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Pakistan Ranks Among Top Outsourcing Destinations



Menlo Park based oDesk has ranked Philippines and Pakistan as the top two outsourcing destinations in terms of growth, value for money and customer feedback.



oDesk helps its clients with tools, technologies and services to hire and manage remote work teams. Other companies in its category, including… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 16, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Pakistani-American: Mr. Thirty Percent



Most people are familiar with the moniker of Mr. Ten Percent bestowed on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. Now meet Mr. Thirty Percent, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American in Silicon Valley, who is accused of… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 16, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Comparing Military Strengths of India and Pakistan



By Air Marshall (Retd) Ayaz Khan of Pakistan Air Force



Unfortunately India and Pakistan had adversarial relations since sixty years. After the Mumbai carnage Pakistan is under threat of pre-emptive strikes. The Fourth Indo-Pakistan war could be triggered by another terrorist… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 15, 2009 at 12:37pm — 44 Comments

Movie Marathon

Internet problems and "a routine" (for a change) have kept me from the blogging world, for what seems like months, not days. The crazy routine apart, I'd been using my internet-free hours as a chance to catch up on a long-list of some must-watch movies and some random ones: The Great Debaters, Ghajini, RNBDJ, The Accidental Husband, Taken, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire. [Read more]

Added by Saadia Malik on January 14, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Satyam: India's IT Scandal



Satyam Computer Services Ltd., considered the poster child of India's information technology age, has shocked the world with a scandal of major proportions. The chairman of Satyam, a name that literally means "truth" in Sanskrit, said he cooked up key financial results, including a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion,… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 9, 2009 at 8:28am — No Comments

Is Pakistan Ready for High-Tech Warfare?



Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or Drones designed and manufactured in Pakistan have been making news since IDEAS 2008 event in November of last year. Also in the news has been the growing reliance on armed drones (aka predators) by Americans in Afghanistan and Pakistan's FATA region to target militants… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Pictorial Review of Israeli Brutality in Gaza

Death and destruction continued to rain on Gazans as Israel began its ground assault. Here are a few of the horrifying images of the brutality the Jewish state is committing against the innocent Palestinian children:



PNN -Israeli forces killed two girls in an air attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip early Tuesday. Local sources report that a… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 4, 2009 at 5:30pm — 6 Comments

Year 2008 in Review--Pakistan



The year 2008 was a year of great turmoil in Pakistan as the prior year ended with the tragic assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec 27, 2007. It began with Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari taking over the reins of Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan's largest political… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 31, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Stop Israel

I feel compelled to share this link with everybody here, out of a sense of duty and humanity. Israel has been exposed, time and time again, but to no benefit of the innocent victims, who can't send off their men to work or their children to school, not fearing for their lives. Blood and gore have entered and raped almost every household in Palestine. This page carries raw footage, so the faint of heart are discouraged from going any further. [… Continue

Added by Saadia Malik on December 28, 2008 at 10:35am — No Comments

First Haji in US Congress



"It was an amazingly transformative experience. I'll never forget it. Three million people, from every inch of the globe, all getting along together in a world where there's a lot of turbulence", said US Congressman Keith Ellison said of his recent experience of pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.



This year, Rep. Ellison, Democratic Congressman from Minneapolis,… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 27, 2008 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Jinnah's Pakistan Booms Amidst Doom and Gloom





Media reports from Pakistan often portray a picture of doom and gloom, with the IMF bailout of the economy, terrorist training camps, Islamic radicals, horrible governance, and corrupt and inept politicians making the headlines around the world. The adjective of "failed state" is often… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 25, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Pakistan Exporting Drones to America



By Noah Shachtman



America's killer drones are getting all the attention, in the fight against Pakistani militants. But Pakistan's military has plenty of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, too. And they're being used to… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 24, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Pakistan's Internet Outage--Service Disrupted Yet Again



Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia has been seriously disrupted since Friday when three major underwater data lines were cut in the Mediterranean, according to media reports.



The main damage is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal. The damaged cables include Sea… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 20, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Gulliver's Travels

I travelled to Mumbai last night and instantly headed towards the Taj Mahal hotel. What grandeur. I recall seeing the structure on TV when Josh, an awesome Montreal-based Pakistani-Indian fusion band, came up with the video for their song, Mahi Ve. For some strange, odd reason, I decided it looked like a Belgian building. [Read more]

Added by Saadia Malik on December 18, 2008 at 4:01am — No Comments

War on Hunger Takes a Back Seat in South Asia



Calls to "do a Lebanon" to fight terror are being made vociferously by the Indian media as they have focused the national and international attention on Mumbai terrorist attacks that targeted two opulent hotels and a small Jewish center in India's financial capital. The need for war on… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 15, 2008 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Huffington Post interviews a 24 years old Pakistani descent who offers a counter perspective on the Muslim responsibility to speak against terrorism.

Podcast: http://michellehaimoff.podOmatic.com/player/web/2008-12-10T09_35_59-08_00


http://michellehaimoff.podomatic.com/entry/2008-12-10T09_35_59-08_00

Added by Shoieb Yunus on December 10, 2008 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Precept Productions Signs First Distribution Agreement for "Streets of Karachi" with Hiltz Squared Media Group

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Precept-Productions-926176.html





SAN FRANCISCO, CA and TORONTO--(Marketwire - December 2, 2008) - Precept Productions and Hiltz Squared Media Group Inc. announced today that the two organizations have signed a distribution agreement for Precept's first film, "Streets of Karachi." The agreement is the result of a meeting at MIPCOM in Cannes, France in October.

"Streets of Karachi" is an 84-minute docudrama that was filmed earlier this… Continue

Added by Shoieb Yunus on December 10, 2008 at 5:15pm — No Comments

The Bourn Supremacy

Red alert, do we have an identity crisis?

Imagine a world full of people, demonstrating identical faces, synonymous dressing senses, communicating in the same language. Heck, there wouldn't be room for any imagination! Dullness. Boredom. Monotony.

The beauty of the world lies in its diversity. [Read more]

Added by Saadia Malik on December 7, 2008 at 7:34am — No Comments

Social Networks Bring Blessings, Pose Risks



Of the two recent studies making headlines this week, one brings good news and the other warns of grave risks.



The good news first: New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from one another. That means when you feel happy, a friend of a friend of a friend has a slightly higher… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on December 5, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Guest Post: The Singing Mullahs

Singing and musical instruments are categorically deemed prohibited by most, if not all, of the traditionalist Muslim scholars. Such vices could only be enjoyed by no less than drunken reprobates and good Muslims, we are told, would do well to poke fingers in their ears on hearing the voice of the devil or the sound of the satanic inventions. I will not attempt a rebuttal of this position but my view is diametrically opposed to the traditional view. There is plenty of research to suggest… Continue

Added by Saadia Malik on December 4, 2008 at 8:18am — No Comments

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    Pakistani student enrollment in America's institutions of higher learning rose 16% last year, outpacing the record 12% growth in the number of international students hosted by the country. This puts Pakistan among eight sources in the top 20 countries with the largest increases in US enrollment. India saw the biggest increase at 35%, followed by Ghana 32%, Bangladesh and…

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