ISSN (Print): 2664-0422 | ISSN (Online): 2664-0430 | ISSN-L: 2664-0422

About This Issue

July to December, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2017.

Articles

Research Article # 1

The Politics of Religious Legislation: A Case Study of Pakistan 1979-2000

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)01
Research Article # 2

The Impact of Political Instability on Economic Growth in Pakistan: Application of ARCH Model

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 ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)02
Research Article # 4

The Impact of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles on Employee’s Performance

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)04
Research Article # 5

Terrorism as a New Face of Warfare: Identifying Its Emerging Facets and Future Challenges

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)05
Research Article # 6

Subversion of Traditional Feminine Stereotyped in Selected Pakistani Fiction

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 ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)06
Research Article # 7

China’s Xinjiang and Pakistan’s Baluchistan Problem: Impacts on CPEC

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)07
Research Article # 8

Interaction in Business Discourse: A Comparative Study of the Journalistic Stance in Pakistani English Newspapers

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 ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)08
Research Article # 9

Causes and Consequences of PNA’s Agitation about the Election of 1977: An Analytical Study in Perspective of Print Media

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)09
Research Article # 10

Exploring the Academic English Speaking Competence of Social Sciences Students at Higher Level: A Case of Southern Punjab

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)10
Research Article # 11

Contributions of Rural to Urban Area’s Migration to Education in Rural Community: A Study in District Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)11
Research Article # 12

Gender Role Conflict: Analysis of its Causes and Psychosocial Impacts on Females

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. ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)12
Research Article # 14

Effect of Classroom Management Strategies to Increase Motivation of Students with Learning Difficulties at Secondary Level

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)14
Research Article # 15

Impact of Politico-economic Changes on the Resettlement of Kharal Tribe in Punjab

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)15
Research Article # 16

A Descriptive Analysis of Applied ESL Teaching Techniques: A Comparison between Public and Private Secondary Schools

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)16
Research Article # 17

From Divinity to Decoration: The Journey of Lotus Symbol in the Art of Subcontinent

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)17
Research Article # 18

International Media’s Take on Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Analysis of Newsweek, The Economist, and Time Magazines

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 ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)18
Research Article # 19

Regional Co-operation among SAARC States: Hindrances and Recommendations

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...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2017(1-II)19