This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in HIV positive and HIV negative individuals. The sample consisted of two hundred participants (N =200), ... Read More

Since Pakistan’s independence, many Constitutional problems have stemmed from the role of the army in the state. The growing strength of the army and the corresponding weakening of political parties h ... Read More

The year of 1947 is the defining moment in history of the Indian subcontinent, when the British left and created Pakistan and India. These new states emerged carrying huge human suffering as violence ... Read More

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) started his career as a cadet in Russian Army and took active part in Crimean campaign. However, he emerged as the greatest champion of Nonviolence after a prolonged and painfu ... Read More

This article throws light on the meaning of Revelation and Features of Revealed Books in some detail. Account of the media through which God sent the revealed message to His Prophets constitutes a par ... Read More

A sad state of affairs prevails in Afghanistan toady due to outsiders’ meddling in its internal affairs. It is indeed unsettling to note that outsides – the US, Pakistan, India for instance – continue ... Read More

This study aims to evaluate and compare the study habits of students of public and private sector’s schools in district Swabi of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The study is focused on investigating into stu ... Read More

The perennial philosophical problem of freedom and determinism seems to have a solution through the widely known philosophical doctrine called Compatibilism. The Compatibilist philosophers contend tha ... Read More

“The study of proper principle(s) of translation is termed as the translation theory. This theory, based on a solid foundation on understanding of how languages work, translation theory recognizes tha ... Read More

The element of interest or ‘Riba’ is an inseparable part of the economic activities in today’s world. And perhaps it is one of the causes of the business cycles and fluctuations and a hurdle in the wa ... Read More

The Kashmir issue emerged on the world scene in 1947, after the British withdrawal from the Indian sub-continent. Before the partition of the sub-continent, the ruler of Kashmir had option to decide t ... Read More

Pakistan emerged as an independent state in 1947 & has always been beset with innumerable problems – particularly the security problems. We joined SEATO & CENTO mainly because of our security concerns ... Read More

The paper examines the current impasse in the Pakistan-US relations, which have remained fraught with acrimony, and hostage to the Washington’s insistence on Islamabad ‘to do more’ to eradicate the te ... Read More

The book is comprised of fifteen chapters with an epilogue, bibliography and an index. The writer Arthur Swinson (1915-70) was a British Army officer, served in India during Second World War on the Ea ... Read More

The focus of the book, Indian Summer, is mainly on five persons, namely, Lord Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It takes a deep loo ... Read More

This paper evaluates the rising Pakistani Nationalism and suggests how to use it as a tool of public administration for good governance. Pakistani nationalism is on the rise, Pakistan is moving toward ... Read More

Humour & Satire are an integral part of all forms of literature; & when the tragic part of a drama/story becomes unbearable, humour/satire provide a much needed diversion & relief. This article examin ... Read More

The research paper highlights the role of Media, NGOs and Civil Society in promoting pluralism and diversity in Pakistan. Contributions of these organizations in stressing human values such as liberty ... Read More

The research study showed the effects of pre-school education experience on the academic performance of primary school children in District Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. ... Read More

This study was conducted to determine the motivation level of male and female teachers in higher education institutes of Pakistan. The study also aimed to highlight the motivating factors for the teac ... Read More

The study aimed to explore perceptions of public regarding military action in tribal areas of Pakistan with perspective of policies and practices of Inter Services of Public Relations (ISPR). In this ... Read More

The main objective of this paper is to give a detailed account of Pakistan’s Taliban Policy from 1994 to 1999 during the Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif governments. This paper would focus on: the pos ... Read More

This paper attempts to identify whether Qur’ânic concepts provide a basis for a complete thinking on economic life of human beings as the conventional economic thinking claims. Whether the Qur’ânic ap ... Read More

The authors of this article, through this humble effort, have tried to examine the Islamic concepts and teachings regarding the financial support and care of the needy and the deserving. This article, ... Read More

In this paper I contest the conviction that the sciences derive from the desire to know. I argue that the sciences, especially management sciences, are born and developed within certain relations of p ... Read More

By and large, any worldview is an abstract and a philosophic frame of mind towards life, and rest of the world as a whole as opposed to a corresponding worldview. The relationship between mind, langua ... Read More


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