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Each country with a stock exchange normally calculates various indexes. So is the casefor Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Stock exchange (KLSE). FTSE BURSA Malaysia EMASSharia price index (FTBMEMA) is one of its Sharia indexes. In an effort to find whichother indices may forecast this Sharia index, we selected 23 relevant indexes and twoexchange rates. Momentum indicators for short, medium and long term have beencalculated for the variables. The objective of this study is to find predictive indicatorsfor FTBMEMA out of the population of 188 original and derived variables. Difficultyarises in reducing the number of variables for regression or other predictive modelslike neural networks. In this preliminary study, data mining attribute selectionalgorithms along with cross validation criteria have been used, through the use of Javaclass library Weka (JCLW), for reducing the number to statistically relevant variablesfor our regression estimation in an effort to forecast various performance parametersfor FTBMEMA like performing either in a mean performance range, having jackpotsand bingos or falling into danger zones. Provided the extent of the required predictiveaccuracy, the results may bring additional insights for diversifying and hedgingvarious types of investment portfolios as well as for maximizing returns by portfoliomanagers.

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By applying purposive and convenience sampling techniques the researchers interrogate the reasons of housemaids' migration from their native villages in Northwest Pakistan and their perceived Status within the household. The study finds that due to low wages in their home town, debt bondage, social discrimination based on caste and lack of personal security in the agrarian society, the whole family migrated to cities to improve their living and worked as unskilled labor in urban areas. The study concludes that although women work harder than men once they migrate however, they don't have much control on financial and social decisions and their lives are not any better. Internal migration does help to improve the family's economic and social status but it is not an empowering intervention for the women migrants. Nonetheless, it provides them the possibilities to bring about change in life.