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Russia is a massive oil exporter and well-established as the dominant player in Eastern Europe, with a strong indigenous arms industry to match. China is the world's largest exporter and they started with a unified period under Mao, even if his brutal killing of millions was horrendous...

Can someone explain why you wouldn't just keep it as a deposit? A deposit doesn't cost anything, a loan does. Unless Saudi and UAE were looking at making a withdrawal?

If Pakistan can use this opportunity to get more manufacturing presence, it would be good. Especially cell phone and consumer goods manufacturing.

Because the fastest way to catch up economically and socially is to bypass the current technology and move on to the next generation one. It's also cheaper in the long run as you don't have to go through two generations of changes. As for planes the A200 series is a magnificent plane, it's...

The SuperJet has reliability issues. Has PIA improved its maintenance culture to protect against that? PIA pilots are great but they can only do so much if the plane has failures.

The slow growth in exports is mainly due to the structural inefficiencies with the Pakistani economy. That's why it's best if the most painful realignment happens now, because Pakistan will become a much stronger exporter-the cost of fixes will harm the country less than it would if we had to...

Ali Baba is the result of 30 years of work. It would not have happened without China's massive manufacturing base and the onset of e-commerce.

I met Awan at a Pakistani entrepreneurship conference in the US earlier this year. The start up and Pakistani-American business community here is warming up and getting ready to get into the investment rounds in Pakistan. Lots of opportunities, lots of chances for truly significant growth...

Moody's is naturally conservative compared with Fitch and S&P. They were the first to downgrade the US debt rating, actually. The only reason US is still leading is because Europe's debt at the time was in such bad shape with the debt crises in Greece, Italy, and Spain.

Excellent news! Now it's a matter of sustaining that. And while I understand there's a great deal of infrastructure to be built, those are all long-term projects and very expensive. Perhaps what IK can do is start public-private partnerships to do this-companies invest in the projects and reap...

As someone learning the language for fun I can say right now most Pakistanis won't get in just because of the difficulty of learning and speaking Japanese. It is a horrendously complex language with extremely complex grammar. If there are 340k Pakistanis who know Japanese at sufficient fluency...

That's the interesting question is it? I think at this point it may be a sunk cost. What the power companies need to do is conduct a massive drive to eliminate power theft, and if anyone has stolen power, slap them with a lien against their property and require set up of a bank account and...

Economy is off track because no one knows what the economy looks like. There's plenty of money in Pakistan, the problem is that because so much of it is undocumented, there's no way to have a stable economic and fiscal policy. Having accurate tariff collections will also document exports to...

I'm not sure the 321neo is the solution given the typical flights PIA operates. What are the load factors on the wide-body flights PIA operates to Europe and Canada? Range is less of an issue between Pakistan and the Middle East, at that point it's more of a fuel economy issue. You're having to...

I would argue the best solution for the navy would be a stealth drone. Given India's money and ability to buy almost anything, forcing them to endure heavy losses while limiting our own financial exposure would be an excellent solution. It's like the Afghans shooting down $20M Soviet helicopters...

I read this a few days ago. You could at least provide the link to the original article. It's shameful, and PIA's new management has a lot of work to do to fix the personnel and equipment problems. I don't think its insurmountable, in particular because there are plenty of routes PIA can...

J-20 is more of a strike fighter-it would be a really high end replacement for the Mirages in the PAF's arsenal and would be very helpful in disabling infrastructure across the LOC. While it can do the air superiority role and would cause a lot of problems for Rafale, it would really be a...

Because Pakistan's economy was doing so well with no reforms, no constraints, nothing. I have no doubt that there's a lot of money being made in Pakistan, but having it documented will enable everyone to grow and improve Pakistan's ability to put money towards the right resources. When...

PIA is not going to get privatized. The Indian government put Air India, a larger carrier, up for sale and had no takers. Air Blue doesn't have the ridiculous labor contracts that PIA is forced to put up with (although that Air Blue conflict of interest is why the flight to JFK got cancelled)...

I mean 50k is more than what IK got, but it's also about optics. NRG stadium seats 72k and there are 91k NRIs and their descendants in the Houston area. DC area is host to only about 34k Pakistani Americans and yet the stadium was full. If Modi was smart he would have put it in a smaller...