Geography is the study of earth, environment and the people living on it and geographical position of a state determines its geopolitical and geostrategic significant role in international politics. Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), formally known as Northern Areas of Pakistan, is located at a place where three great mountain ranges (Empires); Karakorum, Himalayas and Hindukush, meet. Gilgit-Baltistan borders with Xinyang Autonomous Province of China, Indian held Kashmir and Ladakh region, Pakistan held Kashmir and KPK province, and ‘Wakhan’ of Afghanistan and this narrow belt separates Gilgit-Baltistan from Central Asian Republics (CARs). Gilgit-Baltistan is the home of mighty mountain ranges, numerous highest peaks including five ‘eight thousanders’ of the world, K-2, world second highest peak, 5100 glaciers, huge fresh water and natural resources, rivers, world second highest plateaus, coldest deserts, beautiful lakes, gorgeous valleys, enormous fauna and flora, rich cultures, attractive historical tourist points, ancient routes, and multi-ethic societies. Gilgit-Baltistan always remained an attractive point for foreign invaders, travelers, tourist, and missionaries due to its unique topography as well as its geopolitical position, hence this region is called ‘Heaven on Earth for tourist.’ Politically, this region stayed under the rules of the various Empires, kingdoms, Rajas, of the invaders from ancient China, Central Asia, India and other old civilizations. In the medieval history, Gilgit-Baltistan went under the rules of local dynasties. In 1840s Dogra of Jammu invaded in Gilgit-Baltistan and defeated the local rulers and sized power. In 1870s, during Great Game, Gilgit-Baltistan went under the consideration of British. To curtail the Russian’s expansion, British decided to establish Gilgit Agency in 1877 and reestablish in 1889. In March 1935 the control of Gilgit was given to British as a 60 year lease by Maharaja Hari Sing. In 1947, the political scenario had been changed in Sub-continent. Under the Indian VIII Independence Act 1947, the Subcontinent divided into two independent states; Pakistan and India while the 562 princely states (Native States) had been given choice to join either with Pakistan or India or remained autonomous. The Princely State of Kashmir remained outside from this partition but later through ‘the Instrument of Accession’ on 26, October 1947, Maharaja Hari Sing agreed to accede to India which was against the will of his people. From 1947 to present Kashmir has made the bone of contention between Pakistan and India. On 1st November 1947, the government of Dogra Raja toppled by Gilgit scouts and Azad force and set up a provisional government. On 16th November, 1947, Political agent of Pakistan took power of the region and imposed the Frontier Crimes Rules (FCR) in Gilgit-Baltistan. In April, 28 1949, the Karachi Agreement was signed by Pakistan and Azad Kashmir government’s representatives, in which Pakistan was granted as the interim administrator of GB. This agreement made Gilgit-Baltistan political puzzled in this region. On the other hand due to its equivocal constitutional status and geostrategic significance of Gilgit-Baltistan created interest conflict game among regional as well as international powers. During the Ancient Silk Routes, Gilgit-Baltistan was gateway for Chinese, Indian, Central Asian traders. Sino-India war 1962 and Sino-Pakistan Border agreement 1963 were the two most important developments that put a huge impact on this region. China and India are the world largest populated countries and both states have emerged as economic power in 21st century. China has world 2nd largest economy while India is world’s seventh largest economy by nominal GPD. In 2013, Pakistan and China has started a new economic corridor; China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is considered as a game changer for socio-economic facet of Pakistan and China and Gilgit-Baltistan serves as gateway for these developments.
