About This Issue
October to December, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2021.
Articles
Research Article # 1
Muhammad Qasim, Aqsa Saleem, Muhammad Hafeez
Due to spreading of deadly COVID-19, all the schools, colleges and universities have been closed for ensuring the social distance and to minimize the effects of this pandemic disease. The closuring of educational institutions has shifted the educational system form face to fac...
Research Article # 2
Hafsa Noreen, Mushtaq Ahmad, Abida Parveen
Major objective of the study was to find out the relationship between parenting styles and academic self-concept and major hypothesis of the study was of no significant relationship between parenting styles and academic self-concept. All the students of the 8th class studying ...
Research Article # 3
Nadia Nazeer, Dr. Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hanif Akhter
The study inspects corporate cash holding behavior of firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange during 2013 to 2018. More specifically, we look into the financial determinants of corporate cash holdings and its impact on firm value during 2013 to 2018.Furthermore, the study inve...
Research Article # 4
Dr. Basharat Ali Khan, Dr. Asghar Abbas, Dr. Sadia Dilshad
The objectives of this study were to find out the major causes of interpersonal conflicts of teachers and managing strategies of conflicts at Secondary schools and to compare the opinions of head teachers and SSTs regarding causes of conflicts and managing strategies for confl...
Research Article # 5
Saba Asif, Dr. Zaqia Bano, Uzma Sarwar
Adolescence is a developmental stage of transition from childhood to early adulthood carrying immense stress and pressure among growing youngsters. The elevated level of excitement often leads to emotional sensitivity and social problems among the growing adolescents. The pres...
Research Article # 6
Dr. Fakhra Rashid, Dr. Faisal Shafique Butt, Bilal Khalid
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is serving as a promising project for the citizens of Pakistan. The basic purpose of this research is to explore the influence of CPEC infrastructural development on the local community of Baluchistan and northern areas of Pakistan. This...
Research Article # 7
Dr. Muhammad Awais Mehmood, Dr. Qaiser Rashid Janjua, Dr. M. Ali Saeed
This study has focused towards identification of important management dimensions related to Social Media (SM) marketing in the context of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). The findings of study have highlighted current execution strategies of selected HEIs across various man...
Research Article # 8
Dr. Fatima Syeda, Madiha Aftab, Dr. Faiza Zaheer
This research aims to examine the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov in the light of Gilles Deleuze and Filix Guattari’s concept of Minor Literature. This research is a qualitative study of the protagonist Timofey Pnin, an émigré, who demonstrates all the three characteristics of ...
pp. 105-114
December 2021
Research Article # 9
Lenny Farnon, Dr. Martin Thomas, Syed M. Jaffer Hassan Gardezi
Gender discrimination in Pakistan is strongly discouraged, yet it has been one of the greatest concerns throughout the history of Pakistan. The textbooks currently being used in Pakistan present and represent stereotypical roles that reinforce gender discrimination. This stud...
pp. 115-130
December 2021
Research Article # 10
Nazir Ahmad, Dr. Rozina Sewani, Zahid Ali
The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers’ perceptions of head-teachers’ instructional approaches and its impact on teachers’ competencies at campus schools in Karachi, since lack of teacher competencies has been a substantial issue, as it has remained ineffective t...
pp. 131-146
December 2021
Research Article # 11
Zain Khadija, Dr. Subha Malik, Madiha Nadeem
The present study was carried out to explore how married women discuss their reproductive health issues with their spouses. Gender and power theory was used to describe the effect of sociocultural and economic factors on women’s decision making about the size of the family and...
pp. 147-159
December 2021
Research Article # 12
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yousuf Sharjeel, Kiran Ehsan Ellahi, Salika Marghoob
The study focused on student’s academic performance in undergraduate programs with aim to analyze whether or not Covid-19 impacted the academic performance of undergraduate students. With a sample of n = 124 undergraduate students, the study employed the survey research with p...
