Treatment Of Environmental Issues In Leading Pakistani Dailies
Environmental issues are contemplated as the most frightening and challenging issues that occurred due to climate change. These environmental issues are disturbing the whole world including living species. Pakistan is also facing issues regarding environmental changes. Pakistan is considered the 7th most susceptible country in terms of environmental disasters. The current research is conducted to study and analyze the treatment of Pakistani English papers in the coverage of ecological issues and the basic drive of this research is to evaluate the “media representation of environmental issues” as discussed in leading Pakistani dailies (Dawn and The News). The content analysis is used to know the frequency and direction of environmental issues. The universe of the study contains textual content of print media including news stories and editorials. It is concluded that The News, gives more coverage to environmental issues as compared to Dawn newspaper in terms of news stories and editorials.
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Environmental Issues, Media Representation, Pakistani English Dailies, Content Analysis
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(1) Nasim Ishaq
School of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Ghazala Kanwal Ejaz
Govt. Fatima Jinnah College (W), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Noor
Govt. Fatima Jinnah College (W), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
An Investigation of India's and Pakistan's Legal Systems through the Lens of Rule of Law
The rule of law furthers the goals of nationhood and peace throughout developmental processes. It's the bedrock of a free society, and democratic values are nothing more than a buzzword if the courts aren't entirely independent and the legislature and president don't treat them with the respect they deserve. Respect and autonomy thrive when one state institution may rein in the authority of another state institution (a phenomenon known as "horizontal accountability"). The principle of separation of powers among governmental authorities is essential to the rule of law. This paper will compare the rule of law in India and Pakistan, with a particular emphasis on the role of the judiciary in each country's legal system. It will also investigate the facts surrounding the question of whether or not governmental powers are constrained when it comes to protecting citizens' basic liberties. At the same time, the effects of a purely hypothetical version of the rule of law on its observance will be examined. The study will also compare and contrast the two nations' levels of representative government and the ease with which citizens may obtain civil justice.
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Rule of Law, Constitutionalism, Legal System, India and Pakistan
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(1) Saadat Ali Nadeem
PhD Scholar Department of Law, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Rao Imran Habib
Professor, Department of Law, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Malik Zia-ud-Din
Assistant Professor, Department of Law, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
Impacts of Working Capital Management on Profitability: A Case Study on Pakistan Cement Sector
This study examined ten cement businesses that are listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) to determine the impact that working capital management has on a company's profitability. A systematic selection technique was used to choose every tenth of Pakistan's cement industry for the study. The websites of these cement businesses' annual reports were used to gather primary data. Financial ratios were used in the study and quantitative data analysis was used to determine whether the link between the variables was positive or negative. Since a variety of factors also affect return, we added the control variables of firm size (sales log) and sales growth. According to study findings, the Payable Deferred Period (PDP) has a favourable influence on profitability, the Return on Assets has a negative impact on the inventory collection period, and the Receivable Collection Period and PDP are
independent variables, but their relationship is not very strong.
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Returns on Assets (ROA), Inventory Collection Period (ICP), Receivable Collection Period (RCP), Payable Deferred Period (PDP), and Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX).
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(1) Haniya Zia
M.Phil. Scholar, Management Sciences, Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Adeel Rahim
Lecturer in Finance, Department of Management Sciences, FATA University, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Maqsood Haider
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, FATA University, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
An Exploration into the Research Difficulties Faced by M.Phil. Scholars in Pakistani Universities
This qualitative study has been conducted under the interpretivist paradigm to explore the research difficulties faced by the MPhil Scholars during their MPhil Thesis phase. There were 25 MPhil Scholars studying in five Universities based in the Punjab who have been selected purposively for this study. These Scholars were enrolled in the MPhil, Education program. The data have been collected with the help of a semi-structured interview protocol comprising 12 questions. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the collected data. The results revealed that the majority of the students were not forced to select their supervisor on teachers’ referrals. However, the majority of the students were not given the opportunity to select their topics for research, rather their supervisors allotted them the topics. Similarly, their supervisors and even the chairperson(s) of the department(s) were not easily available to them. The students also have faced issues regarding access to the university E-library, needed books from the library and paid content, etc.
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Research Difficulties, Pakistani Universities, MPhil Scholars
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(1) Rukhsana Bashir
Assistant Professor, Institute of Special Education, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Sahrish Saba
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Shifa Tameer e Milat University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Abid Hussain
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, Comsats University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Investigating the Push and Pull Factors for Effective Football Coaching in Pakistan
These factors contain a variety of intangible socio-psychological motivations that represent an individual's intrinsic desires and push consumers towards certain behavior patterns that are goal-driven.On the other hand, "pull" factors, which are connected to the athlete, allude to the many diverse elements of a football game. It is very necessary to have a better knowledge of the push–pull interaction for players to be able to play in a way that will fulfill the expectations of coaches who have varying demands. The qualitative method was used to gather the information from the participants. The push-and-pull coaching philosophy was found to be most closely related to the tactical and technical aspects of the game, according to the findings of the analysis. Instead of functioning as a clear guide to examine and support each coach's particular practice, coaching philosophy served instead as a signifier in power relations, which allowed it to rationalize coaching practices.
