Muhammad Adnan SHAHID*, Rashad Mukhtar BALAL, Muhammad Aslam PERVEZ, Tahira ABBAS, Muhammad Anjum AQEEL, Muhammad Mansoor JAVAID, Francisco GARCIA-SANCHEZ Department of Horticulture, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan Department of Entomology, University College ...

BACKGROUND Although whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci complex) are an important pest of cotton in Pakistan, its taxonomic diversity is poorly understood. As DNA barcoding is an effective tool for resolving species complexes and analyzing species distributions, we used this approach to analyze genetic diversity in the B. tabaci complex and map the distribution of B. tabaci lineages in cotton growing ar...

High expenditure and increasing health care costs are prime concerning factors in the health care system globally. In some of the developing countries WHO reported out-of-pocket payments as high as 80% of health care spending.1 At present Pakistan is spending only 1.2% of GDP on pharmaceuticals and despite more than 40000 registered brands in the country2 essential and life-saving drugs are mis...

This review is undertaken to address the possible role of arsenic and pesticides in the prevalence of diabetes in Pakistan and to highlight a resourceful targeted research in this area. A bibliographic search of scientific databases was conducted with key words of "epidemics of diabetes in Pakistan", "diabetes in Asia", "diabetes mellitus and environmental pollutants", "diabetes mellitus and he...

Terrorism in Pakistan: Post 9/11 Study of Roots and Causes Muhammad Ijaz Latif and Rehman Afzal Khan Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. e-mail: [email protected] and lecturer, Government Degree College for Special Education Bahawalpur, Pakistan respectively. Abstract: One of the most shocking and tragic implication of ...

Department of Biology, Merritt College, 12500 Campus Drive, Oakland, CA 94619, USA Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Evolutionary Genomics, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598-1631, USA Department of Biology, Box 1137, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-...

Pakistan is among ten most populous countries in world. All sorts of hepatitis are highly prevalent in Pakistan. Due to lack of proper mechanisms to handle sewerage, disinfection and lack of clean water supply across the country, hepatitis A and E are endemic in Pakistan. Moreover, Pakistan ranked in intermediate prevalence zone for hepatitis B and C. Also, prevailing socioeconomic conditions, ...

The paper discusses different case studies prepared in the last ten years in Pakistan on the subject of ‘industrial pollution and impacts on ecological setting’. On the basis of this discussion paper draws inferences, and extrapolates them under different alternatives to stipulate their implications for ‘Shaping the Sustainable Millennium’ for Pakistan and lessons learnt for other developing co...

1 Pharmacy, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 2 Department of Pharmacy, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, 3 School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College, Nilai, Malaysia, 4 School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor, Malaysia, 5 Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 Faculty of Pharmaceutical ...

(1) Why should Pakistan integrate itself into global markets? Why can’t we rely on our own domestic market of 145 million people? (2) If we decide to integrate, this will involve opening up our economy to products from other countries and deprotect our industry. Won’t this lead to de-industrialization of Pakistan? (3) Pakistan has a weak, narrow and inefficient industrial base. How can our indu...