Opinion

Governments have changed, political alliances have shifted and new slogans have repeatedly promised reform

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto pursued nationalisation and a highly centralised model of political and state authority

Time and space separating September 27 with October 4 are vaster than a mere seven days

ASER estimates that about 26.2 million school-age children are out of formal schooling

President Xi once likened the 56 ethnic groups of China to '56 flowers in a bouquet'

Vedas divide Hindu society into four varnas

Pakistan's rural-urban female literacy gap typically spans 17 to 19 percentage points across the provinces

Karachi's residents deserve both security and justice

Current geopolitical reality projects a starkly different outcome

Hybrid is neither here nor there. It is time to make the change

China's success in the green transformation is no accident

Around 37% of births in Pakistan occur within less than two years of the preceding birth

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A popular idea from Islamic tradition is how a society would determine what kind of leadership it would have

India likes to present itself as a voice of peace, dialogue and the Global South, but do actions match its rhetoric

Economy, India, Afghanistan are challenges; Iran war, connectivity, balancing ties with US, China are opportunities

Mohajirs must reclaim their affinity for the civil service by raising their educational standards

If technology can shrink distance elsewhere, it can shorten the journey to justice

The problem is that, in many organisations, the technology arrived before the rules governing its use

The country's gender-parity score has risen to 59.5 per cent

Everyone now carries a phone with a camera

Programmers worked overtime, examining systems and correcting the suspected fault

Mavalvala is scheduled to deliver the University of Karachi's ORIC Distinguished Lecture

AI companies announced solving some of the most high-profile problems in mathematics

The absence of humour writing in English newspapers has been an intriguing question for me

There is a meaningful difference between adopting AI and being ready for it

The ability to operate undetected has traditionally been a submarine's greatest defence

Fresh diplomatic effort to ease tensions between Islamabad and Kabul facing an immediate test after Kohat attack

The strategic objective of Trump presidency is to reconfigure global geoeconomics and geopolitics

It's a scene straight out of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Rainwater harvesting has emerged as the most widely considered solution, and one that has already yielded results

Gone are the days when elders gathered to resolve disputes; today, tribal warlords exploit conflicts to gain income

Yi also said that relations between Tehran and Beijing are significant due to their strategic partnership

Many decades later, as a middle-aged man, I contend with a different question

Distinction has become especially important in Pakistan

Elite private schools prepare students for admission to leading universities at home and abroad

Archives create space for marginalised histories and provide evidence for scholars to reconsider overlooked practices

Charity and private philanthropy are not stand-ins for food security

A person who makes another litigate without reason seldom bears the reasonable cost of doing so

Sometimes, ordinary citizens following the law really surprise you

Concern arises when financial success begins to replace knowledge, experience and character as the measure of worth

Yuval Noah Harari makes an argument in his book Sapiens that science was driven by and advanced with capitalism

In February 2020, in a conference room in Doha, the Taliban put their signature on a promise

In the Emerging Global Order military power will be subservient to 'hard power'

Ageism is patriarchy’s second act: extracting value from women, then penalising them when it expires

The country's entrance examinations have evolved from assessments of aptitude into assessments of socioeconomic status

The more disturbing the image, the greater the emotional response

We should stop asking people to tighten their belts; some have already tightened them so much that we cannot breathe

Religious minorities hold reserved seats in the Senate, the National Assembly and every provincial assembly

Punjab was transformed by this bargain