Pakistan loves the word merit. It appears in speeches, university admissions, job advertisements, scholarship announcements and competitive exams. It sounds clean and fair. It tells us that those who rise have earned their place, while those who do not mu... See more
Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts face an overwhelming volume of 50--100 security alerts per hour, leading to cognitive fatigue and delayed incident response. The global mean time to detect a data breach is 181 days, enabling attackers to inflict a... See more
The world had thought after the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 that the menace of nuclear weapons proliferation had subsided. However, it had been proved wrong in the late 1990s when on 11 th & 13 th May 1998 India once again carried out explosion... See more
In Pakistan, caste is often treated as someone else’s problem. It is spoken of as a Hindu matter, an Indian disease, or an old village habit that modern Pakistan has supposedly outgrown. This is a comforting story, but it is not an honest one. Caste has n... See more
HEC’s AI Integration Last July, Pakistan's federal cabinet approved the National AI Policy 2025 with considerable fanfare. The goals were ambitious: a million AI-trained professionals by 2030, AI concepts embedded from early STEM education upward, and uni... See more
