July to September, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2020.
This study aimed at exploring the relationship of IQ tasks of non-verbal nature with reading, and dictation skills in second language. A number of 66 participants were chosen from a huge sample meant for another study Farukh and Vulchanova, 2014 that had been conducted earlier...
The paper explores the professional development of English language teachers through the comparative study of M.A TESOL programs of two high ranked universities of Punjab and Sindh. The researchers using content analysis approach critically evaluated the M.A TESOL Scheme of St...
This paper aims to anatomies the issue of provincial autonomy under federal democracy in Pakistan. Though federal system is considered mandatory to accommodate diversities in heterogeneous states but it remained less effective to aggregate the fundamental demands of ethnic ide...
In this study, the existence of the glass ceiling has been analyzed in the Federal Chartered universities of Pakistan. The study was descriptive. The data was collected through questionnaires from the employees of the universities, using purposive sampling techniques (n=484). ...
This empirical study explores the relationship between dependency on social media and socio-cultural integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) belonging to the tribal region of Pakistan. The study used a quantitative research method for collecting the data from a samp...
Terrorism has stunned the peace and social fabric of the world. The educational institutions were being attacked to create unrest among students, teachers and parents in Pakistan. The present study was an endeavor to explore the outcomes of terrorism on emotional and psycholog...
Frame markers are said to be used as a tool to organize and frame the discourse in a text. This study, therefore, examines the use of frame markers in the newspaper editorials. Being a corpus-based study, it develops the corpora from 1000 editorials published in four Pakistani...
The current study was conducted with the aims to examine and recognize the complex association among stress among teachers, social support and coping strategies. Based on current and detailed critical literature analysis, the study developed a detailed (social support-coping s...
Tolerance, peace and social cohesion are the key predictors for any sustainable society. The present study explored the factors affecting lack of tolerance, peace and social adjustment among university students. A qualitative study investigated various dimensions of above ment...
The presence of two major sustainable developments leaks i.e. economic poverty and income inequality among the people living in Central Karakoram national Park (CKNP) are the serious threats to environmental degradation for a developing country like Pakistan. Keeping in view t...
The Educational Managers, Teachers and Parents are worried to view a painful condition of child abuse in the schools of Pakistan. Protecting school going children from such maltreatment and evils are our basic and shared responsibility. Therefore the role of educators averting...
The purpose of this study is to know the professional socialization challenges with which female English teachers are confronted in their schools during the initial stage of their career. The data was collected through survey method by using questionnaires and afterwards quali...
The financial constraints hinder firms’ operations and growth by limiting their access to working capital and funds for investment. The current study focuses on the effect of financial constraints on firms’ exporting tendency in Pakistan. The logistic regression is employed on...
This study mainly focused on the use of language and pictures in website homepages and strategies employed by the universities to manipulate and influence their visitors. Three private universities were selected for the study by using simple random sampling technique. From the...
This research aims to explore the role of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on tourism development and tourism development on climate change. In addition, the study also examines the mediating role of tourism development on the relationship between China Pakistan Economi...
This study was designed to probe into the exploitative and state of bonded child labor working with their parents and other family members in the brick kiln industries. In these study social conditions, exploitative means used against bonded labor, the extent and hazardous eff...
The conducted study aimed to find teachers ‘perception regarding education in emergencies in Pakistan. Affected areas of AJK and KPK in the earthquake of 2005 were the population of the study. Multistage sampling techniques were deployed to select the emergency education progr...
The present research aims to investigate the effects of climate change on aquatic resources in India and Pakistan, its worse implications on bilateral relations between both the agricultural countries on this grave issue. Extreme weather conditions like floods, droughts, heavy...
This paper sets out to explore whether the editorial coverage of Islam and Muslims in the Australian newspapers reflects the securitization discourse from July 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. Earlier research findings have substantiated that the media have portrayed Islam and Musli...
This study is an attempt to find out the image of Pakistan developed by international community regarding operation Zarb E Azab. The researcher selected the international Elite Press from USA, UK, China, and India. In what ways this selected Elite Press (EP) portrayed, constru...
Universities are the most important source for knowledge generation, technology development and its transfer. It is widely known that for innovation integration of different factors e.g. policy matters by Government, needs by society and economic development by Industry, are r...
Sir Robert Francis Mudie, the Governor of the West Punjab from 15 August 1947 to 2 August 1949, has been lauded as an able governor of Punjab whose work in resettling refugees was considered exemplary.The article analyzes his unique ethos that played a critical role in decidin...
