2023
Culture and English Language Pedagogy: An Analysis of State-governed ELT Textbooks in AJK.Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review, Vol. 7 (1), 434- 441.
The Syntax of Light verbs in Pashto: A minimalist Approach. Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review, 7(1), 640–654
2022
Transitivity Analysis of the Last Address of Prophet Muhammad PBUH, PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ Egyptology, Vol. 19,(3),1873-1887
A Descriptive study of Pahari Morphology, Journal of Humanities, social and ManagementScience, Vol. 3, No. 1, 100-116
On Pahari Case and Agreement, Erevna: Journal of Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 6, No. 1, 87-103
A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Pahari Pronouns, The Dialogue, Vol.17, No. 1, 69-89
Serial Verbs in Urdu, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol.30, No. 1
The Role of Case Marking in Derivation of Pahari Clause: A minimalist Analysis, PakistanJournal of Languages and Translation Studies, Vol. 10 (1), 110-125
2021
The Argument Structure of Intransitive Verbs in Pashto, Journal of Development and Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. IV, 593-610
The Acquisition Sequence in Interlanguage Development of English Articles: A Longitudinal Analysis Based on Semantic Categories of Nouns. EFL Annual Research Journal, Vol. 23, 41-72
Gender Based Learning Style Preferences in English at Intermediate Level in District Poonch AJK, Pakistan, Hayatian Journal of Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 5, No. I, pp, 1-23
Personal Naming Patterns and Preferences among Pashto Speech Community, Multicultural education, Vol. 7 No. 3 (2021), USA
Semantic Domain of Verbs in Kashmiri English: A corpus Based Comparative Study of Three Registers, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1(24) 43- 61.
2020
Fathers in a Dynamic Age: Efforts of Provider in Early Novels of George Eliot, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2(23) 55-75.
Investigating the Effect of Explicit Instruction on the Development of Pragmatic Competence of Pakistani Learners of English, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1(23) 0217-236.
Extensive Reading: A Study of its Effects on Graduate Level Students’ L2 Vocabulary. Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies, No. (1). 44-60
Analyzing the dynamics of sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) signals with different pathologies using threshold-dependent symbolic entropy, Waves in Random and complex Media, Taylor and Francis, 1-18
2019
Thespians in Print: Gender Portrayal in Pakistani English Print Media, Cogent Arts & Humanities, (6) 1-13
The prediction of morpheme distribution at surface and abstract level: the case of embedded language nonfinite verbs in Pashto English Bilingual data. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2(22) 01-20.
2018
Plurilingual Practices in Translingual Classrooms: Theory and Practice Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2(21) 119-132.
Pashto English Bilingual Data: Testing the Diagnostic Features for the Pattern of Code-mixing.Kashmir Journal of Language Research,No. 1(21) 39- 60.
Access to UG in the acquisition of Wh-Questions by Pashto Speaking L2 Learners of English inPakistan. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (21), 169- 186.
2017
The Morphological Behaivour of Urdu Pronominal Clitics. Bazyaft, The Punjab University. No31, 03-20
Case, Agreement and Derivation of Pashto Clause. Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences, 7 (12)250-262, 2017
Assassin or Innocent: Portrayal of Raymond Davis in CNN Headlines. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (20), 183- 194.
An Investigation into the Self-consistency Raters: The Case of High-stakes National LevelExamination in Pakistan, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (20), 223-232.
2016
The Acquisition of English Language Syntactic Structures by Urdu L1 Speakers: The Case ofArticles. Pakistan Journal of Languages and Translation Studies, No. 4. 2016.
Persistent Errors in English Writing and Speech Made by Urdu Undergraduates at UAJK: Acase of Mother Tongue Interference. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (19), 249-264.
Teaching Language in Context: Use of Short Stories to Teach Integrated Language. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (19), 199-210.
Vocabulary Enhancement through Extensive Reading at Graduate level in University of AJ&K:An Experimental Study. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (19), 85-102.
Pahari Nominal Morphology: A Case of Number and Gender Marking. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (19), 229-238.
