Governance of the informal economy, especially of the informal marketplaces has attracted considerable attention in the recent decades. This paper contributes to this literature by arguing that conc ... Read More
Democracy is one of the universal and indivisible core values and principles to develop an inclusive society. In any democratic state, the will of the people is the basic requisite to derive the aut ... Read More
Local government in Pakistan is classified as the third tier of government where since 1947, politicians and bureaucracy of every hue, had has redirected all channel of power and physical resources ... Read More
The 1973 constitution of Pakistan was framed in the light of experiences of 1956 and 1962 constitutions and implemented with consensus of all major political parties. The federal constitution of 197 ... Read More
Federations establish power-sharing instituions at the federal level to empower the minority groups. Federal bicameralism is a part of power-sharing mechanisms that promote the shared-rule through a ... Read More
Internal Displacement is one of the major issues Pakistan is facing. Pakhtuns living in FATA and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have mainly been displaced by conflict. Numerous large and small-scale mi ... Read More
In the aftermath of terrorist incident of 9/11 the interest of the world powers was drawn to the issue of ungoverned spaces (UGSs) in the world. The tribal region along the Durand Line known as Fede ... Read More
The term “Pashtun” is an ethnonym, idealized for its association with bravery, dignity, love of honour, and hospitality. However, the term began to lose its ideal shades after 9/11. The cause has it ... Read More
Women have always remained a marginalized segment of the society for they have been considered an insignificant entity that cannot outperform men in social, political and educational spheres. The de ... Read More
This research elaborates the impact of three divergent FM radio channels in Bajaur Agency on its people. These three channels, a seminary-run channel, Taliban radios, and a channel installed by mili ... Read More
The traditional concept of security, related to military threats, has been changed. The concept of security is now associated to humans. According to UN Human Development Report 1994, human security ... Read More
Pakistan Tribal Areas are distinct due to their buffer status between Afghanistan and Pakistan’s settled areas. This territory has been kept bereft throughout the history, whether it was under the B ... Read More
The present descriptive study aimed to explore influence of gender, professional education and experience on self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school teachers. Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy Sca ... Read More
The first Greek expedition to Indus Valley (now Pakistan) focused on surveying the Course of River Indus. The Geek came into contact with the people of this area for the first Time in the rein of th ... Read More
This research study mainly elaborates the viewpoint of leadership of higher education institutions regarding intercultural and multicultural harmony. The study also explores the real circumstances a ... Read More
There is a strong consensus in the literature about the key role of school leadership for the improvement and promotion of students’ learning outcomes in secondary schools. British Council Pakistan ... Read More
The study focuses on the differences in religiosity measurement of the Muslims students studying in different schools like Christian Missionary School and Islamic Schools in Rawalpindi and Islamabad ... Read More
The aim of the paper is to analyze and discuss how cultural elements have been used in advertising, targeting a specific cultural group. Eight exhibits from a purposively selected television ad of t ... Read More
Women’s political participation is sine qua non of women’s empowerment movement. Pakistan is a developing democracy where citizens are given equal political rights without any gender discrimination. ... Read More
Xi Jinping’s speeches at Asia Pacific Cooperation Summit and Davos Economic Forum sounded more like the addresses traditionally made by US presidents—praising free trade, integration, and openness. ... Read More
Street children exist in all under developed and developing countries. Street children spend most of the time in streets and are forced to work in order to support their families. They are abused an ... Read More
The present study explored teachers’ deviant behavior and its impact on students’ academic performance of Peshawar University at BS level. The study was quantitative in nature. The population includ ... Read More
In the twenty first century, television journalism has witnessed immense development and transformation. News agencies have emerged as global 24- hours news outlets. The news values and traditions h ... Read More
The significance of institutional owners in monitoring corporate behavior is still to be explored deeply in Pakistan. This present study investigates the influential impact of different groups of in ... Read More
This paper empirically investigates how the degree of debt specialization varies because of profitability levels, affecting the organizational determinants and debt structure choices. Using a novel ... Read More
The foremost objective of this research paper is to scrutinize the effect of Communicative Approach, in contrast to Traditional Approach, on male and female students’ retention of the learnt materia ... Read More
Performance appraisal is one of the most important activities of human resource management. For an organization to achieve its strategic goals the organization shall give due importance to the integ ... Read More
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, to find out disparity in gross pay of the employees serving in the same Basic Pay Scale (BPS) in the Federal Government of Pakistan and to examine the c ... Read More
Pakistan and China all-weather friends have strengthened their economic, political and strategic relations with the passage of time. Both of them emphasize their economic relation that remains negle ... Read More
Effective border management between Iran and Pakistan is an area in bilateral relations where tactical coordination could eventually result in strategic convergence. This is due to the affiliated co ... Read More
Pakistani politics is full of political rhetoric. Attractive slogans are used by leaders of political parties to inspire and set the mood of public about a particular issue. Even parliament is negle ... Read More
Human nature, the common legacy of man, has always been the topic of debate of various discourses, including the Qurān and the works of William Shakespeare. That man by nature is upright has been an ... Read More
