Op-Eds by Dr. Zaman
2026
A fair grade (Express Tribune, May 26, 2026)
What do I know (Express Tribune, May 19, 2026)
The ecosystem of the written word (Express Tribune, May 12, 2026)
Big business of bad advice (Express Tribune, May 12, 2026)
The problems beyond science (Express Tribune, April 28, 2026)
What is the classroom for (Express Tribune, April 21, 2026)
The right to peace – for everyone (Express Tribune, April 14, 2026)
Coexisting with incompleteness (Express Tribune, April 7, 2026)
The story’s contribution (Express Tribune, March 31, 2026)
What is the university for (Express Tribune, March 24, 2026)
The harm-heal line (Express Tribune, March 17, 2026)
Women’s suffering by men’s wars (Express Tribune, March 10, 2026)
The long shadow of conflict (Express Tribune, March 3, 2026)
Curriculum and our impulse (Express Tribune, February 24, 2026)
Of opportunity and meaning (Express Tribune, February 24, 2026)
Of belief and reform (Express Tribune, Feb 10, 2026)
Remember the names (Express Tribune, Feb 03, 2026)
Are we misunderstanding our students? (Express Tribune, Jan 27, 2026)
Sharing space (Express Tribune, Jan 20, 2026)
Narrow alleys of higher-ed (Express Tribune, Jan 13, 2026)
On the principle of caring (Express Tribune, Jan 06, 2026)
2025
The parallel universe (Express Tribune, Dec 30, 2025)
The action and the principle (Express Tribune, Dec 23, 2025)
Light amongst us (Express Tribune, Dec 16, 2025)
Closure and dignity (Express Tribune, Dec 08, 2025)
To learn or to succeed? (Express Tribune, Dec 01, 2025)
Learning and technology (Express Tribune, Nov 24, 2025)
The silence on Sudan (Express Tribune, Nov 18, 2025)
AI and healthcare: opportunities and risks in low- and middle-income countries (IEEE Pulse, October 2025)
The new shiny toy (Express Tribune, Nov 10, 2025)
Of degree and demand (Express Tribune, Nov 03, 2025)
Generalisation as policy (Express Tribune, Oct 28, 2025)
Talking to versus talking with (Express Tribune, Oct 21, 2025)
The path we travelled before (Express Tribune, Oct 14, 2025)
The world from their eyes (Express Tribune, Oct 07, 2025)
What about Sudan? (Express Tribune, Sep 30, 2025)
Books in sewage (Express Tribune, Sep 23, 2025)
Who gets to publish? (Express Tribune, Sep 16, 2025)
What do we owe each other? (Express Tribune, Sep 09, 2025)
Of care and courage (Express Tribune, Sep 02, 2025)
The day after the noise (Express Tribune, Aug 26, 2025)
Normalising pollution (Express Tribune, Aug 19, 2025)
The inevitability question (Express Tribune, Aug 12, 2025)
The second part (Express Tribune, Aug 05, 2025)
Fixation with the fantastic (Express Tribune, Jul 29, 2025)
The environment of evil (Express Tribune, Jul 22, 2025)
Remembering CM Naim (Express Tribune, Jul 15, 2025)
Hosting research (Express Tribune, Jul 08, 2025)
What can they read? (Express Tribune, Jul 01, 2025)
Who do we grieve for? (Express Tribune, Jun 24, 2025)
Privilege, justice and kindness (Express Tribune, Jun 17, 2025)
Advice and accountability (Express Tribune, Jun 10, 2025)
Reimagining institutions (Express Tribune, Jun 03, 2025)
The two ladders (Express Tribune, May 27, 2025)
The burden of generations (Express Tribune, May 20, 2025)
Someone’s home (Express Tribune, May 13, 2025)
We know better (Express Tribune, May 06, 2025)
Our history, our humanity (Express Tribune, Apr 29, 2025)
Climate, community and compassion (Express Tribune, Apr 22, 2025)
The specific and the vague (Express Tribune, Apr 15, 2025)
From natural disasters to humanitarian emergencies (Express Tribune, Apr 08, 2025)
Reporting science (Express Tribune, Mar 25, 2025)
Message in a bottle (Express Tribune, Mar 18, 2025)
Layers of false pretenses (Express Tribune, Mar 11, 2025)
The mirror of literature (Express Tribune, Mar 04, 2025)
Owning problems, and solutions (Express Tribune, Feb 25, 2025)
The value of other perspective (Express Tribune, Feb 18, 2025)
Three decades later (Express Tribune, Feb 04, 2025)
Hubris and humanitarian ideals (Express Tribune, Jan 28, 2025)
Facing the real problem (Express Tribune, Jan 21, 2025)
Small things (Express Tribune, Jan 14, 2025)
The road and the future (Express Tribune, Jan 07, 2025)
2024
Of numbers and stories (Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2024)
Who is responsible? (Express Tribune, Dec 24, 2024)
Consumables and collaborations (Express Tribune, Dec 17, 2024)
The momentary concern (Express Tribune, Dec 10, 2024)
The analysts industry (Express Tribune, Dec 03, 2024)
Negligence, apathy, stigma and repeat (Express Tribune, Nov 26, 2024)
Developing ‘necessary’ skills (Express Tribune, Nov 19, 2024)
Social suffocation (Express Tribune, Nov 12, 2024)
The view from outside (Express Tribune, Nov 05, 2024)
Science and simple solutions (Express Tribune, Oct 29, 2024)
Solving the wrong problem (Express Tribune, Oct 22, 2024)
Finding home (Express Tribune, Oct 15, 2024)
The full humanity of everyone (Express Tribune, Oct 08, 2024)
The permanent cloak of invisibility (Express Tribune, Oct 01, 2024)
