The advent of social media has opened a multitude of horizons for political actors and their audiences. Social media tools, such as Twitter and Facebook, are considered to be extremely effective means of propagating self-promotion, thereby enabling the political actors to timely inform the audiences about their political activities and views. Most political actors actively use social media to develop their public relations and project and promote their political ideology and preferences. The purpose of this study was to understand the behaviour of political actors of Pakistan in terms of their usage of social media tools like Facebook and Twitter. The theoretical framework of this study was knit around strategic political communication and political public relations. In addition to this reputation management framework and relationship cultivation framework were also incorporated to explore the strategic communication of political actors. For this purpose, the survey was conducted among the political actors who were the members of provincial assemblies (MPAs) and National assembly (MNAs) in the last democratic regime i.e. 2013-2018. The total number of the respondents of survey was 247 out of which 207 were MPAs and 40 were MNAs. The purpose of the survey was to gather information about the purpose of using Facebook and Twitter and the quality of relationship they were cultivating with the audiences. Three different variables of quality: trust, satisfaction and responsiveness were selected from the work of Hon and Gruing (1999) and applied to this study. The content analysis of Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of 34 MNAs was also conducted to evaluate the purpose of using Facebook and Twitter, image building and language used in posts. In addition to this, results of survey of MNAs and content analysis were also compared to see if there was any consistency between the perceived purposes stated by the political actors in the survey vis-à-vis the actual purposes depicted xvii in their shared content. The variable of credibility from the work of Kiousis, Mitrook, Wu & Seltzer (2006) was also studied to explore the reputation management strategy of the political actors. Based on the findings, it was concluded that most of the political actors were using Facebook and Twitter to propagate their own political agendas. They were also sharing personal content to cultivate their relationship with the masses and manage their reputation. Nonetheless, in this process they might be ignoring the quality and strength of the relationships. In terms of audience engagement, it was found that the political actors were generating different audience engagement on Facebook and Twitter with reference to purpose, language, nature and image building. It can also be inferred that the political actors were enjoying more credibility on Facebook as compared to Twitter as they were facing discouraging and abusive comments more on Twitter.
آہ ! مولانا حکیم محمد مختار اصلاحی مولانا حکیم محمد مختار اصلاحی کا انتقال ۱۱؍ جون کو ہوا مگر کچھ پتا نہیں چلا، ممبئی کے اخبار یہاں نہیں آتے، وہاں سے آنے والوں نے بھی اس کا کوئی تذکرہ نہیں کیا، ان کے عزیزوں اور صاحبزادوں کو اتنے جاں کاہ حادثے میں ان کے اس دور افتادہ قدرداں اور نیازمند کا خیال نہیں آیا، جولائی کا ترجمان اصلاحی ۱۱؍ جولائی کو آگیا تھا مگر اسی روز میری چھوٹی بہن نسیمہ اﷲ کو پیاری ہوگئی تھی، کئی روز بعد گھر سے آنے پر اسے کھولا تو سرورق پر حکیم صاحب کی تصویر کے نیچے یہ مصرعہ درج تھا: آسماں تیری لحد پر شبنم افشانی کرے دل کا عجیب حال ہوگیا، بہن کا غم تازہ ہی تھا کہ اب اس مسیحا نفس کی بات بھی گئی۔ موت برحق ہے، کسی کو اس سے مفر نہیں، حکیم صاحب تو عمر طبعی کو پہنچ گئے تھے مگر ان کے جیسے کرم فرما اور اپنے سے اس قدر ٹوٹ کر ملنے اور چاہنے والے کا صدمہ ناقابل برداشت تھا، ان کی یاد بھلائے نہیں بھولتی آئی جو یاد ان کی تو آتی چلی گئی ہر نقش ما سوا دل سے مٹاتی چلی گئی وہ ضلع جون پور کے مشہور مردم خیز قصبہ صبر حد میں ۱۵؍ جون ۱۹۱۵ء کو ایک متوسط زمیں دار گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے، ان کے والد ممبئی میں رہتے تھے، اردو اور فارسی کی تعلیم دادا کے زیر نگرانی گھر پر ہوئی، اعلاتعلیم مدرستہ الاصلاح سرائے میر میں حاصل کی، جہاں مولانا شبلی متکلم ندوی اور مولانا امین احسن اصلاحی وغیرہ سے درس لیا، جماعت اسلامی ہند کے سابق امیر مولانا ابواللیث اصلاحی ندوی ان کے ہم سبق تھے۔ مدرستہ الاصلاح سے فراغت کے بعد علی گڑھ کے طبیہ کالج میں داخلہ لیا اور ۱۹۳۹ء...
Although several studies have investigated the contribution of Muslim women about their lives and works in large corpus of the ḥadīth sciences until now, but much are needed to be explored. Doubtlessly 'Amrah bint 'Abd al-Raḥmān had contributed to the large corpus of the ḥadīth sciences and also the core of Islamic knowledge parallel to her male counterparts. By highlighting her efforts for learning and her struggle for transmission of fundamental text, reveals how a female successor acquired exemplary reputations in her era. Particularly, her rich insight, deep knowledge in ḥadīth sciences and exemplary piety attracted students and placed parallel to her male counterparts in Islamic knowledge of her time. In sum, this study not merely sheds light upon the prolific contribution of an eminent female successor 'Amrah bint 'Abd al-Raḥmān in ḥadīth narrations, but argues that these scholarly females should be given more credit for being interacting educators and not just transmitters. Doubtlewssly, the study would be helpful to revise our understandings of Islamic knowledge during early period of Islam regarding gendered dynamics and their great contribution to dissemination and transmission of classical text and Islamic knowledge.
Experimental design, used to study the effect of some factors on a process, have wide application in modern scientific research. Main purpose of this research project is the study and construction of complete diallel cross (CDC) design and partial diallel cross (PDC)design by method of cyclic shifts. Diallel cross designs for block designs were developed by different authors. Schmidt (1919) first introduced “the Diallel Cross Design”. Following the main structure of diallel cross deigns, a new designs for different classes of designs are constructed by method of cyclic shifts. This technique is useful to establish several series construction plans. Optimality and efficiency of different classes of designs are also obtained in this project. Uddin and Morgan (1990) derive a general construction technique for specific classes of balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows, which impose more restriction on parameters. A general balanced incomplete block designs with nested rows and columns construction technique is derived by Shaffer and Srivastav(2009). The universal optimality of all designs arising from the construction techniques is also obtained. In this thesis, we are followed the proposed model (for unblocked situation) of Ghosh and Das (2003), we have constructed CDC and PDC design using a new method called cyclic shifts. The significant aspect of method of cyclic shifts is that the properties of a design can be obtained from the off-diagonal elements of the concurrence matrix without constructing the actual blocks of the design. The newly proposed designs possess the property of A-optimality for some specific values of v, b and block size.