50+ min ago   (225+ words) The new play Aap Ki Izzat, penned by Umera Ahmed, although only a couple of episodes old, has already set social media ablaze with the multiple social messages that have been highlighted to date. For a little background, the story…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1600+ words) Magnifica Humanitas is receiving extensive praise internationally for its contemplation of the new moral and social implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our techno-centric world. As a human rights activist, I too was interested to see how this encyclical could…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (872+ words) Since hostilities erupted in late February 2026, the global energy market has been violently disrupted. The Strait of Hormuz, the maritime chokepoint through which roughly 20 percent of the world's oil and gas flows, has seen severe blockades, attacks on infrastructure, and…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1632+ words) Seyyed Ali Khamenei passed as he had lived: in direct confrontation with the forces of imperial domination, undefeated in will, uncompromised by pressure. He served as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but his historical significance cannot…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1629+ words) Pakistan's relationship with artificial intelligence is usually framed as a question of adoption: how fast can the country acquire the tools, train people to use them, and claim a place in the AI economy. That framing is too small. The…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1652+ words) Data centres are the backbone of IT networks across the globe. These are important for the storage and processing of information, for financial systems, for cloud services, for machine learning, and for artificial intelligence. The recent spike in the development…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (338+ words) To Maududi, separating Islam from politics was like separating a vital component of the Quran from the faith; his “asli Islam” had no room for such a separation The Making of an Ideologue Maududi observed the efficacy of this methodology…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (692+ words) Last month, I wrote to you as a longtime fan to critique your stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While my open letter sparked a lively debate within the Making Sense community—and led to a refined version on my Substack…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1664+ words) This piece is about three categories of people in Pakistan. The first are the changemakers who are, in their own way, a little like Sarah Norman, the deaf woman at the heart of Children of a Lesser God, insisting on…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1002+ words) Of Morality, Winners And War Crimes: Robert McNamara On America’s Wars A primary lesson from McNamara’s tenure is that wars escalate into catastrophes when adversaries fail to understand each other's history, fears, and motivations “If we’d lost the war, we’d…...