Biotech drug production techniques based on plants, which may prove to be faster, higher yielding and cheaper than current methods using mammalian cells, haven't caught on with the biggest pharmaceutical…
Leaping, running and flying into the unknown are attracting a growing band of followers around the world ready to risk life and limb for the ultimate adrenaline rush. From base…
A few years ago in San Francisco, I picked up Germs from a secondhand bookshop. Three New York Times journalists, including a Pulitzer-winning science writer, William Broad, wrote the quaintly…
In my previous column I mentioned the extra-ordinary work of mechanical engineer, Mr Ejaz Ahmad Khokhar, a colleague and close friend at KRL. As a mechanical engineer, he had his…
Labour relations, or industrial relations, refer to a system of governance of interaction between employers, workers and the state. Based on the concepts that set the ground rules for governance…
Amidst all his speeches – fiery, self-indulgent, all over the place – Imran Khan mourned over his own helplessness as well as the helplessness of others like him if they…
Grace, tolerance, mercy: these words seem to have disappeared from the lexicon of Pakistani polity. Instead, vengeance, violence, slander, and murder seem to have gained currency in a state-sponsored narrative…
Their talk was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight in the whole batch…
With the Pakistan Army’s attack on the militants in North Waziristan, a human tragedy of gargantuan proportions has been unfolded. Unsurprisingly, the government failed to anticipate the consequences of this…
Population, poverty and economic development are closely inter-linked and inter-related. Rapid population growth tends to reduce per capita income and human well-being which in turn leads to increased level of…