2015
Lexical Stress Placement in Monomorphemic Words in Pahari. Acta Linguistica, Vol. 9(1), 51-62.
Syllable Structure in Pahari. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (18), 45-60.
Raising, Control and Their Respective Order Of Acquisition. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (18), 53-64.
Pashto-English Code Switching: A Device of Indigenization and Loanwords Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 3 (18), 129-142.
2014
Reversed Sonority Clusters in Pashto: an Optimality Theoretic Justification. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (17), 33-50.
Case System in Pashto. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No.1 (17), 173-194.
Place and Time Deixis in Urdu. Journal of Language Linguistics and Literature, Volume 2, 53-54
Descriptive Study of Compound Verbs and Light Verbs Constructions in Pashto-English Code Switching. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (17), 113-138.
2013
The Nature of Ergative Case Marking in Pahari. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2(16), 15-57.
Duration, Formant Patterns and Acoustic Space of Pahari Monophthongs. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (16), 25-44.
Identification and Analysis of Directive Illocutionary Acts in CNN Headlines. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (16), 99-113.
Adult L2 Learners’ Access to Universal Principles and Acquisition of Language Specific Properties: A Quantitative Analysis. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (16), 61-79.
2012
A Comparative Analysis of Consonant Cluster in English and Pashto. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (15), 1-18.
SVO Word Order in Pashto: Optimality Theoretic Analysis. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (15), 59-80.
Germinate Stops and their Acoustic Correlates in Pahari. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (15), 141-154.
English Problematic Consonants for Pashto Speakers. Academic Research International, Vol. 2(1), 695-704.
2011
An Acoustic study of VOT in Pahari Stops. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (14),111-128.
Bilabial Assimilation in Urdu: An Acoustic Analysis. Language in India, 11(4): 173-185
Syllable Onset Clusters and Phonotactics in Pahari. Language in India, 11(3): 329-344
Phonological Adaptation of English Loanwords into Pahari. Language in India.11 (01). 61-73
2010
Acoustic Properties of Urdu Vowels by Pashto and Punjabi L1 Speakers. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (13), 17-28.
Question Formation in Urdu. Language in India, No 9 (10), 212-221
2009
The Serial Verb Phenomenon in Gojri. The Journal of Humanities and Sciences, No (17). 101-114
Negation in Gojri. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1 (12), 50-56.
Hidden Features in the Semantics of Urdu Ko and Se. Kashmir Journal of Language Research. No 1(12).79-92.
Light Verbs in Gojri. Language in India, No 8 (9), 449-463.A Comparative Study of Double Verb Construction in Gojri. Language in India, No 1(9), 26-51.
2008
The Clause Structure of Gojri in the Minimalist Program. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No 1(11), 131-156.
Discourse Markers and Procedural Meanings: The Case of Fa in Standard Arabic. The Journal of Humanities and Sciences No 2(XVI), 116-133.
An Introduction to Gojri Phonemes and Syllable Structure. Newcastle Working papers inLinguistics. No (14), 39-50.
2007
Case Marking in Gojri. Language in India No.12 (7), 1-15.
Ergativity in Gojri. Kashmir Journal of Language Research Vol.10 (1).121-137
2005
Scope of CLT in Pakistan. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No1 (9), 21-35.
2004
Un-teachable Aspects of English pronunciation. Kashmir Journal of Language Research No1(8).82-96.
Is ESP Methodology a Methodology. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No 1(8), 37-48.
2003
On speaking with a Communication Aid: Variation in Patterns of Conversational Interaction, Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 1(7), 69-79.
1997
Phonological Rules: An Approach for the Beginners. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (2), 68-77.
1996
Introducing Main Reading Skills for Efficient Reading. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, No. 2 (1), 55-80.
Syntax, SLA, ESP
Pakistan HEC Approved Supervisor
University Best Teacher Award 2021, 2014, 2011, 2009.
HEC Best Teacher Award 2009.
Won Ph. D. scholarship under the faculty development program in 2006. Ph.D. from the UK in less than 3 years (a record for anon-native speaker).
Certificate in Recognition of Invaluable Research Contributions for the year 2014, Presented by the University of AJ&K.