The study aims to find out the relationship between Smartphone usage and Psychological well-being among working women with different socioeconomic background in Punjab Province of Pakistan. Population of study was (n=600) working women working in different sectors of Punjab-Pa...
The research aims to determine the relationship between sports involvement and ethical development (autonomy, collectivism, common good, dignity, and productivity) of young university players. Sports involvement increases young people assets and encourages positive conclusions...
The present study was undertaken to estimate the efficacy of communicative language testing in the backdrop of Business ESP at a Pakistani university. To do that, we first administered a short questionnaire to 100 teachers teaching ESP courses at different universities in Paki...
The objective of the study was to explore the profile of psychiatric patients visiting outdoor of psychiatric department at Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital Gujrat, Pakistan. It was conducted from January, 2020 to March, 2020. Through census sampling, 300 psychiatric pati...
The study examines the effect of five traits of personality on organizational effectiveness. The research also scrutinizes the moderating role of electronic medical records between personality traits and organizational effectiveness. Simple random and stratified sampling strat...
The objective of current research is to examine the relationship between the ECE teacher’s competency and their professional development. A mixed method approach was adopted to administer various strategies in the study. Research protocols were adopted. Consent letters were se...
Polar distribution is an important category for the study of international politics. Every polar distribution creates the ‘order’ for a certain period in human history. This way, studying the ‘order’ of a certain era is essential for not only understanding the dynamics of poli...
Pakistan has been facing different kind of challenges to its National Security since 1947. Initially the nature of the problem was mostly external in which eastern border security was a dominant concern for Pakistan. Policy makers of Pakistan had pursued policies and developed...
The research study aims to design a model for educational managers to optimize adoption and use of MIS in Higher Education Institutions. Research was descriptive in nature, mainly consists of surveys, both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to identify determina...
This paper analyses whether the constitutional rights and freedoms available to the citizens of Pakistan can be realized for the agricultural tenants without introducing large scale land reforms including the fixation of a ceiling on individual land-holdings in Pakistan. The l...
This study investigates that how the process of Islamization of laws shifted to judiciary and elucidates challenges being faced by the government in application of Shariah law with special emphasis on the eradication of Riba from economic activities. This legal research has be...
This study is carried out to explore the mediating role of TE between the relationship of head’s AL and teacher’s JP, particularly in the context of Pakistan. All the public secondary school heads and teachers in Punjab constituted the population and study was delimited to the...
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter is a representative play of the Theatre of the Absurd rich in communication gap and breakdown of language resulting from the failure of human relationships in the wake of post-World War II conditions. Pinteresque language is marked with the inces...
The purpose of the study was to find out the current status/position of English language and the interest of teachers and students regarding teaching of English language in Madaris of Tehsil Dargai, Malakand. For this purpose, a five point scale questionnaire was designed foll...
Islamic Republic of Pakistan is constitutionally a federation and this treatise through the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment is an attempt to examine the relationship between federating units interse. The study has highlighted some grey areas and overlapping articles with r...
In this study, the researchers have investigated the escalatory and de-escalatory potential of current affairs talk shows in the leading TV channels in Pakistan. The data was analyzed through content analysis by applying the war and peace journalism model developed by Johan Ga...
Empowerment under the local self-government system is a long-awaited desire of the citizens of Pakistan. As Pakistan is a land of diverse cultures and traditions, a single formula for all the decentralizing units would never serve the purpose of empowerment of marginalized com...
This study is designed to observe the consequences of built infrastructure on agricultural production in the tehsil Takht Bhai from 1985-2015. The recent spatial techniques like Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) tools are used to detect land use land ...
This study investigates the impact of social media with Smartphones on youngsters through survey by using questionnaire as a tool of data collection. The audience was 200 male and female (married/unmarried) youngsters, age 18 to 30 years old and simple random sampling techniqu...
The purpose of the study is to observe the radical changes in Middle Eastern politics as well as to understand the struggle for economic, political and social influence in the region. Saudi Arabia and Islamic Republic of Iran are the most important states of the Middle East. T...
This paper investigates the relationship between political polarization of Pakistani TV news media and their contents’ credibility among consumers. For this quantitative survey study, the data was collected from the youth of Lahore, mainly media students of six universities i....
E-commerce ethics enhance the online repurchase intentions of e-commerce buyers and provide rut and rudder to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to survive in a competitive environment across the globe. Covid-19 has completely altered the game of business to business (B2B...
This study examines the relationship of corruption (CRPI), crime (CRMI), and credit rating (CR) with stock market development (SMD) of an emerging economy, using the secondary data for a period ranging from 1997Q1 through 2016Q4. The study employs robust ARDL bounds testing to...
