An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17
This study investigates Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17. The main aim of this study was to explore the analysis of national political conflicts in selected newspapers. Framing theory was applied to study the newspaper's treatment of political conflicts as a theoretical baseline. Two leading Urdu newspapers Daily Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, due to their circulation and readership and a valuable amount of information for researchers and scholars, were selected for content analysis by using purposive sampling from the period of 2015 to 2017. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 21); hence, the findings revealed that there is a significant association between newspapers analysis and national political conflicts.
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Analysis, National Political Conflicts, Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers, Framing theory, Content Analysis
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(1) Kiran Karamat
PhD Scholar, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
(2) Noshina Saleem
Professor, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Tahseen Arshad
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Secondary Education, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Karamat, K., Saleem, N., & Arshad, T. (2020). An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17. Global Political Review, V(IV), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).11
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CHICAGO : Karamat, Kiran, Noshina Saleem, and Tahseen Arshad. 2020. "An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17." Global Political Review, V (IV): 94-104 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).11
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HARVARD : KARAMAT, K., SALEEM, N. & ARSHAD, T. 2020. An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17. Global Political Review, V, 94-104.
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MHRA : Karamat, Kiran, Noshina Saleem, and Tahseen Arshad. 2020. "An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17." Global Political Review, V: 94-104
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MLA : Karamat, Kiran, Noshina Saleem, and Tahseen Arshad. "An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17." Global Political Review, V.IV (2020): 94-104 Print.
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OXFORD : Karamat, Kiran, Saleem, Noshina, and Arshad, Tahseen (2020), "An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17", Global Political Review, V (IV), 94-104
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TURABIAN : Karamat, Kiran, Noshina Saleem, and Tahseen Arshad. "An Analysis of National Political Conflicts in Leading Urdu Pakistani Newspapers during 2015-17." Global Political Review V, no. IV (2020): 94-104. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(V-IV).11