Astringent legacy of May 12
HUZAIMA BUKHARI & DR. IKRAMUL HAQ May 12 of 2007 and 2008 will be remembered in Pakistani history as a tragic and lamentable day—a dictator…
Astringent legacy of May 12Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq
May 12 of 2007 and 2008 will be remembered in Pakistani history as a tragic and lamentable day—a dictator with the connivance and support of…
Centre-provinces harmony
Need for judicious assignment of taxes Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq There is something fundamentally wrong with Pakistan’s constitutional structure of distribution of taxing…
Assets beyond means
Dr. Ikramul Haq Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, ousted/disqualified ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, seriously or in a light vein, in a private gathering, reportedly said: “Even…
How Pakistan can become Asian Tiger
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The repeated claims in the past by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the ruling PML(N)…
Budget for the Ashrafiya
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan is controlled and ruled by ashrafiya (elites)—comprising indomitable military complex, civil bureaucracy, higher judiciary, landed aristocracy and its…
Money laundering and issue of “immunity”
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Supreme Court on February 19, 2010, while hearing Civil Petition No. 1049, 1348 & 1406 of 2009, summoned…
Perils of SRO culture
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “By withdrawing tax measures through Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs), the government is subverting the budget”—Dr. Kaiser Bengali, a noted…
Taxation without Representation!!
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq No taxation without representation is a cardinal principle—accepted by every civilized nation—embodied in Article 77 of the Constitution of…