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Have PMLN bosses Sharif brothers badly mishandled Dr. Tahir ul Qadri's return to Pakistan? Will it backfire? Have civilian officials failed to respond adequately to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Waziristan? Could these issues have been addressed better? How can overseas...

Haq's Musings: China Lays Out Pak-China Rail Link Plan at International Silk Road Event China has funded a study to build an international rail link from the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Western China to Pakistan's deep-sea Gwadar Port on the Arabian Sea...

Haq's Musings: Indians Love Pakistani Spicy Grilled Meats "When Delhi's Press Club organised an evening of Pakistani food and music, flying in chefs from Islamabad, the racks of richly-spiced meat on the grill quickly ran out as hundreds of Indian journalists brought their families, equipped...

England, Italy and Spain are out of the World Cup in the first round in Brazil. It seems Brazuca lets any player, even ordinary ones, bend it like Beckham...neutralizing the advantages more skilled players have. It's full of upsets and surprises!!! Is it German-designed Pakistan-made Brazuca...

Indian scientists saw this as a race. "It would be embarrassing if Pakistan becomes an associate member of CERN before India", said eminent Indian scientist and Homi Bhabha Professor Bikash Sinha in early June, 2014. Well, it has happened this week. Pakistan is now an associate memberof CERN...

Haq's Musings: Pakistan Beats India to CERN Associate Membership "It would be embarrassing if Pakistan becomes an associate member of CERN before India", said eminent Indian scientist and Homi Bhabha Professor Bikash Sinha in early June, 2014. Well, it has happened this week. Pakistan is now an...

What are the chances of success of Pakistani Army operation Zarb-e-Azb against the Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan? Will it end the terrorist sanctuary there? Can it stop terrorism in the country? Who's responsible for a dozen deaths and scores of injuries in police raid on...

Haq's Musings: 2014 QS Rankings: 10 Pakistani Universities Among Asia's Top 300 QS World University Rankings 2014 announcement lists 10 Pakistani universities among Asia's top 300. South Asian institutions featuring on this list include 17 from India, 10 from Pakistan and 1 each from...

If anything, Pakistan's gdp is under-estimated rather than over-estimated. Haq's Musings: Pakistan's GDP Grossly Underestimated, Stocks Highly Undervalued Similarly, Pakistan's poverty figures have been found to be significantly lower than the reported figures by the CDG and Brookings...

Not necessarily the govt but the internal savings and domestic investing is far more important than FDI to achieve strong GDP growth . Domestic savings rate reached 18% of the GDP and foreign direct investment (FDI) hit a record level of $5.4 billion in 2007-8. This combination of domestic and...

Coke to invest in new plants in Karachi, Multan and Islamabad. Sees 20% per year sales growth in Pakistan. Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) expects to start production in five new factories in Egypt and Pakistan over the next 18 months, seeing double-digit percentage growth in sales for both markets this...

So you trust newspaper stories more than the budget document itself? Why not go to the original source rather than see a biased story on it?

Where did you get the Rs 800 billion? The general public service expenditures were exceeded by over 200 billion which accounts for most the difference between orig and revise in table 5. Besides, do you know the govt paid Rs 500 billion for PEPCO debt much of not budgeted? This year I...

This graphic is incorrect. The actual 2013-14 budget, according to Min of Finance, had nearly Rs 3.5 trillion expenditure. http://finance.gov.pk/budget/Budget_in_Brief_2013_14.pdf

First your calcs are wrong...both defense and total spending. Please check again. Second, do you also know about "covert" defense budgets of other nations like India, China, Iran, etc?

So you know all about "covert" allocations and their size?

Debunked? How? Isn't the budget a public document? Here's the federal budget: http://finance.gov.pk/budget/Budget_in_Brief_2013_14.pdf Defense is 600 billion rupees out of a 3 trillion rupees budget....about 20% of the federal budget. Education and health are provincial subjects and each...

Pak defense allocation is less than one-sixth of the current budget. It's the 4th largest part of the budget after development, interest on debt, and subsidies to money-losing public sector units like PEPCO, PIA and steel mills. Myth 1: The allocation for defence is the single largest component...

First, it's obvious that you are continuing to defend TV Paul's book without first reading it. Second, I have responded directly to the author's own assertion with data and evidence, not "cherry picked data" as you accuse me of. Third, Pakistan is no warrior state. Its military spending is...

So you agree that Pakistan is not a "conspicuous failure" as TV Paul claims? If you do disagree with the author's conclusion, then why do agree with him on the assertions which I have clearly refuted with evidence and data in my post? Haq's Musings: Pakistan: Warrior State? Conspicuous Failure?