DIRECTORY OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY AWARDED UPTO 2016 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES (NUML) OFFICE OF RESEARCH INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION (ORIC) TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents About NUML and ORIC _________________________________________________________________________________ 1 About the Directory ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Doctor of Philosophy ___________________________________________________________________________________ 3 Faculty of Languages _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Department of Urdu _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 Department of Arabic __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 66 Department of Persian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 105 Department of Russian ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 114 Faculty of English Studies ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 117 Department of English _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 118 Faculty of Social Sciences _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 197 Department of Islamic Studies _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 198 Department of Education ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 238 Faculty of Management Sciences ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 292 Department of Management Sciences _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 293 Master of Philosophy ________________________________________________________________________________ 335 Faculty of Languages ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 336 Department of Urdu __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 337 Department of Arabic ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 351 Department of Persian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 357 Department of Hindi _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 357 Year 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Faculty of English Studies ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 358 Department of English _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 359 Faculty of Social Sciences _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 439 Department of Islamic Studies _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 440 Department of Education ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 459 Department of International Relations ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 483 Faculty of Mangement Sciences _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 490 Department of Management Sciences _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 491 Department of Economics ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 616 Contact Information _________________________________________________________________________________ 623 Year 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables Table 1: Period-wise number of Ph.D. Degrees awarded in various faculties of NUML ........................................................................................................................................................................................3 Table 2: Number of Ph.D. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Languages ..............................................................................................................................................................................4 Table 3: Number of Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Faculty of English Studies ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 117 Table 4: Number of Ph.D. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Social Sciences ............................................................................................................................................................... 197 Table 5: Number of Ph.D. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Management Sciences ................................................................................................................................................ 292 Table 6: Period-wise number of M.Phil. Degrees awarded in various faculties of NUML .............................................................................................................................................................................. 335 Table 7: Number of M.Phil. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Languages ..................................................................................................................................................................... 336 Table 8: Number of M.Phil. Degrees awarded in department of Faculty of English Studies ......................................................................................................................................................................... 358 Table 9: Number of M.Phil. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Social Sciences ............................................................................................................................................................ 439 Table 10: Number of M.Phil. Degrees awarded in various disciplines of Faculty of Management Sciences .......................................................................................................................................... 490 Year 2017 ABOUT NUML AND ORIC About NUML and ORIC National University of Modern Languages (NUML) was established as an institute in 1969 to help people communicate and understand each other in different oriental and occidental languages, to assimilate different cultures and to act as springboard for emerging disciplines. Initially, the institute provided language training facilities to personnel of armed forces and other government services of Pakistan. It was upgraded to University on May 29, 2000. Now, twenty seven oriental and occidental languages are being taught in addition to a number of various disciplines. University also offers M.S./M.Phil. and Ph.D. research degrees in emerging fields. Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) established in August 2014 in National University of Modern Languages (NUML) at its main campus to implement Higher Education Commission's (HEC) plan of developing research culture. The purpose of this office is to introduce and promote research culture within NUML by supporting university’s strategic research directions and policies and by improving integration of research and education at all levels of the university. ORIC promotes and enhances cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary research initiatives and aims to increase external research funding. This office works to strengthen