Honouring vocations
Huzaima Bukhari “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes”—Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. When we think of work, what more is it than an activity that involves putting in physical or…
Wages of appeasement
Dr. Ikramul Haq We have a long and painful history of State’s patronage of corrupt practices, tax evasion, money power, and protection of forces of obscurantism that have been thriving on hatred, bigotry, militancy, intolerance and terrorism. Undoubtedly, what we…
Wages of appeasement
Dr. Ikramul Haq We have a long and painful history of State’s patronage of corrupt practices, tax evasion, money power, and protection of forces of obscurantism that have been thriving on hatred, bigotry, militancy, intolerance and terrorism. Undoubtedly, what we…
China’s Xingjian Conundrum
(The Vague Element) In recent months Western media and the Washington Administration have begun to raise a hue and cry over alleged mass internment camps in China’s northwestern Xinjiang where supposedly up to one million ethnic Uyghur Chinese are being…
Awful planning, dreadful execution
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived.”—Paul Bedfrod Many of the towns and cities, especially in the Third World countries,…
Countering Corruption
Daunting challenge for Pakistan Dr. Ikramul Haq For decades, Pakistan has been unsuccessfully tackling the daunting challenge of countering bribery, financial crimes, tax evasion and plundering of taxpayers’ money. It is strange that in a country where tax evasion…
Taxes, justice and reforms
Dr. Ikramul Haq Why has the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) after imposing more than 50 types of withholding taxes failed to enforce filing of returns by all those who have taxable income? FBR has even failed to get returns…
Of unpaid refunds & figure fudging
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The story of “impressive” performance of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) during the period 2013-18 needs a through probe. The jadoogar [magician] Ishaq Dar, we all know, was master of figure fudging, for his…
XINJIANG(2)
https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/648 Harmony in Xinjiang is based on three principles Letter from Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador of China to the UK The Chinese people often say: “One does not know how vast and beautiful China is until one visits Xinjiang.” Xinjiang represents…