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 […]

Guest Post: Telecom Action in Pakistan

Posted on July 7, 2006
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By Babar Bhatti Recently the telecom sector in Pakistan has attracted a lot of attention from international investors – and for the right reasons: it is one of the fastest growing sector with a huge potential market. Looking at the billboards and media advertisements of mobile phones in Pakistan it is hard to believe that […]

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