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Article
Nuclear Techniques for Sustainable Development Goals—Pakistan’s Perspective
Author(s)
Syed Javaid Khurshid
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2018.03.007
Affiliation(s)
Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
ABSTRACT
The
safety, security, and development of a
country depend on National Power Elements or factors classified by political scientists on
geographical sources. These factors are the capability and capacity of a
country to achieve its development aims and objectives such as
population and poverty, enough electricity, climate change, availability of
water, food production, adequate health facilities, and
industrial capacity. The national power elements are
interdependent and same of every developed and developing nation, except one or
two elements depending on geographical location and population of that country. To strengthen these capability and
capacity factors, in 2000 United Nation introduced eight millennium
development goals mainly emphasizing on reduction of poverty level up to 50% by
2015. Pakistan was able to work on only
three of the indicators out of 169 but was unable to achieve any significant
progress. On ending of 15 years’ time UN again in 2015 introduced more
universal and executable 17 sustainable development goals to be
accomplished by 2030. Science was recognized as one of the tools to achieve
these SDGs. Scientific and industrial development along with technology are an
effective source of economic development. Technology as an application of
science for the welfare of human being and technological capacity for
development of economic infrastructure development is the most powerful
national power element. Technology such as Nuclear Technology is one of the
best, which is an accurate and advanced and can be adopted to achieve these
goals. Article will discuss Nuclear Technology application on SDGs on which
Pakistan is already working since 1956 and has an expertise and trained
manpower for achieving nine out of these 17 sustainable goals by applying Nuclear
Technology.
KEYWORDS
development, goals, nuclear, Pakistan, sustainable, techniques
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