This research paper attempts to evaluate the relationship between corporate governance and performance of the microfinance institutions in Sialkot employing primary source of data. A representative sample of 80 respondents from the top-level management such as board of directors, chief executive officers, managing directors and all the related staff who are responsible for the growth and progress of the microfinance institutions was selected using stratified random sampling technique. The findings of the study revealed that the CEO duality, board independence and ownership structure were the significant variables affecting the firm performance whereas the variables (board size and audit committee independence) showed insignificant impact. The analysis of the research suggested that micro finance institutions should have good and solid governance framework in order to enhance decision making and minimize the possibilities of the management failures ultimately improvement in the firm’s performance.

Radical feminism -a philosophy that emphasizes roots of inequality between men and women, or, more specifically, the social domination of women by men. This paper analyses radical feminism in Pakistan through the poetic works of Kishwar Naheed –a well-known Pakistani poet. The paper conducts a literary analysis of Kishwar Naheed’s poetic work and explores how her verses have addressed women issues in Pakistan and inspired people to advocate equality amongst gender by raising voice against social injustice. Different feminist theories including Chandra Mahanty and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, are used asframework to elicit how variedly radical feminism exists in Pakistani male-oriented society.

Women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men. In patriarchal society, women from different sections of society are the product of utter marginalization and mental anguish. Women belonging to any particulararena from traditional to Post-modern, confront multifaceted problems which serve as a major predicament for them. The purpose of this paper is to probe deeper into the social context of two different countries i.e. Pakistan and India with the help of two different writers that how the lives of women in domestic and public sphere are coloredby the predominant significance of patriarchy. It brings into limelight that the lives of women are constrained and circumscribed by the social and moral decorum of chauvinistic society. The research would be qualitative in nature focusing on the textualand discourse analysis of two different short stories i.e. by Nadeem Aslam and Anita Desai. The research would be descriptive and exploratory in nature illustrating the predominant features that act as a cornerstone of portraying the women perturbed state of mind and brings the meaningful existence of women on the canvas of society. As the thematic and stylistic concern of this research is feministic in approach, so the Theory of Sexual Politics by Kate Millett is used in order to peep into the subject matter of women subjugation which brings repercussion on the physical and mental outlook of docile females in a most comprehensive way at different levels. Theory of Sexual Politics is interwoven with multifaceted dimensions which gives the cursory glanceon how women are maltreated in the wide social spectrum at different levels. Moreover, this research would be a fruitful attempt because it throws light that how the nefarious realities of two different societies i.e. India and Pakistan are carved on the fabric of literature by medium of short story and gives a reconciliatory note on female emancipation from the shackles and manacles of men dominance.

This study was purported to examine the role of perceived parenting styles in fostering the achievement goal orientations; mastery vs. performance among students. Participants of the study were 323 secondary school students aged 14-17 years old; 153 boys and 170 girls who provided their responses on Parenting Style Scale and Achievement Goals Scale. Results indicated that the students perceiving their parents with authoritative parenting style showed mastery goals for their academic achievements as comparedto those students perceiving authoritarian and permissive parenting styles. Results postulated that gender of students combined with perception of parents is another predictive factor for differences in mastery and performances goals. Findings suggested significant main and interaction effects of gender and parenting styles on mastery-approach and avoidant goals but no interaction effect of gender and parenting style was found related to performance goals

The focus of this research is the inspection and dissection of the discourses adopted by different genders to portray the marginalized women, in their novels. It will expose the writers’ attitudes towards such females, particularly in the Patriarchal society of Indo-Pakistan. Literature is considered to be an echo of life, so it should present a clear reflection of society. Each writer has peculiar lensto observe various social aspects and thus has different representative styles and specific textual material. It can be more diverse while writing about the looked down upon characters belonging to the outcast segment of society i.e. the prostitutes. The difference in gender may give rise to a different social opinion about fallen women. On the other hand, the society of Indo-Pakistan has some antagonistic points of view as compared to other societies because of the patriarchal order. This research will examine the particular difference of social ideas about the social perception of prostitutes. So, when different writers paint the fallen women personages, what type of language they use? What would be the selective tools and thoughts behind presenting them? How they paint a whore? The foundational framework for this research is based on the paradigm of criticalanalysis into the downgraded characters. This research is purely qualitative using the constant comparative procedures of qualitative inquiry.