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Pakistan's Human Development in Musharraf Years- Highest in Pakistan's History
Pakistan's HDI grew an average rate of 2.7% per year under President Musharraf from 2000 to 2007, and then its pace slowed to 0.7% per year in 2008 to 2012 under elected politicians, according to the 2013 Human Development Report titled “The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World”.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on March 31, 2013 at 6:30pm — 27 Comments
Pakistan Day 2013
As Pakistanis celebrate Pakistan Day today, March 23, 2013, there are some who are questioning the founder's
wisdom in seeking partition of India to carve out Pakistan as an
independent nation. They do not recognize today's Pakistan as Jinnah's Pakistan. The doubters justifiably point to the…
Added by Riaz Haq on March 23, 2013 at 10:00am — 16 Comments
Turkish Invasion Intensifies Culture War in Pakistan
Cultural invasion of Pakistan is in full swing with Turkish schools and soap operas finding broad acceptance across the country. Local TV channels are airing soap operas dubbed in Urdu and Gülen movement is operating over a dozen schools in different parts of the country.…
Added by Riaz Haq on March 21, 2013 at 11:00am — 16 Comments
Learntive: Education Initiative of NEDUET's Silicon Valley Alumni
DVDs and YouTube videos are at the heart of Learntive, a Silicon Valley NEDians' initiative to promote better learning among school students in Pakistan.…
Added by Riaz Haq on March 16, 2013 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments
Florida Real Estate Developer Plans World's Tallest Building on Karachi Islands
World's tallest building for Karachi is back on track with Bahria Town's Malik Riaz signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with German-American real estate tycoon Thomas Kramer. Riaz brought in Kramer after his earlier deal with Abu Dhabi Group collapsed soon after signing about three weeks ago. Both Riaz and Kramer have an established track record for…
ContinueAdded by Riaz Haq on March 12, 2013 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments
World Health Study Shows Pakistan Doing Better Than India
Pakistan ranks in the middle among 15 similar countries compared by the
Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010). Other countries in this group include India, Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan, Laos,…
Added by Riaz Haq on March 10, 2013 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments
Pakistan Ranks Among World's Top Outsourcing Destination Countries
Pakistan ranks number 3, after US (#1) and India (#2), in terms of freelancers doing outsourced IT work on contract. Bangladesh ranks fourth, according to data from four biggest online outsourcing sites: Elance.com, oDesk.com, Freelancer.com, and Guru.com.…
Added by Riaz Haq on March 7, 2013 at 10:19am — 16 Comments
Growing Population of College Graduates in Pakistan
A 12-year-old Pakistani girl is taking advance online classes offered by Stanford University. The youngest Microsoft certified professional is a Pakistani. Young Pakistanis are setting records with straight A's on O level and A…
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Pakistan's New Infrastructure Investments and Trade Routes
Pakistan has recently launched 5G wireless service in multiple cities and closed financing on the 306 kilometer 6-lane Sukkur-Hyderabad M6 motorway. In addition, Pakistan is seeing significant increase in the utilization of its Gwadar and Karachi ports after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the US-Iran war. This will help open the trade routes from Pakistan to Central Asia via Iran, bypassing unstable Afghanistan. It has the potential to eventually make Pakistan a major…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on May 4, 2026 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments
A Personal Story: When My Heart Stopped in San Francisco
On the morning of April 13, 2026, a surgeon named Cain, stopped my heart at a San Francisco hospital to graft two bypass veins to restore full blood supply to my heart. It's a procedure called CABG (coronary artery bypass graft pronounced like the vegetable), that seems to have become fairly routine in modern times. Dr. Brian Scott Cain was assisted by Dr. Danielle Holland, a cardiovascular anesthesiologist. Prior to the procedure, Dr. Cain told me he had done nearly 4,000 such…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on April 27, 2026 at 12:30pm
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