Views The prospects for economic inclusion in Pakistan Having seen a decade of regional instability, Pakistan is now predicted to join the league of countries that will contribute significantly to global growth over the next two decades. According to PWC’s The World …Continue reading
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January/February 2020
Biden will direct billions in federal spending power to climate change
President Joe Biden continues to make good on his campaign pledge to accelerate progress on climate change, rapidly working down the list of what he can accomplish on his own in his early days in office. On Wednesday, January 27, he will …Continue reading
AI could make health care fairer—by helping us believe what patients say
In the last few years, research has shown that deep learning can match expert-level performance in medical imaging tasks like early cancer detection and eye disease diagnosis. But there’s also cause for caution. Other research has shown that deep learning has a tendency to perpetuate discrimination. …Continue reading
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Pakistani Engineers Reinvent the Fan
Those who live in Pakistan know the feeling of sitting through a hot summer afternoon without electricity. This is often accompanied by a dysfunctional Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), which further deteriorates the situation. However, the latest technology in ceiling fans promises to …Continue reading
How a 26-year Old Pakistani Founded a Multi-Million Dollar Company
Wifigen–gives free Wi-Fi to customers in exchange for their information. What does it take for a man to reach his full potential? Good advice – more than anything else. And this was exactly what Bilal got during his journey in creating Wifigen …Continue reading
‘As a school kid I was told space has no scope in Pakistan. So I decided to create it’: Yumna Majeed
On Saturday, people around the world were glued to their screens as SpaceX and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the first commercial rocket to space, with two astronauts on board. Many in Pakistan were inspired by the new development …Continue reading

The internet has a language problem
The internet–one of the biggest technological revolutions, and a force for good–speaks nearly exclusively in English, the language of the Pakistani elites. This has left millions of hardworking men and women, who are the backbone of our country, unable to ride the …Continue reading
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In 2016, when the United Nations established Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a key objective was to focus on attaining environmental, social, and economic growth through green and clear production techniques. The goals were established keeping in mind the fact that, despite global …Continue reading

We are all mosaics
Asifa Akhtar, born in Karachi, Pakistan, became the first international female Vice President of the Biology and Medicine Section in the Max Planck Society in 2020. Akhtar received the European Life Science Organization (ELSO) award for significant contribution in the field in …Continue reading

Mitigating the digital gender gap
The rights struggle is not something new to women around the world. Whether it’s the wage gap, reproductive rights, or gender-based discrimination, the world has heard about it, and it continues to sit on its hands. In the past two decades, our …Continue reading