رام چندر گاندھی
رام چندر گاندھی ۱۳؍ جون کو نئی دہلی کے انڈیا انٹر نیشنل سینٹر (IIC) میں انتقال کرگئے، یہ گاندھی جی کے پوتے، راج گوپال آچاریہ کے نواسے اور ہندوستان ٹائمز کے سابق اڈیٹر دیوداس گاندھی کے بیٹے تھے۔
ان کی تعلیم دہلی کے سنٹ اسٹیفن کالج میں ہوئی تھی جہاں وہ فلسفہ کے استاد بھی رہے، یہ ان کا خاص موضوع تھا اور اس میں دہلی یونیورسٹی اور آکسفورڈ دونوں جگہ سے ڈاکٹریٹ کی ڈگری لی تھی، برطانیہ، امریکہ اور شانتی نکیتن میں بھی فلسفہ کے استاد تھے، اس میں کئی کتابیں لکھیں۔
انہیں بابری مسجد سانحہ کا بڑا دکھ تھا، اس پر ’’سیتا کی رسوئی‘‘ کے نام سے جو کتابچہ لکھا تھا، اس میں ثابت کیا ہے کہ جو جگہ مندر کی بتائی جاتی ہے وہاں قبائلی رہتے تھے۔
(ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، اکتوبر ۲۰۰۷ء)
The concept of freedom and equality enshrined in democratic systems though solves certain individual problems, but at the same time many collective problems arise. In this context, these democratic values become inconsistent with principles of Islamic political system because the concept of freedom and equality in Islam is different from that in western democracy. The Islamic Sharīʻah has divided the obligatory duties into Ḥuqūqul Allah and Ḥuqūq-al-ʻIbād and complying with them guarantee the success in this world and the hereafter. Islam not only connects rights and responsibilities with each other, but also determines their priorities. Those societies where an imbalance is created in discharging duties and rights get caught up in mischief and trouble as an unavoidable consequence as if human beings play the main role in the construction and destruction of societies. Keeping in mind the above mentioned issues, the reality of modern philosophy of human rights and its basic criterions and effects in Islamic perspective has been reviewed to find the causes of failure of modern philosophy in protecting the human rights in the contemporary era. Similarly, explaining the concept of human rights in Islam in modern perspective, a research-based analysis has been presented in this paper.
In order to produce good financial results and improve operational performance, a firm should effectively and efficiently manage its working capital. Working capital policies and practices vary from firm to firm which leads to variation in profitability. A difference in working capital practices is observed on the basis of size and location. Review of existing literature indicates that this variation in working capital management practices among various categories of firms such as small, medium, large, domestic and multinationals has not yet been adequately researched, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan. The study uses secondary data of 153 listed firms on Pakistan Stock Exchange for 10 years (2004-2013). These firms are categorized on the basis of size viz. small, medium and large; as well as location such as domestic and multinationals. R-square shows that highest explanatory power of the independent and control variables included in the model based on market to book ratio occur in multinational firms where dependent variable is explained to the extent of 41% whereas based on return on assets it is 26% in medium firms. Results show that working capital policy significantly affects firms’ performance. Multinomial logistic regression model was used to identify factors significantly affecting WC policy. Logistic regression results show that ROA and MC are the variables determining the WC policy of firms significant at 5% and 1% respectively. Overall, correct predictions for the study employing logistic regression model work out to be 71.9% showing fitness of the model used for analysis.