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Influence of Westernized Culture on Women Via Television Drama and Films: a Survey of Lahore District
Citation: Hussain, T., Iqbal, A., & Yaseen, M. A. (2020). Influence of Westernized Culture on Women Via Television Drama and Films: A Survey of Lahore District. Global Regional Review, V(IV), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).05 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).05 DOI: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-IV).05 Influence of Westernized Culture on Women Via Television Drama and Films: A Survey of Lahore District Tanveer Hussain* Ashraf Iqbal† Muhammad Asif Yaseen‡ Vol. V, No. IV (Fall 2020) | Pages: 43 ‒ 58 p- ISSN: 2616-955X | e-ISSN: 2663-7030 | ISSN-L: 2616-955X The study is conducted to investigate the “Influence of westernized culture on eastern women via tv drama and films.” Tv drama and films play an important role in women and youth life as it influences their lifestyle, dressing sense and language as well. In this research, the researcher wants to know the influence of western culture on eastern women. The data was collected from a sample of 130 women in Lahore via an online questionnaire survey. Five research questions were developed in this research which focuses on the influence of western culture on eastern women, their lifestyle, dressing sense, their speaking style and for how long the influence remains on them. The researcher analyzed that there are choices to women Abstract whether to influenced or not but the western culture replacing eastern culture and playing an important role in people’s life through drama and film content. It’s also the fact that only a small number of women are in favor to ban the western content. -
A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Mishaal Afteb University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected]
University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Honors Scholar Theses Honors Scholar Program Spring 5-2-2019 Decentralization and the Provision of Public Services: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Mishaal Afteb University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses Part of the Asian Studies Commons, Other International and Area Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Afteb, Mishaal, "Decentralization and the Provision of Public Services: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan" (2019). Honors Scholar Theses. 608. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/608 Decentralization and the Provision of Public Services: A Case Study of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Abstract: The effective provision of public services is integral to a functioning democracy as it connects the public to the government and grants it legitimacy. Public services are ones that are provided by the federal and local governments and paid for with constituent taxes. Public services provided by the state are education, health, water/sanitation, environmental measures, security, policing, labor and legal guidelines and so on. Whether the structure of the government is centralized or decentralized is an important factor which impacts the provision of services. Decentralized governments are state or local governments which receive monetary and institutional resources from the federal government. Previous research has shown that decentralized services are more effectively delivered than centralized services. My study examines the impact of decentralization on the provision of two services, health and education, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2008-2018. There are two parts to the study. First, I will use process tracing to portray the historical context of decentralization in conjunction with sociopolitical factors of the region of KP. -
Old Habits, New Consequences Old Habits, New Khalid Homayun Consequences Nadiri Pakistan’S Posture Toward Afghanistan Since 2001
Old Habits, New Consequences Old Habits, New Khalid Homayun Consequences Nadiri Pakistan’s Posture toward Afghanistan since 2001 Since the terrorist at- tacks of September 11, 2001, Pakistan has pursued a seemingly incongruous course of action in Afghanistan. It has participated in the U.S. and interna- tional intervention in Afghanistan both by allying itself with the military cam- paign against the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida and by serving as the primary transit route for international military forces and matériel into Afghanistan.1 At the same time, the Pakistani security establishment has permitted much of the Afghan Taliban’s political leadership and many of its military command- ers to visit or reside in Pakistani urban centers. Why has Pakistan adopted this posture of Afghan Taliban accommodation despite its nominal participa- tion in the Afghanistan intervention and its public commitment to peace and stability in Afghanistan?2 This incongruence is all the more puzzling in light of the expansion of insurgent violence directed against Islamabad by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a coalition of militant organizations that are independent of the Afghan Taliban but that nonetheless possess social and po- litical links with Afghan cadres of the Taliban movement. With violence against Pakistan growing increasingly indiscriminate and costly, it remains un- clear why Islamabad has opted to accommodate the Afghan Taliban through- out the post-2001 period. Despite a considerable body of academic and journalistic literature on Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan since 2001, the subject of Pakistani accommodation of the Afghan Taliban remains largely unaddressed. Much of the existing literature identiªes Pakistan’s security competition with India as the exclusive or predominant driver of Pakistani policy vis-à-vis the Afghan Khalid Homayun Nadiri is a Ph.D. -
