محمد یوسف صدیقی
جناب محمد یوسف صدیقی کی وفات بھی باعث رنج و ملال ہے، وہ ایم اے او کالج علی گڑھ میں ڈاکٹر حسین مرحوم کے کلاس فیلو تھے، تحریک ترک موالات کے اثر سے ۱۹۲۰ء میں وہ جامعہ آئے، کچھ عرصہ کے بعد معاشی مسائل میں لگ گئے، لیکن تحریک خلافت اور ترک موالات کا اثر ان کے دل سے کبھی نہیں گیا اسی اثر کے ماتحت وہ جماعت اسلامی میں شامل ہوئے اور قومی و ملی تحریکوں سے دلچسپی لیتے رہے، جامعہ کی محبت بھی برابر ان کے دل میں جاگزیں رہی اور اس کے اہم جلسوں اور تقریروں میں حتی الامکان شریک ہوتے رہے، ان کی دینداری، خلوص اور وضع داری ہمیشہ یاد رہے گی، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی مغفرت فرمائے اور ان کے پس ماندگان کو حق پسندی اور نیک روی کی توفیق نصیب فرمائے۔ (’’ع ۔ق‘‘، جون ۱۹۷۶ء)
Background: Harassment of working women is a common social and human rights problem and healthcare settings are no exception. This unacceptable situation has many avoidable determinants that need preventive measures to ensure, safe and secure working environment for nurses. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and understanding among female nursing students and nursing staff about workplace harassment in a tertiary healthcare facility. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted at Tertiary care hospital Lahore from July to September 2018. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data. Verbal informed consent of voluntary participants was taken. Anonymity and confidentiality was assured. SPSS version 21 was used for data analysis. The participants (n=80) comprised of senior female nurses students (62.5%) and senior nursing staff (37.5%), aged 18 to 46 years. Results: Awareness about common harassment forms was adequate (81.3%). Adverse effects included mental health problems (83.8%) and low self-esteem (72.5%). A large percentage of nurses (62.5%) intended to report such personal incident to institutional head and 72.5% were willing to accompany victims for such reporting. 77.5% desired arranging informative sessions and holding counseling for victims (78.8%) at workplace. Only 22.5% had vague idea about official protective legal frameworks. Conclusions: Workplace harassment of female workers is quite prevalent but under-reported phenomena in Pakistan. All organizations and institutions must have a harassment policy to protect the females.
Cultural Marxism: Pursuit of Pleasure Principle in Uzma Aslam Khan's Trespassing And Geometry of God This study explores the impact of Cultural Marxism: the way pleasure principle has been displayed in contemporary Pakistani fiction, especially two novels of Uzma Aslam Khan, Trespassing and Geometry of God. This study is concerned with the impact of linguistic practices of parents and elders on the life and activities of their children. The research starts with questions which are concerned with the factors responsible for pursuit of pleasure principle by characters in the novels of Khan. It also deals with the use of ideologically contested vocabulary and its significance in moulding the thoughts of young characters. Literature related to importance of culture in the life of human beings, language as a part of culture, effectiveness of language in moulding thoughts of people, process of socialization, role of parents and environment in socialization of children, social change and role played by language in introducing social change, forms part of critical discussion in chapter two. While chapter three is concerned with the methodology adopted for analysis of the novels. The study makes use of framework of Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough under the umbrella term of poststructuralism in the light of Sigmund Freud's theory of pleasure principle for analysis of linguistic practices of characters in the novels of Khan. Based on the analysis and interpretation of novels in chapter four: in chapter five conclusion is drawn which makes explicit that unconscious and careless linguistic practices of parents and elders, their unfulfilled desires in the past, their social commitments and lack of restriction on their children; are various factors which put children in pursuit of pleasure principle in their practical life. In this way, parents, elders and children introduce counter discourse based on pursuit of pleasure principle to the established discourse of values and norms in upper middle class of Pakistani society, as depicted in the two novels of Khan.