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Arbitration is a form of alternate dispute resolution (ADR) in which the matters are settled outside the court. In Family matters, arbitration plays a vital role in overcoming the differences between spouses. In the Family Laws of Pakistan, a body is designed for the arbitration of disputing couples which is termed as arbitration council. Although it is stated in section 7 (4) of Muslim Family Law Ordinance and section 10 of Family Court Act that the chairman of the council will constitute an arbitration council and an attempt for the reconciliation will be conducted but the criteria for the representatives of the council and implementation of their decisions are not determined. In this work, doctrinal and non-doctrinal mood of research is conducted to evaluate the satisfaction of female litigants dealing with the process of arbitration council. The paper is divided into four parts. The first part discusses the authority and process of arbitration council in Islamic law. The second part describes the process of arbitration council in Pakistani law. The third part elaborates the empirical data collected from the female litigants in the Pakistani courts. The forth part of the paper provides the results of arbitration process from the courts ant its adequacy, The paper suggests that in Pakistan the process of arbitration in divorce cases is not satisfactory. Therefore, in divorce cases, suited criteria for appointment of arbitrators and arbitration process should be determined. Keywords: Arbitration Council, Arbitrators,, Muslim Family Law, Pakistani Law, Reconciliation.

α-glucosidase (EC 3.2.1.20) is a primary carbohydrate metabolizing enzyme that acts on the 1-4 associated α-glucose residues. The inhibition of α-glucosidase slows down the process of carbohydrate digestion and avoids postprandial hyperglycemia, which is a major cause of chronic diabetes-associated complication. This study was designed to evaluate the binding capacity of isolated alkaloids with targetted receptor. For this purpose, the three-dimensional tertiary structure of the α glucosidase was generated by using the MOE. The generated model was then validated by using the RAMPAGE and ERRAT server. The molecular docking of 37 alkaloids along with standard acarbose and miglitol reported as a α-glucosidase inhibitor was performed via MOE-Dock implemented in MOE software to find the binding modes of these inhibitors. The results showed that compound 17 (oriciacridone F) and 24 (O-methylmahanine) demonstrated marked interaction with active residues and were comparable to standard inhibitors. In short, this study provided computational background to the reported α-glucosidase inhibitors and thus further detail studies could lead to novel effective compounds.