Future of higher education (Express Tribune, Sep 24, 2024)
Caring with tangible actions (Express Tribune, Sep 17, 2024)
Erasing identities (Express Tribune, Sep 10, 2024)
Health, healing and humanities (Express Tribune, Sep 03, 2024)
The enduring legacy of conflicts (Express Tribune, Aug 27, 2024)
Going off-script (Express Tribune, Aug 20, 2024)
Community as a safety net (Express Tribune, Aug 13, 2024)
Far corner of the census table (Express Tribune, Aug 06, 2024)
Our own contagion (Express Tribune, Jul 30, 2024)
The ‘what if’ questions (Express Tribune, Jul 23, 2024)
Push to exit (Express Tribune, Jul 16, 2024)
Albanian treasure (Express Tribune, Jul 09, 2024)
Whose life matters more? (Express Tribune, Jul 02, 2024)
Coalition of the caring (Express Tribune, Jun 25, 2024)
Writing new rules (Express Tribune, Jun 11, 2024)
What are we controlling? (Express Tribune, Jun 04, 2024)
The responsible university (Express Tribune, May 28, 2024)
Of reliance and reliability (Express Tribune, May 21, 2024)
Consistency and complication (Express Tribune, May 14, 2024)
Bearing witness (Express Tribune, May 07, 2024)
The protest questions (Express Tribune, Apr 30, 2024)
Imagined diseases (Express Tribune, Apr 23, 2024)
Fatigue and frustration (Express Tribune, Apr 16, 2024)
Posthumous inequity (Express Tribune, Apr 09, 2024)
Seeking perfection? (Express Tribune, Apr 02, 2024)
Mid-semester reflections (Express Tribune, Mar 26, 2024)
Imagining a different world (Express Tribune, Mar 19, 2024)
Hostage to rankings (Express Tribune, Mar 12, 2024)
The pedestal (Express Tribune, Mar 05, 2024)
Some are more equal (Express Tribune, Feb 27, 2024)
Products and processes (Express Tribune, Feb 20, 2024)
Darkness, noise and light (Express Tribune, Feb 13, 2024)
Tackling segregation (Express Tribune, Feb 06, 2024)
Books for the rich (Express Tribune, Jan 30, 2024)
Privilege and public health (Express Tribune, Jan 23, 2024)
Symbols of ignorance (Express Tribune, Jan 16, 2024)
Caring for more than one (Express Tribune, Jan 09, 2024)
The old school (Express Tribune, Jan 02, 2024)
2023
Waiting for a round number (Express Tribune, January 3, 2023)
The right to learn, and live (Express Tribune, January 10, 2023)
Destroying the prologue (Express Tribune, January 17, 2023)
Resistance, delivered (Express Tribune, January 24, 2023)
The triple assault (Express Tribune, January 31, 2023)
Ceiling of imagination (Express Tribune, January 31, 2023)
A permanent literature festival (Express Tribune, February 14, 2023)
Our complex problem (Express Tribune, February 21, 2023)
The value of memory (Express Tribune, February 28, 2023)
Engineering a holistic response to the global crisis of forced displacement (IEEE Pulse, March 14, 2023)
The admission consulting scam (Express Tribune, March 7, 2023)
In search of dignity (Express Tribune, March 14, 2023)
The big emotional cost (Express Tribune, March 21, 2023)
Public health, AI and ethics (Express Tribune, March 28, 2023)
Poverty of expression (Express Tribune, April 4, 2023)
The smell of disdain (Express Tribune, April 11, 2023)
Institutions of inhumanity (Express Tribune, April 18, 2023)
The latest abdication (Express Tribune, April 25, 2023)
Severing the roots (Express Tribune, May 2, 2023)
A journey of exploitation (Express Tribune, May 9, 2023)
Nothing special (Express Tribune, May 16, 2023)
The unjust new chapter (Express Tribune, May 23, 2023)
Imagination and memory (Express Tribune, May 30, 2023)
Still waiting (Express Tribune, June 6, 2023)
Misery and the outsider (Express Tribune, June 13, 2023)
Three dimensions (Express Tribune, June 20, 2023)
Serious spaces? (Express Tribune, June 27, 2023)
Predictions vs ideas (Express Tribune, July 4, 2023)
Accidents and aftermath (Express Tribune, July 11, 2023)
The last part (Express Tribune, July 18, 2023)
Walk to where (Express Tribune, July 25, 2023)
A fertile land (Express Tribune, August 1, 2023)
Unremarkable half decade (Express Tribune, August 8, 2023)
Aborted inquiries (Express Tribune, August 15, 2023)
Dictionary for our times (Express Tribune, August 22, 2023)
The cost of ‘jugaar’ (Express Tribune, August 29, 2023)
Silent on climate change (Express Tribune, September 5 2023)
Good vs good enough (Express Tribune, September 12 2023)
Sources of information (Express Tribune, September 19 2023)
Trust issues (Express Tribune, September 26, 2023)
Collapse of the classroom (Express Tribune, October 3, 2023)
Global goals vs local realities (Express Tribune, October 10, 2023)
The hard things to do (Express Tribune, October 17, 2023)
Applying the same rules (Express Tribune, October 24, 2023)
The boundaries of our empathy (Express Tribune, October 31, 2023)
Silence on Afghans (Express Tribune, November 7, 2023)
Hearing all voices (Express Tribune, November 28, 2023)
The conversations we need (Express Tribune, December 5 2023)
Reclaiming our agency (Express Tribune, December 12, 2023)
Of COPs and values (Express Tribune, December 19, 2023)
