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Singling out TikTok

Pakistan is a strange country when it comes to the digital sphere. No, really: we allow social media platforms to operate in this region only to subsequently ban them for…

Take that, TikTok

IMAGINE you have been parachuted to power to run a country of 220 million with myriad problems of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and malnutrition. You have also inherited massive fiscal problems…

Get rich before getting old

It is said, “The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.” Our predicament is to figure out by looking at the…

Hope in a time of despair

In these unprecedented times, the world seems to be hurtling into a dark abyss. A myriad of crises, spanning political, economic, financial, and climatic dimensions, looms over countries, casting a…

So you want to start working?

A few months ago, these pages carried an op-ed of mine that attempted to provide some insights into university admissions processes (‘The admissions game’, May 27, 2023). A few weeks…

To livestream or not?

The decision of the chief justice of Pakistan to livestream the hearing on the constitutionality of the SC Practice and Procedure Act, 2023 was greatly appreciated by me. I enjoyed…