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NED's Professor Nauman has passed away!

My dear friend and NED EE professor Mohammad Nauman passed away earlier today. Alas, my meeting with him in July this year at NEDUET will…

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Pakistan's Space Program

The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), best known as the SUPARCO (Urdu:ا سپا ر كو or پاکستان خلائی و بالا فضائی تحقی…

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Pakistani Research Scientist Working at CERN Lab, Switzerland

One of the most important discoveries in Physics since Einstein's Theory of Relativity has possibly just been made at CERN and dozens of Pa…

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State of Higher Education in Pakistan

There was renewed attention paid to higher education in Pakistan with dramatic budget increases of up to 15X between 2001 and 2007 under Pr…

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Quality of Higher Education in India

A few Indian schools in top tier, such as the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), can be reasonably compared to world-class schoo…

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Top 600 World University Rankings

Dear Alumni This following is from Moin Ahmed, NEDUET, Mech Class of 1974 The Times of London published recently its 2008 World Rankings…

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8 Feb 23, 2025
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Pakistan Second Strike Capability and Nuclear Triad.

General Khalid Kidwai, the man who headed Pakistan's strategic forces for 15 years, has said his country is close to having nuclear "second…

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9 Sep 13, 2023
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US Senate Report on Avoiding Water Wars in South and Central Asia

UNITED STATES SENATE,COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,Washington, DC, February 22, 2011.   DEAR COLLEAGUES:   This report by the committee ma…

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Silicon Valley Pakistanis

Positive Media Coverage: The mainstream media and the tech press have noticed the contribution of Pakistani-Americans in the Valley. I was…

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5 Mar 16, 2023
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YouTube for Science & Tech Education? Can it help engineering education and research in Pakistan?

Yes, it's true. Phil Bourne of University of California at San Diego has launched a new website SciVee to let researchers publish their wor…

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Cricket and Commerce Come Together

International cricket megastars with large paychecks to match their egos, Bollywood's elite actors, big business magnates, provocatively dr…

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3 Nov 2, 2022
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