Opinion

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CSCs are prima facie civilian objects and perform an important range of civilian functions

Across the science fiction stories, you find three responses to entropy: annihilation, resistance and preservation

National AI Policy 2025 promises to train one million people and produce 10,000 trainers

Britain entered the war as the world's banker and left it a debtor

Abolishing an outdated system is one thing, replacing it with a functioning one is quite another

Pakistan has spent decades mastering art of borrowing, refinancing and servicing debt

Some people seem to think friendship is measured by attendance

AI companies are destroying books to train their LLMs

We need to stop treating ordinary people's languages as inadequate for science, law, medicine, technology or thought

Taliban administration operating from Kabul is seeking to end its isolation

Successful stewardship of an educational institution hinges upon pedagogical, non-pedagogical duties

Empowering girls must begin long before marriage

Such defiance of the rule of law hardly inspires confidence among the people at large or foreign investors

Real origin of this conversation lies in global market projections and fears of a wider recession

Officially, this is just business catching up to disruption

It is time to ask whether the problem lies with an apathetic public or with messengers who have failed to inspire them

This war seems to be taking on a momentum of its own, giving little impression that mediation in any form survives

When merit becomes negotiable, institutional competence slowly disappears

CSS breeds desperation among youth - delivering pyrrhic societal success alongside real individual, collective failure

Someone from an underrepresented community should not have to be exemplary to justify being in the room

Government will do well to build a spine, collect experts, read models, take leap of faith in building anew

Art functions as transhistorical form of correspondence

Protecting public health should not mean choosing between economic growth, cumbersome regulations

ASCs were created under the Area Study Centres Act No. XLV of 1975 by Parliament to "promote specialised,

Much of India's contemporary political debate can be understood through this clash of visions

Universities therefore carry a special responsibility

Pakistan does talk about divorce, but much of the debate centres on rising divorce and khula cases

Pakistan needs to move away from a project-by-project approach toward a portfolio-based agribusiness investment model

Contrast between the two governance models is increasingly clear

Wearing or not wearing a chadar or burqa is not the issue; it is a personal choice

Several factors can be identified that lead to women's recruitment by separatist outfits

The media fails to recognise that Mir was just a kid like the rest of us who are still stumbling through life

History is, after all, nothing but a pack of tricks we play upon the dead: Voltaire

We are all borrowers in one sense or the other, and our survival cannot be sustained without this reliance

The horror of the PIMS tragedy stayed for about a week, and has now already started to fade

When does a responsibility become a liability - a cruelty to the self?

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Fourteen infants dead - and we are left asking what, exactly, was protecting them

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US and its allies pinned their hopes on democratic outcomes and improving the lives of those they would liberate

System as it exists today is built to survive threats to itself

Rabies is almost invariably fatal once clinical symptoms appear

Since the proposal for new administrative units to address systemic collapse emerged

Geography of this transit triangle makes it particularly vulnerable

System collapse argument took me back to my own ordeal in the same hospital some four and a half years ago

International evidence makes the question difficult to answer affirmatively