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Gender Bias in Workplace I – Blog Post #380 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #380. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   CEO Nusrat Munshi Lt. Gen. Nigar Johar Khan CJ Tahira Safdar Flt. Lt. Ayesha Farooq Pakistan, we say, is a patriarchal society which means that it favors men over women disproportionately. Despite eulogies and high praise about Mothers and Sisters and Daughters, the society discriminates against women savagely. It is safe to say actually, that the entire world is the same in this respect. Women are not equal to men in status, compensation, growth and future prospects. The difference is that the developed world keeps talking about it while countries like us refuse to eve...

Pakistan Pharma Industry – Q2/2020 – Blog Post #379 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #379. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . IQVIA is the international company which collects, compiles, analyzes and publishes Pharma Industry statistics in most countries of the world. They have an office in Pakistan which does the same for Pakistan Pharma Industry. IQVIA report is published every quarter for the preceding quarter. Their second quarter (Q2 – April to June 2020) report has just come out. A summary is circulating on the social media. The figures are of interest to Pharma industry professionals who would be keenly playing with the data related to their own products as well as those which may be o...

Head Hunting Business – Blog Post #378 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #378. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .     The role of an effective government is that it acts as facilitator, and motivator for upcoming as well as running businesses. Owing to its reach and understanding it also directs growth and progress in certain directions. All this is done through formulating relevant policies. In Pakistan, we suffer in this area because our elected policy makers are not qualified to undertake this task and other stake holders are not invited. Or, some people with vested interests influence policy making to their advantage while hurting others. Another issue is that we are not con...

  License for Hemp Use; A Bold Decision II – Blog Post #377 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #377. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .   Continued from Previous…… While medical research is making big strides in the field of Cannabis, the acceptance and legalization is not as universal. The first countries legalizing Cannabis for medical use were Canada and Uruguay. Uruguay is also the first country to legalize Cannabis for recreational use. Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research ( https://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu ) is based in the University of California, San Diego and is coordinating research on Cannabis. In 1999, California State legislated and commissioned University of California to es...

  License for Hemp Use; A Bold Decision I – Blog Post #376 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #376. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Ch Fawad Hussain @fawadchaudhry Cabinet has approved first License for @MinistryofST and PCSIR for industrial and medical use of Hemp, landmark decision ll place Pakistan in billions of USD CBD market..... 3:32 PM · Sep 1, 2020 ·   917 Retweets and comments 4.7K   Likes This is yesterday's tweet by the Minister of Science & Technology. Chaudhry Fawad Hussain. The decision has appropriately sent ripples across and in 3 hours, there were 917 retweets and 4,700 likes.  As I publish this blogpost, the retweets have gone to 1200 and comme...

Decision Making in Present Times – Blog Post #375 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #375. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Present times are uncertain times. COVID is still a mystery in the sense that the spread, treatment and prevention has not been fully comprehended. People are becoming jittery after long lockdown and economic meltdown. In several major cities of the world, people have taken to streets demanding end to lockdown. They carry placards saying, ‘Stop Corona Hoax’. It means the governments have lost confidence of people on this count. Governments are also tired of doling out relief packages and are mired in financial difficulties. On the business side, pricing and supply chain is no...