When native languages come in contact with non-native languages, they absorb lexical items of each other. Urdu and English languages are pertinent case in this regard. Urdu language came in contact with English language particularly after the arrival of British forces in Indo-...
This research work is an attempt to sort out the factors that affect the participation of women to the paid labor market and unpaid household work. The data is obtained from Labor Force Survey (2017-2018) and logit model is used in this study. We have found that age and higher...
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the support needs which novice teachers considered essential in their initial three years of service. A basic qualitative research design was used, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sampl...
Work family conflict impacts representative execution at workplace and furthermore the lives of individuals. Women have progressively participated in labor and expanded goals for their professions, and budgetary autonomy. The study explored the relationship of job performance ...
This research study was conducted to study the effects of television, especially when it is available with multi-channel facility in less developed areas. Population for this study was South of Punjab Province in Pakistan, which is a less developed area comparatively. A sample...
This paper aims to assess different ways of cooperation of the USA in improvement of education in Pakistan in the wake of War on Terror and deals with the reflection that following 9/11 that the lack of education and the inadequacy of the opportunities in Pakistan contributed ...
This study discusses the emergence of the myriad of stress patterns experienced by different professionals and people of different classes in Pakistan during COVID- 19 pandemic. To support this argument, the perspectives of different professionals regarding stress: doctors, en...
Sensory processing disorder is a complex neurobiological process in which the sensory input either from the environment or from one`s body is poorly detected or interpreted and often unusual responses are obtained or sometimes no response is made. Unfortunately, children with...
This study attempted to explore teachers’ perception and practices about Instructional planning at secondary school level. The study employed multiple case study design to explore and compare the different strategies and approaches between the cases that were being employed fo...
The study aimed to find out the effect of decision making styles of academic managers on quality assurance in public sector universities of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The sample of the study was comprised of 186 academic managers and 940 teachers teaching at university l...
Afghanistan is a landlocked Country and it’s topographically surrounded by East West and North South extensions of Hindukush range which traps the invaders. It forms a crucial bridge which connects the Southern and Eastern Asia to Central Asia and West Asia. Afghanistan has en...
The rapid spread of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is causing stress and challenges for people from all fields of life. This pressure also affected the students due to lockdown in country and closing of educational institutes in Pakistan. The objective of the present stu...
This paper describes socio-economic and demographic impacts of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) provision for women empowerment in rural and urban areas of Baluchistan. Within the TVET institutional framework, the analysis is descriptive and questionnaire...
The aim of this research is to inform the readers that Covid-19 pandemic has ceased all pedagogic and scholastic activities through the globe and Pakistan is no exception. This seizure has caused many individuals and organizations to halt their professional, personal and organ...
The current study aimed at analyzing graphological deviation in the language used in television commercials. The investigation was segmented into two sections. The 1st section, presents the graphological deviation in Pakistani television advertisements through observation. It...
This research opens up cross-cultural politeness perspective of the Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel “An American Brat”. Moreover, it endeavors to explore most preferred polite linguistic strategies utilized by American speakers while interaction with the people of third world countries. ...
The purpose of present research is to assess the impact of fair value accounting adoption while preparing financial reports in financial reporting quality. This study has taken five determinants of financial reporting quality. These determinants are faithful representation, re...
This paper explores Dearden’s concept of personal autonomy for English as the Second Language (ESL) teachers and learners as an important aim of education. The personal autonomy can be effectively developed by English teachers who are critical agents, use modern knowledge; res...
Main objective of this study is to determine the effect of this approach while comparing it with traditional method of teaching. The study was experimental in nature. The population of study was 7th class students school. Sixty students were selected randomly. After pretesting...
This study was aimed to examine the role of psychological hardiness in the effect of emotional exhaustion on job performance of teachers. Data were collected from 383 regular university teachers by applying purposive sampling technique. To overcome potential common method bias...
The main objective of this study was to find out the availability of the overall infrastructure and the managerial practices adopted by the Principals to ensure quality management in their respective teacher training institutions as per quality set benchmarks. Forty specific t...
This study, in tune with Cheryll Glotfelty’s methodological propositions of ecocriticism and black feminist Patricia H. Collins’ contribution to ‘ecriture feminine’, studies the formation of the female subject in Erdrich’sTracks and Morrison’s Paradise. With the delimitation o...
Borders and borderlands concept was found from the very beginning of human society. In early period of time borders demarcation was physical like rivers, mountains, forest etc but with passage of time it converted to lines. The study throws light on those historical events tha...
