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غزل

 وہ عشتار دیوی کی معصوم داسی

 (سید ماجد شاہ)

 وہ عشتار دیوی کی معصوم داسی

 جو چنچل بھی تھی، خوبصورت بھی تھی

 اور مقدّس بھی تھی

 مرے ساتھ شوخی میں مصروف تھی

 اچانک سمندر میں لہریں اُٹھیں

 ایسی طغیانی آئی ، تلاطم ہوا

 کہ سنہری روئیں اس کے کندن بدن پر چمکنے لگے

 رات روشن ہوئی

 تھوڑے ڈھلکے ہوئے زاویے اس طرح سے مُدوّر ہوئے

 جیسے مینا چھلکنے کو تیار ہو

 اُس کی آنکھیں شفق بن کے جلنے لگیں

 میں ہی کیا

 وہ مِرا عکس جو اُس کی آنکھوں میں تھا

 سُرخ ہونے لگا

 میرے ہاتھوں کی بے تابیاں بڑھ گئیں

 ہاتھ جاگے تو جس طرح مضراب سے تار چھڑنے لگے

 سُر ملے تو قیامت کی سنگت ہوئی

 پھول کھلتے رہے، خوشبوئیں چار اطراف میں رقص کرتی رہیں

 اِک مقدّس اَلاؤ میں کچھ دیر تک ہم دہکتے رہے

 پھر ہوا اِس طرح

 جس طرح کہکشاں

 پھلجھڑی کی طرح منتشر ہو گئی

Interaction of Household Wealth and Women’s Working Status on Child Malnutrition: Evidence from PDHS-2013

Theoretically, it is supposed that women’s working status and household wealth independently contribute towards the children’s dietary status. The working women of the inferior socio-economic class are generally engaged in the informal sector or low paid work. It may be argued that such kinds of service cannot contribute to the nutritious prestige in children. To solve this puzzle whether woman's working status in all socio-economic setups is contributing to children’s nutritional status or not? This is the main focus of the research. A sample data of 1169 households from PDHS (2012-13) are used to explore the influencing factors of child malnutrition. The study employed the binary logistic regression which observes the likelihood of malnutrition in the children. Malnutrition is measured through CIAF. The interaction terms of the woman’s working status and five quintiles of wealth index have been created. The results disclose that working women belonging to the household of the first two quintiles of the wealth index and the fourth quintile of the wealth index are not contributing to the nutritious prestige of the children. Furthermore, in the third quintiles, the working status of women contributes to the nutritional prestige of children. It may be inferred that the socioeconomic status of the household is important for the nutritional welfare of the children, not the woman's employment. However, it may be concluded that women’s employment should be of the level that can support the socio-economic status of the household.

Sedimentology and Petrology of the Volcaniclastic Rocks of the Bibai Formation, Ziarat District, Balochistan, Pakistan

The Upper Cretaceous Bibai Formation is exposed in Kach-Ziarat and Spera Ragha-Chinjun valleys and near Muslunbagh, within the western part of the Sulaiman Thrust-Fold Belt east of the Quetta Syntaxis. The formation generally comprises basic volcanic rocks, volcanic conglomerate and breccia, sandstone, mudstone and ash beds. Within the Kach-Ziarat valley it is dominantly composed of volcaniclastic sediments and rarely lava flows, while, within the Spera Ragha-Chinjun valley dominantly the in- situ basaltic volcanic rocks. The volcaniclastic succession may be categorized into various facies viz volcanic conglomerate (VC), volcanic breccia (VB), sandstone (SS), sandstone interbedded with mudstone (SSMS), mudstone (MS), limestone (LS) and lava flows (VOL), which are comparable with the facies classes A, B, C, D, E, and F of Mutti & Ricci Lucchi (1972, 1975) and Pickering et al. (1986a), indicating deposition by sediment gravity flows and slumping / soft sediment deformation. The volcanic conglomerate, VCP-VCC-SS association of the facies, their stacking pattern, erosive bases and fining-upward trend suggest deposition within a channelized complex anastomosing on a submarine fan system. The SSMS facies of sandstone interbedded with mudstone, characterized by Bouma (1962) Tabcde, Tbcde, Tcde and Tde sequences, sole marks, soft sediment deformation, pinch-and-swell and general thinning- and fining-upward trends of 2nd-order cycles, indicate deposition by turbidity currents in overbank (-levee) complex between channels. The mudstone (MS) facies, possessing occasional thin sandstone beds in lower part and profusion of shallow marine fauna in upper part, indicate deposition in lower fan / basin plane conditions and shows an overall shallowing-up of the succession. Limestone (LS) facies, interbedded with volcaniclastic facies in lower part of the formation, is very finely crystalline (bio-micritic) possessing micro-foraminifera of the globotmncana family suggest deposition during calm periods when volcanic activity had been suspended intermittently. The general south-southwestward flow of the paleocurrent pattern and litho- facies distribution in various studied sections suggest that source area was north of the Bibai Peak. Texture, composition and whole rock geochemistry of rock fragments of the volcanic conglomerate indicate that sediments were derived from a hotspot related volcanic terrain where detritus of the alkaline acidic igneous rocks was also available, from time to time, along with the major proportion of basic volcanic rocks, also of alkaline nature. Based on characters of various facies associations, their vertical and lateral organization, paleocurrent pattern and composition of detritus, we propose that the Bibai Formation comprises a special category of "channel (-levee) -overbank complex", we name it the Bibai Submarine Fan, which developed on the slope of a series of seamounts (hotspot volcanos). Litho facies and their associations clearly define the mid¬ fan, overbank (-levee) and lower-fan / basin plane components of the submarine fan. Seamounts developed on sea floor of the northwestern margin of the Indo-Pakistan Plate, which later on emerged, and provided detritus to the Bibai Submarine Fan. We suggest that the present trend of paleocurrents, generally southward, has been rotated anticlockwise along with its north and northeastward drift and anticlockwise rotation of the Indo-Pakistan Plate towards Eurasia during the Upper Cretaceous and later periods till present time. Its restoration by clockwise rotation back to its Upper Cretaceous (71.4±3.4 My) position would give its original west-northwestward paleoslope at the northwestern margin of the Indo-Pakistan Plate.
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