A monument to memory (Express Tribune, December 26, 2023)
2022
Reflecting on a decade (Express Tribune, January 4, 2022)
The dangerous treatment (Express Tribune, January 11, 2022)
Les miserables (Express Tribune, January 18, 2022)
Hypocrisy of our silence (Express Tribune, January 18, 2022)
HEC: doing too much? (Express Tribune, February 1, 2022)
Science or buzz? (Express Tribune, February 8, 2022)
The third question (Express Tribune, February 15, 2022)
The invisible heroes (Express Tribune, February 22, 2022)
The Challenge of Convergent Crises (Project Syndicate, Feb 24, 2022)
The quest for equitable treatment (Express Tribune, March 1, 2022)
Hierarchies of empathy (Express Tribune, March 8, 2022)
A free pass (Express Tribune, March 15, 2022)
Present vs possible (Express Tribune, March 22, 2022)
Outside the bubble (Express Tribune, March 29, 2022)
The savior syndrome (Express Tribune, April 5, 2022)
Reducing complexity to absurdity (Express Tribune, April 12, 2022)
Reviving science without fanfare (Express Tribune, April 19, 2022)
Knowledge: elusive and inaccessible (Express Tribune, April 26, 2022)
Polarisation and isolation (Express Tribune, April 26, 2022)
Lost without translation (Express Tribune, May 10, 2022)
The multiplier effect (Express Tribune, May 17, 2022)
The big how (Express Tribune, May 24, 2022)
The evil of silence (Express Tribune, May 31, 2022)
Trust and higher education (Express Tribune, June 7, 2022)
Amnesia all around (Express Tribune, June 14, 2022)
No questions asked (Express Tribune, June 21, 2022)
Recent past, imminent future? (Express Tribune, June 21, 2022)
The bond of kindness (Express Tribune, July 5, 2022)
Summer reading (Express Tribune, July 19, 2022)
Disconnected words (Express Tribune, July 26, 2022)
Rethinking biotech investments (Express Tribune, August 2, 2022)
The 1965 lectures (Express Tribune, August 9, 2022)
In our own world (Express Tribune, August 16, 2022)
Nexus between climate change and corruption (Express Tribune, August 23, 2022)
The day after (Express Tribune, August 30, 2022)
Displacement and dignity (Express Tribune, September 6, 2022)
Microcosm (Express Tribune, September 13, 2022)
Resisting a xenophobic response (Express Tribune, September 20, 2022)
Rebuilding and the limits of technology (Express Tribune, September 27, 2022)
Towards an inclusive dialogue (Express Tribune, October 4, 2022)
Ode to great mentors (Express Tribune, October 11, 2022)
Dignity for the living, and the dead (Express Tribune, October 18, 2022)
Research on forced displacement (Express Tribune, October 25, 2022)
Too tired to help? (Express Tribune, November 1, 2022)
Learning from now (Express Tribune, November 8, 2022)
Tools and possibilities (Express Tribune, November 15, 2022)
Holding healers accountable (Express Tribune, November 22, 2022)
In the midst of the invisibles (Express Tribune, November 29, 2022)
Before the next resolution (Express Tribune, December 6, 2022)
Science policy trust deficit (Express Tribune, December 13, 2022)
Wanting to believe (Express Tribune, December 20, 2022)
Of value and systems (Express Tribune, December 27, 2022)
2021
‘No more refugees’ is not the answer to Afghanistan’s displacement crisis (The New Humanitarian, August 11th, 2021)
The choices we make (Express Tribune, August 03, 2021)
The enablers (Express Tribune, July 27th, 2021)
Trees laden with fruit (Express Tribune, July 20th, 2021)
Ready or not? (Express Tribune, July 13th, 2021)
Learning from COVID to fight drug resistant infections (Project Syndicate, July 06, 2021)
Choosing not to see (Express Tribune, July 06th, 2021)
Trust is earned (Express Tribune, June 29th, 2021)
Violence against the weak (Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2021)
Save it from UNraveling (Express Tribune, June 15th, 2021)
Zeros and ones (Express Tribune, June 08th, 2021)
The checklist of inanity (Express Tribune, June 01, 2021)
Time and Space (Express Tribune, May 25, 2021)
Industrial farming of pandemics (Express Tribune, May 18th, 2021)
The one-strike rule (Express Tribune, May 11th, 2021)
The career aptitude scam (Express Tribune, May 04th, 2021)
Health, not tradition (Express Tribune, April 27th, 2021)
Sacrificing Science (Express Tribune, April 20th, 2021)
Killing our own children (Express Tribune, April 13th, 2021)
Privilege and destruction (Express Tribune, April 06, 2021)
Shaking the pillars (Express Tribune, March 30th, 2021)
Four books, three questions (Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2021)
Three questions (Express Tribune, March 16th, 2021)
Hard and soft conspiracies (Express Tribune, March 9th, 2021)
The surplus masks (Express Tribune, March 01, 2021).
The cost of hubris (Express Tribune, February 22, 2021).
Creating more have-nots (Express Tribune, February 15, 2021).
Dark alleys of inclusion (Express Tribune, February 08, 2021).
Next act is ours (Express Tribune, February 01, 2021).
Please save the university (Express Tribune, January 25th, 2021).
