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South Asia Investor Review: June 2015

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South Asia Investor Review. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Karachi Shipyard to Get Boost From Pak Navy Modernization. Pakistan is launching domestic construction of warships, submarines and missile boats as part of its ambitious naval modernization program in collaboration with China, according to media reports. Chinese media reports have described a building program involving six of eight S-20 AIP-equipped variants of the Type-039A/Type-041 submarine. The Pakistan Navy modernization efforts further expands ex...

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South Asia Investor Review: Pakistan's Rising College Education Rates

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South Asia Investor Review. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Pakistan's Rising College Education Rates. There are over 3 million students enrolled in grades 13 through 16 in Pakistan's 1,086 degree colleges and 161 universities, according to Pakistan Higher Education Commission report for 2013-14. Graduation Day at NED Engineering University For 1300 Graduates in 2013. Pakistani universities have been producing over half a million graduates, including over 10,000 IT graduates. Had risen to 35, of which 3 were fe...

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South Asia Investor Review: August 2015

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South Asia Investor Review. Friday, August 28, 2015. Top Silicon Valley Incubator Y-Combinator Picks Pakistani-American as COO. 33-year-old Qasar Younis, a Lala Moosa born Harvard-educated Pakistani-American. Is the new Chief Operating Officer of Y-Combinator, a spawning ground for emerging tech giants Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe in Silicon Valley, according to Fortune Magazine. Qasar Younis (Source: Linked-In). Markhor launched a Kickstarter campaign that brought in over $107,000 in seed money from 508 ...

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South Asia Investor Review: Pakistan Completes Construction of Over Half of CPEC Western Route

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South Asia Investor Review. Friday, July 31, 2015. Pakistan Completes Construction of Over Half of CPEC Western Route. Of the three land routes being constructed as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Project to connect Pakistan's deep sea Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea. It's being built by Pakistan Army's Frontier Works Organization. Deep Sea Port at Gwadar. Frontier Works Organization (FWO) is an administrative branch of the Pakistan Army. Three CPEC Routes: Western, Central and Eastern.

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South Asia Investor Review: March 2015

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South Asia Investor Review. Friday, March 27, 2015. Median Incomes and Middle Class Bangladeshis, Indians and Pakistanis. Pakistan's per capita median income is $73.26 per month in terms of 2005 PPP (purchasing poverty parity) US dollars as of 2010. It is higher than India. S $6048 and Bangladesh. S $5167 per capita per month, according to the World Bank. Pakistan median income of $73.26 per month translates into $2.44 per day, higher than $2 per day income level used by ADB and WB to define midd...Repor...

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South Asia Investor Review: Pakistan Builds Powerful Surveillance System to Fight Terrorism

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South Asia Investor Review. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Pakistan Builds Powerful Surveillance System to Fight Terrorism. Pakistan is building digital surveillance capacity to rival America's NSA with broad public support in the country, according to a report by London-based Privacy International. By fingerprint, and maintains a national biometric ID database. Pakistan has seen nearly 60,000 of its citizens die in incidents of terrorism since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2002. According to the document...

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South Asia Investor Review: November 2014

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South Asia Investor Review. Friday, November 28, 2014. US BEA Explains Why US IT Import Figures 20X Lower Than India's IT Export Figures to US. Source: US Government's Bureau of Economic Affairs. A GAO study showed that U.S. data on offshoring of services to India are more than 20 times. Smaller than India’s data. What’s the story? However, when adjusted to a similar conceptual basis using information from the GAO report, the difference is actually quite small (chart 1, center panel). In addition, a 2004...

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South Asia Investor Review: January 2015

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South Asia Investor Review. Monday, January 26, 2015. Technology Transformation of 21st Century Warfare For India and Pakistan. How is increasing use of technology transforming modern warfare? What will be the impact of widespread deployment of cyberweapons. Like Stuxnet worm used by the United Sates to cause extensively physical destruction of Iran's nuclear centrifuges? Will such weapons be used to destroy critical infrastructure of telecommunications, water and power and the economy of the enemy?

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Non-Resident Pakistanis: Iftar 2008

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There are approximately 7 million Pakistanis living abroad. This blog aims to highlight the achievements of these expatriates and cover different aspects of their lives there. NRPs and Ramadan, NRPs and Eid, NRPs and Thanksgiving, NRPs and Elections, NRPs and Food, NRPs and Bollywood, and Hollywood are some of the topics this blog will cover. There will also be interviews and pictures of Non-Resident Pakistanis. So, stay tuned. Monday, September 8, 2008. Originally uploaded by nrpglobal.

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Non-Resident Pakistanis: Questions

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There are approximately 7 million Pakistanis living abroad. This blog aims to highlight the achievements of these expatriates and cover different aspects of their lives there. NRPs and Ramadan, NRPs and Eid, NRPs and Thanksgiving, NRPs and Elections, NRPs and Food, NRPs and Bollywood, and Hollywood are some of the topics this blog will cover. There will also be interviews and pictures of Non-Resident Pakistanis. So, stay tuned. Thursday, September 4, 2008. Let’s analyze…. Posted by Sharmeen Akbani Gangat.