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For billions of years life on Earth has followed a simple rule: survive, adapt, compete, or disappear. Dinosaurs once dominated the planet. They are gone. Countless species rose, evolved, competed and vanished and eventually…
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” is among Rudyard Kipling’s most quoted lines. Less remembered is the reversal two lines later: “there is neither East nor West”…
FBR invited objections to its proposed social-media tax regime in April. The final September rules retain its central structure: deemed remuneration based on views, a 30% ceiling on expenses and a parallel withholding regime…
What is destined to happen cannot always be prevented. A crow may caw endlessly to warn of danger, but who really listens? All the signs suggest that new provinces are on the horizon. Just…
Parliamentary privilege should protect the institution of the legislature — not place elected representatives beyond the ordinary reach of criminal law Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has raised a question that deserves a serious…
The Middle East is again demonstrating a lesson Washington has repeatedly resisted: possessing overwhelming power is not the same as producing a stable order. The United States-Iran war has continued for more than six…
