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Individual and synergistic effects of different fertilizers and gibberellin on growth and morphology of chili seedlings
No full textGibberellins (GA₃), as well as the basic elements phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), and potassium (K), are crucial to the growth of chili. This study investigates the effect of different fertilizers and plant growth regulator on the growth and morphology of chili seedlings. Soil application of NPK, urea, SOP, and DAP (2.5 g/L) was applied during sowing, and N in two splits at sowing and after twenty days of sowing while foliar application of GA₃ (50 mg/L) was applied after fifteen days of germination. The result of five seedlings' traits plant height (PH), plant girth (PG), plant spread (PS), number of leaves (NOF), and root length (RL) demonstrated a significant difference among growth-related traits in chili seedlings owing to the use of fertilizers, GA₃, and their combinations. An optimum level of K and P alone or in combination with GA₃ had a significant effect on all traits. PH was particularly influenced by the combination of GA₃ with K and P whereas other traits like PG, NOF, PS, and RL are greatly influenced by the application of NPK, urea, SOP, DAP, and their combination with GA₃. The study results showed an increase in chili seedlings' growth and morphology in response to various fertilizers and GA₃.Iza Fatima, Aiman Fatima, Muhammad Aqib Shah, Muhammad Amjad Farooq, Iftikhar Ali Ahmad, Irsa Ejaz, Daniel Adjibolosoo, Ume Laila, Muhammad Asim Rasheed, Ans Imran Shahid, Ayesha Tariq, Ume Han
Anees Shah Jilani as a Sketch Writer
No full textAnees Shah Jilani was a brilliant prose writer. His letters to many of his contemporaries are a great read primarily on account of this mastery of Urdu prose. He has more than twenty books in Urdu and Saraiki. He interest in classical Urdu and Saraiki literature caused him a huge following.. Anees Shah Jillani also been a prominent sketch writer among the literary giants like Rasheed Ahmad Siddiquei, Molvi Abdul Haq, Chiragh Hassan Hasrat, Abdul Majeed Salik, Raees Akhtar Jafery, Shahid Ahmad Dehilvi and Sadat Hassan Manto. Three of his books on sketch writing have been introduced in the literary world had a style of his own. This Article is an Analysis of Anees Shah Jillani work on sketch writing, His individuality in sketch writing and how has he reached the tradition of sketch writing introducing a style of his own.</span
Anees Shah Jilani as a Sketch Writer
No full textAnees Shah Jilani was a brilliant prose writer. His letters to many of his contemporaries are a great read primarily on account of this mastery of Urdu prose. He has more than twenty books in Urdu and Saraiki. He interest in classical Urdu and Saraiki literature caused him a huge following.. Anees Shah Jillani also been a prominent sketch writer among the literary giants like Rasheed Ahmad Siddiquei, Molvi Abdul Haq, Chiragh Hassan Hasrat, Abdul Majeed Salik, Raees Akhtar Jafery, Shahid Ahmad Dehilvi and Sadat Hassan Manto. Three of his books on sketch writing have been introduced in the literary world had a style of his own. This Article is an Analysis of Anees Shah Jillani work on sketch writing, His individuality in sketch writing and how has he reached the tradition of sketch writing introducing a style of his own.</span
Corporate Governance and Stock Price informativeness: Evidence from an Emerging Market
Get PDFEmerging markets usually have weaker legal and governance environment. The weaker enforcement of investor protection laws leads to a poor information environment. Using data of all the listed non-financial firms from Pakistan stock exchange (PSX), we document the relationship between corporate governance variables and stock price informativeness. The results from two-stage least squares (2SLS) reveal that controlling shareholders in the form of block holding plays an effective role in improving informativeness. Due to the presence of these block ownership, the institutional investors remain largely short term investors and act passively. This behavior of institutional investors encourages managers to extract more cash flows leading to higher synchronicity. These findings suggest market regulators develop such a corporate governance mechanism that not only ensures investor protection but also advise firms to reduce information asymmetry by better disclosure and transparency. More specifically, in the Pakistani context, traditional corporate governance mechanisms through board room regulations may not improve informativeness, and regulators need to regulate the ownership regulations, including family ownership and controlling shareholders
Insights from the civil-military integration during COVID-19 pandemic: a bibliometric assessment
