IMF’s EFF programme: some reflections
As another of many years come to close during the last four decades or so, when Pakistan finds itself in yet another International Monetary...
China poised to outpace the USA in the AI race
In a recent interview, a senior NVIDIA executive offered perhaps the most candid assessment yet of the global AI race, admitting openly that China...
Big boost for Pakistan’s Defence
The US State Department’s authorization of the sustainment and package for the PAF’s F-16 fleet, is worth $686 million, which signifies a strategic importance...
Selling off PIA without Gandapur’s help
The government has privatized PIA on much the same principle as the fellow who knocked his head against the wall repeatedly. He said it...
Hainan 2025 and China’s new model for an open economy
On December 18, exactly 47 years after the landmark plenum that launched China’s reform era, Beijing drew a definitive line around the island of...
Punjab’s vibrant digital rise
Punjab’s transformation over the past year is no longer quiet; it is vibrant, deliberate, and increasingly visible in the daily lives of its citizens....
Decentralizing colonial pursuits
For any student of international relations and geopolitics; there are very symmetrical trends which indicate that in a unipolar world, despite the fact that...
Gaza Abandoned: Justice for Ukraine, Silence for Palestine
Europe has recently taken a historic step, launching an International Claims Commission to assess and compensate damages caused by the war in Ukraine. The...
A Shiny Nuclear Mirage
“The dream of reason produces monsters,” wrote Francisco de Goya, warning future generations about ambition unrestrained by wisdom. Hannah Arendt later observed that political...
From Gaza to Bondi Beach
On December 14, Australia was jolted out of its sense of safety. At Bondi Beach in Sydney, a space synonymous with openness, community, and...
Banking on disruption
AT PENPOINT
The conviction of PTI founder Imran Khan in the second Toshakhana case might well be compared to a tightening of the screws, prior...
The crisis that lives in every breath
A cruel irony permeates the air we breathe in Lahore: a city that once welcomed winter fogs is now drowning in toxic air. Every...
Why India is losing to China in South Asian diplomacy
In the shifting geopolitics of South Asia, a region long considered India’s natural sphere of influence, Beijing’s steady diplomatic gains have become impossible to...
Education and technology
For as long as I can recall, everybody has always been complaining about the falling educational standards. Up until the 1990s, all teachers up...
US-China Technology War: Bad for all
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge in human life to change and manipulate the human environment. Technology encompasses a wide spectrum from AI to...