عصر حاضر میں وحدت الادیان کا تصور اور اسلامی نکتہ نظر

Religion is the cradle of human civilization and will always be a core influence in determining the trends, outlooks and progression of our society, which inevitably confronts questions and issues with religious undertones. As the world becomes more multi-religious and multi-ethnic, however, there is a seemingly diminished respect for the diverse existence of faiths and ethnicities, and more concerns rise towards this new threat to peace, which can be seen in the form of religious hatred, persecution, and conflicts often involving physical violence. This rising hostility, which has become a prolonged, unstable social factor, in all manifestations is an obstacle to peace. According to the different religious scholars of the semitic and nonsemitic religions it is recommended that religion plays a vital role to save the humanity. For this purpose many scholars recommend a religious alliance and unity for the whole universe as we can prevent the violence against humanity. In this paper the different views of the scholars in favour of religious alliance while the stance of Islamic Sharia has been discussed in detail as well.

Research Teaching and Learning of Entrepreneurship: A Case of Business Schools and Entrepreneurs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

This study investigated research, teaching and learning of entrepreneurship of business school graduates in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Further, the study intended to investigate the entrepreneurial skills of business school graduates and inherited entrepreneurs. The targets of this study were; to investigate the role of research practices, faculty satisfaction from business schools’ curriculum and instructional practices in business education; to find out the entrepreneurial skills of business schools’ graduates and inherited entrepreneurs and to measure the relationship of research practices, instructional approaches and entrepreneurial skills of business education. Teaching faculty, business school graduates and inherited entrepreneurs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted the population of the study. A total 117 faculty members, nine business schools graduates and eight inherited entrepreneurs were included in the sample group. Data were collected from the sample group through three research instruments (questionnaire and two interview protocols). Based on the collected data the major finding of the study were that the respondents were agreed that research practices enhance the entrepreneurial skills of business school students, the faculty members were not satisfied from business schools’ curriculum, the faculty of business education mostly follow traditional instructional approaches, a significant relationship of business schools’ education was found with research practices and with entrepreneurial skills. Similarly, the skills of entrepreneurs who inherited entrepreneurship from their family are networking in market, opportunities identification and resilience which they learned from their successors. Based on the findings of the study recommendations were made for all the stakeholders.