QUETTA (The Thursday Times) — Scientists ne shimal-maghribi Balochistan mein Chagai ke ret ke teelon par aik aisi chhipkali ki nishandehi ki hai jo science ke liye nayi hai, aur us ka naam isi zile ke naam par rakha hai. Us ki peeth par bal khate, bhool bhulaiyon jaise bhure nishan hain.
Is qisam, Eremias chagaiensis, ki tafseel Mangal ko journal Zootaxa mein chhapne wale maqale mein pesh ki gayi hai, jo Pakistan Museum of Natural History ke Rafaqat Masroor, Muhammad Danish aur Slovakia ke shehr Bratislava ki Comenius University ke Daniel Jablonski ne likha hai.
"Balochistan ke registan South Asia ki un jagahon mein shamil hain jahan sab se kam khoj hui hai. Yahan aik nayi chhipkali ka milna hamein batata hai ke abhi kitna kuch qalamband nahin hua," Masroor ne kaha, jinhon ne is kaam ki qiyadat ki.
Team ne 2022 se 2025 ke darmiyan maidani jaizon ke dauran is janwar ko chaar maqamat par record kiya, jo Registan Desert ke janoob-mashriqi kinare par nichle, sarakte hue teelon par waqe hain, aur Pakistan ki Afghanistan aur Iran se milne wali sarhadon ke qareeb hain. Us ka jism 5.7 centimetres tak barhta hai, aur us ki dum is lambai se do guna se bhi zyada ho sakti hai.
Yeh racerunners se taalluq rakhti hai, jo registani chhipkaliyon ka tez raftar giroh hai. Us ke qareebi rishtedaron mein se zyadatar ke jism par lambai mein dhariyan hoti hain. Yeh qisam kam umr se le kar balig hone tak apna bhool bhulaiyon jaisa nishan barqarar rakhti hai.
Is nishan ki wajah se pehle yeh Eremias graphica jaisi lagi, jo 2023 mein Iran se bayan ki gayi qisam hai. DNA aur jism ke tanasub aur chhilkon ke tafseeli muwazne se is ke bar aks nateeja saamne aaya. Jin mitochondrial genes ka mutalea kiya gaya, un mein is ki sab se qareebi rishtedar dhariyon wali qisam Eremias fasciata nikli, jis se yeh taqreeban 10.6% mukhtalif hai.
"Zahiri shakl-o-surat dhoka de sakti hai," Jablonski ne kaha, jo Vienna ke Natural History Museum se bhi wabasta hain. "Ret sarhad par nahin ruk jati. Yeh jaanne ke liye ke yeh qisam haqeeqat mein kahan tak payi jati hai, Afghanistan mein jaizon ki zaroorat hai."
Donon chhipkaliyon ka ilaqa alag alag hai. Nayi qisam bhurbhuri ret mein bil banati hai, khaas taur par nichle teelon aur registani jhariyon ke qareeb ret ke hisson mein, aur parosi bajri wale maidanon mein nahin mili, jahan E. fasciata rehti hai.
Yeh tehqeeq aik purane sawal ko bhi hal karti hai. E. fasciata ki Pakistan se aik sadi se zyada pehle report hui thi, lekin yeh record taweel muddat tak mutanaza raha. Naye namoonon aur DNA ne pehli baar qatai tasdeeq faraham ki hai ke woh is mulk mein rehti hai.
In nataij ke saath Pakistan mein darj Eremias species ki tadad aath ho gayi hai. Masroor aur Jablonski, jo taqreeban aik dehai se saath kaam karte aa rahe hain, pehle hi shimal-maghribi Balochistan se doosri racerunners bayan kar chuke hain.
Chagai doosri cheezon ki wajah se zyada mashhoor hai. Yahan Pakistan ke 1998 ke nuclear tajarbat hue thay aur yeh Reko Diq ke tanbe aur sone ke zakhire ka maskan bhi hai. Muhaqqiqeen ka kehna hai ke us ki ret mein ab bhi mazeed aisa kuch ho sakta hai jo kabhi record nahin kiya gaya.
