Zulfiqar Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3722966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zulfiqar Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zulfiqar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Karachi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9291-8342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental Education and Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Textbooks in the Schools of Islamabad
Environmental education (EE) is an important tool in influencing attitudes and practices that are sustainable, but the inclusion of EE in Pakistani primary school curricula is haphazard and often superficial. The results presented in this article are a report on the results of a qualitative content analysis of primary-level textbooks (Grades I-VIII) in government and private schools in Islamabad. In the analysis, it has been found that the common…
Interaction of Phyllanthus amarus extract and its lignans with human xenobiotic receptors, drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters
Application of the Boruta algorithm to assess the multidimensional determinants of malnutrition among children under five years living in southern Punjab, Pakistan
This study highlights age, mid-upper arm circumference, weaning practices, and immunization status as key determinants of weight-for-height and weight-for-age in children under five years. It also suggests that economic context may influence undernutrition. The findings can guide targeted strategies for combating undernutrition
A Unified procedure for the probabilistic assessment and forecasting temperature characteristics under global climate change
Perceived norms of public transport use as the determinants of older adults' social exclusion: Evidence from Pakistan
Probing PXR activation and modulation of CYP3A4 by Tinospora crispa and Tinospora sinensis
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With the advance discourse over the adjudication that has taken place in contradiction of the key dominant of the western model of the adversarial trial in term of the common law and the inquisitorial trial in regards to the Civil Law. The primary characteristic of the inquisitorial system is regarded with the judge who is having the overarching part in the adjudicating process whereas the distinctive characteristic of the adversarial system is t…
Constitutive Features of Deliberate Language Shift: A Case Study of Afghan Immigrants as a Community of Practice
The study is aimed to determine the constitutive features of deliberate language shift by Afghan immigrants in Chakwal (Punjab, Pakistan). The researchers selected 10 business practitioners living for at least 10 years in the Punjabi community. The semi-structured interviews and non-participants observations were conducted for data collection. The researchers used "Community of Practice" (CofP) as a theoretical framework. CofP Model has three ele…
Travelogue and Creative Easy Sparklings: (Safarnamah aur Takhliqi Sahal Angari)
Purpose of the study: This study aims to highlight the importance of travelogue and Poetry. Methodology: The article explains the travelogue and poetry with the help of multiple references applying analytical research methodology. Main Findings: To get closer to any work of art means to be better reflected in life, as a result of which its greatness is acknowledged as well. If Ghalib was bent on giving his whole diwan for one verse of Momin, it w…
Do health infrastructure and services, aging, and environmental quality influence public health expenditures? Empirical evidence from Pakistan
Rapidly growing health expenditure is a matter of grave concern for households and governments. Every government is compelled to allocate a sufficient budget to improve people's health. This study, therefore, identifies some major factors that influence the trajectory of public health care expenditure (HCE) in Pakistan for the period 1974-2017. The ARDL-bounds test and Bayer-Hanck cointegration test consistently reveal that HCE and its specified …
Psychosocial Barriers of Public Transport Use and Social Exclusion among Older Adults: Empirical Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan
Transport planning and public health have been intertwined historically. The health impact of public transport services, such as social exclusion, is a widely discussed research topic. Social exclusion is a paramount concern for older adults' health in the wake of emerging global challenges. However, there remains a significant research gap on how psychosocial barriers faced by older adults in using public transport services influence the social …
Bioactivity-guided isolation of flavonoids from Urtica dioica L. and their effect on endometriosis rat model
Pakistan’s National Accountability Ordinance and the facilitation of corrupt practices
Pakistan’s progress toward full democracy is dependent upon many variables. One major obstacle to establishment of a mature democracy is widespread corruption, which penetrates deep into the institutions of governance and accountability. Three civilian governments (1958–1971, 1977–1988, 1999–2008) have been overthrown by the military, and three (1988–1990, 1991–1993, 1994–1996) removed by elected presidents on charges of ‘public corruption.’ The …
Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians
