اقبال سہیلؔ
افسوس ہے کہ گزشتہ مہینہ اقبال سہیلؔ بھی چل بسے ۔وہ مسلم یونیورسٹی علی گڑھ کے باقیاتِ صالحات اور اُس عہد کی دیرینہ روایات کے حاملین میں سے تھے۔غیر معمولی ذہین وذکی تھے ۔فارسی اور اردو دونوں زبانوں کے بلند پایہ شاعر تھے۔ وہ اگر وکیل نہ ہوتے یامزاج لااُبالی نہ ہوتا توعلم وادب کے میدان میں ان کی شہ سواری کا مقابلہ بہت کم لوگ کرسکتے تھے ۔طبیعت حددرجہ دقیقہ رس اور دماغ بڑا نکتہ آفریں پایاتھا۔ نغز گوئی کے ساتھ اشعار میں روانی غضَب کی ہوتی تھی۔ غزلوں اور نظموں کے علاوہ انھوں نے جو نعتیہ نظمیں لکھی ہیں وہ بھی بڑے معرکہ کی ہیں، نثر بھی بہت اچھی لکھتے تھے ۔اگر کوئی صاحب اُن کے مضامین ِ نثر و نظم کو مرتب کرکے یک جا شائع کردیں تویہ اردو ادب کی مفید اورلائقِ قدر خدمت ہوگی۔ورنہ ان ادبی جواہر پاروں کے ضائع ہوجانے کا اندیشہ ہے ۔حق تعالیٰ مغفرت وبخشش کے فضل ِ خاص سے نوازے ۔ [دسمبر۱۹۵۵ء]
The paper is an attempt to review twenty-first century regionalism and its impact on South Asia, which includes the rising role of China and Pakistan’s pivot status as contributing factors to peace, growth, and development. This coincides with a more south-oriented world. The theory applied is NeoFunctionalism, which explains the European integration and may be used to explain the potential modern South Asian integration process with China as a pre-cursor. This will perhaps be a positive outcome of the twenty-first century regionalism. The paper dwells upon intra-regional integration, sighting Eurasian model of connectivity as an example, and how it can be a role-model for developing countries. The emphasis remains on improved relations between Pakistan and India as a pre-requisite for regionalism to take off in South Asia.
The study aimed to investigate the mediating role of job stress on relationship of job demand and work-life balance of nurses working in Multan, Pakistan. The study is based on the review of existing literature and collection of data through self-administered questionnaire. Sample was selected from nurses working within Multan by using convenience and snowball sampling techniques of non-probability sampling. This is a cross-sectional study as data is collected form the respondents at one specific point in time. A total of 134 questionnaires in English and Urdu were distributed in sample using convenience and snowball sampling and asked personally to fill the questionnaires; all the respondents returned the questionnaires. The results showed that most of the nurses working in Multan are young, single and well-qualified. All the three variables are positively correlated to each other. The mediation model presented by Baron and Kenny (1986) is applied and tested by hierarchical regression analysis. The mediation is checked by two models: in model no.1 job demand predicted work-life balance and in model no.2 both job demand and job stress predicted work-life balance. The regression analysis showed that both job demand and job stress brought change in work-life balance and increase of 19.9% is noticed in model no.2 after addition of job stress. As hypothesized, the job demand though affects the work-life balance of nurses but when the job becomes more demanding it creates job stress which more adversely affects the work-life balance of nurses. The results are applicable to the nurses working in Multan. Future research may further study the issue by enhancing the sample size and by adding other variables such as ?staff morale? and ?workplace environment?. The practical suggestions include implementation of results to reduce the level of stress in nurses and improve their existing conditions.