pp. 160-172
December 2021
Research Article # 13
Dr. Muhammad Sohail Ahmad, Dr. Taimur Kayani
The paper discusses the animal’s vitality in the poems of Ted Hughes from the perceptive of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Additionally, the notion of animals’ vitality is expanded into mythological or religious dimensions, when animals intercede in human existence and ass...
pp. 173-184
December 2021
Research Article # 14
Afsheen Zeeshan, Dr. Shafei Moiz Hali, Dr. Nauman Ali Talib
Belt and road initiative is strategic economic program that will enhance the economic growth of countries by facilitating through infrastructures development and ease in trading procedures. The case studies discussed in this article from Pakistan, Malaysia and Kazakhstan concl...
pp. 185-193
December 2021
Research Article # 15
Saba Rasheed, Muhammad Owais Ifzal, Nida Tabassum
This research presents a critique on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1623) by using Fanon’s idea of ‘Psycho-Existential Crisis’. Unlike the traditional western criticism that enshrines Shakespeare as the champion of human values and universality, Postcolonial Criticism deth...
pp. 194-204
December 2021
Research Article # 16
Dr. Unsa Jamshed, Amar Jahangir, Dr. Sumaira Shafiq
An eye ball situation emerged on India Pakistan border after terrorists targeted the Indian parliament in 2001. This situation created a tense environment in the region. International and regional powers played their due role to remove the tightness between the two nuclear riv...
pp. 205-216
December 2021
Research Article # 17
Miss Humna, Dr. Qaisara Parveen, Dr. M. Imran Yousuf
The main aim of this study is to examine the Challenges of Using ICT at Secondary Schools in Rawalpindi. Information Communication and Technology is a source of connecting, sharing, transferring, and communicating out knowledge and information around the world. ICT consist of ...
pp. 217-226
December 2021
Research Article # 18
Tehmina Kalwar, Sania Sachal, Wafa Pirzada
This study has investigated the washback of the verbal section of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) on test takers, specifically focusing on washback upon learners’ perceptions, attitudes, and test preparation strategies in Sindh, Pakistan. The study employed a mixed method re...
pp. 227-241
December 2021
Research Article # 19
Abdul Aziz, Dr. Muhammad Akhtar Kang
This study investigated the understanding of the students in the concepts of Geometry at secondary level. Geometry as one of the branches of the mathematics has an important in the study of mathematics. In this study 15 (Girls/Boys) schools were selected. Teachers (Male/Female...
pp. 242-257
December 2021
Research Article # 20
Dr. Ayesha Saleem, Dr. Yaar Muhammad, Dr. Naima Qureshi
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of novice teachers about classroom management and the importance of classroom management at the elementary level in Lahore. Specifically, this study explored the challenges novice teachers faced in their early days and the strategies...
pp. 258-271
December 2021
Research Article # 21
Dr. Rukhsana Durrani, Dr. Fouzia Ajmal, Dr. Miss Saira
This study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of teachers about online teaching for the students of early childhood education level whose age are from 3-8 years. For this purpose, 200 teachers at private schools of urban Islamabad were approached in which 197 have re...
pp. 272-284
December 2021
Research Article # 22
Kashifa Khalid, Usama Javed Iqbal, Muneeba Liaquat
This study aims to analyze the coercion on downtrodden people and the role of the state to legitimize the oppression in Jamil Ahmed’s The Wandering Falcon through the perspective of Althusser’s function of repressive state apparatuses in the capitalist society. It also tends t...
pp. 285-294
December 2021
Research Article # 23
Kashif Iqbal Rana, Imran Wakil, Nosheen Ashraf
The history of federalism in Pakistan has been discussed in this paper. The inception of Pakistan, foundations of federal system, its evolution with the passage of time and its effectiveness in the context of governance in Pakistan has been laid out in the paper. The paper exa...
pp. 295-304
December 2021
Research Article # 24
Azher Khan, Dr. Amna Saeed
This qualitative study aims at exploring certain features of the Target Text (TT) in comparison with the Source Text (ST) and investigating the factors that affect the translation process. Further, the research examines the essence of the original conveyed in the translation a...
