This is a great follow-up to my long, painful diatribe on the solitary trials that entrepreneurship subjects you to, and the HR woes you often have to deal with.
Pakistan’s Aysha Saeed, now based in New York, has clearly grappled with the challenges of a small business head on and made it work too! She’s basically [...]
Putting the blithering idiots in the western media in their place, William Dalrymple, celebrated scholar on South Asia and author of numerous best sellers, such as The Last Moghul and White Moghuls, talked about the differences between Pakistan and India as part of a recently held IQ2 discussion forum.
Dalrymple has been living in India for [...]
For all the negative crap in the media about Pakistan, you wouldn’t know news from reality until you kept your eye on the massive economic and infrastructure deals Pakistan’s been busy inking! Pakistan and Turkey, in particular, have really stepped up joint projects in the recent past. I’ve been trying to keep up with various civil and [...]
Sometimes individuals pursue self-destructive policies, sometimes companies do. But on this occasion, the Government of Israel shows us how to lose all your friends in no time flat! Watch the Israeli government and learn what NOT to do:
Turth be told, this Danny Aylon character (aka Insolent Jackass), the Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, is a real [...]
I recently evaluated the predictions from last year. In a nutshell, I was about 80% correct. 2009 has certainly been filled with unique challenges, both at a global and national level. We’re all hopeful the future holds better things, and on that subject, I’ll share with you what I think will go down in 2010. Once [...]
Ah, it’s that time of year again! And how quickly it comes. It seems like yesterday that I wrote the predictions reproduced below, but look, three hundred and sixty five days have passed already. We must continue the tradition we started in 2007 and built upon in 2008… so here we go!
I was right on [...]
How many times will we come across these “Digital map shows Kashmir in Pakistan” stories? Well, certainly more than once! After all, it wasn’t too long ago that we reported on the outbreak of great outrage and violence in India because Nokia’s digital maps showed Kashmir to be a part of Pakistan. In that instance, [...]
John Arquilla, writing for Wired magazine in its November 2009 issue, argues for a US cyber attack on Pakistan and India in the event that the US determines the two countries are heading towards a confrontation. The method of attack outlined by Mr. Arquilla involves US cyber warfare units ‘taking out’ command and control networks on both [...]
Jehanara is not unknown to anyone familiar with the Pakistani IT scene. She has laboured and toiled for years to promote IT in Pakistan, in both her official capacity as the President of the Pakistan Association of Software Houses (P@SHA) as well as in her individual capacity as blogger, journalist and interviewer.
One of her most [...]
TechCrunch just published a piece about the inauguration of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST). This institution is absolutely marvelous by all accounts. Not only does it have a $10BN endowment, one of the largest of any institution in the Islamic world, it also has state of the art facilities, ranging from the [...]
