Hi readers! Sorry for being absent last week. Are you familiar with above mentioned verse of the famous poet Hafeez Jalandhari who also wrote our National Anthem in 1952? I cannot define “Indecisiveness” better than this verse which probably revealed or descend upon him after meeting some “indecisive” friend. I wish he could live today to…

Hi readers! This is the last episode of the ongoing series and is all about Desert Agriculture Deserts cover more than one-fifth of Earth’s land area, and they are found on every continent. The Thar Desert covers an area of 175,000 square kilometers and is the largest desert of Pakistan.  The Cholistan desert, or Rohi, is…

Hi readers! Hope you enjoyed part 1.  Here is Part 2. As explained earlier, conventional agriculture has now stood obsolete and is being replaced with Industrial agriculture E-agriculture, M-agriculture ( discussed in part 1) but, what we desperately require is Producing more food, with less resources and in a more responsible way. To meet these…

Hi readers! This blog is being written to answer the question (hidden in the title) of one of my very respectable friends. Here is part 1. US President Eisenhower while addressing at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, on 25 September 1956 said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand…

Hi readers! We have been hearing since ages that i) agriculture is the lifeline of Pakistan which relies heavily on her major crops and her principal natural resources like  arable land and water nevertheless, we import wheat crop off and on. According to latest statistics of 23-24, Pakistan’s economy accounting for 24% of the gross…

Hi readers! Do you know that Artificial Intelligence was founded on the assumption that human intelligence can be so precisely described which  a machine can simulate?  This “perceptions” forced people to consider AI: a danger to humanity because if implied un-administered, it would create mass unemployment. So, first a field was invented that can progress…

Hi readers! Pakistan is an ideological country but, according to her founding father, Pakistan is constitutionally a democratic (parliamentary) republic in which  state power is vested in a system which is commonly known as democracy that prevent rules by autocrats, guarantee fundamental rights, allow for a relatively high level of political equality, rarely make war…

Hi readers! Just read the following thought-provoking quotes about the future “The best way to predict your future is to create it,” “Never let the future disturb you. Deal only with the present moment.” “Future is not something we enter; it is something we create because the only way you can predict the future is…

Hi readers! On February 12th, 2025, Pakistan Nuclear Society and Women in Nuclear (WIN), organized an International conference in collaboration with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The them was unique as it was titled  “Opportunities for women in nuclear sciences and emerging technologies” and very timely indeed. I was…

Hi readers! Have you ever heard about WIN? I am sure the answer would be a big NO. Dear readers! It’s no one else but Women In Nuclear? Sounds strange, doesn’t it? the Yes, the word is horrible because it gives the impression as if the women are working in a nuclear reactor whereas the…