ڈاکٹر شہزاد احمد کی ادبی خدمات کا اجمالی جائزہ
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حمد و نعت خوانی کا ذکر ہو یا حمد و نعت نگاری کی بات، یا پھر نعتیہ ادب کی تنقید و تحقیق، تدوین و ترتیب کا تذکرہ، بات ڈاکٹر شہزاد احمد تک پہنچتی ہے۔ اُنھوں نے حمد و نعت جیسی متبرک اصنافِ سخن سے خود کو نصف صدی سے وابستہ کیا ہوا ہے۔ یہی اُن کا اوڑھنا بچھونا ہے اور اُنھوں نے اپنی زندگی کے تمام ماہ و سال اِنھی متبرک اصنافِ سخن کو دیے ہوئے ہیں اور خود کو حمد و نعت کی تخلیق، تنقید، تحقیق، ترویج، فروغ اور اشاعت کے لیے وقف کیا ہوا ہے۔ یہی اُن کا تخصص ہے اور یہی اُن کی انفرادیت ، کیوں کہ ہزار ہا افراد جو حمد و نعت سے اگروابستہ ہیں تو جزوقتی، ایک طرف وہ کوئی نہ کوئی دیگر مصروفیات رکھتے ہیں اور دوسری طرف حمد و نعت کا کام کرتے ہیں، مگر ڈاکٹر شہزاد احمد کو میں نے ہمیشہ ایک ہی کام کی طرف مائل دیکھا ہے وہ ہے حمد و نعت کا فروغ۔ وہ ذکر بھی کرتے ہیں تو حمد و نعت نگاری کا۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ ہمیشہ اُن کو محافلِ نعت میں بہ حیثیت نعت خواں، نعتیہ مشاعروں میں بہ حیثیت نعت گو شاعر اور نعتیہ ادب کے پروگراموں میں بہ حیثیت نظامت کار دیکھا ہے۔
یہ حقیقت ہے کہ جس قلم کار کے ہاتھ میں اللہ رب العزت نے قلم تھما دیا ہو وہ سبھی کچھ لکھ سکتا ہے اور لکھتا ہے۔ سیکڑوں افراد نے قلمی نگارشات کو اپنا ذریعۂ معاش بنایا ہوا ہے، مگر میں نے ڈاکٹر شہزاد احمد کو حمد و نعت کے علاوہ نہ تو کبھی غزل پر لکھتے پایا اور نہ کبھی کسی غزلیہ مجموعے پر مقدمہ تحریر کرتے دیکھا۔ وہ خفیہ ہو...
Belt and Road initiative (BRI) is the revival of the ancient Silk Road. From the historical analysis of the ancient Silk Road, it could be easily understood that nations around the Silk Road have cultural assimilation fostering mutual cohesion. In this context, BRI was proposed by the Xi Jinping administration, which provides a ground for a very old idea of bringing Eurasians under the development phenomenon for achieving common economic growth goals. Indeed, BRI is not only initiated to promote trade, but it will also increase multidimensional cooperation among nations, such as a cultural and educational exchange. It will bring closer not only the regional countries but even the continents to each other. Moreover, BRI will bring new enthusiasm to the old idea, and provides grounds for development and achieving common goals between the states. BRI is deemed to be a game changer for the states involved and China itself.
Pakistan’s environment is favorable for pest population growth. Among all crops, vegetables are more vulnerable to the attack of a number of pests. Most of the vegetable crops are sprayed on daily basis and pose a serious threat to humans and environment. In the same context, the present study was designed to analyze the knowledge, skills and attitude of vegetable growers for identification and prioritization of training needs regarding pesticide use for sustainable environmental health and to suggest remedies for the betterment of prevailing situation. Population of study was potato growers in two districts (i.e. Jhang and Okara) which were selected purposely because of top potato growing districts in the Punjab. Two tehsils (Dapalpur and Chinot), one from each district was selected randomly. Sampling frame was constructed by enlisting all potato growers residing in the tehsils and a sample of 367 growers was selected. Data were collected through personal interviews with the help of validated research instrument. Main findings of the study indicate that most of the respondents had attained some level of formal education and had mean age 42.31 years. Overall knowledge of the respondents regarding most of the aspects of pesticide use was poor. On the average, the respondents’ skills regarding different aspect of pesticide use rated between poor to satisfactory level. The attitude of the respondents was towards using excessive pesticide to control pests. Thus, their attitude was more towards causing environment and health hazards. Majority of the practices of the respondents were posing risks to humans’ health and environment because they were using heavy doses and high risk pesticides to control pests, with out getting advice from the pest consultants or the personnel from the agricultural extension department. On the basis of overall possessed knowledge of the respondents, the training need assessed was at highest level in the area of ill health effects recognition. On the basis of overall possessed skill level, the training need assessed was at highest level in the area of maintenance of pesticide applicator. The respondents also gave their preferences for different aspects of training program to be arranged in future on the basis of training needs assessed in different aspects of pesticide use for sustainable environment health.