Murmurs on the ground (Express Tribune, January 18th, 2021).
Living through a coup (Express Tribune, January 11, 2021).
The vaccine challenge ahead (Express Tribune, January 04, 2021).
2020
Goals for a kinder 2021 (Express Tribune, December 29, 2020).
Protecting the weakest (Express Tribune, December 22, 2020)
What are engineering students reading? (Express Tribune, December 14, 2020)
Getting the basics right (Express Tribune, December 07, 2020).
The evil ladder (Express Tribune, November 30th, 2020).
Selective pressure (Express Tribune, November 24th, 2020).
A Conradian world (Express Tribune, November 16th, 2020).
The longest four days (Express Tribune, November 09, 2020).
Pakistan and the med-tech sector (Express Tribune, November 02, 2020).
No to knowledge (Express Tribune, October 26th, 2020).
Compromised credibility (Express Tribune, October 19th, 2020).
The state of the written word (Express Tribune, Oct 12, 2020).
State of permanent preparation (Express Tribune, Oct 5, 2020).
The story of human suffering (Express Tribune, Sept 28, 2020).
Lasting words (Express Tribune, Sept 21, 2020).
Men, make a choice (Express Tribune, Sept 14, 2020).
The famine (Express Tribune, Sept 7, 2020).
A city by the sea (Express Tribune, August 31st, 2020).
Three tests for UHC (Express Tribune, August 24, 2020).
Technology needs humanity (Express Tribune, August 17, 2020).
A special place (Express Tribune, August 10, 2020)
Mission not yet accomplished (Express Tribune, August 03, 2020).
Social engineering with bubbles (Express Tribune, July 28, 2020).
The creativity that was (Express Tribune, July 20, 2020).
Russian roulette with health (Express Tribune, July 13, 2020).
The great euphemisms (Express Tribune, July 06, 2020).
Pakistan’s best (Express Tribune, June 30, 2020).
The rise of anti-intellectualism (Express Tribune, June 23, 2020).
Tackling Pandemics at Their Root (Project Syndicate, June 17, 2020).
Pandemic of arrogance (Express Tribune, June 16, 2020).
University’s reset buttons (Express Tribune, June 09, 2020).
The moral vacuum (Express Tribune, June 02, 2020).
The purpose of higher education (Express Tribune, May 19th, 2020)
A hole in our journalism (Express Tribune, May 12, 2020).
A finer safety net (Express Tribune, May 05, 2020).
Empathy as policy (Express Tribune, April 28th, 2020).
Big data, little value (Express Tribune, April 21st, 2020).
Thinking back, planning ahead (Express Tribune, April 14th, 2020).
What do we know? (Express Tribune, April 07, 2020).
Lessons from the US (Express Tribune, March 31st, 2020)
The leadership we need (Express Tribune, March 24th, 2020)
Suffering of the invisible (Express Tribune, March 17th, 2020
Refugees Are Especially Vulnerable To COVID-19. Don’t Ignore Their Needs (NPR, March 11th, 2020; syndicated at multiple NPR and public broadcasting channel outlets around the US)
Choosing our society (Express Tribune, March 10th, 2020)
Epidemics and ethics (Express Tribune, March 03, 2020)
Old news: Best forgotten (Express Tribune, February 25th, 2020)
The reading list (Express Tribune, February 18th, 2020)
The history of policy (Express Tribune, February 11th, 2020)
The allies within (Express Tribune, February 4th, 2020)
Emergent infections: what to do? (Express Tribune, January 28th, 2020)
Nothing to engage with (Express Tribune, January 21st, 2020)
The Teflon ministers (Express Tribune, January 14th, 2020)
The mood in Beirut (Express Tribune, January 7th, 2020)
2019
For a better 2020 (Express Tribune, December 31st, 2019)
The fragility of our system (Express Tribune, December 24th, 2019)
Molecules of Oxygen (Express Tribune, December 17th, 2019)
Exit where? (Express Tribune, December 10th, 2019)
No memory (Express Tribune, December 03, 2019)
Four pieces of advice (Express Tribune, November 26th, 2019)
The madness and the system (Express Tribune, November 19th, 2019)
Sustainable University (Express Tribune, November 12th, 2019)
What would it take? (Express Tribune, November 5th, 2019)
Data-free zones (Express Tribune, October 29th, 2019)
Half full or half empty? (Express Tribune, October 22nd, 2019)
Look them in the eye (Express Tribune, October 15th, 2019)
Crisis beyond curriculum (Express Tribune, October 8th, 2019)
Why don’t they eat cake? (Express Tribune, October 1st, 2019)
Healing our social wounds (Express Tribune, September 24th, 2019)
Faulty fixation (Express Tribune, September 17th, 2019)
Science and Shame (Express Tribune, September 10th, 2019)
Kuhn and Kashmir (Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2019)
It is the people (Express Tribune, August 27th, 2019)
The ruse of development (Express Tribune, August 20th, 2019)
The morning of August 6th (Express Tribune, August 6th, 2019)
Museum of good intentions (Express Tribune, July 30th, 2019)
Plastic Pakistan (Express Tribune, July 23rd, 2019)
Academics for human rights (Express Tribune, July 16th, 2019)
Xenophobic patriotism (Express Tribune, July 9th, 2019)
Notes from Harare (Express Tribune, July 2nd, 2019)
Institutions of ego (Express Tribune, June 25th, 2019)
Preserving humanity (Express Tribune, June 18th, 2019)
A plea for science literacy (Express Tribune, June 11th, 2019)
