آہ ! جمیل مہدی
وا حسرتا! کہ دل ہے بہت بے قرار آج
سینے میں چبھ گئی ہے کوئی نوکِ خار آج
دل میں دردہے،روح مضطرب اوربے چین ہے،قلم پرلرزہ طاری ہے، زبان وبیان کی قوت دم بخود اورمردہ ہے،نبض حیات ڈوبتی ہوئی معلوم ہورہی ہے کہ میرے گذشتہ تیس(۳۰)سال کے قابل احترام بزرگ مگر بے تکلف رفیق اور ہمدم و دمساز۔ بھائی جمیل مہدی(مدیر روزنامہ’ عزائم‘ لکھنؤوماہنامہ ’برہان‘ دہلی) ۱۳/فروری۱۹۸۸ء کوصبح کوساڑھے سات بجے اس دارفانی سے داربقا کی طرف کوچ کرگئے۔اناﷲ واناالیہ راجعون۔وہ بہادر،بے خوف،جیالا بے باک وبے لوث انسان، وہ صاحب طرزادیب، وہ سراپا اخلاص و ایثار صحافی، وہ دوستوں کادوست،اپنوں کا غمخوار،چھوٹوں کامشفق وبے مربی،بزرگوں کی محفلوں میں باادب مگر بے لاگ انسان ہمیں چھوڑ گیا جس کے دم سے قلم کی آبرو سلامت تھی، اردو صحافت کی عظمت قائم تھی۔ مولانا ظفر علی خاں،مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد، غلام رسول مہرؔ،مولانا محمد علی جوہرؔ،مولانا عبدالماجد دریابادی،مولانا محمد عثمان فارقلیط کی پاکیزہ روایات کی پاسداری تھی۔اردو میں دیانت دارانہ صحافت کابھرم قائم تھا۔ آج کے خودغرضانہ ماحول،مفاد پرستیوں،ضمیرفروشیوں اورمصلحت اندیشیوں کے پُرہول سناٹے میں بھی جس کی ولولہ انگیز اور چونکا دینے والی تحریروں سے حق وصداقت کی بلند آواز گونج اٹھتی تھی،افسوس وہ آخری کڑی بھی ٹوٹ گئی جس کی بدولت ملت کے زریں عہد اورشاندار ماضی سے اس درماندہ، شکستہ اورچاروں طرف سے مہیب ومہلک خطروں سے گھرے ہوئے حال کی تاریکیاں،روشنی کی کرنیں،عمل کی توانائیاں فکروبصیرت اورتجربوں کی تجلیاں حاصل کرتی تھیں۔
آج ملک وملت کے افق پرزبردست انتشار وافتراق اورسنگین ونازک صورت حال کی ظلمتیں چھائی ہوئی ہیں،ایسے خوفناک وقت میں جبکہ طرح طرح کے طوفانوں،سیلابوں اور زلزلوں کی گڑگڑاہٹ چاروں طرف سنائی دے رہی ہے جمیل مہدی جیسے بے لاگ،بے خوف اوربے لوث اوراس قدر دیانت دارانہ اور زندہ کرداروضمیر کے حامل صحافی اورعقیدہ کے پختہ اورروشن فکر کے حامل...
Whenever we chronically morph into the history of the American intervention in Afghanistan it adheres to the fact that the war on terror was a rigid response of US aggression towards their failure in resisting the 9/11 attack of 2001 or for the sack of utter humanity or humanitarian rights. But on the contrary, many analysts and scholars on realistic ground justify the notion of war on terror as a strategic war which none the less determined the most figure of sustenance of US- hegemony in South Asia along with enormous illustrations of uncountable violation of human rights or the right of liberty the US administration, under the prism of liberalism. And now when the NATO alliance has existed from Afghanistan after a long constitutive war of 20 years without a remediate response, it enacts a dispersed or iconic philosophical thought that was the war on terror was a success or utter failure? The article will foretell the events that led to the war on terror from USA perspectives and policies its decisive defeat along with the rising of Taliban government with future threat and ties of it among state, under the prism of realism or the realist school of thought.