Pakistan's Atomic Bomb and the Search for Security
Pakistan's Atomic Bomb And The Search For Security edited by Zia Mian Gautam Publishers 27 Temple Road, Lahore, Pakistan Printed by Maktaba Jadeed Press, Lahore, Pakistan ©1995 by Zia Mian A publication of the Campaign for Nuclear Sanity and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute Acknowledgements No book is ever produced in isolation. This one in particular is the work of many hands, and minds. Among the people whose contribution has been indispensable, special mention must be made of Nauman Naqvi from SDPI. There is Gautam Publishers, who have taken the risk when others have not. The greatest debts are, as always, personal. They are rarely mentioned, can never be paid, and payment is never asked for. It is enough that they are remembered. Contents Foreword Dr. Mubashir Hasan i Introduction Dr. Zia Mian 1 1. Nuclear Myths And Realities Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy 3 Bombs for Prestige? 4 Understanding May 1990 8 The Overt-Covert Debate 11 Nuclear War - By Accident 16 The Second Best Option 17 Options for Pakistan 21 2. A False Sense Of Security Lt.-Gen. (rtd.) Mujib ur Rehman Khan 24 A Matter of Perception 25 Useless Nukes 26 A Sterile Pursuit 28 3. The Costs Of Nuclear Security Dr. Zia Mian 30 The Human Costs of Nuclear Programmes 31 Nuclear Accidents 35 Nuclear Guardians 38 Buying Security with Nuclear Weapons 40 The Real Cost of Nuclear Weapons 44 Safety 48 The Social Costs of Nuclear Security 51 Who Benefits? 53 The Ultimate Costs of Nuclear Security 56 4. The Nuclear Arms Race And Fall Of The Soviet Union Dr. -
Pakistan's Nuclear Proliferation Activities and The
Order Code RL32745 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation Activities and the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: U.S. Policy Constraints and Options Updated March 16, 2005 Richard P. Cronin, Coordinator Specialist in Asian Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division K. Alan Kronstadt Analyst in Asian Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Sharon Squassoni Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation Activities and the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: U.S. Policy Constraints and Options Summary In calling for a clear, strong, and long-term commitment to support the military- dominated government of Pakistan despite serious concerns about that country’s nuclear proliferation activities, The Final Report of the 9/11 Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States cast into sharp relief two long-standing contradictions in U.S. policy towards Pakistan and South Asia. First, in over fifty years, the United States and Pakistan have never been able to align their national security objectives except partially and temporarily. Pakistan’s central goal has been to gain U.S. support to bolster its security against India, whereas the United States has tended to view the relationship from the perspective of its global security interests. Second, U.S. nuclear nonproliferation objectives towards Pakistan (and India) repeatedly have been subordinated to other U.S. goals. During the 1980s, Pakistan successfully exploited its importance as a conduit for aid to the anti-Soviet Afghan mujahidin to deter the application of U.S. -
Politics of Sindh Under Zia Government an Analysis of Nationalists Vs Federalists Orientations
POLITICS OF SINDH UNDER ZIA GOVERNMENT AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONALISTS VS FEDERALISTS ORIENTATIONS A Thesis Doctor of Philosophy By Amir Ali Chandio 2009 Department of Political Science & International Relations Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan POLITICS OF SINDH UNDER ZIA GOVERNMENT AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONALISTS VS FEDERALISTS ORIENTATIONS A Thesis Doctor of Philosophy By Amir Ali Chandio 2009 Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed Chaudhry Department of Political Science & International Relations Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan Dedicated to: Baba Bullay Shah & Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai The poets of love, fraternity, and peace DECLARATION This thesis is the result of my own investigations, except where otherwise stated. Other sources are acknowledged by giving explicit references. A bibliography is appended. This work has not previously been accepted in substance for any degree and is not being concurrently submitted in candidature for any degree. Signed………………………………………………………………….( candidate) Date……………………………………………………………………. CERTIFICATES This is to certify that I have gone through the thesis submitted by Mr. Amir Ali Chandio thoroughly and found the whole work original and acceptable for the award of the degree of Doctorate in Political Science. To the best of my knowledge this work has not been submitted anywhere before for any degree. Supervisor Professor Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed Choudhry Department of Political Science & International Relations Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan Chairman Department of Political Science & International Relations Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. ABSTRACT The nationalist feelings in Sindh existed long before the independence, during British rule. The Hur movement and movement of the separation of Sindh from Bombay Presidency for the restoration of separate provincial status were the evidence’s of Sindhi nationalist thinking. -
