August 2013 Blog Posts (6)

Pakistan Should Divide and Defeat the Taliban

Talks offer by Prime Minister Sharif has caused a significant rift in the  Pakistani Taliban leadership.  While Punjabi Taliban's leader Asmatullah Muawiya has welcomed the offer, leaders of the Pashtun Taliban have rejected it. The split has become more serious with the Pashtun Taliban's decision to remove Muawiya from his position as the leader of the Punjabi Taliban.…





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Added by Riaz Haq on August 29, 2013 at 5:55pm — 7 Comments

Falling Confidence Hits India Hard

Plummeting Indian rupee is the most obvious symptom of the world losing confidence in India. The crisis of confidence is so great that Jim O'Neill, former Goldman Sachs executive whose BRIC acronym made India an attractive investor destination in 2001,  has recently said that “if I were to change it, I would just leave the "C"" in BRIC.…



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Added by Riaz Haq on August 25, 2013 at 8:00am — 5 Comments

Harvard Genetics Research Debunks Hindu Nationalist Myth of Racial Purity



"To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races -- the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be…
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Added by Riaz Haq on August 21, 2013 at 8:30am — 17 Comments

Why Only 10 Nobel Prizes Won By 1.5 Billion Muslims To Date?

Are today's Muslims fratricidal low-achievers? Are Muslims unique in their lack of achievement and propensity for fratricidal violence? Are there other religious and racial groups which share these traits with Muslims?



It has become fashionable among Muslims and non-Muslims alike to bash followers of the Islamic faith for their lack of achievement and propensity for fratricidal violence. Some criticize Muslims for having won only 10 Nobel prizes since the prize was launched in…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 16, 2013 at 9:16pm — 9 Comments

Aamer Liaquat Husain's TV Show Combines Showbiz, Religion and Commerce in Ramadan



"At Christmas there's Santa Claus to give everyone gifts, it's important for Christians. For us Ramadan is a really special time so it's really important to make people happy and reward them." Aamer Liaquat Husain, Popular Televangelist and Show Host of Pakistan's…
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Added by Riaz Haq on August 5, 2013 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Imran Khan: "Im the Dim" or "Taliban Khan"?

"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" asked Joseph N. Welch in responding to the accusatory US Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s as part of the Army–McCarthy hearings.…



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Added by Riaz Haq on August 4, 2013 at 8:38am — 4 Comments

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    Can Pakistan Scale Up Affordable Energy Availability to Achieve Prosperity?

    Pakistan is currently classified as a lower middle-income country, with the ambition to become a high-income country. Its policymakers now recognize that no country has transitioned from middle-income to high-income status without generating substantial electricity at affordable rates. The link between energy and prosperity has been well-established since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The AI Revolution has further reinforced it. Can Pakistan make the…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on October 21, 2026 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments

    AI Revolution in Pakistan: Multiple AI Apps Launched for Farmers

    With the expansion of the internet access in rural areas, several local language AI applications have recently been launched for downloads by farmers in Pakistan. These apps help with crop planning, soil sensing, personalized fertilizer recommendations, disease diagnoses, weather forecasts and market prices. A couple of these have been downloaded by half a million or more farmers in the country. Some of these apps use open source large language models (LLMs) like…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on October 14, 2026 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

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