Farhan Masood (http://facebook.com/farhan.masood) started the Go Green Pakistan campaign at the start of August 2009. He started created custom display pictures for his friends and designed a green background image with the Pakistani flag on the display picture. He started manually editing the photos using Adobe Photoshop. Then Talal Masood (http://facebook.com/taalz) was the second person to join hands with Farhan and started this campaign on a bigger scale. Within just 5 days we made over 500 DPs. And within these 2 weeks time we created 9000+ Display pictures for the people all over Pakistan and even Non-Pakistani people for their facebook and twitter profiles. Within a little time, more volunteers started to flow in and it became a very huge campaign. The volunteers were not just from Pakistan, they were from all over the world.
There were some graphic designers which actually edited the pictures which people were sending in. On the other hand there were some promotors who were promoting this campaign. So it just came up with something strange that even those people who does not have any idea about editing they somehow stepped in and wanted to be the part of this moment.
Purpose of Go Green Pakistan: was to establish the unity, love and faith back in the younger generation of Pakistan. No one on the media and around the world is showing the positive points of our country, so by this campaign those people who somehow stopped loving Pakistan are back on the track. We gave them a new hope in this era of technology through technology and gave them an opportunity to show their love for Pakistan in a nice and unique way.
People send us their pictures from a basic form which Alam (alzeee) created on http://pakiology.com/go-green. Users simply fill out the form there with their photo. We receive their photos at our end and someone from our whole team, whoever is online at that time edits the picture and send them back.
GO Greeners (Graphic Designers who actually edited the pictures which were received by us.) (in brackets after the name are the twitter IDs of everyone, please give link to everyone’s twitter page like >> @taalz )
Farhan Masood (@farhanmasood)
Talal Masood (@taalz)
Alam (@alzeee)
Hina (@hinstance)
Yasir Bucha (@yasirbucha)
c0d3r (@llc0d3rll)
Raza (@razzman)
Karar (@karar)
Nikki (@anonymousbeing)
Nasirjumani (@nasirjumani)
Ayesha (@blessedAyesha)
Kumail (@kumailbukhari)
Promoters
Rumaisa (@RumaisaMohani)
Sarfaraz (@SMKhan)
Ayeshah Alam (@AyeshahAlam)
Dr. Awab (@DrAwab)
Faisal (@FaisalKapadia)
Hasan (@DannyHasan)
Sabeen (@xabeen)
Hameed (@Hameedullah)
Imran (@ImranAnwar)
Initially Farhan Masood started the Go Green Pakistan campaign at the start of August 2009. He started created custom display pictures for his friends and designed a green background image with the Pakistani flag (moon and star) on the display picture. This work is done by manually editing the photos using Adobe Photoshop. Then Talal Masood was the second person to join hands with Farhan and started this campaign on a bigger scale. Within just 5 days we made over 500 DPs and just after 2 weeks time (till 14th August, 2009) we created over 9000 display pictures, for the people all over Pakistan and even Non-Pakistanis for their facebook and twitter profiles. More volunteers started to flow in by that time and the very little thing became a huge thing and even the media couldn’t resist us.
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Pakistan is my soul, Pakistan is my life, Pakistan is my world. I am a Pakistani and I am proud to be one. Where ever I’ll go in this world, I will be recognized with my identity and my identity is the name of the nation to which I belong too. In August 2009, Farhan Masood and I started an online campaign called “Go Green Pakistan” which took a strange turn in the online community of Pakistan. The patriotism that we were losing in our busy life, started to return back. Oh, by the way Farhan Masood is not my blood related brother. Our last names matched by coincidence 