Pakistani Turns Pro Golfer
With all the tragic news of suicide bombing, target killings and political instability emanating from Pakistan it is hard to believe that the country has viable golf community as well, reports a prominent golfing Your Golf Home. Your Golf Home reported Friday that a twenty year old Pakistani who recently returned after completing undergraduate degree [...]
Transform muscle-flexing ISI into civil intelligence
Every state apparatus requires intelligence agencies, and Pakistan is no different. There are actually three well known intelligence agencies in Pakistan: Intelligence Bureau (IB), Military Intelligence (MI), and ISI. There are 26 intelligence agencies in the US. Somehow, the ISI and the CIA are the two that are most demonized. The turmoil in Pakistan’s past [...]
To recover from financial ruins, PIA needs a make-over
A high power committee of national assembly, on Friday, agreed that a new business plan is necessary to rehabilitate Pakistan International Airlines which may include replacing aging fleet and adding profitable routes. Begum Ishrat Ashraf, Chairperson of the sub committee of the National Assembly’s standing committee, will lead the endeavor to develop a new business [...]
When It Comes To Education, Pakistan Can Learn Democracy From India
India and Pakistan were both poor countries in 1947; both were countries divided by colonial opportunism, and religious bigotry. Both had similar problems, India just had more of them because of its diverse population and scale. But India prioritized its focus on higher education and people were conscious enough to keep their elected leaders honest. [...]
Should India Buy Weapons from Pakistan?
India is spending $11 billion on buying arms from US, Russia and others. If they spend one billion on buying weapons from the Pakistani military-industrial complex, they could have a reasonable chance of making peace with a vowed enemy in their backyard. The eternal enmity that ensued with the partition has caused enough death and [...]
Pakistan Recieves $5.7 Billion in Remittances
Noting a 17 percent increase in remittances, State Bank of Pakistan Wednesday said that Non-Resident Pakistanis have send home nearly $5.7 billion between July 2009 to February 2010. During the same period in previous fiscal year, Pakistanis living abroad had sent $4.9 billion. For economies like Pakistan, funds repatriated by non-residents to family and friends [...]
Ibrahim Sajid Malick is a Pakistani-American writer, technologist, and social entrepreneur. He has been writing on Pakistani society and politics since 1986. He has held several media, communications, and technology positions for organizations large and small. Mr. Malick graduated from New School for Social Research with a master’s degree in anthropology. He holds several technology and management certifications. He works for a leading technology firm and blogs at www.ibrahimsajidmalick.com