• About Pakistan

    Pakistan(Islamic Republic of Pakistan) is a sovereign state in South Asia.The name Pakistan means Land of (the) Pure. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never. The name is an acronym representing the thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN.................

  • History

    The Indus region, which covers a considerable amount of Pakistan, was the site of several ancient cultures including the Neolithic era's Mehrgarh and the bronze era Indus Valley Civilisation (2500–1500 BCE) at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.Successive ancient empires and kingdoms ruled the region: the Achaemenid Persian empire around 543 BCE......

  • Religion

    Pakistan is the second-most populous Muslim-majority country and also has the second-largest Shi'a population in the world. About 97% of the Pakistanis are Muslim. The majority are Sunni, with an estimated 5–20% Shi'a,2.3% are Ahmadis,[145] who are officially considered non-Muslims since a 1974 "anti-Ahmadi" constitutional amendment. There are also several Sufi and Quraniyoon communities...........

  • Culture

    Pakistani society is largely hierarchical, with high regard for traditional Islamic values, although urban families have grown into a nuclear family system because of the socio-economic constraints imposed by the traditional joint family system.[165] Recent decades have seen the emergence of a middle class in cities like Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Multan and Peshawar......

  • Defence

    The armed forces of Pakistan are the eighth-largest in the world. The three main services are the Army, Navy and the Air Force, supported by a number of paramilitary forces which carry out internal security roles and border patrols. The National Command Authority is responsible for exercising employment and development control of all strategic nuclear forces and organisations, and for Pakistan's nuclear doctrine.......

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Posted by haiqa On 10:35 AM No comments


PhD scholar, Munir Ashraf, studying in GEMTEX France, has won a Prize for Innovative Textiles.


Ashraf was conferred the prize by Mr. Philippe Taquet, Vice President, French Academy of Science. Twelve researchers of 10 different nationalities studying in different universities of Europe presented their work for this prize.

Munir’s work was declared the best and was awarded a prize of 10,000 euros with a certificate and a shield.

“I developed a multi-functional textile by growing nano rods of ZnO on polyester fabric. This fabric cleans itself like lotus leaves. There is no possibility of its staining by colours dissolved in water but if it gets stained by colorants dissolved in low surface energy solvents like acetone, no need to wash it, just expose the fabric to UV light the colour will disappear automatically due to photocatalytic effect of ZnO.

The fabric has ability to kill the bacteria if attached on the surface and hence it prevents their growth,” says Muneer.

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