Taxation – the means by which a civilised society performs the sometimes uncivil task of taking money from one group in order to give it to another – has been a part of life for a very long time. The…
Budget & Ashrafiya
Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan is controlled and ruled by ashrafiya (elites)—comprising indomitable military brass, top civil bureaucracy, higher judiciary, landed upper crust and their cronies in politics, industrialist-turned politicians, religious and so-called spiritual leaders (sic), media tycoons…