Taxation issues after FATA/PATA merger
Dr. Ikramul Haq The merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) with respective provinces, after assent of President to The Constitution (Twenty-fifth Amendment) Act, 2018 on May 28, 2018, (‘the 25th…
Malaise of mounting debt
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq The central government’s debt, excluding its liabilities, increased to Rs. 34.48 trillion by the end of May 2020—Central GovernmentDebt, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). In the midst of fighting economic toll of Covid-19 endemic,…
Iqbal & Islamic Taxation Model
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In this article, we are highlighting the ideas of great thinker, philosopher and poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal[1], on economics. He is popularly praised and acknowledged for presenting Tasawar Pakistan [Concept of Pakistan] and as…
Rumour—A believable lie
Huzaima Bukhari “Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it”—William Shakespeare-Henry IV, Part 2 Socrates (469-399 BC), a famous Greek…
Tackling income & wealth inequalities
Dr. Ikramul Haq “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both”— Louis Brandeis “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where…
Unveiling hideous face of society
Huzaima Bukhari “The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love—almost as violent and much more mischievous”—Aldous Huxley In his article published in the The Tribune on 16 June 2015, Hashim Bukhari…
Budget & wasteful expenses
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq It is shocking that while the number of unemployed has increased alarmingly and the poor are suffering from hunger, malnutrition and serious health issues, multiplied since the outbreak of Covid-19 endemic, the non-development and…
FBR: violating its own law!
Dr. Ikramul Haq Over the period of time, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the apex body responsible for collecting federal taxes, has been violating its own law under which it came into existence. FBR was established through a Parliamentary Act,…
Remembering Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Today, Jul 9, 2020 is 53rd death anniversary of Madira-e-Millat, Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah All those who are concerned with the empowerment of women and other weaker sections of society are aware that this goal is…