The news broke out that Prime Minister Imran Khan was tested positive for Covid-19 just two days after he was vaccinated. With Pakistan observing more than an 8% Covid-19 positivity…

Pakistan’s track record of national and sector-specific cyber security remains abysmal. While targeted Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and amateur website ‘hacks’ continue, as do overt information operations campaigns aiming to…

On August 11, 2016, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) was passed to restrict radical online content, hate speech, and harassment in Pakistan. The PECA has several sections that…

Developing a nuclear bomb has become a difficult task, thanks to the robust non-proliferation norms and international control measures. A case in point is Iran’s nuclear program. Despite this, news…

Trends of democratic regression across various states worldwide, coupled with the rising right-wing forces of fascism and authoritarianism, can be considered as one of the characteristic features of 21st-century global…

The term post-truth became a buzzword when the Oxford English Dictionary declared it as their word of the year in 2016, referring to it as “circumstances in which objective facts are less…

In the span of nine months, the states’ abilities to weather existential crises have been put to the test. Success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic has varied; in many cases,…

It is quite fashionable to talk about movies and dramas. May it be cinema or home theatre, laptop or a hand gadget, movies and drama platforms are readily available for…

On 12th February 2020, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s federal cabinet approved the Citizens Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules 2020. Unlike the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act of 2016 (PECA-2016), which…

The print is dead. Cross-media ownership and centralisation is going to take over. The future is digital. And now, Artificial Intelligence (AI). The debate about the fate of journalism is…