This research study was conducted in order to explore the perceptions and practices of principals in managing government degree colleges in the context of Sindh, Pakistan. This study focused on exploring the perceptions and practices of the college principals and investigated the challenges they faced in managing their institutions as educational leaders. In their study, Spillane, Halverson, and Diamond (2001) state that "knowing what leaders do is one thing, but without a rich understanding of how and why they do it, our understanding of leadership is incomplete" (p.32). Within the qualitative study approach, the data for this research study was gathered through semi-structured interviews, focused group discussions and observations, so as to ensure the validity of the data. Furthermore, a thematic analysis approach was used to understand the data. Since this study is an effort to explore college principals' perceptions and practices in their settings; therefore, it is of inherent importance. This research endevours a status of uniqueness in its respective field because this subject has not been explored before in the context of college principal ship. The findings of the study has revealed that appointment and posting of principals play an important role in managing institutions. However, this feat is always a great challenge for them because of lack of professional development and unawareness about their leadership role. Most of them have a rich teaching background but minimum management and leadership exposure. The study identified that the principals perceived their leadership role as that of a care giver. They have the instinct to execute their role with responsibility; nevertheless, there are some challenges that act as hurdles in their way. Political influences seem to play an important role in managing these institutions. The study invites researchers to explore more about the different aspects of governance of degree colleges, as this dimension has been under researched so far.
مولوی محمد مسعود خاں افسوس ہے کہ ۳؍ جولائی ۲۰۰۲ء کو مشہور قومی کارکن مولوی محمد مسعود خاں ایک سڑک حادثے میں دہلی میں وفات پاگئے، وہ ایک دین دار گھرانے کے فرد تھے، ان کے بڑے بھائی مولانا محمد سعید خاں شبلی نیشنل اسکول میں ہڈ مولوی اور سلسلۂ نقشبندیہ مجددیہ کے شیخ طریقت تھے، جن کی ذات سے لوگوں کو بڑا فیض پہنچا، مسعود خاں صاحب نے شروع میں دینی تعلیم حاصل کی، پھر بی۔اے ایل ایل بی کر کے اعظم گڑھ کی کلکٹری کچہری میں وکالت شروع کی۔ قوم و ملت کی خدمت کی جانب ان کا طبعی میلان تھا، اس لیے وکالت کے ساتھ اپنے جدید وطن منگراواں کے مکتب کو عربی مدرسہ کی شکل دے دی، ہر سال گرمیوں میں اس کے جلسے کراتے جن میں جمعیۃ علمائے ہند کے جنرل سکریٹری مولانا محمد حفظ الرحمن سیوہارویؒ بھی تشریف لاتے تھے۔ جمعیۃ علما سے تعلق کے باوجود وہ کانگریس سے اس کے متعصبانہ اور مسلم دشمن رویے کی بنا پر سخت بیزار تھے، اس لیے مسلم مجلس میں شامل ہوگئے تھے، لیکن ڈاکٹر عبدالجلیل فریدی کے انتقال کے بعد اس کے حصے بخرے ہوگئے، تو انہوں نے چودہری چرن سنگھ کی پارٹی کا انتخاب کرلیا اور وفات تک اسی کے ساتھ تھے، اس وقت لوک دل (اجیت) کی ریاستی شاخ کے صدر تھے، ان میں بڑی تنظیمی صلاحیت تھی اور وہ ایک ایمان دار اور عملی آدمی تھے، اس کی وجہ سے پارٹی میں ان کا وزن تسلیم کیا جاتا تھا، اس کے ٹکٹ پر وہ کئی بار یو۔پی اسمبلی کے ممبر منتخب ہوئے، پھر راجیہ سبھا کے ممبر ہوئے، اس وقت بھی یو پی کونسل کے ممبر تھے۔ ۱۹۷۷ء میں مسٹر رام نریش یادو کی سربراہی میں اترپردیش میں جنتا پارٹی کی حکومت بنی تو مسعود خاں پی۔ڈبلو۔ڈی منسٹر ہوئے اور...
The Prophet (P.B.U.H), born in 571 A.D at Makkah, came to enlighten this world with divine guidance and to transform this world from the clutches of immoralities and sins to pinnacle of piety and ethics. He lived in this world for almost 63 years and brought revolutionary changes which no one even could think of. But this task was not easy, he suffered the most and sacrificed everything to raise and proclaim the words of Allah. He set an example for others to follow. This article is all about his life in Madinah with regard to his dealing with the arch enemies of Islam who were his own natives “The Makkans”. Prophet (P.B.U.H) settled in Madinah and established Islamic society so as to enable everyone to spend life in accordance with the divine guidance. Here, he signed treaty with the Jews created Muakhaat for Mohajirin and Ansars. On the other hand, Makkans could not stand this development. So, they imposed battles on Muslims and Muslims had no options except Jihad. The Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) fought many battles with Makkans. However, no innocent was executed during these incidences. This shows the dynamic teachings of Islam. This article gives brief events of these battles besides revelations which came to Prophet in the line of duty to motivate and guide Muslims. It took almost eight years for Prophet to excel Makkans.
Breast cancer (BC) is the highest cause of deaths in ladies around the globe. Woman are unaware in the remote and backward areas of under developed and developing states, that treatment of breast cancer is possible if it is found at an early stage. The casualties of BC can also be reduced, if demographic risk factors of female are evaluated a prior. Due to its nature of complexity, identifying breast irregularity through mammography and/or ultrasonography is a challenging job for radiologists. A more consistent and precise imaging based computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system assists in recognition of breast cancer at initial stage and play a noteworthy role in the classification of suspicious breast lesions. Ultrasonography of breast is acknowledged as the utmost significant support to mammography for patients with palpable masses and unsatisfying results of mammograms especially in case of young female. Therefore, a CAD system is required for breast ultrasound (BUS) images to distinguish malignant and benign cases. This dissertation has two main modules: the first one is CAD system and second one is the risk assessment of BC. In the proposed CAD framework, pre-processing is executed to remove the unwanted area and suppress the noise from the mammography and ultrasonography images. Then segmentation detects the lump in mammograms and BUS images using cascading of Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and region-growing technique called FCMRG method and marker-controlled watershed transformation respectively. Hyrbrid features extraction technique employing local binary patterns and gray level cooccurance matrix (LBP-GLCM) along with local phase quantization (LPQ) is used for mammography to extract significant information from segmented masses. Morphological features of ultrasound breast lesion are designed to extract various statistical parameters from contour and shape properties. These features are then used to differentiate benign masses from malignant one using support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT), K nearest neighbors (KNN), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and ensemble classifier. The goodness of the proposed CAD model is evaluated through performance measures on Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS), Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) and Open Access Series of Breast Ultrasonic Data (OASBUD) datasets. The proposed CAD system achieved remarkable accuracy (=98.2%) with hybrid features on MIAS dataset and (=96%) with morphological features on transverse scan of OASBUD dataset. The proposed CAD system can also be implemented for the patients residing in the rural and backward areas to diagnose the scanned images of mammography and ultrasonography and to detect breast anomalies in the nonavailability of expert radiologists and weak cellular coverage. In second module, demographic risk factors of female have been employed to evaluate the risk grade (that is low, moderate, high) in a specific lady under investigation. For this purpose, Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) with sub-clustering and FCM is used and achieved high accuracy on the patient data gathered through questionnaire. The outputs of the CAD system can also be used to merge with demographic risk factors of the patients to find the future prediction of possibly occurring breast cancer risk.