Problems and Challenges to English Language in Madaris of Pakistan

Language is a communication tool to impart education at every level that is why different languages are taught for this purpose. In Madaris of Pakistan, Arabic is commonly taught as it is the language of basic Islamic sources i.e. The Holy Quran and Hadith. This paper will basically try to understand the learning of English as a language is not given importance, although it is very essential nowadays but besides this, it faces many problems and challenges in religious Madaris of Pakistan. Many factors are involved in this situation. In modern world, English language specially can be very helpful to the purposes of these Madaris. Learning of English language will help to impart, propagate and defend the message of Islam on a larger and wider scale. One can use it for da’wah and calling others to Allah. But some elements of Madaris are not well informed about to this fact that they have not such a larger vision to understand and absorb the facts. On the other side, supporters of teaching English language in Madaris are unluckily blind to the positive, historic, reformative role of Madaris. This situation is creating misunderstandings and these bodies are seen opponents while they must be supporting to each other. This article reviews the challenges and the problem and challenges to English language in Madaris as well as how to bridge the chasm created between the two schools of thought.

Studying the Local Historical Narratives of Lahore: Partition, Cross-Migration, Regenration, 1947-1961

This dissertation attempts to contribute to the burgeoning scholarship on Partition of India. The study examines the locality of Lahore that how partition had interrupted and rearranged the internal frames in the city of Lahore. The study addresses questions such as how do violence and absolute abhorrence to the non-Muslims had accompanied the partition process in the city of Lahore. Followed by dismal affairs would be another phenomenal feature of post partition Lahore. How are they fraught with the localrefugees milieu in terms of influential actors in the locality of Lahore. Moreover, that particular transition had altered the economics of the industrial and financial situations in Lahore. In that particular backdrop, the main argument study the evolution of the lower middle class. It is obviously about the mob psychology, the dispersed crowd of Lahore had manifested during and after partition in Lahore. The sense of ownership of the city even after the departure of the non-Muslims shows the level of their socio-political desperation, which consequently assisted them to go for the filling up of that social space in multidimensional way. Those downtrodden class of Muslims of Lahore had capitalized that transition in order to acquire social space in the locality of Lahore. That resultant changes had come up with some parallel manifestations. Such as the emergence of the middle class in the next immediate period in the locality of Lahore. Many small-scale traders had a leap chance to move into large-scale industrialist within short time. That leap along with the perpetuation of the small-scale industrial worker-body was the major hallmark of the post partition complexion of Lahore. The ideological services of that class dispensed by the fresh rise of the Urdu print capitalism. Thus, the main thrust of our study is about the space acquiring in the city of Lahore by the local-refugee milieu. The reshaping due to that social space acquiring was not a sudden outcome owing to the transition; partition of India had brought out. Rather the much-rationalized reason behind that ultimate transformation imbibed in the long drawn out background of the communal and financial positioning in the city of Lahore throughout its colonial period.