The initiative of English courses at undergraduate level in Pakistani universities has proved beneficial in academic development. English as a medium of instruction holds a significant position within ...

Most importantly, the widespread use of AI tools has resulted in hyperproduction of so-called “AI slop”: low-quality ...

Abstract: In today’s digital world, social media platforms generate a plethora of unstructured information. However, for low-resource languages like Urdu, there is a scarcity of well-structured data ...

A Pakistani university has launched a course to teach Sanskrit to students and is planning to introduce the Gita and Mahabharat afterwards - for the first time after the 1947 partition. The Lahore ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

ZAFAR Umar was a writer and police officer in British India. He is sometimes credited with writing Urdu’s first-ever detective novel Neeli Chhatri (the blue umbrella). But some critics say Neeli ...