Big Tech’s job mirage
Silicon Valley’s success story – built by Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple and Microsoft – has reshaped the popular imagination with promises of economic dynamism, innovation and thousands of high-skilled jobs.…
AI is learning women, not just images
It began innocently, a viral ‘Saree Portrait’ trend sweeping through South Asia. Women across Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka uploaded their photos to AI apps that transformed them into…
Empowered ageing
THIS year’s theme for International Day of Older Persons, observed on Oct 1 each year, is ‘Older Persons Driving Local and Global Action: Our Aspirations, Our Well-Being, Our Rights’. This…
Language and ethnic identity
The relationship between language and ethnic identity has long occupied a central place in social, cultural and political thought. It is a relationship that is at once intimate and complex…
Aid groups seize on truce to tackle Gaza hunger
International agencies were preparing Saturday to pour aid into Gaza, hopeful a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will allow them to put an end to the famine haunting parts of…
What is Pakistan’s leverage?
Pakistan’s latest attempt to court Washington carries a new sales pitch. Islamabad is not offering supply routes, intelligence packages or a renewed promise to fight terrorism. In 2025, the commodity…
Heritage as woman
ALL over the world, heritage is usually considered to be a building. In Karachi, it is normally a 19th- or early 20th-century structure. Its age is determined by the mortar…
Billionaire rage
The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New…
The new age of darkness
In Pakistan, 65 per cent of the population is currently aged under 30 years. Sixty-three per cent of this population is aged between 15 and 30 years. In other words,…
Literature hostage to the elite
There was a time when literature throbbed with the heartbeat of the people, a time when the pens of writers shook empires, exposed social inequalities and sparked revolutions. Literature was…
