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Pakistan’s petroleum pricing debate usually begins with international markets and ends with citizens paying more. Between these two points lie policy choices that governments prefer to present as unavoidable arithmetic. The latest warning that…
Somewhere in south Punjab this evening, a farmer sits on a charpai with a notebook and a calculator, doing the arithmetic that will decide what this country eats next year. He does this every…
The world’s richest technology entrepreneur has picked a public fight with one of Asia’s most powerful industrialists, and the consequences could extend far beyond their personal fortunes. Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX…
Pakistan has begun dismantling visible protection. Export-led growth will remain incomplete, however, while sales tax, value-addition tax and advance income tax continue to load productive imports at the border.
Pakistan has raised tribunal salaries, recruited new members and digitised tax administration, but tens of thousands of disputes remain pending. The deeper problem is institutional design: adjudication is fragmented, under-supported and still not fully…
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…
