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1-Minahil Nawaz : Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Architecture & Planning, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
2-Atif Bilal Aslam : Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
3-Fariha Tariq : Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Architecture & Planning, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Like many other developing nations, Pakistan is also facing a gender gap in its socio-cultural spheres. Since independence, many programs and policies have been made in public and private sector domains to eradicate these gender disparities. This paper aims to evaluate these programs and policies by encountering their salient features and how far these programs and policies proved to be fruitful in bridging this gap. The evaluation is done majorly through a desk review of the secondary data drawn from reports published by different government and local organizations. Mainly, the qualitative methods of content and thematic analyses were employed for exploring the gender-based disparities, and how these are affecting the pace of development in Pakistan. Moreover, an assessment of strategies and policies addressing the problem of the gender gap has also been done. Based on the study findings, this paper presents some policy recommendations to reduce gender base disparities which is one of the many prerequisites for the promotion of sustainable development agenda as gender equality is the 5th goal of the United Nations sustainable development agenda.

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1-Amna Zulfiqar: Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan.
2-Faiza Khalid: Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan.
3-Maria Khalid: PhD Scholar, Department of Media and Communication Studies, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Over the past few years, Pakistan carried out various publicized battles against militancy and terrorism led primarily by thePakistan military. Due to the changed geostrategic context, civil-military coordination is necessary for developing a new national securitypolicy. Therefore the objective of the present study is to examine civil-military coordination portrayed in the English press of Pakistanfollowed by the most significant event, i.e., the formation of Provincial Apex committees. These committees were formed for strengtheningcollaboration between civil-military institutions to execute NAP in different provinces, consequently the study analyzed news stories of twoEnglish newspapers, i.e., Dawn and The News, by employing the CDA model proposed by Fairclough. Results indicate that Dawn coveredthe image of the Pakistan military by highlighting actions of then COAS for empowering committees in different provinces for fasterexecution on NAP and restoration of IDP’s whereas, The News covered lack of coordination between civil-military leadership on executionof NAP.

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1-Muhammad Muzaffar: Ph. D ScholarDepartment of Political Science,International Islamic University Islamabad.
2-Zahid Yaseen: Lecturer,Department of Political Science,Govt. Post Graduate College, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan.
3-Uroosa Ishfaq: Junior Research Fellow,Humanity Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan is a state like other states of the world. When it came out from the British net the initial stages were very tough for it. It was considered that it will rejoin India. But the administration of that time took sincere initiatives to manage the affairs gradually. Cold war started at that time between the Communist and Capitalist blocks. Newly established states joined one of them. Pakistan was also one of them. Its foreign policy principles, rules and regulations are highlighted in this paper. All these steps are discussed below gradually with the help of primary and secondary sources. It is concluded that Pakistan had no choice to join the capitalist block because of its financial position that forced it to take such decisions as compared to India. But security and sovereignty were never compromised in every era and at every stage.

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1-Arsalan Ahmad Khan: MPhil Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
2-Saranjam Baig: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Karakorum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan.
3-Abid Hussain: Lecturer,Department of Economics,Karakorum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan.

This research has two objectives. First, it explores the spending patterns of the households who receive monetary compensation for their land that government takes over for initiating national projects; in our case, it is about building the countrys largest dam. Second, it examines what we call the demonstration effects. Literature abounds with cases examining behaviors of internally displaced individuals while the opposite is true for the compensated displaced households. This is the backdrop, this research carried out a field survey to collect data for 192 households. The compensation received is divided into communal land compensation and private land compensation. In line with arguments with the Keynesian consumption function that provides the theoretical foundation to our empirical work, findings suggest a positive and significant correlation between spending patterns and private land compensation while the communal compensation appears to be insignificant. Education and one out of two demonstration effects have positive influence on spending behaviors.

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1-Afsheen Masood: Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Psychology,University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
2-Muhammad Sulman: PhD Scholar, School of Media & Communication Studies,University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
3-Arooj Arshad: Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

This study propounds to examine the dynamics of relationship among emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy and work-family conflict in female lawyers. Correlational Cross-sectional research design was implicated in this research in order to test the hypothesis that emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and job satisfaction are likely to predict work-family conflict in young female lawyers. The sample comprised of n= 200 female lawyers, age ranging between 30-50 years, recruited from the civil and high court of Lahore, Pakistan. SPSS 23.0 was used to execute analyses that revealed that emotional intelligence was somehow having negative relationship with work-family conflict yet positively associated with self-efficacy. Findings of linear regression analysis divulge that emotional intelligence and self-efficacy are significant negative predictors of work-family conflict. Results from the current research provide insight for future researchers in seeking line of further inquiry on psychosocial dynamics of work-family life patterns of female lawyers.

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1-Arsalan Ahmad Khan: MPhil Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
2-Saranjam Baig: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Karakorum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan.
3-Abid Hussain: Lecturer,Department of Economics,Karakorum International University, Gilgit, Pakistan.

This research has two objectives. First, it explores the spending patterns of the households who receive monetary compensation for their land that government takes over for initiating national projects; in our case, it is about building the countrys largest dam. Second, it examines what we call the demonstration effects. Literature abounds with cases examining behaviors of internally displaced individuals while the opposite is true for the compensated displaced households. This is the backdrop, this research carried out a field survey to collect data for 192 households. The compensation received is divided into communal land compensation and private land compensation. In line with arguments with the Keynesian consumption function that provides the theoretical foundation to our empirical work, findings suggest a positive and significant correlation between spending patterns and private land compensation while the communal compensation appears to be insignificant. Education and one out of two demonstration effects have positive influence on spending behaviors.