سلام مچھلی شہری
افسوس ہے کہ سلام مچھلی شہری بھی چل بسے، وہ ممتاز ترقی پسند شاعر تھے، اعظم گڑھ اور دارالمصنفین سے ان کے تعلقات بہت پرانے تھے، جس کا انھوں نے ہمیشہ لحاظ رکھا، کئی مہینے ہوئے خبر ملی تھی کہ انھوں نے شراب سے توبہ کر لی ہے، اس خبر سے قدرۃً خوشی ہوئی، اتفاق سے اسی زمانہ میں انھوں نے جدید طرز میں ایک نعت کہہ کر معارف میں اشاعت کے لیے بھیجی، میں نے ان کو توبہ پر مبارک باد دی اور لکھا کہ نعت کے لیے پرانا طرز ہی مناسب ہے، انھوں نے جواب میں لکھا کہ انھوں نے شراب سے توبہ کرلی ہے اور دعا فرمائیے کہ خدا استقامت عطا فرمائے اور اپنے موروثی مذہبی اثرات کا بھی حوالہ دیا، اور دوسری نعت کہہ کر بھیجنے کا وعدہ کیا، مگر ابھی اس کے ایفا کی نوبت نہ آئی تھی کہ ان کا وقت پورا ہوگیا، شراب نے ہمارے بہت سے ہونہار شعراء کو تباہ کیا ہے، شکر ہے کہ سلام اس سے تائب ہوگئے تھے، جو ان کی عاقبت کے لیے فال نیک ہے، اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کی توبہ قبول اور ان کی مغفرت فرمائے۔
(شاہ معین الدین ندوی، دسمبر ۱۹۷۳ء)
Abstract The purpose of this study is to compare the student's and teacher’s perceptions about their current English textbook they used. This study categorized as a descriptive qualitative study. The population of VIII grade students (45 students) of junior high school was involved in this study and an English teacher of them too. The questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used as the instrument of this research. Besides, the guideline of the interview and questionnaire was from [1]Cunningsworth's (1995) theory which is explained about the book evaluation. The data were analyzed through Google form percentage presentation for the questionnaire while transcription, coding was used for the interview section. The result showed, 75% of students believed that the book they used has good quality. While the rest 25% felt it did not fulfill their expectation and need. Besides, the teachers’ perception supports it with some of the books’ part lacks organization and employed too many vocabularies. Whereas the students felt their current level was not suitable with the teachers’ beliefs, but the teacher believed that it was appropriate with the students’ level. So, there were few different perceptions between them. However, the teacher believed that her role in helping students with textbook usage could help the main point of students’ need due to the teacher has lack of knowledge and awareness to do coursebook evaluation. Therefore, further research needs to be done to make this study more comprehensive.
PakistanstandsfifthamongleadingdateproducingnationsgloballywithprovinceofBaluchistan as the leading contributor. The long history of date palm cultivation in Baluchistan and its geo-political position in relation to Iran and Oman signifies its importance for diversity analysis. The present study was designed to examine the nature and level of genetic diversity in date palm collected from Baluchistan to explore its potential as a center of origin which is currently unclear. Fifty-two microsatellite markers were used to analyze the geneticrelationshipamonghundred(sixtyonefromBaluchistanandthirtyninefromPunjab) date palm cultivars. Different diversity indices were calculated for Baluchistan accessions and then compared them with Punjab genotypes. The results highlighted the presence of rich allelic diversity and high variation within the Baluchistan germplasm as compared to Punjab. The cluster analysis divided the entire population of hundred genotypes from both regions into seven groups with 50% admixed lines. The structure approach identified low levels of geographical structuring and suggested that mixed geographical distribution may be the result of gene flow between two regions. The variation detected through SSR markers highlighted that Baluchistan is rich in date palm diversity and it could be one of the regions claiming their position as centre of diversity especially in eastern gene pool. The estimated diversity could also be used for future breeding programs, association mapping, gene cloning and germplasm conservation. Punjab germplasm was also studied for morphologicalvariationforthirtytwoqualitativeandquantitativetraits. Theclusteringanalysis showed that the distribution of the cultivars into groups was independent of geographical origin. Angoor (Muzaffargarh) genotype showed good performance with regard to fruit width and petiole width. While Akhrot (Muzaffargarh) genotype had high statistic contributionof flesh taste. The resultssuggestedthat Muzaffargarhgermplasm was more diverse thanJhangandBahawalpur. Socialdataaboutcropdiversityandsocialimportancerevealed that growers used to cultivate different date palm cultivars on the basis of preferences and usage. Begum Jangi was the most preferred variety by all the respondents because of its high production potential and its longer storage time. The coefficients associated with the farming experience, income , education, age of trees and number of trees showed statistically significant and positive effect on the number of genotypes grown. While negative relation of education with number of genotypes was observed.