January to March, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2021.
This paper attempts to find out the answers of certain confusions and misunderstandings attached with the phenomenon of globalization and the aspirations of Muslim States in terms of localization of Islamic ideology and its effects. It discusses the challenges and threats whic...
Corona eruption (COVID-19) is today’s world major problem. People throughout the world are practicing social distancing, emphasizing to keep themselves clean, moreover preferring to quarantine themselves if gets suspicious of infection-all already endorsed and practiced in Isl...
This study elaborates the impacts of budget deficit.Empirical research indicates that the shortfall has unfavourable consequences on the threshold, with a fiscal deficit of 5.67% of GDP. Fiscal policy will, therefore, stimulate inflation if the fiscal gap remains below the lev...
This study aims to identify methods of selecting a topic while planning a research project. The students who are in the final years of research degree usually study a full course on research methodology. However, still, they feel that the selection of a research topic is not a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in massive casualties and a worldwide economic downturn, but relatively little official attention is provided to the psychological difficulties arising due to the lockdown and isolation. In Pakistan, the public is burdened not just by the pan...
This paper aims to study how the mainstream English newspapers of Pakistan i.e. Dawn, The News, The Nation, and The Daily Times exploited different frames to make audience/readers believe in a certain way during their coverage of 2014 anti-government sit-ins led by Pakistan Te...
The present review article highlights noticeable aspects of employee engagement at workplace. The primary purpose of the study is to document all possible literature related to employee engagement in an organized manner in this study. For this purpose, researchers carried out ...
Youth unemployment is one of the major problems which the developing countries of the world face. This study is initiated to explore the foremost origins and sequels of youth employment. The analyses rested at primary data collected from 400 respondents within the age group of...
The paper examines post-world wars’ developments; ushered with the making of Nation States. Pakistan was one such creation of the changing international order. Pakistan is situated on a strategic locus that is concern of International and Regional powers. The legacy of histori...
Culture has a deep influence on all aspects of human behavior. The impact of culture may be delicate or marked, direct or leaning, stable or temporary. It is so tangled with all aspects of human survival that it is frequently difficult to define how and in which ways its influ...
The paper examined the Pedagogical knowledge (PK) and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of teachers in the public sector universities of Sindh province of Pakistan. Based on the descriptive and a quantitative approach, this research paper looked into the perceptions of teach...
Cognitive Migration in person can precede the migration in person and the writer employ their imagination for this purpose. This phenomenon has acquired unprecedented import because of migrations frequency and concentration of migrants on the borders of the rich countries. The...
The present study aimed to investigate how conspiracy beliefs convince people to believe unreal stories leading to psychological distress. An online survey was conducted using a questionnaire. The researchers adopted A generic conspiracist beliefs scale (GCBS) by Brotherton et...
Given research study was aimed to explore the influence of social media use on the Infodemic perception of adults ‘during COVID-19 in Lahore. 260 students and professionals participants were selected for the research out of which 87 were males and 172 were females from differe...
The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of qualitative job insecurity on employee innovative work performance and the mediating role of subjective well-being and psychological contract breach in this relationship. The study used the positivist paradigm, cross-sectional ...
Terrorism disturbs social integration by creating fear for people of becoming victims of its harmful results. People who exposed to violent conditions and poor socioeconomic conditions relatively develop feelings of anxiety and frustration, and risk of becoming potential victi...
Water resources are exhausting around the world owing to abundant issues like massive population, and the unconcerned behaviour of people. The majority of people have an inadequate supply of water in Pakistan. Against the backdrop of such a situation, this study examines how d...
The present study focuses on the democratic experience of Pakistan under a female Prime Minister and a leader from the largest province. The crash of Zia ul Haq’s plane marked the beginning of a new era and after a long time the dawn of democracy dawned and establishment annou...
For several years, people are more associated with online shopping because it was more comfortable as compared to brick-and-mortar retailers. It can save a lot of time and enabling the process of business to consumer where the user searches the required products, brands, or it...
In the male-dominated society, violence against women becomes a reality. This paper analyses the cases of 858 violent crimes reported in the Sindhi daily newspapers during the years of 2015 and 2016 in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The reports analysed by using content analy...
The present study is a critical reflection on the complex nexus of ideology, power and curricula in the selected textbooks of Islamiaat in Pakistani schools and their impact on receivers’ cognitive and ideological worldview. The study has used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)...
The present study to investigate the role of intuition in the acquisition of English sentences. The comprehension of complex sentences demands greater cognitive involvement and intuition plays a significant role in this regards. Fifty (50)non-native speakers of English (univer...
The present research aims to identify the agenda items that are used by US newspapers in Pakistan. Fifteen agenda items were selected through an extensive review of literature. To delimit the population only editorials, having the word Pakistan in the initial sentences were se...
