Interests:

1. I work in Physics, especially Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology; 

2. Mathematics, especially Lie Symmetry Analysis, and Special Functions; 

3.  Economics, especially at the foundations of Economics (and published the first paper on Quantum Economics in 1978); 

4. I also write poetry in English and in Urdu; 

5. I have also published on various other topics in Physics, Mathematics and Economics, and other areas, for example, an article, “Science Fiction and Popular Science from Ancient to Modern Times” in AmeriQuests, 2006. 

Experience:

I obtained my PhD under the supervision of Sir Roger Penrose (NL) at the University of London in 1971. I taught in the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan from 1971 to 2004, and the Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics (later the School of Natural Sciences, in the Departments of Mathematics and then of Physics of the National University of Science &  Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan from 2004 to 2019. During this time, I visited Prof. John Archibald Wheeler at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978/79 and 1986/86 on Fulbright Fellowships; was Associate and later Senior Associate Member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Professor at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and later Adjunct Professor there; Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; associated with the International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, Pescara, Italy and the Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica of the Universita degli Studi, Lecce, Italy, and associated with. In addition, I was on the rolls of Islamic Economists and was a Senior Fellow of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and Life Member of the Society of Development Economists. I also worked as Director (Mathematics, Physics and Economics) of the Centre of Basic Sciences of the University Grants Commission and served on various committees for the Five-Year Plans of the Planning Commission. I have also been a Visiting Professor at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences of the Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, the COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan and the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.