Labour Administration

By Prof. Dr. Abu Zar Wajidi and

S. Ghayoorul Hassan

Published by: Faisal Bin Bashir

National Institute of Labour Administration Training

Labour and Manpower Division

Main University Road, Opp Safari Park,

Gulshan-e Iqbal, Karachi.

Price: Rs 300.00 Pp: 353

Industrial development is considered as the key to progress of a country. In the development of a country two resources play a vital role i.e. human resources and natural resources. Pakistan has these two resources in abundance. Inspite of these resources, Pakistan is considered an underdeveloped country. The reason of this that our human resources are inactive I mean to say that they are untrained and uneducated. They are illiterate and have no technical knowledge to use their natural resources.

This is the third book of the series and I have fulfilled the demands of 24-Week post graduate diploma courses participants that a book may be written in English as per requirement of the PGD course. This book consists of ten chapters. First Chapter reveals the hierarchy of labour administration prevailing in the country. Second chapter discuss the five labour policies of Pakistan. Third chapter is about the labour legislation. The fourth chapter is about industrial relations he history, scope and importance of these relations are given. Fifth Chapter focuses on "trade unions struggle in Pakistan. In Sixth Chapter health and safety measures are discussed with reference to the Factories Act, 1934, and the Environmental Act, of 1997. The seventh chapter is reserved for social research, where it is explained that "what is research" and how a research is conducted. The eighth chapter is about ILO, where it discusses what ILO is, its role, and how it works. The ninth chapter discusses ISO-9000-2001, ISO-14001 and SA-8000. And lastly the tenth chapter is about globalization and WTO and its agreement.

The purpose of writing this book is to facilitate the participants of 24-Week PGDP and provide them a text book according to seven subjects offered in the 24-Week PGD in which every important topic and subject has been incorporated so that they may not feel any difficult about the PGD course in connection with the material on PGD.

Conflict Management Mechanism and the Challenge of Peace

Edited by Moonis Ahmar

Programme on peace studies and conflict resolution

Published by: Department of International relations University of Karachi

In collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad

Price: Rs 300.00 Pp: 174

The numbers of on going conflicts around the world are uncountable. In Palestine, the intractable conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis which has been going on for more than 50 years is still going on and there seems to be no end in sight. The wards in Afghanistan and Iraq which began in this century might prove to be new protracted conflicts. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, violent conflict has claimed approximately two million lives. In Sierra Leone, the conflict was mutated by intentions of gaining control of the diamond trade. In Sri Lanka, a country which has witnessed 25 years of violent conflict, violence intensified when the government pulled out of the Ceasefire Agreement at the beginning of 2008.