Unfortunately, the Pakistanis do not have any options. The state is on the verge of bankruptcy, their economy is running on bailouts from the IMF and WB (controlled by the NATO states), their main export market is the West (NATO), one of the main benefactors of the Pakistani economy are the...
Pakistani-Canadians: Falling below the poverty line
Pakistan-born immigrants are the new face of poverty in urban Canada. The Canadian census revealed that 44 per cent of Pakistan-born immigrants fell below the poverty line making them the second most poverty prone group of immigrants in...
You do understand that this was based only on the number of journals published by Elsevier. The other journal publishers like ACM, IEEE, Springer etc. are conspicuously absent. And there is no notion of Conference publications (at least A+-Tier ones) done in this study. As i mentioned previously...
Cricket stadiums stand empty in Pakistan
By AFP
Published: May 10, 2012
Former ICC president says PCBs strategy is totally wrong; they are like begging teams to come which is wrong. PHOTO: RASHID AJMERI/FILE
KARACHI: National Stadium in Karachi was once a dusty, sweaty hell for...
Rohrabacher seems one pissed off dude ; I can only imagine what would happen when Shakil Afridi would actually be convicted of treason !!! As they say in Chinese, We seem to be living in Interesting times.
You are mistaken. The misconception of the "growth rate" you talk about is not that it is "growing" in the case of Iran but is stagnating, whereas for India it is on the ascendancy. Which means effectively in 2011, the growth rate would have further dropped for Iran and increased for India. This...
Now let me debunk your statements one-by-one. Start with 2003-2010 for all data points. Plot the Y-on-Y change. Iran's output increases slightly, peaks at 2006 (ie difference over 2005) and falls continuously. India on the other hand suffers only a marginal fall of 0.01% from 2004-2005-2006 but...
I do not know as to how this extrapolation has been done, but frankly the assessment in incomplete, incorrect and bunkum to say the least.
Let us just consider Iran and India over the period of 2007 - 2010. What is the year on year change in publications for them ? You will see that while the...
'The Taliban are Pakistani military without uniforms'
In the wake of the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's killing by American elite troops, DW takes a closer look at Pakistan's "other" war in a rare interview with a prominent Baloch leader.
Hyrbyar Marri is the fifth son of Nawab...
The number of incidents over the course of a single day have reduced, increasing from 2007-2009, and then dropping, but they still occur roughly for once a day, which was my point.
How Pakistan Lets Terrorism Fester
By HUSAIN HAQQANI
Published: May 10, 2012
ON the anniversary of Osama bin Ladens death last week, Pakistan was the only Muslim country in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered to show solidarity with the dead terrorist figurehead.
Yet rather than...
You have pretty much hit the nail on the head on the Red part. Read through this article on understanding the Pakistani psyche of honour and pride (called "ghairat" in Urdu).
Let us become proudly bayghairat
An excerpt
No, if you ignore a default, it does not go away
By Farooq Tirmizi
Published: May 10, 2012
The energy policy calls for subsidising expensive power with money we do not have, rather than investing in cheaper sources of electricity. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: Forget what all of the...
As i said, the level of maturity amongst Pakistani "lawyers" is so shallow, that they have to stoop to showing problems in the host country instead of the country at discussion.
Should we be surprised that Baroness Flather is so out of touch?
You know that Baroness Flather was correct, when...
Indians are definitely much better in terms of education, social status and assimilation than their South Asian counterparts on an average in the UK and the US. How many examples of perversion and child abuse crimes have we seen being committed by Pakistanis ? How many acts of terrorism have we...