THERE was no issue of the paper on the day on account of the anniversary of Ayub Khan’s 1958 military takeover. Reproduced below are excerpts from a news item on the preceding day.

KARACHI: Dr Salimuzzaman Siddiqi, Chair­man, National Science Council, said in Karachi yesterday that in this age of specialisation, inter-disciplinary cooperation in various fields of scien­tific endeavour was a matter of paramount import­a­nce. He was speaking at the inauguration of the UNESCO Oceanographic Training Program­me for the Indian Ocean Region under the auspices of the Marine Fisheries Department at the Fish Harbour. “The need for collaboration is all the greater in a country like Pakistan where we are seriously handicapped for want of adequately trai­ned scientific personnel and equipment,” he said.

The effectiveness of such effort, he added, had been amply demonstrated by the success of the Science Committee for Oceano­graphic Research in which many organisations like the Atomic Energy Commission, PCSIR [and] the Karachi University ... had joined hands to pool their human and material resources for conducting investigations in fields like chemical, physical, biological, geological and meteorological oceanography.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2014