About This Issue
July to September, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2021.
Articles
Research Article # 1
Arshad Mahmood Qamar, Sher Muhammad, Dr. Wajiha Kanwal
The major objective of this research was to find the Condition of paragraph writing skills in private school of Islamabad at primary level. The design of this study was a survey to assess the paragraph writing skills of students of Grade 3 in private schools. Grade 3 students ...
Research Article # 2
Dr. Mohammad Latif, Dr. Razia Anjum, Dr. Mubashir Hanif
Currently, AIOU Islamabad has made an action research project compulsory for the students enrolled in these programs. They are asked to select a topic of their own interest and carry out an action research project. To study the impact of action research in terms of improvement...
Research Article # 3
Sundus Javaid, Munazzah Rabbani, Alia Habib
Hybridity, in Postcolonial context, refers to dismantling cultures from their totalizing specificities of cultural situations. This cultural decolonization leads towards the emergence of an identity in a contradictory and an ambivalent space called the “Third Space of Enunciat...
Research Article # 4
Muhammad Babar Jamil, Muhammad Akbar Khan, Dr. Shabbir Ahmad
This article discusses the theme of female friendship as a possible way out of alienation (spiritual or physical detachment in a relation) in gender relations, and then goes on to argue that this female friendship itself suffers from alienation in the long run. While foregroun...
Research Article # 5
Dr. Kamal Haider, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yousuf Sharjeel, Dr. Shahid Iqbal
Vocational and educational training is an integral component for efficient and smart GDP of a country. With a higher rate of professionally trained manpower, a country can increase its exports and earn direct revenue. The paper attempted to employ survey research by virtue of ...
Research Article # 6
Dr. Wajiha Kanwal, Dr. Muhammad Samiullah, Arshad Mahmood Qamar
The major purposes of this experimental research had been to find out the effect of Synchronous Videos on academic achievement in Health and Physical Education at the College level and to compare the effect of Synchronous video on girls’ and boys’ academic achievement in Healt...
Research Article # 7
Ali Raza Shah, Dr. Bela Nawaz
This article presents a systematic review of previous empirical literature regarding the problems faced by religious minorities in Pakistan which is a hub of religious diversity. Using various keywords Google Scholar, JSTOR, Emerald Insight and ProQuest were searched and 31 st...
Research Article # 8
Hafiz Qasir Abbas, Dr. Zahid Yousaf
The present study examines the framing of the Pak-US relations in elite press of the US. The study was focused on the relationship between Pakistan and the United States of America in the government of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi. For this, the framing theor...
Research Article # 9
Mir Wali Shah, Iftikhar Ali, Ishtiaq Ahmad
The research focus on comparative Analysis on the determination of emerging construction technology verses new improved form of indigenous construction techniques-technology. To rebuild confidence among the people it relies on traditions-culture by restoring pride in a new imp...
pp. 99-109
September 2021
Research Article # 10
Nauman Reayat, Tahira Jabeen, Ulfat Qasim
The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) was never as powerful in a context of hybrid regime as it emerged after the lawyers’ movement for the restoration of judiciary in March 2009. A hybrid regime is a mix of authoritarian and democratic features. The SCP decide several political...
pp. 110-125
September 2021
Research Article # 11
Dr. Hira Ali, Samrina Sana, Asma Shaheen Afzal
The present research aims to investigate the pedagogical value and suitability of the English textbook of BS Criminology at the University of Sargodha, Main Campus. The study adheres to the material evaluation in ESP. The data comprises 14 sample analyses. For evaluating the t...
pp. 126-141
September 2021
Research Article # 12
Ruqia Shaheen, Najma Yasmin, Sidra Iqbal
The current study attempts to explain the relationship between the increase in population growth with the economic growth in Pakistan. The nature of this relationship is ambiguous as it has positive as well as the negative relationship with economic growth. The causal relation...
pp. 142-150
September 2021
Research Article # 13
Dr. Tahira Bano Qasim, Gul Zaib Iqbal, Dr. Hina Ali
Forecasting plays essential role in making effective planning and decisions for a gainful business. Modeling monthly price series containing nonstationarity, seasonality, lag dependence, heteroscedasticity and structural changes is challenging. This leads to the applications o...
pp. 151-176
September 2021
Research Article # 14
Mudassar Hussain Shah, Maryam Waqas, Saima Kausar
Sociometry is the human connectedness analysis. In the present paper, in the sense of CSR on CPEC ventures, an attempt is made to explain and understand sociometry in the assessment of Public Relations practices. CPEC is in the initial phase, and CPEC is seen by politicians an...