The form and functions of political discourse have considerably taken a new orientation with the evolving ways of communication. Twitter is a platform that is increasingly preferred by the political elites for the purpose of gaining public acclaim and propagating political ideologies. The political discourse on Twitter requires a critical attention toward linguistic structures and strategies to uncover the relationship between language and social…
Anti-corruption Institutions and Governmental Change in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the struggle over power often provokes people to spin the law towards their own interests and (mis)use state institutions to reach political ends. Under such conflictual circumstances, anti-corruption institutions are frequently used by the people in power to persecute opposition parties. This paper has two aims. First, it attempts to show that political disputes and the conflict between civilian and military authorities have not onl…
Extreme Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Bangladesh
The effects of Sceletium tortuosum (L.) N.E. Br. extract fraction in the chick anxiety-depression model
Conflict between social structure and legal framework: Political corruption in Pakistan
There is a growing body of literature on the conflict between social environment and legal system. This article seeks to unravel the contradiction between Pakistan's anti-corruption laws and its social world. The study of this uncharted territory becomes even more urgent when the consequences of corruption are taken into account in the broader context of Pakistan's internal cohesion, democratic development and sustainable growth. Despite the fact…
Pakistan, Military Coup, and Concordance: Four Objections to Schiff
In 2014, Armed Forces & Society published Ali's work, 'Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military intervention in Pakistan.' Shortly thereafter in 2015, Schiff, the author of concordance theory, responded with 'Concordance Theory in Pakistan: Response to Zulfiqar Ali.' Schiff, in the Disputatio Sine Fine (DSF) section of Armed Forces & Society , defends concordance theory and puts forward four challenges to Ali's article.…
Alkaline phosphatase activity-guided isolation of active compounds and new dammarane-type triterpenes from Cissus quadrangularis hexane extract
Effects of Sceletium tortuosum in rats
The effect of Salvia divinorum and Mitragyna speciosa extracts, fraction and major constituents on place aversion and place preference in rats
Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military Intervention in Pakistan
There are several theoretical frameworks proposed by a wide range of scholars to explicate and understand civil and military relations. Rebecca Schiff's concordance theory is one of the recent models in this theoretical tradition. She argues that the theory of separation of civil and military relations given by Huntington not only fails to give an adequate account of domestic military interventions in Pakistan but also attempts to impose the Amer…
Constituents from Terminalia species increase PPARα and PPARγ levels and stimulate glucose uptake without enhancing adipocyte differentiation
Indoor particulate matter in developing countries: A case study in Pakistan and potential intervention strategies
Around three billion people, largely in low and middle income countries, rely on biomass fuels for their household energy needs. The combustion of these fuels generates a range of hazardous indoor air pollutants and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Worldwide, it is responsible for four million deaths. A reduction in indoor smoke can have a significant impact on lives and can help achieve many of the Millen…
Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians
The form and functions of political discourse have considerably taken a new orientation with the evolving ways of communication. Twitter is a platform that is increasingly preferred by the political elites for the purpose of gaining public acclaim and propagating political ideologies. The political discourse on Twitter requires a critical attention toward linguistic structures and strategies to uncover the relationship between language and social…
Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the Improving Health of Bangladesh
Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military Intervention in Pakistan
There are several theoretical frameworks proposed by a wide range of scholars to explicate and understand civil and military relations. Rebecca Schiff's concordance theory is one of the recent models in this theoretical tradition. She argues that the theory of separation of civil and military relations given by Huntington not only fails to give an adequate account of domestic military interventions in Pakistan but also attempts to impose the Amer…
Pakistan’s National Accountability Ordinance and the facilitation of corrupt practices
Pakistan’s progress toward full democracy is dependent upon many variables. One major obstacle to establishment of a mature democracy is widespread corruption, which penetrates deep into the institutions of governance and accountability. Three civilian governments (1958–1971, 1977–1988, 1999–2008) have been overthrown by the military, and three (1988–1990, 1991–1993, 1994–1996) removed by elected presidents on charges of ‘public corruption.’ The …
Pakistan, Military Coup, and Concordance: Four Objections to Schiff
In 2014, Armed Forces & Society published Ali's work, 'Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military intervention in Pakistan.' Shortly thereafter in 2015, Schiff, the author of concordance theory, responded with 'Concordance Theory in Pakistan: Response to Zulfiqar Ali.' Schiff, in the Disputatio Sine Fine (DSF) section of Armed Forces & Society , defends concordance theory and puts forward four challenges to Ali's article.…
