مسٹر کینیڈی
امریکہ کے پریسڈنٹ مسٹر کنیڈی کا قتل بہت بڑا بین الاقوامی حادثہ ہے، جس کا اثر پوری دنیا کی سیاست پر پڑیگا، وہ غیر معمولی صلاحیتوں کے مالک تھے، ابھی ان کی عمر ۴۶ سال کی تھی، اور ان کی مدت صدارت بھی ڈھائی سال سے زیادہ نہ تھی، اس عمر اور اس مدت میں بین الاقوامی معاملات میں انہوں نے جس تدبر اور ہوشمندی کا ثبوت دیا وہ ان کی سیاسی بصیرت اور عالی دماغی کی بین شہادت ہے، وہ مختلف رنگ و نسل کی قوموں کے درمیان مساوات، دوستانہ تعلقات اور امن کے بڑے علم بردار تھے، اور اس راہ میں ان کے بڑے کارنامے ہیں، وہ نسلی تفریق و امتیاز کے سخت خلاف تھے اور اس میں انہوں نے اپنی قوم کی بھی مخالفت کی پرواہ نہیں کی اور نیگرو اور یورپین نژاد امریکنوں کے درمیان حقوق کے مساوات کی کوشش کے جرم میں قتل کیے گئے، اس لیے ان کا قتل درحقیقت انسانیت کی راہ کی قربانی ہے، مذہبی حیثیت سے بھی وہ قابل قدر تھے، وہ راسخ العقیدہ کیتھلک تھے، پروٹسٹنٹ میں تو برائے نام مذہب رہ گیا ہے، گورومن کیتھلک کی بعض رسمیں مشرکانہ ہیں لیکن یورپ و امریکہ کی خدا بیزار اور مادہ پرست سرزمین میں مذہب انہی کے دم سے زندہ ہے۔ (شاہ معین الدین ندوی، دسمبر ۱۹۶۳ء)
Firstly, I would like to welcome all the readers, authors, editorial team and management of Pakistan Biomedical Journal (PBMJ) to this new journal in Biomedical Sciences. It is an intenational peer-reviewed, open-access journal that merges the basic and clinical research for the better outcome in terms of diagnosis and therapeutics. This approach will update and upgrade the existing knowledge among the researchers and clinicians, regarding the patient care and practice as well as understanding of underlying mechanisms of diseases. The ultimate beneficiary is patient and community as a whole. PBMJ is led by an outstanding Editorial Board comprising of national and international members with multidisciplinary research background. Our goal is to promote the basic and clinical research, health and disease perspectives. We receive original studies, review articles, case reports, systemetic reviews on medical, biomedical, basic and therapeutic research. We welcome scientific contributions from all over the world. It is the need and demand of the recent world scenario to focus on biomedical research. In the current world, basic and medical science cannot be considered as two separate and independent entities. There should be coherent efforts to unveil the basic understandings of pathologies at physiological, cellular and molecular level. Furthermore, the therapeutic strategies should also be explored on regional and global levels, by keeping in mind the different genetic makeups and considering the individual identities. It leads to the field of ‘personalized medicine’. There are many other recent therapeutic regimens such as regenerative medicine, exosomes, gene silencing and gene editing technologies. The world has also advanced in diagnostic modalities. Much focus has been emphasized on rapidness, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of these techniques. Imaging, scanning, histopathological, biochemical and hematological techniques have been much advanced than before. World has been changing rapidly in medical profession. Hence, it is important to be aware of these advancements worldwide and also to share the health related researches at local level. We hope this new journal will be a good addition in this perspective of sharing the recent knowledge, advancements and create awareness among masses.
The discipline of Philosophy has always been widely encompassing inquiries from varied disciplines of both pure and social sciences; that is why now it includes almost every dimension of society. Pioneered in the Greek era, and evolved with the magnificent ancient historical foundations, Philosophy has gained worthy interdisciplinary vastness in 19th and 20th centuries. This thesis is an effort to explore Philosophy of cosmopolitan nationalism and its application in Sindh. This thesis discusses how the idea of nationalism has been critically evaluated as the world witnessed that the oppression under Hitler’s Nazism and Mussolini’s Fascism were also dubbed as nationalism. This damaged the justified and true nationalistic struggles of the beleaguered nations, of which Pakistan is the best example. This thesis is an effort to understand evolution of history, connotation and merits and demerits of cosmopolitan nationalism to comprehend the transformation of patriotic chronicles of Sindh’s political history into the precincts of cosmopolitan nationalism in Pakistan. Pakistan is a federation formed by the constituent units, in which the relationship between the units and the federation has always been estranged due to the thrust of the uniformity paradigm since the country’s inception, which cost division of the country in 1971. This thesis bases its main argument on Marxist perspective, which offers an enduring answer to the problems of Sindh by reforming its society with the help of class struggle as envisaged by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. The Marxist proposition of class struggle is judiciously used in the thesis; since Marx’s paradigm was universalistic, there is no doubt that in the present century cosmopolitan nationalism may take enormous benefit from Marxian paradigm in promoting class struggle to unite people of different ethnicities in Pakistan, as we observe this happening in the different parts of the world, particularly in the 20th century. The same can happen in Sindh as well. This especially is being done by some Marxist political activists in Pakistan, such as R. B. Palijo’s socialist paradigm in relation to Sindh province of Pakistan, to resolve tension between different ethnicities in the province of Sindh.