Bigger than the moon (Express Tribune, June 4th, 2019)
Not business as usual (Express Tribune, May 28th 2019)
Exploring the solutions space (Express Tribune, May 21, 2019)
Solid, not super, science (Express Tribune, May 14th, 2019)
Look elsewhere! (Express Tribune, May 7th, 2019)
Attack on health (Express Tribune, April 30th, 2019)
SOS: Save Our Science (Express Tribune, April 23rd, 2019)
Flower child (Express Tribune, April 16th, 2019)
The quality quagmire (Express Tribune, April 9th, 2019)
Social security vs social evil (Express Tribune, April 2, 2019)
Words matter (Express Tribune, March 19, 2019)
Missing: ethics in our research (Express Tribune, March 12, 2019)
What has changed? (Express Tribune, March 05, 2019)
Trust and tragedy (Express Tribune, February 26, 2019)
Kids belong to everyone (Express Tribune, February 19, 2019)
Equity: Preach not practice (Express Tribune, February 12, 2019)
Of booksellers and librarians (Express Tribune, February 5, 2019)
The opportunity to include (Express Tribune, January 29, 2019)
The band-aid policy (Express Tribune, January 22, 2019)
Drug resistant typhoid and govt’s apathy (Express Tribune, January 15, 2019)
Reflections from Shatila (Express Tribune, January 8th, 2019)
Doing things differently (Express Tribune, January 1st, 2019)
2018
HR crisis of experts (Express Tribune, December 25th, 2018)
The best investment (Express Tribune, December 18th, 2018)
The good stories (Express Tribune, December 11th, 2018)
Let’s talk about chicken (Express Tribune, December 4th, 2018)
The opposite of love (Express Tribune, November 27th, 2018)
About those toilets (Express Tribune, November 20th, 2018)
Tenure or not? (Express Tribune, November 13th, 2018)
Healing through service (Express Tribune, November 6th, 2018)
Absorptive capacity (Express Tribune, October 30th, 2018)
Health, humanity and hypocrisy (Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2018)
Strengthen the units (Express Tribune, October 16th, 2018)
Incentivizing bio-manufacture (Express Tribune, October 9th, 2018)
Quality of our academic output (Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2018)
The necessity to belong (Express Tribune, September 25th, 2018)
Of buildings and universities (Express Tribune, September 18th, 2018)
Perspective of an expat academic (Express Tribune, September 11, 2018)
Feudal Lords of Science (Express Tribune, September 4th, 2018)
Ensuring quality care in Pakistan (Lancet Global Health, August 29th, 2018)
Deflating the research enterprise (Express Tribune, August 28th, 2018)
To years of saving lives (Express Tribune, August 21st, 2018)
Diaspora and higher education (Express Tribune, August 14, 2018)
Wrong then, wrong now (Express Tribune, August 7th, 2018)
Building trust (Express Tribune, July 31st, 2018)
The unelectables (Express Tribune, July 24, 2018)
Manifestos: health and research (Express Tribune, July 17, 2018)
Let us hear! (Express Tribune, July 12, 2018)
The innovation desert (Express Tribune, July 3, 2018)
Science via WhasApp (Express Tribune, June 26, 2018)
Gone but not forgotten (Express Tribune, June 26, 2018)
Quarter of a million souls (Express Tribune, June 19, 2018)
The underbelly of celebrations (Express Tribune, June 12, 2018)
Open letter to Dr Banuri (Express Tribune, June 5, 2018)
Diagnostics and disease management (Express Tribune, May 29, 2018)
Reasonable regulation (Express Tribune, May 22, 2018)
Expired practices (Express Tribune, May 15, 2018)
The future of science festivals (Express Tribune, May 8, 2018)
Listen to the future (Express Tribune, May 1, 2018)
Privilege and inclusion (Express Tribune, April 24, 2018)
Not all dead are equal? (Express Tribune, April 17, 2018)
Quality health for all (Express Tribune, April 10, 2018)
Forgotten children of Thar (Express Tribune, April 3, 2018)
Democracy and higher education (Express Tribune, March 27, 2018)
Immersion in art (Express Tribune, March 20, 2018)
No alternative to practicals (Express Tribune, March 13, 2018)
Regression from 2013 (Express Tribune, March 6, 2018)
Imagination and science (Express Tribune, February 27, 2018)
A wish list for HEC (Express Tribune, February 20, 2018)
Asma and our collective misogyny (Express Tribune, February 13, 2018)
Regulating drug laws (Express Tribune, February 6, 2018)
Technology development and life lessons (Express Tribune, January 30, 2018)
The lessons of the camps (Express Tribune, January 23, 2018)
Pity the nation (Express Tribune, January 16, 2018)
Who owns the university? (Express Tribune, January 9, 2018)
Raise those fees (Express Tribune, January 2, 2018)
2017
Predators in education (Express Tribune, December 26, 2017)
Science in an ailing ecosystem (Express Tribune, December 26, 2017)
No incentive to engage (Express Tribune, December 19, 2017)
Style over substance (Express Tribune, December 12, 2017)
Standing up for education (Express Tribune, December 5, 2017)
Violence in our schools (Express Tribune, November 28, 2017)
The science of inconvenient realities (Express Tribune, November 21, 2017)
Health crisis in Yemen, Myanmar (Express Tribune, November 14, 2017)
Science in the ailing ecosystem (Express Tribune, November 7, 2017)
