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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 Joins China in World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO)
On July 16 in Shanghai, 29 countries, including China, Pakistan and Russia, signed the founding agreement of WAICO, World AI Cooperation Organization. Every BRICS founding member is in, except India. This agreement follows the launch of the US-led Pax Silica, a 24-member coalition, including India, which is designed to counter China's AI efforts. The stated goal of both these competing groups is to provide global governance, including building guardrails and setting…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on July 20, 2026 at 6:26pm — 4 Comments
Is Rapid Electrification Stimulating Pakistan's Economy?
Pakistan's electricity demand has soared 21% in just two years. Rapid electrification is positively impacting all sectors of Pakistan's economy. thanks to 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%). It is stimulating demand for a variety of products ranging from air conditioners and refrigerators to washing machines and…
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