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Internet Cables To Pakistan (2016)

Agriculture of Punjab

Indus Dolphin Survey

 

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Pakistan Human Development index 2015 by UNDP.

 

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Just GDP growth rate is only part of the picture. In fact, having a discussion with an economist regarding the massive loans taken by the govt. In numbers, it has accelerated the growth of the economy and hence GDP growth rate in the short run...in reality, however, it is very dangerous now that we will borrow more simply to pay interests and cut down on development expenditure.

In a graph (of GDP alone), it will show as good growth rate followed by a slow down. In fact, there was a talk show yesterday with some economists (including the dean of NUST Business School) and consensus (him and others I have had a chance to have discussions with) was that the next govt. will HAVE TO slow down the growth rate to check growing imports, stabilize the balance of payments, before accelerating again after few years.

Otherwise, it will cause further disaster to the economy of the country. So, economics is not as simple as a single graph and different graphs tell different stories.

 

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DESERTS OF PAKISTAN

Deserts, in Pakistan, make up a large part of the country’s geography, especially in the central and south-eastern regions. The major deserts are:

• Thar,
• Cholistan,
• Thall, and
• Kharan

These areas receive very little rain fall and are have large tracts of barren wastelands, with formation of sand dunes rising sometime to 150 m above ground level. The desert areas also support wildlife including desert gazelles, bustards, jackals, foxes, wild cats, lizards and snakes etc.







Despite harsh living conditions these desert areas are also inhabited by a significant number of people and livestock. The desert people mostly lead a semi-nomadic life and move from one place to another in search of water and fodder for their animals. The specific desert life style of the people has also given rise to very unique cultures, traditions and arts.

 

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Rainfall Distribution (mm) during the Previous Week (2nd July to 8th July, 2018)

 

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CROSS-BORDER POLLUTION REASON OF SMOG:

While Pakistan has clamped down on crop residue (stubble) burning, India continues the practice unabated as is evident from this NASA satellite image..

 

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The Indus Canyon is a submarine canyon located off the continental slope of Pakistan where the Indus River delta flows into the Arabian Sea. The canyon is between 1 and 2 kilometers wide and up to 1100 meters (~3600 feet) deep and feeds the enormous Indus submarine fan, which is 1500 kilometers (900 miles) long and 960 kilometers (575 miles) wide (the 2nd largest in the world). The Indus submarine canyon serves as channels for the flow of turbidity currents across the seafloor of the northern Arabian Sea. These turbidity currents are flows of dense, sediment laden waters that are supplied by the Indus as well as the seabed by storms, submarine landslides, earthquakes, and other soil disturbances. Turbidity currents travel down slope at great speed (as much as 70 km/h), eroding the continental slope and finally depositing sediment onto the abyssal plain, where the particles settle out.

 

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Tribal Analysis Center

Traditional anthropological research conducted among tribes inhabiting remote areas where insurgents and criminals operate has become increasingly difficult to implement. Studies carried out among people living in small-scale societies now are nearly impossible due to the physical dangers associated with the civil and religious unrest found in those areas. Swat, for example, has become
so dangerous that Frederick Barth’s studies only could be repeated at the risk of the investigator’s life. Similar research is not feasible among Burma’s Rohingya tribes located on both sides of the border with Bangladesh, as well as with the Pashtuns in Afghanistan interior and within Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where even Pakistan’s army enters with reluctance. Given the difficulties of conducting direct fieldwork in conflictive areas, the Tribal Analysis Center utilizes an indirect approach. Using multidisciplinary research, we seek to collect and analyze data obtained from a wide variety of sources, both current and historical. In the absence of new ethnographic fieldwork to update our base of knowledge, the Tribal Analysis Center compiles and summarizes existing research and documents on tribal societies, combining this material with contemporary press reports and articles. We assume that much can be gleaned from well-informed observers who are not anthropologists, ranging from journalists and travelers to government officials.

It maybe called Balochistan but in the province, half the people don't exactly identify as Balochs. It explains a lot.
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Pakistan consumer confidence index reached an all-time high of 115 in Q2/2018, up 8 points from 107 in Q1/2018, according to latest The Conference Board Global Consumer Confidence Survey (TCB-Global).

 

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Islamabad

 

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Based on government data for 2017, that gap between the numbers of boys and girls in education is about 10% - this is from the 5th Grade (nine years old) up to the 12th Grade (17 years old).

The national picture doesn't tell the whole story, however.

There are significant differences between provinces (and within provinces), with government data showing more girls enrolled than boys in some areas.