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April 29, 2002
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Safar 15, 1423
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Industrial botany
‘Injustices at the PS’
The opinion of 140 million Pakistanis
Generals in politics
A fight for rights
The referendum and after
Who is to be blamed?
Phone complaints
Pakistan Academy of Sciences
Basic necessities
Polio eradication
Versions of Islam
PIA pilots
The affairs of Wazir Mansion
Industrial botany
IF we can have industrial chemistry and industrial microbiology, why can’t we have industrial botany? The importance of plants in our life is immense.
They provide us food, fibres, medicines and raw material for many industrial chemicals and medicinal extracts. Our agriculture and agro-based industries also depend on plants.
Plants provide sustenance to life. Animal and human being depend on plants for food. Many industries depend on plants for the raw material e.g. textile, jute, food, wood, spices.
Even oil and gas are fossil fuels, products of plants and animal origin, which got buried beneath the earth many centuries ago.
Considering the importance of botany, I sent a proposal to the University of Karachi to set up an institute of industrial botany (IIB).
It would work as an applied research institute to work for the exploitatio
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