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Choice of career is a very complicated decision for students because i t establishes the kind of profession they plan to chase in their future life. Mostly, students make career choice during their secondary schooling. The problem they face is matching their career choices with their interests and academic performance while accommodating their parental wishes at the same time. This study aims to identify the factors which play a major role in the choice of academic careers students are currently pursuing in the university, and how certain personal characteristics and academic support may shape their prospective choices for future profession and career. Case study was the chosen approach and the University of Management and Technology (UMT) the selected case. Correlation research was the methodology used to collect and analyze the data. A survey was conducted with three hundred students of UMT randomly selected from three schools and eight undergraduate programs taught in these schools. Selfconstructed questionnaire comprising 30 items was used as a tool for survey. Exploratory factor analysis and regression were applied on the data recorded in SPSS 21 to determine the student satisfaction levels with their career choices both in retrospect and prospect. The results indicated that social and peer group factor is stronger than family factor in retrospect of career choices; the economic factor remains neutral, whereas, academic support and self-efficacy build the prospect of continuing the same academic career as a profession. The study identifies the challenges faced by the students in Pakistan of matching their career choices with their abilities extending the research literature regarding the career choices of students in a Pakistani perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will define how Benazir income support program got its momentum in order to cope up with economic challenges faced by lower strata of woman in our society. At the same time it will provide how European welfare system differs from Benazir Income support program. The main goal is to reduce poverty in Pakistan through BISP. So this comparison will give us a pragmatic and logical roadmap to help BISP to work more efficiently. In 2008, Pakistan set up Benazir's Income Support Program for Poverty Reduction. The fundamental motivation behind BISP is to give unqualified cash exchange to the poorest family units in Pakistan to enhance their economic factor and utilization of resources. To accomplish this objective, it is imperative that money exchanges be given straightforwardly to ladies to guarantee that the cash spent is planned. Since Coordinating these exchanges straightforwardly to ladies can empower ladies to expand the assets of family units under their control. While the Anglo-Saxon resembles BISP working in the UK and Ireland. The objective of the Anglo-Saxon state is to give social assurance or advantages to all who require the social help framework. In this examination, the two projects contrast with each other in various nations to decide the effect on neediness decrease. In the wake of investigating the auxiliary information, it worked out that BISP has accomplished its objective and has more noteworthy quality than the Anglo-Saxon model in the UK and Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the role of discourse indicating sociopolitical and economic situation of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan. It gives an analysis of 37 articles published in Dawn newspaper regarding bilateral trade ties between India and Pakistan over the period of 2 years i.e. june 2011 to June 2013. This study is an overview of Dawn newspaper perspective regarding the changing ties between two nations on the basis of increasing interaction in business sector. Further, the nature of relationship is explained with help of revealed themes and characterization of the words and grammar features. The article concludes that shift in bilateral relations of two countries is visible in context of increasing trade ties on parallel basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the role of discourse indicating socio-political and economic situation of bilateral relations between India and Pakistan. It gives an analysis of 37 articles published in Dawn regarding bilateral trade ties between India and Pakistan over the period of 2 years i.e. june2011 to June 2013. This study is an overview of Dawn's perspective regarding the changing ties between two nations on the basis of increasing interaction in business sector. Further, the nature of relationship is explained with help of revealed themes and characterization of the words and grammatical features. The article concludes that shift in bilateral relations of two countries is visible in context of increasing trade ties on parallel basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]