pp. 177-193
September 2021
Research Article # 15
Bushra Bannian, Dr. Sardar M.A. Waqar Khan Arif, Professor Dr. Muhammad Mahroof Khan
The objective of study is to assess economic rights of women from Islamic perspective. Pakistan is established in the name of Islam, and hence the organisation and administration of country got full inspiration from religion. It has brilliantly presented a comprehensive patter...
pp. 194-201
September 2021
Research Article # 16
Farhana Akmal, Professor Ashfaque Ahmad shah, Professor Dr. Muhammad Sarwar
Learning outcomes are the written statements that inform learners what they will expect to achieve at the completion of a programme. By following the Bologna process, Pakistan Higher Education Commission established its national qualifications framework (NQF). Theaim of this s...
pp. 202-2018
September 2021
Research Article # 17
Dr. Asma Iqbal, Dr. Uzma Naz
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on June 25, 2021, announced that the status of Pakistan being on its grey list will remain unchanged till it rectifies the single remaining item on the First action plan agreed in June 2018 even Pakistan has made substantial development a...
pp. 219-234
September 2021
Research Article # 18
Uzma Kirn, Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Baig
The primary objective of the study was to seek the effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach and Grammar Translation Method (GTM) on students’ achievement in English grammar in an EEL context. The study at hand focused on linguistic competence only. The n...
pp. 235-248
September 2021
Research Article # 19
Ar. Asia Jabeen, Ar. Nida qanber, Ar. Mazhar Munir
The research involves application of modern technologies for digital documentation, management and monitoring of built heritage in Pakistan for sustainable developments, giving respect to the authenticity and integrity to the cultural landscapes. The purpose of paper is to eva...
pp. 249-262
September 2021
Research Article # 20
Dr. Hakim Ali, Muhammad Hafeez, Dr. Bashir Hussain
Leadership is considered as one of the major factors and sometimes the only factor to determine the success or failure of an educational organization. Ethics is central to leadership because leaders consistently influence their followers’ lives as well as their work place moti...
pp. 263-277
September 2021
Research Article # 21
Tooba Tauqir, Dr. Urooj Fatima Alvi
The study looks at the persuasive power of brand taglines produced by linguistic choices and rhetoric devices in Pakistani context.Thirty taglines representing several brands and collected from different sources were analyzed in this study. The language of selected taglines wa...
pp. 278-295
September 2021
Research Article # 22
Muhammad Abid, Aamer Shaheen, Sadia Qamar
The paper studies Roy’s fictive character of Anjum: an Indian Muslim ‘Hijra’ of Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) as the literary sum total of Indian Muslim’s social experience of communal violence and ‘Othering’ from the theoretical perspective of ‘Postcolonial Subalternization’ as e...
pp. 296-308
September 2021
Research Article # 23
Muhammad Tanveer Ahmed Khan, Babar Hussain
This article estimates the size and determinants of informal employment in Pakistan by applying four empirical measures using data from Pakistan Labor Force Survey (2017-18).The recent debate on informality in the labor market has led to a renewal of informal employment measur...
pp. 309-324
September 2021
Research Article # 24
Dr. Mazhar Iqbal Ranjha, Dr. Samina Ali Asghar, Samina Yasmin
Language learners’ demotivation is one of the key reasons for their failure or poor progress in learning a foreign language. The study aimed to identify the key demotivating factors in learning the language. Findings of the 44 published studies in the past years were analyzed....
pp. 325-338
September 2021
Research Article # 25
Dr. Mahmood ul Hasan, Mr. Saifullah, Dr. Rehmat Ullah
The current research is the long-term and short run impact of real exchange rate variations on growth for Pakistani annual data from 1973 to 2011. Pesaran and Shin (1999) and Pesaran et al. (2001) introduced the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to Co-integration ...
pp. 339-353
September 2021
Research Article # 26
Fozia Gulab, Dr. Shams Hamid
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of administrators, teachers and Grade 9 and 10 students (pre-medical group) regarding the impact of care on the learning of students. The study employed a qualitative research design, and multiple case study method to explore the per...
pp. 354-365
September 2021
Research Article # 27
Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq, Tehniat Munir
Performance of learners is associated with so many other factors as many studies conducted on the analysis of the performance of learners but there are a few studies related to the learners residing at hostels and home at school level which found divided conclusions but at uni...
pp. 366-375
September 2021
Research Article # 28
Dr. Urooj Fatima Alvi, Dr. Shafqat Rasool
The current study investigates the writing or register style of 0.2 million tweets on the topic of online education during Covid-19 in July and August 2020. This pandemic delivered a massive jolt not only to the global economy, health, and business, but also to our educational...
