Guest Post: Thinking Busses – Pakistan-plus

Posted on August 6, 2006
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By Franz Gastler One of the first general reminder that I left the “little boxes made of ticky tacky” of suburban Minnesota and arrived somewhere outside of the U.S. or western Europe is the traffic. One is greeted immediately with a liberal mix of chaos and charm. The dismissive ambivalence that sometimes tends to cloud […]

Pictures of the Day: Laboring on Bricks

Posted on July 9, 2006
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By Bilal Zuberi Brick making is a valuable industry to Pakistan – indigeneous and providing employment in rural areas where agriculture may not be enough to sustain all the people. I met today with a German consultant today who has visited Pakistan several times to help local industry improve their brick-makng processes. My meeting encouraged […]

The Greening of Pakistan

Posted on June 28, 2006
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By Bilal Zuberi Reportedly, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is encouraging the use of alternative energy sources in Pakistan. “We must make the best use of untapped energy potential in the form of wind and solar energy to meet the growing requirements in the long-term. This has become all the more important in the face of […]

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