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Obama's Trade Deals Will Help Pakistan

US President Barak Obama is pushing legislation to gain fast track authority to negotiate Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) as part of his pivot to Asia. TISA faces stiff opposition from Obama's fellow Democrats and organized labor who fear significant loss of American service sector jobs to other TISA member nations. Pakistan is one of the countries that will likely…

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 16, 2015 at 11:08pm — 3 Comments

Pakistan's Fast Growing Hindu Population 5th Largest in the World

Contrary to the sensational media headlines about declining Hindu population in Pakistan, the fact is that Hindu birth rate is significantly higher than the country's national average. Although Hindus make up only 1.9% of Pakistan's population, it is among the worlds fastest growing Hindu communities today, growing faster than the Hindu populations in…

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 15, 2015 at 11:00pm — 35 Comments

Is Pakistan India's Real Enemy? Or Is It Hindu Nationalists?

First came "boli nahi, goli"  (Bullets, not talks). Then came "chappan inch ki chhaati" (56 inch chest, 44 actual according to Modi's tailor). It seems that India's Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's soaring rhetoric against Pakistan continues to soar ever higher.

Modi's rising rhetoric is now being…

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 11, 2015 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

Why Are Indians Less Happy Than Pakistanis?

The World Happiness Report 2015 ranks Pakistan at 81, well ahead of India ranked at 117 among 158 countries surveyed.  Not surprisingly,  Switzerland is home to the happiest people in the world. The top 10 on the list are rich industrialized countries of the world.…

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 10, 2015 at 3:51pm — 6 Comments

Pakistani Politicians Poor Record on Human Development

Data and graphs presented in Economic Survey of Pakistan 2014-15 show that the country has fallen considerably short of achieving UN Millennium Development Goals 2015 (MDG 2015), a set of goals agreed by UN member nations in the year 2000. Key MDG 2015 goals included: halving extreme poverty and hunger from 1990 levels, reducing by two-thirds the child-mortality rate and slashing maternal mortality by three-quarters and achieving universal primary education.

Economic Survey of…

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 8, 2015 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

How Will Robots Impact Employment in India and Pakistan?

Export oriented manufacturing industries have helped a succession of newly industrialized countries like Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong,  Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and China create more and better jobs and rise from low-cost manufacturing base to more advanced, high-end exports.  

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Added by Riaz Haq on June 2, 2015 at 11:30pm — 5 Comments

Heatwave Deaths: India Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

Over 1,800 people have so far died as a result of a severe heatwave sweeping across India, according to government officials and media reports. The highest death toll is in southern India with 1,700 heat-related deaths in the worst-hit states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where temperatures rose above 45C (113F).…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 29, 2015 at 8:23am — 3 Comments

Greeks and Macedonians of Pakistan

Many Pakistanis of Chitral, Hunza, Gilgit and Nagir have long claimed descent from the Greek and the Macedonian invaders who were led into India by Alexander in 327 B.C. Among them are the Kalash people who live in Chitral, Pakistan.



Kalash Genes:…



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Added by Riaz Haq on May 25, 2015 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Jaswant Singh on India's Foreign Policy

"The principal purpose and objectives of our (India's) foreign policy have been trapped between four lines: the Durand Line,; the McMahon Line; the Line of Control (LoC) and the Line of Actual Control (LAC). To achieve autonomy, an absolute necessity in the conduct of our foreign policy, we have to first find an answer to this strategic confinement".   Former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh of India.…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 24, 2015 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Mission R&AW: Ex Indian Intelligence Officer on RAW's Successes in Pakistan

Are Pakistan's allegations against RAW mere conspiracy theories? Are all of Pakistan's problems today entirely of its own making?  Is RAW just a dis-interested spectator of the…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 21, 2015 at 11:00pm — 41 Comments

Jibran Nasir in Silicon Valley

Young Pakistani activist Mohammad Jibran Nasir was a big draw at a Silicon Valley lunch organized Saturday May 16 by iKolachi Policy Research Institute under Talk4Pak banner. …





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Added by Riaz Haq on May 17, 2015 at 9:30am — 4 Comments

Are Things Looking Up For Modi?

Things are not looking so rosy at home for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he continues his world tour with the latest stop in Beijing, China.

Is Modi…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 14, 2015 at 7:30pm — 23 Comments

Malaysia's Ex Prime Minister Mahathir's Controversial Speech on Hadith

Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, the ex-prime minister of Malaysia who is credited with transforming his country into an Asian Tiger economy,  recently made a controversial speech about the Hadith, the sayings of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 12, 2015 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

Pakistan 2.0: Technology to Drive Productivity and GDP

Introduction of green revolution technologies drove Pakistan's rapid GDP growth in 1960s and 1970s when it was essentially an agricultural economy. The decade of 1980s saw livestock revolution that helped increase farm productivity. Will rapid absorption of information and communication technology (ICT) do the same in coming…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 11, 2015 at 10:24pm — 24 Comments

India Tops Mexico: Illegal Immigration to United States

India left Mexico behind as the top country sending illegal immigrants into the United States as of 2012, according to several media reports.…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 8, 2015 at 10:42am — 11 Comments

Textbooks in Pakistan Finally Acknowledge Minorities' Role

Pakistani history books for middle and high school students now describe the role played by Christians, Hindus and Sikhs in building the country after independence, according to Pakistan Christian Post.

Professor Anjum James Paul,…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 6, 2015 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Impact of Money as Free Speech in America and the World

Are corporations people?  Do constitutional guarantees of free speech apply to corporations spending money to shape public policy? The United States Supreme Court has answered both of these questions in the affirmative in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission case.…



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Added by Riaz Haq on May 5, 2015 at 10:49am — 8 Comments

From Ijtihad to Taqlid: Decline of Islamic Science

Where did star names like Ain ( عين),  Betelgeuse (إبط الجوزاء ) and Cursa ( الكرسي…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 2, 2015 at 11:00pm — 11 Comments

Gwadar as Hong Kong West?

The port city of Hong Kong has played a pivotal role in China's economic and trade expansion on the Chinese East Coast in the Pacific region. Meanwhile, China's Western region has remained relatively underdeveloped.

China's West Coast:

Is China looking to build and use Gwadar in Pakistan as Hong Kong West to…

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Added by Riaz Haq on May 1, 2015 at 11:30pm — 15 Comments

Stephen Hawking On British-Pakistani Singer Zayn Javed Malik

“My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics. Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes. It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction.”  British Physicist Stephen Hawking…



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Added by Riaz Haq on April 28, 2015 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

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