Information ethics
Information ethics has grown over the years as a discipline in library and information science, but the field or the phrase has evolved and been embraced by many other disciplines.…
Changing the mindset
A mindset is a set of assumptions that everyone develops throughout their lives and become so established that people or groups continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or…
Tell us the whole truth
In Islamabad the other day, many political leaders belonging to the PML-N and the PTI and their sidekicks like the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), journalists and commentators soaked in Islam and Pakistani…
Destroying the HEC
The Higher Education Commission is once again under attack, this time by the government of Sindh. The attacks on the HEC began in September 2008 under the previous PPP government…
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The human capital debacle
The Population Association of Pakistan, in collaboration with the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), organised a two-day conference with the theme, ‘Population: New Realities and Challenges for Human…
The one percent
Gregory Mankiw’s essay, ‘Defending the one percent’, is a forceful response to Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s thesis against concentration of fortunes within the top one percent of the Americans. Professor Mankiw…
Consultation on HDR 2014
The Human Development Report Office of UNDP New York, UNDP Pakistan, and the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) jointly organised a two-day South Asian Regional Consultation on Human…
Why isn’t the national flag flying at half-mast?
And why hasn’t a ten-day mourning period been declared for Hakeemullah Mehsud? To hear the tearful reaction from some of our politicos and television pundits it would seem it was…
Rethinking government
THE most critical constraint today to the effective functioning of the government is the latter`s overextended mandate, beyond its core role, and the competence level of its worl(force. The institutional…