Diaspora Tourism and the Issue of Belonging - the Case of Second-Generation Pakistanis in Denmark
Diaspora tourism and the issue of belonging - The case of second-generation Pakistanis in Denmark Salik Rehman, Aalborg Universitet Table of content Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Chapter 1: Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Diaspora tourism and Pakistani diaspora communities .......................................................................... 6 1.2 Research question & Relevance .............................................................................................................. 7 1.3 Significance of Research .......................................................................................................................... 8 1.4 Key Terms ................................................................................................................................................ 9 1.5 Thesis outline ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Chapter 2: Literature review ........................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 Understanding diaspora tourism – its definition and characteristics. .................................................. 12 2.2 Diaspora tourism, identity and belonging -
Israel-Pakistan Relations Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS)
P. R. Kumaraswamy Beyond the Veil: Israel-Pakistan Relations Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS) The purpose of the Jaffee Center is, first, to conduct basic research that meets the highest academic standards on matters related to Israel's national security as well as Middle East regional and international secu- rity affairs. The Center also aims to contribute to the public debate and governmental deliberation of issues that are - or should be - at the top of Israel's national security agenda. The Jaffee Center seeks to address the strategic community in Israel and abroad, Israeli policymakers and opinion-makers and the general public. The Center relates to the concept of strategy in its broadest meaning, namely the complex of processes involved in the identification, mobili- zation and application of resources in peace and war, in order to solidify and strengthen national and international security. To Jasjit Singh with affection and gratitude P. R. Kumaraswamy Beyond the Veil: Israel-Pakistan Relations Memorandum no. 55, March 2000 Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies 6 P. R. Kumaraswamy Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel Tel. 972 3 640-9926 Fax 972 3 642-2404 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/ ISBN: 965-459-041-7 © 2000 All rights reserved Graphic Design: Michal Semo Printed by: Kedem Ltd., Tel Aviv Beyond the Veil: Israel-Pakistan Relations 7 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................9 -
Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation by Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Routledge, London and New York, 2006 Price: PKR 995/- Pp
Book Review-II Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation By Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Routledge, London and New York, 2006 Price: PKR 995/- pp. 322 Aqdas Ali Kazmi Introduction Muhammad Abdul Qadeer, the social scientist may not be popularly known as is the case of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the nuclear scientist who is acclaimed as the father of Pakistan’s atom bomb. However, Abdul Qadeer’s achievements as a surveyor of Pakistan’s social history from the mid twentieth century onwards would be rated as outstanding by any academic standards. He has provided us with the most relevant and useful insights into the dynamics of Pakistan society through his classic: Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation. It is imperative that a nation which is globally acknowledged as a nuclear power must be thoroughly examined in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, its social choices, internal compulsions, its external challenges and its vision for the future. The book meets this objective fairly well. Pakistan today is burdened with a host of contradictions, anomalies, paradoxes and dualities which pervade almost every sphere of its social life. Highlighting these contradictions in an emphatic and holistic manner could be adjudged as the seminal contribution of the author as a means to comprehending the compelling constraints on the socio-economic development of Pakistan. Fully conscious of these contradictions, the author focuses his mental energies Book Review 277 on an important question ‘Whither Pakistan?’ This being the title of the last chapter of the book, the author examines this question from diverse perspectives and then concludes, albeit with a sense of guarded optimism, that given all its paradoxes and contradictions, Pakistan as an independent state would not wither away. -
The Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship Farzad R
