بھٹو مرتا کیوں نہیں ؟
بے نظیر اپنی کتاب میں لکھتی ہیں کہ جب لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے انہیں سزائے موت سنائی تو وہ کوٹ لکھپت جیل گئیں بھٹو صاحب کو لوہے کی تاروں سے بنی چارپائی پر لٹا کر ان کے بازو اور پائوں کو زنجیروں سے باندھا ہو ا تھا ۔چارپائی پر چٹائی بھی نہیں تھی ۔مچھروں کے کاٹنے کی وجہ سے ان کے ہاتھ پائوں اور چہرہ سرخ ہو رہا تھا ۔بے نظیر بھٹو پر نظر پڑتے ہی کڑکدار ا آواز میں بولے "Hi pinci how are you"اور پھر کہنے لگے آپ کو اندر سے توڑنے کے لیے مجھے اس طرح باندھا گیا ہے لیکن آپ نے ٹوٹنا نہیںہے ۔
پھر جب سپریم کورٹ کے چاروں ججوں نے سزائے موت سنائی (تین ججوں نے انیں بری کیا کل سات جج تھے )تو انہیں جیل کی کال کوٹھری میں رکھا گیا ۔انہوں نے بھوک ہڑتال کی جو گیارہ روز جاری رہی اس عرصہ میں کال کوٹھری کی چھت پر لوگ بڑے بوٹ پہن کر ناچتے رہتے تھے تا کہ بھٹو سو نہ سکے اس کے باوجود بھٹو بیمار نہیں ہوئے اور بارہویں رات کو پھانسی چڑھ گئے ۔
جو دوست اب سوال پوچھتے ہیں کہ بھٹو مرتا کیوں نہیں ہے تو گزارش ہے کہ ایسے بہادر انسان کا جسم تو مر جا تا ہے لیکن نام رہتی دنیا تک زندہ رہتا ہے ۔جیے بھٹو ۔
Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of structural vulnerability and violence, this study examines how the ‘2005 earthquake’ in Pakistan affected the female gender. It aims to find out the unique experiences of the socio-cultural vulnerability of gender, which led them to migrate towards other places. It attempts to identify those factors which contributed to women's vulnerability. Qualitative research methods, such as key-informant and in-depth interviews, were used in this research. In-depth interviews were conducted by using a purposive sampling technique with thirty highly affected women of Balakot belonging to twenty-five households. The present study finds out six major themes, almost all dealing with a lack of privacy and females’ private domain. These include: a) gendered migration; b) ethnicity; c) problems of toilet and bathing; d) problems for pregnant women; e) difficulty in looking after the family; and, f) forced sexual relations. Data collection from respondents of different ages, class, and caste helped us to understand the lived experiences of the women of Balakot. The study finds out that gendered vulnerability plays a very important role in making decisions to migrate. This study might influence governments to bring the required changes in their policies to serve the women population better during and after disasters.
Hypericum oblongifolium is a flowering plant in Hypericaceae family. It is found at an altitude of 4000-6000 meter especially, in Himalaya, China and northern parts of Pakistan. It has been traditionally used in Chinese herbal medicine for treatment of bacterial and viral infection, burns, hepatitis, swellings, bruises, nasal hemorrhage and inflammations. A series of pharmacological properties, ranging from wound healing and antiseptic to antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, ethanol intake inhibition and apoptosis-inducing activities have been associated with this plant. This plant has been proved to be act as anti-ulcer, anti-proliferative and anti-inflammatory agent. The plants also contain compounds which are chymotrypsin, urease and lipoxygenase inhibitors. H. oblongifolium have also been reported for its antispasmodic, bronchodilator, hypotensive and anti-myocardial infraction behavior. In the present study whole plant of H. oblongifolium was selected for the identification and isolation of medicinally important natural products present in it. From the chloroform and ethyl acetate soluble fractions of H. oblongifolium, sixteen compounds have been isolated. Four compounds were considered as new natural products, while twelve compounds were identified as known compounds. Their structures were elucidated by the use of sophisticated modern spectroscopic techniques (1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HMBC, HMQC, 1H-1H- COSY, NOESY, HREIMS and HR-FAB-MS) and several chemical tests. Following are the structures of new compounds.