pp. 376-390
September 2021
Research Article # 29
Dr. Saima Butt, Sadia Ashraf
Balochistan had a troublesome start with the federal state of Pakistan. It is a secular tribal society where tribal laws are dominant over the state jurisprudence. General Musharraf who imposed martial law in year of 1999 held general elections in 2002 to gain legitimacy. As a...
pp. 392-403
September 2021
Research Article # 30
Muhammad Saleem, Dr. Shariqa Nasreen
The main purpose of this study was to explore the level of social skills and life satisfaction. A sample of 240 secondary school students randomly selected from the division Gujranwala. Participants were 120 male students out of these 60 were from Govt Schools and 60 from priv...
pp. 404-416
September 2021
Research Article # 31
Aqsa Maryam, Mehwish Sahibzada, Mamoona Asif
Metaphysical conceit as popularized by John Donne has remained a narratlogical enigma considering the truth value of the eccentric, stretched metaphorical ideas presented in this category of poetry. Narratologists like Lewis (1986) have successfully made use of the Possible ...
pp. 417-429
September 2021
Research Article # 32
Dr. Beenish Ijaz Butt
Defining women status in Pakistan is not an easy task as it is a blend of culture, religion and state policies. Hence the status, a Pakistani woman holds in the country can be observed within the structure of cultural practices, applied Islamic laws and state laws.Culturally, ...
pp. 430-443
September 2021
Research Article # 33
Muhammad Jahanzaib
This research paper attempted to explain the US-foreign policy for Pakistan and India. It took account of the main area of the relations that acted as conflicted nature for India and Pakistan post 2001 till 2015, namely, Border Disputes and upon this the US-management is been ...
pp. 444-455
September 2021
Research Article # 34
Dr. Imran Khan, Dr. Karim Haider Syed
This paper is very important historical study on the rural society in Pakistan. There have been numerous historical studies on rural societies in last seven decades but the studies that contain first hand direct information from the people living in the rural society are few. ...
pp. 456-471
September 2021
Research Article # 35
Rabia Aslam, Najmonnisa Khan, Victoria Joseph
The study aimed to find out the impact of learning motivation after the intervention of constructive feedback on students’ academic achievement. A true-experimental research with randomization pretest-posttest control group design was used in the study. The study sample compri...
pp. 472-484
September 2021
Research Article # 36
Anas Mahmud Arif, Naveed Usman, Waheed Alam
The study is aimed to identify some basic problems of museums and community in Peshawar District and their management to make the museum a visitors’ friendly destination. Museums and community are interdependent to flourish. The development of a museum is subject to the intere...
pp. 485-502
September 2021
Research Article # 37
Dr. Imran Anwar Mir, Dr. Asif Mehmood Rana, Dr. Raja Muhammad Waqas
Social media has overwhelmingly changed the behavior of users and organizations worldwide. Users use social media platforms for several reasons. One of them is users’ product information verification motivation. The effect of product information verification motivation (IVM) o...
pp. 503-514
September 2021
Research Article # 38
Samrina Anum, Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Dr. Saira Irfan
The present study focused on the development of an indigenous scale on altruism in Urdu language. With the help of literature, expert point of view and personal observation, the initial draft of items was prepared. Pilot study was conducted to see the effectiveness and length ...
pp. 515-526
September 2021
Research Article # 39
Dr. Akber Ali, Faiza Muneeb, Rashid Hussain
News about China is ubiquitous, yet we know very little about how the news media has represented China in the global media sphere.This study aims at providing a theoretical overview of the global media representations of China. Arguably China remains one of the few countries w...
pp. 527-537
September 2021
Research Article # 40
Nagina Jamil, Dr. Taqadus Bashir
The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of cognitive dissonance bias on investors' decision-making, with an emphasis on the moderating effect of emotional intelligence. Cognitive and emotional stages may obstruct rational investment decision-making. This study pro...
pp. 538-552
September 2021
Research Article # 41
Mohammad Yasir, Dr. Aurang Zaib, Mufti Sanaullah
The purpose of this study is to analyze Iqbal's criticism of modern secular democracy, focusing on its limitations and exploitative nature. Western political philosophers acknowledge the failure of secular democracy, with sovereignty often dominated by elected rulers. Economic...
pp. 553-563
September 2021
Research Article # 42
Muhammad Ali, Dr. Zahid Yousaf
The rapid growth of digital technologies has converted advertising practices and commercial activities worldwide, including business-to-business (B2B) marketing in evolving economies such as Pakistan. Online platforms are being extensively used by business organizations to acc...
pp. 564-584
September 2021