adnan ahmad dogar

COVID-19 indiscriminately impacted all the segments of the global society. Due to the unstructured job market, women in the informal sector were at high risk to experience the adverse effects of the pandemic. This paper aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women domestic workers and their families. Semi structured interviews conducted with fifty-four women domestic workers in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan were analyzed in five themes: disruption caused by lockdown, loss of livelihood, economic hardships, social support mechanism, and challenges faced during the pandemic. The study underlines that the pandemic left severe impacts on access to basic services, employment, food security at household level and pattern of expenditures. The plummeting economic activities led to sudden drops in earnings that forced families to sell their assets and incur debts. Respondents lamented over the social support system and considered it a necessary but not sufficient conditi...

La presente These porte sur le partage des eaux des fleuves internationaux entre pays riverains. Notre objectif a consiste a etudier cette question sous l'angle de la negociation. L'outil de la negociation qui a ete retenu s'appuie sur le cadre des jeux non-cooperatifs. Bien que les developpements de cette These soient d'ordre qualitatif, les differents modeles qui en ont resulte ont ete construits a partir d'exemples d'accords qui ont ete effectivement signes. Cela nous a conduit a integrer des caracteristiques propres a ce type de negociation. Dans notre cas, les caracteristiques retenues etaient au nombre de quatre: (1) la presence de contraintes domestiques dont le role est particulierement crucial lorsque les pays sont confrontes a un stress hydrique; (2) le recours a des menaces, en l'occurrence la menace de soutenir un groupe rebelle pour inciter le pays avec lequel on negocie a proposer des offres consequentes; (3) la presence d'un engagement ...

Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study was to analyze the socio-cultural constraints that affect different dimensions of women empowerment in rural areas of Punjab province. Political participation and self-esteem were taken as dominant characteristics of women empowerment among lots of variables that collectively define women empowerment. Methodology: A mixed-method approach was used to study different dimensions of women empowerment. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to collect the data from 85 respondents excluding widows and divorced women. Two focus group discussions were conducted, one in each village to further understand the phenomenon or empowerment and constraints faced by women. The data got analyzed by using tables and graphs made in MS Excel. Main findings: Findings of the study indicate that although cultural constraints hinder the process of women empowerment a great deal, a husband's education along with a woman's education plays a sign...

The response of an organization to globalization, in a pure economic and competitive environment, is termed as internationalization. Internationalization of educational institutes refers to the policies of educational institutes that make it more visible at international level, be it attracting more international students, sending its students abroad for international exposure or joint research projects at regional or national level. The study was designed to analyze the internationalization strategy of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, how did it impact the research output of the faculty members and also the roles of academia. A case study method was used focusing on qualitative dimension. Content analysis and In-depth interviews of randomly selected faculty members from two departments of the institute were conducted. It was concluded that CIIT banks on extensively enhanced efforts in reaching to research agreements with international research institutes and universitie...

Religious institutions have become a highly debated field especially after the incident of 9/11. A section of scholars held madrassa students responsible for growing unemployment and despair in the society. Besides the formal education in Pakistan hundreds of thousands of students are also studying in madrassas. The curricula being taught in madrassas is out dated and nonconforming with the contemporary needs of the society. The study analyzed the motivation behind student enrollments in the madrassas and socio economic role of the passed out students of madrassa. Primary data was collected from 143 respondents consisting of enrolled and passed out students, teachers and administration staff of madrassas through questionnaires followed up with in depth interviews and focus group discussion. The study revealed that high number of students (58% male &52 female) joined madrassa due to the poverty. Overall 70% parents were found to be illiterate or less educated (illiterate 15%, & below...

Policy guidelines against sexual harassment in institutions of Higher Learning were introduced in 128 public sector universities across Pakistan in January 2011. However, there has been an increase in the number of reported cases of sexual harassment that became prominent in mainstream media, so the institutional mechanism and the official definition of sexual harassment still needs a lot of clarity. The study aims to investigate the perception, prevalence and awareness of sexual harassment among university students along with possible causes of underreporting of the incidents of sexual harassment. Stratified random sampling and purposive sampling were used for data collection from students and members of sexual harassment committees respectively. The research findings revealed that sexual harassment at campus is a common phenomenon although majority of the cases go unreported owing to different institutional and cultural constraints. Instead of reporting to university administratio...