228 research outputs found
Brand Aslam: Contesting Nadeem Aslam as Pakistani Anglophonic Voice
Get PDFThis article explores how the literary texts have been influenced by the writer’s promotion as an author with the knowledge and authority to represent Pakistan. We discuss how “Brand Aslam” draws on and amplifies elements of “Brand Pakistan” to secure the authority of Aslam’s representations of the nation he left as a teenager. We are particularly interested in how the branding of Aslam in terms of his national identity (here, Pakistan), especially due to his active involvement in creation of his image, influences commodity value of his work(s) in the global literary market. We conclude that the “real-life” stories of him as a literary celebrity become the objects of special fascination and determine the reception of his works as a postcolonial author from margins
اسلم کولسری کی غزل:بیان و بدیع کے تناظر میں: ASLAM KOLSARY’S GHAZAL IN THE LIGHT OF BIAN-O-BADIE
No full textAslam kolsari is new significant and potentially well-known personality for contributing to modern Urdu ghazal. Being a mindful and multidimensional literary figure he has specific fame in poetry. A distinguish diction in poetry is individuality specifically connected with his name. His ghazal contains all attributes of Research and criticism. Communication of an ordinary concept in his poetry is reflection of Aslam kolasri. In this article the author has explored how poetic characteristics distinguished Aslam kolsari
Study of Pakistan pilot project farmer-leaders to Nepal
Get PDFFarmer participation / Irrigation management / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Irrigated farming / Sustainable agriculture / Institution building / Pakistan
FATF’s Concerns and Pakistan\u27s Measures for Compliance
No full textSince August 2018, Pakistan has been dealing with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to avoid its harsh conditions. The aim of the study was to examine the current position of Pakistan vis-à-vis the conditions laid down by the FATF. A literature review was conducted to assess the situation over 20 months and a comparative analysis was done. Findings of the study showed that the ministry took nine actions. First, it banned two main and eleven affiliated organizations. Second, it froze 976 moveable and immovable assets of the banned organizations. Third, it intervened in the social welfare activities conducted by the banned organization and seized relevant institutes. Fourth, it ministry convicted more than 200 individuals concerned. Fifth, it appropriated funds amounting to Rs 2,400 million. Sixth, it introduced the mutual legal assistance law and contacted about 84 countries to glean information from them. Seventh, it formulated asset-freezing regulations. Eight, it introduced the charity law across the country. Ninth, it tri-furcated the 4th schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 and established procedures for watching the prospective offenders. The result was that, in 20 months, Pakistan formulated policies meant for curbing money laundering and combating terrorism financing
Mongolia : Gender Disparities in Labor Markets and Policy Suggestions
No full textMongolia has made strong progress on key
gender-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in recent
years. Gender indicators in education and health are also
better in many respects than in comparator countries in the
East Asia and Pacific region. Women have a limited presence
in higher level managerial positions and in entrepreneurial
work, and working women also have to shoulder most of the
household and care duties compared to men. These
inequalities can have large impacts on development, growth
and productivity as well as pervasive intergenerational
social costs. Removing impediments to full and equal
participation for women in the economy, providing equal
access to economic resources and opportunities and
eliminating discrimination can boost productivity and
competitiveness for firms with wider benefits for the
economy and within the household. A range of potential
policy actions can be considered, including improving
employment outcomes (wages, career progression) for women in
the public sector, introducing more friendly parental leave
policies that cover both fathers and mothers, improving
child care services and introducing affirmative action
policies in sectors where women are acutely
under-represented such as mining. In addition, business
regulations can be streamlined to make it easier to start
and operate businesses for both men and women. Other
policies that may be helpful include promoting awareness of
and encouraging the development of (appropriately regulated
and supervised) micro-lending institutions
INSUFFICIENCY AND EXCESES OF CHOLECALCIFEROL (VITAMIN D3) CAUSES ADVERSE EFFECT ON HEALTH
No full textFirst author: Shakeel Ahmed
(Hazara University Department of Biochemistry)
Second author: Anhum Aslam
(Hazara University Department of Biochemistry
Pakistan’s emerging regional politico-economic role in the SCO
