Mental health
World Mental Health Day was recently observed all over the world, including Pakistan, on October 10. Quite a few professionals published interesting, informative articles in newspapers. Pakistan is no longer…
The science of trolling
The contemporary term ‘troll’, exists in two forms. It is a noun and a verb. The noun troll was originally a Norse mythological creature. Very much like shame, it resided…
Look to science
Like the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic is slowly unfolding in Pakistan. If we go by the available data, the Covid curve is headed relentlessly upwards. This means…
Science versus dogma
There was this front-page photograph, published on Friday, in which a member of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee is looking through a very large telescope at dusk on Thursday in Karachi. This…
Pandemic science
Recently Mr Abdullah Hussain Haroon, former ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations, came forward with a video recording in which he states that the Covid-19 pandemic is not a…
Health notes
Nephrology is the branch of medicine concerned with the physiology and diseases of the kidneys. The name comes from 'nephron', a functional unit within the kidney (a miniscule filter) consisting…
Investment in science and technology: The new national Imperative
Despite its immense potential, science and technology (s&t) sector of Pakistan has continued to suffer from the inadvertence of policymakers. We can no longer afford to treat the sector as…
Mainstreaming science
The twentieth century was marked by burgeoning technological advancement around the world. World leaders developed an unequivocal realisation that political and economic development would, in future, depend on scientific and…
Health-sector turnaround
IMRAN Khan won his mandate on the promise of eliminating corruption and promoting good governance in public office. His government’s first 100 days in power are being watched closely with…
Science of things
Apparently, according to the laws of physics, inventing a time machine is impossible because it violates something called a casualty law; there goes my plans of making a fortune vis-à-vis…
