Peace Process with India: A Challenge for Pakistan

The state is challenged not only by its own capabilities, interests, policies and actions but also by those of the state with which it interacts. Pakistan’s geostrategic location is placed in an environment where it is facing threats across the border from India who have hegemonic attitude in South Asia. Security of the region is highly associated with the peace process between the two nuclear states of the region. For Pakistan it’s a difficult challenge to win the trust of India because of their unresolved disputes and lack of cooperation between them. India has to make its secular foundation more strong and solid while Pakistan has to think how it can make its state up to the principles of Islam and how to enjoy the positive fruits of modernity without losing its religion. The hostility between Pakistan and India is a main hurdle for peace building.Without creativity and commitment to dispute resolution, it is difficult to imagine their policy of peaceful engagements in the future. Future of Pakistan-India relations depends upon the type of compromise which might be accepted by both sides.By the time, the peace process began between the two states, they cannot run off from the actuality of it and by viewing the future prospects of peace process there is up till now in the present scenario, there are rays of lack of absolute possession, allegiance and visual perception from both states in order to lookout for peace benefit by employing right set of circumstances for the improvement in their confrontational relations

Strategic and Economic Interests of Pakistan and India in Central Asia

Central Asia which is referred as the Heart of Asia, geopolitically, geographically, strategically, economically, politically, militarily as well as from cultural aspirations consequential and appreciable from the arteries of Pakistan and India. Pakistan being the agricultural and industrially thriving and proliferate state agog and inquisitive in securing its correspondence with Central Asian Republics. Besides this, India’s most favorable interests being a part of this Afghan closest border territory for the attainment of more liberalized Indian market in terms of trade, sea-routes, by-road links and marketing simultaneously also for the purpose of becoming richest one in the natural resources from this main hub and pivot of Asia. In this article, both Pakistan and India are described as the beady-eye for each other that which of either global opposite authority would rise up in gambling the reserves or making more obliging and amenable connections within this region irrespective to different problems and obstacles. Both these resistant states i.e. Pakistan and India, either for one or the other reasons such as for the objective of energy resources, for the military services, for regional as well as for global meshing or coalescing continuously modeling and assembling themselves knotting with this earth surrounded land. In the economic subject, Central Asian Republics act as a donor and donee in the international circle. The contribution of organizations especially that of Shanghai Corporation is essential part in which not only Pakistan and India involved but also Russia, China and USA as reverberation actors in trading and trafficking inter-state Central Asian Republic

A Review on Biometric Encryption System in Cloud Computing

This Review paper is about the security of bio metric templates in cloud databases. Biometrics is proved to be the best authentication method. However, the main concern is the security of the biometric template, the process to extract and stored in the database within the same database along with many other. Many techniques and methods have already been proposed to secure templates, but everything comes with its pros and cons, this paper provides a critical overview of these issues and solutions

Suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 in pregnant females with or without hypertension

Suppression of Cytokine Signalling-3 (SOCS-3) modulates the inflammatory pathways responsible for vascular stability. Therefore, we aimed to estimate SOCS-3 levels in 2nd trimester pregnant females and correlate it with blood pressure. A case control study recruiting (n=111) females was conducted at the Aga Khan University. They were classified as pregnancy induced hypertensives ornormotensive as per American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Guidelines. Weight, Body mass index, lipid profile and blood glucose were recorded while SOCS-3 was measured by ELISA. Higher SOCS-3 levels were seen in hypertensive group (30 pg/ml) versus normotensive (16 pg/ml). Both Systolic & diastolic blood pressure (r=0.520; p \u3c0.001) (r=0.490; p \u3c0.001) showed an independent significant positive correlation with SOCS-3 level. It is safe to suggest that SOCS-3 has an association of causing high blood pressure. However, more research needs to be conducted to establish a mechanism and chronological order to these events in a pregnant female

Adjunctive surgical procedures enhancing treatment outcome : A literature review

The face is the most expressive zone of the human body that communicates our feelings and thoughts. This may also influence the interaction between people. The aesthetic adjunctive procedures are life-changing. In contemporary orthodontic treatment, orthognathic surgeries are performed to correct the functional aspects of dento facial deformities. In cases where the aesthetic outcome is not improved, patient dissatisfaction is often encountered. Many adjunctive surgical procedures can be used to enhance the anaesthetics of orthodontic or orthognathic surgical cases. Dwelling not merely on the ideal occlusion, the results could be enhanced by analysing the whole-face to improve the overall treatment outcome

PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN PATIENTS SUFFERED FROM MIGRAINE

