South Asia Investor Review

Pakistani student enrollment in America's institutions of higher learning rose 16% last year, outpacing the record 12% growth in the number of international students hosted by the country. This p...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/04/pakistani-student-enrollment-in-us.html

Pakistan's agriculture sector GDP grew at a rate of 5.2% in the October-December 2023 quarter, according to the government figures. This is a rare bright spot in the overall national economy that...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/03/agriculture-caste-religion-and.html

Aaron Bushnell, an active serviceman in the United States Air Force, burned himself to death in front of the Israeli Embassy in protest against the US policy in Gaza. Before setting himself on fi...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/02/bidens-gaza-ceasefire-veto-defies.html

Independent candidates backed by the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) party emerged as the largest single block with 93 seats in the nation's parliament in the general elections held on February 8,...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/02/pakistan-elections-imran-khans.html

Illegal immigration from India to the United States is soaring. A record 96,917 Indians were detained while attempting to enter the US illegally from October 2022 to September 2023, representing ...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/02/soaring-illegal-immigration-of-indians.html

Muslims are the poorest group in India. They will most likely face further marginalization after the recent inauguration of the Ram Temple built on the ruins of the historic Babri Masjid in Ayod...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/01/indian-muslims-poorest-group-in-modis.html

Pakistan swiftly retaliated with "killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons" to an Iranian military provocation in Balochistan province this week, according to multiple me...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/01/iran-chooses-to-de-escalates-after.html

The United States Department of Agriculture is forecasting that Pakistan's rice exports will set a new record of 5 million metric tons in 2023-24.  This is nearly 30% more than the 3.9 million t...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/01/pakistan-to-set-new-record-for-rice.html

Shaikh Hasina has won a 5th term in yet another sham election which saw a mere 40%  voter turnout. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party, boycotted the election. Months ...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2024/01/indias-malign-influence-in-bangladesh.html

India is losing its best and brightest to the West, particularly to the United States, at an increasingly rapid pace. A 2023 study of the 1,000 top scorers in the 2010 entrance exams to the India...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/12/the-great-indian-brain-drain-accelerates.html

At a recent Democratic fundraiser organized by the Israel lobby in the United States, President Joseph R. Biden shared some details of the conversations he has had with Israeli Prime Minister Ben...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/12/bibi-to-biden-you-carpet-bombed-germany.html

Widespread student protests  on the US campuses against Israel's genocidal war in Gaza are being labeled antisemitic by pro-Israel politicians and donors. They have now joined forces to intimid...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/12/pro-israel-politicians-and-donors.html

Pakistan, which contributes less than 1% of global carbon emissions, is among the countries considered most vulnerable to climate change. About a third of the country was devastated by massive f...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/12/cop28-pakistan-planting-worlds-largest.html

The United States Department of Justice has filed an indictment alleging that an Indian agent hired an assassin to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist. It seems that the Indian Prime ...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/11/sikh-assassinations-us-exposes-modi.html

As the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rolls out "Nakbah 2023", a former senior US diplomat has been caught on a viral video telling an Arab street food vendor in New Yor...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/11/is-islamophobia-shaping-us-policy-in.html

Zionists are "secular" but they use God as their "land agent " who gave them the "promised land", says Professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford University. Jews are God's "chosen people " who are exempt fr...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/11/israeli-scholars-provide-insights-into.html

Zionists are "secular" but they use God as their "land agent " who gave them the "promised land", says Professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford University. Jews believe they are God's "chosen people " who ...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/11/americas-college-campuses-rise-up.html

The Biden administration has proposed a number of significant changes to how the H-1B temporary work visas are issued to high-skilled foreign workers. These changes are the result of the governme...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/us-proposes-h-1b-visa-changes-to-stop.html

India's child-wasting rate of 18.7% is the highest in the world, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023  released recently.  The South Asian country’s child wasting rate is higher t...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/global-hunger-index-2023-indias-child.html

The average annual household earnings of Pakistani-Americans  are $149,178, according to the latest update  issued by the United States Census Bureau for 2022. The update estimates the median...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/us-census-update-pakistani-americans.html

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently tweeted  that he is "shocked by the news of terrorist attacks in Israel", adding that "We stand in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/modi-and-netanyahu-two-sides-of-same.html

Recent appointment of Karachi-born Irfan Siddiqui as Chairman of the Physics Department at the University of California at Berkeley highlights the growing numbers of Pakistani-Americans in the to...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/10/pakistani-americans-rising-strength-in.html

At the $3.65 poverty line, India accounts for 40% of the slight upward revision of the global poverty rate from 23.6% to 24.1%, according to the World Bank September 2023 Global Poverty Update ....

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/09/wb-poverty-update-india-is-biggest.html

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused the Indian government of involvement in the murder of a Canadian Sikh leader on Canadian soil. Trudeau announced this week that Canada was "acti...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/09/canadian-sikhs-murder-how-long-will.html

As of 2019, there were 35,000 Pakistan-born STEM workers in the United States, according to the American Immigration Council. They included information technologists, software developers, enginee...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/09/pakistan-among-top-sources-of-foreign.html