Asadullah Khan

Education management/policy. Passion to travel. A bit of Photography

[Asadullah Khan @ullahasad]

Thanks @ICC for sharing my picture.
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#Pakistan #Cricket @PakistanJannatt @Pakistaninpics

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Cricket with a view 🏔️

📍 Chitral, Pakistan
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@Dastageer11 🤣🤣😁😁

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@Dastageer11 Apologies for the typos... 🙏

اختیار ولی کیسے جیتایہ سب کو معلوم ہے۔۔

اور اگر پی ٹی آئی غیر مقبول تھی تو 2021 کے بعد الیکشن کیوں نہیں کروایا؟ 2022 کے الیکشن میں کیا کیا نہیں ہوا؟

Yes Daska was controversial, but it doesn't justify the 2022 happenings !

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@Dastageer11 اختیار ولی کیسے جیتایہ سب کو معلوم ہے۔۔

سور اگر پی ٹی آئی غیر مقبول تھی تو 2021 کے بعد الیکشن کیوں نہیں کروایا؟ 2022 کے الیکشن میں کیا کیا نہیں ہوا؟

Yes Daskaws controversial, but it doesn't justify the 2022 happenings !

[Asadullah Khan @ullahasad]

@Dastageer11 And by-elections are always very juch different than general elections. They have their own dynamics. Can't take them as a sample for general elections

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@Dastageer11 مولانا صاحب کی باتیں اپنی جگہ ٹھیک ہیں لیکن جوانوں کی قربانیوں کو پیسے میں تولنا مناسب نہیں۔

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@nadeemhaque @StateBank_Pak And this is encouraging cash-based transaction, adding to the undocumented economy.

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@Dastageer11 @premium Somra pisy de warkary di... 😁

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@MinmajMarwat The higher education crisis in KP is real and needs a strong, united voice at the right forums. Writing to a politically rival CM, only serves to politicize the issue and risks creating more foes than friends. The focus should be on solutions, not political point-scoring.

[Asadullah Khan @ullahasad]

@BohemianRevolt "Deserted"

[Umar Cheema @UmarCheema1]

When America pulled the plug, the whole world was found naked

Pakistan can take the lead in the have-not AI world. Here is how.

Things are unfolding fast in America. And what emerges appears bigger than one shutdown.

For contex, two days ago, the US government ordered Anthropic to switch off its two most powerful AI models for the entire world. By Friday night, hundreds of millions of users had lost access. The order banned every foreign national. No US passport, no access. That included Anthropic's own staff in its San Francisco office. About 40 percent of AI researchers at US companies are not American.

Anthropic said the security risk was small, exists in other AI tools too, and using this excuse would stop every AI company from releasing anything new. Trump administration did not listen.

Every country except China was found naked the moment the switches were turned off.

Let's take a tour of the have-not world. Europe has only one AI company, France's Mistral, though it is not comparable to US frontier companies. Even Mistral runs on American servers, Microsoft's Azure, not European ones. Last month Mistral's CEO told the French parliament: two years to build your own AI or become America's servant forever.

Japan has announced billions in AI investment by 2030 but its companies are careful and slow. South Korea makes chips but has no AI model of its own. UAE has built Falcon and Saudi Arabia has launched HUMAIN. But both still run on American cloud infrastructure. India wants to move fast but its power supply cannot keep up with what AI needs.

Pakistan is in this same group. But history says Pakistan can do what it decides to do. The nuclear program was called impossible. Pakistan built it anyway.

Now consider this. Pakistan last year placed the first ever international order for China's Hanyuan-1 quantum computer. This was not a simple commercial purchase open to anyone. America has strict controls on its own quantum computers. It requires licenses even for its closest allies. China is equally selective about who it shares this technology with. Pakistan got access to something most countries in the world cannot get.

We do not know why it was ordered. But we know it can be put to excellent use in training AI models. A quantum computer speeds up AI model training dramatically, solving in minutes what normal computers take months to do. That is its value for sovereign AI. Building the cloud infrastructure to run that AI is a separate job. And Pakistan is moving on that too.

Gul Ahmed is building Pakistan's largest data center due by 2027. Zong, owned by China Mobile, has opened an AI cloud center in Islamabad. Indus Cloud and Huawei have partnered to build a next generation cloud facility. Mari Petroleum is building Tier III and Tier IV data centers in Islamabad and Karachi. The pieces are coming together. A quantum computer to train the AI. Data centers to run it. Both inside Pakistan's own borders.

Sovereign AI means your own model trained on your own data, running on your own servers inside your own borders. Right now every Pakistani hospital, school and government office using a foreign AI tool is sending its data to a server abroad. When that country decides to switch you off, you go dark. What happened on Friday can happen to anyone, at any time, for any reason.

Sovereign AI means that can never happen to you. Your data stays inside your borders. Your services keep running. No foreign government touches your switch.

As I said yesterday: this train is still at the station.
But the doors are closing.

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@Fahdhusain What does a common man have to do with Altos and IPhones? A better comparison will be better service delivery i.e. number of new schools, number of health facilities, scholarships, business development, vocational trainings, and more...

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@sawerapasha @adeel_azhar He wants to show his level of confidence! His swagger!

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@meer_ishtiaq @renabaddie_ Sam Einstein ye.....

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@SajSadiqCricket All players are playing with unnecessary stress. No one knows if he will play the next game or dropped fro.the twa altogether.

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@Napoha_ And he has made good money in all the ups and downs!

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@QuantumAims @GermanosPeter بادشاہی س جہان سہ کئی
زان لہ ولی زیاتئ غم۔۔۔

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@MeFaheem @akifjustonline Highly deserving. Congratulations Dr @akifjustonline