Lahore Grammar School Johar Town
From the Blog HumAyuN.Pk: Lahore Grammar School Johar Town - Lahore Grammar School (LGS) was established in Lahore, in January of 1979, by a group of woman with a commitment to quality education with the aim of providing a creative alternative to the existing education facilities available in the country. The initial focus of LGS was the promotion of female education. The boys' branch came into being in 1992. LGS offers the GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level curricula to both boys and girls. The school now has several branches in the city of Lahore, as well as Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Wah, Sialkot, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi and Islamabad. A girls' college in Lahore offers BA/BSc degree programmes in Art, Science and Computer Sciences. LGS has also extended its school network to cater the needs of the middle income group. This enterprise is called the Landmark Project. The company also has an educational project, known as the ILM school, to cater to children from the lower income group. Branches: Senior Branch Junior and Middle Section Girls Branch Pre-School . Read Full Post
Pakistan buys more stuff it doesn't need
From the Blog Five Rupees: Pakistan buys more stuff it doesn't need - Check out this story in Dawn, on Pakistan buying more toys from the Chinese: BEIJING: Pakistan has confirmed it will buy Chinese missiles and flight systems to equip its 250 JF-17 Thunder jet fighters as it seeks to deepen military cooperation with Beijing, state media said Thursday. Rao Qamar Suleman, air chief marshal of the Pakistan Air Force, told the Global Times newspaper Chinese radar systems and SD-10 mid-range homing missiles would be used on the fighters co-developed by the two nations. "PAF has no plans to install Western devices and weapons on the aircraft for the time being," the newspaper quoted Suleman as saying. Pakistan may also buy up to four Chinese surface-to-air missiles, as it seeks stronger cooperation with China to help upgrade its armed forces, Suleman told the China Daily in a separate interview. Wonderful. By the way, the story makes absolutely no mention of the actual price tag of these new toys. It does, however, mention that this development is occuring because Pakistan was originally going to buy toys from France before the latter balked (the story implies that “not pissing off India” was the cause of France balking but I wonder if this has anything to do with it). The cost of the original deal with France is mentioned: about a billion and a half dollars. A billion and a half! Assuming the China deal is a somewhat close substitute of the France deal, then we can deduce that Pakistan just bought some toys that are priced at THREE TIMES the ENTIRE demand by the UN to fund flood relief efforts . Again, just to be clear: Cost of toys from China (give or take) = $1.6 billion Cost of flood relief efforts as estimated by the UN = $459 million Now, I may have dropped from a math major to a math minor at college, but something about those numbers seems off to me. Just a hunch. I’ve said it a gazillion times before and I will say it a gazillion additional times: trying to keep up with India’s pace of military advancement is crazy. Foolish. Nuts. Dumb. Stupid. Just all out strategic suicide. And if you want to understand why, please look at this graph , which will save me (according to folklore) a full thousand words: That, my friends, is a chart of the respective GDPs of India and Pakistan over time. If by some miracle you happen to be someone at GHQ while reading this post, please stare very hard at that picture and remember what it looks like next time you’re making an important decision about anything. And keep in mind that the gap isn’t about to close any time soon; see this graph to compare growth rates and the extent to which India has outperformed Pakistan economically for the best part of two decades. The crazy thing for me about all this is that Pakistan’s security is essentially guaranteed vis-a-vis India by its 100 (or so) nuclear warheads. It’s called nuclear deterrence. So why are wasting literally billions of dollars on stuff that adds very little marginal security to Pakistan? And keep in mind that this is just one purchase of many — no one knows exactly how much we spend on toys we don’t need because there is little financial oversight of what our military is up to. One final note: people often (rightly) complain about this foreign trip by Zardari or that hotel our politicians and their zoo-like entourages stay in or whatever. As unseemly and wasteful as those episodes are, they absolutely pale in comparison to this stuff. How much could you possibly spend on a helicopter ride to a French chateau or a fancy hotel in New York? Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Millions of dollars? Surely no more than that? By contrast, the cost of toys we don’t need are a full order of magnitude higher. The scale of such waste, I hope, is kept in mind when we bitch and moan about what our ruling class is up to. Blast from the past: This post , titled “What are Pakistan’s nuclear weapons for?” is sort of related to the issue at hand here. … . Read Full Post
DWL Update
From the Blog desiwriterslounge - > DWL Update desiwriterslounge.blogspot.com — It has been a while since the blog was updated, and in case you're wondering what happened, here's your answer: shortlisting and editing for volume 7 of PaperCuts is in full swing! This means the editorial team is working hard at putting together the content, and not really... . Read Full Post
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Smashes 5-Day Sales Record,...
From the Blog RedmondPie - > Call Of Duty: Black Ops Smashes 5-Day Sales Record,... redmondpie.com — Activision's FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops has made a record $650 million US Dollars in sales in just 5 days since its launch, setting a new entertainment industry record. Even we at Redmond Pie got hold of the Xbox 360 version of the game due to its sheer awesomeness. . Read Full Post
Indian elephant, Chinese tiger
From the Blog pakspectator - > Indian elephant, Chinese tiger pakspectator.com — What a silly storm in a small Indian teacup. We should be looking at the Chinese teacup. Obama goes... Read More at http://www.pakspectator.com . Read Full Post
Imran Khan roars
From the Blog rupeenews - > Imran Khan roars rupeenews.com — ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN The road to Imran Khan's villa is steep. Ask anyone where the cricket star-turned-politician lives and fingers point vaguely up. It is quiet out here, about a 20-minute drive from the congested traffic of brightly decorated trucks with their musical horns,... . Read Full Post
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