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Can Slumdog Success Improve Lives of Poor Children?



Not only has the low-budget movie "Slumdog Millionaire" drawn big crowds in the West and taken in more than $ 100m at the box office, the movie has won eight Oscars last night, including the Academy awards for the Best Picture and the Best Director. The Best Music and Best Song awards went to… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 23, 2009 at 8:26pm — No Comments

Slumdog: Catalyst For War on Child Poverty?



Decried by many as "racist poverty porn" and condemned by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachan in his blog for showing India as "a third world dirty under belly developing nation (sic)", the movie… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 22, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

China Attracting Foreign Medical Students

If Russia was the destination of choice in the 1980s and 1990s for Indian students who could not make it into medical colleges in India, China has now emerged as the hot favourite. Last year, for instance, nearly 3,000 Indian students took admission in medical colleges in China.





Still in its relatively early years, the trend has already hit a minor roadblock. After complaints from several students who went in the earlier batches about… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Beheading in Buffalo: Domestic Violence or Honor Killing?



Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan, founder of a Muslim-American TV network, is accused of beheading his wife, Aasiya, last week in Buffalo, New York, days after she filed for divorce, according to media reports.



The incident has shocked the Muslim-American community… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 19, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Pakistani Kid at Cambridge with 22 A's

By Paul Harris and Laura Clark

Last updated at 9:27 AM on 31st January 2009

Daily Mail



One ambition was fixed in Ali Moeen Nawazish's mind as he made his way through school in Pakistan. He wanted to win a place at Cambridge.



Sitting seven A-levels might easily have done the trick, even though he had started to study some of the subjects only three days before the exam.



But he was determined to get some good grades. So he sat another three, and three… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 13, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Renewable Energy Hits Rough Patch



Suzlon, India's wind power giant, has reported a quarterly loss after years of expansion and profit growth. It was hurt mainly by the ongoing global credit crunch, slowing wind turbine sales, and by rising costs and a provision to do repairs stemming from the widely reported quality… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 5, 2009 at 6:03pm — 1 Comment

Sustaining America's Competitive Edge Through Education



In spite of America's leadership position in global competitiveness, the new US administration under President Barack Obama is asking the US Congress to more than double the federal education budget this year, as part of its stimulus package. Some of the new spending will… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 2, 2009 at 3:37pm — No Comments

Developing Pakistan's Intellectual Capital

In the "New Economy", the most important single asset for any nation is the intellectual capital it develops by educating its people well. Investment in education could not be better described than by the words used by the Chinese genius Kuan Chung centuries ago: "If you plan for a year, plant a seed; if for 10 years, plant a tree; if for a 100 years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you reap a single harvest; when you teach the people, you will reap a 100 harvests."



Here… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on February 1, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Learning Reasoning Versus Facts



International math and science test results have consistently shown for over a decade that Asian students from China, Japan, Singapore and Korea perform better than American students. In spite of such results, the US continues to excel in… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 30, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Say No to Yoga

Months back, there were reports in the papers on the "yoga controversy" in Malaysia. Muslims, it argued, were in danger of being corrupted by elements of Hinduism: the chantings of "Om". While it is to be appreciated that Islam is a strictly monotheist religion and Hinduism is not, and Muslims, by their faith, are required to steer clear of the very spirit of polytheism or atheism in their activities, this is utterly absurd. In 7th century Arabia, Muslims were asked to get rid of curtains… Continue

Added by Saadia Malik on January 26, 2009 at 6:12am — No Comments

2008 Venture Capital Review of China, India and Pakistan



China continued to outperform India as a magnet for US venture capital investments in 2008. This was particularly interesting in a year that saw the venture investors feel the pinch from declining values of their portfolios. It was also a year when a company based in Pakistan became the first to receive US venture funding.



In India, the… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 25, 2009 at 7:30am — 4 Comments

Improving Higher Education in Pakistan



By Pervez Hoodbhoy

Rumor has it that the World Bank is on its way back to Pakistan with a bagful of loans, together with plans for how we must spend the money. A… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 24, 2009 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Follow Haq's Musings on Twitter



In response to readers' requests and in recognition of the popularity of Twitter, you can now follow the tweets from Haq's Musings anywhere in real time.



If you already have a Twitter account, please check out and subscribe… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 24, 2009 at 9:57am — No Comments

Obama's High-Tech Warfare in Pakistan



Nine people are reported killed in the first CIA predator attack in North Waziristan since President Obama took office on Tuesday. There was another strike in South Waziristan but there have been no reports of casualties yet.



These strikes came shortly after Obama met his advisers,… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 23, 2009 at 10:27am — No Comments

Hindu Nationalists Gang Up on Musharraf at Stanford





The editors of Stanford Daily have criticized the less-than-civil questioning by "enraged Indian nationalist" after President Musharraf's speech at Stanford University last Friday. The Stanford student body clearly did not present itself well. Instead of an intellectual and political discourse worthy of Stanford, they brought dishonor upon a highly… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 20, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Pakistan Ranks Among Top Outsourcing Destinations



Menlo Park based oDesk has ranked Philippines and Pakistan as the top two outsourcing destinations in terms of growth, value for money and customer feedback.



oDesk helps its clients with tools, technologies and services to hire and manage remote work teams. Other companies in its category, including… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 16, 2009 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Pakistani-American: Mr. Thirty Percent



Most people are familiar with the moniker of Mr. Ten Percent bestowed on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. Now meet Mr. Thirty Percent, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American in Silicon Valley, who is accused of… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 16, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Comparing Military Strengths of India and Pakistan



By Air Marshall (Retd) Ayaz Khan of Pakistan Air Force



Unfortunately India and Pakistan had adversarial relations since sixty years. After the Mumbai carnage Pakistan is under threat of pre-emptive strikes. The Fourth Indo-Pakistan war could be triggered by another terrorist… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 15, 2009 at 12:37pm — 45 Comments

Movie Marathon

Internet problems and "a routine" (for a change) have kept me from the blogging world, for what seems like months, not days. The crazy routine apart, I'd been using my internet-free hours as a chance to catch up on a long-list of some must-watch movies and some random ones: The Great Debaters, Ghajini, RNBDJ, The Accidental Husband, Taken, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire. [Read more]

Added by Saadia Malik on January 14, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Satyam: India's IT Scandal



Satyam Computer Services Ltd., considered the poster child of India's information technology age, has shocked the world with a scandal of major proportions. The chairman of Satyam, a name that literally means "truth" in Sanskrit, said he cooked up key financial results, including a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion,… Continue

Added by Riaz Haq on January 9, 2009 at 8:28am — No Comments

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    American Prof John Mearsheimer on International Geopolitics in South Asia

    Professor John Mearsheimer, a renowned international relations expert known for his theory of "offensive realism", has recently spoken to India's CNN-News18 about the impact of US-China competition on geopolitics in South Asia. Sharing his thoughts in interviews on India-Pakistan conflict after the Pahalgam attack, he said: "There is really no military solution to this (Kashmir)…

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    Has Pakistan Destroyed India's S-400 Air Defense System at Adampur?

    Pakistan claims its air force (PAF) has destroyed India's high-value Russian-made S-400 air defense system (ADS) located at the Indian Air Force (IAF) Adampur air base. India has rejected this claim and posted pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi posing in front of its S-400 rocket launchers in Adampur.  Meanwhile, there are reports that an Indian S-400 operator, named Rambabu Kumar Singh, was killed at about the time Pakistan claims to have hit it. Pakistan is believed to have targeted…

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