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School dropout is known to be a major issue individually, socially, educationally, and economically. Primary school dropout has been increasing in Pakistan in general and in Balochistan in particular. The determinants of primary school dropout vary across the province to province and district to district. This study finds the determinant of primary school dropout in district Kech of Balochistan. Primary data has been collected randomly from all tehsils of the district. Data were collected from 100 respondents using the Z-score method of sample size selection. Moreover, the study uses frequency distribution and charts to represent the data and applies Cronbach's Alpha for the reliability of the responses. The findings of the study showed that there are many economic, social, and cultural factors that are causing primary school dropout in the district such as distance of the school from home, uneducated parents, cultural issues regarding female education, lack of transportation, child labor issue, non-availability of teachers, a high number of dependent children and unemployed parents. Thus, it is recommended that the Government should take into consideration the aforementioned factors to improve human capital and business productivity across the industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To compare the position of hyoid bone in different skeletal malocclusions in both genders from records of patients of orthodontic department, Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta. Study Design: cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Orthodontics dental section Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta, from Mar 2017 to Aug 2017. Methodology: This study was carried out with the help of patient radiographs from records of Orthodontics department Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta. Beginning of study followed Ethical committee approval. The Sample size was 60. For the data collection, Non probability consecutive sampling technique was used. Samples were collected from Baluchistan. Results: Each gender had 30 cases; 10 in each three of the classes. There was a greater horizontal linear measures C3-H, C3-Rgn found in males across all three classes. Conclusion: There was a greater C3-H and H-Rgn found in males in comparison to females in all the class groups. Additionally, C3-H was found to be of the greatest distance in males in class 1 and 3 groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]