Abstract The Thar Desert is located at the confluence of Sindh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. region’s folklore refers to desert as a sea through which cast warriors, merchants, adventurers traveled. Oral histories connect it with business subsistence exchanges. These tell crossing Rann Kutch (i.e., into India from Pakistan). They illustrate strong connection between Tharparkar (in Pakistani province...

From Partition to the present day, India has displayed an ability to sustain democratic forms of government and politics. There have been no military bids for power and even Mrs. Gandhi’s months of emergency rule, which many thought perilously close to a dictatorship, was ended by the electors’ verdict in 1977. Despite phases of acute domestic strain and communal violence, the assassination of ...

M. Suhail Zubairy, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA Department of Electronics, Quadi-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad-380009, India Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA (Recei...

368 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 17 April 2017 1 Haider S, Hassali AM, Iqbal Q, et al. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan. Lancet Infect Dis 2016; 16: 1333. 2 Müller MA, Devignot S, Lattwein E, et al. Evidence for widespread infection of African bats with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever-like viruses. Sci Rep 2016; 6: 26637. 3 Mourya DT, Yadav PD, Shete AM, et al. Cross-sectional se...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females all over the world with approximately one million new cases each year as well as one of second leading causes of death among females. In Pakistan, the most frequently diagnosed cancer among females is also breast cancer, accounting for nearly one in nine female patients. Its incidence in Pakistan is 2.5 times higher than that in neighboring cou...

International cooperation over the major rivers in South Asia has become much closer in the last several years, despite nuclear tests in India and Pakistan, and rising tension between those states. Five important treaties or agreements, signed in 1996 and 1997, against a background of greater regional economic and nongovernmental contact, could facilitate significant progress to mitigate floodi...

1 The five BRICS countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 2 Ministry of External Affairs of India, “Speech by Foreign Secretary on Building Global Security at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) – Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS),” April 16, 2012, http://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/19340/Speech+by+Foreign+Secretary+on+Building+Global+Security+at+...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To estimate and compare price differences between legal and illicit cigarettes in 14 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). DESIGN A cross-sectional census of all packs available on the market was purchased. SETTING Cigarette packs were purchased in formal retail settings in three major cities in each of 14 LMIC: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, ...