On Wednesday 10 Jun 2009 4:02:18 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > And here it is. What is scary is that people have time to manufacture such > rubbish. > > http://pakobserver.net/200905/04/Articles04.asp
I think you get the wrong impression from such articles. Check this out. I am sure we can learn from this success story. http://www.opinion-maker.org/navigation.do?mode=showArticles&id=558 > Postmodern Pakistan > > 17 May, 2009 Tech Lahore > > Pakistan is such an absolutely amazing place. If you put that copy of > Newsweek down for a moment and think what we’veKarachi Marine Front built > in the last 60 years, I think rationality would require you to be close to > awe-struck. Today we are a country on the verge of ascent into globally > acknowledged greatness. We were born under circumstances that were supposed > to lead to our demise inside of 12 months, according to the > Nehru/Mountbatten calculus. Not only are we still around, we are 170 > million strong, with consistently increasing GDP, a resilient economy, > amazingly intelligent people, brilliant businesspeople and an > ever-increasing global role. <snip> > Compare where we stand today. Awe some. In the true sense of the word. > > An economy that produces trade surpluses: the very worst that we have ever > done is a $20.7BN trade deficit (2008), mostly due to $150 crude. Within > one year, with significant reduction not only in oil prices but also in > unnecessary imports, we have arrested this quite sharply and with growth in > exports, such as defence (tripled to $300M – expected to hit $1BN within > the next 5 years with JF-17 sales), software and core areas such as > textiles, shiv
