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The passionate efforts of dedicated scientists are keeping the embers of science burning in Pakistan, despite the dismal state of science education in the country.

When I breathe, I feel suffocated. The air around me is polluted, and the wind doesn’t bring tranquillity anymore. Whether it’s the smoke or smog, my sight is now blurry. My favourite orange Nemo now complains; she too feels suffocated in the gigantic blue sea. With every passing day, our Read more…

AI-based tools have taken us by surprise and although we have been hearing about the use of AI for years, they always seemed as if they were from a faraway future. But they are here now. For the uninitiated, AI is a simulation of human intelligence; through it, your machine Read more…

THE magnitude of the flood calamity notwithstanding, there is hope on the horizon. The flood has exposed the farce of education in rural Sindh. Now we also know it is a myth created by the authorities that parents do not want to send their children to school. But the data Read more…

CIVILISED countries meticulously adhere to rule of law and hold public property sacred. They also treasure education institutions, particularly their better ones. On the other hand, morally and culturally backward countries are run by the whims of despots and robber barons, both big ones and little ones. They have little Read more…

A year after the ignominious withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the tame reconquest of that country by the Afghan Taliban, the Biden administration has reminded us that the US is still the world’s policeman. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s killing through a precision US drone strike in a posh neighbourhood of Kabul is the talk Read more…

Education in Pakistan has been perpetually in peril. Not because the government did not have resources; it had them for all other purposes, including some wrong ones. Mainly education has been in peril for at least two reasons: lack of political will, and absence of the right direction. Political will Read more…

I wish I could tell you Malik Adnan is the real Pakistan, not the mob. But I can’t. Because I’m done pretending, lying.