کبھی نگاہوں کی چلمنوں سے نہ راز کہنا، فضا سے کہنا
غمِ جہاں کو تو زندگی بھر پڑے گا سہنا، فضا سے کہنا
رفاقتوں کا ہے دعویٰ تم کو تو اپنے دعوے کی لاج رکھنا
زماں، مکاں کی حدوں سے آگے بھی ساتھ رہنا، فضا سے کہنا
قدم قدم پر ہے خطرۂ جاں، وہ عزم اپنا بلند رکھے
یہ عشق دریا ہے اس کی فطرت ہے الٹا بہنا، فضا سے کہنا
وہ شوخ آنکھیں غزال جن پہ ہیں صدقے واری، مَیں کیوں نہ واروں
یہ چاند، بادل، دھنک، بہاریں، یہ حسن گہنا، فضا سے کہنا
گلوں نے کلیوں نے کترے دامن، قزح بھی آنکھیں چھپا رہی ہے
یہ نازکی کا لباس تم نے غضب ہے پہنا، فضا سے کہنا
Assessment and the learning process become two intertwined concepts that are impossible to separate. When compared to the other three abilities, reading skills are the most important in English learning. In order to meet the demands of modern teaching development, information and communication technology is required for English language instruction and assessment. The purpose of this study is to examine the requirements of both learners and pursuers in terms of the use of information and communication technology in reading instruction assessment (Reading Assessment). This current study used two data collection technique, namely questionnaires and interviews analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Respondents in this study were selected by purposive sampling involving 70 students and 5 teachers in vocational schools. The results of this study found that (1) The students’ goal and necessities differ, (2) The students are at beginner level at reading skill and have reading word and sentences fluently and correctly, (3) They want familiar contents based on their life, environment and major, (4) The need of information and communication technology both for learning and assessing and (5) Through the product, the English learners would be learning, collaborative and independent. The researcher advised for further researcher to conduct the development the information and communication technology for teaching and assessing English learners in vocational schools.
A lot is written about third party logistics, its evolution and rapid growth especially in western world and few of the Asian countries. Most of the research done on third party logistics is from customers’ perspective regarding their needs, reasons and motives to outsource logistics services and the standard of service what customers are looking for or what they are getting. The flip side of it, is the perspective of logistics service providers which is, mostly confined to national and international surveys and demographic statistics. About a decade back, World Bank started calculating Logistics Performance Index and ranking all internationally trading countries on the basis of their logistics infrastructure and performance. In Pakistan this industry was completely ignored and was rather unknown to academic researchers until the China Pakistan Economic Corridor came into lime light. Even then, it cannot be said that this industry got due attention from academic researchers or even from government regulatory authorities to properly regulate this industry. It is only in the last decade that researchers in Pakistan turned their attention towards this industry to evaluate its capacity, span of services provided, quality of service and the performance of third party logistics service providers. This research is unique in nature, as never before the service competencies of logistics industry in Pakistan were evaluated using internationally recognized quality standards and competency measures. To study the impact of quality management practices on service competencies of third party logistics service providers in Pakistan, this research picked the two most renowned and internationally recognized models: The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality (MBNQ) model for assessing quality management practices and Michigan State University Global Logistics Research Team (MSUGLRT) model for service competencies. The impact of six quality management factors of MBNQA named 1- Leadership, 2- Strategic Planning, 3- Customer Focus, 4- Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management, 5- Human Resource Focus and 6- Process Management was studied on the four service competency identified by MSUGLRT named 1- Positioning, 2- Integration, 3- Agility and 4-Measurement. The data on various items for these latent constructs was collected from more than 200 firms and all necessary analyses using AMOS and SPSS packages were done to find out the direction and extent of the impact of quality factors on service competency. Also the effect of Social Capital and Company Strength as moderating variable was observed. The results clearly identified the Strategic Planning and HR Management Focus as the factors highly impacting service competencies of third party logistics service providers in Pakistan. Interestingly, but surprisingly, the role of Leadership and Knowledge Management was minimal. Especially the negative impact of Leadership indicates the area of immediate further attention. The moderating variable also had very significant relation with service competencies but they were unable to significantly affect the individual impact of other quality factors. This study highlights the areas where logistics firms in their individual capacity, the logistics industry as a whole and concerned government bodies must immediately concentrate to be able to extract expected benefits from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor.