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August 2012 Blog Posts (3)
Reinventing the Toilet to End Open Defecation in South Asia
A team headed by Professor Sohail Khan, a British Pakistani researcher at Loughborough
University, won $60,000 second place prize for developing a
toilet that converts human waste into biological charcoal, which
can be burned, and clean water. The prize was announced on August 14, Pakistan's…
Added by Riaz Haq on August 18, 2012 at 9:00am — 2 Comments
Celebrating Upward Mobility on Pakistan's 66th Independence Day
to its citizens than neighboring India over the last… Continue
Added by Riaz Haq on August 13, 2012 at 6:30pm — 10 Comments
Record Auto Profits and Sales in Pakistan
Indus Motor Company earned Rs. 4.3 billion in net income on sales of Rs. 75 billion in 2011-12, representing an increase 57% in net income and 25% in total revenue over previous year. The company that is 37.5% owned by Japan’s Toyota Motors sold over 55,000 cars during the financial year that ended on June 30, 2012, its highest ever for a single year. Both revenues and profits were the highest in the company’s history in Pakistan, according to…
ContinueAdded by Riaz Haq on August 10, 2012 at 10:00pm — 10 Comments
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Is the India Growth Story Over?
In a television speech to the nation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his people to make sacrifices by spending less on fuel, fertilizer, and travel. He also asked them not to buy gold for a year. “To save foreign exchange, we must accept the challenge of patriotism,” he said. It appears that India's problems do not just stem from the effects of the US-Iran war; India's problems started well before that. Flight of foreign capital has put the Indian currency under tremendous…
ContinuePakistan'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 — 4 Comments
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