By Dr. Ikramul Haq Dr. Ikramul Haq, a leading international tax counsel, is a well-known author specialising in international tax, press, intellectual property, corporate and constitutional law. Dr. Ikram is Chief Partner of Lahore Law Associates (fax: +92 42 7226953, e-mail: irm@brain.net.pk). He is also a member of the visiting faculty of the Institute of...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “We learned at an early age that it was men’s interpretation of our religion that restricted women’s opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception”—Benazir Bhutto, 11th and 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan who was assassinated on 27 December 2007. The East is from...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq 27 December 2017 marks the eleventh death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. She sacrificed her life courageously while resisting the agenda of fanatics and terrorists in Pakistan. She fought relentlessly against forces bent upon to make Pakistan a theocratic state so that it could never progress towards egalitarianism and democracy. Unfortunately her...Read More

December 27, 2018 marks the 11th death anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the great visionary leader, who resisted with great courage the agenda of neo-colonial forces aimed at pushing Pakistan to a theocratic State incapable of progressing towards an egalitarian and democratic polity. In recognition of her great services, she was awarded posthumously the...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A write-up published in an English daily on November 19, 2019 claimed that Mr. Babar Sattar, counsel for Justice Qazi Faez Isa of Supreme Court “raised questions and highlighted that for some years his client’s (Justice Faez Isa) wife has paid even more tax than Prime Minister Imran Khan....Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “FBR has until 10.10.2018 received 482,275 Income Tax returns for the Tax Year 2018, which are 170,208 more than the 312,067 Income Tax returns received for Tax Year 2017 by the same date, registering an impressive increase of 55%—Press release of October 11, 2018 by FBR.    “Total income...Read More

The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about 32,943 of them paid no tax and 22,312 paid less than Rs 1 million in tax. These statistics were revealed as part of the analysis of the Tax Payers Directory...Read More

The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about 32,943 of them paid no tax and 22,312 paid less than Rs 1 million in tax. These statistics were revealed as part of the analysis of the Tax Payers Directory...Read More

 PendencyNo. of JudgesCase per JudgeSupreme Court of Pakistan40,243172367Federal Shariat Court422584Lahore High Court, Lahore165,515562956High Court of Sindh, Karachi92,169342710Peshawar High Court, Peshawar29,624171743High Court of Balochistan, Quetta6,8428855Islamabad High Court17,08553417District Courts, Punjab1,095,5421291848District Courts, Sindh101,059359282District Courts, KPK209,984313671District Courts, Balochistan13,96917182District Courts, Islamabad36,29149568TOTAL1,810,7452,325779Read More

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 (about 1.5% file income tax returns). There are in Pakistan about 95 million unique mobile...Read More