Events

Chingari Fest

A local, student-run music fest which aims to showcase different artists and musical groups of...

HU Debating Championship

Habib University presents ‘Habib University Debating Championship 2020’. The format shall be British Parliamentary/University Debating...

Anthropocene Chaos and the Search for an Ordering Framework

Digitize the analog and analog the digital in post-Moore era

Moore's law, in its purest form, is coming to an end with CMOS transistor reaching...

Education in Sindh – Vision & Reality: Addressing the Gap

Found in Translation

Mohammed Hanif will be reading from his new book Red Birds and discussing the translation...

Friends or foes? Is Pakistan headed for a new water conflict with Afghanistan?

A substantial fraction of total flow in the Indus River Basin, a critical lifeline for Pakistan’s agricultural-based economy, generates in other countries. Towards the eastern border, rapid infrastructure development from India threatens to reduce flows from Indus’ eastern tributaries governed by the Indus Water Treaty. On the western front, there is growing interest from Afghanistan in utilizing the hydroelectric potential of Kabul River, another major tributary to the Indus, where there is no existing transboundary water sharing agreement. Given the unique hydrology of the Kabul River, there is potential for increased conflict and mistrust between the two countries if development of the Kabul Basin is performed unilaterally.

Making High Speed Internet Affordable For Everyone By April 2028

NetEquity believes that following the electrical grid to deploy fiber, financing fiber like a public utility and distributing bandwidth through an open access network can modernise the electrical grid and bridge the digital divide with one investment. In this talk NetEquity’s founder will share how an inter disciplinary conversation between physics, finance, engineering, psychology and construction got him to quit his career and develop NetEquity’s thesis.