Mother to mother-in-law!
Huzaima Bukhari “A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life”―Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words) There is nothing more precious in the world than the child borne by a mother. The day mothers hold the bundle of…
Regulating Money Service Business
Huzaima Bukhari & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The flow of illegal proceeds is a challenge for the global community. The study conducted by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states that the total volume of criminal proceeds amounts to…
The Nuisance of Inflation
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori The gulf between the income of a common man and prices of necessities of life is broader than ever before and resultantly his struggle to make ends meet is becoming more…
Stripped and abused!
Huzaima Bukhari “Men don’t sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects” ―Kirsten Powers Many times ordinary people have managed…
No one be judge in his own cause!
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Karachi one Additional Commissioner in an order passed under section 122(5A) of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 [hereinafter “the Ordinance”] declared the judgement of honourable Sindh High Court in Honda Shahra-e-Faisal v…
Pakistan
Regional geostrategic challenges & quest for economic security Dr. Ikramul Haq I am thankful to think-tank, The Golden Ring Economic Forum (GREF), and University of Management & Economics (UMT) for inviting me to share ideas on a topical and highly…
Documenting economy through financial inclusion
Huzaima Bukhari, Dr. Ikramul Haq & Abdul Rauf Shakoori To achieve financial inclusion-related objectives National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) was launched by Pakistan in May 2015. The strategy was devised to achieve short-term as well as long-term goals. The short-term…
Improving voluntary tax compliance
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The Inland Revenue is here to ensure that everyone understands and receives what they are entitled to and understands and pays what they owe, so that everyone contributes to the UK’s needs—slogan on website…
State—a moral person?
Huzaima Bukhari “When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned”―Herbert Hoover When Joseph Conrad said that the belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary as men alone are…