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Administrative law relates to public administration. It’s basically the legal code, or set of rules and precedents, which govern relations between the individual and the state. Administrative law is derived from specific authorization of laws made by a sovereign body ‘in modern developing state by parliament. It can be differentiated from common law/national civil law and the mechanism for dispensing …

During the times when Greece was facing moral and ethical decay, there appeared a great soul, Socrates, to restore purity of thought and action. Few men in history practiced what they preached, and he was one among those. Socrates was a staunch defender of the objectivity of truth’ ‘Know Thyself’ was his motto. To him virtue consists of being truthful …

Editorial When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake These profound words by the most revered English poet William Blake exposit why Muslims across the globe are tangled in intricate web of miseries and wretchedness of fate. A cursory look at history provides numerous instances where the bigot …

In the first part of this article’ published in JWT’s March 2014 issue’ a narration of Arab invasion in present-day Pakistan was presented. This piece contains the Arabs’ advancement to Punjab and Kashmir along with a brief discourse on the reasons which obligated their success that has indelible marks on the lives of the inhabitants of the Subcontinent. The Arabs …

The developed world is fast adopting biotechnology in agriculture, and the developing world is also trying to catch up. The ever-increasing demand for food and loss in agricultural productivity, due to over-cultivation, pest attacks and diseases, demand for scientific development of seeds which can take care of these issue. While countries are opting for genetic modifications in crops, certain anti-biotechnology …

The world is transfixed by the literally unthinkable events surrounding the apparent hijacking and disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The unfolding story is a concatenation of improbabilities. After the plane went missing ‘with 239 people on board’ a multitude of theories about the plane’s fate were in the air. Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation stated that’pings’ were picked up …

It is apparent to every keen eye that the greatest issue Pakistan faces today is religious extremism. It is our misfortune that today this is not merely limited to an ideology. Its communication is through the written and spoken word. It has now crossed these confines and entered the realm of carnage and terrorism. The political, economic and social, in …

Li-fi is a technology that has been in a process of development for quite some time now. The term Li-Fi ‘Light Fidelity’ was coined by Edinburgh University Prof Harald Haas in 2011, though the technology is also known as visible light communications (VLC). Reading about new energy-efficient technologies that can transform the world to a cleaner and greener place, with …

The ‘Dead Reckoning: Memories of the Bangladesh War’ brings truth to light Sarmila Bose, a granddaughter of Sarat Chandar Bose, a famous Indian nationalist leader and a brother of Subash Chandar Bose is a senior Research Fellow in the politics of South Asia at the University of Oxford. She has been a political journalist in India and combines academic and …

Small sensors found in most smartphones and laptops are sensitive enough to detect the movement of moderate and large earthquakes, and could vastly expand the information gathered during seismic events in densely-populated cities, new research suggests. The devices, called micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers, measure movement in three dimensions and tell the phone’s screen to flip from horizontal to vertical when …