Get PDFShanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is presently a Eurasian politico-economic bloc having two South Asian members, Pakistan and India. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prospective role of Pakistan in the SCO with qualitative study based on interviews. On June 2017, Pakistan was granted permanent membership in the SCO during its 16th Heads of State Summit in Astana. By associating itself as a permanent member, summit allows Pakistan to contribute to regional development alongside other key regional players, Russia and China and India. The study gave four findings that how multilateralism was having a calming effect on a regional conflict, Pakistan embracing independence from isolation through Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. Through CPEC, Pakistan was offering the SCO member countries an economic hallway. And how the Eurasian politico-economic ambitions to reach the warm waters of the Arabian Sea was perceived as hampering the Western economic interests, thereby offering a major impediment to Pakistan’s emerging role in the SCO. Moreover, SCO participation will help enhance Pakistan\u27s worldwide socio-economic objectives. This study examines the socio-politico and economic aspirations of Pakistan and benefit due to ties with SCO member countries
Religious violence towards minorities: the case of Youhanabad Church attack in Pakistan
Get PDFViolence in general but religion-based violence, in particular, has been an unsettling, however ubiquitous, feature of Pakistani society. While there are economic, social, ideological, and psychological causes for why individuals engage in various acts of violence, particularly those against minority and marginalized groups are usually systemic. That is to say that either the system actively perpetuates it or passively observes it as it happens without doing anything to stop it. In Pakistan, religious violence is a result of both active perpetuations through discriminatory laws like blasphemy and or the prejudiced school curriculum and passive observation. Furthermore, in a larger context, all of this can be attributed to myopic state policies which sought to unify the nation by using Islam as a political tool to break ethnic strongholds. As it turns out, this policy has been disastrous for minority and marginalized groups. This paper seeks to understand the dynamics of religious violence in Pakistan to explain the twin attacks on Youhanabad Church in 2015. Furthermore, it undertakes a qualitative study i.e., conducting interviews with the victims of the 2015 church attack, to get insight into their feelings and how they are dealing with different emotional and economic effects of the tragedy
Engaging Schooling Subjectivities Across Post-apartheid Urban Spaces
No full textAslam Fataar, one of South Africa’s few educational sociologists working with ethnographic methods, captures the complex interactions and dynamics between social life, school processes and youth subjectivity in townships in the Western Cape. His work with concepts of mobilities and space is enormously generative, providing a way for teachers, principals, communities and policy makers to engage with the ‘complex ecologies’ of young people’s learning in urban schools. As an astute policy analyst, he also well knows the systemic barriers in the way of achieving this. The last chapter, on possibilities for pedagogical justice at the site of the school, considers how disengaged students might re-engage through leveraging explicit pedagogic connections between their lifeworlds and school practices. Acknowledging that pedagogy cannot be the only means for revitalising schooling, the author nevertheless insists that marginalised young people’s consent needs to be won by schools that make use of, rather than ignore, their strengths, knowledges and aspirations. The approach to the troubled question of youth and subjectivity is enlightening, and vital to understanding the post-apartheid city and school. The book fills a much-needed gap in educational sociology in South Africa
A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of the Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
Get PDFThis paper aims at describing Pragma-stylistic Analysis used in the Novel “Blind Man’s Garden” published in 2013 by British Pakistani author Nadeem Aslam. The study is intended to investigate the role of speech act theory (SAT) in understanding dramatic texts through using pragma-stylistic approach. It is also an attempt to examine the pragma-stylistic effects of using speech acts (SAs) and their implication in conveying the theme of the play and the intentions of the characters. The researcher explores the application of speech act theory proposed by J.L. Austin and John Searle. This study was conducted using textual analysis and descriptive qualitative method. Based on the data analysis the eight extracts are selected from Nadeem’s novel and they are Locutionary, Perlocutionary, Illocutionary, Representatives, Declaratives, Commissive, Expressive and Directives. The analysis reveals that the interaction between stylistics and pragmatics is a vital tool for analyzing dramatic texts in terms of (SAT). SAs are grouped into systematic combination depending on the purpose of the speaker or the play wright. By using Pragma-stylistic Analysis the writer able to catch reader’s attention to focus on the content of the novel.
Keywords: Stylistics, Pragmatics, Pragma-stylistic and Speech Acts
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