The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of elementary teachers of social studies about teaching global issues using a gender perspective lens. Employing random sampling technique, a total of 110 public elementary school social studies teachers (60 males and 50 ...
This study was conducted to appraise the unrelenting curse of gender discrimination in Pashtoon society and annotate the topical-cum-radicated factors behind it. The data was collected through vis-à-vis semi-structured interviews from the aggrieved women; those who have suffer...
This study is based on doctrinal research and aims to convince the government that a single legislation on consumer protection is essential in the context of Pakistan. Legislation on consumer protection in Pakistan is fragmented. Each province has its own law and the federal c...
Activities and material related to cognitive development and critical thinking skills in Pakistani textbooks have been a matter of debate for decades. Pakistani textbooks are often accused of posing a little cognitive challenge to the students, which is widely considered their...
Pakistan is a party to the UN Habitat agenda which envisaged the goal of housing for all. Housing is one of the basic necessities of every human being but due to financial constraints it is beyond the financial resources of the Government of Pakistan to provide housing units t...
With the emergence of the concept of welfare state and multiplication of executive functions, administrative discretion has to be accepted as a necessary evil. Discretionary authority conferred on the executive is never been absolute rather subject to legislative and judicial ...
The main objective of this study was to find out either parental authority, self-esteem, religious coping factors are predictors of Social Anxiety among Adolescents or not. 800 participants were screened out in the initial process and from them 600 have been selected who were ...
The paper reads closely Musharraf Ali Farooqi’sThe Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa (2019) asan adamantly conceived a cross between Romance/Dastan and the Novel genre. The paper explores MAF’s claim regarding the creative shortcomings of Novel genre vis-à-vis its inadequa...
The objective of the study is to investigate the factors affecting English Language Anxiety among Learners at Higher Education Level. Qualitative research approach was used and case study design was employed. The population of this study was students and teachers of public s...
The present study was conducted find out the challenges faced by parents of children with intellectual disabilities due to lockdown during COVID-19 across Lahore, Pakistan. It was included a sample of 67 parents (59 = mothers and eight = fathers). Parents of children with inte...
The aim of this study is to investigate how Urdu and English have influenced the Shina lexicon in the time span of three successive generations which has been divided into three categories of ‘Youngsters’, ‘Middle Age generation’ and ‘Older generation’. For this research,the d...
The main purpose of this study is to describe news paper’s impact on education development and here it can improve educational system. Newspapers have an important role in print media because they contain latest information regarding every field and subject. They have Materi...
The endeavor of study is to manifest extensive matter of gender phenomenon and to present diverse definitions. Particular focus is given to those blockades which are producing impediments for women progression in career. The target population was the female staff belonging to ...
The India and Pakistan conflict has suffered for six decades, a series of wars and crises design its course. The rapidly growing Arms race among them poses a threat to regional stability in sense of Peace and security. Both states are entangled in a long-standing security comp...
The purpose of study was to analyze factors leading to students’ dropout, and to identify administrative measures in addressing those factors. The study has covered four towns of District Larkana. The qualitative approach was used and within it case study research design was e...
This research seeks to uncover the causes that affect young people's choice to watch horror films. Demographics i.e. gender, setting, and psychological factors i.e. past beliefs about the entities shown in horror films; audiences are exposed to specific results that differ in ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect learner’s self-esteem in the context of oral proficiency among secondary school students in the district South Karachi. The study focused on the impact of self-esteem on English language speaking skill of the...
The purpose of this paper is to share the findings of a research study that aims to find out the perceptions of head teachers (HTs) about challenges and issues they face in making their schools effective. Participants of the study include government primary school head teacher...
The current research study recognizes diverse factors related to breast cancer awareness and knowledge campaigns running in Lahore, Pakistan which is based on Bandura’s social learning theory. The study aims to allow an understanding about breast cancer into what progressing c...
This research paper explores Pakistan-Chinese political and bilateral relations in the context of BRI Initiative. There is a history to Pakistan-China relations, which favors both economies during their tough times. BRI-Initiative is a great opportunity for developing economie...
The present study examines the profound impact of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, on the conceptualization of terrorism. This research delves into the implications of 9/11 in redefining the understanding and perception of terror in contemporary society. Through an in-...
This study addresses Romanticism, particularly the romance in the stories of Krishan Chander, that emerged in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as a way to understand life and the universe. Krishan Chander's writings, such as his short stories "Talaba Khayal," combine element...
This qualitative inquiry investigates the reasons behind the striking low presence of women in high-ranking managerial positions within Pakistani Universities. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 48 women occupying various management roles and facilitating a focus gr...