The present study investigated the mediating role of leadership with personality traits, organizational politics and job satisfaction in engineers. With a cross-sectional correlational research design, this study recruited a sample of (N=180) engineers from both public and pri...
The article examines C.V. Clausewitz’s view of War as an instrument of political policy, and its viability as a model criterion to evaluate modern military operations like Operation Zarb-e- Azb.The significance of Clausewitz’s theory lies in its practicability. Through juxtapo...
Based on RBV and KBV, Knowledge-based training and development is potential practice for enhancing skills of employees in organizations. In this regard, current study is conducted with an aim to analyze linkage such as practice-resource-uses- performance, in which knowledge-ba...
Pakistan is immensely affected country of terrorism after 9/11. To curb this menace, legislative measures were adopted. However, after the Peshawar Army Public School attack in 2015, the Parliament amended the Constitution through 21st constitutional amendment and authorised t...
In the wake of globalization and the growing importance of English as a lingua franca, greater emphasis is placed on English learning. Various techniques are employed to enhance ESL learners' proficiency in the four language skills. Speaking English is often prioritized, and d...
Pakistan represents a society which is plural in nature with different ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic identities. Since its inception Pakistan has been facing a number of issues but the issue to manage various religious and ethnic minorities emerged as more sign...
The Novel Coronavirus, or Covid-19 has been creating a chaotic, distressed, frustrating and turbulent situation around the globe ever since its emergence in China in December 2019. The moment it emerged, there also appeared various conspiracy theories in the surroundings which...
The purpose of this study was assessing the role of Technical Education and Vocational Training in promoting Youth employment. The study sample comprised of 20 staff members and 160 passed out trainees (both male and female) of four TEVT institutes of District Gujranwala. Sys...
Despite plethora of feminist research on Muslim women in Pakistan, mobility as an intersectional factor in the formation of their agency and its cultural impact has lacked the focus of scholarship – and, this lack of focus is especially glaring in literary criticism of Pakista...
This article endeavors to revisit the notion of written corrective feedback (WFC) and its effectiveness in language classroom. There are diverse theories in this regard, some are in favour and other are against. In pedagogical perspective, to hone and ameliorate students’ writ...
The current study aims to examine the effect of judicial efficiency on firm growth. The study has used a sample of 215 listed firms from non-financial sector of Pakistan Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2019. The study has used panel data analysis for estimation of results, where, ...
This research aimed to investigate the impact of youth’s “Islamic Religiosity” on the “Socio Economic and Cultural Impacts of Tourism Development” in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan which is one of the most attractive areas in the world for tourists. The study used “Partial Least S...
This paper aims to explicate that despite of legislative frameworks why medical malpractice is still rampant. The object of the study is to determine the question of jurisdiction of tribunals and courts pertaining to this felony and explains how effective mechanisms can be evo...
The study aims to analyze the importance of the procedure of appointment of judges to the superior Courts. The stated article explains the various phases of appointments by providing its historical context. The literature review has shown the impact of civilian and martial law...
Creating an effective classifier in the presence of imbalanced data is a challenging task. The objective of this work was to apply machine learning technique to automatically identify review articles given the imbalance representation of publications types in publications. As ...
This research paper highlights the prospects and challenges in the ongoing peace efforts. America has taken the most important step to end the longest war in the history of America. America and the Taliban have signed the historic Peace Accord on 29 February 2020 in the capita...
The study tends to evaluate the intellectual capital (IC) performance of BRICS’ banks over the period of 2010 to 2014 using the Value-Added Intellectual Capital (VAIC™) typology developed by Ante Pulic (1998, 2000). A micro panel data on IC, ROA, EPS and VA growth was calculat...
Science teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is very much essential for the student’s learning. This study aimed to explore the effect of induction program on newly inducted science teacher’s perception, pedagogical content knowledge and practices. This study was desc...
The present study aimed at examining the impact of work-family conflict on job satisfaction with the moderating role of supervisor’s support. Data were collected using survey technique. Participants (N=375) were permanent faculty members of eight higher education commission ap...
The study highlights the influence of Fourth Industrial Revolution in HRM (Human Resource Management). To find the effect of Fourth Industrial Revolution on HRM functions such as Induction, training and development, recruitment and selection, performance management a quantitat...
The utility of information communication technologies [ICTs] in educational planning and management has rapidly increased due to its efficiency and effectiveness. This descriptive study is, therefore, mainly focused on comprehensive analysis of the applicability of EMIS in sec...
This research study is devised to analyze the impacts of those factors which are linked with regions in order to classify and resolve persistent social barriers to the further up-scaling of contraceptive use in the three regions of Punjab. It explores the impacts of three pre-...
Researchers have depicted relationship between rumination and other psychological challenges, but rumination has never been examined as predictor of psychological illnesses among people with traumatic amputation. This research examines the possible role of rumination in predic...
