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Implementation of the 18th constitutional amendment : position papers on selcetes subjects: civil service, oil and gas resrouces, council of common interests, education/curriculum
No full textPakistan Institute of Development Economics ; [authors]: Zafarullah Khan, Dr. Muhammad Idrees Khawaj
Pioneers of Library Movement in Pakistan
No full textThe paper aims to describe in brief the contribution of seven leaders of Pakistan librarianship, viz. K.B. Khalifa M. Asadullah, Prof. Dr. Abdul Moid, Dr. Abdus Subuh Qasimi, Muhammad Shafi, Fazal Elahi, Khawaja Nur Elahi and S. V. Hussain. The early library developments are given for better understanding of the role of these leaders
Contribution of Services Sector in the Economy of Pakistan
No full textThe services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study identifies the bottlenecks in its growth and suggest measures to remove them. A set of policy reforms has been suggested to make the sector more effective in the growth of the national economy.Services Sector, Industry, Employment, Financial Institutions and Pakistan’s Economy
Remittances and Poverty Linkages in Pakistan: Evidence and Some Suggestions for Further Analysis
No full textGlobal remittances experienced a dramatic increase over the years, particularly since 1990 wherein the developing world emerged to be the major beneficiary accounting for 60 percent of the total amount. Because of the sheer volume, and magnitude of the remittances, and pre-eminence of these flows compared to the FDIs, development assistance and in some cases the trade related transactions, the development practitioners tended to focus and investigate the importance of remittances which are generally regarded as a dependable source for growth, improved welfare and poverty alleviation in the developing world. Given the fact that remittances flows entail wide ranging ramifications both for sending as well as receiving countries, difficult to be generalised, hence empirical evidence has been mounted though lack of consensus is visible.
Poverty Dynamics of Female-headed Households in Pakistan: Evidence from PIHS 2000-01 and PSLM 2004-05
No full textThe paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of female -headed households (FHHs) from two household surveys in Pakistan. Although, the database is constrained by quality factors and small sample size, the following findings add to the richness of current research in this area: (a) The numerical incidence of poverty among households headed by females is less than that for all households in the country, at the national, urban and rural level for both the years. This can be traced to the finding that more than 70 percent of households headed by females receive remittances, (b) The incidence of poverty among FHHs during the period 2000-01 to 2004-05 did not decline as fast as it did for mixed households, nationwide. In urban areas, it did not decline at all, (c) Among the determinants of poverty of FHHs, illiteracy, dependency and rural residence exacerbate poverty, while remittances domestic and/ or foreign reduce poverty, (d) The dynamics of incidence of poverty among FHHs during the period indicated that Illiteracy as the factor exacerbating poverty became less important in 2004-05. Moreover, residence in rural areas was also a weaker factor in determining the incidence of poverty. By far the most notable contribution in reducing the incidence of poverty was self-employment in agriculture in 2004-05.
Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
Estimating the Middle Class in Pakistan
No full textThe concept ‘middle class’ is one of the most commonly used terms in the social sciences, including economics, sociology and political science. Despite its frequent use there is, however, no consensus on what the term exactly implies and its meaning remains ambiguous depending primarily on the context in which it is used. It is viewed as the class that is between, and separates, the lower and the upper classes, that is the rich and the poor, but there is no agreement on the exact boundaries that separates them. Most of the definitions and measurements of the middle class continue to be somewhat arbitrary and vague.
SARAY'S SILVER DANGS OF JUCHID KHAN OF 15-th CENTURY WITH NAME MUHAMMAD
No full textProgress has been achieved in recent decades in the study of the coins of the Golden Horde
at the final stage of its existence. However, the late emissions of Juchid coin of 15-th century are
still insufficiently studied. This prevents the full use of numismatic sources for the adequate
reconstruction of political events of that turbulent time.
The paper is aimed at the publication and preliminary analysis of the main types of Saray’s
silver dangs of Juchid khan of 15-th century with name Muhammad.
These issues are very poorly represented in scientific articles: of nine types analyzed in the
paper only one was properly published with graphic reconstruction of dies.
For the first time dangs, which are the subject of this article, were mentioned (without
graphic reconstructions) in the famous work of Hh.M. Frähn “Recensio numorum
Muhammedanorum”, published in 1826. In A.K. Markov’s “Inventory Catalog of Muslim Coins of
the Imperial Hermitage” (1896) there is no mention of the Saray’s dangs of either Ulugh-
Muhammad or Muhammad b. Timur. In 2004 V.P.Lebedev and V.B. Klokov had information
about 8 coins, which are the subject of this article, and attributed these dangs to the issues of
Ulugh-Muhammad.
Enlarged photographic images of silver coins with metrology (most of which are first
introduced into scientific circulation) of Juchid khan of 15-th century with name Muhammad are
presented in the article.
Nine types of late Juchid silver dangs with the name and titles of khan Muhammad on the
obverse and the designation of mint on the reverse as Saray, Saray al-Jadida, Saray al-Mahrusa are
published. Reconstruction and translation of monetary legends, as well as preliminary analysis of
emissions, are given.
