ISLAMABAD - Associate Professor, School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Dr Umar Saif has been recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators (TR35) in the world.
He is the first Pakistani scholar to have been selected for the prestigious TR35 award in the last decade, says a press release.
“The TR35 recognizes the world’s top 35 young innovators that are radically transforming technology as we know it. Their work – spanning medicine, computing, communications, energy, electronics and nanotechnology — is changing our world”, according to MIT Technology Review.
Dr Saif has been honoured for his work on technologies for the developing-world. Technologies developed by Dr Saif’s research group and startups are used by millions of people in the developing world, especially BitMate, that enhances the speed of Internet in the developing-world using peer-to-peer technology, and SMSall.pk, Pakistan’s largest SMS Social Network which has sent close to four billion SMS for users in Pakistan.
Dr Saif joins an elite group of researchers and entrepreneurs selected over the last decade. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, Jonathan Ive, the chief designer at Apple, David Karp, founder of Tumbler; Harvard Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik for his work on Quantum computers, and MIT Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, one of the inventors of the emerging field of optogenetics, which makes it possible to control neurons with light.
MIT Technology Review selects the top innovators after a rigorous evaluation process. The judges, who are leading experts in their fields from universities such as MIT, Stanford and Harvard, consider hundreds of high-impact researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world, out of which top 35 are chosen for the award.
“This year’s group of TR35 recipients is driving the next wave of transformative technology and making an impact on the way we live, work and interact”, said Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the MIT Technology Review.
Dr Saif has won numerous awards for his innovative technology solutions for the developing-world. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. He is a recipient of the MIT Technovator Award, Mark Weiser Award, Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research and the IDG Technology Pioneer Award.
Before moving to Pakistan, Dr Saif worked at MIT and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.

Families of the Indian sailors are thankful to Pakistan for the efforts Pakistan made for their freedom from the Somalian pirates.

ISLAMABAD: The exports of Pakistan in May 2011 increased by 33 percent over the exports in May 2010, according to the provisional trade statistics released by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

For the first time, country’s exports for the 11 months of the financial year2010-11 are reported at Rs1.95 trillion (US$ 22.7 billion) which is well above this year’s targets of US $ 21.2 billion.

The exports as percentage of imports have increased by 6 percent in the current year trace over last year.

It is expected that the country, for the first time would be able to export goods worth $ 25 billion in this year, said a statement issued by Ministry of Commerce here on Thursday.

On the other hand imports increased at a rate of 16 percent and were reported at US $ 36.5 billion in July-May 2010-11.

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Checkout the following video of Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab’s confession, i wonder why a so called Muslim who is going for Jihaad (by the way Muslims believe killing innocent people is not Jihaad) is saying Bhagwan will not forgive him? Well, we hope our “Investigative” media and government would have some comments on this video.

IPOH, Malaysia: Pakistan defeated their arch rivals India 3-1 in a crucial match of the Azlan Shah Hockey Cup here on Wednesday. India made breakthrough when Rupinderpal Singh scored the first goal in the 22nd minute and India were leading 1-0 at the half-time. But after 27 minutes, Pakistan hit back strongly scoring three goals in eight minutes. First, Muhammad Zubair leveled the score in the 49th minute, then Muhammad Imran netted second goal in the 55th minute and two minutes later, Sohail Abbas made the third goal for Pakistan. Source Geo News

Osama bin Laden Dead hoax exposed. Have a look at the following clip

No one can deny the dynamic and positive role of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan in producing quality professionals in Pakistan from last few years. Pakistan has produced more PHDs in last few years than it produced in 50 years. A lot of research work in being done and its due to this facts that Pakistan has been rated a ‘Rising Star’ in research multiple times over the last couple of years by ScienceWatch.com, a Thompson Reuters website which tracks trends and performance in research by analyzing its database of scientific papers and citations.

We strongly protest against the devolution of HEC, and request Government of Pakistan to withdraw its decision.

With Pakistan Vs India semi final of the world cup 2011 coming closer, the media war is on its peak. Media has already created a hype in both the countries about the match to be played between Pakistan and Indian in Mohali on 30th of this month. Have a look at the following clip with Aamir Sohail and Ravi having cross fire. Aamir Sohail replying to one of the person who called Pakistan team as auto rickshaw and Indian team as BMW.

Message to the youth of Pakistan by Zaid Hamid on 23rd March.

We should come out of the houses for peaceful protest. How long will this go? When will we put an end to the shameless acts of the current Government? Listen the feelings of Pakistanis on Raymond Davis escape being fully supported by our leaders.