BJP leader Narendra Modi has made history as the first low-caste Hindu to be elected prime minister of India. Modi's spectacular rise from being a chai-walla to a major world leader is sure to inspire the
world's largest population of poor who call India home. Before discussing how Modi's rise will impact India-Pakistan ties, let's briefly examine the new man at the helm of affairs of the world's second most…
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Added by Riaz Haq on May 21, 2014 at 1:30pm —
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Viewpoint From Overseas team invited former Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and former Attorney General of Pakistan Mr.… Continue
Added by Riaz Haq on May 20, 2014 at 8:45am —
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Oligarchs have shaped politics in post-Soviet Russia and other former Soviet republics including
The Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. One such oligarch is Karachi-born Pakistani Ukrainian Mohammad Zahoor, a member of growing
Pakistani diaspora which is already the world's 7th largest. He owns Kyiv Post…
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Added by Riaz Haq on May 18, 2014 at 10:29pm —
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With an estimated $788 billion PPP GDP for 2011, Pakistan's economy is the 23rd largest in the world, according to the World Bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011. Other surprises in the report include the… Continue
Added by Riaz Haq on May 14, 2014 at 9:00pm —
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Pakistan needs investment of 20% of GDP to achieve 5% economic growth, a capital-to-output ratio (COR) of four, according to Mohsin Mushtaq Chandna, economic minister at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC.
Major Issues:
In a
wide-ranging presentation to the Pakistan Club at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Mr. Chandna,…
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Added by Riaz Haq on May 13, 2014 at 10:00am —
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Silicon Valley is home to 12,000 to 15,000 Pakistani Americans. Thousands of them are working at Apple, Cisco, Google, Intel, Oracle and hundreds of other high-tech companies from small start-ups to large Fortune 500 corporations. Pakistani-Americans are contributing to what Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee describe as…
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Added by Riaz Haq on May 4, 2014 at 12:00pm —
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Pakistan is the second least expensive country in the world. Pakistan's GDP is $788 billion as of 2011 based on purchasing power parity (PPP), according to
International Comparisons Program (ICP) findings 2011 released yesterday by the World Bank.
World Bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) does a detailed study of a list of…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 30, 2014 at 11:30pm —
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Organization of Pakistani-American Entrepreneurs (
OPEN) Silicon Valley has just announced a panel discussion featuring Pakistan's former
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and former attorney general Munir Malik.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 29, 2014 at 11:30pm —
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Attempt on Hamid Mir's life has rightly drawn widespread outrage in Pakistan and around the world. It has to be condemned without reservations. Hamid Mir is reported have suspected that he was on Pakistani intelligence agency ISI's "hit list".…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 28, 2014 at 4:20pm —
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Pakistan (score 21.9) at 28 ranks below Iran (score 61.6) at 2 and
India (score 25.6) at 19 on world misery index rankings for 2013 compiled by Washington's Cato Institute. Other nations worse off than
Pakistan on the list include Serbia, Argentina, Jamaica, Egypt, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, Greece, Macedonia, Palestine,…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 26, 2014 at 7:41pm —
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Guest Post by Ali H. Cemendtaur
Koshish Foundation, a Silicon-Valley based non-profit corporation (Chairman, Suhail Akbar) with a strong presence in Pakistan where it works on education-related projects, has announced the completion of over 1700 math and basic science videos that are
Urdu translations of the…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 25, 2014 at 11:30am —
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Academy Award winning Hollywood hits Frozen, Life of Pi and The Golden Compass have one thing in common: Each used extensive computer-generated imagery (CGI) created by
Pakistani-American Mir Zafar Ali who won Oscar statuettes for "Best Visual Effects" in each of them.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 23, 2014 at 10:30am —
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Dr. Asad Qamar, a graduate of Lahore's King Edwards Medical College, received $18.2 million in payments from US Medicare program in 2012, making him the second highest billing doctor in America. Dr. Qamar is a member of APPNA, Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent in North America. He was a candidate for the
presidency of APPNA in… Continue
Added by Riaz Haq on April 11, 2014 at 10:37am —
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Umar Saif was invited by Organization of Pakistani-American Entrepreneurs (OPEN) to an event yesterday at the Palo Alto offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman Law Firm in Silicon Valley to talk about the state of technology in Pakistan. The event was appropriately titled: "Presenting Umar-The Force Behind Plan 09- Pakistan's Leading Incubator For… Continue
Added by Riaz Haq on April 8, 2014 at 10:30am —
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“This guy’s a really good programmer, so that makes him arrogant, because of his skills in a very specific world. And then I take that arrogance and apply it to every other aspect of his life that he’s not good at. So I think that guy’s funny ’cause he’s arrogant — about everything, about how he thinks he is with the ladies. He’s not good with the ladies. You know, all that stuff. He thinks he’s cool. He’s not cool. He’s only good at programming.”…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 3, 2014 at 9:30am —
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has scored a convincing victory over his opponents in the latest municipal polls in Turkey. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won 44% of all the votes, well ahead of the 29% for the opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) which was founded as a secular party by…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 2, 2014 at 8:56pm —
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"The Pakistani establishment, as we saw in 1998 with the nuclear test, does not view assistance -- even sizable assistance to their own entities -- as a trade-off for national security vis-a-vis India". US Ambassador Anne Patterson, September 23, 2009
Pakistan has the world's fastest growing nuclear arsenal today in the midst of a fierce insurgency waged…
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Added by Riaz Haq on March 28, 2014 at 9:00am —
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In spite of all of the recent news about
aid to Pakistan dominating the media, the fact remains that resurgent India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $100 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951. And it continues to receive more foreign aid in spite of impressive economic growth for almost a decade.
India was the…
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Added by Riaz Haq on March 24, 2014 at 9:30pm —
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The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World by Canada's McGill University Professor Thazha Varkey Paul, a graduate of India's Jawaharlal Nehru University, describes Pakistan as a "warrior state" and a "conspicuous failure". It is among a slew of recently published anti-Pakistan books by mainly Indian and western authors which paint Pakistan as a rogue state which deserves to be condemned, isolated and sanctioned by the international community.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on March 22, 2014 at 5:00pm —
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I am pursuing a research on BRAIN DRAIN to identify reason/ factors of our high qualified Pakistanis to migrate abroad either for jobs or business or study and they don't come back in a given period. Therefore, I want o seek Email addresses and names/ qualifications of such Pakistani professors, Engineers, Doctors, IT professionals or Business people who are living abroad so as questionnaire is mailed to them. My email address for your feed back is: drqbaloch@icp.edu.pk
Dr Qadar…
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Added by Dr Qadar Bakhsh Baloch on March 19, 2014 at 9:32pm —
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