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Allah Almighty sent mankind in this world for His worship only. This is high right on humans those who keep the faith and belief in the one Supreme God and obey His orders. When they followed satanic powers, they forgot the eternal lesson of Tawheed (Oneness of Allah) and engaged Shirk (polytheism). It is the dogma of Oneness of Allah with which mankind gets tranquility and peacefulness in society and becomesconstructive and valuable for humanity. And when human left his belief on Allah, they germinate their negative role and made the society despicable. In this scenario Allah Almighty sends His prophets to those nations which create mess and fill the society with clutter. At that time prophets play their role as a bounty of Allah on human race. They purify people by their teachings granted by Allah and focus their attention to the eternal massage of God. So Eman (faith) on prophet hood considered as essential as belief on Oneness of Allah. Both these beliefs; Tawheed and Risallah effect human life prominently in such a way that man redevelops his whole personality and becomes a required sound character of Eman. Then worldly contamination cannot harm human being's decency and he becomes a felicitous character of vigorous society.

Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Selected Plants of Pothohar Plateau

Pothohar plateau has specific agro climatic and geographical environment which might affect the antioxidant and antimicrobial attributes of native plants. In the present study, three medicinal plants (Asphodilus tenifolius, Aerva javanica and Fagonia indica) were collected from Pothohar plateau on the basis of ethno-botanical uses. Different solvent (absolute and aqueous ethanol, absolute and aqueous methanol and absolute and aqueous acetone) extracts of all the plants obtained through different extraction techniques (Stirring, orbital shaking, sonication and reflux) were evaluated for their antioxidant activities (by 2, 2-diphenyl-1- picrylhydrazyl and superoxide radical scavenging assays, reducing power and ß-carotene linoleic acid system), antimicrobial activities (by Disc diffusion and Minimum Inhibitory Concentration assays) and phytochemical studies (total phenolic and flavonoid contents). All the plant extracts exhibited good antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. Aqueous solvent extracts showed better activities as compared to pure solvent extracts. Out of four extraction techniques, extracts obtained from sonication exhibited better activities and phytochemical constituents. In case of Asphodilus tenifolius aqueous ethanol while for Aerva javanica and Fagonia indica aqueous methanol proved to be best solvent for the extraction of bioactive compounds. High Performance Liquid Chromatography analysis also revealed the presence of phenolic acids in these plant extracts. The variation in yield, phytochemical constituents and biological activities of most of the plant extracts, with respect to solvent systems and plant species were statistically significant.