مفتی سید محمد مہدی حسن شاہجہانپوری (محمد نعیم صدیقی ندوی) افسوس ہے کہ گزشتہ اپریل کی ۲۹؍ تاریخ کو علم و عمل اور فضل و کمال کی ایک اور شمعِ فروزاں گل ہوگئی، مولانا مفتی سید محمد مہدی حسن شاہجہانپوری نے ۹۶ سال کی عمر میں بعارضہ فالج داعی اجل کو لبیک کہا مرحوم اس عہد میں اگلی صحبتوں کی چند بقیۃ السلف یادگاروں میں سے تھے، وہ اتباع سنت، تبحر علم، وسعت نظر، طہارت و تقویٰ زہد و ورع اور کتاب و سنت کی تفسیر و تعبیر میں یگانہ عہد تھے، دارالعلوم دیوبند کی مسند درس و افتا ان کے فیضان کمال سے ایک عرصہ تک بارونق رہی ہے اور سیکڑوں تشنگان علم ان کے منبع فیض سے سیراب ہوئے، وہ بلاشہ معلومات کے دریا، حافظہ کے بادشاہ اور وسعت علم کی ایک نادر مثال تھے، ہر مجلس و محفل میں یکساں ان کی قدر و منزلت تھی، حدیث کے ساتھ فقہ کے جزئیات پر ان کی وسعت نظر مسلم خیال کی جاتی تھی۔ مفتی مہدی حسن مرحوم ۱۳۰۰ھ میں شاہجہاں پور کے ایک محلہ ملا خیل میں پیدا ہوئے، عربی و فارسی کی ابتدائی تعلیم اپنے والد سید کاظم حسن اور بڑے بھائی سے حاصل کی بارہ سال کی عمر میں حفظ قرآن کی دولت سے مالامال ہوگئے، پھر وطن ہی کے مدرسہ عین العلم میں شیخ عبدالحق (خلیفہ مجاز مولانا رشید احمد گنگوہی) اور مفتی کفایت اﷲ دہلوی جیسے اکابر اساتذہ فن سے صرف و نحو اور فقہ کی تحصیل کی، پھر جب مفتی کفایت اﷲ صاحب مدرسہ امینیہ دہلی چلے گئے تو مرحوم کے والد نے ان کو بھی وہیں بھیج دیا، جہاں انھوں نے ملک کے منتخب اصحاب کمال کے سامنے زانوے تلمذتہ کرکے فقہ، ادب، منطق، فلسفہ، اصول فقہ اور حدیث وغیرہ علوم میں دسترس اور کمال بہم پہنچایا، ۱۳۲۶ھ میں...
Valid interrogation of the accused is an art or skill in today’s modern world. The law and techniques of interrogation varies in the developed and developing world. Similarly, the Islamic law is not silent about the techniques of valid interrogation. There are specific rules and procedures for the interrogation of an accused either a criminal, an enemy, a spy or a war prisoner. This paper gives a detailed analysis about the principles and procedures of a valid interrogation process in Islam and its computability with the International Human Rights standards of interrogations. The paper argue that understanding the psychic-analytical niceties of interrogation helps an investigator to reach the truth. The paper finds that Islamic law gives full protection and safeguard to the rights of persons under custody and restrict the authorities to follow free and fair interrogation for ensuring justice. In this regard Islam presents a balanced view of the rights of the persons under custody and the executives exercise of legitimate force for interrogation. Islam strongly forbids torture and other inhuman ways of interrogation.
The usage of multimedia applications is growing and the requirements for higher quality content delivery are increasing rapidly in the mobile network environment. The mobile network environment is challenging for recent multimedia applications as compared to the wired network environment in various ways. The multimedia contents are delivered to mobile users over heterogeneous networks. Due to fluctuation in bandwidth and user mobility, the service providers are facing difficulties in providing Quality of Service and guaranteed content delivery for multimedia applications. The existing schemes use the single source and multi-source delivery but are unable to balance between stream quality and network congestion for mobile users. Recently, HTTP is used for video streaming that ensures persistent integration of video quality to current HTTP based servers. The HTTP server stores multiple quality levels to provide adaptive media streaming under varying network environment. We designed a Quality Oriented Multimedia Content Delivery Scheme for the mobile cloud to deliver better quality multimedia contents for the mobile user. A method is developed to measure smooth available bandwidth in varying network condition that is used for bitrate selection. An optimized rate adaptation algorithm is designed and implemented to select the best bitrate for the next video chunk.The multimedia contents are delivered to the mobile device on the basis of the device’s parameters and network environment. A rate adaptation algorithm is designed by using Lyapunov optimization for multisource multimedia content delivery to minimize the video rate switches and provide higher video quality. The mobile cloud based multi-source streaming is designed and implemented to enhance performance in an adaptive video streaming client. The performance is compared with existing streaming techniques to validate the multi-source streaming solution. It considers key factors such as video quality, bitrate level, and quality variations to enhance quality of experience over wireless networks. The objective video quality assessment models like Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity, and Video Quality Measurement are used to measure quality of the video. The client side Quality of Experience metric such as Startup delay, Rebuffering events, and Bitrate switch count are used for evaluation. The results show significant improvement over existing multimedia content delivery schemes.