Dr. Ikramul Haq On October 12, 2020, the Chairman of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), while testifying before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), revealed that more than “Rs.1.856 trillion revenue has been stuck for years due to litigation in various courts, resulting in difficult financial conditions for the country”. The fault, however, does not entirely...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns”— Drew Pinsky MD In our everyday life we quite innocently use the term “narcissist” for those we think happen to appear full of themselves. Just because we have learnt the...Read More

Improving dispensation of justice Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Syed Muhammad Ijaz The purpose of annual reports published by the Supreme Court of Pakistan is to highlight its performance with respect to disposal of cases, efforts to improve the general system of judicial administration of the country and making access to justice more convenient...Read More

Vital disclosures are missing Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Ever year Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) issues data relating to collection of taxes, administered by it, with analysis highlighting vital areas of achievements, weaknesses and other disclosures to adjudge its performance. In the latest FBR Year Book for 2019-20,  there is no mention of...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq Our tax bureaucrats keep on maligning the citizens as tax dodgers, while the so-called “informed” analysts and all-knowing (sic) TV anchors join the bandwagon with often-repeated popular jargon that only “1% of the population pays income tax”. This fallacy has become Gospel’s truth in Pakistan that nobody is ready to refute. This...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “No mirror can reflect a picture of a human as best as his/her attitude and way of speaking do”— Hazrat Ali (AS) Meeting strangers is quite exciting but the only cause for concern is their real nature and character which is difficult to discern at first sight. Human beings are adorned with a...Read More

Dispensation of justice by Apex Court – Part 1 Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Syed Muhammad Ijaz This article consists of two parts, Part I, presents an analysis on efforts of Apex Court of Pakistan in dispensation of justice as highlighted in annual report [hereinafter as “the report”] for the period from June 2018...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq On April 27, 2020, the 9th National Finance Commission (NFC), like 8th NFC, remained fruitless as the federation and its units failed to reach a consensus for distribution of fiscal resources. The official document [Budget in Brief] of budget 2016-17 says: “The 8th NFC was constituted on July 21,...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so”— William Inge-American playwright (1913-1973) No person who lived, is living and who will live on this earth can claim that sorrow or delight never struck him/her. Everybody goes through different sentimental phases which...Read More

Startling facts & fallacies Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Syed Muhammad Ijaz Reference two-part series (FBR’s statistics: a critical analysis—I, Business Recorder, September 25, 2020 and FBR’s statistics: a critical analysis—II, Business Recorder, September 25, 2020, this article presents statistical analysis of all the three documents released by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on...Read More