The AI boom’s Achilles heel
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, warned in April 2025 congressional testimony that AI dominance requires energy dominance. He projected the US needs 29GW more power by 2027 and 67GW by…
BR – ePaper Aug 28, 2025 Opinion and Editorial Page 6 Country’s monsoon misery: nature’s fury, man’s mistake
Floodwaters gushing through mountain villages, cities rendered swamps, mourners gathered at fresh graves — as Pakistan’s monsoon season once again delivers scenes of calamity, it also lays bare woeful preparedness.…
Let the specialists plan
As the country is rattled by the deluge, the question that arises is this: Could at least a part of the havoc have been averted? Yes, a good deal of…
Destroying Gaza
Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While this should be shunned and punished in international law, a…
‘Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night…?’
It was in 1794 that one William Blake, a poet of his time, wrote that famous poem, equating the shining eyes of a tiger in the wilderness to over-powering and…
Young, broke, unheard
Islamabad, often hailed as the second most beautiful capital in the world, especially on social media, is nothing short of heaven for the bureaucracy and those living on the right…
Year of travel in the US
OVER the last year, I drove 30,000 miles exploring the western half of the US, staying in the extreme wilderness as well as glamorous cities, travelling on secondary roads rather…
Life in a ‘posh’ area
In most ‘posh’ neighbourhoods in Pakistan – and in particular in Karachi – residents must often do things on their own and pay for them even while they pay taxes…
Clean-up needed
A POPULAR saying I have been hearing since childhood is: “Safaai nisf iman hai” (cleanliness is half the faith). Today, the ‘Queen of the East’, as Karachi was once dubbed…
Pakistan’s housing crisis needs innovation
Pakistan's explosive population growth over the past five decades presents a pressing non-traditional national security concern. With ripple effects on water, food, and energy security, this demographic surge threatens social…
