Pakistan is an agricultural country still spending millions of dollars on the import of edible oil, which is a major drain on the foreign exchange reserves of the country. The indigenous oil production of the country could not match the growing demand of population. The domestic edible production only meet about 25% of the requirement and has grown @ 2.6% annually over last 20 years, while consumption has increased at 9%. Among different oilseed crops rapeseed and mustards contribute 21% towards national oil production but the quality of oil is low due to presence undesirable...

National Policy for Development and Empowerment of Women (NPDEW) was formally enunciated in March 2002 by the Government of Ex-President Pervez Musharraf with the main objective to stop Violence against Women in the country and to provide a friendly atmosphere and equal status to Pakistani woman vis-a- vis man. The Government recognized that VAW is a provocative subject and thus in this text the government introduced various measures to cope with this wide spread and un-human problem in the society of Pakistan. This study was based on how much this Policy and other government committments...

Education is the prerequisite for the development of a country. In Pakistan, presently District Mansehra having 36.3% literacy rate against 47 % and 55 % of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and country, respectively. Pakistan has the highest school dropout ratio in world, annually about 35,000 students are drop out of the education system. This menace is mainly attributed to corporal punishment, beatings, social, migration of the families and financial constrainents. In the studied area the drop out ratio of female students were more when comapred with male students. Unawarance of parents about...