About This Issue
July to December, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2017.
Articles
Research Article # 1
Muhammad Muzaffar, Imran Khan, Sidra Karamat
Pakistan was achieved in the name of Islam. Much of its politics has revolved around the status of the Islam and notion of making it a political reality. This study explores the Politics made in the name of Islamic Legislation in Pakistan during the era 1979-2000. This researc...
Research Article # 2
Dr. Ghulam Mustafa, Adnan Nawaz, Musharaf Rubab
The purpose of the study is to determine the impact of political instability on economic growth. For this purpose, we measured political instability by means of three proxies: terrorism, govt. type and election year whereas economic growth is determined with GDP annual growth ...
Research Article # 3
Dr. Zahid Yaseen, Zakir Hussain, Ammara Cheema
This study evaluates the strategic and defensive relations between Pakistan and China along with the concept of soft power. Relationship between Pakistan and China is always being focused by the world. The developments of these relations are discussed with the help of historic...
Research Article # 4
Mariam Naeem, Muhammad Arif Nawaz
The purpose of this study is to determine that Transformational leadership and transactional leadership style has an impact on employee’s performance. For this purpose data was collected from managers of banks existing in Gujranwala region. The survey was adapted from the Mult...
Research Article # 5
Dr. Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Imran, Dr. Abdul Qadir Mushtaq
Terrorism is the most important problem of the today’s world. It is not a new phenomenon in the national and international politics but it expanded in the post World War II period. Despite its growth as a multi-faceted political concept, it is not well-understood especially, i...
Research Article # 6
Taimur Kayani, Hafiz Kamran Farooqi
This article investigates the subversion of traditional feminine stereotyped in the Selected Pakistani Fiction, The Weary Generation by Abdullah Hussain. Pakistani writers have always highlighted the struggle and oppression of women in a patriarchal society and represented as ...
Research Article # 7
Muhammad Saleem Akhter, Qamer Abid Hussain, Aftab Alam
The events of 9/11 have radically altered the entire discussion of Minorities – especially Muslim ones – and the issue of terrorism. As real as is the threat of al-Qaida and its international connections, many regimes of the world have seized on the US Global War against Terro...
Research Article # 8
Hassan Moavia, Moazzam Ali Malik, Hafiz Zeeshan Fazal
The current study explores the authorial presence in the journalistic business discourse by comparing the use of two interactional features of hedges and boosters in the business news-reports and the business columns. The data comprised the corpus of business news-reports and ...
Research Article # 9
Muhammad Afzal, Dr. Khalil Ahmad, Ahmad Ali
This research focuses on the PNA’s demands such as restoration of democratic government as indicated by the 1973 constitution. Besides this, Freedom and Supremacy of the judiciary and the removal of black laws, state of emergency and different curbs on common freedoms were the...
pp. 101-112
December 2017
Research Article # 10
Iram Rubab, Faiza Masood, Muhammad Afzal Butt
This research work has two-fold purposes. First, it examines the existing speaking competency of the Social Sciences students of Southern Punjab and was delimited to Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. Second, it suggests a need oriented EAP course by measuring the existing...
pp. 113-124
December 2017
Research Article # 11
Dr. Zubaida Khatoon Khattak, Dr. Mamoon Khan Khattak, Khalid Usman Khan Khattak
Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon has said that the attainment of education is obligatory for all Muslim males and for all Muslim females. Though, a lot of improvements in education sector are required in Pakistan - being a Muslim country. The contemporary state of education...
pp. 125-138
December 2017
Research Article # 12
Dr. Mamoon Khan Khattak, Asif Mahmood, Mr Imran
Every gender has the right of a fair level of free thinking and mental growth; however, it can be adversely affected by personality role conflict. This study has aim and concentration of analyzing psychosocial impacts of Gender Role Conflict (GRC) on personalities of females. ...
pp. 139-152
December 2017
Research Article # 13
Qamar Abad, Ghulam Murtiza, Ghulam Mujtaba
In the world of commerce and trade, trust and confidence form the basis of transactions. However such confidence cannot be left at the discretion and conduct of the parties thereto. It necessarily requires a prudent device or mechanism to materialize the process aptly. The int...
Research Article # 14
Dr. Shaheen Pasha, Dr. Muhamma Javed Aftab, Muhammad Usman Zia
The recent research study distillates on the exercise of motivational and classroom management schooling tactics in the government schools of Lahore, Pakistan. Motivation is important to achieve any goal in life; it is for teaching. And it is more important for students with l...
pp. 166-176
December 2017
Research Article # 15
Karim Haider Syed, Imran Khan
Punjab is in an exclusive location of south Asian region with reverence to its, administrative and Political history and its politico-economic system. The socio-political setup of Punjab has been matter to many ups and downs in the past. The impact of its historic contextual p...
pp. 177-187
December 2017
Research Article # 16
Abdul Rahman, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Dr. Mubashar Nadeem
This article describes the existing English language teaching pedagogical interventions prevalent at randomly selected forty public and private sector secondary schools, eighty teachers and the classes they teach by administering two research tools namely questionnaire and cla...
pp. 188-200
December 2017
Research Article # 17
Dr. Naela Aamir, Dr. Aqsa Malik
The importance of symbols in the art of Subcontinent is well-established in literature. As we move across cultural connotation of a symbol there is an intriguing shift depending upon the aesthetic use of the symbol. The paper focuses on the journey of lotus symbol in the art o...
pp. 201-225
December 2017
Research Article # 18
Dr. Muhammad Rashid Khan, Marium Kamal
To evaluate the representation of Drone strikes in Pakistan by the international media, articles of the three prominent news magazines namely the Newsweek, The Economist, and the Time were analyzed during the year 2013. The analysis of these international mainstream magazines ...
pp. 226-234
December 2017
Research Article # 19
Imran Alam, Dr. Saqib Khan Warraich, Naveed Ur Rehman
South Asia takes up a significant place in the global political scenario of today – being a turbulent region with a commonly shared cultural backdrop and a shared common political experience. It is one of the most complicated regions of the world with its multi-cultural, multi...
pp. 235-244
December 2017