The grandma test (Express Tribune, October 31, 2017)
Poking fun at the weak (Express Tribune, October 24, 2017)
The summit on health (Express Tribune, October 17, 2017)
Denial and neglect (Express Tribune, October 10, 2017)
The (un)healthy animals (Express Tribune, October 3, 2017)
The hazardous airport (Express Tribune, September 26, 2017)
Numbers that matter (Express Tribune, September 19, 2017)
Freedom, not suspicion (Express Tribune, September 12, 2017)
Eid: not equal for all (Express Tribune, September 5, 2017)
Census, future and girls’ education (Express Tribune, August 29, 2017)
Cutting the lifeline, literally (Express Tribune, August 22, 2017)
Higher education for the next 70 years (Express Tribune, August 15, 2017)
A civil society? (Express Tribune, August 8, 2017)
Maryam Mirzakhani belonged to humanity (Express Tribune, August 1, 2017)
The buck stops nowhere (Express Tribune, July 25, 2017)
Charcoal for lunch? (Express Tribune, July 18, 2017)
Re-imagining human dignity (Express Tribune, July 11, 2017)
Burns and gaps in biotech (Express Tribune, July 4, 2017)
Zero tolerance and double standards (Express Tribune, June 20, 2017)
Where was Pakistan? (Express Tribune, June 13, 2017)
Chasing random numbers (Express Tribune, June 6, 2017)
Thank you, Dr Nishtar (Express Tribune, May 30, 2017)
Living in two worlds (Express Tribune, May 23, 2017)
Ode to a better future (Express Tribune, May 16, 2017)
Well-rounded education (Express Tribune, May 9, 2017)
The elusive path of respect (Express Tribune, May 2, 2017)
Finding people (Express Tribune, April 25, 2017)
Our universities’ failures (Express Tribune, April 19, 2017)
Public health also needs science (Express Tribune, April 11, 2017)
Blocked roads (Express Tribune, April 4, 2017)
Diagnostics: the forgotten factor (Express Tribune, March 27, 2017)
Counting the invisible ones (Express Tribune, March 21, 2017)
SDG, STEM and PSL (Express Tribune, March 14, 2017)
Suffering from Appnesia (Express Tribune, March 6, 2017)
Telling the stories of science (Express Tribune, February 27, 2017)
The inspiration cliff (Express Tribune, February 20, 2017)
Domains of ignorance (Express Tribune, February 13, 2017)
The arrogance of closed borders (Express Tribune, February 6, 2017)
Mela memories (Express Tribune, January 30, 2017)
Marching for others (Express Tribune, January 23, 2017)
People and their books (Express Tribune, January 17, 2017)
Hollow development (Express Tribune, January 9, 2017)
Teaching to pass time (Express Tribune, January 3, 2017)
2016
Environment: not for sale (Express Tribune, December 27, 2016)
Offering global solutions (Express Tribune, December 19, 2016)
A Darwesh at the frontline (Express Tribune, December 14, 2016)
There is no app for that (Huffington Post, December 12, 2016)
Stalin’s steel (Express Tribune, December 5, 2016)
Theorists needed (Express Tribune, November 28, 2016)
Campus: isolate or integrate? (Express Tribune, November 22, 2016)
The power of the people (Express Tribune, November 14, 2016)
How bad is AMR? (Express Tribune, November 7, 2016)
The day after (Express Tribune, October 31, 2016)
Story of a better world (Express Tribune, October 24, 2016)
Unity or uniformity? (Express Tribune, October 17, 2016)
The responsibility of men (Express Tribune, October 10, 2016)
The elitism of science policy (Express Tribune, October 3, 2016)
Training the Middle East’s Future Health-Care Professionals (Project Syndicate, September 21, 2016)
Listen to the good ones (Express Tribune, September 26, 2016)
University Beauty Pageant (Express Tribune, September 19, 2016)
Eid: reflection and resolution (Express Tribune, September 12, 2016)
Science, soaps and safety (Express Tribune, September 5, 2016)
The integrators (Express Tribune, August 29, 2016)
Today and tomorrow of our children (Express Tribune, August 22, 2016)
Time to reflect (Express Tribune, August 15, 2016)
Closing the Health-Care Data Gap (Project Syndicate, August 11, 2016)
Not another 50 years (Express Tribune, August 8, 2016)
The road to education (Express Tribune, August 1, 2016)
The pineapple cannery (Express Tribune, July 25, 2016)
No country for poor women (Express Tribune, July 19, 2016)
Being our own Edhi (Express Tribune, July 11, 2016)
Bring government to classrooms (Express Tribune, July 5, 2016)
High walls, low safety (Express Tribune, June 27, 2016)
Public service university (Express Tribune, June 20, 2016)
Misogyny: parliamentary endorsement (Express Tribune, June 13, 2016)
Dreams of My Muslim Son (New York Times, June 11, 2016)
Seeking and embracing truth (Express Tribune, June 6, 2016)
The silent state (Express Tribune, May 30, 2016)
Education – the values gap (Express Tribune, May 23, 2016)
How good are we? (Express Tribune, May 16, 2016)
The lost dreams (Express Tribune, May 9, 2016)
The image phobia (Express Tribune, May 2, 2016)
History: a missed opportunity (Express Tribune, April 25, 2016)
Reforming medical education (Express Tribune, April 18, 2016)
No time for the poor (Express Tribune, April 11, 2016)
Making citizens (Express Tribune, April 4, 2016)
Action and inaction (Express Tribune, March 28, 2016)
A science mela for everyone (Express Tribune, March 21, 2016)