Foreign language anxiety researchers and scholars have conducted a sizable body of research, consistently reporting that various aspects of language teachers’ personal and professional demeanour trigger higher levels of speaking anxiety (SA) in a language classroom. However, a...
The purpose of this study was to examine the performance of primary school teachers (PSTs) under the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) framework. The study was conducted in the district Faisalabad of the Punjab Province. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were u...
The rationale behind this study is to examine the impact of Islamic work ethics (IWE) on turnover intention (TI) among employees of commercial banks across Pakistan. Further, this research also explores the mediating role of IM on the association between IWE and TI. Survey des...
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan started after the collapse of USSR. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan, but since the end of the war between the two countries in 1994, it has been governed by people of Armenian descen...
The current research through the lens of proximity model investigated that how victims of international Crisis are being depicted. Either they are being sympathized or distanced from the audience of reporting country. The research investigated two main themes, religious and po...
The study investigated Hindi and Urdu drama serials to demonstrate how the religion is being portrayed. The results of this study suggested that religion was never been a main theme in both Hindi and Urdu drama. The findings reveled that Indian dramas are more possessive about...
In the vocational education context, typical teaching and learning patterns are getting obsolete, and new innovative methods are being adopted to make the learning process more effective. Among improved methods, reflective practices and reflective journal writing are being ado...
This study aimed to explore the levels of Parental Pressure for high Marks in English at secondary level in district Mardan. The research was conducted with a non-experimental quantitative design. Data were collected through a closed-ended questionnaire, with a Likert scale of...
Teacher’s motivation and Job satisfaction plays a vital role in their effective teaching which circuitously affects the students’ learning. In addition, literature documents that if teachers are psychological empowered, they possess positive attitude towards their job. Therefo...
The main objective of the study is to explore the role of citizen participation in rural development in Pakistan. The devolution plan also included the formation of Community Citizen Boards (CCBs). CCBs were mean to generate effective community participation at village level f...
The current study investigated the effect of institutional governance on foreign direct investment inflows in five South Asian emerging countries for the period of 1996–2017. The results of the Housman’s specification test support the fixed effects model could better fit the d...
The present study aims at exploring Linguistic and Cultural constraints in poetry translations within domain of Translation Studies. This study discusses the stylistic devices and translation strategies employed by a translator in attempt to render the exact equivalent transla...
This research paper aims at a post-modernist study of Coetzee’s fiction i.e. Summertime and Foe in a rhizomatous frame work. French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and clinical psychoanalyst Felix Guattari have postulated a theory in A Thousand Plateaus (1980) and in Rhizome: Intr...
Everything that affects one’s mind against some religion, culture, moral values, state and security forces is called 5th generation war and Pakistan is a victim of it. In terms of Security Alliances, Nuclear Power, and Geo-Strategic location, Pakistan possesses prime importanc...
This paper employs the theoretical framework of Tom Moylan’s concept of Critical Dystopia and the biospheric egalitarian principle of Arne Naess’s Deep ecology philosophy to explore the representation of various environmental injustices in Piers Torday’s The Last Wild. The iss...
The primary objective of this study is to identify the effects of instructional leadership of principals on teaching and learning practices in secondary schools in Pakistan. The main objective of this study was to highlight the association between instructional leadership fact...
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the strategies that Saraiki and Pashto ESL learners adopted during the accomplishment of speech act of apology. Moreover, such strategies are developed and executed in different manners which truly reflect the influence of the mo...
The current study explores certain barriers that impede enforcement of traffic regulations. The study analysed risk-taking behaviour of Public Service Vehicle (PSV) drivers working on intercity routes leading to and from Lahore. With qualitative methodology, the data were co...
The core tenacity of current endeavor was to analyze the contextual performance of teachers of universities on the basis of various demographic variables such as their gender, university, department, faculty and length of service in respective university. Total 311teachers inc...
The main objective of the present study is to reduce unemployment considering the role of social overhead capital in the SAARC countries. The study is based on the panel data covering the time period 2000 to 2018. Different forms of social over head capital like Transportation...
The main objective of this study was to find out the stress level on job or work place in secondary school teachers. Forty eight 48 head teachers and 114 secondary school teachers served as a sample of the study. Two questionnaires “teachers’ job related stress scale (TJRSS)” ...
The main theme of the study was to explore the importance of promotion link training of educational personnel in terms of skills and concepts imparted, SST in secondary education Punjab, Pakistan. A survey was designed to conduct this study. The population of this study was th...
Financial inclusion (FI) is considered crucial in poverty reduction and promoting economic status. However the FI varies greatly across countries. This study explores the determinants of financial inclusion particularly the effect of institutions, both legal and political, on ...
This study is related to find out the relationship among management strategies adopted by the college principals in public sector, Punjab Province in Pakistan. A simple random technique was used to select public sector colleges for boys from the list prepared by Higher Educati...
