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For many hundreds of years, the West has symbolized development, prosperity and riches, while the rest of the world – the horrendously named, “Third World” in particular – has been synonymous with backwardness, disease and hunger. Let us, for the moment, forget that much of this disparity was actually a result of exploitation by colonialists [...]

It seems to be drone season here at TechLahore! Right after we wrote about Pakistan’s Burraq UCAV, one of the hottest pieces of news that came out revolved around the downing or “forced landing” of a top secret US drone in Iran. The RQ-170, also known as “The Beast of Kandahar” was only deployed in [...]

Since the war on terror started in Afghanistan back in 2001, the United States Air Force has employed various different UAV platforms to target insurgents and the Taliban. Both on Afghan soil as well as in Pakistani territory, with the covert approval of the Pakistan government. Observing the efficacy of UAV platforms like the Predator, the [...]

Back in December 2009, I had come up with a list of predictions for 2010. I may have gotten a little lucky this year, because many of these predictions were spot-on to an uncanny degree. Here’s how I fared: Political predictions I don’t see Asif Zardari making it through 2010. I think he will be [...]

It’s been a while since I wrote about how I see Pakistan’s macro situation developing. Even though the noise in the media about Pakistan has died down considerably over the past year or so, you still come across oddities now and then that make you wonder how mainstream publications can put across nonsense that couldn’t be further [...]

Let me just start off by saying that the Chinese rock! And what I wouldn’t give to ride this amazing new piece of technology they’ve unveiled; the fastest train in the world. This bad boy hits 394.2 kph without breaking a sweat and links Wuhan in central China with Guangzhou in the country’s south. That’s [...]

Details on this shot-in-the-arm package, said to be materializing rapidly, are still sketchy. There have been several reports in the mainstream Pakistani news media that the Finance Ministry is close to announcing a $10BN package being formulated with Saudi Arabia and China. The Saudis will contribute $6BN in the form of deferred oil payments and [...]

Back in the ’60s and ’70s, Pakistan and China cooperated to build the Karakoram Highway, or the “Friendship Road”, which is the world’s highest highway, linking Pakistan with the Chinese mainland, traversing the mountains of the Hindukush. Now, Pakistan and China have announced a joint venture worth $327M dollars that will significantly upgrade the highway [...]

China is already one of Pakistan’s key trading partners. The current volume of trade is around US $5BN. However, the governments of the two countries, in the spirit of friendship and cooperation that has existed for over 4 decades now, have decided to form a Pak-China Investment company that will invest billions in Pakistan and [...]

News has reached us from Beijing that several Chinese companies are bidding for the Lahore Software Park project on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis. China has done a wonderful job in many of its own provinces by rapidly upgrading infrastructure and building out very impressive software parks and special IT and export zones. Making use of the [...]