// Dr. Farrukh A. Chishtie Microplastics are fast becoming a dangerous public health threat. This comprehensive cover story provides essential information and action items to safeguard your health. Plastic is woven into daily life in Pakistan. It wraps our groceries, carries our drinking water, lines takeaway meals, covers schoolbooks, and shows up in the thin bags that drift along streets and waterways. We notice plastic when it blocks a drain, burns in a rubbish pile, or ga

// Dr. Mahjabeen As winter arrives, most of us prepare warm clothes, food supplies, and heated homes. But there is another community quietly preparing for the cold — one that plays a far more vital role in our daily lives than we often realize: the honeybees. Every year, particularly in South Asian countries, wild honeybee nests are destroyed during the onset of winter. Some people do it to collect honey, others out of fear, and many simply because they are unaware of how cri