ناول ''جہنم جاگتا رہتا ہے'' : تحقیقی وتنقیدی جائزہ
ڈاکٹر محفوظ احمد ثاقب
سلیم اختر ڈھیرا چنیوٹ سے تعلق رکھنے والے اک نوجوان ادیب ہیں ۔ پیشے کے حوالے سے معلم ہیں اور ہائر ایجوکیشن کمیشن میں اپنی خدمات انجام دے رہے ہیں۔ ان کا بنیادی مضمون انگریزی ہے تاہم اردو ادب میں خامہ فرسائی ان کا جنونی مشغلہ ہے۔ اس سے قبل بھی موصوف اردو ادب کے افق پر اطالوی لوک کہانیوں پر مشتمل '' کہانی آوارہ ہوتی ہے'' کی شکل میں کرنیں بکھیر چکے ہیں۔ موصوف کی اس کتاب نے جنگل میں آگ کی سی تیزی کی طرح اپنی مقبولیت کا لوہا منوایا ہے۔ یہ امر قابلِ ستائش ہے کہ اس کتاب پر سینکڑوں تنقیدی نگارشات بھی پیش کی گئیں۔
زیرِ تبصرہ ناول '' جہنم جاگتا رہتا ہے'' ایک انگریزی ناول '' نو لونگر ایٹ ایز'' کا ترجمہ ہے۔ یہ انگریزی ناول ایک معروف افریقی ناول نگار چنیوا اچنبے کا ہے جس کو پہلی بار 1960ء میں شائع کیا گیا۔
مترجم سلیم اختر ڈھیرا نے زیرِ نظر ناول '' جہنم جاگتا رہتا ہے'' کو عکس پبلی کیشنز لاہور سے پہلی بار دسمبر 2022ء میں شائع کروایا۔ یہ ناول غیر مجلد ہے۔ سبز رنگ کے دیدہ زیب ورق کے ساتھ سلور رنگ میں بحرفِ جلی '' جہنم جاگتا رہتا ہے'' کندا کیا گیا ہے۔ کتاب کے سرِ ورق پر کیلی گرافی میں اک نوجوان کی تصویر چسپاں ہے جو دونوں ہاتھوں سے سر پکڑ کر انتہائی فکر اور پریشانی میں مبتلا ہے۔ پہلی نظر میں یہ تصویر قاری کو حیرت اور تجسس کے دریا میں برد کردیتی ہے کہ آخر جہنم کے جاگنے کے ساتھ اس تصویر کا کیا تعلق ہے؟ مگر ناول مکمل پڑھنے کے بعد قاری نہ صرف یہ جاننے...
E come across unpleasant news regarding people from different walks of lives. Teachers Judges, Doctors, Police Officers and so on are allegedly reported for committing malpractices and corruption. This is not the problem in our country. It is a worldwide problem. It is evident that the education which is given is not upto the mark. Though Civic education or value education is being given across the country but it has not been proven that much effective which can make character and personality of an individual strong engouh to stops a person from committing the mentioned wrongs. On the other hand Islamic perspective of Civic education is more comprehensive and covers different angles and aspects of human personality and life. Islam aims to make an individual internally disciplined in the manner where he/ she does not do right things and acts just because he/she is under the eye of Camera but he/she does the right act because he/ she is supposed to do so.
This study examines the effectiveness of Basel Accord regulations on the banking sector of Pakistan. Pakistani banking sector has undergone a lot of changes and it has witnessed a remarkable growth from 1998 to 2015. Incidentally this is the time period when Pakistan started implementing Basel regulations. Since one objective of these Basel regulations was to reduce risk of the banks and enhance the efficiency of banks so the purpose of this study is to find the impact of Basel capital regulations on the risk taking and efficiency of Pakistani banks. The fact that banks are obligated to implement Basel also raises questions on how regulation affects efficiency and risk taking behavior of the banks, and how this effect has changed over time. By taking various proxies and using secondary data collected from balance sheet and income statements of banks listed in Pakistan Stock Exchange during 1998 to 2015 the present study empirically investigates the impact of bank capital regulation on bank risk and bank efficiency from beginning of Basel regulation in 1998 to 2015 in Pakistan. Moreover this study also quantifies the effect of different Basel accords on the banking sector of Pakistan. By employing the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), results of this study highlights that Basel capital regulations have reduced the bank risks taking, however the effect of capital regulation of Basel I and II on bank risk taken is not same. Though capital adequacy ratio for Basel I and II is same, however Basel II is more successful than Basel I in curbing the risk taking behavior of banks, thus highlighting the effectiveness of Basel II in reducing risks than Basel I. As far as the impact of capital regulation on the bank efficiency is concerned, it reduces the bank efficiency. However banks have seen their efficiency reduced more in Basel II, while Basel I impact on the cost efficiency of banks is negligible. Furthermore this study also analyzes the effect of other regulatory, firm specific and macroeconomic factors on the relationship between capital, risk and efficiency in the commercial banks of Pakistan. The findings of this study are beneficial for policy maker like State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and management of banks to assess the consequences of implementation of Basel regulations in terms of risk reduction and efficiency enhancement. The results of this study are significant as they facilitate (SBP) to assess whether banks in Pakistan are following Basel regulation in its true Letter and Spirit. The findings of this study are helpful to SBP in formulating and enforcing suitable policies and strategies regarding risk management and improvement of the efficiency of Pakistani banks for the betterment of the banking industry in particular and stability of financial system in general.