CMER WORKING PAPER No. 06-48 How the West Was Won? The Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship Farzad R. Khan Kamal A. Munir View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Research Papers in Economics Centre for Management and Economic Research (CMER) Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Opposite Sector ‘U’, D.H.A, Cantt, Lahore, 54792 Pakistan URL:http//ravi.lums.edu.pk/cmer Abid. A. Burki Director CMER Professor Department of Economics School of Humanities and Social Sciences CMER Advisory Committee Rasul Bakhsh Rais Naim Sipra Ali Cheema Professor of Political Science & Director Case Development Associate Professor & Head Head Social Sciences Department and Publications & Professor Department of Economics School of Humanities and of Finance, Suleman Dawood School of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Business Social Sciences About CMER The Centre for Management and Economic Research (CMER) is a research centre of LUMS based in the Department of Economics. The mission of CMER is to stimulate, coordinate, and conduct research on major economic and management issues facing Pakistan and the region. CMER research and dissemination roles are structured around four inter-related activities: research output in the form of working papers; cases and research monographs; creation of data resources; and organization of seminars and conferences. LUMS-Citigroup initiative on corporate governance in Pakistan is a major on-going project of CMER. CMER WORKING PAPER No. 06-48 How the West Was Won? The Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship Farzad R. Khan Lahore University of Management Sciences Suleman Dawood School of Business Lahore, Pakistan E-mail: [email protected] Kamal A. -
Abstract Popularly Elected Female Prime Minister in Any Muslim
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).29 DOI: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).29 Citation: Shaikh, M. A., Sahito, Z. H., & John, S. (2020). Role of Benazir Bhutto in Restoration of Democracy in Pakistan (1977- 1988). Global Political Review, V(I), 260-268. doi:10.31703/gpr.2020(V-I).29 Vol. V, No. I (Winter 2020) Pages: 260 – 268 Role of Benazir Bhutto in Restoration of Democracy in Pakistan (1977-1988) * † ‡ Muhammad Ali Shaikh Zahid Hussain Sahito Stephen John p- ISSN: 2521-2982 e- ISSN: 2707-4587 p- ISSN: 2521-2982 Benazir Bhutto has the distinction of being the first Abstract popularly elected female prime minister in any Muslim country in the world. But this distinction was preceded by her more than Headings a decade long struggle against dictatorship of General Ziaul Haq. Aspiring to join diplomatic corps or media as a journalist, she entered in • Abstract politics under the force of circumstances in 1977 after the government • Key Words of her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was toppled in a coup. • Introduction Gradually, she occupied the center stage in the politics of Pakistan • Objectives through her sheer struggle against dictatorship and for restoration of • Research Questions democracy in the country. In the process, she was subjected to repeated • Methodology detentions, intimidation, coercion as well as physical and mental • Discussion and Analysis • Putting Pressure from Abroad hardships to abandon her struggle. However, she was able to sustain (1984-1986) those hardships and finally paved the way towards restoration of • Towards Restoration of democracy in Pakistan in 1988. -
Mapping Pakistan's Internal Dynamics
the national bureau of asian research nbr special report #55 | february 2016 mapping pakistan’s internal dynamics Implications for State Stability and Regional Security By Mumtaz Ahmad, Dipankar Banerjee, Aryaman Bhatnagar, C. Christine Fair, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Husain Haqqani, Mahin Karim, Tariq A. Karim, Vivek Katju, C. Raja Mohan, Matthew J. Nelson, and Jayadeva Ranade cover 2 NBR Board of Directors Charles W. Brady George Davidson Tom Robertson (Chairman) Vice Chairman, M&A, Asia-Pacific Vice President and Chairman Emeritus HSBC Holdings plc Deputy General Counsel Invesco LLC Microsoft Corporation Norman D. Dicks John V. Rindlaub Senior Policy Advisor Gordon Smith (Vice Chairman and Treasurer) Van Ness Feldman LLP Chief Operating Officer President, Asia Pacific Exact Staff, Inc. Wells Fargo Richard J. Ellings President Scott Stoll George F. Russell Jr. NBR Partner (Chairman Emeritus) Ernst & Young LLP Chairman Emeritus R. Michael Gadbaw Russell Investments Distinguished Visiting Fellow David K.Y. Tang Institute of International Economic Law, Managing Partner, Asia Karan Bhatia Georgetown University Law Center K&L Gates LLP Vice President & Senior Counsel International Law & Policy Ryo Kubota Tadataka Yamada General Electric Chairman, President, and CEO Venture Partner Acucela Inc. Frazier Healthcare Dennis Blair Chairman Melody Meyer President Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Honorary Directors U.S. Navy (Ret.) Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production Company Maria Livanos Cattaui Chevron Corporation Lawrence W. Clarkson Secretary General (Ret.) Senior Vice President International Chamber of Commerce Pamela S. Passman The Boeing Company (Ret.) President and CEO William M. Colton Center for Responsible Enterprise Thomas E. Fisher Vice President and Trade (CREATe) Senior Vice President Corporate Strategic Planning Unocal Corporation (Ret.) Exxon Mobil Corporation C.