سید محامد علی عباسی
افسوس ہے کہ دارالمصنفین کی مجلس انتظامیہ کے ایک معزز مخلص رکن جناب سید محامد علی عباسی ائی۔اے۔ایس ۱۵؍ ستمبر کو حیدرآباد میں وفات پاگئے، اِناﷲ وَ اِنا اِلَیہ رَاجِعُون، یہ اطلاع بہت تاخیر سے ان کے ہم وطن مولوی معین احمد علوی کاکوروی کے مکتوب گرامی سے ملی۔ ان کی زندگی حیدرآباد میں بسر ہوئی، دارالمصنفین کے بڑے قدرداں تھے، وہ نظام ٹرسٹ کے بہت بااثر رکن تھے، اس سے دارالمصنفین کو سالانہ گرانٹ دلائی اور اس کے لئے سفر کی صعوبت برداشت کرکے یہاں تشریف بھی لائے، بڑی خوبیوں کے مالک تھے، اونچے عہدوں پر فائز رہنے کے باوجود متواضع تھے، اپنی دیانت داری، حسن خدمت اور قابلیت کی وجہ سے نیک نامی حاصل کی اور بڑا عروج پایا، ان کی شخصیت باوقار، پرکشش اور قدیم شرافت و تہذیب کا دلکش نمونہ تھی، گزشتہ برس ہمدرد نگر میں ہونے والے دارالمصنفین کے جلسہ میں شرکت فرمائی، کیا خبر تھی کہ اس عالم ناسوت میں یہ ان سے آخری ملاقات ہے، اﷲ تعالیٰ مغفرت فرمائے اور اعزہ متوسلین کو صبر جمیل عطا کرے۔ (ضیاء الدین اصلاحی، نومبر ۱۹۸۹ء)
The success of federalism in multiethnic societies greatly depends on fiscal decentralization. It empowers the provincial governments along with the local bodies at the grass root level. In this perspective fiscal decentralization needs structural arrangements in order to ensure revenue generation and appropriate expenditures. It helps to strengthen the national grid to avoid inter-provincial or intra-provincial discrepancies. This study illustrates the relationship between fiscal devolution and symmetrical horizontal economic development. It envisages the devolution plan (2001) introduced by former General Pervez Mushraff in Pakistan under which the Provincial Finance Commissions were established. This research would focus on Punjab as a case study to analyze the working of Provincial Finance Commission. This research tends to address the questions like what have been the patterns of fiscal decentralization in Pakistan? Did National Finance Commission and Provincial Finance Commission promote the principles of equitable devolution of resources in the divisible pool on the basis of need assessment? Could PFC be able to mitigate the intra-provincial disparities in Punjab? Did PFC take efficiency advantage in Punjab through the empowerment of local governments? This study would encompass the analysis of the resource allocation formula opted by the successive governments in the past till present and the counter arguments by the academia and the local body members. Qualitative and quantitative both methods would be used while incorporating primary as well secondary sources. This research concludes with the proposition that empowered local bodies and effective finance commission are the sine qua non of fiscal decentralization in democratic state like Pakistan.
Four series, consisting of sixty (60) new heterocyclic chalcones were synthesized by the condensation of methyl/methoxy substituted formylquinolines with various substituted heteroaromatic ketones. The precursors (formylquinolines) were prepared by Vilsmeier Haack formylation of substituted acetanilides, which in turn were synthesized by N-acetylation of various substituted anilines with the help of acetic acid in the presence of ortho phosphoric acid. Another series of piperidyl-thienyl chalcones was synthesized. For this purpose, the precursor 4-piperidin-1-ylbenzaldehyde was prepared by N- arylation of piperidine with 4-fluorobenzaldehyde in the presence of K2CO3 and a phase transfer catalyst CTAB in DMF solvent. The 4-piperidin-1-ylbenzaldehyde was then condensed with various thienyl ketones in alkaline medium with constant stirring at room temperature to give the fifth series consisting of twelve (12) new chalcones. The ketoethylinic group of chalcones was then cyclized into 2-pyrazolines by refluxing them with hydrazine hydrate in ethanolic solution. In this way fifty six (56) new pyrazoline derivatives of chalcones were obtained. Finally all of the synthesized compounds (128 in number) were screened for their antibacterial, antifungal, antileishmanial, anti-HIV-1 and cytotoxic activities. Many of the prepared chalcones as well as their 2-pyrazoline derivatives were proved to be potent biologically active compounds.