Samad Khurram, an active member of SAC and a student in Harvard Business School refuses an award from the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson in protest of US policies regarding the support of an illegal President Musharraf and the Mehmand Agency attack. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]

Germany to develop hybrid vehicles

The German goverment and industrial partners including auto giant Volkswagen launched Thursday a programme to encourage the development of more environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

Faced with looming energy crises in their developing economies, power-hungry Indonesia and the Philippines are looking deep into the earth for a solution. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

Why adventure feels good

Scientists have identified a primitive area of the brain that makes us adventurous — a finding which may help explain why people routinely fall for “new” products when shopping. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

FARANGI IN TOWN: A march of the powerful —Ella Rolfe

A link between the economic growth of a country as a whole and a decline in the vociferousness of violent protests might help to explain the disjuncture between expected violence and the actual anticlimax that was seen in Islamabad as the Long March carnival passed through Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]

Having a local person in charge of local problems makes eminent sense. Unfortunately, whatever else the local government system may have accomplished, it certainly did not bring the government closer to the people Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

Energy Matters: Hot rocks —Prame Chopra

The road to HDR geothermal energy has been long and expensive, but, like all developing technologies, the basic research and development had to be done before commercial development could follow Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

While everyone in Pakistan keeps going on and on about American intervention in our affairs, those who protest the loudest are the very ones who seek it at the first opportunity. The lawyers’ campaign for the restoration of the judges is something that will succeed or fail in Pakistan, not in the US Recommend on [...]

If not for the sake of the profession, then for the millions of patients and thousands of students who would eventually suffer from the dwindling fortunes of medicine in this country, it is time for all concerned to get their act together Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...]

By Kamal Siddiqi Times for us are troubling. The violence in the bye-elections have once again shown us that our politicians are still not as mature as we make them out to be. There is hope in some and disappointment in others. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...]

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