Third issue of The Spectrum is in your hands. In this issue we are lucky to have assistance from Dr Maryam Rafiq who has joined the editorial staff this year. She is the same Dr Maryam who won the title of Chemical Pathology Laureate in DLP-2. Her brilliance in literature and IT skills was recognized by Dr. Sara Reza who recommended
her name for sub-editorship. We are also greatly indebted to Dr Sara Reza herself for sparing precious time, so close to her final examination, for this issue. We dedicate this issue to Prof (Brig) Dilshad Ahmed Khan TI(M), President PSCP, who retired from Army service in Aug 2014. The newsletter owes its success to the contributions from our young colleagues. Their brilliant and creative ideas were translated into some very interesting printed matter.
For example, the survey appeared in this issue is a masterpiece from our two sub-editors. Some very informative articles on ‘Lab Accreditation’, ‘Role of Lab Medicine’, ‘Warburg Effect’ and ‘Harmonization’ are useful contributions in the issue.

We are honoured to include an Islamic article in this issue and beautiful poem on Youth is the first piece of poetry in
the newsletter. Please go through the article ‘What is in the name’ and give Your opinion as requested at the end. ‘Brief report on DLP- 2’ is included to archive this important educational activity while ‘Animated Chemical Pathology’ is probably the first of its kind in any Pathology literature. I hope you will find the issue not only entertaining but also a source of some useful information. Lastly I want to pay my gratitude to Dr Qurat-ul-Ain, Dr Uzma Ansari and Dr Amina Tariq for helping in proof reading and all the people who have supported ‘The Spectrum’ morally and physically.