Miqdad Mehdi

Shanxi University | Shān xī Dà xué · Law

The existing international legal framework for outer space is inadequate for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS). There has not been any other legally-binding treaty on outer space since the signing of the Moon Agreement (MA) in 1979. The development of adequate international law for PAROS is in urgent need. Some spacefaring count...

Pakistan was among the first 10 countries to start a space programme. Its space programme started upon the appointment of Dr. Abdus Salam (Noble Prize Winner) as the Chairman of the Space Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) in 1961. Owing to the prevailing unfavourable economic and political environment, coupled with regional instability...

It has become the need of our society to use municipal solid waste (MSW) under the vision of waste-to-energy (WTE) strategy in order to utilise MSW and to address the energy issues over the world. With respect to the energy, refused derived fuel (RDF) is the energy source of MSW, whose reliability and quality is analysed in this work. The energy co...

The increased realization in greenhouse emission has encouraged to grow new technologies to accommodate the confinement and seizure of CO 2 . Keeping this situation, the thermal behaviour of lignite, Rice husk, besides their mergers throughout pyrolysis and combustion procedures, was examined in the study for their possible usage as a sustainable a...

When the Outer Space Treaty and Moon Agreement were concluded, there existed no urgency to regulate space resources extraction activities. Four decades thereafter, technological development makes the exploitation and use of space resources not only possible – but likely a reality in the near future. At present, not only governments but also ambitio...