True path to prosperity
Huzaima Bukhari “If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor”—Muhammad Ali Jinnah The definition of…
Budget, IMF & subjugation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In 2016, we wrote an article, entitled, ‘Budget of trapped and enslaved’. In 2019 the situation is no different, rather worse. All the six budgets presented by the last government of Pakistan Muslim League…
Budget 2019: relief for fixed-income class
Dr. Ikramul Haq Budget for the next fiscal year 2019-2020 is around the corner, to be announced on June 11, 2019. Due to extreme economic crisis and harsh conditionalities agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in lieu of a…
What is, what is not!
Huzaima Bukhari “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity”— Albert Einstein When sitting in judgement with respect to different…
Budget & oppressive taxes
Dr. Ikramul Haq In the forthcoming budget, to be announced on June 11, 2019 under a new economic team selected by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on the dictates/recommendations of International Monetary Fund (IMF), there will be enhancement in rates of existing…
Avant-garde budget proposals—IV
Road to prosperity Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The poor and helpless masses of Pakistan desperately owe explanation from all those who have been in power: Why the privileged are continuously being favoured and thriving on the money collected…
Budget & taxation
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The budget for fiscal year 2019-20, the first of Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), is to be announced on June 11, 2019. Every year before the announcement of annual federal budget—which has become an…
Economic prudence for economic depression
Huzaima Bukhari “Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body—the producers and consumers themselves”—Herbert Hoover Over a span of thirty years a…
Agenda for survival
Dr. Ikramul Haq The main cause of our pathetic economic situation is existence of outdated, inefficient, corrupt and repressive institutions that are totally indifferent towards the welfare of the common people and making the state an economically viable entity. The…