pp. 305-323
December 2021
Research Article # 25
Sundas Khizar, Dr. Rana Eijaz Ahmad
Pakistan is now the gateway to Eurasia and this is increasingly becoming a reality in the light of the integration wave launched by China and patronized by Russia. It is a land bridge to Eurasian Economies and a part of Belt Road Initiatives. 9/11 led to many fundamental chang...
pp. 324-336
December 2021
Research Article # 26
Varda Iqbal, Zahida Aziz Sial, Dr. Farah Latif Naz
Sending all children to school is a major millennium development goal related to universalization of primary education around the world. The purpose of the study was to explore the roles of teachers and head teachers in perspectives of millennium development goal of primary ed...
pp. 337-347
December 2021
Research Article # 27
Hafsa Akbar, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad, Shafaq Mehmood
The present study endeavors to unveil the phenomenon of racism as a social, cultural and political concept based on falsehood, and problems of ethnicity in America portrayed in Brit Bennett’s (2020) “The Vanishing Half” under the theoretical framework of Frantz Fanon’s (1952) ...
pp. 348-357
December 2021
Research Article # 28
Dr. Umbreen khizar, Tayyaba Naveed, Hira Khan
The research aimed to examine Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Qualities and Organizational Commitment of School Monitoring Staff in Dera Ghazi Khan District. The objectives of the study were on the way to identify the correlation flanked by emotional intelligence, leadershi...
pp. 358-367
December 2021
Research Article # 29
Tayyaba Ashraf, Dr. Muhammad Abiodullah, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
The purpose of the research study was to find out the presence Social Responsibility skills (as an important area of life skills in the Secondary level curriculum. Data was collected through content analysis of curriculum, National Education Policy, and through opinion of curr...
pp. 368-381
December 2021
Research Article # 30
Neelam Zafar, Dr. Wizra Saeed, Dr. Saira Irfan
The study investigated the psychometric parameters of the Terrorism Anxiety Scale (TAS) (Zafar et al., 2020) to verify and maintain the norms of a reliable and valid assessment measure. The survey method was used to collect TAS responses from teenagers aged 13 to 19 in Lahore,...
pp. 382-393
December 2021
Research Article # 31
Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq, Rabia Rathor, Misbah Saba
The present study explored Rapport of NTS and Non NTS Recruited Teachers in district Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir at Elementary Level. The objective of the study were to explore the perceptions of students toward NTS and non NTS recruited teachers. A survey method was used to ...
pp. 394-404
December 2021
Research Article # 32
Khurram Faizan, Dr. Adeel Abid
Road accident is an eminent, socio-economic, and felonious problem in all developed and under-developed countries. The dynamics and significance of road accidents are changing day by day and it has not been attracted sufficient attention from modern sciences. Pakistan being an...
pp. 405-422
December 2021
Research Article # 33
Syed Shafqat Abbas, Prof. Dr. Rehana Kouser
This study used to find the effect of terrorism attacks over the Overall Pakistan Stock market for the period from January-2005 to December 2019. This study used all the companies registered in the Pakistan stock exchange. By employing ARDL technique this study statistically p...
pp. 423-440
December 2021
Research Article # 34
Ramsha Pervaiz, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad
The study is an attempt to examine the aspects of the relationship between human beings and nature through the Ecocritical study of Paulo Coelho’s novel Alchemist. Through the application of the theory of Ecocriticism, the study explores the role of nature in the lives of huma...
pp. 441-454
December 2021
Research Article # 35
Dr. Imran Khan, Dr. Karim Haider Syed
The Taliban's possible return to Kabul would affect the region, in the short term, the situation in Afghanistan may benefit regional players; China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran but in long term, can become problematic for these nations. This study shed light on the future prosp...
pp. 455-469
December 2021
Research Article # 36
Sobia Siddique, Dr. Fauzia Khawaja
Education for global citizenship is not a new concept, it empowers the students to foster an awareness of others' expectations towards the interconnected world. It helps the learner to develop values and attitudes toward global citizenship education so that they face challenge...
