General and specificcombining ability areone of the important plant breeding tools used to compare performances of lines in F1 populationacrossgrowthand yield contributingtraits. Theexperiment was carried out in2014 under the agro-ecological condition of Tandojam, Sindh Pakistan based on a randomized complete block design with four replications. Six parentsand their crosses (nine hybrids), in whichthree femaleparents as lines (Bt-008, IR-1525,and neelam-131) and three male parents as testers (NIA Sadori, NIA Ufaq and NIA Perkh) were evaluated in the study.In F1generation,the meansquares for combining ability for targetedcharacteristicsdisplayed highly significant(p<0.01)generalcombiningabilityeffects in lines for all traits except lint index. But in the case of testers, the GCA effects were significant for sympodial branches plant-1, seed index,and seed cottonyield plant-1and highly significant only for monopodial branches plant-1, ginning outturn%, staple length. While, mean squares values for the interaction of line x tester revealed highly significant specific combing abilityeffects for plant height, monopodial branchesplant-1, bollweight,and GOT%. The two parents Neelam-131 and NIA Ufaq manifested higher general combining ability effects and were good general combiners for yield and yield components and can make a potential material for varietal seed development. Foryield contributingcharacters, crossesIR-1525 ×NIA Ufaq and IR-1525 ×Perkh showed significant SCA effects among the rest of the crosses. Fromthis study, it is suggested that crosses exhibiting greaterSCA valueand parents indicating good GCA valuemust be chosen for enhancementof a specific trait