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1-Saba Sattar: MPhil Scholar, Department of Anthropology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
2-Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

Epilepsy is regarded as a superstitious phenomenon in various cultures of the world. Because of these superstitious convictions, the infected families try other methods to cure epilepsy rather than medical treatment. The study was conducted in Rawalpindi from November 2018 to February 2019. The survey method was used to gather indepth data from 40 patients with epilepsy. Data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics version 25. There are two segments in the society that essentially related to the treatment of the epileptic sufferers; one is biomedicine and the other is ethno medicine. At the end of the findings, it became clear that patients in the community sought help from both segments. Stigma about the epileptic patients is widely prevalent in the society which may lead to seeking different treatments of patients by their families. It depends on people choice which treatment they like.

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1-RenKeyao : School of Political and Public Management,Soochow University & School of Education and Humanity Soochow Vocational University, Suzhou, Jiangsu
2-Riaz Ahmad: Manager ORIC (R&D), National Defense University Islamabad, Pakistan.
3-Azeem Gul: Lecturer,Peace and Conflict Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

This corridor is an important link between Chinas "the Belt and Road Initiative" and the strategy of Laos to turn "land-locked country" into "land-linked country". Continued to strengthen the construction of software and hardware facilities along the China-Laos economic corridor and promote the connectivity of the areas along the corridor, this research explores the channels of cooperation between China, Laos and third parties, starting with scientific and technological cooperation, carry out scientific diplomacy, and dissolve a series of remarks smearing Chinas "The Belt and Road Initiative" such as "Environmental Destruction Theory" and "Debt Trap Theory". Finally, through the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation system in order to construct this economic corridor, the overall situation of the facilities of the economic corridor construction project can be controlled. The research also finds whether Laos has benefited from the construction of the China-Laos economic corridor and to what extent.

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1-Ilhamah Qiamy: Department of Economics,University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
2-Fahim Nawaz: Department of Economics,University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
3-Syed Umair Jalal: MPhil Scholar,Department of Political Science,University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.

Presently, Brexit and its implications for the United Kingdom (UK), European Union and rest of the world, are regarded as major concerns across the globe. The present study is an attempt to estimate the shock that the UKs economy will likely receive as a consequence of Brexit. It also seeks to find an answer to the question whether costs incurred as a consequence of Brexit are repairable or otherwise for the UK. By applying a vector autoregressive (VAR) model on annual time series data of four important economic variables, i.e. gross domestic product (GDP), imports, exports and foreign direct investment, ranging from 1970-2016, an interdependence relation was found to hold among variables. The result concludes that through Brexit, the UKs economy will face some fluctuations which wont last any longer than 12 to 15 years. In return, it will grant UK sovereignty in the different vital segments of the country like economic policies and political decisions.