No full textAbstract The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered an era of unprecedented global challenges, necessitating innovative and collaborative solutions. One such approach, widely adopted by nations has been the extension and implementation of the total defence (TD) concept. This holistic strategy is utilized the wartime conditions and involves the coordinated efforts of civil and military entities while engaging both public and private sectors. While this initiative has proven effective on the global stage, the pre-existing equilibrium between civil and military structures has yielded diverse outcomes across various avenues including societies and economies. Therefore, the principal objective of this research is to delve deeply into the complex dynamics of civil-military relationships in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic across different nations. To accomplish this, we employ a hybrid methodology, combining bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review of thirty-eight articles sourced from Scopus. The findings are reinforced by qualitative research tools including thematic analysis and natural language processing using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), enabling the extraction of underlying insights and observations. The findings highlighted that as current pandemic crisis diminishes, it becomes imperative to further explore and scrutinize these finding globally to enhance preparedness for potential future catastrophes. The study uncovers increased outreach of China during pandemic, hinting transition towards from unipolar to multipolar realities. There is a need to focus on mitigating the risk of the Kindleberger Trap via successful integration of the lessons and practices learned during pandemic. The study also sheds light on the implications of total defence implementation and discerns variations across cultures and economies, offering valuable lessons for future crisis management strategies
The exegesis of Tabatabaei and the Hermeneutics of Hirsch: a comparative study
Get PDFThis thesis is a comparative study between Hermeneutics on the one hand and exegesis of the Holy Qur'an on the other. Its objective is to discover whether there are salient points of convergence between the two disciples, and whether issues germane to the Hermeneutical tradition in the West have been referred to and/or employed in Muslim works of Qur'an commentary. To this end, the works of one of the most prominent Shi'ite philosophers and exegetes. Allama Mohammad Hossein Tabataei, have been analysed and compared with the perspective and methodology of E D. Hirsch, one of the most important hermeneuticians in the Western World. Hirsch has been chosen since, in the opinion of the author, there is a considerable number of commonalities between the Hirschian approach to hermeneutics and the exegetical methodology of Tabatabaei and other Shi'ite Muslim interpreters of the Qur'an.. Hirsch, as an objectivist, along with a number of other Hermeneutical scholars, are critical of those who subscribe to philosophical Hermeneutics, such as Heideger and Gadimer. The same approach is taken in Tabatabaei's works, thus providing a strong rationale for an academic comparison of these two scholars. For this reason, this thesis attempts to study the theories of Tabatabaei and Hirsch in order to highlight the similarities and differences in their works. The central hypothesis is that while small differences in approach exist, there is much common ground, and that it is possible to use certain facets of Hirschian hermeneutics in the interpretation of the Qur'an, thus modernising some of the existing exegetical approaches employed by Shi'ite scholars.Since the aim of this thesis is to compare the interpretive works of Tabatabaei with those of Hirsch's, an introductory chapter has been dedicated to the study of the evolution of Shi'ite exegesis from the beginning to date. Tabatabaei's Al-Mizan has been chosen as the foremost work of Shi'ite exegesis in the modem period. Furthermore, a complete chapter has also been dedicated to Tabatabai's exegetical modus operandi as reflected in Al-Mizan, in order to arrive at a better understanding of his perspectives. This research arrives at the conclusion that philosophical Hermeneutics and Epistemology have opened new horizons on which we will always be dependent. Whatever interpretive theories with regards to the understanding of the text are accepted, or whatever the tendency as far as literary criticism is concerned, or whatever ideas are accepted in the arena of philosophy of human and social sciences, the discussion of the nature of understanding in general cannot be avoided. This does not mean that Hermeneutics is limited to these new theories. Rather, the opportunity always exists to introduce new interpretive theories in connection with the understanding of the text. It is indeed possible to study these discussions in detail in a separate sphere independent of the other branches of Islamic sciences and arrive at a number of stable principles in the interpretation of the text in Islamic research
Stock Market Performance and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) during Covid-19 in Emerging Markets
Get PDFThis study analyses the performance of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) during the Covid-19 with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The stock markets are considered as the indicators of the economy. The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak from China in December 2019 and became a global virus within no time. The Covid has affected the economies negatively, although the level remained different in different economies. The financial sectors of the developed markets also got affected by the Covid pandemic as it has affected the global economies. In this study, Foreign Direct Investment is taken as the control variable to analyze the performance of PSX during covid-19. The Covid-19 positive cases are taken as a proxy for the Covid-19 data set. The sample data on weekly basis for stock prices in the Year 2020. The results indicate the Covid-19 has negatively affected the PSX, while FDI has a positive impact on the PSX performance.  
