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An excellent article by Pervez Hoodbhoy; Why are Arabs so powerless? Pervez HoodbhoyPublished May 29, 2021 Facebook Count Twitter Share 113 The writer is an Islamabad-based physicist and writer. FOR a terrible 11 days in May, the world watched hellfire rain upon the world’s largest...

Honorable T-SaGe, Thank you for mentioning me in your post. The topic under discussion here is “ How to cut Western aid to Israel” The largest single donor is the United States home to about 7.5-million Jews; that is about a couple million more than Israel itself. Estimates of the Jewish...

There appears to be a misconception about the goldmines of Indonesia & Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union when the gold was discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert in 1958. Thus the initial work and processing were carried out by the mining companies with all the knowledge and...

The news as presented is misleading as quite a few honorable members have correctly pointed out. The correct story is as under- kindly read the second part which explains why the assets were attached. Despite the fact that the Reko Diq award hurt Pakistan badly; the international trade and...

In the 1951 Census; the first one I can remember, the total population of Pakistan was about 76 million. Out of which about 34-million lived in West Pakistan and 42 million in East Pakistan. The figure for Pakistan per the 2017 census is 207.7- million. Whereas the latest estimate for Bangla...

It is highly unlikely that Chinese armed forces would join Pakistani forces in their war with India because this could result in the USA coming out on the Indian side. Chinese help would therefore be probably limited to providing material support to Pakistan. Saudis, Indonesians, or any other...

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Sir, Your argument is valid but Pakistan's share of the pipeline the total pipeline cost was about $2.2-billion in 2013 dollars. " the required financing to complete the IPI pipeline segment which Iran will construct (1,157 kilometres) amounts to an estimated cost of $3 billion. The Pakistani...

Saudis have nothing o do with it, Saudi Arabia does not export gas and thus has no ax to grind. Why do we keep forgetting that Iran is still the US under sanctions? Pakistan has no money to build the pipeline and because of sanctions, no international bank is willing to finance the project and...

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This news item is only a public relations exercise and probably deliberately kept vague because it only mentions total investment and the number of jobs it will create without giving any information about its capacity, location and source of the raw material. Petrochemical manufacturing plants...

Agreed but this primarily due to the fact that the gov't writ does not apply to the religious elements in Pakistan. For example, there were demonstrations against Macron's defense of the cartoons of the Holy Prophet ( PBUH) in October but nothing on the scale as in Pakistan & Afghanistan. In...

Regret to advise that I don't have this info. All I know that PMNL Gov't canceled the HUBCO contract in 1998 for charging too much and won the subsequent legal battle by HUBCO in 2000. Hubco offered buy-out to GOP for PK Rs 65-billion in 2020. I am retired for the last 10 years, I am not up to...

It was more than 10 years ago. However, since I had been working for a company that supplied a lot of fuel oil to PSO I was well aware of the reasons for power shortages despite surplus capacity and I will endeavor to reply to the best of my knowledge. Most of the earlier IPP’s were installed...

I happen to know quite a bit about the Yemeni oil scene, kindly allow me to analyze the lead article of this thread. Yemen was never a significant oil exporter. Yemeni oil production started in 1993 and reached an all-time high of 466 K BPD in 2001. After that, the output started to decline due...

Because I live outside Pakistan, most of my info about the imported RLNG ( regasified LNG) is what I read on the media and what I hear from some of the old colleagues who are still in the know. Therefore unlike the international scene; my info in this regard is rather sketchy. I understand that...

For the record, everyone not familiar with nuclear technology must understand that a commercial-type power reactor simply cannot under any circumstances explode like a nuclear bomb primarily because the fuel is made up of LEU ( Low enriched uranium) which contains no more than about 20% U235...

Even though China had acquired nuclear technology with the help of the Russians; Civilian nuclear power technology has had a lot of help from the West. Reagan Administration signed a nuclear co-operation agreement with China in 1985. Under this agreement, China acquired the third-generation...

The answer to your question is both yes & no. The ‘Yes being the fact that there would always be some Plutonium (Pu-239) produced when the neutron is absorbed by the Uranium -238. Normally it takes about 3 years for the fissile portion of fuel (U-235) to be spent. The spent Uranium fuel, when...

One should keep in mind that the actions affecting the relations between two countries are always dictated by political necessity. Growing economic & military strength has now raised China to Super Power status. This has forced the US to form the “Quad” consisting of Japan, South Korea...