Biological surface-active agents or “biosurfactants” are the compounds that can reduce the surface or interfacial tension between two same or different phases (liquid, gas and solid). The present study relates to the screening of biosurfactant-producing bacteria isolated from the Fimkassar oil field, Chakwal, Pakistan. The molecular screening for two important genes srfA and rhlB responsible for production of surfactin and rhamnolipid biosurfactants, respectively and biosurfactant production by using different growth substrates. In total, 38 out of 70 different bacterial isolates showing growth on crude-oil-containing media were screened for biosurfactant production. Evidently, 34.2% (n = 13) of the isolates were found to have the srfA gene, while 15.8% (n = 6) of the isolates contained the rhlB gene. Subsequently, 16S ribosomal RNA sequence homology studies confirmed the gene-positive isolates to be the species of genera Bacillus, Brevundimonas, Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas, Serratia, Proteus and Stenotrophomonas. The Presence of the srfA gene in Brevundimonas spp. and the rhlB gene in Alcaligenes faecalis involved in biosurfactant (surfactin and rhamnolipid) production, and the similarly unusual presence of both genes in Stenotrophomonas rhizophilia and Alcaligenes faecalis indicates the possibility of horizontal gene transfer and retention or presence of gene orthologs. All the genepositive isolates showed biosurfactant production under submerged fermentative conditions. Maximum production in terms of biosurfactant activities (E24 59.5± 4.0%; SFT 27.2 ± 1.1 mN/m; ODA 3.5 ± 0.2 cm) was revealed by Bacillus subtilis strain SNW3 (SWW1). Surfactin nature of biosurfactant produced was confirmed by thin-layer chromatography, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and LC-MS. In this study, a 2-level factorial model, Plackett-Burman design, was used to screen eleven different carbon sources affecting biosurfactant production by Bacillus subtilis SNW3. From these carbon sources, four were selected from the Plackett-Burman design on the basis of maximum reduction of surface tension of culture broth and emulsification index. These included molasses, pulses, red beans and potato peels. Further they were used in various combinations to check their combined effect with different inducers such as urea, yeast extract and amino acids. Analyzing all combinations on the basis of ODA, E24 and SFT, it was found that yeast extract could be replaced with red bean, potato starch and urea in combination as cheap carbon and nitrogen sources for the biosurfactant (surfactin and fengycin) production by Bacillus xii subtilis SNW3. Lowering the C:N ratio by providing nitrogen by addition of red bean and urea has a profound effect on biosurfactant production especially using RB+PS+U (6+0.5+0.4%) in the medium resulting in 1.2 g/L surfactin and 300 mg/L fengycin. Optimization studies of temperature, agitation speed, inoculum size and age of culture revealed maximum production of surfactin (1.37 g/L) and fengycin (700 mg/L) at 23 °C (room temperature), 120 rpm, 2 % inoculum of 36 hours old culture by using the combination RB+PS+U (6+0.5+0.4%). Heat treatment (autoclavation) was found to havea positive effect on extraction of amino acids and sugars that led to ahigher amount of surfactin and fengycin production as compared to the extract of red bean that was prepared directly. Red bean extract (prepared by autoclavation) produced 792 mg/L surfactin and 546 mg/L fengycin, while 329 mg/L surfactin and 197 mg/L fengycin was produced by red bean extract. Batch experiments were performed in a 13-L bioreactor. Maximum production of surfactin 1512 mg/L and 1236 mg/L fengycin (surfactin +fengycin) (named VITO Surf) was observed at the 7th day ofincubation by Bacillus subtilis SNW3 at 23 °C pH 6.8 and 120 rpm. Biosurfactant production was found to be improved by using mutant M-20 and M-40 (Mutagenesis was performed by UV treatment) with reduced incubation time. LC/MS showed very interesting results that M-20 produced 1000 mg/L surfactin and M-40 produced 824 mg/L surfactin after 26 hours of incubation and immediately the concentration of surfactin decreased while the parent strain could produce about 300-400 mg/L at the same time of incubation. Similarly both mutants produced only surfactin. Providing an increased amount of red bean powder (100 mg/L) in the culture medium of both mutants, M-20 and M-40, resulted in an increased amount (1507 mg/L) of surfactin. Fed batch fermentation was performed to check addition of red bean powder and urea during fermentation using the mutants. At the 20th day of experiment addition of red bean powder and urea in the culture broth of M-20 and M-40 resulted in further production of surfactin. Downstream processing was performed by two methods in the current study. Using a two-step recovery process (evaporation and precipitation) resulted in 70.6% recovery of surfactin and 79.5% fengycin at a large scale volume using ethanol for extraction. While using another two-step recovery process (centrifugation and precipitation), % recovery of surfactin and fengycin was 70.2 % and 72.1 % respectively.