The Company Recalls its Product on February 6, 2024Three principles are considered to be fundamental to any Artificial Intelligence (AI) enterprise – safety, security, and trust – but this is a story of an AI product where all the three were compromised. The best and most qualified engineers were commissioned to build a state-of-the-art missile having unparalleled traits and unheard-of performance potential. The […]
Senate Voting: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (Part-II) on August 23, 2019Many people claim they know how the general elections of 2018 were massively rigged, minutely pre-planned and smartly engineered. They know what role different institutions played in this great game. Summoning political leaders during their election campaigns, damning remarks of judges during judicial hearings and the way the decisions were written had an enormous effect […]
‘Kyun Nikala’ — Anwar Maqsood’s mastery of saying the unsaid on January 13, 2019Is there anyone who does not know what happened in Elections 2018? That is, how were these elections conducted? Not everyone knows how long the planning was done before, but almost everyone came to know about the planning and its execution about a year before the election. It was the time when the role of […]
Our defence analysts on July 22, 2018This is a very popular TV talk show, and today’s discussion is on electoral reforms in the country. One guest is from Pakistan Muslim League — Nawaz (PML-N), one from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), one from Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and, lo and behold, one guest is introduced as a defence analyst. The topic of another […]
Counting the uncountable II on December 7, 2014Coming to the situation in Pakistan, there was a time when researchers here did not publish internationally. It was a good step forward when they started doing this. Following this, scientists used to be evaluated by the list of publications they included in their CVs. However, with the advent of Impact Factor (IF), things began […]
Counting the uncountable I on December 5, 2014The vast and splendid hall in the state-of-the-art building of the Hyderabad International Convention Centre was filled with delegates from all over the world, gathered there to witness the spectacular inaugural ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). They were waiting for the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, to come and declare […]