Huzaima & Ikram’s articles collect decades of published analysis on Pakistan’s tax and corporate law — income tax, sales tax, FBR reforms, budgets and constitutional questions — by Dr. Ikramul Haq, Huzaima Bukhari and Abdul Rauf Shakoori, including pieces first published in Pakistan’s leading newspapers.
Daunting challenges for new government
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Pakistan at the moment is going through chronic political and economic turmoil. The most critical elements…
The forbidden animal
Huzaima Bukhari “إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ “He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh…
State gifts, tax evasion & rule of law
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori “Qui sentit commodum, sentire debet et onus” This famous legal maxim states that those who receive…
Youth and political turmoil
Huzaima Bukhari “Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment”—Lionel Shriver (American journalist) Pakistan has recently witnessed another political debacle following…
FATF & Economy
Abdul Rauf Shakoori & Dr. Ikramul Haq After a week of political turmoil, Pakistan’s opposition parties, through a no-confidence resolution, successfully managed to remove Imran…
Roadmap to Self-Sustainability
Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Since its inception, Pakistan has been facing a series of challenges. Right after the mysterious death of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad…
New PM & reforms agenda
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Pakistan needs all out fundamental structural reforms in all areas of governance. However, the most important…
Food vis-à-vis precious metals
Huzaima Bukhari “Yes, the rich. And that’s their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child’s food, you prevent…
Justiciability of ruling & role of judiciary
Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The pronouncement of ruling by Deputy Speaker on April 3, 2022 rejecting the no-confidence motion, moved by the combined…
Rising economic difficulties
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori At present Pakistan is facing grim crises. On the constitutional front, the matter is sub judice…
Paradoxical ‘leaders’-Part 2
Huzaima Bukhari “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity is an attribute that has been…
No-confidence move amid formidable challenges
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader in National Assembly and President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)—PMLN—tabled the motion…
Paradoxical ‘leaders’
Huzaima Bukhari “Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition”—Ricardo Muti When those who…
FATF & Real Estate Reforms
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The real estate sector is an attractive sector for money launderers. Criminals who build their fortune…
Pakistan at 75: A sordid story
Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori Resolved that it is the considered view of this session of the All-India Muslim League that no constitutional plan…
Pakistan at a crossroads
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The continuous failures and inability of the incumbent coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to handle…
Tumultuous years of existence
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The resolution of March 23, 1940 paved the way for a separate homeland for the Muslims of India after…
Reflections in moral mirror!
Huzaima Bukhari “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”—Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit) Morality has been perhaps…
