Parenting: A Formidable Task
Huzaima Bukhari “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist”—Michael Levine November 30, 2021 proved a fateful…
Pakistan & ESG implementation
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) values act as the guiding principle for a corporate sector’s obligation…
Reward for defrauding voters
Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan is a strange country where the elected members of Parliament pass self-serving laws for rewarding those who defraud the voters. What…
Pakistan: Post-election Vulnerabilities
Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori The delayed process of electing representatives through ballots in Pakistan finally concluded on February 8, 2024 when the…
Row over FBR restructuring
Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori This column has consistently argued for a single tax authority across all levels of government. The announcement of…
2020: Year of Prosperity—debate & discourse
State, elitism & poverty alleviation Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “The State shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual…
Sporting Events And The Public
Huzaima Bukhari “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean…
Malice Towards None & All
Self-Governance & Fiscal Decentralisation Dr. Ikramul Haq Fiscal decentralisation necessarily involves the transfer of taxing and spending powers to sub-national levels of government—in our context,…
Pakistan: Time to apply FATF membership
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) concluded its 5th Plenary presided over by Singaporean President T.…
Streamlining the FBR in haste!
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori We are fast approaching the general elections, scheduled for February 08, 2024. However, the post-election landscape…
Pakistan: Time to apply for FATF membership
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq and Abdul Rauf Shakoori The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) concluded its 5th Plenary presided over by Singaporean President T.…
Trauma And The World
Huzaima Bukhari “The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect”—Peter A. Levine Each…
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…
Budget Proposals 2019-2020
Documentation/Broadening of tax base/raising number of filers/ According to 2017 census, our population is 207.77 million [provisional]. The dependent population of children under the age…
Shrinking return filers
Dr. Ikramul Haq Total income tax returns filed till the many times extended date [December 17, 2018] for tax year 2018 were 1,483,020 as compared…
Benazir Bhutto: victim of ‘New Great Game’ #2
December 27, 2018 marks the eleventh death anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of…
Overcoming fragmented taxation
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr Ikramul Haq & Dr Muhammad Babar Chohan Fiscally, Pakistan is a highly undisciplined country. The main reason is scattered taxation by multiple…
Reviewing Pak-China Trade Relations
Or Reviewing CPEC: What is wrong? Pakistan and China has a proud history of diplomatic and strategic relationship but when it comes to trade relations…