KARACHI - More than 4,000 employees of defunct Karachi Development Authority (KDA) threatened to launch protest demonstration if their salaries of last month were not paid within two days. The Karachi administrator asked the KDA workers union on Wednesday to withdraw any protest drive call for two days as discussions with Sindh Finance Department for release of grant, meant to distribute salaries among employees is underway. KDA Workers Union President Abdul Mateen and Secretary General Muhammad Chishti said the Sindh Finance Department had been creating obstacles in release of salary grant.  The finance department said it would first adjust salary issues of provincial government employees then other departments. They said 25 days had passed but wages of June had not been paid to KDA workers. “We are waiting for two more days as requested by Karachi administrator and if issues are not settled after the stipulated time, we will lodge our strong protest.”WORKSHOP ON TOOLS IN QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS BEGINS: The Pakistan Proteomic Society in collaboration with Asian Oceania Human Proteome Organisation (AOHUPO) held the launching ceremony of the two-day workshop on ‘Tools in Quantitative Proteomics’.The organisers of the event said here the other day that the workshop of national significance intended to promote advancement in the cutting edge technology of Proteomic Science.They pointed out that the workshop sponsored by Higher Education Commission (HEC) was addressed by AOHUPO President, Prof Dr Nakamura Kazayuki, Yamaguchi University, Japan.Prof Nakamura, a renowned Proteome Scientist, in his address congratulated the organising committee in taking initiatives to promote  Proteomic Science in Pakistan.Prof Dr Nikhat Ahmed Siddiqui, also a council member representing Pakistan at AOHUPO and also the Chair of Department of Biochemistry University of Karachi, expressed her deep appreciation to AOHUPO and HEC for helping in organising the workshop for promoting proteome science in Pakistan.Dr Nakamura’s plenary lecture on Novel Biomarker discovery for diagnostics and therapeutics by cancer proteomics shed light on the use of the emerging novel technologies that allow researchers to facilitate the comprehensive analyses of genomes, transcriptomes, and proteomes in health and disease.The information that is expected from such technologies may soon exert a dramatic change in the pace of cancer research and impact dramatically on the care of cancer patients.These approaches have already demonstrated the power of molecular medicine in discriminating among disease subtypes that are not recognisable by traditional pathologic criteria and in identifying specific genetic events involved in HCC progression.The other two speakers from University College London and Gottengen University gave the state of art lectures on the use of new approaches to identify and characterise quantitative tissue protein biomarkers for prostrate, colon and bladder cancers and Prion proteins interaction and their role in accumulation in PrPC a potential role to study neurodegenerative diseases with protein aggregation.The afternoon session was dedicated to the session of 2DE analysis by Dr Shamim Mushtaq, Dr Sadia Zahid and Rizma Khan and MS data analysis by Prof AR Asif (Germany).The workshop will be continued tomorrow for session on dynamics and simulation and complexes.