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شہرِ طیبہ! تیری گلیوں کے نظاروں کو سلام
تیری گردِ راہ ‘ ذرّوں ‘ ریگزاروں کو سلام
اے مکینِ سبز گنبدؐ! تیری عظمت پر دُرُود
گنبدِ خضریٰ! ترے دلکش نظاروں کو سلام
دین کے ماتھے کا جھومر ہیں ابوبکرؓ و عمرؓ
چاند کے پہلو میں لیٹے دو ستاروں کو سلام
تیری گلیوں میں جو پھرتے ہیں گدا کے بھیس میں
اُن شہنشاہوں ، امیروں ، تاجداروں کو سلام
رشکِ ماہ و مہرِ تاباں ، نقشِ پائے مصطفیؐ
ہر قدم پر ملنے والے ماہ پاروں کو سلام
یہ جہانِ آب و گِل عرفاںؔ تھا صحرا کی طرح
آپؐ کے آنے سے آئی سب بہاروں کو سلام
Intelligence system is considered to be one of the important tools used by military and civil secret agencies to defend and strengthen a nation. Intelligence system is thought to be one of the oldest studies of known history. Intelligence system consists of correct and accurate information, gathered after great struggle and facing difficulties. This department is related to both peace and war. Intelligence is a basis of formulating all military strategies and plans. The importance of Intelligence system both in day to day life and as a nation cannot be overemphasized. This article narrates the history of espionage, which is as old as the history of mankind itself. Five thousand years ago, the Egyptians has a well-organized secret service. In the ancient western country, it was called as; hakim’, in Spain (Undles) as ‘Sahib al Madina’, in Tunis as ‘Ray’ and in Iran the as “Areef”. Nowadays it is known as ‘Muqadama-Tul-Haaraat’, Salaf-Us-Saliheen calls its “Shurtaa” and some calls it as ‘Sahib al-us-us’ as they use to move throughout the night to look for anti-state elements. The first ever victim of intelligence warfare was Hazrat Adam (A) where Satan revolt against him. Similarly, the incident of Hazrat Yousaf (A) is the indication of old age practice of espionage. Due to jealousy, his brothers sold him as slave and told their father that he has been eaten alive by a wolf. Hazrat Musa (A) had his network of espionage. Even birds had been used for spying, like in the case of Hazrat Suleman (A) where he was informed by the hopp bird about the Queen of Saba. The study of the Bible reveals that instead of Hazrat Eessa (A), Yehuda Skruti was crucified but still nobody knows for sure that whether he was a true follower of the Jesus or was an implanted agent of the Romans Intelligence Agency. Anyhow, Bible declared him as a Roman spy. The ongoing tribal wars in ancient Arabs further emphasized this activity. The rest of the world had already well developed intelligence system. But in Arab, it was in its development phase and it was the Holy Prophet (PBUH) who got it from his ancestors and developed it. In addition to the intelligence systems of the early prophets, the relevant events in the realm of Nijashi of Habsha and Alexander the Great, have been narrated in this article.
This doctoral dissertation comprises a qualitative work based empirical case study that is interpreted through and embedded in the academic discipline of sociology of organizations, and in it the institutional theory. I use the vast and rich literature from that theory to study an event quite unprecedented in the modern history of the Global South. The event being about how the judiciary in Pakistan shook off its historical subservience to the executive, confronted a military dictator (General Musharraf), and successfully mobilized a social movement (2007‐2009) for its own independence, and won with the dictator imprisoned and a democratic rule restored in the country. Interviews (average interview length being 2.2 hours) were conducted with about 80 key national actors coming from the military, judicial, legal, media, and civil society sectors of Pakistan together with assuming extensive coverage of secondary data to investigate the following unexplored questions in institutional theory: 1) What are the forms of institutional work involved in decoupling an institutional logic (e.g., the logic of independence of judiciary) whereby the symbolism and material practices of the logic no more remain aligned or consistent with one another?; and 2) What is the process through which decoupled institutional logics becomes successfully recoupled? A rigorous analysis of the primary and secondary data reveals the presence of distinct institutional work forms and associated activities for decoupling and recoupling of institutional logics. For instance, the various forms of institutional work through which decoupling of judicial independence logic was achieved in Pakistan included use of force and violence, misuse of formal authority, emotional exploitation, managing crime partnerships, and identity work ‐ each manifested through different activities. Likewise, institutional work forms involved in recoupling process of judicial independence logic, which came to eventually involve a full blown social movement in Pakistan, have also been delineated in my doctoral work.Moreover, an entire process is delineated that shows how a decoupled institutional logic becomes recoupled. All of these discoveries (i.e., the institutional work forms involved in decoupling an institutional logic and the recoupling process of a decoupled institutional logic) are claimed as the main contributions of this thesis. This is because they extend the existing conversations on institutional theory, particularly in its hitherto overlooked and hence under‐theorized area of institutional work forms relating to coupling dynamics in institutional logics. In doing so, this doctoral dissertation also sheds light on the relatively under‐researched areas of institutional coupling, how couplings reverse from tight‐to‐loose, or vice‐versa, and by extension how macro‐institutional environments and local activities are linked together (Binder 2007; Hallet, 2010).