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wo barbie doll ke jese mere barbie doll
jis say may pyar karta hn
han buhut pyar karta hn
kay jis ko daik kar meray dil ke darkan taiz hojate hay
kay jis kay muskuranay say may sub kuch bhool jata hn
sabhe batain sabhe shikway
aur us ka bar bar kehna
"kuch tu bolo"
usay bata day ye koe
kay may har pal har aik lamha
usse ko sunna chahta hn
usse ko daikna chahta hn
may us kay pyar main pagal
wo jab huns kay
aur apnay zulfo ko aik jatka day kay
mujay pagal bulate hay
mera dil jhoom jata hay
us ke taref kia likon
buhut masoom se hay wo
ya phir shayed
khwabon may ate us haseena kay manind hay
wo jo bhe hay
jese bhe hay

wo mere hay
wo mere hay.

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Bannu Museum

1.       Lewan Site

            The site of Lewan lies on a partly reworked alluvial terrace. The site is oriented approximately north-South and measures 450 x 325M. Another degraded terrace fragment lies about 500m to the east. Both Lewan and the adjacent terrace fragment have a surface scatter of heavily varnished stones, but in the case of lewan the majority of these stones are fractured and broken. With the exception of a gravel lens which was found at a depth of 2.4M in Frenc LWN IV. The North-South orientation of both the Lewan site and the adjacent terrace suggests that the original terrace deposit was cut, and partly reworked by a distributary of the Baran system.

2.       Surface of Mound

            The accumulation of stone in particular is due to two factories. In the first place a considerable amount of stone appears to have been brought to the mound for the purposes of tool making. The second reason for the multiplicity of stones on the surface is the process of deflation or reduction of the mound by erosion that has taken place since its occupation.

3.       Surface Store

            The surface of the Lewan site is covered with stone and fragments of pottery. The stones are all heavily varnished of their exposed surfaces and the majority of them are broken. A comparison of stones from sample quadrates  on the Lewan site and the adjacent terrace revealed that 87% of the stones on the site were fractured compared to only 18% on the adjacent terrace. The broken surfaces of the Lewan stones are almost all varnished.

Bannu Museum

            Bannu is the only Museum which is design by an architecture and architect. The design of the a Bannu Museum prepared by the archaeological and the director was completely different then the present Museum design. There were two exhibitions gallery and one Lobi and Athurater residence and guest room have been design to be on the top of the two exhibition gallery. If the artificial window Peshawar Museum were also provided in the design. If that design were accepted prepared by PWD and approved by Directed that has been disaster because the bathrooms of the resident and thruster and the guests rooms were on the top of the exhibition hall. The seepage and leakage of the bathrooms were the courses of used that have been visible on the roof of exhibition halls. It would represented a very bed look to the visitor. Now ataution were paid in the design to the security of the Museum and also there was no provision for a natured light. In the exhibition in the old design they only displayed of the provision and artificial light which all most not available which is a long loads heeding in Bannu. Some times more than 20 hours. This old design completely rejected and dropped and the Museum was constructed on the basis of new design. In the new design the thurator residence in the guest house were brought out to the ground on the Southern side Museum building. One small hall and office at the back of exhibition halls. They normally shokesses and design keeping  in view the size nature of the antiqualities. In all the three halls mountainous shokeses running around at the same width and the same depth. It have taken care of the intiqualities available for display the design were the shokesess. What have been different in each hall. The shokesess were very low quality and very bed material were used. The fiber down in the lobby area does not provided enough light and also in summer. Generator a lot of heat is granted by this fiber down and difficult to work at the lobby in summer in hall No.1 which states from to the right of lobby. Main script was displaced which were born from Peshawar Museum. Non of the main ascript belong to the area. In the second hall, dress, Jewelry  and Musical instruments displayed. The dresses and jewelry were displayed the Musical instrument were of local origin in still in uses in the area. The weapons also provided by Peshawar Museum. In the 3^rd exhibition archaeological material from the different excavated site. In chronological order which gives a very good idea of the archaeology profile of the Bannu Basin. The earlier material displayed in this gallery are stone tools – heavenly painted found in the drey ghondarey area. About 8 km from Bannu – on the Bannu, Mansehra road o nthe right side. The stone tools were found from the surface on the conglomerate of the ceralike formation. It has been dated  on the basis of ceralike formations to thirty thousand 30,000 (B.P)

            In Bannu Museum there are no key level and individual values in the exhibition halls. Accept the main exhibition hall. The visitor comes to the Museum looking to the antiquality displayed and living the Museum without learning any thing about the history and archaeology of the area. I propose and suggest the following key labels should be provided to aguciate the visitors to provide sufficient information about the antiquality.

            Key label should be about the archeological and profile of Bannu. The second key label should be about  the history of excavation of this area. A key label should be provided and Sheri Khan Tarakai. The (SKT0 is a first oldest 6500 years oldest village in (KPK).

Key Points

1.                           Key List of archaeological excavated sites.

2.                           A list of key label.

3.                           A list of history period sites in Bannu Basin.

4.                           Sheri Khan Tarakai key note.

5.                           Key note Akra.

6.                            Audience of the spread of Islam in Bannu was it Babul Islam

7.                           Originally Bannu Museum site was near the Bannu railway. It was the       land for the Museum all shape and it was not easily approachable.           Later on a new land was given on the railway D.G.Khan Road which         was square and was easily acceptable.

Technical Staff

In technical staff carpenter in electrician should be provided in Bannu Museum. A very small area for the storage and reserved area is provided. There should have been much beggar area for research collaboration areas. 

                                                                            By :   Ayaz Khan 

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Aur phir yun hua k

     

      

         Aur phir yun hua k (EPISODE #1)

                         

Wo university janay kay lye tayar horahe the.wo tayar hokar buhut khoobsurat lag rahe the. Wo aik aam shakal ke larke the itne khoobsurat nahe the wo lakin phir bhe thek the daikany mai achi lagte the. WO tayar horahe the aur us ke friends use kamray may betay hoy pyar kay unwan par bahas kar rahay thay. Us nay jatay waqt  tanzia andaz may kaha larka chahay jesa bhe ho us pay yaqeen nahe kia jasakta.ye pyar kay topic ko cherna sirf aj ki baat nahe the ise topic pay roz cherkhani hote the lakin ye kabhi pyar ko mannay kay lye tayar nahe hoe the. us kay friends may say aik nay kaha kay "kaash tujay pyar hojay phir ye kehna" us nay jawaban kaha "mujay kabhe pyar nahe hosakta".

       Us ka nam sara tha us ke umar abhe 20 saal hoe the lakin shakal o surat say wo 18 saal ke lagte the. Wo aik university may international relations(IR) ki student the. Wo buhut sanjeda larke the. Us kay lye kisi larkay par bharosa karna buhut mushkil tha. Us k kamray ke larkian raat bhar larkon say baatain karte rehte the aur dates par jate rehte the. Lakin us kay lye ye sub karna buhut mushkil tha. Wo pyar say is tarah darte the jesay wo usay kha jaega. Us kay friends uay buhut samjaty kay apnay lye koe larka pasand kar lay pasand ke shadi may buhut faiday hain lakin wo nahe mante the. Wo apnay studies kay sath buhut sincere the. Time pay apna har kam kia karte the. Aj bhe wo university ja kar apnay clases lenay main masroof hogae the usay fazool waqt zaya karna bilkul acha nahe lagta tha wo friends bananay may bhe buhut muhtat the is lye us kay buhut kam friends thay jis may koe larka shamil nahe tha.

    Chutyon may gar jaya karte the gar university say buhut door tha. Wo maa baap ke bare bete the us ke aik aur bhe behn the lakin bhai koe nahe tha is lye wo waledain k lye bete bhe the aur beta bhe.