The place of issue on the coins is indicated as a Saray (without the epithet or with al-Jadida
or al-Mahrusa). But this fact alone does not allow to state with complete confidence that these
dangs were minted there. With regard to the silver emissions of the XIV century, it is proved that
the coins in some cases weren’t minted where it is written on their reverses. A similar situation
could have take place in the XV century. According to the information reported to the author, the
coins published in the paper were unearthed on vast spaces that once were the territory of the
Golden Horde – from Moldova to Siberia without any apparent concentration in one region, which
may not be surprising paying attention to the rarity of the coins. At the present level of our
knowledge, the place of minting of these coins can not be reliably established.
It can be affirmed that most of the silver dangs, that are the subject of this paper, have a
weight in the range from 0.66 to 0.96 g.
None of the published coins carries the date, which creates the problem of dating these
issues. Taking into account all facts, the author thinks that it is possible to date most of the
reproduced dangs as 822-the mid of 830-s AH.
Who was that Muhammad-khan, on whose behalf the published coins were issued?
Historiography was dominated until recently by the viewpoint formulated by V.P. Lebedev and
V.P. Klokov, that in the case of different Muhammads an understanding was already reached on
the issue how they called themselves on coins: Ulugh-Muhammad – simply Muhammad, Boraq –
Muhammad-Boraq, Küchük-Muhammad – Muhammad b. Timur. It was established on the
numismatic material by Yuriy Zayonchkovskiy that on dangs of Küchük-Muhammad his name
can be written as Muhammad b. Timur or simply as Muhammad. Thus, the absence of nasab on a
coin is not a sufficient basis for classifying a coin for Ulugh-Mukhammad. In view of what has
been said, it can be stated that published dangs can’t be automatically attributed to Ulugh-
Mukhamad’s emissions.
The proposed article is an important step to make attribution of published coins more precise.
The author hopes that a full introduction of these interesting dangs into the scientific study can
activate the discovery and research of relevant numismatic sources, will allow to find the missing
answers and, if necessary, to specify (and possibly correct) the theses presented in the paper
Poetics of Momin Khan Mimin: مومن خاں مومؔن کی منفرد شعری بوطیقا
No full textIn this paper, a detailed light has been thrown on the unique style and poetic characteristics of the famous ghazal poet Hakeem Momin Khan Momin of the 19th century. Unlike his contemporaries, Momin set a different path for his poetry. He is a poet of beauty and love and through this specific subject, he added to the field of Urdu ghazal and in the era of poets like Zouq and Ghalib, got a distinguished position.
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THE effects of ageing on driving related performance
No full textAccording to one estimate, about 40 percent of the driving population will be over the age of 60by the year 2020 in the UK and currently, several hundred thousand drivers with dementia holddriving licenses. The number of motor vehicle crashes per unit distance of automobile travel is“U”-shaped, with risk increasing slightly between the ages of 55 and 60, but risk increasing witheach successive five-year interval. Some individuals who have mild dementia possess sufficientdriving skills to be designated as fit drivers. The most challenging assessment and decision for thephysician/licensing authority as regards fitness to drive lies in drivers who are questionablydemented or are in a state of very mild dementia.In the absence of a reliable standard protocol, some clinicians make judgment based on selfreporting,which has risks associated with it as lack of insight and judgment are potential commontraits of the population experiencing cognitive decline. Seldom is recourse made by healthprofessionals to on-road assessment as a first alternative as it requires a fee and such testingcenters are not readily available everywhere. This research addresses this issue of theidentification of cognitive tests that can be used to assess an individual’s ability to drive andespecially of those individuals that are questionably demented and are the most difficult toidentify. A younger and an older group consisting of 56 drivers in total were administered ninedifferent cognitive tests and two drives (Drive-I and Drive-II) on the STISIM driving simulator.The cognitive test ufov3 (involving the identification of a central target and simultaneously theradial localization of a peripheral target embedded in distracter triangles), which is the thirdsubtest of the UFOV (Useful Field of View) test showed the highest discriminating ability inseparating “poor-drivers” from “not-poor-drivers”, with 92.86 % of the drivers correctlyclassified. The next best discriminating ability in decreasing order of strength was that of dichoticlistening test, trail making test, rey-copy test and paper folding test. Also, age was found to be anexcellent discriminator of “poor-drivers” and “not-poor-drivers” with 91.07 % of the driverscorrectly classified. A composite cognitive measure consisting of the sum of all nine cognitivetests was not a better predictor than the ufov3 test alone; overall it was still an excellentdiscriminator, classifying 89.29 % of drivers correctly. The commonly recommended ClockDrawing test and the Trail Making test did not emerge as significant predictors of driving ability.A general driving skills linear model for prediction purposes was derived that explained 59 % ofthe variation in a general driving performance index with the ufov3 test, the dichotic listening testand the rey-recall test as significant predictors. Recommendations are made as to how this testshould be used to screen potentially at risk drivers
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