Licensing Policy

All the articles editorially accepted for publication by the Sadiq Journal of Pakistan Studies (SJPS) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Submitting a manuscript to SJPS, the author has to certify that he/ she is authorized by other contributors (s) and co-author (s) to enter the publication process.

He/ She shall assure on behalf of all author (s) that:

  1. The manuscript is original, it has not been published in any other journal before, is not under consideration for any other journal and does not violate any existing copyrights or any other rights of a third party.
  2. I/we have full authority to enter into this agreement for granting the rights to SJPS as sole author (s) of the article without breaching any other obligation.
  3. The manuscript does not contain any unlawful and libelous content or anything that would breach the agreement (s) of confidence, commitment, and secrecy.
  4. I/we certify that due care has been taken to ensure the reliability of the article. All purported statements and information are facts to the best of my/our knowledge and the currently accepted standards of scientific knowledge. Therefore, any of the proposed methods or instructions will not, if followed accurately, cause any damage or loss to the user (s).