Pakistan’s carpet industry needs likely reforms Carpet has more than 2,500 years of ancient history as Iranians were amongst the first carpet weaver of the age-old civilizations and through centuries of creativity and initiative building upon the talents of the past, this industry has achieved a special degree of excellence since. Though this industry is more technologically advanced now as new trend and design demands had made it more …

  Molasses is an offshoot of the sugar refining industry. Its universal availability mostly depends on the production of sugar out of sugarcane and sugar beets. Sugarcane is vastly grown in tropical or sub-tropical regions like Asia, Central and South America, Africa and Australia. Sugar beets are cultivated mainly in the northern hemisphere and come from more temperate crops in Europe, North America, partly Northern Africa as well as Northern …

  Solar power can meet wholly the world demand of electricity. It has the capability to provide several times the country’s energy demand. The world’s covered desert area of 40 percent can supply all of universe the electricity enough of a need. Even the Gobi Desert could supply electricity to world. It has a discontinuous production of supplying electricity and is generally kept by storage or another energy source with …

  Tidal resource is capable of producing clean, environmental-friendly and significantly affordable electricity on a large scale. It also has an advantage of being totally predictable, as tidal currents result from perfectly known astronomical phenomena. A desired level for exploitation of renewable energy resources has the potential to provide a solution to the present power crisis in Pakistan. Energy generation based on renewable resources accounts for about one-fifth of the …

  Natural gas accounts for 50 percent of Pakistan’s total energy mix. The present shortage of 2,000mmscfd has led to the closing down of small and large scale industries and businesses across the country. The LNG Policy was issued in 2006 but so far no project relating to LNG has been materialized. This is the final attempt by the government to bring LNG to Pakistan. At present, Asia accounts for …

  Adoption of Sindh child marriages restraint bill a right step Child marriages bring a lot of misery to the children, particularly for the girl child. Child marriage increases problems for the families and in fact affects the whole life of a girl. This practice should strictly be discouraged while action should be taken against people involved in this evil-minded activity. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are contributing causes of …

  Adoption of boys was a general practice in the affluent class in ancient Rome. For families with no male at all, adoption was the only solution. Adoption was the most common way of acceding to the throne without use of force. In ancient Rome it was an expensive agreement for the childless family and quality had to be ensured. Adoption was agreed between families by the mother giving the …

  Bilateral relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have reached it zenith during the last few months. There were high-profile visits from both sides and the two countries have developed relations on a number of fields. During the recent visit, the government of two sides agreed to take advantage of the opportunities available in the two countries for expanding and improving investment, trade, energy, infrastructure development, agriculture, human resource and …

  There is widespread frustration among Pakistani youth primarily due to majority of young people are facing chronic unemployment and underemployment amid lack of basic facilities in school, colleges and universities. According to the data of United Development Program, 32 percent of Pakistani youth is illiterate, about 10 percent unemployed and merely less than 6 percent have acquired technical skills, moreover, 71 percent of youth does not receive career counseling …

  Livestock is a vital sub-sector of agriculture in Pakistan as promoting dairy, meat and poultry business in this sector is more beneficial for the economic development of the country. Livestock contributed approximately 55.1 percent to the agriculture value added and 11.6 percent to the national GDP during 2010-12. Gross Value Added of the livestock sector at constant factor cost increased from Rs672 billion (2010-11) to Rs700 billion (2011-12) showing …