Psychological capital with sub-concepts of hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism (HERO) measures the positive inspiration of human, intellectual procedures and work hard for achievements at the work. This consideration explores the influence of psychological capital towards white collar crimes done by the white collar employees, work related attitude and job outcomes. This study also comparatively analyses the views of workers working in the diverse companies about the psychological capital interventions towards white collar crimes and work related attitude/ job outcomes. Quantitative research technique was used in the study. Four public sector organizations of Pakistan was selected for primary data collection namely, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) located in the diverse location of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab and the capital city Islamabad, Pakistan. Total 319 questionnaires were distributed among the male and the female Top (Administrative), Middle (Executive) and Lower (Supervisory) levels of management working in PIA, OGDCL, PTCL and NBP and their views were taken regarding the role of psychological capital towards job related attitude/ outcomes and white collar crime.Findings of the research revealed that 1) psychological capital has significant positive effect on job related attitude i.e. (job satisfaction and job commitment, 2) psychological capital has significant positive effect on job related outcomes i.e. (job performance and favorable outcome), 3) psychological capital has significant negative effect on white collar crime i.e. (laundering, fraud, bribery, theft), 4) there was insignificant difference between the views of PIA and OGDCL staff members, 5) there was a significant difference between the views of PIA, PTCL, NBP, and PTCL staff members about psychological capital interventions on white collar crime and work related attitude/ outcome. The study suggests that the psychological capital is critically important in the contemporary corporate environment in order to ensure the strategies, programs and activities of management to mobilize and to achieve the overall missions and goals of the firm. All the vital facets of psychological capital significantly enhance the employee job related attitude/outcome whereas, psychological capital significantly decrease the propensity of crimes committed by white collar employees.
Anjuman Khuddām al-Qur’ān was established by Dr. Isrār Aḥmad in March 1972A. D. It was registered in November 1972A. D and Dr. Isrār Aḥmad was declared as lifetime president.[1]
The Memorandum of the Anjuman has the following contents:
Naḥmaduhū wa Nuṣallī ‘alā Rasūlehil karīm
Bismillāh al- Raḥmān al-Raḥīm
It is strongly felt that the dream of the renaissance of Islām and the second tenure for supremacy of righteous Dīn cannot be fulfilled without initiating a general movement to invoke faith in Muslim Ummah. To achieve this, it is mandatory that the source of faith and belief, i. e, the doctrine of intellect and wisdom by the Qur’ān should be publicized on a wide scale. Since we are in harmony with the thoughts of Dr. Isrār Aḥmad by overviewing his matchless task performed by him for the last four and half years, we, the few servants of The Divine Book hereby decide to set up “Central Anjuman Khuddām al-Qur’ān” which under the guidance of Dr. Isrār Aḥmad will keep striving the following objectives:
1. Learning and customization of the Arabic Language.
2. General persuasion and an invitation to study the Qur’ān.
3. Transmitting and publishing the Qur’ānic disciplines.
4. Adequate grooming and training of the youth who can make teaching and learning of the Qur’ān the life-mission, and
5. Setting up of aQur’ān Academy which may present across philosophy and wisdom of the Qur’ān at the highest academic level.
May Allāh enable us to achieve these objectives by putting in maximum effort and sacrifice! (Āmīn)
اردو اور ہندی کا لسانی اشتراک و افتراق Initially was only language used to express human ideas. In every age, along with customs and traditions, language also went through stages of evaluation. That is why language of each region is unique. This uniqueness of languages is of its identity. Like human beings, languages also have their own families, and different languages grow as sub- branches of language family. They flourish and sometimes thrive and come to life through process of evolution. When some languages die out. Urdu and Hindi also belong to large languages families. They have a deep relationship. And speaking of same relationship, some tinkers do not separate them from each other. When it sometimes thinkers, there is difference between in the two. At a glance, we will mention the linguistic similarities and difference between Urdu and Hindi. Where are places and where there is difference between them, but all of them are mentioned here.
The over use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture are degrading natural ecosystem and human health. The substantial association of health risk with pesticide residues and its adverse impact on environment has fetched attention of researchers across the globe. In this alarming scenario, pesticide free farming is deemed as panacea to environmental, human and animal health friendly production system. Pesticide free fruit are considered to be superior in quality as compared to fruit produced conventionally and helps in preventing several health and environmental hazards. Therefore, the demand for pesticide free fruit is increasing throughout the world. Given this increasing demand for pesticide free fruit, this study is designed to measure what price premium household would be willing to pay (WTP) for fruit free from pesticides such as apple, peach, and mango. This study also aims to identify factors influencing households‘ WTP decision of pesticide free fruit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. The primary data was gleaned from 1000 sampled respondents through face to face interview from two selected districts namely Peshawar and Mardan KP, Pakistan. To elicit household‘s WTP information, Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was employed. Contingent valuation is a survey based method used for eliciting willingness to pay of the households‘ for environmental and natural resources. Different elicitation techniques are used to design CV question scenario, such as payment card question, double dichotomous choice question and open ended question. Consequently, this study used the entire three payment format to elicit household‘s WTP for pesticide free fruit. The ordered logit model was employed to appraise the payment card method. However, linear regression model was adopted to identify factors influencing household‘s willingness to pay for pesticides free fruit. Nevertheless, the double bounded dichotomous choice model was performed to measure dichotomous choice questions. The major results demonstrate that 93.5 percent households were willing to pay higher prices for fruit pesticides free in the study area. Estimates remarkably reveal that around 35 percent households were willing to pay 16 to 20 percent higher prices and 24 percent households were willing to pay 6 to 10 percent higher prices for pesticides free fruit than the prevailing prices of conventional produce. It is reported by 61 percent of the households that local farmers use irrational pesticides on fruit. Major findings have also corroborated that 88.1 percent sampled household have perceived health concerns over pesticides residues in food. Similarly, 91.1 percent of the households have supported the idea that farmer should be engaged in environmental benign agricultural production practices which have a minimum adverse impact on health and the environment. Socio economic and demographic traits have confirmed positive significant effects on household‘s willingness to pay. The results of household‘s head awareness on WTP are according to the prior expectations that awareness of household‘s head has significant contribution in willingness to pay for pesticides free fruit. While household‘s size has a significant but inverse effect on willingness to pay for pesticides free fruit. Furthermore, household‘s perception regarding health and environment concern has a propensity to positively influence the willingness to pay for pesticides free fruit. It is also depicted by the results that mean WTP by using double dichotomous, payment card and open ended elicitation format validates consumer demand for pesticide free fruit in the study area. Three separate mean WTP were computed for each double dichotomous choice, payment card and open ended format which were figured as Rs.25.76, 16.32 and 14.37 respectively. These results reveal market potential for pesticides free fruit in the study area. This research study is expected to contribute in the three different aspects. Firstly, this study has figured out the potential for pesticides free markets in Pakistan. This study has also abridged the research gap regarding consumer‘s preferences and willingness to pay for pesticides free fruit which can be generalized and replicated to other areas. In addition, results have provided insight to fruit producers helping them to strategize production system decisions. Based on the findings from this research, government, nongovernment organization and other stakeholders should formulate policies and would promote and encourage the production of pesticides free fruit in Pakistan.