آہ ڈاکٹر فریدی
جس حادثہ کا دھڑکا عرصہ سے لگا ہوا تھا وہ بالآخر پیش آکر رہا اور جس کے ہاتھوں سے اﷲ تعالیٰ نے ہزاروں مایوس مریضوں کو شفا بخشی تھی۔ اس نے بھی گزشتہ ۱۹؍ مئی کو جان جاں آفریں کے سپرد کردی، مرحوم فریدی کے کن کن اوصاف کو یاد کیا جائے۔
اے تو مجموعۂ خوبی بچہ نامت خوانم
وہ ایک حاذق طبیب، بے غرض مخلص اور جری لیڈر اور سراپا انسانیت اور شرافت تھے، قومی و ملی مفاد کے مقابلہ میں کسی طاقت کو خاطر میں نہ لاتے تھے، اس کے لئے آخر وقت تک حکومت سے جنگ کرتے رہے، اور اپنی دولت، صحت اور زندگی کسی چیز کی بھی پروا نہ کی اور ایک بہادر سپاہی کی طرح اس راہ میں جان تک دے دی، انھوں نے قوم و ملت کے لئے جو قربانیاں کیں اس دور کے مسلمانوں میں مشکل سے اس کی مثال مل سکتی ہے، ان کا سب سے بڑا کارنامہ یہ ہے کہ انھوں نے مسلمانوں سے خوف و ہراس اور احساس کمتری دور کرکے ان میں جرات و ہمت پیدا کی، ان کا دامن فرقہ پروری سے بالکل پاک تھا، انھوں نے اقلیتوں اور پسماندہ طبقوں کے مفاد کے لئے مختلف سیکولر پارٹیوں سے مل کر اس کا عملی نمونہ پیش کیا، اگرچہ وہ مسلم مجلس کے بانی اور اس کے صدر تھے، لیکن کانگریسیوں سے بھی ان کے تعلقات تھے، اور وہ بھی ان کی عزت کرتے تھے، ان کی موت پر مختلف طبقوں کے اکابر اور جن کو ان کی سیاست سے اختلاف تھا، انھوں نے بھی جو تاثرات ظاہر کئے ہیں وہ ان کی مقبولیت کے شاہد ہیں۔
اس دور میں وہ تنہا شخص تھے، جس نے سیاست سے کسی قسم کا ذاتی فائدہ نہیں اٹھایا بلکہ اپنا کھویا، اگر وہ چاہتے تو حکومت...
The quality of productive assets plays a significant role in the success of Islamic banking, not just a mere function. Islamic banks consistently measure their performance by referring to the standard of productive asset quality as a benchmark. The prosperity of an Islamic bank's business substantially depends on its ability to manage investments by adhering to two main principles: the prudence principle and the Sharia principle. The aim of this research is to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the quality and risks in Islamic bank financing. To face the complexity and dynamics of the Islamic banking world, a qualitative approach was used. The research method is based on the post-positivism philosophical foundation, which views social reality as a whole, dynamic, complex, meaningful, and colored by interactive relationships.
The present research is planned to find out the relationship between social support, social isolation and loneliness among older adults. Factors like gender, age, residential status (i.e. rural and urban), marital status, family system, socio economic status, and education were also taken into consideration. The study was carried out in two Phases. First Phase was further comprised of two steps. In first step of Phase-I, two scales of the present study i.e. 6-Item (short) De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (1985) and 6-item (short) scale developed by Hawthorne (2006) was used in order to assess social isolation. These scales were translated into Urdu language in order to derive more natural responses from the participants. Standardized back translation procedure was used for the translation of the measures. Moreover, the Urdu version of Social Support Scale developed by Malik (2002) was also used in current study. Second step of Phase-I was accounted for the assurance of psychometric soundness of the scales. A sample of 75 older adults, conveniently approached, was used to ensure the alpha reliabilities along with other descriptive analyses. Phase-II of the present study was planned for hypotheses testing. Purposive convenient sampling technique was used to draw the sample of 500 older adults from both urban and rural areas of the various districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. An appropriate statistical analysis according to the new version of SPSS was used to draw conclusions. The age of the sample ranged from 60 to 90 years (M = 67.59, SD = 7.54). Alpha coefficients, for the all variable were computed, which ranged between. 60 for social loneliness to. 96 for social support total scale. This indicates that reliabilities are found to be satisfactory for various scales of the study. Linear regression analysis revealed that overall social support is significant negative predictor of social loneliness, emotional loneliness, overall loneliness, and social isolation. In order to examine the effect of the sub constructs of social support on outcome variables the multiple regression analysis was computed which demonstrated instrumental support and tangible aid as significant negative predictors of social isolation. Emotional support and social network support were found to be the significant predictors of social loneliness, emotional loneliness, overall loneliness, and social isolation, whereas esteem support negatively predicted social loneliness, emotional loneliness, and social isolation. Significant gender differences were found on social support and its sub constructs, whereas significant difference on all study variables were also observed for x residential status (i.e. urban or rural), age, and socio economic status. Marital status further demonstrated significant difference on emotional loneliness, overall loneliness, social isolation, and various constructs of social support. Limitations of the present study, suggestions for future empirical endeavors, and both practical as well as theoretical implications of current study have also been discussed.