‘Consumer data protection-Are we really safe?’

Big Brother is watching you By: Arham Atiq Although he lived in an era when the idea of infringement of privacy had not been conceived,...

Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory revisited

Was the Chocolate factory a contest, a supply chain, marketing or a combined effort?  By: Asad Raza Wondering if you heard of this somewhere? Yes,...

Container Pros and Cons

Containers should be used positively By: Muhammad Sohail Ahmed Is Islamabad a city of containers? Physically, yes, it looks like a city with a large...

The man who would be Caliph

Al-Baghdadi headed a military organisation, not a political AT PENPOINT By killing Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the USA might well have disposed of the greatest threat...

Fundamental right Vs Section 144

Fundamental rights and public peace sometimes clash By: Hasan Ejaz Khan In November 2016, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), now the ruling party of Pakistan, had called...

Indian fake narratives continue unabated

Indian claims are exposed all the time The Indian Army Chief’s false claim of having destroyed alleged terrorist training camps in Azad Jammu Kashmir...

Why are we that Xenophobic?

Learning to welcome foreigners is key to success By: Muniba Zaman Talk to some people in private gatherings, and you would hear such murmurings as...

Neither permitted nor prohibited

Laws prohibit child labour, but are not implemented By: Nazish Hassan Wazir   “I want to remain with unrequited suffering.”– Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov) The summer sun...

Digital ways of money laundering

How electronics are making it easier for the corrupt By: SHAHID ILYAS KHAN Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds appear legal and clean....

Crisis of credibility for mainstream media

Long live journalism!  By: Nava Thakuria In the eraof the World Wide Web, where consumers become used to various free internet-providing services, the news itself...

Present times– relevant thoughts

Let Imran Khan be himself Despite many temptations to do so, I exercise extreme restraint to not comment politically or even semi-politically. But here...

Observance of Black Day

The Kashmiris will never give up In the backdrop of the revocation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution which ended the...

How difficult is the Quran?

And what one requires for its understanding   Is Quran a difficult book to understand? Of course, the words ‘easy’ and ‘difficult’ are relative, so...

A commodity called education

And how it is bought, sold and used for the greater stratification of society   To buy, sell, bag profits, and possess novelty is...

The revolution will be streamed online

Predicting preferences effectively   By Amna Khan   Predicting the unpredictable, that’s what this new digital world is about. Predicting our desires, needs and wants even before...

Darkest day in Kashmir history

The day the Indian Army marched in   By Muhammad Zahid Rifat   October 27 is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir. Kashmiris on both...

Foundational basics of Pak-China strategic relations

The relation has grown over the years   By Dr Rajkumar Singh   Diplomatic relations were established in 1951 and strengthened by the Pakistani decision to join...