Elaborate narcissism
A 13-MONTH-OLD girl from KP’s Tank district became Pakistan’s 69th victim of polio in 2024. The numerous full-page advertisements and a commemorative ‘polio free’ postal stamp showing a photo of…
Information Literacy Session Feedback
THE PML-N-led coalition wants to introduce a judicial reform package through a constitutional amendment in order to extend by three years the retirement age of the judges of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile,…
AI in education: need for digital literacy
ChatGPT isn’t a buzzword. It’s much more than a shiny new toy having its hype phase. It is a disruption. And what the conventional education systems, particularly the higher education…
Anti-terror strategy
The specter of terrorism has once again risen and is haunting the citizens of Pakistan. The situation is further aggravated by the government's ineptness in handling the TTP threat. The…
Strategic exhaustion
Pakistan currently has many of the familiar symptoms of strategic exhaustion like the slow growth of its economy, rapidly piling up external debt, fast depreciation of its currency, political instability…
News literacy
In July 2022, David Keppler, writing for the Associated Press, warned that as “trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise,” and people in the US are increasingly “rejecting what they hear from…
Perennial hostage: the electorate
Democracy, conceptually challenges, basic human intelligence and wisdom. The power of majority can alter facts. Falsehood can prevail, if the majority support it. As a child had watched a satirical…
The virus of illiteracy
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." This is a principle that never fails to prove true. However, this is a principle rarely followed by most in the less…
Pseudo literacy trap
Educated illiterate. Uneducated literate. Call it whatever it is this unnoticed cadre that has added chaos and danger to the already insecure world that we live in. Most discourse centers…
Media literacy
SHOCKING. Sinister. Sanctionable. There are many ways to describe the network of anti-Pakistan, India-linked NGOs and fake media organisations uncovered by the EU DisinfoLab. These are the ‘cyber nukes’ that…