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Football, Push-Pull factor, Coaching, Coaching in Pakistan
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(1) Junaid Ur Rehman
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Government Sadiq Egerton Graduate College, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Ahsan Ullah
M. Phil Scholar, Department of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Aaqib Iftikhar
M. Phil Scholar, Department of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
Analyzing problematic information in the political discourse in Pakistan: The case of Twitter
This study investigates the prevalence and forms of hate speech and disinformation in the posts of Pakistani populist leaders on Twitter. A total of ten populist leaders’ Twitter accounts were examined through quantitative content analysis. The variables for the hate speech and disinformation were derived from available literature. The results showed that the selected populist leaders tweets contained a sizable amount of disinformation and hate speech. This phenomenon has serious implications for democracy and social cohesion in Pakistan. We emphasize a viable legal frameworks and critical media literacy education to deal with this malaise.
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Twitter, Hate Speech, Disinformation, Populism, Pakistan
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(1) Muhammad Anwar Kakar
Independent Media Researcher, Pakistan.
(2) Shabir Hussain
Professor, Department of media studies, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Farraukh Shahzad
Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies ,Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Stress of Undergraduate Students
The present study was an attempt to understand how emotions are related to academic stress. Emotions are an integral part of a human’s life. The nature of this study was correlational. Students from Education department at the undergraduate university level were selected as a population from both public and private sector universities in Lahore, Pakistan. Questionaries were used to collect data. To explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic stress multiple regression analysis was applied. For comparison between two groups like gender independent sample t-test was used and for comparison between more than two groups like different age groups, one-way ANOVA was applied. The results revealed that students with higher EI suffer less academic stress than others as they are more cognizant of their emotions.
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Emotional Intelligence (EI), Academic Stress (AS), Students, Lahore, Pakistan
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(1) Mahvish Fatima Kashif
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Feza Mehddi
PhD Scholar, STEM Education Department, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Collaboration Trend and its Impact on the Research Productivity in Computer Science Research
Apart from a few bibliometric studies of limited scope, the Pakistani scientific system is a scantly researched area requiring large-scale empirical evidence-based studies. This study aims to explore various features of collaboration in research and its impact on the performance of computer scientists in Pakistan. Over 15,494 SCOPUS-indexed publications in the area of computer science for the period 1997 to 2017, having at least one Pakistani author, were analyzed. The findings of the study disclosed the important role of collaboration in the citation count of the publications. International collaborative works and the more countries in collaboration significantly impacted the number of citations. The study's findings revealed that collaborative publications are more frequently cited and considered of high quality. This study is the first large-scale quantitative analysis of research collaboration, represented by co-authorship in computer science research in Pakistan.
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Research Collaboration, Computer Science, Citation Analysis, Scientometric Analysis, Research Performance, Pakistan.
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(1) Muhammad Asif
Manager, Information Technology University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Khalid Mahmood
Professor, Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Alia Arshad
Assistant Professor, Institute of Information Management, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
A Tale of Two Languages in Blogging: Code-Switching Analysis in Pakistani Blogosphere
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) have brought about a new medium for information sharing and communication and weblogs are becoming more and more popular in the virtual sphere. The process of code- switching can be traced in this fast evolving medium of communication. This paper aims at investigating the existence of code-switching patterns by examining the categories and frequency of Urdu code-switches in Pakistani English weblogs authored by Pakistani bloggers. The quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in this study. The blog entries of 10 Pakistani bloggers were analyzed by using the descriptive research paradigm. The findings illustrated that the linguistic choices of Pakistani bloggers as bilingual internet users are living in between two worlds, two cultures, and two languages which they employ in this mode of communication to fully express themselves. The findings showed the linguistic features that are particular to the context of CMC. The study concluded that the presence of code-switching in CMC have to be considered and treated as a unique and different entity from spoken form or written form of code-switching to capture its fundamental attributes.
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Bilinguals, Code-Switching, Computer-Mediated Communication, Pakistani English Weblogs, Pakistani Bloggers, Weblog
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(1) Kanwal Fatima
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Assistant Editor (English), ORIC, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Samina Amin Qadir
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
The Effects of the Afghan Issue on Pakistan's Political Dynamics: An Analysis of the General Musharraf Administration
After the incident of 9/11, Afghanistan emerged as a terrorist state before the face of the world. To eradicate the militant factors the USA initiated a war against terror with the help of her allies on the soil of Afghanistan. This paper aims to analyze the efforts of Pakistan to bring harmony, peace and development to Afghanistan. The Afghan political scenario is a "multi-political scenario" in which different types of stakeholders show their political legitimacy over the masses. The capitalist class led by the USA and the socialist class by the Russians are the antagonistic factors in this regard. Another major group in this regard is the Islamic agenda group, having a culture of arms and is also a main participant in the Afghan political setup. The political legitimacy of the different groups has de-railed whole the system on the verge of chaos. The main focus of this paper is to determine the struggles of Pakistan to restore the true political system in Afghanistan through the participation of all the stakeholders in the scenario.
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Harmony, Islamization, Legitimacy, Negotiations, Pakistan’s Struggles, Peace, Taliban, wars in Afghanistan
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(1) Sajid Hussain
PhD Scholar, Department of Political Science & IR, Qurtuba University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Azmat Ali Shah
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science & IR, Qurtuba University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Gulzar khan
PhD Scholar, Department of Political Science & IR, Qurtuba University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan