پاکستانی جامعات میں سامی مذاہب پر علومِ اسلامیہ کے(ایم فل ،پی ایچ ڈی) اردو سندی مقالات کا اشاریہ و شماریاتی جائزہ

Urdu Dissertations of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions (MPhil, PhD) in Pakistani Universities: An Index and Bibliometric Review Study of religions or Comparative Religions is a globally significance subject. Pakistan is also resourceful in this field. In many universities, there are special departments on this valuable subject. It is taught as compulsory course at BS & MA level in the departments of Isalmic studies in all universities. In many universities it’s also taught at MPhil and PhD level, some of them have produced hundreds of MS and PhDs dissertations on this subject. Due to its importance, it was a dire need to review and compile the titles of theses and dissertations, which are produced from the universities on the subject. In this study, efforts are made to review and compile a comprehensive index of such theses at MPhil and PhD level from Pakistani universities with statistical analysis. Due to its huge amount, the data is divided into two major types, Semitic and non-Semitic religions. The current study covers only Semitic/ Revealed and related topics. The word Semitic refers to the race of the son of Prophet Noah (A.S) or the areas where this race was spread and grew. Semitic Religions consists of; Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this study, Biblometric approach is adopted with mix method approach. Total 393 theses of Islamic Studies on Semitic Religions are compiled and statistically evaluated in this paper. The study concludes that a good deal of literature and dissertations are available in Pakistani universities on Comparative Religions and Interfaith Studies. It is recommended that contents of theses should be analyzed for improvement of the Study of Religions in Pakistan

Taxonomic Study of Family Cicadellidae Hemiptera in Tandojam, Sindh, Pakistan

The leafhopper fauna contributed in present work contains both Palaearctic elements e.g. from Iran and Afghanistan and Oriental elements e.g. from India, together with a desert fauna that extends from Pakistan, Tharparkar to W. Africa. All elements can be recognized in the present work together with several cosmopolitan genera and species. All the collected specimens were carefully studied and compared with the types present in the Natural History Museum, London, Zoological Museum University of Karachi and pertinent literature. Present work constitutes five subfamilies: Deltocephalinae, Typhlocybinae, Megophthalminae, Cicadellinae and Idiocerinae. A total of 92 genera and 201 species of Cicadellidae are updated from the region including 3 new species, 32 new records 19 synonymies and 4 new combinations: Deltocephalinae with 31 genera, 57 species, 2 new species, 28 new records, 16 new synonyms and 4 new combinations; Megophthalminae with 5 genera, 10 species, 4 new records; Typhlocybinae with 51 genera, 126 species and 1 new synonym; Cicadellinae with 1 genus and 2 species and Idiocerinae with 5 genera, 6 species, 1 new species and 2 new synonyms. From Tandojam in total 30 genera and 44 species of leafhoppers are studied. Notes are provided for the new species previously described from Pakistan and for other genera and species from the region that are recorded here. Forty nine species are figured and imaged; Images of some type specimens from BMNH are given. Key to the subfamilies, tribes, genera and species are also provided. The checklist is provided for all five subfamilies; all are updated only with verified species from literature and present collection. Distribution table of Deltocephalinae is divided into 6 groups: Cosmopolitan (Old and New World), S. Palaearctic and Old World tropics, S. Palaearctic and Pakistan, Endemic to Pakistan, Oriental and Oriental & Pacific. The measurements in millimetre is provided for all figured specimens. Reassessment of the past work as presented here seems appropriate and will provide a good framework for future taxonomic work.