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Meet My Best Friend
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PIF Founders on PTV World at FQ’s Perspectives
Pakistan Innovation Foundation programme with Fasial Qureshi on PTV World is now available online. Watch, PIF Board Member, Saad Amanullah Khan; Founder, Athar Osama; and PIF Innovation Fellow, Akhtar Hasnain, and Chief Executive of Injaz Pakistasn, Azra Maqsood talk about innovation and entrepreneurship in Pakistan.
The complete video can be watched here.
PIF Concept presented at CCIE 2011
Pakistan Innovation Foundation’s basic concept and idea was first presented at the Conference on Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CCIE) 2011 organised by MIT Enterprise Forum Pakistan alongside the MITEFP Business Acceleration Programme. PIF was very well received. (Video Coming Soon).
Abdus Salam’s 87th Birth Anniversary
Today (January 29, 2013) is Dr. Abdus Salam’s eighty-seventh birth anniversary. Dr. Abdus Salam was a scientist par excellence having contributed tremendously to the scientific enterprise and achieved recognition – including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. His contributions – electro-weak force, Pati-Salam Model, supersymmetry, discovery of new particles and particle properties, etc. – form the basis Grand Unification and the Standard Model in particle physics today.
That “Salam was a genius and for genius to end up winning Nobel Prize is no big surprise.” writes Nidhal Guessoum, a professor of physics and astronomy and the author of Islam’s Quantum Question. But Salam was much more than just a physicist. He was also perhaps one of the most influential scientists of his times whose influence went beyond the realm of physics to affect the society at large. In this he was, perhaps, the most shining star – second only to the Great Master, Albert Einstein, himself – in the galaxy of scientists who came and went in one of the most productive centuries of modern science. It would probably not be grossly incorrect to say that as far as influence beyond the world of science is concerned, Salam was to the developing world what Einstein was to the developed world.
Salam’s crowing achievement, however, was the setting up of International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, in 1964. This Centre, which Salam envisioned as the first department of a broader UN University provided a ‘meeting place for leading theoreticians from the East and the West” but also, more importantly, a place where scientists from developing countries could spend some time working with other colleagues and leading scientists of the time to reduce their frustration at lack of support back home thus stemming the brain drain from the developing world.
Over the years, ICTP has hosted over 100,000 scientists from the developing world – more than 6000 visitors from 122 countries in 2005 alone – and has contributed tremendously towards reducing the intellectual isolation of scientists and arresting the brain drain towards the West. While at ICTP, he also laid the foundation of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) to support scientists in the developing world. He was also instrumental in proposing the Islamic Science Foundation that never really saw the light of the day.
Salam has had a towering influence on the development of science – which he often referred to as a ‘common heritage of mankind’ – in the developing world.
TSML: Indigenous Development in Steel Making Process
Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited (TSML) is Pakistan’s first private-sector integrated steel manufacturing project designed to use the world’s most advanced DRI (Direct Reduction of Iron) technology based on the MIDREX process, owned by Kobe Steel of Japan. Spread over 220 acres, and established through the foreign direct investment of Al Tuwairqi Holding of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
TSML plans to produce 1.28 million tonnes of high quality steel to be consumed locally. TSMLE – the engineering and fabrication subsidiary – hopes to become owners and designers rather than mere users of the MIDREX process through design and experimentation. In addition, with the fabrication of 50-70% structures of the Karachi facility in Pakistan and the 110 meter high tower – the tallest in Bin Qasim – TSMLE also hopes to become the fabricator of plants and structures not only in steel-making but in other heavy industry sectors.
The innovative first for TSMLE is not just the first deployment of the DRI process but also performing material balancing of the reduction furnace and CFD modeling (planned) as well as balancing and simulation of the reformer and thermodynamic modeling (planned). With this, TSMLE would have achieved complete knowledge of designing and implementing process resulting in considerable design flexibility in operating the TSML plant in Karachi.
TSML’s process will produce steel at 30% less energy intensity than Pakistan Steel and TSMLE’s local fabrication expertise resulted in savings of $150million in foreign exchange. TSML’s production will alleviate the demand and supply gap (8.4 million tonnes vs. 4.9 million tonnes) and bring Pakistan’s steel usage (37 kg/capita) at par with the region (208 kg/capita) and the world (182 kg/capita).
TSMLE also seeks to create its own R&D facility for the broader Al-Twairiqi Group of Saudi Arabia with several large facilities and become a regional player in Engineering Design and Fabrication. It is a great example of local innovation, indigenous development, and foreign collaboration in Pakistan.
After a haitus of 2 years, TSML was inaugurated yesterday (12/1/13)
Source: Several interviews in 2010, media reports.