Umar Farooq
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Engineer 🔧 Tech 💾 Trains 🚄. @alstom, @bombardier, Pring, @ericsson, GIKI
Lahore, Pakistan
Joined August 2007
This is a good, reliable round up of what has happened with the PIA deal. I think focussing on the "sale price" is a mistake. The deal is more complex than that. This isn't about how much they sold it for. The airline isn't worth anything by itself any more.
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Why Pakistan needs regime change - my latest post on its economy (link in reply)
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#ExcitingNews: 🇵🇰 Pakistan has once again secured the highest number of #ErasmusMundus scholarships globally— for the 4️⃣th year in a row! 114 🇵🇰 students are awarded @EUErasmusPlus scholarships incl 66 women!👏👏 🇵🇰 leads ahead of: 🇮🇳 India – 96 🇧🇩 Bangladesh – 95 🇲🇽 Mexico – 93
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7 years ago Brian Toon, a professor of physics who trained under Carl Sagan, had a talk about what a nuclear exchange between India & Pakistan would do. The scientific estimate was that aside from those killed in the nuclear war, 1-2 billion people all over the world would likely
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No, Pakistan is not the terror state here. India does NOT get to play victim after unprovoked bombing of innocent civilian targets for 3 days. Even now when Pakistan has been goaded into this war, our military has shown professionalism and restraint by restricting themselves to
The IMF has just bailed out a terror state. Let that sink in.
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May no innocent Indian civilian die because of Pakistan’s retaliatory strikes
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Alert 🚨 India has launched a full-fledged disinformation campaign against Pakistan. Be cautious of fake news and verify information before sharing. Please don't forward messages without verifying their authenticity.#IndiaPakistanWar #FakeNews #DisInformation
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Pakistan has NOT: - Lost any pilot - Lost any F-16 fighter jet - Lost any AWACS aeroplane - There is no report whatsoever of any attack on Lahore - There is no report whatsoever of any attack on any high ranking Government official residence and/or or any installation
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X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees. The orders include demands to block access in India to
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Strengthening Civil Society. Litigating for People in Need. Advocating for Equal Justice. People impacted by our litigation work Civil society and grassroots organisations supported Lawyers in our...
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PIA has cost USD 7Billion/PKR 1.2Trillion to taxpayers in a decade! We need different sets of lens to view decisions of bad economic policy making. A lot has been said by usual critiques about SOE's losses but the impact needs to be reassessed to reflect true economic costs of
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To understand the issues with electricity charges, must watch.. @aliaftabsaeed
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#ElectricityBills
https://t.co/ZonQqWT7DF
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Get ready for a VC bubble based where AI will be blamed. #ChatGPT PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit
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There isn't much Islamabad can do to avoid further devaluation, because Pakistan has a productivity problem which needs medium to long term solutions. Analyst fears further rupee decline in coming days
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I’ll let Steve Jobs answer that from the grave.
Why is Microsoft teams so unnecessarily complicated, google meets, zoom etc, are so much simpler to use. Thoughts?
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Why didn't Pakistan consider this idea? @kdastgirkhan @betterpakistan India central bank says no foreign investment cap on sovereign green bonds
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Looks like we are not alone.. Japan finance minister warns of severe finances as BOJ struggles to contain yields
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