February 2013 Blog Posts (5)

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.…





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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.…

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Added by Riaz Haq on February 11, 2013 at 10:30pm — 25 Comments

Pakistan Sees Double Digit Cement Consumption Growth in January 2013

Domestic cement consumption surged 10.10% in Pakistan in January 2013, according to All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association. On top of 8% increase in Fiscal Year 2011-12, it jumped another 8% for the… Continue

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.…





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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.…





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Added by Riaz Haq on February 2, 2013 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

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    India Hosts "Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer in New Delhi

    Self-described "Proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer was invited to speak this weekend at India Today Conclave, an annual conference sponsored by an Indian publication. Her speech focussed on what she called "Islamic Terrorism". She also apologized for anti-India racists X posts. To further please her Indian audience, she also engaged in Pakistan bashing. "Pakistan's biggest export to the world is Islamic terrorism, and I don't believe the US should be cozying up to the Pakistani…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on March 14, 2026 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

    US-Israeli Military Use of AI: Iran Targets Data Centers

    As the war enters 12th day, both the Israeli and the US militaries are using AI to accelerate decision-making, analyzing vast amounts of intelligence data for generating targets, and optimizing logistics, shifting toward AI-enabled command structures to maintain battlefield superiority. Almost all major US AI data center operators have signed contracts to provide AI tools and services to both the Pentagon and the IDF. This arrangement has not gone unnoticed by the Iranians who are…

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    Posted by Riaz Haq on March 11, 2026 at 10:25am — 1 Comment

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