محمد اقبال منہاس
محمد اقبال منہاس(۱۹۴۱ئ۔۱۹۹۰ئ) نام اور اقبالؔ تخلص کرتے تھے۔ آپ کے آبائو اجداد کا تعلق پسرور سے تھا۔ آپ کے والد ملازمت کے سلسلے میں عراق میں مقیم تھے۔ جہاں اقبال منہاس پیدا ہوئے۔ آپ نے انٹر سے ایم ۔انگلش تک تعلیم گورنمنٹ مرے کالج سیالکوٹ سے حاصل کی۔ انھوں نے انگریزی ادب میں ڈاکٹریٹ کی ڈگری بھی حاصل کی ۔آپ دوران طالب علمی’’ مرے کالج میگزین ‘‘کے حصہ اردو کے مدیر بھی رہے۔ اور اسی کالج میں بحیثیت استاد بھی کام کیا۔ (۹۲۹) منہاس کے علمی و ادبی ،تحقیقی و تنقیدی مضامین اور غزلیں ’’شمع‘‘ ،دہلی ،’’سیپ‘‘، ’’فنون‘‘ ،’’اوراق‘‘،’’افکار‘‘ اور ’’رابطہ‘‘ میں شائع ہو چکی ہیں۔ آپ کا ایک شعری مجموعہ ’’آبِ گریزاں‘‘ شائع ہو چکا ہے جسے معروف شاعر طاہر نظامی نے مرتب کیا ہے۔ ’’آب گریزاں‘‘ میں نظمیں ،غزلیں ،قطعات اور رباعیات شامل ہیں۔
اقبال منہاس کی شاعری کے لہجے میں نیا پن پایا جاتا ہے۔ ان کے ہاں موضوعات کی جدت، جدید حسیات اور نئی لفظیات ملتی ہیں۔
اقبالؔ ایک حساس شاعر اور حساس انسان ہیں ۔ وہ عام انسانوں کے مقابلے میں معاشرہ میں ہونیوالی نا انصافیوں اور استحصال کو جلد محسوس کرتے ہیں۔ اقبال منہاس اپنے ارد گرد ظلم ، معاشی و سماجی نا ہمواری اور انسانی بے بسی کو دیکھتے ہیںتو خاموش تماشائی نہیں بنتے۔ ان کی شخصیت اور شاعری میں ایک محتاط رویہ بھی ملتا ہے۔ اور وہ دوسروں کو بھی یہ رویہ اپنانے کی تلقین کرتے نظر آتے ہیں۔ کچھ اشعار ملاحظہ ہوں:
وہ لوگ پھول سے کومل وجود رکھتے ہیں
وہ جن کے دامن رنگین میں خار ہوتے ہیں
شمع جلے نہ کوئی پھول ہی کھلے جن پر
وہی تو اہلِ وفا کے مزار ہوتے ہیں (۹۳۰)
انسان کی عظمتوں کا کسے پاس ہے یہاں
یہ چیز گنج دہر میں...
Prisoners’ reintegration is the core concept of almost all penal systems in the world. One of the potent tools to ensure prisoners’ reintegration is effective network of religious services within prisons. This paper aims at exploring the role of religious interventions in the reintegration of prisoners with specific focus on Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) jails. Six high profile jails---Central Jail Peshawar, Haripur, Bannu, and District Jail Timergara, Mardan and Kohat of KP were purposively selected. Mixed methodology, more specifically concurrent triangulation technique, was used to collect and analyze the data. Of all 261 respondents, 250 comprised of jail inmates (under-trial and convicted adults and juveniles male prisoners) were randomly selected within the six jails of the province and interviewed through semi-structured questionnaire. The remaining 11 respondents, purposively selected and interviewed through interview-guide included jail officials of all the selected prisons (6 in numbers) and ex-prisoners (5 in numbers). It was found that a clear majority of the respondents considered religious interventions instrumental in accomplishing the goal of prisoners’ reintegration i.e, making them law abiding, productive, contributing and pro-social citizens. Many of the apparently incorrigible and potentially dangerous prisoners altered the course of their lives once they went through religious programs inside prisons. It was also discovered that in KP prisons, there was no effective network of chaplaincy services, and often these services were provided by self-motivated religious prisoners and rarely by the prison management with the collaboration of NGOs. Yet, the existing religious interventions had an extraordinary impact in terms of reforming the inmates. Hence, it is recommended that any prisons’ reform strategy must incorporate a well-designed framework of religious programs to transform criminals into an asset for society.
With the arrival of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs), every processor has now built-in parallel computational power and that can be fully utilized only if the program in execution is written accordingly. Also existing memory system and parallel developments tools do not provide adequate support for general purpose multi-core programming and unable to utilize all available cores efficiently. This research is an attempt to come up with some solutions for the challenges that multi- core processing is currently facing. This thesis contributes by proposing a novel multi-level cache system design "LogN+1 and LogN cache Models" for multi-core processors. This new proposed cache system is based on binary tree data structure and can be replaced with the existing 3-level cache system in order to minimize memory contention related problems. This thesis also contributes by developing a new multi-thread parallel programming model, "SPC3 PM” (Serial, Parallel and Concurrent Core to Core Programming Model), for multi-core processors. The SPC3 PM is a serial- like task-oriented parallel programming model which consists of a set of rules for algorithm decomposition and a library of primitives to exploit thread-level parallelism and concurrency on multi-core processors. The programming model works equally well for different classes of problems including basic, complex, regular and irregular problems. Furthermore, a parallel trace-driven multi- level cache simulator "MCSMC" (Multi-level Cache Simulator for Multi-Cores) is also developed during this PhD research. It is a new addition in the family of cache simulators using that one can simulate the present 3-level cache system or any customized multi-level cache system. Its parallel execution makes it more efficient and less time consuming and its large set of input parameters also provides a wide range of simulation scenarios.