LAHORE: (Wednesday, January 20, 2021): Punjab University has awarded five PhD degrees to the scholars in which Musarrat Habib D/o Habib Ullah in the subject of Education after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Differential Effect of Metacognitive Instructional Strategies on Mathematical Problem Solving Skills and Metacognition of Grade 8 Students’, Usman Bashir S/o Muhammad Bashir in the subject of Political Science after approval of his thesis entitled ‘Religious Trends and Politics: A Statistical Analysis of the Electoral Patterns of 2018 Elections an District Gujranwala’, Bibi Saira D/o Muhammad Siddique in the subject of Political Science after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Energy Factors Affecting Politics in Foreign Policy Making: A Case Study of Pakistan (2002-2018)’, Muhammad Umar Bhatti S/o Ghulam Muhammad Bhatti in the subject of Molecular Biology after approval of his thesis entitled ‘Genetic Improvement of Zea mays to Control Lepidopteran and Hemipteran Pests’ and Masooma Raza Hashmi D/o Altaf Hussain Hashmi in the subject of Mathematics after approval of her thesis entitled ‘Some Hybrid Structures of m-Polar Neutrosophic Set with Applications’.