Archive | December, 2010

Pakistan’s Unique once-in-a-lifetime demographics

Pakistan’s Unique Once-in-a-lifetime Demographic Dividend Some worry about the astronomical rise of the population of Pakistan in the next few decades. India is supposed to be around 1.6 billion, and Pakistan’s Projected Population will be 228,800,000 in 2025 and 295,000,000 in 2050. The youth dividend can be used build the country. Pakistan will have the [...]

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Uri Avnery

Putin Puts away the last Oligarch

After the destruction of the USSR, the break up of the Russian Federation was inevitable. Europe wanted it, America had worked for it, and the Oligarchs were ensuring that this would happen. The only impediment in their way was the Ex-KGB boss Putin. He took back Russia from a Russian Prime Minister (Boris Berezovsky) who [...]

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Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan from 1958 to ...

New life into Pakistan’s largest industry

In 1968 the Government of Pakistan decided that the Karachi Steel Project should be sponsored in the public sector, for which a separate Corporation, under the Companies Act, be formed. In pursuance of this decision, Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation Limited was incorporated as a private limited company to establish and run steel mills at Karachi. [...]

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with Secre...

A Taliban office in Ankara?

Image via Wikipedia There are strong hints that the there was consensus in Ankara, that Pakistan and Turkey would support the Taliban request to allow a “Taliban Office” in Ankara. The Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said Pakistan would support the Afghan-led reconciliation process and is ready to help if asked. The New York [...]

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X-47A Rollout

PAF strategies for the next half century

X-47A Rollout In the next decade all Air Forces are focusing on the Stealth Technology available in the 5th Gen aircraft. The IAF burnt by colossal failures with reference to indigenous aircraft and engine manufacturing was left with a huge gap. It has tried to fill the void which was left by the inability of [...]

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Shahzain and Brahamdagh Bugti Indian aided terrorists: Musharraf

Flag of the Indian supported terror group called the ‘Balochistan Liberation Army’ One of the recent events in Balochistan is the arrest of Talal Bugti’s son and Akbar Bugti’s grandson. While the Punjab government works closely with the Bugtis the former and current government has had problems with part of the Bugti clan. Talal Bugti is [...]

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Karzai’s bluff: ‘I will join the Taleban’

Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr Mr. Karzai has once again tried to blackmail the Americans with his “I will join the Taliban” bluff. The bone of contention is the $5 billion in US Aid which Karzai wants to distribute to his family and his cronies. This time his cry is “if the foreigners [...]

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Indian Space Research Organisation

Indian Rocket explodes again: Failure middle name of ISRO

Indian Space Research Organisation A Russian rocket carrying a Bharati communication satellite exploded just after liftoff Saturday in the second launch failure for India’s space agency this year. The rocket was carrying a GSAT-5P communication satellite into orbit. According to API in April, a similar Russian imported rocket on a developmental flight plunged into the [...]

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Map of Oman and surrounding region

Oman is strategically important for Pakistan

Strategic importance of Muscat-Oman for Pakistan The strategic importance of Muscat and Oman is not lost to Pakistani analysts. Muscat and Oman are strategically placed on the tip of the Arabian peninsula, neighbors a volatile Yemen, a prosperous USA and a potent Saudi Arabia. Muscat and Oman is also near Ethopia and Somalia, which are [...]

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Dr. King did not know that Gandhi did not bring the British Empire down

We think that Martin Luther King was one of the greatest heros of our time. He accomplished more than any of his contemporaries. Martin Luther King lived during troubled times. He was in search of turth and find a mentor in Thoreau. He was a Christian minister so he did believe in Jesus Christ. Martin wanted [...]

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