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    Saudi Appoints First Senior Female Diplomat

    But when she sets foot in KSA, won't she be arrested for public-nudity because she is exposing her face in public? And if the KSA were to amend its laws to allow her to expose her face in public, where does it end? What if she demands the right to expose her hands, then her hair, then her arms...
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    India pledges to build schools in West Bank

    Don't you think the following type of things are strange: 1) India has a 75% literacy rate, with millions of India children unable to access a halfway decent school and the same India is now building schools for Palestinian children. 2) India has a 45% child malnutrition rate, with Indian...
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    Violence spreads across Middle East over anti-Islam film Read more: http:/

    Have any of these violent protestors actually seen the movie? It looks like a cheesy, home-made production: Muhammad Movie Trailer CONTRAVERSIAL (FULL!!) - YouTube
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    Pakistan's Livestock Revolution Draws Big Invstors in Agribusiness

    There is certainly great potential of investing in modern farming techniques (i.e. agribusiness) to improve the lives of ordinary Pakistanis. The relatively strong rural economy is one reason why Pakistan has less hunger and poverty than India and no reports of mass farmer suicides unlike India...
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    Largest Emerging Economies, E7+Pakistan, growth prospects and challenges

    The International Futures (IFs) Institute has published projections for economies all over the World, using similar standardized methodologies to the ones that O'Neill used for this N-11 report. Here are the projections for all South-Asian Countries PLUS the other developing countries in the...
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    Pakistan, Iran vow to boost mutual trade to $2 billion

    The Difa Pakistan Council (DPC) often insists that Pakistan should not trade with India because of its evil intentions and hostility towards the Pakistan. They observe that Pakistan has China, Afghanistan and Iran as neighbors besides India and so Pakistan should preferentially deal with them...
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    ISRO: A lesson for Pakistan.

    1) Even if a country like India eliminates its entire space program, it will not make a dent in the social issues of poverty. The question is one of scale. The entire space program in India & China is probably 1-5 Billion$ a year (India at lower end and China at higher end). So it is about 1$...
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    ISRO: A lesson for Pakistan.

    1) Rocket engines (not cryogenic ones, just regular solid & liquid fuel ones) have been around a lot longer than Jet engines. Jet engines are more complex and difficult to make than regular Rocket engines. If you meant specifically "cryogenic rocket engines" when you said "rocket engines"...
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    Diamer Bhasha Dam: Russia wants to take up project without bidding

    You are correct. The Cold War is over. India is not as close to Russia as it was to the USSR. Here is the same Russian newspaper Pravda on India and Indians today: Millions of impoverished Indians may inundate Russia - English pravda.ru
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    ISRO: A lesson for Pakistan.

    First they got rid of Dr. Abdus Salam and denigrated all his important Nobel-prize winning work. Now they are going about denigrating the hard-work of Pakistan's most famous Economist by ridiculing his salient achievement in developing the HDI itself: Mahbub ul Haq - Wikipedia, the free...
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    Pakistani Diaspora Among the World's Largest

    This is true for many countries---- Indian nationalism vs Pakistani nationalism - YouTube
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    Pakistani Diaspora Among the World's Largest

    I am not sure, but that Patel fellow may be on to something... US Spelling Bee Dominance: Can Non-Indians Win the Spelling Bee? - YouTube ----------------------------------------------------------- Showcasing the Problem with its system of education: Indians Vs U.S. Population -...
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    ISRO: A lesson for Pakistan.

    This sounds about right, as it is related to what World Bank is reporting---
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    Pakistani Diaspora Among the World's Largest

    Try New York Times Database. Immigration and Jobs - Map of Foreign-Born Workers - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com If we look at the collated data from NY Times, apart from Taxi-drivers, we see that "Managers & administrators" (mainly shop & restaurant owners) are another 10% and...
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    The Arab Military Option

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In 1983, the total defence budget of all Arab countries totalled $46,052 million. The Gulf states alone accounted for $26,847 million of that, which is 58 per cent. Yet those states manage to deploy only 5.6 per cent of the total Arab tank force and only 6.6 per cent of the...
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    The Total defeat of Israel in 33 days (Lebanon 2006)

    Hezbollah (Iranian Spelling) are a Shia organization. Shia Hizballah (Saudi Spelling) are considered Apostates in Saudi Arabia. Far from being a source of pride, Hizballah are detested in Saudi Arabia as heretics. Note: This is not my view. I am merely telling you the view of the Grand...
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    Saudi Advanced Electronics Company (The upcoming Defense Giant)

    Saudi Arabia does not have the population (Native people are only 14 million) to develop a multi-sectoral economy. It has no choice but to specialize in a few chosen industries (besides Oil & Gas) and import everything else. Even the GCC as a whole has a very, very small native...
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    The Arab Military Option

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In 1983, the total defence budget of all Arab countries totalled $46,052 million. The Gulf states alone accounted for $26,847 million of that, which is 58 per cent. Yet those states manage to deploy only 5.6 per cent of the total Arab tank force and only 6.6 per cent of the...
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    F-35 to KSA ?

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Softwares : Ready Missles and Guns : Ready War Systems -Avionics : Ready Engineering : Ready Design : Ready Materiality $$$ : Not Ready if KSA join this project thn ll better i think.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is...
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    Qatar to invest $18B in Egypt over next 5 years

    Qatar's boom in the Aughties was driven solely by the rising prices of their Off-shore Gas. With the US now introducing Fracking for Shale-gas to the rest of the world, Gas prices will go down and Qatar's boom with go down with it.
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