اعترافِ جرم
چئیر مین ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کا قتل سابق چیف جسٹس سپریم کورٹ کا اعتراف جرم جن ججوں نے انہیں پھانسی کی سزا سنائی انہیں قبروں سے نکال کر مقدمات چلائے جائیں ۔انہوں نے وہ ظلم کیا جس کی سزا پاکستان آج تک بھگت رہا ہے ۔
Present study compares the level of public trust in political leadership and the parliament in two provinces of Pakistan: Punjab and Sindh. By applying ordinal logistic regression models, study finds that respondents from Punjab had significantly more trust in their leader and parliament of the country as compared to the participants from Sindh. The variable, government performance, was observed to be the major predictor of public trust in political leadership and parliament between Punjab and Sindh. Additionally, people’s interest in political affairs and conflict resolving behavior of leadership were two other variables which significantly predict public level of trust. The study suggests that respondents who were more interested in the political affairs revealed a high degree of trust in leadership and parliament. Conversely, participants who suffered from the lack of leadership interest in conflict resolving behavior showed low level of trust in both leadership and parliament in both provinces. It is concluded that public trust and distrust are significantly associated with the socio-economic development of the country. Present study may help to understand the factors that may cause public distrust in leadership and parliament of the country. ______
Germination generally increases the nutritive value of seeds by modulating phytochemical composition depending on processing conditions. Therefore, the current study was conducted to compare the effect of emerging processing techniques such as ultrasound (US) and microwave (MW) on phytochemicals composition of sorghum sprouts. Overnight steeped sorghum grains were divided into four groups. The first group was designated as control without applying any treatment. Second group was subjected to ultrasonic treatment using 40% & 60% amplitude for 5 & 10 min. Third group was exposed to microwave treatment at 450 W & 700 W power levels for 15 & 30 sec. Similarly, fourth group was treated with combined MW & US application for different intervals. Microwave and sonication processing significantly improved the germination percentage and growth parameters, hence the phytochemical profile improvement. After germination, sprouts subjected to different quantitative analysis showed that with increased germination significant reduction was observed in anti-nutritional components such as alkaloid, saponin, tannin and phytate contents while contents of total free amino acids, sterols, and digestible proteins and carbohydrates increased. The oil yield and fatty acid composition increased with increasing amplitude of processing techniques. Antioxidant activities and HPLC analysis for individual phenolic compounds also improved significantly with high germination. In-vitro protein digestibility was significantly higher while bio-accessibility of polyphenol and flavonoid was insignificantly affected. From the present investigation, ultrasound processed treatment US1 (40% amplitude for 5 min) and microwave processed treatment MW2 (700 watt for 5 sec) are found paramount to improve the composition and bio-accessibility of phytochemicals through enhanced germination of seeds.