Addressing mass starvation in Gaza
THE world has been witnessing unprecedented atrocities in Gaza, beginning with the reprehensible attack on Oct 7, 2023, by Hamas militants, which killed 1,139 Israeli nationals and saw 200 taken…
Mass exodus
PAKISTAN’S brain drain issue is developing into a crisis. The number of educated, skilled and unskilled Pakistanis leaving this country for better opportunities abroad has exponentially increased in the past…
Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives
Huawei Technologies plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers as early as next month, two people familiar with the matter said. Some…
Subtracting fake news from social media
In an age where truth seems negotiable and subject to multiple interpretations, lies and fake news travel at lightning speed. Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals a…
We have a massive learning poverty crisis
Learning poverty, as delineated by the World Bank, pertains to the proportion of children who are unable to read and comprehend a basic text by the age of ten. This…
Disgraced media
LAST week, I wrote a piece on Western media’s coverage of the war in Gaza for Prism on the Dawn website. I re-read part of Edward Said’s 1981 book Covering…
Massive funding plans
The Foreign Economic Assistance Monthly Report for November 2024 published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of Pakistan, provides an in-depth examination of financial disbursements made against budget estimates…
Jews, Zionists and the media
THE CNN reporter gave a victory cry for his adventures in an active warzone. The headlines said it all. He had travelled with the Israeli air fleet to watch and ‘cover’ firsthand…
Media giants’ tattered credibility
THE credibility of global media organisations such as the BBC, CNN, SkyNews and even progressive newspapers such as the UK’s Guardian appears to be in tatters as their editorial policies…
Western media and the war
THE brazen one-sided account of the conflict justifying Israeli aggression against Palestinians living in the occupied Gaza Strip has exposed the mainstream Western media’s claims of objectivity in reporting. Truth…
