I was browsing The Economist at a book store the other day and habitually jumped to the last few pages that showcase economic data and indicators from a number of different countries. Pakistan is one of the countries they cover, along with other asian economies such as China and India. The April 2010 data actually [...]
This post is the second in a series titled, “Pakistan Emerging”. The first post can be read here.
A few weeks ago we looked at Pakistan’s evolving situation as it relates to regional security and in context of its alliances with emerging powers. In other words, how the regional and external situation is propelling Pakistan in [...]
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 [...]
Last year, I listed out a set of predictions and just recently I evaluated how they turned out. But on to more important business: what’s 2009 going to be like for Pakistan, for the IT industry and for the world at large? There are lots of very important trends unfolding before our eyes and they can [...]
Our earlier piece on Pakistan having the world’s largest WiMAX network attracted quite a bit of attention. In addition to other places, it was cited by democracyarsenal.org, which is part of the US-based National Security Network… but that wasn’t particularly helpful as an introduction, was it? Sort of reminds me of the old where-is-your-house?-By-the-mosque-But-where-is-the-mosque?-By-my-house joke! [...]