Historical and archaeological perspectives of soil degradation in Cholistan
The word ‘Cholistan’ has been derived from a Turkish word, ‘Chol’, means a desert, while some historians believe that this name has been distorted from Iraqi (Kurdish) word, ‘Chilistan’ meaning waterless waste land (Ahmad et al., 1992; Auj, 1995 and Ahmad, 1999), popularly Cholistan is known as ‘Rohi’. In a dialect still spoken in some parts of Tibet, ‘roh’ means a hill, from which the name Rohilla has been attributed. In fact, Rohi has been deri…
Perceived norms of public transport use as the determinants of older adults' social exclusion: Evidence from Pakistan
Anti-corruption Institutions and Governmental Change in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the struggle over power often provokes people to spin the law towards their own interests and (mis)use state institutions to reach political ends. Under such conflictual circumstances, anti-corruption institutions are frequently used by the people in power to persecute opposition parties. This paper has two aims. First, it attempts to show that political disputes and the conflict between civilian and military authorities have not onl…
The Post-modern Refutation of Faith and Religion: Exploring Foucault's Argument
In this paper, I have developed and explored the possible Foucauldian refutation of faith and religion implicitly running through his major and minor writings.Foucault strongly disagrees with Kant's exposition of ̳pure reason' and ̳critique' providing room to faith and religion.On the basis of Foucault's conception of human reason, which runs parallel to Kant's conception, I have argued that Foucault strongly rejects faith.The Foucauldian reason …
Role of local bodies in implementing the un convention to combat desertification in Pakistan
UN Convention to Combat Desertification comes as a ray of hope for more than one billion people around the world whose lives are threatened by the adverse impacts of drought and desertification. District Councils and Union Councils in Pakistan may play an effective role in the implementation of the CCD in Pakistan , . This is because of the fact that Union Councils and District Councils have sufficient mechanism and infrastructure to implement an…
Historical and archaeological perspectives of soil degradation in Cholistan
The word ‘Cholistan’ has been derived from a Turkish word, ‘Chol’, means a desert, while some historians believe that this name has been distorted from Iraqi (Kurdish) word, ‘Chilistan’ meaning waterless waste land (Ahmad et al., 1992; Auj, 1995 and Ahmad, 1999), popularly Cholistan is known as ‘Rohi’. In a dialect still spoken in some parts of Tibet, ‘roh’ means a hill, from which the name Rohilla has been attributed. In fact, Rohi has been deri…
Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the Improving Health of Bangladesh
The Post-modern Refutation of Faith and Religion: Exploring Foucault's Argument
In this paper, I have developed and explored the possible Foucauldian refutation of faith and religion implicitly running through his major and minor writings.Foucault strongly disagrees with Kant's exposition of ̳pure reason' and ̳critique' providing room to faith and religion.On the basis of Foucault's conception of human reason, which runs parallel to Kant's conception, I have argued that Foucault strongly rejects faith.The Foucauldian reason …
Constituents from Terminalia species increase PPARα and PPARγ levels and stimulate glucose uptake without enhancing adipocyte differentiation
Indoor particulate matter in developing countries: A case study in Pakistan and potential intervention strategies
Around three billion people, largely in low and middle income countries, rely on biomass fuels for their household energy needs. The combustion of these fuels generates a range of hazardous indoor air pollutants and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Worldwide, it is responsible for four million deaths. A reduction in indoor smoke can have a significant impact on lives and can help achieve many of the Millen…
Effects of Sceletium tortuosum in rats
The effect of Salvia divinorum and Mitragyna speciosa extracts, fraction and major constituents on place aversion and place preference in rats
Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military Intervention in Pakistan
There are several theoretical frameworks proposed by a wide range of scholars to explicate and understand civil and military relations. Rebecca Schiff's concordance theory is one of the recent models in this theoretical tradition. She argues that the theory of separation of civil and military relations given by Huntington not only fails to give an adequate account of domestic military interventions in Pakistan but also attempts to impose the Amer…
Alkaline phosphatase activity-guided isolation of active compounds and new dammarane-type triterpenes from Cissus quadrangularis hexane extract
The effects of Sceletium tortuosum (L.) N.E. Br. extract fraction in the chick anxiety-depression model
Conflict between social structure and legal framework: Political corruption in Pakistan
