مولانا عبدالسمیع
گزشتہ ماہ کاالم ناک سانحہ دارالعلوم دیوبند کے قدیم تر استاذ حضرت مولانا عبدالسمیع صاحب ؒ کی وفات ہے۔مولانا مرحوم کئی ماہ سے علالت کے امتداد واشتداد کی تکلیفیں اٹھا رہے تھے، بالآخر ۱۰/صفر المظفرکو ہمیشہ کے لیے اس جہان فانی سے رخصت ہوگئے۔
مرحوم حضرت مولانا میاں سید اصغر حسین صاحبؒ کے مخصوص ہم سبقوں میں تھے اوربزرگوں کی خوبیوں اورخصوصیتوں کے جامع، بڑے با وضع، بڑے سادہ مزاج اوردارالعلوم کے اساتذہ میں بعض اوصاف کے لحاظ سے بے عدیل و بے مثیل۔ پیرانہ سالی اورغیر معمولی نقاہت کے باوجود جب درس دیتے تھے تو معلوم ہوتا تھا کوئی تازہ دم اور بلندآواز مدرس پورے شوق و انہماک کے ساتھ طلبہ سے مصروف تخاطب ہے۔ مولانا کا طرزتعلیم عام فہم بھی تھا اوردل پذیر بھی، پڑھاتے پڑھاتے بہت سی کتابوں کے حافظ ہوگئے تھے۔اُن کے تلامذہ میں آج بڑے بڑے مدرس بھی ہیں اورباکمال مصنف اورانشاء پرداز بھی۔ ندوۃ المصنفین کے تقریباً تمام بڑے بڑے رفقاء کوآپ سے شرف تلمذ حاصل ہے۔اﷲ تعالیٰ مرحوم کے مراتب بلند فرمائے۔ہمیں اس حادثۂ عظیم میں مولانا مرحوم کے اکلوتے صاحبزادے مولوی عبدالاحد صاحب مدرس دارالعلوم دیوبند سے دلی ہمدردری ہے اورہم اُن کے شریک غم ہیں۔ امید ہے مولوی صاحب موصوف اپنے والد کے صحیح قائم مقام ثابت ہوں گے۔ [فروری ۱۹۴۷ء]
Developmental projects are essential ingredients of prosperity and well-being. Every nation has to ensure that her people are living in a perfect and safe sociopolitical environment. However, it varies from region to region and place to place. UK as a country is a big economy which is capable of giving its people the type of security they need. For this purpose, various types of strategies have been emphasized which enable the government to look for the benefit of its people. Open data system is one of these important developments which have been initiated by the UK government to provide huge access to databases. It improves their learning and knowledge, and gives the opportunity to think ‘out of box’. It also enables people to polish their learning skills and take things out of their resources and utilize them fully. Although, there is some compulsion on the use of private data sources, yet it is necessary to know that not all data are confidential. The research looks into the pros and cons of using open data systems and to assess its impacts on the social and political development in UK. The use of open data system is not only beneficial for the people to perform their daily life tasks, it is important to evade corruption and foster great accountability of national institutions. So, there remains feeble chance of witnessing corruption in the society that could cause chaos in the nation. The use of open data systems is important for boosting up innovation and creativity for a developing country like Pakistan. Open data system has been seen playing a big part in establishing a trend of innovative growth pushed by the availability of these resources. The influence and impact of ‘Open Data’ has largely been observed during the recent Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) where the government has utilized the data to tackle the disease in Pakistan.
Reading plays an important role in the learning process. It involves both decoding and comprehension skills. Reading plays a vital role in the acquisition of knowledge, which leads to independent learning. But if the child faces problems in learning to read, then these reading difficulties do compound the other language learning problems, like writing, spelling, pronunciation, comprehension, etc. which affects the child's progress in school. These reading difficulties block access to a wide range of information acquisition. Therefore the teachers need to be aware of children's reading difficulties and be able to implement remedial strategies to address these problems. This research study was conducted to identify reading difficulties in English of children at the primary level in the multi-lingual context of Pakistan, where English is a second, third or a foreign language for most of the children. The purpose of the study was to identify children's reading difficulties and to explore the facilities available for dealing with the same. The study was divided into two phases. Phase I was basically a needs analysis done in a private primary school to identify the children's reading difficulties by using standardized assessment tools. The language teachers were also interviewed and their reading lessons observed to find out their awareness level for catering to children's reading difficulties. Phase II was an exploration of the facilities available for dealing with children's reading difficulties in remedial centers and selected schools. Trained reading teachers were interviewed and their remedial sessions were observed in the remedial centers and the schools working in association with these centers, to recommend possible ways of helping teachers in dealing with reading difficulties of children in a multi-lingual school context. The study revealed that children do have reading difficulties. The test analysis revealed errors of omissions, substitutions, reversals, deletions, repetitions, etc. It was found that these problems are mostly related to children's lack of language exposure, inappropriate teaching of reading, lack of reading culture, multi-lingual context, etc. The teachers in the sample school were found to be unaware of children's specific reading difficulties and therefore were not able to remediate the same. In contrast, trained reading teachers in a few remedial centers and schools are providing remedial training to children by using phonic and multi-sensory approaches to remediate the children's reading difficulties. However, these facilities are very expensive. Therefore only the elite class can afford to access their services Thus this research study