On a collision course
A PANICKING administration is desperately trying to prevent raging crowds from storming the capital, breaking through all the barriers on their way. For the past several days, Islamabad has been in…
We need sensible policies
In March 2001, as federal minister of science and technology, I approached then-president Musharraf with three proposals. The first was to extend the continental shelf of Pakistan from its limits…
Digital Pied Pipers of Pakistan
FOR years, Pakistan felt more like a cherished memory of childhood and adolescent travels than a living reality, its struggles and triumphs observed from afar. Preoccupied with our own lives…
Serving digitally
PAKISTAN’s digital landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. From vibrant, swarming urban tech hubs to remote villages buzzing with mobile internet connectivity, a digital revolution is reshaping the nation. Yet,…
Vietnam moment?
IT has been half a century since the humbling of the world’s mightiest military, the US army, by Vietnamese guerilla warriors. It was, by all accounts, the most tumultuous defeat…
Deus ex machina
OVERUSED as it may be, ‘revolution’ is the only way to describe what’s happening in Artificial intelligence; OpenAI’s ChatGPT, short for ‘Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer’ has captured our imaginations, with…
Battlefield Islamabad
What was proclaimed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders as a peaceful march on Islamabad to demand, among other things, the release of their leader Imran Khan from jail turned out…
Ousted BD leader becomes diplomatic headache for India
Four weeks after ex-premier Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter during a student-led revolution, analysts say she has become a diplomatic headache for her hosts in India. Hasina’s iron-fisted tenure…
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Enforced Disappearances (EDs) have been frequently used as a strategy to spread fear and terror in a society, according to the UN. By now, the world body argues, it has…
Digitization key to revenue growth
Pakistan has been facing the perpetual challenge of expanding its tax base without any tangible results, a situation that is quite ironic given its need for broader revenue sources to…
