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A new runway at Faisalabad International Airport will be completed by October this year, enabling Boeing 777 aircraft to land, said Airport Manager Muhammad Anwar Zia. Addressing Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) here on Thursday, he added that the air cargo complex was also...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/06/amazon-marketplace-pakistani-sellers.html A year after joining Amazon Marketplace, Pakistan is currently ranked as the third biggest source of new sellers joining in 2022, according to Marketplace Pulse research. Amazon e-commerce platform has global...

https://www.riazhaq.com/2022/06/us-tech-firm-gives-remote-employees-in.html American tech firm Edge has boosted the minimum salary of its Pakistan-based remote employees to Rs. 200,000 (about US$1,000) a month, a 150% increase. The firm's 190 employees work from home for the firm headquartered...

Infrastructure projects like CPEC are long-term projects that add to the productive capacity of Pakistan's economy. Pakistan has to manage short-term issues without significantly delaying these projects. Never sacrifice long-term goals...

China Ports Chair Zhang Baozhong: #China gave 5b Yuan (1 billion US$) in grants for #socioeconomic uplift of #Gwadar over the last 7 years to improve living standard of local population under Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives. #CPEC #Pakistan...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/06/new-gwadar-international-airport.html The architecture of the New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA) is inspired by a rising Phoenix. It is Pakistan's second greenfield airport built from scratch in a new location. With a 3,650-meter long runway, it is...

India’s Economy Is Growing Quickly. Why Can’t It Produce Enough Jobs? The disconnect is a result of India’s uneven growth, powered and enjoyed by the country’s upper strata. By Emily Schmall and Sameer Yasir https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/business/economy/india-economy-jobs.html Among the...

Global average weight of 137 pounds includes America and Europe, while 178 pounds average is just for North Americans.

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/06/indian-womens-labor-force-participation.html Female labor force participation rate in India has recently fallen to just 19%, the second lowest after Afghanistan's 15% in the South Asia region. By contrast, Pakistan's women's labor force participation...

Having traveled around the world, I can tell you from personal experience that the serving sizes in the US are the biggest.....far bigger than anything I saw in Europe or Asia. Besides, the items in the American menu are loaded with lots of unhealthy calories. Asia has 61 per cent of the...

Americans are among the most obese in the world! 68% of the people in the US are obese or overweight!! https://ourworldindata.org/obesity

Food consumption is the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by Our World in Data. However, the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depends on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, for example during...

The trend of higher per capita daily calorie consumption in Pakistan has continued since the 1950s. It has risen from about 2,078 in 1949-50 to 2,400 in 2001-02 and 2735 in 2021-22. The per capita per day protein intake in grams increased from 63 to 67 to about 75 during these years. Health...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/06/economic-survey-pakistanis-consuming.html Pakistanis are eating more and healthier foods, according to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2021-22. Per capita average daily calorie intake in Pakistan has jumped to 2,735 calories in FY 2021-22 from 2,457...

China and India buy more Russian oil, blunting Western sanctions Both countries take advantage of discounts as buyers disappear https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy/China-and-India-buy-more-Russian-oil-blunting-Western-sanctions TOKYO -- China and India have increased Russian oil purchases...

In response to arguments like lowering expectations of India (above), pro-India think tankers want the US to have a policy of what they call "strategic altruism"! https://www.riazhaq.com/2019/09/ashley-tellis-wants-trump-to-continue.html In a piece titled "The India Dividend: New Delhi Remains...

Should #US lower its expectations of #India? Instead of investing in #humancapital, #nuclear & #renewable energy, or #healthcare, #Modi’s gov't focus is on “correcting” history textbooks, attacking #Muslims, extoll #Hindu "virtues"! #Hindutva #Islamophobia...

Handle the India-U.S. Relationship With Care The world’s largest democracy often sees things very differently than America. By Walter Russell Mead https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-handle-with-care-modi-china-russia-narendra-democracy-hindu-america-blinken-11654539987 Superficially, the...

Hindutva Hindu Supremacists led by Modi are particularly hostile toward Muslims. But they also hate other Abrahamic faiths and the West almost as much. BJP base attacks Christians, Christianity, Western civilization, US and Europe.

Spoof video shows Qatar Airways CEO offer plane to man who called for 'bycott' of airline "Vashudev habibi, we are willing to give you one whole plane to make your TikTok videos, or maybe we can give you two litres of petrol free so you take this call for boycott back otherwise how will we...