      sara ke aik friend the salma jo us kay paros may rehte the. Salma us ke sub say achi dost the jab gar ajaya karte the tu sara din salma k sath guzarte the. Salma ka aik bhai tha arman buhut handsome tha larkian jab usay aik bar daik lete the phir unhay apnay nazrain hatana mushkil hojata tha. Lakin wo aik number ka flirt insan tha larkion kay sath flirt karta tha. Aur us kay lye asan bhe tha university ke saray larkian us pay marte the lakin usay aj thak kisi say pyar nahe hoa tha. Han ap bilkul thek samjhay Wo bhe University may M.A economics ka student. Aj wo gar may tha darwazay ki gante bajnay lage wo drawazy pay daikany gaya jesay he us nay darwaza khola us kay samnay sara kare the us nay usay pehlay kabhi nahe daika tha aj usay uun achanak daik kar us kay dil may aik leher se dor gae the usay daikte he wo us kay dil may bs gae the apnay love at first sight ka tu suna hoga wahe hua tha us kay sath usay pehlay he nazar may us say muhabat hogae the. Arman ko agar zindagi may kisi larke par dil say pyar aya tha wo sara the. sara main aise koe khas baat tu nahe the k us ke aja say usay wo ache lage ho bus aik aam se larke the baqe larkiyon ke tarah. Wo abhe thak darwazay par kara usay daikta raha wo usay daik kar sub kuch bhool gaya tha usay dunia ke koe khabar nahe the lakin sara usay daik kar gar kay andar agae aur salma say milnay kay baad baton main masroof hogae ab arman bhe apnay kamray main achuka tha usay baar baar sara kay khayalat arahay thay wo soch raha tha kay ye kon hosakte hay.

      sara apnay gar ja chuke the salma apnay kamray may mobile pay game khail rahe the isi waqt arman nay us kay kamray ka darwaza katkataya salma nay andar anay kay lye kaha arman andar aa kar us kay pas bed pay bait gaya us kay chehray say zahir horaha tha kay wo us say kuch pochna chahta hay aur wo waqai us say kuch pochna chahta tha wo us say sara kay baray may pochna chahta tha is say pehlay kay arman kuch pochay us ke behn nay us say poch lia “G arman bhai koe baat pochne hay.” Arman nay kherania nazron say us ko daika kay wo us ka chehra parh chuke hay phir us nay gala saaf kia aur kuch bolnay ke himmat ke. “ han wo aj tumhare dost ae the kia nam hay us ka” us nay apnay zehn pay zor dia jesay usay us ka nam ata ho lakin ab bhol gaya ho tu salma nay jat say kaha sara is pay arman nay kaha “han sara tu us ka introduction tu ap nay hum say karwaya he nahe” oh tu arman sahb ye konse bare baat hay mere tu rooz friends ate hay apnay kabhi kisi aur kay baray may pocha tu nahe aise kia khaas bat the sara may kahe us pay meray pyaray bhai ka dil tu nahe aya salma nay arman kay taraf mutawaja ho kay pocha tu arman nay jaldi say jawab dia nahe nahe bus may tu wesay he poch raha tha pehlay kabhi daika nahe tha usay. wo tu pehlay bhe ate rahe hay hamaray gar ap ko aaj nazar ae jo pochnay chalay ay. salma nay arman k taraf goor say daikthay hoy kaha. tu arman nay bat ko ghumanay ki koshish ki.nahe aise bhe koe baat nahe hay shayed wo hamaray gar ae ho par mere us say kabhi mulaqat nahe hoe is lye poch raha tha. salma nay ab usay sara k baray may sub kuch bata dia usay us waqt dachka laga jab usay pata chala k sara use ke university may parhte hay. us nay salma say department wagera ka pata kia aur salma nay sub bata dia phir wo game khailnay may masrof hogae aur arman apnay kamray may agaya. 

                                                         By : Ayaz khan

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Counting the uncountable — I

A highlight of the ICMs is the Fields Medals in Mathematics that are announced and awarded at these meetings. This medal in Mathematics is often compared to the Nobel Prize

Dr Khalid Saifullah

December 06, 2014

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The vast and splendid hall in the state-of-the-art building of the Hyderabad International Convention Centre was filled with delegates from all over the world, gathered there to witness the spectacular inaugural ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). They were waiting for the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, to come and declare the proceedings open. The host on the dais was introducing the audience to the charms and wonders India offers to its visitors. “Where in the world would you see one-third of the people driving on the left side of the road, one-third on the right and one-third in the middle of the road?” she asked and the hall of about 3,000 participants roared with laughter.

