This Symposium was the first of its kind in Pakistan and brought together the physics community to
share knowledge about latest developments in different areas of interest. Apart from technical
sessions, there were some special sessions of general interest. One was devoted to highlight the
services rendered by Prof. Abdus Salam to the cause of development of science in the Third World
in general and in Pakistan in particular.There was a general feeling among the participants that the
Symposium has offered the first ever occasion to physicists to discuss, apart from the Frontiers in
Physics, the general state of physics teaching and research.