This study titled as ―Impact of Incongruous Jail Environment on the Juvenile Prisoners in Selected Jails of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan‖ was conducted with the aim of evaluating the impact of an incongruous jail environment on the multiple aspects of juveniles‘ lives who are undergoing incarceration on charges of different kinds of crime. The study was carried out by using mixed methods research approach with concurrent triangulation strategy. Quantitative data was collected through an interview schedule from 132 juvenile prisoners whereas qualitative data was collected from 50 participants through in-depth interviews (IDIs), including juvenile prisoners, jail staff, probation officers and legal counsels. Quantitative data was analyzed through frequencies and percentages under the uni-variate analysis and chi-square test was applied for the association of dependent and independent variables under bi variate analysis. Qualitative data was analyzed through transcribing the data and identification of themes for interpretation. The results of the quantitative and qualitative data were compared and discussed through the proper procedure of the concurrent triangulation strategy. The findings reveal that different elements of living conditions in the jails were not satisfactory. The association of these different elements was found significant with the well-being of juveniles i.e. the availability of clean drinking water and enough water for other cleaning purposes, unsatisfactory toilet facilities, low quality and lack of proper food and diseases caused by that food. Juveniles complained of unfair attitudes of jail staff who dealt with them in a cruel and humiliating manner. There were no exclusive facilities to house the juveniles like Borstal Institution. Rather than rehabilitative treatment, juveniles faced physical punishment like beating etc. They were fearful of jail staff; experienced unhealthy and unsanitary conditions due to overcrowded jail conditions. Many juveniles had no knowledge about their rights and often did not know they could access free legal assistance from government. They experienced unhealthy and abusive behavior at the hands of jail staff and police and had to bribe jail staff to ensure access to justice agents. Furthermore, juvenile cases were tried at the adult courts where they experienced treatment like adult prisoners, including public hearing of their cases, unsatisfactory trials, and mental suffering from lengthy and costly hearing of their suits. Juveniles complained of multiple problems in view of non-existence of privileges as stated in the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO) promulgated in 2000 in Pakistan. Juveniles endorsed that they established relations with adult prisoners and gangs at jail due to the absence of proper check and balance over the interaction of juveniles. This absence led to frankness of juveniles sharing of drugs with adult prisoners and gangs at jail; and physical and financial support to juveniles by these gangsters. Although agents of the justice system did not agree to the above mentioned situation, the jail staff contended as these were going against them. The study recommends promulgation of JJSO in letter and spirit.
کھیلوں کا کردار پر اثر نحمدہ ونصلی علی رسولہ الکریم امّا بعد فاعوذ بااللہ من الشیطن الرجیم بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم معزز اسا تذہ کرام اور میرے ہم مکتب شاہینو! آج مجھے جس موضوع پر لب کشائی کا موقع فراہم کیا گیا ہے وہ ہے:’’کھیلوں کا کردار پراثر ‘‘ معزز حاضر ین! جہاں تک کردار کا تعلق ہے یہ قوموں کی زندگی میں ریڑھ کی ہڈی کی حیثیت رکھتا ہے۔ تعلیمات اسلام اور عبادات دین کا اگربنظرِ غائرمطالعہ اور مشاہدہ کیا جائے تو جو چیز سامنے آتی ہے وہ اچھے کردار اور اخلاق کی تخلیق ہے۔ جملہ احکام الہیہ بھی ایک انسان میں اچھے کردار اور اخلاق کے متمنی ہیں۔ اورقرآن جس کا موضوع انسان ہے وہ بھی ایک اچھے انسان کا خواہش مند ہے۔ جو دین ودنیا میں ہرلحاظ سے کامیاب ہو۔بقول شاعر: بات کردار کی ہوتی ہے وگرنہ عارفؔ قد میں انسان سے سایہ بھی بڑا ہوتا ہے ذہین انسان ہی با کردار ہوتا ہے۔ ماہر نفسیات کہتے ہیں کہ ذہن جب باہر آتا ہے تو کردار بن جاتا ہے کردار جب اندر جاتا ہے تو ذہن بن جاتا ہے۔ صدرِذی وقار! یہ موضوع بہت طویل ہے میں صرف مذکورہ موضوع پر چند گزارشات پیش کرنا چاہتا ہوں۔ تاریخِ اقوام عالم پر نظر دوڑائیں تو کاروبار اور محنت و مشقت کے ساتھ ساتھ آپ کو ایسے لمحات بھی دکھائی دیں گے جن میں تفریح اور کھیل کودکے سوا کچھ نہیں ہوگا۔ کھیل کود کا تصور اسلام میں بھی موجود ہے کہ محسنِ کائنات حضرت محمدؐ نے بھی تیرا کی اور دوڑ کے مقابلوں میں حصہ لیا۔ کھیل اور تفر یحی پروگرام کردار پر بڑا اچھا اثر ڈالتے ہیں۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ دیگر ممالک کی طرح پاکستانی نظام تعلیم میں اور اوقات تعلیم و تدریس میں بھی باقاعدہ ڈرل کا پیریڈ ہوتا ہے۔...
The purpose of this study was focused on knowing the perceptions of tourists, both foreign tourists, about the craft of Karawo embroidery in Gorontalo Tourism Destinations. This research method using a quantitative approach itself is carried out using a questionnaire given to the public and tourists who visit the Karawo embroidery craft center. The sampling technique in this study used a non-probability or non-random sample selection technique. The results showed that the quantitative approach itself was carried out using a questionnaire given to the public and tourists who visited the Karawo embroidery craft center. The sampling technique in this study used a non-probability or non-random sample selection technique. The results of this study indicate that the Karawo embroidery craft has the potential to be developed as a tourist attraction in Gorontalo Province. Analysis of the attractiveness and perceptions of tourists who visit the Karawo embroidery craft center as well as the local community provide direction on the development of tourist attractions that are related to cultural aspects. The perception of foreign tourists in general gives a positive value to Karawo embroidery and argues that Karawo embroidery is unique from the manufacturing process and has its own characteristics with very beautiful motif designs.
The central theme of this research study is related with the role of idiosyncratic risk in commodity and stock returns of Pakistan being emerging markets of the world. In the framework of asset pricing, literature suggests that idiosyncratic risk is independent to the specific assets therefore it has no role in explaining the returns. However, modern portfolio theory suggests that in under diversified portfolio, idiosyncratic risk has the positive relationship with stock returns, while the negative association of idiosyncratic risk has also been reported by different scholars. To settle this conflict through Pakistani context, the current study investigates the role of idiosyncratic risk empirically in these two financial markets. Stock market is divided into two sectors i.e. financial sector including returns of financial companies and non-financial sector comprising data of non-financial companies. The daily and monthly data are taken from January 2005 to 2016 for analysis. For commodity market of Pakistan which is totally independent from stock market, separate daily data set is taken from 2011 to 2016. As the data is of quantitative in nature therefore various statistical tools are applied for this purpose. Cross sectional regression is used for testing the association between expected conditional idiosyncratic risk and returns. Conditional idiosyncratic risk is estimated through Egarch model for both markets. The empirical results showed that conditional idiosyncratic risk and return of non-financial, financial and commodity returns has significant positive relationship after controlling the different factors such as value, momentum and size etc. whereas the lag idiosyncratic risk has no relationship with returns of stocks and commodities. The empirical evidence confirms the findings of previous studies. In the end it is suggested that investors can develop profitable portfolio after considering the idiosyncratic risk.