ICMs are among the oldest scientific meetings, starting around 120 years ago, and are held every four years. This forum was established to review the current trends in research in Mathematics and to discuss future developments in the field. It was at this meeting in 1900 in Paris that David Hilbert, the German mathematician, presented his famous 23 problems meant to set the future of research in Mathematics, many of which are still unsolved. It was around this time that another famous problem, the Poincare Conjecture, after the name of the French mathematician Henri Poincare, was posed. This problem remained unsolved for about 100 years. Another highlight of the ICMs is the Fields Medals in Mathematics that are announced and awarded at these meetings. This medal in Mathematics is often compared to the Nobel Prize in other areas (there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics). In the Madrid ICM of 2006, Grigori Perelman of Russia was awarded the Fields Medal for solving the 100-year-old Poincare Conjecture. It is interesting to note that at the time of this award he did not have any publications, nor has he anything published today!

An important session at the 2010 Hyderabad ICM was devoted to the discussion on the use of metrics to evaluate research, particularly on the uncritical use of the Impact Factor (IF) for the same purpose. The IF is the average number of citations made in a given year to a journal’s papers from the preceding two years. Their practical application arises from the need of assessing research by simple and objective methods. The panel included Professor Douglas Arnold from the University of Minnesota, the president of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) also. He had highlighted the issues and instances of fraudulently increasing the IF of journals and other blatant misuses of this measure in his articles ‘Nefarious Numbers’ and ‘Integrity under Attack: The State of Scholarly Publishing’. He analysed the cases of IF manipulation for a few journals in detail. He described, for example, how the IF of the International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation (IJNSNS) rose to 8.9, more than double the next highest journal in applied Mathematics. He told the audience that this journal was in his area of research but that he never knew about it. Explaining the reason for this large IF he said that most of the citations came from IJNSNS itself or special issues of other journals edited by someone on the IJNSNS board. Only in the year 2008, the journal’s editor-in-chief himself cited the journal 243 times within the last two years (the crucial window for calculating the IF). Apart from him two other editors cited this journal 114 and 58 times. With IJNSNS, 72 percent of their citations were in the two years that count for the IF and only 28 percent in all the other years. For normal journals it is usually the opposite. With this glaring performance, the editor-in-chief was among the world’s most highly cited mathematicians and was named the “rising star” and the “hottest researcher of the year”. He repeated this performance the next year as well and was considered worthy of many awards and honours. As the grand hall burst into laughter, I started sinking into my seat; it seemed as if they were discussing the situation in Pakistan!

Professor Arnold concluded by mentioning Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” He further elaborated by mentioning “an example used in economics, that if a nail factory in a centralised economy is judged on the number of nails produced, pretty soon they will figure out they should make lots and lots of tiny nails. If it is judged on the weight of the output, they will start making very big nails.”

Professor Malcolm MacCallum of Queen Mary University, London was another panelist. He shared his experience of the Research Assessment Exercise that was carried out in the UK in which he played a prominent role. He told the audience that the assessment was done not by any bibliometric data but by actually reading the research papers! His conclusion was: “I do not believe one can judge a paper by where it appears.” This seemed to be the bottom line of the discussion to which everyone agreed. Let me repeat: a paper cannot be judged by where it appears. If someone wants to evaluate research he will have to read the papers, or get them read by somebody. 

(To be continued)

The writer is a faculty member at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He may be contacted at ksaifullah@fas.harvard.edu

Reference : Daily Times (dailytimes.com.pk)

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Counting the uncountable — II

During their PhD, students here do not get training in how to think, investigate and analyse, but only how to write papers in such a way as to get them published

Dr Khalid Saifullah

December 08, 2014

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Coming to the situation in Pakistan, there was a time when researchers here did not publish internationally. It was a good step forward when they started doing this. Following this, scientists used to be evaluated by the list of publications they included in their CVs. However, with the advent of Impact Factor (IF), things began to change. When this measure was applied to the list of publications of many so-called scientists and heads of scientific institutions, they were left with nothing. Hundreds of publications vanished altogether. But what we must realise is that this was only one step forward and not an end in itself.

