Because today is Sunday. Cake, anyone? #BurningBrownie #Islamabad

Came back from a cup of coffee to see this monkey calmly sitting next to my car. Only in #Islamabad

🤦🏽‍♀️ بیچ دے I’m not really buying this news because I haven’t been able to see any advertisements myself. Bizarre either way tribune.com.pk/story/2491269/…

thenews.com.pk/print/1225123-… "... there is a difference between taking a closer look at people searching for components of an IED & making it impossible for an entire country to view the day’s cat videos & right now, every Internet user in this country feels like they are the

Pakistani Twitter shocked by manslaughter DUI case of woman driving the biggest available vehicle while high on the cheapest drug possible

My opinion piece in The News on the state's ongoing efforts to block content and surveil #Internet users in the country that have proven disruptive to everyone's user experience. thenews.com.pk/print/1225123-…

Really good piece by Usman Ilyas in our pages today: "[The IT minister] has my sympathies because she does not appear to be in charge and is being given bad advice. Meanwhile, the government is scapegoating the poor sharks of the Arabian Sea." thenews.com.pk/print/1225123-…

Advancing higher education beyond borders 😆

Note that this syndicate member was not going to vote as part of an inconvenient majority and change the decision on an issue - he was just going to bring his dissent on the record - and that got him, however briefly, abducted! Professor Riaz also named two others in an earlier

The Punjab Higher Ed minister claims that a professor of Punjab University approached him, through his driver, to offer a bribe of PKR 20 million to be appointed VC. The minister refused. My only question is, when is the professor getting fired? arynews.tv/bribes-being-o…

The Dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider unnatural … but it is conveniently located on the Islamabad Orange and Green metro bus lines! 🛸

I wish the Government of Pakistan and its ministers would get worked up half as much about how VCs are selected for universities in Pakistan as they are about how Oxford University is picking its next chancellor. The university camel race thenews.com.pk/print/1226421-…

پرائوٹ سکول بہت اچھے ہوتے تھے۔ ہمارے زمانے میں سکول بہت اچھے ہوتے تھے۔ مگر اب معیار تعلیم بہت گر گیا اب سکولوں کا حل privatise کرنا ہی ہے؟ Amir Mateen Ayesha Razzaque

غیر تعلیم یافتہ۔ ہمارا مقابلہ نائجیریا سے ہوتا ہے کہ کون دنیا میں پہلے نمبر ہے سب سے زیادہ بچے سکول سے باہر رکھ کر۔ یعنی دو کروڑ ساٹھ لاکھ ان پڑھ بچے۔ اور یہ پچھلے تیس سال سے ایسا ہی ہے۔ اب یہ نہ پوچھیے گا کون حکومت میں تھا ان تین دہائیوں میں

CM interviews candidates for VC positions dawn.com/news/1856487 What substantive question could she possibly ask candidates? It’s OK if this is a chat with finalized candidates, but in the current climate this photo op is doing more harm than good. Also, this is more than

The Talented & Motivational Aloo is visiting NUST during welcome week! I got introduced to the ‘Tornado Potato’ 🌪️🥔 in South Korea when I first visited in 2014 and my daughter had it every single time she saw a vendor Popular street food with different names in different

Stupid is as stupid does. If university hold their autonomy dear and want to see it respected, they must resist becoming willing puppets in power games. The Karachi University syndicate made a stupid decision and saw it promptly overturned by a court, thus undermining the