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. Continue reading »
The German goverment and industrial partners including auto giant Volkswagen launched Thursday a programme to encourage the development of more environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles. Continue reading »
Faced with looming energy crises in their developing economies, power-hungry Indonesia and the Philippines are looking deep into the earth for a solution. Continue reading »
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.
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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
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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
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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 Continue reading »
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
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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 Continue reading »
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. Continue reading »
The Government of Pakistan released its Economic Survey for 2007-2008 earlier this month. As an example of writing, it is tedious in the extreme, with the reader constantly summoned to interpret innocuous phrases or made to jump over statistics, the literary equivalent of hurdles. If one stumbles, the survey can have its way. It can even convince you that all is well. But modest scrutiny reveals far more of the plot than its author was allowed to reveal. Continue reading »
By Rauf Klasra
Dina Khan, the defiant daughter of Dr AQ Khan, has snubbed the deputy attorney general of Pakistan Raja Abdul Rehman and has warned the government that if her father was silenced, she would continue to fight and won’t sit like a silent spectator.
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By Humberto MلrquezBY bringing together the world’s major oil producers and consumers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia marked a turning point in the negotiations for a new global energy order that is emerging under the weight of soaring oil prices, which are driven by factors other than supply and demand.
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WHICH system is better for economic progress: democracy or dictatorship? In India, except for a brief period of Indira Gandhi’s ‘Emergency’ rule, there has been democracy throughout, a flawed democracy, to be sure, but democracy nevertheless. Continue reading »
By Sabihuddin Ghausi
As the world prices of all minerals, metals, industrial raw materials and commodities go on rising, Balochistan has emerged as a bright spot on the international investors’ radar screen. ‘’We are not poor but the richest province in terms of resources,’’ a beaming Mehfooz Ali Khan, the provincial finance secretary, told a post- budget conference on June 22. Continue reading »