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...

Although homeopathy have been discovered 230 years ago by Dr Samuel Hahnemann but only scientific view has begun only since 25 years. Currently homeopathy has been integrated into the national health care systems of many countries, including India, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. In the World Health Organization report about alternative medicine that published in 2001, we n...

Groundwater irrigation has been instrumental in enhancing food security and, arguably, in mitigating poverty in developing countries. Groundwater provides timely irrigation, leading to an increase in crop intensity and productivity (Food and Agriculture Organization 2003). But groundwater irrigation also contributes the most to the depletion of groundwater reserves. Countries with significant g...

September 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 9 | e382 During the past 20 years, natural disasters have claimed more than 3 million lives worldwide, affected at least 800 million people, and resulted in property damage exceeding $US50 billion [1]. On 8 October 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale (categorized as a major quake) struck Pakistan, along with parts of India and Afghanistan. [2...

archaeology is growing science that continues to discover the material remains of man; hence, it is the best evidence to understand human relations that too shows close co-operation between the neighboring countries, especially iran and india (present pakistan). right from bronze age when man started building a better social organization, archaeology presents positive evidences for economic an...

Introduction DURING the past 25 years numerous outbreaks of a cholera-like disease, usually referred toasparacholera, have occurred in Indonesia (Pollitzer 1959). This disease is clinically indistinguishable from classical cholera and a redefinition, by World Health Organization, of" cholera" now includes cholera El Tor (World Health Organization 1962). In the last 100 years cholera has disappe...

As Pakistan becomes industrialized, the development of human resources is essential to addressing emerging health problems. The Fogarty International Center (FIC)-funded University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)-Aga Khan University (AKU) ITREOH initiative has been instrumental in filling the gaps in environmental and occupational health (EOH) training and research. Because of travel impediments...

Recent geological and paleontological exploration in the Pab Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Balochistan Province has uncovered new terrestrial vertebrate remains. Together with Cretaceous vertebrates from India, the Pab vertebrates provide information about the paleobiogeographic history of Indo-Pakistan during its northward migration towards Asia. Vertebrate remains collected from several loc...