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اصل نام : حافظ محمد ارشد
قلمی نام:ارشد ملک
تخلص: ملک
۲۹ جولائی ۱۹۹۵ء بروز ہفتہ پشاور ننھیال میں پیدایش ہوئی۔ گھر میں پہلا بچہ ہونے کے باعث والدین اور قریبی رشتہ داروں میں خوشی کی لہر دوڑ اٹھی۔ سب نے بہت پیارکیا اورنازاٹھائے۔ارشد ملک کے والد کا نام محمد اشرف ہے اور والدہ کا نام سلمہٰ اشرف ہے۔ ارشد ملک کے والدین کا تعلق ضلع فیروز پور تحصیل موگا پنڈ دولت پورہ متحدہ ہندوستان سے تھا۔ بعد ازاں جب پاکستان معرضِ وجود میں آیا تو ہجرت کر کے پاکستان کے شہر قصور کے کیمپ میں دس پندرہ دن گزارے۔ پھر قصور سے دولمی ،پھر بڈھے والا کھوہ راوی، پھر وہاں سے کہروڑ پکا آئے اور ٹھیکے پر کھیتی باڑی کا پیشہ اختیار کیا۔ پھر وہاں سے وہاڑی سکونت اختیار کی اور آج تک وہاڑی میں ہی سکونت پذیر ہیں۔ ارشد ملک کے دادا ابو کا نام حاجی محمد شریف اور دادی اماں کا نام شریفاں بی بی ہے جو بقیدِ حیات ہیں۔
ارشد ملک جب پیدا ہوئے تھے تو ان کے تایا جی کی گود میں ڈال دیا تھا۔ چوں کہ ان کی پہلی بیوی سے اولاد نہیں تھی۔ بعد ازاں دوسری شادی سے اللہ تعالیٰ نے اولاد کی نعمت سے نوازا۔ پھر ارشد ملک اپنے اصل والدین کی زیرِ کفالت آگئے۔ ابتدائی تعلیم قائد اعظم ماڈل ہائی سکول وہاڑی سے حاصل کی اور پرائمری پاس کرنے کے بعد جامعہ مدنیہ جامع مسجد باغ والی سے قرآنِ کریم کی تعلیم حاصل کرنے کے لیے داخلہ لیا۔ اور قرآنِ مجید حفظ کیا۔ حفظ کے بعد آٹھویں جماعت کا پرائیویٹ امتحان پاس کیا۔پھر گورنمنٹ تیمور شہید اسکول میں میٹرک کا امتحان پاس کیا ۔میٹرک کا امتحان پاس کرنے کے بعد گورنمنٹ پوسٹ گریجوایٹ کالج وہاڑی سے ایف۔ایس سی اور بعد ازاں...
The preposition ‘min’ is semantically more complex than what the traditional lexicaAl-syntactic approaches held it to be adverb or adverbial of place and time. This paper attempts to investigate the semantic complexity of the preposition ‘min’ from cognitive linguistic perspective to find out its semantic classification and linguistic symmetric patterns. Data has been taken from the Quran to investigate the claim of conceptual metaphor theory that sensorimotor neural structures generates the preposition ‘min’ on the image schema of source-path-goal. The findings reveal that the source-pathgoal image schema is not only at work in the use of preposition ‘min’ in spatio-geometric sense, but also to map the abstract concepts, emotional states and relationship with supernatural entities in spatial terms in the Quran. However, the data also show idiosyncratic behaviour of preposition, attaining different semantic arguments in different linguistic contexts, which strengthen the argument that language use cannot be abridged to static mapping in the human conceptual system. This paper recommends future research on the same preposition or other prepositions to investigate further the source-path-goal image schema in the Quran and Arabic language.
The study estimated quantity, expenditure and quality elasticities for major food products in Pakistan and provided comparison of quality effect across regions, provinces and income quintiles using data from the HIES part of PSLM 2007-08 (first period) and 2010-11 (second period). The elasticities of interest were obtained via log-log inverse functional form of Engel equation. Coefficients of parameters (?? , ?? , ?? and ?? ) in most of the selected food items were found statistically significant reflecting that the log-log-inverse (LLI) formulation of the model fit the data well and validate nonlinear behavior of Engel relationship for food consumption in Pakistan. The quantity elasticities during both periods remained less than unity except milk packed in Sindh province with reasonable variations in magnitude across regions, provinces and income quintiles. Compared to the first period, with a few exceptions, quantity elasticities have increased during the second period and were larger at the upper income quintiles relative to the lower ones. In most of the products, quantity elasticities were higher for rural households than urban ones during both the periods. Likewise, expenditure elasticities have increased considerably in Pakistan during the second period compared to the first one for most of the food commodities. A pattern similar to quantity elasticities was also observed in expenditure elasticities across regions, provinces and income quintiles. For most of the products, the estimates of quality elasticities were positive in both the periods implying that households in Pakistan purchase higher quality food as their income rises. During both the periods, the quality elasticities for most of the food items decreased for rural households compared to urban ones. A considerable variability was observed in quality elasticities among provinces and income quintiles in terms of magnitude for various food items. Thus, with the exception of a few products, Pakistani households, in general, not only demand more quantity but also higher quality of food as their income rises. Hence, from the policy point of view, evidence of positive demand for quality food would facilitate devising food policy for the development of food markets in terms of market segmentation and quality improvements in Pakistan. Resultantly, this would be an important driver of food demand and future food projections, with possibility of creating different marketing opportunities, and increased welfare for Pakistani populace. Key Words: Food Consumption, quantity elasticity, expenditure elasticity, quality elasticity, urban/rural households, income quintiles, provinces, Pakistan