Is a humanities or social-science degree still worth the four years in the AI era? Yes — but only if you stop spending it blindly and start listening to the market first. That is the rule I went back to my old university to explain. The alumni office at Bahria University recently invited me to my…

AI will not replace newsrooms, PR teams, or communications departments. But the ones who learn to direct it will quietly outpace the ones who don’t. I’ve just completed an intensive two-day Train-the-Trainers programme under Digital Sahafat 3.0 — the Google News Initiative programme delivered in Pakistan by Tech Valley, Google’s official local partner — certified to…

Google is giving students in Pakistan a full year of Gemini AI for free — and most will waste it. Not because the tool isn’t powerful, but because no one showed them what to actually do with it. A free subscription is only worth what you build with it. This is that playbook: exactly what a 10th-grade student,…