EDITORIAL S OPINIONS

Brain, not brawn

To opt between brain and brawn has always been a litmus test to establish the nature of a government’s priorities…

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Technology and reinforcement of privilege

Among many of my students who have graduated recently, as well as children of our family friends, there is sense…

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Stanford’s AI Index 2026: What Pakistan should learn

Artificial intelligence is moving faster than the institutions meant to govern it. That, more than any spectacular new chatbot, is…

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Pakistan’s water crisis: built on theft, not scarcity

Every crisis has a villain. Pakistan’s water crisis is often blamed on climate change, population growth, or shrinking glaciers. These…

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79 years and counting: still catching up

As Pakistan celebrates 79 years of independence, this is an ideal time to reflect on the country’s social development successes…

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Kashmir: diplomatic weight of a few words

The Pakistan-US ties have rarely been short of complications, but the latest diplomatic friction between the two sides is rooted…

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AI’s paradox: promise of abundance and fear of scarcity

Artificial intelligence is increasingly presented as the technology that may finally solve humanity’s ancient economic problem: scarcity. Elon Musk has…

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The new great game in the Caucasus

For centuries, the Caucasus was one of the great frontiers of imperial rivalry, separating and connecting the competing spheres of…

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Redrawing opportunity

Pakistan has 252.09 million people and only four provinces. Punjab alone is home to about 133 million people. The arithmetic…

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The winding road to Shifa

There are no shortcuts to wellness. Neither to Shifa. The events of the last week have shown yet again that…

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