How many doors does your passport open?
When a border officer examines your passport, they are not simply checking your nationality. They are weighing your country’s reputation – its credibility, stability and record of honesty. A passport…
Shaping of Pak-US ties
PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir’s meeting with American President Donald Trump will continue to echo for weeks, perhaps months. The US president’s continuous engagement with Pakistan’s civilian and…
AI and higher education?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer the future; it is the present and is transforming our lives at an unprecedented pace. The disruption has already begun and the pace of…
The power of rationality
If one were to choose a sequence of essentials for a nation to prosper, I would put rationality of their thought process on top. It is my firm belief that,…
Tyranny of the meritocratic class
In recent years, public discourse in Pakistan has turned its ire toward the country’s elites. In a recent podcast, economist Dr Kaiser Bengali bluntly called them out. Months earlier, former…
The past is prelude
RECENT commemorations of the Emergency Indira Gandhi imposed on India in 1975 are frequently fraught with warnings about how the Congress might behave if it is returned to power, amid…
Regulators at the edge
In the next three to five years, the global media landscape will change more profoundly than it has in the last three decades. Artificial intelligence is no longer a backstage…
The withering Constitution
THE country has recently emerged from a war. The Modi government failed to achieve its three intended objects — cowing a nuclear-armed country of 225 million, establishing India as a…
Thriving on adversity
Cheer up, dear Pakistanis. In the midst of all our troubles and this new confusion about our identity as a hard or a soft country, we may spy a trace…
Indonesia’s ‘smooth’ polls a beacon in sea of strongmen
Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast - and ethnically diverse - island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic beacon in a sea…
