Pak scientists win SAARC Science Awards

KARACHI—Dr. Ghulam Rasul and Faisal Saeed of the Pakistan Meteorological Department have received the senior and junior scientist awards of SAARC for the year 2006 as per unanimous assessment of all the member states. This was stated in a statement of Meteorological Department on Tuesday. It said that the SAARC Technical Committee on Science and Technology announced these awards in a meeting held in Dkaha. Dr. Ghulam Rasul, the statement added, was also the winner of the SAARC young scientist award in the year 1994. His research work has recently been published by Elsevier Publisher in a book on development in earth surface processes entitled “ Mountains witness of global changes”.—Online