PUTAJ Humanities and Social Science

Author(s):Rooh ul Amin & Asma Shakir Khwaja

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Pak-US relations are defined with frequent ups and down in roller coaster motion from engagements to estrangement with shifting priorities of US. Pakistan, Once the most allied ally in 50s, turned in to most sanctioned ally of the United States in 90s. The discord in bilateral relations was transformed in to cooperation by 9/11 terrorists attack on US and Pakistan is listed as key ally in the War against terror in Afghanistan. Since the commencement of War against Terror in Afghanistan the pattern of inter states relation has taken turns with every major event and the changing tones of the last few years indicates that the sky over Pakistan once again seems to be overcast. The rhetoric of “do more” and suspension of all kind of military and economic aid is replica of the past. The backlash of War in Afghanistan appeared with bangs in Pakistan threatening its peace and stability on one hand and polarizing its socio-political fiber of the society on the other. Soon Pakistan’s army was left alone by US and the NATO in its operation against the safe heavens of terrorists alongside Durand line with disregard to all of its human and economic cost, suffered as non-NATO ally. Pakistan’s importance has once again being signified on the wake of US current strategy of Withdrawal of its forces and successful culmination of Afghan peace process. Pakistan needs to play its card as bargaining chip to seek US weight in resolving its economic, security and Kashmir related issue in

Author(s):Munazza Saleem

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Pakistan is the world's sixth most populous country having 64% population below the age of 30. Yet we don’t have billion-dollar social enterprises like the ones in other developing countries, such as Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia. Even our neighboring country India with similar dynamics and complex environments has more social entrepreneurs and billion-dollar companies as compared to Pakistan. The purpose of this study is to find out as to why our youth is more inclined toward safer jobs than starting their enterprise especially social entrepreneurship which can generate value. What initiatives and support the government needs to provide to the youth, to encourage them to start their businesses. The study explores the burning issues of the country and in which specific sector Pakistani youth has been most active so that the government can solve their problems and provide solutions making a living through entrepreneurship in a respectable way especially for women. The paper also studies women who have been running successful social enterprises in Pakistan, what were their motivations and success factors. The study makes recommendations by studying both successful and unsuccessful ventures in the past few decades via content analysis of secondary data.

Author(s):Ahmad Khan & Muhammad Saeed

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This study was designed to find out the level of satisfaction and emotional attachment of international students with quality services provided by university. The study was quantitative and descriptive in nature. The population of the study was 366 international students studying in one general and one professional public sector HEC recognized university. A sample of 366 international students was selected through census sampling technique. One self-developed instrument Emotional Attachment (EA), and one adapted instrument Students’ Satisfaction with University Services Quality (SSUSQ) for data collection were used. Both questionnaires contained items at five points Likert type rating scale. Cronbach’s coefficient alpha reliability of (SSUSQ) was 0.89 and for (EA) reliability was 0.76. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to find out level of satisfaction and emotional attachment of international students with services delivered by university. Results revealed that there was no significant difference with respect to demographic variable (i.e. gender, university, and program)related to students’ satisfaction and emotional attachment with university services quality. The study recommended that all the educational stakeholders and university management may be engaged to enhance the standards and quality of services which were provided by Higher Education Commission(HEC).

Author(s):Syed Faiq Sajjad Shah, Qurat ul Ain, and Hina Nosh

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Gypsies are always a unique group of people in the society. They have very poor image on society due to their poor and low living of standards, illiterate behavior, their firmness towards their unknown culture, their less opportunity towards noble jobs. The following research thus, aims to investigate the socio economic problems of the gypsies. Interview Schedule was designed to collect the data of 30 respondents (including 18 male and 12 female) from those gypsies who were willing to give interview, by using Convenience sampling technique. The services of trained female students were used for collection of the data. The main objectives of this study was to find out the socio economic status of gypsies. Problems being faced by them and the causes of socio-economic problems of gypsies. The relevant data was collected and analyzed with the help of SPSS, and then conclusions were drawn accordingly. According to the conclusion, Illiteracy, poverty, laziness and their loyalty to their own culture were the main cause of their present status in the society. In addition the main source of income was beggary which is mostly done by their females. And prefer to live a self-centered life. One of the main problems being faced by them was that People distrust and avoid them because people usually associate them with either music and dance or theft.

Author(s):Maryam Tahira Gondal , Asad Munir, and Ghulam Shabir

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Social media is working as a change agent in different areas of our routine life, Political awareness is one of them. With ever rising young population, social media offers this adventure in safety and privacy at our homes. Logging into Facebook looking at the newsfeed and sharing stuff has become our daily habit. Country like Pakistan where politics is the core area of discussion everybody takes interest in it. Pakistani youth has become the target public on social media by the political parties for their vested interests and propaganda. This quantitative research has been conducted to investigate the intensity of change in political attitude of youth using facebook.

Author(s):Samina Bibi , Fazlur Rahman

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Throughout the world, urban land use and land cover change is a common phenomenon in both developed and developing countries of the World. The main driving forces behind this process are rapid population growth due to natural increase and large scale rural urban migration. Urban population of the developing countries specifically in Asia is increasing at a very rapid rate. Consequently, there is substantial stress on the existing urban centers to accommodate the increasing population. Additionally, in these countries urban planning is in a juvenile stage and the relevant authorities consistently remain under political pressure. The absence of strict plan implementations and lack of monitoring are also creating problems in the implementation of byelaws and building codes. This study is an attempt to explore the illegal land use conversion in the University Town Peshawar. It is based on official data collected from Town III office and comprehensive field survey conducted in the study area in 2016. Analysis of the available data revealed that the high class residential neighborhood has been considerably transformed through infill development and illegal conversion of approved land uses.

Author(s):Muhammad Shahid & Bakht Zaman

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This is very much difficult to deny the increasing role of technology in expressing one’s views, opinions and ideological convictions. Social media has the power to affect the political, economic and social choices of the people. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of social media in the mobilization of Pashtun community. In this connection, we study the role of social media in the formation of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). We collect primary data through random sampling. The findings of our study indicate that social media proved highly instrumental in the mobilization of people to attend Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). We also find that combination of factors including history of deprivation, the discriminatory behavior of the state institutions, humiliation at check posts and demands for the recovery of missing persons lead to the formation of PTM. We conclude the presence of theseother factors as necessary but not the sufficient condition for the mobilization of people. Social media provide the sufficient condition to motivate and activate the masses to attend these gatherings.

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