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The Unsung Artist

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Micro artist Badar is busy in crafting a boat “This is the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam,” the micro artist Badar shows his art work. The mausoleum is curved masterly over coloured-pencil graphite. After a meticulous focus, one can hardly see the curves on the tiniest mausoleum. “Before having this box, I often mishandled the small wooden boats. Now they are safe since I have gotten this box,” says Badar while taking his tiny art work out of the carefully managed box. Badar needs only a razor for making the smallest things out of graphite and wood. But the efforts are arduous. “Working on Minar-e-Pakistan needed two times more efforts and time than I consumed on making mausoleum. I took six hours to curve out the Minar on graphite,” Badar recalls. Minar-e-Pakistan which is curved on graphite with razor measuring 4.4 cm on scale The micro artist is a resident of Gaddani town, a tehsil of Hub city which is the industrial city of Balochistan. Zigzagging into narrow, conge...
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A cry from Schoolnamo Bay

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  When you wish to join a private school as a teacher, you have to take care of three things: be humble, complying, and assume yourself a professional prisoner who must have a flinching attitude to follow orders even making sure washrooms are properly cleaned! This is not a statement one might get surprised about! It’s the code of conduct which runs through the thread of discipline at Schoolnamo Bay. More beneficial are the incentives which a ‘prisoner’, within the ‘iron’ walls of the Schoolnamo Bay, can get. The incentives include: increased workload, ban on moving freely and eating without permission of the Jailer. Contrary to the jail rules, from Schoolnamo Bay, a prisoner can freely move to the gate without bail orders if found accused! Nevertheless, more complying are the Don’ts within the premises of the Schoolnamo Bay. The prisoners have to consider themselves blessed with the titbit (the delicious Dal Roti) they get from the Jailer! Asking for extra (grebi) might lead to ...
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Racing against time: integrating AI into education is inescapable

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Illustration by Freepik.com The world cannot continue to stay the proverbial ‘pigeon with eyes closed’ to avoid adapting to artificial intelligence (AI), which has been a driving force behind innovation that permeates all fields today including agriculture, economy, tech, health, and education. Imagine the innumerable comforts that AI-enabled tools have rested on the palms of humans. For the technically uninitiated, the invention of OpenAI, particularly the generative AI, has opened up many fronts to reap benefits from this advancement.  Is AI a new phenomenon? If you fear AI, often creating an image of a ruthless and powerful robot in one’s mind, will be the ultimate enemy of humans forcing them to surrender , you may have consumed a lot of content watching science-fiction movies. Frankly speaking, AI tools, like computers, are fed with a massive volume of algorithms and text called Large Language Models (LLMs). This method of feeding machines, generally computers, dates back...
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الفاظ کا عملی جامہ کہاں ہے؟

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پاکستان  میں ںسڑکوں اور گلیوں میں ترقیاتی کام ہوتا ہوادکھائی دے تو سمجھ لیں عام انتخابات کا وقت ہوا چاہتا ہے۔ عام انتخابات کی خوبی یہ ہے کہ کم از کم عوام کو انتخابات سے پہلے ہی کچھ کام ملتا ہے۔ مگر کچھ انتخابات ایسے بھی ہیں جن کا عوام کو نہ کوئی  بھنک پڑتی ہے اور نہ ہی کوئی ترقیاتی کام ہوتا ہوا دکھائی دیتا ہے۔اس کی مثال ایسی ہے جیسے ہاتھی کے دکھانے کے دانت کچھ اور کھانے کے کچھ اور۔    اس طرح کے انتخابات بلوچستان کے شہرحب میں چند روز قبل ہوئے۔  یہ انتخابات کسی سیاسی جماعت کے نہیں بلکہ حب میں موجود تمام  پرائیویٹ اسکولوں کی بنائی گئی ایک تنظیم پرائیویٹ اسکولز ایسوسیشن کی تھیں۔  یہ تنظیم کم و بیش دو سال سے حب شہر میں  فعال ہے اور دعویٰ کرتی ہے کہ یہ شہر میں معیاری تعلیم کی جِدوجَہد  کے لیے گامزن ہے۔ چونکہ یہ تنظیم محض تمام پرائیویٹ اسکولوں کے سربراہان کی ہے اس لیے اس  لفاظی پر نظر ثانی آپ خود کر سکتے ہیں  اور اس بات کا بخوبی اندازہ لگا سکتے ہیں کہ ان کے جدوجہد کا حصول کیا ہو سکتا ہے۔ حب شہر میں کم و بیش 50 سے زائد پرائیویٹ اسکولز اس وق...
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The delayed cheque

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Part 1 My visually impaired colleague Ali Tareen and I hardly reach the fourth floor of administration building of Karachi University. We both are here to seek information about the initiative through which government of Sindh has announced to compensate fee for disabled students. Ali is perspiring. We both take chairs. The concerned person appears and takes his chair. Ali and I have cleared entry test for M Phil programme and Ali has brought his admission slip along with him as a precautionary measure. This is because one has to be cautious while visiting university ‘bureaucrats', for they can ask for anything that might fall beyond the imagination of the person who is visiting the admin offices. “G” asks the person with whom we are to meet, “what brings you here?” Ali, quite humble in his tone, pays him ‘salam’ and inquires about the criterion for applying for fee compensation. Ali has brought his disability certificate with him. “Disabled already, yet need to certify that th...
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