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World's Tallest Commercial & Office Tower Planned For Karachi, Pakistan
Bahria Town and Abu Dhabi Group agreed to invest $45 billion in real estate in Pakistan. After signing the investment deal, Malik Riaz and Shaikh al-Nahyan announced that Karachi, not Dubai nor Shanghai, will soon boast having the world's tallest building.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 15, 2013 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments
Eating Grass- The Insider Story of Pakistani Bomb
Unlike most western accounts of Pakistani nuclear program which begin and end with A.Q. Khan's network, Brig Feroz H. Khan's scholarly work "Eating Grass" offers a very comprehensive story of the "Making of The Pakistani Bomb". Feroz Khan takes the reader through the interdisciplinary nature and the inherent complexity of what it takes to develop, build and operationalize a nuclear weapons arsenal.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 11, 2013 at 10:30pm — 22 Comments
Pakistan Sees Double Digit Cement Consumption Growth in January 2013
Added by Riaz Haq on February 6, 2013 at 7:30am — 12 Comments
12 Year-old Khadija Niazi Takes AI and Physics MOOCs Online
Khadija Niazi, a 12-year old from Lahore, Pakistan, is taking online courses offered by a new wave of cyber-based educational platforms like Coursera and Udacity. She was recently interviewed by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman at World Economic Forum 2013 at Davos, Switzerland.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 3, 2013 at 11:30pm — 14 Comments
High-Tech Pakistani-American Entrepreneurs Top Venture Capital Deals
Latest funding of Ashar Aziz's FireEye and Zia Yusuf's Streetline rank #1 and #4 among top 5 VC deals in Silicon Valley announced in January 2013, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal.…
Added by Riaz Haq on February 2, 2013 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
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Pakistan to Explore Legalization of Cryptocurrency
Islamabad is establishing the Pakistan Crypto Council (PCC) to look into regulating and legalizing the use of cryptocurrencies, according to media reports. Cryptocurrency refers to digital currencies that can be used to make purchases or investments using encryption algorithms. US President Donald Trump's endorsement of cryptocurrencies and creation of a "bitcoin reserve" has boosted investors’…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on March 28, 2025 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments
World Happiness Report 2025: Poor Ranking Makes Indians Very Unhappy
Pakistan has outranked India yet again on the World Happiness Index, making Indians very very unhappy. Indian media commentators' strong negative emotional reaction to their nation's poor ranking betrays how unhappy they are even as they insist they are happier than their neighbors. Coming from the privileged upper castes, these commentators call the report "…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on March 22, 2025 at 10:30am — 7 Comments
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