The 38th Annual International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary needs will start from June 24 arranged jointly by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and National Centre for Physics, Islamabad. This annual scientific activity would bring together about 300 scientists from various countries of the developing world and from advanced scientific institutions and universities of the developed world. Organised every year since 1976 the idea of holding the summer college came from the distinguished Nobel Laureate, Professor Abdus Salam who emphasised the vital need of communication, as well as of transferring and sharing scientific knowledge among the scientific community.