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...

Pakistan was one of the few developing countries that had achieved an average growth rate of over 5 percent over a four decade period ending 1990. Consequently, the incidence of poverty had declined from 40 percent to 18 percent by the end of 1980s. But the 1990s proved to be a lost decade for Pakistan, Growth in per capita income dropped to slightly over 1 percent. Poverty resurfaced and about...

A light, electron and immunofluorescence microscopy study was performed on 102 consecutive patients on whom suitable percutaneous renal biopsies were obtained. In this selected group of patients primary IgA glomerulonephritis was diagnosed in 6 (5.9%) cases. On light microscopy the glomerular lesions were predominantly focal (WHO class III) and diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis...

(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...

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that results into severe lesion/lesions after bitten by the sandfly. The proper and immediate diagnosis is necessary for this lethal disease until it become worse in condition. The purpose of this research study is to present diagnostic criteria of leishmaniasis of different species which is helpful in early diagnosis. Diagnosis criteria include location and...

Abroad, most of the research works on Pakistan are published in English. In other words, the use of English is the better way if a scholar wishes to be read all over the world. In a number of countries, scholars are not appreciated since they do not use English as academic language. I am therefore grateful that the Department of History, University of Punjab, provides me an opportunity to give ...