Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
668 Followers
Recent papers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The current research was conducted in Dara Adam Khel, Pakistan to explore the structure and procedure of the informal social justice system- commonly known as Jirga. The war on terror made it imperious for tribal Pakhtuns to bring back... more
Background The utilization of plants and plant resources for various ethnobotanical purposes is a common practice in local towns and villages of developing countries, especially in regard to human and veterinary healthcare. For this... more
Peace, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, Development
The question of legality of the Durand Line is not much of an interest for the international political and academic community. Most of the Global Powers readily buy Pakistan’s legal argument and agree that the Durand Line is a sacrosanct... more
At the time of its independence in 1947, 33% of Pakistan was under the forest cover i. By the end of 2015 this cover had fallen to 1.9%, primarily due to deforestation ii. With an annual deforestation rate of 2.1% Pakistan ranks the... more
Pakistan Youth Change Advocates (PYCA) and Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT) are working as part of a consortium that aims to address the issue of girls’ secondary education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The consortium partners are... more
For most young people the transition to adulthood is a difficult phase of their life. During this transition young people have to make very important decisions about their lives including career, living arrangements and future education.... more
AFGHANISTAN, NATO, GOVERNANCE, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN
This essay takes forward previous research on a statue of Hariti in the British Museum's collection further, beyond its iconography, to a social context. It details the historical importance of this image to reflect on how a single image... more
How does a single image communicate to diverse people? Attendant to globalisation is a fear of homogenising difference, and yet, what it has enabled, oftentimes, is a cosmopolitanism that allows for different local practices to coexist... more
The current study titled "Dynamics and Impacts of Peasants' Movement in North-Hashtnagar, District Charsadda, Pakistan, aimed at examining the causes of Peasants' Movement in Hashtnagar and its socioeconomic impacts on peasants'... more
Through this study, the researchers aim to explore the history of Journalism and Mass Communication education in Pakistan in general and the evolution of academic discipline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in particular. The study also... more
IntroductionIn Pakhtun society, proverbs occupy a special place in oral literature and are the most widely used for all folklore (Tair and Edwards, 1982; Akhtar, 1997). Rather than relics of the past, Pashto proverbs are still widely... more
Current research was conducted in the village Toru in District Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The main objective of this research was to understand Pakhtun society through matal (proverbs) with special emphasis on Tarboorwali... more
Conflict management remained important for many years, yet it gained special interests of the managers and researchers in the last decade. Several studies have found the antecedents of conflicts and its impacts on many aspects of the... more
آرمی پبلک اسکول پرحملے کے ایک سال بعد پاکستانی فوج نے جونغمہ تیارکیااس پرلبرل لیفٹ اورقوم پرست عناصرکی طرف سے بہت سخت ردعمل آیا۔ اس نغمہ میں 'دشمن کے بچوں کوپڑھانے 'عزم ظاہرکیاگیاہے جس سے یہ پیغام ملتاہے کہ فوج ایک بارپھرطالبان سے... more
Dr. Mohammad Farooq Khan, an ambidextrous, stood up with ‘innovative’ views, apparently inconsistent with the raditional personality traits and norms of the Pakhtuns, tried to bring a change in the ways and thinking of the people through... more
The enemy: Hefazatul Islam (defenders/protectors of Islam) it is called and just like our Blogger Comrades their strategies and agitation methodology have more elements of similarity than dissimilarity! Our worries peaked when these ‘pure... more
Historically, Kabul has had many different motives for engaging with Pakistani Pashtuns.
Earlier studies (Shah and Shahbaz, 2015) have analysed how post-conflict relief and rehabilitation efforts by development partners in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan did not completely align with local realities, culture and... more
The object of this study is to find out different problems faced by women entrepreneurs in Kohat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. 30 questionnaires were distributed among
Climate change may have detrimental effects on income from crop farming in Pakistan and according to the IPCC (2014), the impacts of climate change will be more vigorous in the coming years. Despite a few studies we still have limited... more
Abstract The present study offers a critical analysis of the resistance movements in which rural poor, in one way or the other, have actively involved and participated in the province of Khyber-Pukhtunaw (North West Frontier Province-NWFP... more
This is a Powerpoint Presentation for those who wished to download and present it but copyright is protected.
It is the illustrated version of an article originally published in the Azad Academy Journal [ISSN 2248-9835] XXII:1 (April 2006), pp. 11-21. It is a socio-historical introductory overview of the Afridi tribe, one of the richest,... more
Federally Administered Tribal Areas unification with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an important move by Pakistan 's govt to handle the matter of law and order and the normalization of the area. This qualitative study is an effort to examine the... more
Pakistan arose from the Indian Empire ashes first as a British Dominion, later as the independent Islamic Republic, therefore with a constitutive definition marked by religion. There is no doubt Islam is the heart of its identity. In... more