Large Language Models , the guts of chatbots like ChatGPT, are having their moment right now. The rise of chatbots has brought forth numerous debates on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on...

That India succeeds while Pakistan fails in space owes to the different quality of their education.

A few weeks ago, the caretaker prime minister’s soundbite about educated Pakistanis who choose to settle abroad attracted public ire.Coming so soon after the tragic news of the sinking of a...

The year 2001 saw the release of Steven Spielberg’s film ‘A.I. - Artificial Intelligence’. It was accompanied by a website featuring a chatbot, a program that mimicked a human...

In my last op-ed on the issue of the attempted land grab of Quaid-e-Azam University to build a bypass road I opined that it is a convenient path of least resistance for the Capital Development...

International applicants to post-graduate programmes at universities in developed countries have long understood that having even a single research paper to one’s name gives them a big leg...

I was recently talking to a faculty member, a fellow Gen-Xer, at a major UK university and he shared an observation he made at the start of the new academic year.This fall he is teaching a...

Around the world, universities have multiple goals. Core among them remains teaching in degree programmes to pass on knowledge, make young adults understand the world we inhabit, elevate them to...

The Google /Oxford Languages dictionary definition of the adjective ‘liberal’ is: “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new...

Today’s university vice-chancellors are facing a number of challenges. The number one challenge by far that universities are grappling with, particularly after the presentation of the 2023-24...

Every Pakistani aspires to the fruits of progress although many insist on continuing to live in the 16th century. Our state is too preoccupied with advancing the ideological indoctrination project...

I was on a road trip to the northern areas with friends. We were at a rest stop, our black off-road utility vehicle parked on the side of the road, its tinted windows glistening in the sunlight.I...

On Wednesday, members of our much vaunted ‘youth bulge’ that counts itself as supporters of the party of justice were proudly abusing police and setting alight public property in...

What happens when you put a man in charge of a university, grant him virtually unchecked power over staff and faculty who in turn have unchecked power over students, vest him with signing authority...

The vast majority of 240-odd universities in the country are failing both of their missions: the idealistic goal of learning for learning’s sake, broadening horizons and personal...

An unhealthy obsession with the rupee-dollar exchange rate has been driving the economic discourse and policy actions in the country, such that government communication and policy largely revolves...

How bleak life must be for a brilliant young man, who returned to the country to bring light to university students.

On the evening of January 27, 1967 the Apollo 1 crew was performing a test rehearsal on the pad at Launch Complex 34 when a spark from a power surge inside the pressurized command module ignited...

Human migration has been happening since the dawn of time — in search of game, in search of fertile land. If it had not been for migration, the human race would still be confined to the...

Would you rather have someone pick your pocket with their left or their right hand? Would you prefer to get robbed facing the business end of a small handgun or a rifle? Essentially, that is what...

Fall, the time when millions of students all over the world – including Pakistan – will start their college journeys, is upon us. Many will be first-generation students, the first in...

FIR alleges the suspect’s two mobile sets have numerous objectionable videos and pictures of women in them.

Last year saw the publication of ‘Womansplaining – Navigating Activism, Politics and Modernity in Pakistan,’ a book edited by Federal Minister Sherry Rehman to which I was able to...

At the beginning of this year, I contributed an op-ed about how in its waning days, members of the Punjab Assembly went on a university charter awarding bonanza.When done by the book, the Punjab...

Public universities are facing multiple challenges that we keep hearing about, ranging in nature from academic, administrative, managerial, financial, and political. Some of them may not be...

World’s tallest flagpole is in Cairo Egypt, which is 662.57 feet tall

Garment industry is crucial to South Asian nation's economy

One of the most famous legends in Greek mythology is that of the escape of Daedalus, a gifted architect and craftsman, and his son Icarus from the island of Crete.As the tale goes, Daedalus had a...

I have been meaning to put down these thoughts for almost a year but somehow kept delaying it. However, I have come to realize that just because I lack the rigour of the theoretical underpinnings...