ڈاکٹر ابرار حسین
قارئین برہان کویہ خبر نہایت افسوس کے ساتھ سنائی جارہی ہے کہ پچھلے مہینے جولائی کی بارہ تاریخ کودوپہر کے قریب برہان کے مدیراعلیٰ برادر عزیز مولانا سعید احمد کے والد ماجد جناب ڈاکٹر ابرار حسین صاحب قبلہ مراد آباد میں رحلت فرماگئے۔انا ﷲ وانالیہ راجعون۔
مرحوم نہ صرف یہ کہ ایک کامیاب اورنامور ڈاکٹر تھے بلکہ بہت سے غیر معمولی اوصاف کی وجہ سے اکابر کی یادگار سمجھے جاتے تھے۔ مولانا سعید احمد کے تعلق سے وہ مجھے بھی اپنی اولاد کی طرح جانتے تھے اوراس تقریب سے مجھے بہت قریب سے ان کی زندگی کوپڑھنے کوموقع ملا، اوّل درجے کے متبع شریعت، راسخ العقیدہ ، فرائض وواجبات ہی کے نہیں مستحبات وآداب تک کے پابند،بڑے فرض شناس اورعاشق رسول۔انقلاب ۴۷ء اوردہلی چھوڑ دینے کے بعد بھی تین چار دفعہ یہاں تشریف لائے،پیرانہ سالی اورانتہائی نقاہت کے باوجود اسی پہلی سی آن بان کے ساتھ پابند اوقات،ان کی خدمت میں بیٹھ کر ایسا محسوس ہوتاتھا کہ اباجی ؒکے پاس بیٹھا ہوا ہوں اُسی انداز کی محبت، اُسی طرح کی بزرگانہ شفقتیں، ان کودیکھ کر قلب میں عجیب طرح کاسکون محسوس ہوتاتھا،ہرضروری بات میں مجھ سے مشورہ لیتے اور اس کوغیر معمولی اہمیت دیتے تھے۔مرحوم کی زندہ جاوید یادگار خود ان کے اکلوتے صاحبزادے مولانا سعید احمد ہیں۔اﷲ تعالیٰ ان کے فیوض کو تا دیر قائم رکھے اور ایسی لائق وفائق اولاد ہرمسلمان کونصیب ہو۔
میں نے جناب ڈاکٹر صاحب قبلہ مرحوم کے ضروری حالاتِ زندگی معلوم کرنے کے لیے برادر عزیز کوخط لکھا،جواب میں ان کی جوتحریر آئی ہے اس کے اقتباسات یہاں درج کیے جاتے ہیں۔رحمہ اﷲ رحمۃ واسعۃ۔
’’ابا کی پیدائش بچھرایوں میں ہوئی، والد کا نام حکیم غلام نیاز تھا جو مرادآباد ضلع کے مشہور طبیب تھے۔ مڈل پاس کرکے نواب حسن پور کے ہاں اتالیق ہوگئے۔ مگر کچھ دنوں...
The increasing population is a growing issue in densely populated cities, which leads to an increase in transportation services. In this paper travel time delay due to stationary bottleneck was observed throughout the week in one of the densely populated cities of Pakistan i.e. Peshawar. Videogrammetry was implemented to obtain the recorded frames through the various days of the week. The recorded frames were then statistically analyzed to identify the travel delays in Board Bazaar Peshawar at a stationary bottleneck using SPSS and Statgraphics Software. The statistical analysis revealed a direct proportionality between traffic density and travel time, whereas an inverse proportionality was identified between traffic speed and traffic density. A high traffic density was observed on working days, whereas on the non-working days a reduced traffic density was observed. This study recommends a predictive target lane vehicular guidance system for a smooth traffic flow.
Community participation with broader institutional support plays a critical role in making development effective, efficient and sustainable. It offers more powers and control over decisions and resources and helps in making development more inclusive. In Pakistan, history of participatory approaches in government led development has not been encouraging and overall development has been driven by centralized conventional approaches. The Local Government Ordinance, 2001 (LGO, 2001) offers an institutional framework in the form of Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) for promoting participatory development through active involvement of the communities. It necessitates conducting research to determine the performance of CCBs in achieving their objectives and to identify the shortcomings, if any, in the system that governs their functions. The research aims to evaluate the performance of institutionalized CCBs in promoting participatory development in Pakistan. The research adopted a pragmatic blend of qualitative and quantitative methods which include review of the literature to establish an evaluation frame suiting the country context by taking Multan Region as a case study. The analysis is primarily based upon the prevailing practices of selected CCBs and their projects covering different sectors, in-depth interviews conducted with the stakeholders and the survey of the project beneficiaries. In general, the study has revealed many discrepancies in the functioning of CCBs. The existing practices are devoid of understanding about the spirit and rationale behind participatory development approach. The cases studied revealed that different actors were using CCBs platform for their vested interests which is clearly borne out from the nature of projects and implementation mechanism. This tended to adversely affect the concept of participatory development in the region. Never-the-less a limited number of cases where community participation was ensured had successfully achieved the development goals. This in turn created precedent of healthy and positive impact and best practices accrued to participatory development in the region. The factors hindering the performance of CCBs identified by the study include lack of awareness, limited access to authorities, threat from and dominance of elite class, lack of enthusiasm and capacity among local government officials, political differences, difficulties in collection of funds, lack of capacity of CCBs, lack of transparency, weak monitoring system and inefficient role of support organizations in improving CCBs performance. The study further revealed that technical projects could not be implemented without adequate support of experts. This factor paved way for the inclusion of contractors in the projects designing and implementation who ultimately hijacked the projects pushing aside the CCBs and dragging the system into the conventional approaches. The empirical evidence clearly demonstrated that participatory development though looked good, in practice suffered because of vested interests. On the whole, research concluded that the institutionalized participatory development through CCBs could not flourish in Pakistan. Nevertheless, the study collected evidence that participatory development approach has lot of potential under the Local Governments System provided the impediments including the elements undermining this concept are removed. The study’s recommendations, inter alia, include establishment of a broad-based institutional framework and procedure for accomplishment of CCBs’ activities.