Hopes amid historic disappointments Huzaima Bukhari “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers”—Robert Green Ingersoll Each year, just before announcement of budget for the forthcoming financial year, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) receives many proposals by…
Budget & Ashrafiya
Dr. Ikramul Haq Pakistan is controlled and ruled by ashrafiya (elites)—comprising indomitable military brass, top civil bureaucracy, higher judiciary, landed upper crust and their cronies in politics, industrialist-turned politicians, religious and so-called spiritual leaders (sic), media tycoons…