Quaid-e-Azam's Personal Belongings
Quaid-e-Azam's Personal Belongings
The 134th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan) has been celebrated on Sunday, 25th December 2010, with great enthusiasm and national spirit. To present tribute to our beloved leader, I decided to share some pictures of Quaid-e-Azam's personal use items, displayed at Lahore Museum.
Chapli Kebab
Chapli Kebab/Kabab is a traditional spicy dish of Pakistan. It's a favorite dish of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Though chapli kebab are prepared through out the year at the kebab restaurants, however it's considered a dish of winter. There are many kebab restaurants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which are famous for their tasty chapli kebab, however the chapli kebab of Swabi has no match in taste. It's prepared from ground meat, maize flour, onion and tomato together with some spice including coriander seeds, anardana, chili, ginger, garlic and zeera . Knowing about ingredients don't mean that one will prepare kebab as delicious as by the experts at kebab restaurants.Therefore people always prefer to buy kebab from these restaurant instead of preparing at home. Its preparation needs expertise and skills and these skills transfer from race to race.
Chapli Kebab Restaurant
Chapli Kebab
Frog Fruit-Phyla nodiflora
The Frog Fruit (Phyla nodiflora or Lippia nodiflora), is flowering, broadleaf plant in the Verbenaceae family. It grow wildly along field sides. The vine like branches of the plant grow up to 3 feet long. Dense growth of the plants present a very beautiful view and serve as a ground-cover. I like this plant because it's one of the host plants of Peacock pansy butterfly in our area. The inflorescence consists of a purple-colored center encircled by small white-to-pink flowers. Other common names of frog fruit are sawtooth fogfruit, turkey tangle and matchweed.
(09/06/2011) My mother brought some frog fruit plants to home. I ask her, what will she do with it and she told me that it is a medicinal herb and is excellent remedy for jaundice. In Urdu its called "Jal buti" and in domestic language Pashto it is called "Aspa buti".
Frog Fruit-Phyla nodiflora
Old House Borer-Hylotrupes bajulus
The Old House Borer (Hylotrupes bajulus) is a species of wood-boring beetle in the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles), a group of Coleoptera insects also known as “European Old Houses Borer”. The main characteristic of this family is the long slender antennae. The adult has black color and is 8-20mm long. It is remarkable that the male is much smaller than the female. Infestation starts from the trees, but it can also be found in treated wood. It infests wood from pine and fir trees. Larva can live in wood from 3 to 10 years, reaching 200mg in weight and causing extended damage. Large oval holes are a sign of the infestation.
Old House Borer-Hylotrupes bajulus
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| Old House Borer (Hylotrupes bajulus) Larva |
Desert Locust-Schistocerca gregaria
I identified the locust species below to be a Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria). If my identification is wrong feel free to correct me. The desert locust is a species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are potential pest of agriculture crops and can damage the crops in a large scale particularly when they form swarms. Personally I never observed their swarm, however I heard my elders talking about locust swarms in our area and their large scale damage to agriculture crops and even trees. Their controlling method was very interesting. To control the locusts the whole community used to work together. Initially they used to dig a large pit and then used to direct the locust swarm toward the pit. After collecting a large number of locusts in the pit, they used to fill the pits with excavated earth.
Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) Nymph
Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) Adult
Rana tigrina-Indian Bullfrog
Rana tigrina is the old name of species Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, commonly known as the Indus Valley Bullfrog or Indian Bullfrog. It's a large species of frog in the subfamily Dicroglossinae, family Ranidae, found in South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It's found in freshwater marshes, ditches, ponds, and shallow lakes. It's named as bullfrog because of its large size and loud call.
Indian Bullfrog-Rana tigrina
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