PPP in education
WITH 26.2 million children out of school, the state may have to revive its model of public-private partnership (PPP) to widen the net of access and equity in education. Pakistan…
Search committee receives 750 applications for HEC chairman post
The country’s academia has shown an overwhelming interest in the lucrative post of chairman of the Higher Education Commission, as the search committee has received around 750 applications. A hunt is…
KP’s untapped potential
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has always been a frontier. For centuries, it stood at the intersection of empires and ideas. The Silk Road wound its way through its mountains, carrying merchants, scholars…
Why Pakistan’s economy stays trapped
Debt, deficits and dysfunction constitute the three fault lines, which define Pakistan’s looming economic reckoning. Pakistan’s economic crisis has become a story of recurring fault lines: rising public debt, missed…
Apple lobbies India to change tax law seen hindering its expansion
Apple is lobbying India’s government to modify its income tax law to ensure the company is not taxed for ownership of high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its contract manufacturers,…
Crypto-mapping for digital assets
Pakistan is a country of intelligent people who are seriously thinking about creating a niche for cryptocurrency mining through blockchain technology. That is precisely why the government took the initiative…
Comey indictment escalates Trump’s campaign to chill opposition
The US criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey shatters norms of independence in federal investigations and will face significant hurdles in court, according to legal experts. But for…
Opportunity or missed moment?
It is easy to forget that the European Union is not just a remote bloc of 27 countries but Pakistan’s second-largest trading partner and, by far, our single biggest export…
No appeasement
Pakistan’s long experiment with negotiating its way out of insurgency has been a catalogue of concessions that terrorists have repeatedly exploited. Talks with terrorists have been tried, measured and found…
Senate panel approves university bill
The sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training approved the University of Business, Sciences and Technology Bill, 2025, with the condition that all Higher Education…
