The study examines various issues in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations in the context that emerged after 9/11. It argues that security maintenance and various development pursuits (political and economic) of both Pakistan and Afghanistan considerably rely upon cordial and mutually cooperative relations between these two immediate neighbours. However, there exists trust deficit and the war against ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of infrastructure for and in ascertaining captivations of foreign direct investment (FDI). This work aims to investigate the effects of host country's infrastructure availability along with exchange rate and market size on inflows of FDI towards Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs autoregressive distributed lag (A...

Researchers in the discipline of electronic government (e-Government) have historically presented several factors impeding the adoption and implementation of these systems. This paper is uniquely aimed at investigating the factors inhibiting e-Government adoption in a developing country – Pakistan. The literature indicates that the move towards integrated service provision and transactional e-G...

Tuberculosis is and had remained a major health problem in both developing and developed 1 countries including Pakistan. According to world health organization Pakistan ranks 8th amongst the countries with highest burden of TB in the world and the incidence of sputum positive TB 2 cases in Pakistan is 80/100,000 per year . So in Pakistan a country of 170 million, approximately 1.5 million (1%) ...

This article aims to critique the impact of Structural Reform Strategies of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) upon the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan. The key contention of this article is that the absence of social justice in Pakistan is a consequence of the interaction IFIs policies and weak structures of governance, the rule of law and development introduc...

This study tries to answer the question, “has macroeconomic instability detrimental impact on gross domestic product of Pakistan over the period of 1980 to 2012?” For reviewing macroeconomic instability a comprehensive macroeconomic instability index is constructed by incorporating inflation rate, unemployment rate, trade deficit and budget deficit. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model h...

Liaqat Ali 1,2, Saeed Islam 1, Taza Gul 1, Ilyas Khan 3, L. C. C. Dennis 4,∗ , Waris Khan5 and Aurangzeb Khan 6 1 Department of Mathematics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, KPK, Pakistan; [email protected] (L.A.); [email protected] (S.I.); [email protected] (T.G.) 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, CECOS University, Peshawer 25000, KPK, Pakistan 3 Department of Mathem...

1Health Oriented Preventive Education (HOPE), Karachi, Pakistan. 2World Health Organization, Sindh, Pakistan. 3TB Control Programme, Pakistan. ABSTRACT We investigated gender differences in knowledge of and attitude towards tuberculosis (TB) in urban and rural communities in Sindh province, Pakistan. Knowledge of symptoms was generally deficient, particularly in rural females. Regarding TB prev...

Page 1 of 5 Pakistan, politics and polio Sania Nishtar a Heartfile, 1 Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan. Correspondence to Sania Nishtar (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 7 April 2009 – Revised version received: 30 June 2009 – Accepted: 16 July 2009 – Published online: 8 December 2009) The United Nations Secretary General’s concern over the recent resurgence of polio ...

A new species of cicada, Cicadatra ziaraticasp. n., is described from Pakistan. Male genitalia, timbal and opercula are described and illustrated as important diagnostic characters. Biological notes are also provided. A key to the known Cicadatra of Pakistan is provided.