Diaspora: more than the remittances (Express Tribune, March 14, 2016)
Don’t blame the healer (Express Tribune, March 6, 2016)
The HEC ranking trap (Express Tribune, February 29, 2016)
Gender, politics and science (Express Tribune, February 22, 2016)
Prediction, precision & passionate pursuit (Express Tribune, February 15, 2016)
Reforming the admissions system (Express Tribune, February 8, 2016)
Classroom: no place for guns! (Express Tribune, February 2, 2016)
Educating the parents (Express Tribune, January 25, 2016)
The lost books (Express Tribune, January 18, 2016)
Hazardous hospitals (Express Tribune, January 11, 2016)
Shaukat Khanum in Peshawar – rising above politics (Express Tribune, January 4, 2016)
2015
Academia at the altar of convenience (Express Tribune, December 28, 2015)
Heavy burden on teachers (Express Tribune, December 21, 2015)
The liability of higher education (Express Tribune, December 14, 2015)
The difference between knowledge and information (Express Tribune, December 7, 2015)
The grand research experiment (Express Tribune, November 30, 2015)
The disconnected university (Express Tribune, November 23, 2015)
Students: pioneers of social change (Express Tribune, November 16, 2015)
Identify, innovate and inspire (Express Tribune, November 9, 2015)
Deep misogyny on full display (Express Tribune, November 2, 2015)
Science beyond the heat (Express Tribune, October 26, 2015)
The cornerstones (Express Tribune, October 20, 2015)
Of Nobel, tradition and rigour (Express Tribune, October 12, 2015)
Good news from Khyber-Pakhtunkwha (Express Tribune, October 5, 2015)
Our own fatalism (Express Tribune, September 28, 2015)
Bring SDGs to Campus (Huffington Post, September 22, 2015)
Standing for all (Express Tribune, September 21, 2015)
Unhealthy humour (Express Tribune, September 14, 2015)
Can we do more? (Express Tribune, September 8, 2015)
How Can Biomedical Engineers Help in Global Crises? (Huffington Post, September 4, 2015)
Designed for Robots (Express Tribune, September 1, 2015)
Recognising our role models (Express Tribune, August 25, 2015)
Safe space for creativity (Express Tribune, August 18, 2015)
Local Innovation for Local Problems (Project Syndicate, August 14, 2016)
Elusive Ethics (Express Tribune, August 11, 2015)
Consensus on cheating (Express Tribune, August 3, 2015)
Easy, fast and convenient (Express Tribune, July 28, 2015)
All our children (Express Tribune, July 21, 2015)
The Art of Science (Express Tribune, July 14, 2015)
What are our own development goals? (Express Tribune, July 7, 2015)
Poverty of imagination (Express Tribune, June 30, 2015)
Father’s day: Courage or convenience? (Express Tribune, June 23, 2015)
Myopic Innovation (Express Tribune, June 16, 2015)
Big dreams university (Express Tribune, June 9, 2015)
Favourite sons (Express Tribune, June 2, 2015)
Scientists & entrepreneurs (Express Tribune, May 26, 2015)
Plenty of time (Express Tribune, May 19, 2015)
Not quite a Mother’s Day (Express Tribune, May 12, 2015)
The missing genre (Express Tribune, May 5, 2015)
Needed: space upstairs (Express Tribune, April 28, 2015)
Apathy and incompetence (Express Tribune, April 21, 2015)
Knowledge & inconvenience (Express Tribune, April 14, 2015)
The lights must stay on (Express Tribune, April 6, 2015)
Who owns quality? (Express Tribune, March 31, 2015)
Where are we Marching to? (Express Tribune, March 24, 2015)
The university: obligation or transaction? (Express Tribune, March 17, 2015)
Investing in the pleasures of discovery (Express Tribune, March 10, 2015)
Drugs, data and deaths (Express Tribune, March 3, 2015)
Heritage and legacy (Express Tribune, February 24, 2015)
Can we create a Pakistani model? (Express Tribune, February 17, 2015)
Where are the mentors? (Express Tribune, February 10, 2015)
Metastasis of social tumours (Express Tribune, February 3, 2015)
Mental health: Dare to think (Express Tribune, January 27, 2015)
Appetite for wonder (Express Tribune, January 20, 2015)
Directed evolution of reason (Express Tribune, January 6, 2015)
2014
Bridging the gulf of distrust (Express Tribune, December 30, 2014)
Don’t give up on the future (Express Tribune, December 23, 2014)
Detours and true callings (Express Tribune, December 16, 2014)
Engineers, doctors, and… teachers? (Express Tribune, December 13, 2014)
The health of our values (Express Tribune, December 9, 2014)
Ebola and Innovation (Project Syndicate, December 5, 2014)
Our Africa problem (Express Tribune, December 5, 2014)
Humans, not statistics (Express Tribune, December 2, 2014)
Our problem, too (Express Tribune, November 24, 2014)
Saved by the youth (Express Tribune, November 18, 2014)
Stand up, universities (Express Tribune, November 11, 2014)
Misogyny and humour (Express Tribune, November 4, 2014)
Whitlam’s legacy (Express Tribune, October 28, 2014)
Registry, health system and Ebola (Express Tribune, October 21, 2014)
Erecting more barriers for the qualified (Express Tribune, October 14, 2014)
Rendezvous with the Red (Express Tribune, September 30, 2014)
Intolerance: Individuals or institutions? (Express Tribune, September 25, 2014)
Wanted in dharna, not in decisions (Express Tribune, September 16, 2014)