pp. 470-482
December 2021
Research Article # 37
Yousra Ashraf, Syed M. Jaffer Hassan Gardezi, Farheen Saeed
This paper considers gender differences in educational leadership theory and practice in two countries: Pakistan and United Kingdom. The differences are highlighted and explored through a comparative analysis of gender roles and its multitude effects on women. By undertaking t...
pp. 484-498
December 2021
Research Article # 38
Bushra Yasin, Dr. Shafqat Rasool, Dr. Muhammad Azim
It is noticed that students are stay deprived from the practical teaching because our teaching and learning system has its base on rote system. In this paper, researcher tried to bring in teaching method that may support students learning so that they are able to develop their...
pp. 499-510
December 2021
Research Article # 39
Shafaq Mehmood, Hafsa Akbar, Mushtaq Ahmad
The present research study endeavors to probe out the aspects of individual preferences and constraints through the naturalistic study of Hamid’s (2017) Exit West, under the theoretical framework of Zola’s (1964) The Experimental Novel: And other Essays. The purpose of this re...
pp. 511-518
December 2021
Research Article # 40
Dr. Usman Hameed, Zarfishan Qaiser, Khushbakht Qaiser
Digital evidence is any evidence which can be stored, exchanged or generated in electronic form. Such type of evidence has assumed a crucial role in modern day adjudication of criminal cases. In the recent past, digital evidence was treated as secondary evidence in Pakistan, h...
pp. 518-530
December 2021
Research Article # 41
Zahir Khan, Dr. Muhammad Junaid Ghauri, Riffat Alam
On the day of Easter Sunday April 21, 2019 within the span of 20 minutes in Sri Lanka there was a chain of six coordinated suicide attacks in historical churches and standard hotels in the capital city Colombo along with other places. The attacks left at least 253 people kille...
pp. 531-546
December 2021
Research Article # 42
Saima Iqbal, Rabia Aslam, Safia Niazi
Students are the asset of education. Every age of a child vary different needs and level of understanding and learning. “Critical Analysis of the Academic Performance of Students at ‘HSL” is carried out to examine the level of achievement of students due to transition from hig...
pp. 547-557
December 2021
Research Article # 43
Tahira Jabeen, Muhammad Hassan Zia, Huma Hassan
Endeavour of this paper is to grasp the idea of the right of privacy to establish its utility for social conformity and harmony in the postmodern world Islam v modern world. It has so happened in the last few decades that Islamic law and Western ideology seems to be poles apar...
pp. 558-570
December 2021
Research Article # 44
Muhammad Hashim, Dr. Muhammad Imran Pasha, Kanwar Muhammad Yasir Furqan
The current study has focused on the governance issues faced to policy implication and practical implications of the decided immediate precautionary measures. It was a qualitative comparative study of developing countries i.e. Pakistan and India as both countries have almost s...
pp. 571-589
December 2021
Research Article # 45
Abid Iqbal, Dr. Gulzar Ahmad, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akbar Malik
The social specific system is managed by the official and non-official organizations under the umbrella of concluded agreement powers. These are the social work organizations that respect, prefer and defend human basic rights; and with the passage of time they improve the civi...
pp. 590-600
December 2021
Research Article # 46
Salyha Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Muhammad Muzammil Asghar, Umber Riaz
The present study has attempted to focus on the role of education and labor force participation in influencing women's empowerment in Pakistan. The primary data were collected from 200 female respondents from Khanewal district using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique f...
pp. 601-614
December 2021
Research Article # 47
Muhammad Atif Zahid, Dr. Shafqat Hussain, Dr. Qaisar Abbas
This paper investigates the factors affecting the development of social-emotional competence of Muslim and Non-Muslim students at the secondary level in Pakistan. The study was a mixed-method in which the researcher used a QUAN-QUAL sequential explanatory model. All the Muslim...
pp. 615-634
December 2021
Research Article # 48
Mr. Shahrukh, Dr. Muhammad Zia-ur Rehman, Areeb Masood
This study was designed to evaluate the impact of work-family conflict on creative performance, whereas, the paternalistic leadership was tested as the mediating variable in the case of National Highway & Motorway Police. This is a cross-sectional research study having a popul...
