اندھیروں میں کھلا کیسا دریچہ
حرا سے روشنی دیتا دریچہ
نہ جانے کب کہیں سے نعت اُترے
خیالوں کا کھلا رکھا دریچہ
سدا آئے صدا صلِّ علیٰ کی
نبیؐ کے ذکر کا رسیا دریچہ
ہوائے سبز آتی ہے وہاں سے
بنا ہے گنبدِ خضرا دریچہ
ہوئی مدت مدینے حاضری کی
کھلا ہے اب بھی یادوں کا دریچہ
بہ رنگِ اجتہاد، اجماع ِ اُمت
یہی ہے فِکر تازہ کا دریچہ
مجھے سرشار رکھتا ہے یہ گھر میں
مدینے کی طرف رکھا دریچہ
سخن کو معتبر رکھتا ہے ہر دم
یہ رنگِ نعت میں ڈوبا دریچہ
In Pakistan, although women’s activism was initiated since the country came into existence, but a diverse activism was observed by the nation in the form of ‘Aurat March during 2018-2020. The current study examines the Western feminism, what it was initiated for and its accomplishments in the current time. By employing a discourse analysis approach to the ‘Aurat March event, this study highlights the women’s activism in Pakistan, ‘Aurat March and the antipathy faced by organizers and supporters from the public because of its strange slogans and ridiculous placards. It also observes the relationship between western feminism and ‘Aurat March activism from the perspective of the social, cultural, and religious transformation of society. The study finds the need to raise a constructive and logical voice for women’s rights with support of the public to eradicate social evils instead of focusing on insignificant matters. It has further recommended that there is a need to build a framework in which one may be able to differentiate women’s rights in the context of western feminism and the limitation of women’s emancipation in Islamic context.
Political and sociocultural factors in language loss: A study of language shift in North Pakistan When a language dies, a whole history often dies with it. The phenomenon is worthy of the closest study possible. There is always a feeling of regret with the passing of languages, yet the processes of change must also be recognized and understood. There is a complex web of political, social, economic and cultural factors responsible for the phenomenon. North Pakistan is a land of geographic and ethnic diversity, one of the most multilingual places on earth. This study is designed to investigate the political and sociological causes of language loss in general. It is a study of language shift in North Pakistan. For this study three dying languages of Northern Pakistan were selected, Palula spoken in Kalcutuk, Yadgha spoken in Lutkoh valley and Domaki spoken in Mominabad, Hunza. Information was collected through observations, interviews, questionnaires, wordlists and texts for transcription. Data collected through these tools were then statistically analyzed and discussed. It was found out that the political and sociocultural causes for language loss were not the same for all the languages; they varied from language to language. Therefore it was concluded that the causes of language loss fall into both general and specific categories. General causes of language loss are usually the same for all languages, irrespective of geographic boundaries and linguistic variables, but specific causes of language loss are different for different languages according to their social, geographic and linguistic features.