مولانا عبدالباری ندوی
افسوس ہے مولانا عبدالباری ندوی کاگزشتہ مہینہ ایک طویل علالت کے بعد ۸۲برس کی عمر میں ان کے وطن لکھنؤ میں انتقال ہوگیا۔ مولانا کے نہایت ذہین اور طباع ہونے کی دلیل اس سے زیادہ اورکیاہوسکتی ہے کہ ان کی اصل تعلیم قدیم طریقہ کے مطابق عربی اورفارسی کی تھی اور انگریزی غالباً ہائی اسکول تک پڑھی تھی لیکن اپنے ذاتی مطالعہ اورشوق سے انھوں نے انگریزی میں اتنی استعداد بہم پہنچائی کہ اولاً فلسفۂ یورپ اورثانیاًسائنس کا مطالعہ کرسکیں۔فلسفہ سے انھیں خاص مناسبت تھی، چنانچہ اس میں ایساکمال حاصل کیا کہ برکلےؔ،برگسانؔ اورڈیوڈ ہیوم پر انھوں نے کتابیں لکھیں اور ان کی بعض کتابوں کا اردو میں ترجمہ کیا اورنہ صرف یہ بلکہ عثمانیہ یونیورسٹی میں پہلے فلسفہ کے لیکچرر اورپھراس کے ریڈر مقرر ہوئے۔ اسی زمانہ میں سیرت النبیؐ مصنفہ مولانا سید سلیمان ندوی کی جلدسوئم کے قدیم ایڈیشن میں مرحوم نے معجزات پرجو ایک باب لکھا تھا وہ زبان وبیان اوراستدلال و استنتاج کے اعتبار سے ایک نہایت اہم مقالہ کی حیثیت رکھتاتھا۔
طبع سلیم اگر رہنما نہ توفرط ذہانت اورفلسفہ کے ساتھ انہماک وتوغل بسا اوقات گمراہی کا سبب ہوجاتے ہیں، چنانچہ مرحوم کے ساتھ یہی ہوا، زندقہ والحاد کا شکار ہوگئے۔ ایک مدت کے بعد جب مولانا تھانوی سے بیعت ہوئے تو فلسفہ کا ردعمل اس شکل میں ہوا کہ مذہب کارہبانی تصور غالب آگیا، غرض کہ وہ زمانہ میں ع
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کامصداق رہے۔عملاً بڑے صالح،نیک،متقی اورپرہیز گار،زاہد وعابد، شب زندہ دار اوراخلاقی اعتبارسے بڑے شگفتہ طبع،بذلہ سنج وملنسار تھے۔مولانا شبلی کی تعلیم و تربیت نے اکابرعلماء وفضلا اورنامور ارباب قلم کی جو عظیم نسل پیداکی تھی، مولانا اس کی آخری یادگار تھے۔ ان کی آخری تصنیف جوبڑی معرکۃ الآرا ہے ’’مذہب و سائنس‘‘ ہے۔اﷲ تعالیٰ لغزشوں اورخطاؤں کومعاف فرمادے اورانھیں مغفرت و بخشش کی...
Pakistan’s economy is firmly linked to agriculture and food production. Since the inception of the country, no real land reforms have been undertaken, and the rural elite remains a major force in controlling agricultural land. At the same time, since the 1990s the country has also followed a neoliberal agenda, through the International Monetary Fund led structural adjustment programs, and then later after Pakistan’s entrance in the World Trade Organisation in1995. The trade liberalisation agenda of the advanced capitalist countries, especially the United States, have been consistently implemented in the country. In this context, it is clear that at least two different levels of political and economic forces are present in the rural economy. There is also no doubt that Pakistan also has a strong patriarchal society, which governs the social and economic norms of society.
The effectiveness of fiscal policy for economic activities has long been a subject on the applied research agenda and theoretical front for policy makers and academicians since the emergence of macro-economics. Over the years, developing economies failed to finance their public spending through collected revenues. This dissertation is focused to explore the four different facets of fiscal policy for a developing economy, Pakistan. Firstly, tax to GDP ratio of country is not sufficient to meet the public spending for welfare of society and improvement of human resource. Comprehending the importance to increase the tax revenues for economy, the determinants of tax morale in Pakistan are explored, acquiring data from the World Values Survey for the wave of 2010-2014. The estimation is carried out by using weighted ordered probit model that is a more appropriate technique to estimate such type of data. The estimated results demonstrate that confidence in parliament, confidence in civil services and confidence in government affect the tax morale positively and significantly. Moreover, religiosity has impact on people’s behavior and it may be a restriction in the way of tax evasion. The estimated results reveal that population having age of 30-49 years have higher level of tax morale contrary to other groups. It is also disclosed that Pakistani women and married people have higher level of tax morale as compared with man and unmarried people respectively. Institutions play a vital role to explain the varying economic performance across the nations and the impact of fiscal policy to improve institutional quality is still an explored dimension in literature. To find the impact of fiscal policy on institutions, annual time series data covering the time span from 1984-2015 was used and ARDL technique was applied. A new index for twelve institutional indicators taken from International Country Risk Guide was constructed by Principal Component Analysis. The estimated results draw attention that government spending 11 are contributing to improve the quality of institutions at little extent while education and equitable income distribution are also promoting the institutional quality in the country. The impact of institutions and fiscal policy on economic growth is examined using the data from 1984-2015 by applying the ARDL technique. The estimated results signify that government spending and institutions have momentous impact on economic growth of the country. In the same way, education and private investment are boosting the economic growth while trade openness has not significant impact on growth. Finally, the growth maximizing level of government spending for different categories like current expenditure, development expenditures, defense expenditures and overall government expenditures is determined. The data for this section consists of annual time series data for the period of 1984-2015. The Scully Model is used to estimate the optimal level of different categories of government spending that augment real economic growth. The empirical results illustrate that optimal sizes of government expenditures, current expenditures, development expenditures and defense expenditures are 20.66%, 13.18%, 6.75% and 3% of GDP respectively. It is suggested that government has to take serious steps to restore the confidence of people on public institutions to improve the tax morale, which will enhance the tax to GDP ratio of the country. The collected revenues should be spending on welfare oriented projects and free from resource crunch in form of corruption. It will improve the quality of institutions along with boosting economic growth. To attain the potential economic growth, government should have to rethink about different categories of public spending because the estimated optimal points of spending are different from existing trend of expenditures by the government.