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Before the Bullet Train

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: He has probably spent a lifetime listening to the sound of trains.  Long before digital control rooms, automated signals and computerised switching became the global standard, railway workers like him stood…

Crossing Between Risk and Necessity

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The train is visible. So is the danger. Yet the road remains busy. A car inches forward. Motorcycles slip across the tracks. Passengers continue their journey as a locomotive approaches in the background. It…

When Systems Disable People

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Tharparkar: Disability is not a bad word. Yet, in everyday conversation, it is often misused as a derogatory insult—a practice that is both harmful and objectionable. Equally problematic is the reluctance to openly…