This paper analyzes the dilemma of ethics regarding the promotion of foreign culture as opposed to local cultural values by the advertising industry in Pakistan from the Islamic perspective. Advertisers rely on the western business models, disregarding the Islamic business mod...
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes that health status of whole physical, social, and mental health then not simply the nonappearance of infection and weakness (WHO, 2017). Intellectual health is well-explained as a public of health, in which each specific understand...
This study looks into the impact of board structure, reporting and disclosure and transparency on the success of family businesses in Pakistan. It also examine if the relationship between corporate indices is linear or non-linear in nature? BOD index, reporting index, and disc...
The research paper has critically evaluated the draft document of ESL Single National Curriculum (SNC) to interpret the purpose of SNC for its successful implementation across the country. The study is qualitative in nature as content analysis method is used to explore the inn...
The study is designed to find English lingual needs in undergraduate students of zoology department in one of the Public Sector University, Jamshoro, Pakistan. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool to know about the English language opinions of zoology students ...
This study was carried out to see the predictive role of religiosity and spirituality for psychological wellbeing and life satisfaction among hepatitis patients. A total of (N=220) Hepatitis C patients ranging from 21 to 50 years suing purposive sampling technique were selecte...
The study explores the transference of ideational meaning from The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (ST) by Allama Iqbal to Tajdeed-e-Fikryat-e-Islam (TT) by Waheed Ishrat. The study delineates how the equivalence in translation involves making functional choices f...
Code-switching is a common phenomenon that means a shift from one language to another during a discussion, conversation, and writing. The aim of the present study was to find out the trends of Urdu-English code-switching inPakistani Fashion Journalism. For this study, the data...
The paper closely hears the season opener song for Coke Studio 2020: “Na Tutteya Ve”, in order to critically appreciate and analyze it as a tune of feminist activism. Contextualizing the critical discussion of the song within the theoretic perspectives of “feminist cultural an...
The present examined the effect of ownership concentration on family firms’ performance in Pakistan. The performance measures included both accounting and market performance variables. The estimation technique employed in the study was Generalized Method of Moments. The findin...
We study the relationship between training and growth in the performance of employees in the South Punjab banking sector in Pakistan. It is an empirical research in which both qualitative and quantitative techniques will be used for further analysis. The primary source of data...
This research was conducted to explore the satisfaction level of teachers about the social skills curriculum for mentally challenged children at primary level. Teachers in special schools need to highlight the gaps in curriculum to enhance the social skills of ID children. Soc...
This study is an attempt to find out the coping strategies of stress for female school head teachers. This study was carried out to examine the effects of external sources of stress on school head teachers and their management practices in district Faisalabad. There were 236 ...
The study intended to find out predictive relationship between work demands and emotional exhaustion among medical professionals with buffering function of work group support. Cross sectional research method was used during this research. Based on convenient sampling technique...
Diaspora, in Postcolonial context, refers to the notion of ‘dispersion’ which entails the connotations of a center or a locus from which the dispersion occurs. It takes into account the homing desire, which is not the same as the desire for ‘homeland’. Hybridity, in conflation...
Social media has fundamentally transformed the ways of human communication. Specifically, social network sites (SNS) are famous for social interaction and conducting business activities. The current study examines the dimensional structure of personal value beliefs (PVB) about...
The modern world is transforming all intellectual domains. This transformation is responsible for both convergence and divergence of ideas, their respective paradigms, and influencing spheres. Modern-day researchers and theorists have induced continuous efforts to redefine pow...
War and terror have grasped the whole world. Peace education is the only source to handle the situation UNO has made it mandatory for all UN member nations to impart peace education in the educational system to equip the young ones of nation it seems imperative to explore the ...
The purpose behind the perspective of this research study was to have investigation about phenomenon of Teacher Leadership by selecting particular case of Government Degree College Naudero at district Larkana in Pakistan. This research had been nothing but replica of previous ...
Discourse connectives are fundamental components of verbal communication due to their significant role in the creation of coherence, expression of emotive and mental states, and in the navigation of turn-taking (Villegas, 2019). This research study was conducted to explore the...
This qualitative study explores the intricate challenges that women in public sector universities in Pakistan face while balancing caregiving responsibilities for family members with their career aspirations. Interviews with 48 women in various roles, and thematic analysis rev...
This paper examines the economic impact of water scarcity in Tharparkar. It is regarded as most water scare region in Pakistan for being semi-arid zone. Ground water is the only major water source in this region. However, only a few of studies cum research material can be foun...
This is anthropological research paper explores the regarding the women’s cultural practices and rituals in rural Sindh, Pakistan which had been practiced since the generation such as aurt as sati a women who remains unmarried whole life, Sang chati, compensation in ...