Autobiography has become an ideal vehicle to convey women’s issues and experiences. This genre is also chosen by women to express their deference and resistance. This paper critically examines the a ... Read More
Facing the scarcity of natural resources, high environmental risks and threats, and undependable accessibility, most of the mountain communities have evolved indigenous sustenance strategies through ... Read More
This is a study of voicing onset time for Pashto (L1) and English (L2) plosives with focus on acquisition of English plosives by adult Pashtoon learners. VOT for Pashto and English plosives were mea ... Read More
Though The End of the Affair brings Sarah’s name to the forefront, it is Bendrix’s character that makes her more fascinating for the readers. Sarah’s sainthood evolves out of Bendrix’s insatiable lo ... Read More
This paper analyses James Joyce’s short story Counterparts from the perspective of the narrator and the concept of focalization. The paper begins by giving a brief theoretical exposition of the two ... Read More
Pashto unergatives, like other Pashto constructions, are characterized by splitergativity with reference to tense; thus the subject nominal shows the nominative Case1 in the present and the future t ... Read More
In the remote mountainous valleys management of natural resources is closely associated with ownership regimes and perceived importance of resources for subsistence sustenance. Since livelihood stra ... Read More
Using Jungian model of human development, the question of emotional maturity in relation to psycho-spiritual well-being was explored in the sample of 500 adult population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The ... Read More
This paper focuses on the importance of schema and context in the interpretation of literary texts and its impact on reader and character identity. The understanding of literary texts is aided and e ... Read More
The aim of this paper is to ponder over the term, ‘development’, as a concept with regard to the Third World countries, especially, in relation to Pakistan. Traditionally and historically, the debat ... Read More
This study was conducted to evaluate the main causes and damages of flood (2010) in district Charsadda. Most of the villages in Charsadda District are prone to floods during summer mainly because of ... Read More
Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native is one of Thomas Hardy’s most memorable female characters. Though majority of Hardy’s critics place her at par with Bathsheba Everdene and Elfride Swancourte ... Read More
In many of his critical writings, T.S .Eliot claims to be a votary of classicism. This claim notwithstanding, there are strains of romanticism in his poetry as well as in his essays. The present stu ... Read More
This paper is an attempt to analyse an extract from Shakespeare’s ‚Hamlet‛ in terms of Grice’s cooperative principle. The extract is selected from Act II/ii, ll.170- 219, which consists of a convers ... Read More
This paper is an effort to explore the assignment of structural/abstract Case in Pashto unaccusative constructions from a minimalist perspective. A three pronged approach is adopted in this paper: o ... Read More
Postmodernism is commonly described as incredulity towards metanarratives. A metanarrative is an abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge ... Read More
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice reflects the attitude of the nineteenth century society yet its implications are obvious to the present times as well. The desires, hopes, fears, and social psyche ... Read More
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