ڈاکٹر احمر لاری مرحوم
۲۸؍ فروری کو پروفیسر احمر لاری بیاسی برس کی عمر میں اپنے خالق حقیقی سے جاملے، اِناﷲ وَاِنا اِلَیہ رَاجِعُون۔ وہ گورکھپور یونیورسٹی کے شعبہ اردو سے تعلق رکھنے والے قابل اور محنتی استاد تھے جن سے ان کا شعبہ، ملک میں معروف ہوا اور وہ خود پروفیسر محمود الٰہی جیسے لائق ترین صدر شعبہ کی سرپرستی و رہنمائی میں ملک کے اچھے لکھنے والوں میں شمار ہوئے۔ بظاہر نجیف و نزار بیمار نظر آتے لیکن قلم بڑا توانا تھا۔ حسرت موہانی ان کی تحقیق کا مرکز رہے، ان کا تحقیقی مقالہ جوبعدمیں کتاب کی شکل میں شائع ہوا ان کی غیرمعمولی محنت سے اپنے موضوع پر اسی طرح مصدر و مرجع بن گیا جیسا خود ان کے ایک رفیق پروفیسر افغان اﷲ خاں مرحوم کا فراق پر مقالہ تھا، حسرت موہانی سے ان کا یہ تحقیقی تعلق، مستقل رشتے میں یوں بدلا کہ انہوں نے حسرت موہانی کے تذکرہ شعراء اور ارباب سخن کوبھی مرتب کرکے شائع کیا۔ ارباب سخن کا مقدمہ ان کی تنقیدی صلاحیت کا بڑا خوبصورت آئینہ ہے جس میں اردو تذکرہ نگاری کا انہوں نے جامع اختصار سے جائزہ لیا ہے۔
ان کی کتابوں میں گلدستۂ نازنیناں، نکات سخن، غالب اور غالبیات اور اردو تنقید کا ارتقاء، نام بھی آتے ہیں۔ انہوں نے مختصر تاریخ گورکھپور بھی مرتب کی۔ ان کا اصل قصبہ لار تھا لیکن انہوں نے پیمان وفا گورکھپور سے ایسا باندھا کہ بالآخر اسی کی خاک کا حصہ ہوئے۔ بیماری آزاری کے باوجود وہاں کی علمی و ادبی مجلسوں میں ضرور شریک ہوتے، پروفیسر افغان اﷲ خاں مرحوم کے بعد ان مجلسوں میں ان کے دم سے رونق تھی۔ افسوس ان کے جانے کے بعد ویرانی کا احساس اور زیادہ ہوگا کہ محض علم و ادب کا ایک شیدائی ہی نہیں ایک ملنسار، غمگسار...
vidence of non-Musims in Islamic perspective. It is the responsibility of an Islamic state to ensure justice in all walks of life. Islamic law provides justice to all its citizens, irrespective of their race, colour and religion etc. There is a difference of opinion amongst the jurists as to whether a non-Muslim can be a witness for or against a Muslim or not? As for as the matters of giving evidence in favour of or against each other amongst themselves is concerned, so, majority of the jurists say that of is permissible. This research article deals with this issued opinions of the jurists have been presented with their arguments
A lot is written about third party logistics, its evolution and rapid growth especially in western world and few of the Asian countries. Most of the research done on third party logistics is from customers’ perspective regarding their needs, reasons and motives to outsource logistics services and the standard of service what customers are looking for or what they are getting. The flip side of it, is the perspective of logistics service providers which is, mostly confined to national and international surveys and demographic statistics. About a decade back, World Bank started calculating Logistics Performance Index and ranking all internationally trading countries on the basis of their logistics infrastructure and performance. In Pakistan this industry was completely ignored and was rather unknown to academic researchers until the China Pakistan Economic Corridor came into lime light. Even then, it cannot be said that this industry got due attention from academic researchers or even from government regulatory authorities to properly regulate this industry. It is only in the last decade that researchers in Pakistan turned their attention towards this industry to evaluate its capacity, span of services provided, quality of service and the performance of third party logistics service providers. This research is unique in nature, as never before the service competencies of logistics industry in Pakistan were evaluated using internationally recognized quality standards and competency measures. To study the impact of quality management practices on service competencies of third party logistics service providers in Pakistan, this research picked the two most renowned and internationally recognized models: The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality (MBNQ) model for assessing quality management practices and Michigan State University Global Logistics Research Team (MSUGLRT) model for service competencies. The impact of six quality management factors of MBNQA named 1- Leadership, 2- Strategic Planning, 3- Customer Focus, 4- Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management, 5- Human Resource Focus and 6- Process Management was studied on the four service competency identified by MSUGLRT named 1- Positioning, 2- Integration, 3- Agility and 4-Measurement. The data on various items for these latent constructs was collected from more than 200 firms and all necessary analyses using AMOS and SPSS packages were done to find out the direction and extent of the impact of quality factors on service competency. Also the effect of Social Capital and Company Strength as moderating variable was observed. The results clearly identified the Strategic Planning and HR Management Focus as the factors highly impacting service competencies of third party logistics service providers in Pakistan. Interestingly, but surprisingly, the role of Leadership and Knowledge Management was minimal. Especially the negative impact of Leadership indicates the area of immediate further attention. The moderating variable also had very significant relation with service competencies but they were unable to significantly affect the individual impact of other quality factors. This study highlights the areas where logistics firms in their individual capacity, the logistics industry as a whole and concerned government bodies must immediately concentrate to be able to extract expected benefits from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor.