Of taxpayers & non-filers
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Millions of Pakistanis by virtue of over 65 types of withholding taxes imposed under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, both adjustable and non-adjustable, are paying advance income tax but only a fraction of them…
Forces of terrorism & obscurantism
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq One should never forget the ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar. The deadly incident exposed hollowness…
Politics of obscurantism
Dr. Ikramul Haq We lost East Wing (Mushraqi Pakistan) in 1971 due to sheer shortsightedness and highhandedness of ruling military junta and its political cronies. In the name of defending “ideological frontiers”, the generals not only gave away big land…
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…