Let us start from home
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “A large part of crime is economics – if people are working and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate” –Vincent Frank One does not…
Appraisal of consumers’ rights
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) 562 (HL), a famous British case decided in the House of Lords, Lord Atkin established that ‘duty of care’ should be displayed by all those who were engaged in…
Humans and animals
Huzaima Bukhari “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted.”―Al-Quran, Surah At-Tin…
Humans and animals
Huzaima Bukhari “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted”―Al-Quran, Surah At-Tin…
Making Pakistan ‘Asian Tiger’
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In the past, the repeated claims by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the cabinet of Nawaz Sharif that “Pakistan will be the next Asian Tiger” were never taken seriously by…
Reforming tax appellate system
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The existing tax appellate system—hopelessly redundant, painfully unproductive and marred with inefficiency and inordinate delays—needs complete restructuring so that fiscal disputes between the State and taxpayers get settled within a year at the latest….
Taxes, prosperity & welfare
Huzaima Bukhari & Ikramul Haq Taxation is a lot like sheep shearing. As long as you shear a sheep, it will continue to produce a new crop of wool but you can skin the animal only once. Anonymous Would it…
Civil Servants
Recruitment & training—II Huzaima Bukhari “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”―Benjamin Franklin, Generally, corporate bodies, banking institutions, business houses and private sector enterprises seek the right man for the right…
Civil servants
Recruitment & training—I Huzaima Bukhari “It’s not finding yourself that’s hard; it’s facing yourself that is”―Alexander Den Heijer, If today, fingers are being raised against the civil servants of Pakistan, it calls for some serious brainstorming, deliberations and considering of…