2023: Disappointments & challenges ahead
Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori2024 has dawned, posing numerous challenges for international community, most notably situation in Gaza that is getting worse. The incumbent thirty-seventh Israel government under premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu, despite internal and external pressures, is not…
Azerbaijan-Pakistan Economic Ties
Time to Harness the Real PotentialDr. Ikramul HaqThe progress in bilateral economic ties between Azerbaijan[1] and Pakistan[2] during the last few years, though praiseworthy, can now be accelerated and boosted to harness the real potential of economic cooperation for the…
Automation of withholding tax system
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf ShakooriThe economic topography of nations depends heavily on a robust revenue system, akin to the lifeblood sustaining its various functions. Diverse revenue streams, characterizing global economies with “tax revenue”, are emerging as…
Malice Towards None & All
Basic Precepts of FRB RestructuringDr. Ikramul Haq“The FBR is giving me a hard time, but I will persist, and when it becomes unbearable, I know where to go”. I am blamed for destroying the FBR, a symbol of national pride,…
Automation of withholding tax system
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf ShakooriThe economic topography of nations depends heavily on a robust revenue system, akin to the lifeblood sustaining its various functions. Diverse revenue streams, characterizing global economies with “tax revenue”, are emerging as…
Bridging the huge tax gap
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori The new coalition federal government will soon be in power, after controversial elections of February 8 2024, refranchising the voters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The biggest challenge before the new finance…
Bridging the huge tax gap
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori The new coalition federal government will soon be in power, after controversial elections of February 8 2024, allegedly marred with post-voting manipulated results to favour the favourite. These were the first non-inclusive…
Malice Towards None & All
Constitution, Supreme Court, Parliament & VotersDr. Ikramul HaqThe predictable order [short] by Supreme Court of Pakistan, issued on January 8, 2024, overturning by 6-1 its earlier five-member bench judgement in Sami Ullah Baloch v Abdul Karim Nausherwani (PLD 2018 SC…
Malice Towards None & All
Colonial Judiciary, Vernacular JusticeDr. Ikramul HaqHistory of existing laws and judicial structure in Pakistan dates back to the British colonial era—since independence nothing substantial has changed in the Anglo Saxon system except patchwork of so-called Islamic laws and establishment of…