KARACHI: Children lined the stage, making fists like they were ready for a fight. With goofy smiles on their faces, they looked on to their parents in the audience as the teacher read a series of ...

Put away the laptop, the calculator and the adding machine – and try filing your taxes using an abacus. That’s right, an abacus. We haven’t always been as high-tech as we are today. Before there was ...

Children sat on the floor, curiously, facing a large abacus with yellow beads. When asked ‘do you find maths easy?, the reply was a faint yes. The question was repeated and this time, there was pin ...