Anees Shah Jilani as a Sketch Writer
No full textAnees Shah Jilani was a brilliant prose writer. His letters to many of his contemporaries are a great read primarily on account of this mastery of Urdu prose. He has more than twenty books in Urdu and Saraiki. He interest in classical Urdu and Saraiki literature caused him a huge following.. Anees Shah Jillani also been a prominent sketch writer among the literary giants like Rasheed Ahmad Siddiquei, Molvi Abdul Haq, Chiragh Hassan Hasrat, Abdul Majeed Salik, Raees Akhtar Jafery, Shahid Ahmad Dehilvi and Sadat Hassan Manto. Three of his books on sketch writing have been introduced in the literary world had a style of his own. This Article is an Analysis of Anees Shah Jillani work on sketch writing, His individuality in sketch writing and how has he reached the tradition of sketch writing introducing a style of his own
Astrology in literature: how the prohibited became permissible in the Arabic poetry of the mediaeval period
Get PDFThis thesis is concerned to position the art of astrology within the context of classical Arabic poetry, primarily by investigating and elucidating attitudes to the notion of
qadar (fate) and the ideology in which it was embedded. These attitudes were revelatory of the broader world view of the Arabs of those periods, and their shifts from those held in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras tell us a good deal about the importance given to the nature and role of fate and about the various understandings of its influence. The pre-Islamic Arab's notion of qadar was in some ways similar to that of the early Muslims: both emphasised predetermination and the irresistible power of fate. But while the jahilf (Pre-Islamic) Arabs identified fate with the malign power of dahr (Time), the Muslims believed the power of fate lies in the hands of God the
Omnipotent, who alone is responsible for the fate of the whole universe. Thus the astrology of the pre-Islamic era was one aspect of divination (kihana) and claimed to be
able to reveal in advance an individual's destiny, which could be avoided by taking certain precautions. These precautions, however, were considered effective only in
relatively trivial cases; they were useless in the areas of major impact: a person's happiness or misery (shaqiiwa aw sa ada), sustenance (rizq) and one's term (ajal), the
three inevitable and irresistible manifestations of fate. In the Islamic period not only these major aspects of life are governed and controlled by the Omnipotent; the destiny
of the universe, in even its most minute details, is determined and controlled by God alone. Astrology was considered to be of no value whatsoever, and its practitioners were subject to the death penalty. These two irreconcilable views are evident in early Islamic poetry, which reflected clearly the response of poets, and society, to astrology from the perspective of qadar.
When the orthodox caliphate was replaced by dynastic rule the status of astrology was changed dramatically. The idea that the stars, as indicators, play a role in the life of
human beings found popowerful supporters in some governors of the Islamic world, who allowed astrology to fulfil a public function regardless of the hostility of the official
religion of that society. This social phenomenon generated rich material of a controversial character in the realm of literature. Investigating the factors, motivations
and impact of mediaeval political, theological and philosophical attitudes to astrology, in relation to the notions of free will and predestination, is the concern of this study
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