Success on either side (Express Tribune, September 9, 2014)
Two-fold loss (Express Tribune, September 5, 2014)
The other Pakistan (Express Tribune, August 28, 2014)
March of microcosm (Express Tribune, August 19, 2014)
Drivers of change (Express Tribune, August 12, 2014)
Seeding health equity (Express Tribune, August 5, 2014)
Impact and its social determinants (Express Tribune, July 28, 2014)
Beyond dried milk and biscuits (Express Tribune, July 22, 2014)
Where is the data? (Express Tribune, July 15, 2014)
Cultivating better teachers (Express Tribune, July 8, 2014)
Signal and noise (Express Tribune, July 1, 2014)
Health of the IDPs (Express Tribune, June 24, 2014)
Budget, HEC and system building (Express Tribune, June 17, 2014)
Save our hospitals (Express Tribune, June 10, 2014)
Healthier neighbours (Express Tribune, June 3, 2014)
Resistance of a different kind (Express Tribune, May 27, 2014)
Look at the bigger picture (Express Tribune, May 20, 2014)
Preparing for the next one (Express Tribune, May 13, 2014)
Choked highway to innovation (Express Tribune, May 5, 2014)
Research in confined spaces (Express Tribune, April 29, 2014)
Letter to the new HEC chairperson (Express Tribune, April 21, 2014)
A more perfect (student) union (Express Tribune, April 16, 2014)
The high price of low quality (Express Tribune, April 8, 2014)
Restructuring higher education (Express Tribune, April 1, 2014)
Frugal Innovation (Express Tribune, March 24, 2014)
Leaky band-aids (Express Tribune, March 17, 2014)
If only we cared (Express Tribune, March 11, 2014)
Philanthropy, innovation and public health (Express Tribune, March 3, 2014)
Making academia attractive (Express Tribune, February 25, 2014)
Reaching out with science (Express Tribune, February 18, 2014)
Simpler solutions (Express Tribune, February 11, 2014)
Who advises the PM? (Express Tribune, February 4, 2014)
Women, higher education and leadership (Express Tribune, January 27, 2014)
The Drug Industry’s Poison Pills (Project Syndicate, January 16, 2014)
Higher Education, Global Health and the Middle East: An Opportunity for Global Leadership (Huffington Post, January 03, 2014).
2013
What happened to higher education? (Express Tribune, December 18, 2013)
Ethiopian longhorns and our curriculum (Express Tribune, November 16, 2013)
Of water cars and earwax (Express Tribune, November 4, 2013)
Malala and the case for Higher Education (Huffington Post, October 14, 2013).
Curriculum and Creativity (Express Tribune, October 13, 2013).
SEEDing sustainability beyond the Millennium Development Goals (Huffington Post, July 15, 2013).
Of Means and Vehicles (Express Tribune, June 26, 2013).
KP’s Education Test (Express Tribune, June 1, 2013)
Helping students navigate a gulf between motivation and inaction; Program for Appropriate Technologies for Health Blog Site (June 4, 2013)
Old diseases, old problems (Express Tribune, May 23, 2013)
Let the debates begin (Express Tribune, April 4, 2013)
Utilization and Performance. (Saving Lives at Birth, USAID, Gates, UK Aid, GCC and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consortium). May 6, 2013.
Debating Education Policy (Express Tribune, March 02, 2013)
Student Source the Grand Challenges (Huffington Post, Feb 1, 2013)
Talk is Cheap: Solving Global Mental Health Challenges with a Cell Phone (Huffington Post, Jan 26, 2013)
2012
Selling Toxicity (Express Tribune, December 31, 2012)
Chasing after O and A levels (Express Tribune, December 27, 2012)
Coughing up death in Lahore (Express Tribune, November 27, 2012)
Online learning in Pakistan (Express Tribune, November 16, 2012).
A rallying cry for development (Express Tribune, October 7, 2012).
Contamination of intellect and medicines (Express Tribune, October 3, 2012).
Closing the capacity gap to save lives at birth. (Huffington Post, September 24, 2012)
Saving the most vulnerable lives (Express Tribune, September 17, 2012).
Engaging Engineers to Save Lives at Birth (Huffington Post, July 23, 2012).
Can we say never again? (Express Tribune, July 02, 2012)
Science for the people (Express Tribune, June 25, 2012)
Higher Ed Online: Curriculum, Context and the Culture of Innovation (Huffington Post, June 7, 2012).
Innovations in higher education teaching. (Express Tribune, June 04, 2012).
Of Jim Yong Kim, Innovation and the World Bank (Huffington Post, March 25, 2012).
Make Development Part of the Equation (Huffington Post, March 02, 2012).
Ranking the state of higher education (Express Tribune, Feb 26, 2012).
The value of quality control (Express Tribune, Feb 14, 2012).
Of elections and education (Express Tribune, Feb 02, 2012).
Engineering a healthy tomorrow for the poorest billion (Huffington Post, Feb 01, 2012).
Life-losing drugs (Huffington Post, Jan 24, 2012).
Of substandard drugs (Express Tribune, Jan 23, 2012).
Why choose between bio and comp sci? (Express Tribune, Jan 17, 2012).
Doctors, meet engineers. (Express Tribune, Jan 4, 2012).
Make Development Part of the Equation (Huffington Post, March 2, 2012)
Engineering a healthy Tomorrow for the Poorest Billion (Huffington Post, February 1, 2012)
Life-Losing Drugs (Huffington Post, January 24, 2012)