Here we should pause for a moment and ask ourselves: what is the aim and purpose of research in the Sciences and Mathematics? Is it to accumulate IFs like a video game where one strives to score high and beat the existing highest score, or is it to come up with ideas that can add to the existing body of knowledge? But this is exactly what the institutions that have taken upon themselves to judge and evaluate research and rank researchers are not doing. In Pakistan, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) are ranking scientists who have been ‘conferred’ awards (whether they deserve them or not) merely on the basis of some numbers; these include all civil and other awards. Is there any respectable research award in the world that is given without actually reading the research? How can one judge research from the colour of the title page of the journal where it is published, or by some number attached to that journal? As mentioned above, the Fields Medal was awarded to Grigori Perelman when his research had not been published in any journal!

The worst effect these policies have is on the section of our society that cannot afford it at all: our youth. Research for a PhD degree is supposed to be cutting-edge and on the frontiers of the field it is awarded in. Most of the research done in Pakistan is by PhD candidates, which means these policies make their research work questionable. As a result of the current policies, what they learn during their whole research-training period is how to achieve certain numbers and then how to increase them. And, since they start hiring new PhD students as soon as they complete their own PhD, they impart exactly what they had learnt during their own ‘training’ and it goes on like a chain reaction. The recent explosion of business houses for online journals is basically to fulfil the increasing demand for publishing. Doing PhD in our universities currently means only one thing: a few research papers where your name appears among the list of authors, even though that might be only by mistake (and in many instances that is indeed the case!). Thus, during their PhD, students here do not get training in how to think, investigate and analyse, but only how to write papers in such a way as to get them published. It is like being trained to be an orator when you have nothing to say.

The message is loud and clear: your research performance is not judged by what you do and what you write; it is judged by some numbers associated with the journal where your work is published. So your job now is simply to look for ways by which you can increase those numbers. Those who are attached to our universities know that the message is very well taken by our youth, and they are doing the needful. This is what happens when we blindly follow artificial ranking systems for scientists and institutions. It is the result of striving to fulfil the ranking criteria for institutions; a couple of years ago researchers affiliated with King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah outnumbered highly cited researchers at the University of Cambridge by 50 percent in the field of astronomy! Following these measures as targets and conferring awards to people on the basis of these criteria in Pakistan without actually judging and reading their research work is producing examples that are no less amusing.

The current policies are creating an environment that is not different from the Nobel Prize winner economist George Akerlof’s market for lemons where, as a result of the asymmetry of information between the seller and the buyer, the bad drives out the good in the market. In our case, the HEC and PCST know nothing about the product scientists are handing over to them for evaluation, as a consequence of which the good is constantly being discouraged. These standards are set so deep in our minds that people not conforming to them, however good they may be, are looked upon as aliens and a threat to our system. These methods for evaluating and rewarding scientific investigation pose obstacles in the way of many capable researchers. They are, in fact, preventing many good scientists abroad from coming back to Pakistan.

A pertinent question that can be asked here is: who should then judge and evaluate research work? Should researchers not be encouraged by giving out awards and recognition? The answer is: if you cannot judge do not give awards, and do not rank and categorise. “When we decide what to measure, we signal what counts,” Drew Faust, President Harvard University recently wrote in the New York Times. Thus, crediting the wrong people and presenting them as role models, particularly to our youth, is far more harmful than not crediting at all. But the actual situation is not that bad. It is true that the community in Pakistan is very small; there are not enough people who can do justice to evaluations and assessments. But we should not forget that Mathematics is essentially an international activity. It is not (and should not be) done in isolation. Once we decide to really promote Mathematics and encourage real mathematicians by awarding them then it is not something that cannot be done. We need to ask ourselves if this is something in which we are pioneers. If not, then we should see how other people have been doing this for ages. There are international bodies to promote Mathematics research in developing countries and emerging nations. For example, the Commission for Developing Countries formed by the International Mathematical Union is assisting many countries right now. They can be approached for help and guidance.

I forgot to mention earlier that at the conclusion of the opening ceremony of the Hyderabad ICM, when the delegates were being taken by buses to their accommodations, they actually witnessed what they had been told earlier: people were driving on the left, right and in the middle of the road. I thought the situation was not very different in Pakistan!

(Concluded)

The writer is a faculty member at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad and can be contacted at ksaifullah@fas.harvard.edu

Reference : daily times (dailytimes.com.pk)

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