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Islam is a complete religion which provides guidance not only for spiritual life but about material aspect of life also. There is a clear code of business ethics to be followed in trade. Unfortunately Islamic ethics are being ignored in our society. In this article, reasons of our current materialistic unethical point of view in trade and some suggestions to resolve the problem are being discussed

Perception of Stakeholders Regarding the Role of Sports in the Development of Life Skills

The success and development of any nation depend upon their health and skilled manpower and sports is considered as one of the contributing tool for the development and improvement of skilled manpower by developing necessary life skills among them. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation aimed to assess the perception of stakeholders regarding the role of sports in the development of important life skills such as punctuality, commitment, hard work and discipline. The population of this particular study comprised of the doctors, teachers and engineers working in public sectors at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the province of Pakistan. The cross-sectional quantitative research approach was adopted to obtain the desired information on the role of sports in the development of life skills. In this regard, a sample of n=125 (male=97 and female=28) was selected and participated in the study. Demographic attributes of the respondents like gender, first language spoken, locality, category (Profession), format of sports played, level of sports participation and experience of sports in years were taken into consideration. The data were collected through structured self-made questionnaire on a five point Likert type scales ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Purposive sampling technique was used to select a sample from the targeted area. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation as descriptive statistics while, regression, t-test, post Hock Tukey test and ANOVA as inferential statistics were applied through SPSS version-25 for analyses of the collected data. The analysed data revealed that the findings of the tested hypotheses indicated the positive role of sports in the development of various life skills like punctuality, commitment, hard work and discipline. However, a significant difference in perspective of the role played in the development of social skills was found and it was reported that the quality of hard work was perceived as more dominant among others life skills. No significant impact of respondent demographics founded on their perception with reference to the role of sports in the development of various life skills. At the end of the study, the researcher recommended that the concerned and relevant bodies may arrange and conduct the workshops, seminars and refresher courses in their respective departments/institutions to facilitate and encourage the people to participate in sports in obtaining desirable life skills.