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World's Tallest Commercial & Office Tower Planned For Karachi, Pakistan
Bahria Town and Abu Dhabi Group agreed to invest $45 billion in real estate in Pakistan. After signing the investment deal, Malik Riaz and Shaikh al-Nahyan announced that Karachi, not Dubai nor Shanghai, will soon boast having the world's tallest building.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 15, 2013 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments
Eating Grass- The Insider Story of Pakistani Bomb
Unlike most western accounts of Pakistani nuclear program which begin and end with A.Q. Khan's network, Brig Feroz H. Khan's scholarly work "Eating Grass" offers a very comprehensive story of the "Making of The Pakistani Bomb". Feroz Khan takes the reader through the interdisciplinary nature and the inherent complexity of what it takes to develop, build and operationalize a nuclear weapons arsenal.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 11, 2013 at 10:30pm — 25 Comments
Pakistan Sees Double Digit Cement Consumption Growth in January 2013
Added by Riaz Haq on February 6, 2013 at 7:30am — 12 Comments
12 Year-old Khadija Niazi Takes AI and Physics MOOCs Online
Khadija Niazi, a 12-year old from Lahore, Pakistan, is taking online courses offered by a new wave of cyber-based educational platforms like Coursera and Udacity. She was recently interviewed by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman at World Economic Forum 2013 at Davos, Switzerland.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 3, 2013 at 11:30pm — 14 Comments
High-Tech Pakistani-American Entrepreneurs Top Venture Capital Deals
Latest funding of Ashar Aziz's FireEye and Zia Yusuf's Streetline rank #1 and #4 among top 5 VC deals in Silicon Valley announced in January 2013, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 2, 2013 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
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Pakistan Needs to Address Its Significant Data Quality Challenges
Policy-makers need data to formulate good policies. Good data produced by government agencies can be expected to lead to good policies and desirable outcomes. But data collection and statistical analyses require adequate methodologies and resources. Unfortunately, Pakistan's data quality gets a "C" grade by international agencies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Clearly the country faces significant data quality challenges. These challenges range from estimation of the size…
ContinuePakistan Electricity Consumption Up 21% in Just Two Years
Pakistan is experiencing soaring demand for electricity across all of the sectors of its economy. The new demand is being met by rapidly growing deployment of distributed solar, estimated at 38 GW as of June, 2025. In 2025, 44% of solar deployment was residential, followed by industry (26%), agriculture (21%) and commercial users (9%). The expansion of distributed solar has enhanced electrification across the economy, lifting Pakistan's electrification rate to 21.7%…
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