pp. 635-651
December 2021
Research Article # 49
Talat Masood
Light verbs have been a topic of discussion for the last six decades. It has been studied cross-linguistically; however, most of the influential accounts of light verbs have been about Indo-Aryan languages, as these languages make extensive use of light verbs in their argument...
pp. 652-664
December 2021
Research Article # 50
Sheeza Tufail, Dr. Iram Rubab, Dr. Muhammad Sabboor Hussain
This study examines the influence of social media on English vocabulary growth and motivation enhancement among ESL students in public and private institutions in Pakistan. This study is descriptive in nature. In this regard, data was gathered through the convenience sampling ...
pp. 665-674
December 2021
Research Article # 51
Mr. Aurangzeb, Dr. Sohail Ahmad Saeed
Appropriation is a process to take or borrow some conventions and beliefs of another culture and practice those conventions and beliefs in their lives merging with their own. Westernization can be defined as a process through which the social setup of eastern areas is changed ...
pp. 665-688
December 2021
Research Article # 52
Muhamad Rafiq, Ghani Rahman, Abdul Hamid
The present study seeks to find out the phonological variations in Pashto spoken in district Swat. The aim of the study is to investigate the phonological variation in the form of verb in two varieties of Pashto spoken in Swat, i.e, in Upper and Lower Swat regions. The study u...
pp. 689-700
December 2021
Research Article # 53
Fareeha Butool, Dr. Musarrat Azher, Faheem Arshad
This study aims to do a Critical Discourse Analysis of the news headlines about Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). For the critical discourse analysis of this current issue, twenty five news headlines are randomly selected from the regional newspapers. The critical discourse ...
pp. 701-713
December 2021
Research Article # 54
Dr. Aamer Shaheen, Mehran Ahmed, Sadia Qamar
The paper critically analyses Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) as a work of Historiographic Metafiction aiming to undermine the authority and veracity of scientific discourses hailing the individuals featured in the novel as men possessing an unp...
pp. 714-725
December 2021
Research Article # 55
Hina Kanwal, Zahida Aziz Sial, Sidra Kanwal
The main purpose of this research article was to find out the effective role of Audio Visual aids for university students. AV aids are the most supportive and encouraging tools of teaching and learning process. For this purpose researcher has made a questionnaire of 33 stateme...
pp. 726-736
December 2021
Research Article # 56
Shahla Gul, Qaisara Parveen, M. Imran Yousuf
In social sciences, research supervision with ethical considerations is crucial at universities. This study is designed to identify the gap between research students and supervisors in implementation of ethical research standards. Being a survey type study, population comprise...
pp. 737-751
December 2021
Research Article # 57
Dr. Masroor Sibtain, Junaid Mahmud, Muhammad Omer
This study examines the difficulties experienced by second-generation immigrants in establishing their identities as depicted in Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia." It seeks to draw a comparison in identity creation between the characters in this novel and general immig...
pp. 752-765
December 2021
Research Article # 58
Muhammad Asghar Shaheen, Aisha Shoukat, Muhammad Jafar
The current study sets out for investigating socio-economic barriers restricting women participation in local government system in District Bahawalpur. Women are actively participating in all fields of life in developed nations which is source of motivation for women in develo...
pp. 766-778
December 2021
Research Article # 59
Dr. Muhammad Shafiq, Dr. Muhammad Ikramullah Khan
Orientalism is a popular political, cultural and intellectual perspective that is used in studying the history of people of the East by the Western thinkers. The Europeans originated this notion in colonial era, advanced in post-colonial period and even now is frequently used ...
pp. 779-790
December 2021
Research Article # 60
Dr. Asma Aftab, Dr. Aamer Shaheen, Fareena Aslam
The present article is a critical and reflective reading across three texts produced in the wake of the 1971 War between Pakistan (formerly East Pakistan) and India culminating in the secession and making of Bangladesh. The selected texts which include Moni Mohsin’s End of Inn...
pp. 791-803
December 2021