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YouTube Banned in Pakistan? Unblock YouTube
The most breaking yet shocking news for all of the Pakistani Internet users is that YouTube has been banned in Pakistan. This came to me when I was about to open and watch a YouTube video on Firefox but instead it kept returning me the “server not responding” message after many failed attempts. Later it…
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Army and America Searching for Allah!
Contemporay Pakistani scholars including Ambassador Hussain Haqqani (Between Mosque and Military) have argued that a shady alliance between army and Mullahs has led to the current abysmal condition of democracy in Pakistan. Another one of my favorite Pakistani scholar Hassan Abbas in his book “Pakistan’s Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America’s War Terror”…
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If US Really Wanted To Help Pakistan!
Pakistan’s capacity to produce electricity compared to other states of it’s size (geography) and population puts it in the lower 20 percentile among the comity of nations. Combining the three major energy sectors, Hydroelectric, Thermal and Nuclear, Pakistan has an installed capacity of 19.5 GW of electric power. Turkey is a country similar in size…
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Should India Buy Weapons from Pakistan?
India is spending $11 billion on buying arms from US, Russia and others. If they spend one billion on buying weapons from the Pakistani military-industrial complex, they could have a reasonable chance of making peace with a vowed enemy in their backyard. The eternal enmity that ensued with the partition has caused enough death and…
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Pakistan Recieves $5.7 Billion in Remittances
Noting a 17 percent increase in remittances, State Bank of Pakistan Wednesday said that Non-Resident Pakistanis have send home nearly $5.7 billion between July 2009 to February 2010. During the same period in previous fiscal year, Pakistanis living abroad had sent $4.9 billion. For economies like Pakistan, funds repatriated by non-residents to family and friends…
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Pakistan Government May Raise Gas Tariff
Government of Pakistan is considering an increase in the gas tariffs to compensate for the grave losses suffered by the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) recent months, reports from Islamabad confirmed Saturday. For the first time in company’s history, Sui Gas has registered substantial losses. It is estimated that in past six months the government…