Twenty-First Century Regionalism Impact on South Asia

The paper is an attempt to review twenty-first century regionalism and its impact on South Asia, which includes the rising role of China and Pakistan’s pivot status as contributing factors to peace, growth, and development. This coincides with a more south-oriented world. The theory applied is NeoFunctionalism, which explains the European integration and may be used to explain the potential modern South Asian integration process with China as a pre-cursor. This will perhaps be a positive outcome of the twenty-first century regionalism. The paper dwells upon intra-regional integration, sighting Eurasian model of connectivity as an example, and how it can be a role-model for developing countries. The emphasis remains on improved relations between Pakistan and India as a pre-requisite for regionalism to take off in South Asia.

Gender Empowerment: Laws and Social Change in Pakistan

Gender Empowerment: Laws and social change in Pakistan presents an analysis of the legal framework which have been introduced to revamp the disintegration, gender inequality and to annihilate the violence against women in Pakistan. This research work gives a critical overview of the loopholes in existing laws, constant hefty and boosting violations of women rights, and misinterpretations of Islamic injunctions. Simultaneously, the present study identifies the barricades in legal implementation with concluding remarks that there is no social change due to non-implementation of pro-women laws in Pakistan until the suggested way forward is not adopted. In Pakistan “insider” point of view is very complicated and it must be considered that there is no ‘uniform model’ of womanhood. Women in Pakistan are treated under different social, political, economical, cultural milieu and circumstance and this segregation plays a pivotal role in social change myth or reality. The current study has been conducted through the combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques.