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                                                          Amin Mughal I confess, in the least uncharitable terms, that I was never fond of Benazir Bhutto. In fact, I was inimical to her politics. In death, however, she has redeemed herself. In the imagination of the masses she has acquired a mystical significance...

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries of the world, has been facing all kinds of challenges a nation state can perceive—poverty to terrorism, modernism to theocracy, autocratic rules to socialist regimes, social backwardness to radicalism, lawlessness to Talibanisation, collapse...

Cocktail of arms, poppy and politics Huzaima Bukhari & Dr Ikramul Haq American-sponsored elections in Afghanistan today—amidst inveterate attacks by the Taliban—are going to have serious impact for the entire region in the coming days. The war-stiffen country—occupied by NATO-US troops—no matter who wins—though Hamid...

Advance tax or extortionate money Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq After the Second World War, the provision of advance tax [now encased in section 147 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 [hereinafter “the Ordinance”] was introduced as a measure to combat inflation and to...

Alternate Dispute Resolution Rules Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq, leading tax consultants, are well-known authors of many books on Pakistani tax laws. They work for a multi-disciplinary firm, HUZAIMA & IKRAM (fax: +92 42 5310721, e-mail: irm@brain.net.pk; website:...