The R&D conundrum choking our exports
With Pakistani products failing to perform globally, focus on research seems a no-brainer
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KARACHI:
Pakistan, like most developing nations, is locked in a paradox. In theory at least, innovation driven by robust research and development could be the key to breaking it out of a vicious debt and deficit-ridden cycle.
Indeed, economists the world over constantly exhort third world governments to spend more on R&D in order to cure their flagging economies. As emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and 3D printing usher in what many see as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, that investment could be the difference between market leaders and losers of the future.
Pakistani Education System Intolerant of Religious Minorities
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
With Pakistan ranked as one of the world’s most difficult countries to live as a Christian, persecution analysts say the nation’s education system is partly to blame.
Open Doors has ranked Pakistan as the fifth worst-persecutor of Christians in its 2021 World Watch List, while the United States has designated Pakistan as a “country of particular concern”, partly due to its treatment of Christians.
According to International Christian Concern, many human rights experts say the Pakistani education system teaches students to be intolerant of non-Muslims.
A 2011 report by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute said, school textbooks either omitted religious minorities, or referenced them in a derogatory way.
Pakistan behind Afghanistan in malnutrition
National
February 8, 2021
Islamabad: Public health expert Dr. Shahzad Ali Khan has said that malnutrition is a huge problem in Pakistan and Pakistan is placed in stunting growth index on 2nd number after Afghanistan while it is the worst in all indicators of stunting, wasting, underweight and exclusive breastfeeding.
Dr. Shahzad was speaking a webinar on “Nutrition integration for social protection and early education” organised here by Sustainable Development Policy Institute. Dr. Shahzad observed that minimum acceptable diet, meal and minimum diet diversity in Pakistan is poor in both terms of quality and quantity and hence, it must be improved.
Pakistan just behind Afghanistan in malnutrition
Islamabad
February 8, 2021
Islamabad : Public health expert Dr. Shahzad Ali Khan has said that malnutrition is a huge problem in Pakistan and Pakistan is placed in stunting growth index on 2nd number after Afghanistan while it is the worst in all indicators of stunting, wasting, underweight and exclusive breastfeeding.
Dr. Shahzad was speaking a webinar on “Nutrition integration for social protection and early education” organised here by Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
Dr. Shahzad observed that minimum acceptable diet, meal and minimum diet diversity in Pakistan is poor in both terms of quality and quantity and hence, it must be improved.