The present study attempts to look into the temporal and spatial variations in human development across the districts of Punjab. The spatial variations in human development have been shown by calcul ... Read More
Pakistan’s economy faces severe energy shortfall since the decades of 1990s, and it has severe impacts on various sectors of the country. The shortfall is the difference between supply and consumpti ... Read More
This article "Roadmap for Ensuring Good Governance in Islamic Perspective" is a reflection of the different duties an Islamic state is bound to discharge in religious, political, social, economic & ... Read More
The present study was planned to find out the impact of socio economic status on social support, social isolation, and social and emotional loneliness among older adults. Three scales were used in p ... Read More
Since last decade, as the number of working women is increased, their vulnerability to harassment has also increased all around the globe. In Pakistan, working women are also facing harassment. In t ... Read More
The present study aims to empirically analyze the extent and depth of multidimensional poverty in Pakistan. The dimensions covered by present study are education, health, house services, quality of ... Read More
The study was conducted to find out the effects of professional commitment on workplace spirituality. The research was carried out at the private sector business schools of Peshawar, Pakistan. Three ... Read More
The study analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth. The scope of assessment is broadened by allowing the impact of decentralization on growth to depend on nation’s quality o ... Read More
Temperament is said to be more functionally related to behavior then the structural view of personality. This research describes an attempt to develop a temperament scale for the use of clinical and ... Read More
One of the extreme forms of domestic violence is honour killing and every year hundreds of women become victims of honour killings around the world including Pakistan. Many people give justification ... Read More
The current study investigated the predictive relationship between spousal psychological violence, coping strategies and psychological well-being in married women. The assumptions included that (a) ... Read More
Evolution and effectiveness of an international climate change regime to address impacts of global climate change demand understanding complexity of the underlying political and economic underpinnin ... Read More
This study explores the relationship between institutional shareholding with stock returns volatility in 195 non-financial firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The panel data of sample fir ... Read More
The role of government is critical in providing key services to education, so is that of decision makers. People sitting in the parliament make the most important decisions about the education syste ... Read More
The Islamic reformism of eighteenth and nineteenth century India deeply affected the shrine culture of the Punjab. Various movements contested the then prevalent phenomenon of saint and shrine vener ... Read More
Reason and revelation are amongst the concepts with which Islamic philosophy was to wrestle throughout its history. The problem of the relationship between revelation and reason is indeed one of the ... Read More
Pakistan is a patriarchal society where the ideology of a woman’s place has focused on domesticity. The principal division between the roles of women and men is based on women’s association with chi ... Read More
This qualitative and interdisciplinary study experiments with the emerging digital hypertexts, composed in multimodal/ multi-sequential representational form, in order to understand the intricacies ... Read More
The present work discusses one of the many prodigies happened in the life of Buddha. The happening discussed in this work is about the event when Buddha’s divine power was put to test by a Brahman w ... Read More
Women empowerment is a multidimensional and emerging proposition that is frequently elaborated diversely. Gender parity and equality are important components for reducing the under-representation of ... Read More
The focus of this research paper is rare and important collection of artifacts excavated from the Buddhist site of Nimogram Swat Pakistan. The excavations conducted during 1967 and 1968 at site of N ... Read More
Apparently, Pakistani media is considered as one of the vocalists in the South Asia. This study surveyed 242 Pakistani journalists from across the country to investigate their journalistic autonomy. ... Read More
The study focuses on the sympathetic activation of service quality attributes on customer loyalty of the passengers/customers of the Pakistan Internal Airline (PIA). The data were collected from the ... Read More
The primary focus of the present study was to determine the impact of parent-child relationships (PCR) on adolescent aggression as moderated by adolescent and parent gender, and socioeconomic status ... Read More
Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan are the focus of world attention once again after the incident of 9/11. FATA has remained in international focus since the turbulent Cold War ... Read More
The role of theory and practice has been conceptualised in multiple ways vis-à-vis the development of teachers as reflective practitioners. Reflection has been associated with theory and practice bo ... Read More
Drawing on time-series data from Khyber Pukhtun Khuwa (K.P.K) province (the Northern Pakistan), an attempt has been made to evaluate the role of investment on primary education sector in improving l ... Read More
Pakistani service sector is growing rapidly, however there is a scarcity of empirical investigation related to supply chain issues in wireless internet services in Pakistan. This Study provides a st ... Read More
Using a sample of 20 developing Asian countries, this study analyzes how general price level affects output per worker through the channels of capital output ratio and total factor productivity (TFP ... Read More
Jihadist ideology in the religious intellectual discourse, accelerated in the recent years in Pakistan is having its roots in an atomistic approach to the holy texts and a narrative which sanctified ... Read More
Internal migration has been considered as an opportunity to improve socio-economic status by people belonging to lower socio-economic stratum. However, studies lack on the role of individual genders ... Read More
This research presents the art and architecture of the Pharwala fort which is lying in oblivion, mourning its glorious past. Detailed study of the art and architecture of the fort has been undertake ... Read More
