Waqar Hassan

  THE Higher Education Commission issued its notification in February 2026 and confirmed it at its 47th Commission meeting in July: from this autumn, every…

  KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa has introduced an artificial-intelligence teaching model for grades six to twelve. Developed by the Elementary and Secondary Education Foundation, the Global Virtual…

  PAKISTAN’S education emergency is measured through attendance: out-of-school numbers dominate every plan. The Economic Survey 2025-26 reports that the proportion of out-of-school children fell…

  PAKISTAN’S universities produce thousands of graduates each year, but for too many, graduation marks the beginning of unemployment rather than of a career. Instruction…

  SUMMER vacations were once declared to shield children from extreme heat. Schools still keep that calendar, yet the notification closing them makes no provision…

A ten-year-old sits in a Pakistani classroom, five years into her schooling, unable to read the sentence written on the board. She is enrolled, counted…

  FOR a minute, imagine that none of us will be here tomorrow; that today is the last day granted to us on this earth.…

In 356 BC, a man walked into the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus — one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world — and…

  IT is remarkable that humans, who once fought with bows, arrows, and swords, may eventually be supplanted by machines in warfare. That imagination began…

  EVERY third Pakistani child is growing up outside a classroom. Behind this staggering figure lie 25 million futures at risk and a nation whose…