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Tackling Informal Economy With Artificial Intelligence-Part III

Pakistan, Nov. 7 -- Pakistan cannot tackle its informal economy without first understanding what lies beneath that expression. For decades, policymakers have treated informality principally as a taxat... Read More


Renaming Universities: Whose Identity Matters?

Pakistan, Nov. 6 -- Punjab's Higher Education Department has written to the vice-chancellors of six public universities, directing them to drop the word "University" from their names. The directive co... Read More


Argentina's Classrooms Take To The Streets: An Insurgency Against The Chainsaw

Pakistan, Nov. 5 -- On 15 October 2026, the streets of Buenos Aires became an extension of Argentina's university campuses. Students left classrooms, professors lecture halls and researchers laborator... Read More


Why The US Midterm Elections Won't Change Much For Pakistan

Pakistan, Nov. 5 -- The United States midterm elections may have delivered a significant political setback to the Republican Party and President Donald Trump, but their implications for American forei... Read More


Neha Bora Or Tora Bora

India, Nov. 4 -- The name Tora Bora evokes American bombs falling on the mountains of eastern Afghanistan in December 2001. A quarter-century later, a near-echo of that name belongs to a very differen... Read More


Devaluation - The Pakistani Predicament

India, Nov. 4 -- Economists argue that a currency must reflect a country's economic fundamentals. They are right. Artificially supporting an overvalued rupee subsidizes imports, penalizes exports and ... Read More


There Is A Growing Economic Burden Of Anxiety In Pakistan

Pakistan, Nov. 3 -- A child enters the world without an understanding of fear, uncertainty, or responsibility. His days are governed by immediate needs, and tomorrow holds no particular threat. But as... Read More


Dumbing Down Of Pakistan: From Intellectual Repression To Social Decay

Pakistan, Nov. 2 -- The stampede at a TikToker's mehndi ceremony in Sialkot, reported by Dawn on October 31, left one man dead and more than 14 injured. Hundreds had converged on a cricket ground on D... Read More


Devolution: The Fear Of Losing Power To The Citizen

India, Nov. 1 -- It is high time we got down to the nuts and bolts of devolution, dispensed with the intellectual calisthenics and stopped wandering through political mazes laid out by its crafty nays... Read More


Four Rewrites, One Number: Why Pakistan's Rape Conviction Rate Remains Stagnant

Pakistan, Oct. 31 -- Somewhere in Pakistan right now, a survivor is waiting. She reported an assault, sat through a medical exam, gave her statement, and then watched her case disappear into a system ... Read More