaeologists because of it advanced nature as compare to that time.


Its a UNESCO Heritage Site, where still experts are working under the umbrella of UNESCO, who know we may be closed to discovering an other great civilization, where people were very civilized and peaceful and had the best facilities available to them during that age on inconvenience. 

Dennis Ritchie, the father of C and Unix died.

October 2011 has been very tough on computing experts and lovers as first the shocking news of Steve Jobs' death followed by the death of another computer genius Dennis Ritchie. Born in New york on 9th September 1941, where his father was a scientist in computing field. 

After completing his education from Harverd University, Dennis was hired in Bell Labs research centre where he met another genius in shape of Ken Thompson and both were the founders of the UNIX operating system in 1971. Dennis Richie has gained most of him fame from creating and developing C language one of the main computer programming languages used even today.

C language and UNIX has been very influencial in mostly all of the computer programs. Modern computing is in this form because of the major contribution of Dennis Ritchie, even without Dennis Ritchie there would be no Jobs, as Jobs' main inventions has been based on the C language.

Dennis was found dead on October 12, 2011 in new jersey. He has been awarded with turning award 1983 and with national medal of technology in 1999.

New and unexpected by Steve Jobs, iDied

5th October 2011, was a sad day for the computer lovers as one of the leading figures in the computing industry Steve Jobs, Chairman Apple inc passed away. Born February 24th, 1955 in California. From his early teens he was very interested in computers and its related technologies. He used to attend lectures on computer related stuff in Hewlett Packard Company, where he was later hired. In 1974 after returning back to California, Jobs worked with Atari where his main task been to create chips for a computer game.


It was 1976 when the Steve’s real career as a famous inventor and entrepreneur was started. Along with his two mates Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne he founded Apple. At that time he was only 21 years old whereas his other fellow Wozniak only been of 26. Soon both young and energetic young lads were assembling and selling PCs.


From 1976 to 1983 Apple had some mixed years with glimpses of success and failures. 1984 was year when it just took off with the release of Apple Macintosh. His leadership and charismatic workmanship brought Apple to new heights.


1986 Jobs bought PIXER, a computer graphic studio, bought at $10 million. Initially PIXER was not a successful studio and was facing constant losses but the “GENIUS” of the man came to pave the way for its success and soon it negotiated with Disney to co-produce animated film and its first collaborative effort was a huge box office success in “Toy Story”.


Visionary Steve has always been a brave and bold man throughout his professional career, never afraid of bold decisions. Steve changed the world by  introducing GUI based Macintosh early in the 80s. IPOD and IPAD being his latest inventions.


In 2004 he was diagnosed with cancers in his pancreas, which ultimately resulted in his death in 2011. At 56, a premature end for a man who revolutionized modern culture with ubiquitous inventions like the iPod and the iPad.

Some Malicious Computer Viruses

A computer virus is a computer program or programming code which can replicate itself from one folder to other folder and one computer to other computer. A properly engineered virus can cause a huge damage, e-g, in January 2004, a virus name Mydoom Worm infected approximately a quarter-million computers just in a single day. Trojan horses, Worms, spywares and rootkits are different forms of virus. A virus can be spread through E-mails, removable media like CD, DVD, USB drive and through other computers on same network. Following are some most dangerous Viruses which caused a lot of damage.

CIH: CIH is also known as Chernobyl, is a virus coded by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. It was one of the most damaging viruses at its time which used to overwrite critical information on infected system drives and in some cases system BIOS was also corrupted. This virus caused a huge loss in Asia.

ILOVEYOU: also known as Aric Paul, is a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of computers in 2000 through email. It was an email with subject "ILOVEYOU" having an attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU". After opening the attachment, this worm used to send a copy of itself to all the email addresses on the Windows Address Book and with the user's sender address. This virus also caused several malicious changes to the computers.

Fun.exe (New Folder): was first apperaed in 2008. This virus installs multiple copies of itself throughout the system on different locations with different names, its icon is just look like a folder, and upon clicking it starts working and making copies in all folders. It is nearly impossible to delete them.

Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot (MSN Messenger Fame): is a backdoor computer worm that is spread through MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Once it is installed on a computer, it copies itself into a Windows system folder. It send itself to all MSN Contacts offering them to open an attachment "photos.zip" or click on a link with a personal message like
"Hey, is this your picture? :S http://www.msnimages.net/images/viewimage.php?=abc@hotmail.com".
This worm is also used  by hackers as it allows for confidential information to be transmitted to a hacker.

Recent Frauds of PTCL

Although PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Limited) has the credit to introduce low cost broadband DSL for corporate sector as well as home users and is the largest internet service provider in Pakistan, but now PTCL has started to over-charge its customers without any prior notification. Also after making its monopoly in Local Market, the services and customer support of PTCL is getting poorer gradually. There are also some reports that PTCL Telephone Exchange Level staff has started to charge the customers illegally.

One month back, unexpectedly, all 1 MB accounts converted to 2 MB without any prior notification and all such accounts were over-charged. Although it was mentioned on Telephone bill that on request the account may be reverted back and the amount of bill will be adjusted in next bill, many customers requested to revert it back but once again customer's received the increased bill.

Another recent fraud by PTCL noticed this month when many customers were charged 1000 rs extra in their monthly telephone bill, according to PTCL customer care, from now onward extra amount will be charged on downloading upto 50 GB data, means PTCL's unlimited broadband is now limited.

Lets hope for some good news from PTCL after these unexpected shocks. Also we hope that PTCL will provide all the promised services without any extra charges.