سید اسد اﷲ صاحب کاظمی
افسوس ہے کہ مشہور ماہر تعلیم سید اسد اﷲ صاحب کاظمی نے کراچی میں انتقال کیا وہ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے نامور فرزند تھے حصول تعلیم کے بعد کچھ دنوں یونیورسٹی ہی میں انگریزی کے استاد رہے، پھر صوبہ متحدہ کے محکمہ تعلیمات سے وابستہ ہوگئے، اور ڈپٹی ڈائرکٹر کے عہدہ تک پہنچے، اسی زمانہ میں ریاست کشمیر کے ڈائرکٹر تعلیمات ہوگئے ملازمت سے ریٹائر ہونے کے بعد یونیسکو کی طرف سے کئی سال تک حکومت بغداد کے مشیر تعلیم رہے اس طرح ان کی پوری عمر تعلیمی تجربات میں گذری مسلمانوں میں وہ ماہر تعلیم مانے جاتے تھے، ان کو مسلمانوں کے تعلیمی مسائل سے بڑی دلچسپی تھی، اور اُن کی تعلیمی تنظیموں کو اپنے تجربات اور مفید مشوروں سے فائدہ پہنچاتے تھے، علمی و ادب کا بلند اور (ستھرا مذاق رکھتے تھے) مذہبی مطالعہ بھی وسیع تھا، راسخ العقیدہ پابند مذہب مسلمان تھے، کلام مجید کے مطالعہ کا خاص ذوق تھا، بغداد کے قیام کے زمانہ میں کچھ عربی بھی سیکھ لی تھی۔ اﷲ تعالیٰ نے اُن کو دین و دنیا دونوں سے نوازا تھا، عالم آخرت کی نعمتوں سے بھی سرفراز فرمائے۔ (شاہ معین الدین ندوی، نومبر ۱۹۷۱ء)
Blasphemy law is considered as very basic law in the Muslim societies. This study aims to examine the blasphemy law of Pakistan in historical perspective. Qualitative research designs and discourse analysis techniques have been used to analyse the existing data. In Indian Subcontinent, during the Muslim rules, blasphemy law was being followed and practiced in accordance with principles of Islam. During British regime, it has throughout been demand of the Muslim for legislation of Blasphemy Law. During this period, by acceding to Muslims’ demand, it was introduced but with lesser punishment, even lesser than those which was there in the law of England. In this article, history of the blasphemy law and its interpretation, including conformity with Islamic principles as judged by the Federal Shariat Court, has been documented. In the end, its present status, or restatement of this law, has be unearthed with some suggestions, which have though been alluded to in decisions of the courts, but have not been ever discussed.
English, as a non native variety, in Pakistan has acquired its own form most pronounced on the phonological level. The few attempts to study its structures treated phonology as marginalized part of lexical or syntactic descriptions. And even when phonological descriptions are carried out, the focus was segmental features only. Consequently, the present study aims to explore supra-segmental features exclusively which make significant differences in pronunciation and cause problem of unintelligibility. Among many sub-varieties of Pakistani English (PE), the variety of English news media which is considered to be Pakistani Standard English (PSE) is investigated through auditory and acoustic phonetics. For acoustic analysis, Praat software is used to get the waveform and spectrographs of word structures. Later, these prosodic structures are discussed in detail. Moreover, syllable structures and prosody of PSE are analysed in the optimality theory framework. First, the constraints on the syllable and word stress patterns were ranked to form a grammar of these phonological features by forming violation Tableaus to understand interaction of these constraints. Further more, a new way of doing OT is introduced in this thesis, that is violation computing method (VCM). This method addresses the most complicated issue of OT analysis- ranking of constraints. The VCM is applied by ranking constraints of two phonological processes in PSE- syllable structure and word stress patterns. It is further tested and verified by re-analysing constraints interaction with the method suggested by Prince & Smolensky (1993/2004). It is concluded that among many other differences, PSE forms ‘iambic’ foot pattern; unlike native varieties of English which make ‘trochaic’ foot pattern.