There is a growing body of literature on the conflict between social environment and legal system. This article seeks to unravel the contradiction between Pakistan's anti-corruption laws and its social world. The study of this uncharted territory becomes even more urgent when the consequences of corruption are taken into account in the broader context of Pakistan's internal cohesion, democratic development and sustainable growth. Despite the fact…
Pakistan, Military Coup, and Concordance: Four Objections to Schiff
In 2014, Armed Forces & Society published Ali's work, 'Contradiction of Concordance Theory: Failure to Understand Military intervention in Pakistan.' Shortly thereafter in 2015, Schiff, the author of concordance theory, responded with 'Concordance Theory in Pakistan: Response to Zulfiqar Ali.' Schiff, in the Disputatio Sine Fine (DSF) section of Armed Forces & Society , defends concordance theory and puts forward four challenges to Ali's article.…
Extreme Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Bangladesh
Anti-corruption Institutions and Governmental Change in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the struggle over power often provokes people to spin the law towards their own interests and (mis)use state institutions to reach political ends. Under such conflictual circumstances, anti-corruption institutions are frequently used by the people in power to persecute opposition parties. This paper has two aims. First, it attempts to show that political disputes and the conflict between civilian and military authorities have not onl…
Bioactivity-guided isolation of flavonoids from Urtica dioica L. and their effect on endometriosis rat model
Pakistan’s National Accountability Ordinance and the facilitation of corrupt practices
Pakistan’s progress toward full democracy is dependent upon many variables. One major obstacle to establishment of a mature democracy is widespread corruption, which penetrates deep into the institutions of governance and accountability. Three civilian governments (1958–1971, 1977–1988, 1999–2008) have been overthrown by the military, and three (1988–1990, 1991–1993, 1994–1996) removed by elected presidents on charges of ‘public corruption.’ The …
Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians
The form and functions of political discourse have considerably taken a new orientation with the evolving ways of communication. Twitter is a platform that is increasingly preferred by the political elites for the purpose of gaining public acclaim and propagating political ideologies. The political discourse on Twitter requires a critical attention toward linguistic structures and strategies to uncover the relationship between language and social…
Psychosocial Barriers of Public Transport Use and Social Exclusion among Older Adults: Empirical Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan
Transport planning and public health have been intertwined historically. The health impact of public transport services, such as social exclusion, is a widely discussed research topic. Social exclusion is a paramount concern for older adults' health in the wake of emerging global challenges. However, there remains a significant research gap on how psychosocial barriers faced by older adults in using public transport services influence the social …
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With the advance discourse over the adjudication that has taken place in contradiction of the key dominant of the western model of the adversarial trial in term of the common law and the inquisitorial trial in regards to the Civil Law. The primary characteristic of the inquisitorial system is regarded with the judge who is having the overarching part in the adjudicating process whereas the distinctive characteristic of the adversarial system is t…
Constitutive Features of Deliberate Language Shift: A Case Study of Afghan Immigrants as a Community of Practice
The study is aimed to determine the constitutive features of deliberate language shift by Afghan immigrants in Chakwal (Punjab, Pakistan). The researchers selected 10 business practitioners living for at least 10 years in the Punjabi community. The semi-structured interviews and non-participants observations were conducted for data collection. The researchers used "Community of Practice" (CofP) as a theoretical framework. CofP Model has three ele…
Travelogue and Creative Easy Sparklings: (Safarnamah aur Takhliqi Sahal Angari)
Purpose of the study: This study aims to highlight the importance of travelogue and Poetry. Methodology: The article explains the travelogue and poetry with the help of multiple references applying analytical research methodology. Main Findings: To get closer to any work of art means to be better reflected in life, as a result of which its greatness is acknowledged as well. If Ghalib was bent on giving his whole diwan for one verse of Momin, it w…
Do health infrastructure and services, aging, and environmental quality influence public health expenditures? Empirical evidence from Pakistan
Rapidly growing health expenditure is a matter of grave concern for households and governments. Every government is compelled to allocate a sufficient budget to improve people's health. This study, therefore, identifies some major factors that influence the trajectory of public health care expenditure (HCE) in Pakistan for the period 1974-2017. The ARDL-bounds test and Bayer-Hanck cointegration test consistently reveal that HCE and its specified …
Probing PXR activation and modulation of CYP3A4 by Tinospora crispa and Tinospora sinensis
Perceived norms of public transport use as the determinants of older adults' social exclusion: Evidence from Pakistan
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