Provincial budgets for FY2024-25
The provincial budgets for 2024-25 have all been presented last month in the respective Provincial Assemblies. However, they have not received much attention in the media because of the exclusive…
Is the future artificial?
American journalist Fareed Zakaria, in his book ‘Age of Revolutions’, writes that the speed of technological and economic changes is impacting politics in a manner that is causing anxieties and…
Commercializing research
A study of Scopus, the world’s most comprehensive, multidisciplinary database of scholarly literature, data, and analytics reveals astonishingly positive figures about the progress made in the quality and quantum of…
Provincial surplus and the federal budget
To formulate federal and provincial budgets necessitates engagement between the federal government and its federating units on two critical items: projected share of each province from the divisible pool and…
Sunak’s summer election brings hope to Britain’s bruised financial sector
As Britain prepares to revisit the ballot box, executives in the City of London are hoping a new government will pay them more attention and put an end to years…
Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?
Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some…
Pakistan needs to produce 25,000 IT graduates, specialists to work globally: Siddiqui
Urging the prime minister to impose an education emergency in Pakistan, Federal Science and Technology Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said Pakistan needs to produce at least 25,000 IT…
Universities and the financial tightrope
In an oped in these pages a few weeks earlier (‘Defunding of public higher education’, March 29), I wrote about the review conducted by the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC)…
A social democratic, green, mission-oriented budget
In contrast to the usual approach to a budget discourse based on ideas around raising taxes, and expenditure allocations with slight hints of expanding the tax base, and having progressivity,…
