In Karachi, scientists, officials, and security experts gathered to reckon with a truth that advances in biotechnology have made unavoidable: the same knowledge that heals can harm, and the same connectivity that accelerates discovery opens new doors to misuse. At a workshop organized by Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan's emerging biosecurity framework was held up not as a finished architecture but as a living obligation — one that demands coordination across every sector that touches biological research, from government ministries to individual laboratory workers. The passage of th