The writer teaches at SZABIST, Islamabad
Tragic incidents, as the one we all witnessed with great shock and anger in Sialkot, have left us with no option but to go back to our roots and...
Imagine this scene from the Stone Age: people are living in caves and are completely dependent on Nature for their survival; they are vulnerable to...
Some universities around the globe had put in place strategic plans to capitalise on ICT and make a gradual shift to online education prior to the...
Afghanistan is on its way back to the 90s, when the then USSR withdrew under international pressure and internal economic mess.Back then,...
Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan lamented that change of government in Pakistan every five years was tragic for setting long-term...
Like many other unresolved perennial issues in Pakistan, the question of which language to use as medium of instruction during the formative years...
Every time one listens to a minister or reads a news story about what the government is doing and how well it is doing, one is only stuffed with...
Islamophobia is now a real problem in the West and it has far-reaching consequences for the global order and peace.The West, comprising...
Artificial Intelligence, which many believe is a force for good in the world, has actually a dark side for consumers, citizens, and especially for...
Hindutva has permeated Modi’s India. Politics, medicine, social activities, and media all are deeply infected by a nostalgic need to restore the...
It is increasingly becoming clear that the post-Covid-19 world will be profoundly different from what humanity has been accustomed to for...
The traditional balance sheet, with its main emphasis on capital as the primary concern of managers, is skewed in favour of the shareholders and has...
The year 2019 started with clouds of despair and uncertainty hovering over the country’s economy and politics. It ended with much of the same –...
Paradoxically, as and when a state becomes more powerful than the society it rules, it begins to fade. In the same way, a society trying to grab...
One problem with history is that it is amenable to many interpretations with its persistent misuse by the power elites through conscious efforts to...
What a government can and should do is a difficult question to answer. Even more problematic is the question of how to design the governance...
Someone had to make the blunder of revoking Articles 370 and 35-A. It was long overdue, given the fact that the sham 'accession' of Kashmir to India...
The proverb ‘empty vessels make the most noise’ aptly describes how our politicians behave inside and outside parliament – talking non-stop...
With the emergence of the smartphone and the internet on the horizon of the 21st century, everyone imagined a world different from what it had been...
Money may motivate individuals to perform more and better but not always and not everywhere.At times it may be doing quite the opposite of what it...
