Artificial Intelligence Magazine Desk Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These processes include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for using the information), reasoning (using rules to reach approximate or definite conclusions) and self-correction. Particular applications of AI include expert systems, speech recognition and machine vision. AI can be categorized …

               Well done Imran Khan!   Shamshad Ahmad In his address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, Prime Minister Imran Khan articulated Pakistan’s principled position on the Kashmir dispute while also raising three other issues of global importance, Environment, Corruption and Islamophobia. Earlier in his 14 August address to Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Prime Minister Imran Khan had …

Understanding the CFC Regime How foreign companies operating in Pakistan are regulated Bilal Hassan Pakistan has adopted the controlled foreign companies (CFC) regime by inserting section 109A into the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, (ITO) through Finance Act 2018 so as to prevent base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). Tax year 2019 is the first year for enforcement of the CFC …

State-owned Enterprises How to reform this crucial asset Dr Omer Javed Ownership is an important aspect of management of SOEs (state-owned enterprises or public sector companies (PSCs) in the case of Pakistan). In the context of SOEs, state is the ultimate owner, and its ownership policy should clearly identify first of all the rationale behind such ownership. According to OECD …

Futuristic Needs and Socioeconomic Challenges for Pakistan Hassaan Bin Zubair Pakistan has faced major challenges in socioeconomic domain over the past seventy-two years. However, not all problems have been overcome. The key problems the country is faced with today include: water scarcity, lack of sustainable development projects; an increasingly unemployed youth population, little focus on human development projects, a steep …

  Ibn Khaldun A brilliant polymath Iqra Riaz Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, the well known historian and thinker from Muslim 14th-century North Africa, is considered a forerunner of original theories in social sciences and philosophy of history, as well as the author of original views in economics, prefiguring modern contributions. He is the originator of modern sociology and politics and …

Future of Pakistan-US Relations Javid Husain While Pakistan, by virtue of its geo strategic location, has a key role to play in the Afghan crisis and America’s total dependence on it to help facilitate a settlement with the Taliban, President Trump’s recent remarks urging for the expansion of Indo-US cooperation in security and other fields at Indian Prime Minister Narendra …

ECONOMIC CRISIS IN PAKISTAN How to resolve the issues Ahmad Shakeel Babar Pakistan is the 5th most populous country in the world, having an economy of over $245 billion. Being the only nuclear power from the Muslim world, its importance increases manifolds. However, it is, yet again, undergoing stagnant economic growth and hyper-inflation. Its GDP grew by only 3.8 percent …

E-Commerce in Pakistan Uzair Salman Global e-Commerce has grown exponentially during the last two decades as a sales growth of 13 percent was recorded in FY 2017-18 with estimated sales crossing $29 trillion. The number of online shoppers also grew by 12 percent to cross the mark of 1.3 billion. The situation in Pakistan is also not much different as …

Criminal Justice System of Pakistan Kamran Adil In 2016, the syllabus for Central Superior Services (CSS) Examination was revised by the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC). The revision was not perfect and was inchoate in the sense that it did not attend to qualitative aspects of the examination. It, however, offered the new subject of criminology that provided the candidates …