The education system in Pakistan is languishing in an abysmal condition. In the absence of appropriate and consistent policy, the continued depreciation of facilities and erosion of public credibility in the state system many parents are opting out of the state system and moving to the growing private sector. The growth of the non-state sector in education has been steady since denationalizatio...

The legalization of gay marriage has become a contentious issue in the United States, especially for individual state governments. The variation between gay marriage policies in US states ranges from complete ban of all partnership benefits to complete marriage equality for homosexual couples. This study seeks to explain this variation by looking at the possible mechanical factors that could af...

There are many reasons for this change in perceptions. The obvious one is that the East has disappeared. The massive expenditures on armaments, militaries, nuclear deterrence, strategic aid and proxy wars in the third-world and to anti-communist counterinsurgencies are a matter of history. The US declared victory as the sole remaining superpower, and the Second World dissolved into a few lucky ...

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