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of depression and anxiety in migraine patients. Study design: A cross-sectional study. Location and duration: In the Psychiatry Department of Mayo hospital Lahore for one year duration from June 2017 to June 2018. Methods: The patient was diagnosed as migraine and headache was included in the analysis. According to the designed criteria by International Headache Society the migraine diagnosis was made. Patients were included regardless of gender and age. Only subjects who met the inclusion criteria were included. If necessary, routine or relevant investigations were conducted. After the subjects were selected, the Depression Scale and Hospital Anxiety was applied to the patients. All results were calculated and saved in a designed format. The data were analyzed, tabulated and compiled using the 18 version of SPSS. Results: 65 women (63.8%) and 37 men (36.2%) were treated with migraine with a minimum age of 11 years and a maximum age of 71 years. Most of the patients (76%) are between 21 and 51 years of age. Psychiatric morbidity was found in 58 patients (56.8%) using the Urdu-approved version of the Depression Scale and Hospital Anxiety with a 11-21 score for depression and anxiety. Therefore, 44 subjects (42.91%) were not recommended for psychiatric treatment. From fifty eight patients with positive psychiatric cases, 23 were male and 35 (60%) were females. Of these, 25 (43%) had anxiety, 18 (31%) had depression and 15 (27%) had depression and anxiety. Of the fifty eight patients receiving psychiatric treatment, 80% were between 21 and 50 years of age. Conclusion: Migraine has a strong relationship with depression and anxiety. The prevalence of this association may be affected by age and gender. Key words: Anxiety, migraine, HADS, depression

Data Migration in Cloud: A Systematic Review

Data migration needs to  securely transfer for maintaining confidentiality such that migration can strongly and effectively done with no data loss due to active attacks . Many techniques and methods have already been proposed by researchers around the world to secure data migration. This paper provides a critical overview of these problems and solutions and giving a proposed solution for data migration that is Attunity which can help to optimize data for replicating and transferring data thus providing a simple, faster and safer path to accelerate data by providing

Security of Information in Cloud Computing: A Systematic Review

Data storage in cloud have become a great concern today. Many encryption and decryption methods have already been proposed to secure cloud data but everything comes with its pros and cons, this paper provides a critical overview of these cryptography techniques, issues and solutions regarding its security and availability

Biosecurity and Biosafety concerns of Research and diagnostic Laboratory under International Guidelines

Currently, academic research labs and diagnostic laboratories are facing a serious issue of biosecurity and biosafety globally. The high rate of mutations and continuous new emerging infectious diseases with the risk of bioterrorism demands that each lab personnel share equal responsibility for biosecurity & biosafety at their work. The primary job of government authorities is to implement a well-organized detection system and limit the spread of hazardous biological agents by providing a biologically safe setting for lab scientists and for the common man in communities and institutes. The safety of lab personnel, lab environment, and pathogens depends on effective and safe laboratory working and pathogen handling which determines the reliable and accurate results of laboratory experiments. The aim of this article is to address the basic components of laboratory biosafety, laboratory biosecurity, and laboratory management. Further DURC (dual-use research of concern) deals with the commencement of lawful reasons to generate information, knowledge, technology, and products that are used for either harmful or beneficial purposes. The precautions are taken to ensure laboratory biosecurity and biosafety should be a part of the laboratory safety policy manual for guidance and implementation for a safe laboratory environment.Keywords: Antioxidants; tomato; lycopene; β-carotene; reactive oxygen species (ROS)

European Union as a New Actor in Central Asia: Its Interests and Challenges

In the global politics, Central Asia with its five stans namely, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan playing a vital and acontributing role with other states for a multiple purposes. European Unionbeing the huge and vast union presenting its contribution and part as a newactor in the great game of Central Asia in order to achieve its goals andobjectives for the purpose of fulfilling its national interest. The main aim ofwriting this article that specifies on the part of European Union (EU) as anentrance, arch or as a portal in Central Asian region, also focused on theEuropean Union interests in this landlocked region. Both Central Asia andEuropean Union shared a heightened and widen mutual interest in political aswell as in economic relations. European Union is having cooperative andcollaborative relations with all the five states of the region. European Unioncan also be labeled as the United States of Europe mainly concerned, havinga keen interest and keeping an eye on Inner Asia for having control of the oiland gas reserves which the region is rich and wealthy especially due to thereason for throwing out the Russia’s interest for this region. Apart from this, forthe development of industries, machinery, vehicles, energy pipelines EUmaking efforts to develop good relations with all the five republics of thisregion. Thus in the contemporary 21st century, other than the USA,European Union is thoroughly and wholly re-appraise and re-examined itsstrategy for the bilateral relations, for the democratization, for the betterrelations with the civil societies within Central Asia. Some of the challengesregarding EU in this land also highlighted. Efforts by the EU in capturing theresources and definitely for the successful outcomes to achieve its main goalare and would be in process in dealing with this large and expand territory socalled Heartland of Central Asia