Huzaima Bukhari “Strong people don’t put others down. They lift them up”—Darth Vader-Philanthropist Legendary Greek philosopher, Aristotle said that man is by nature a social animal. He further explained that those people who are unsocial naturally and not accidentally, are either too unimportant to be given any credence or are more than human, meaning divine...Read More

I hope you will like the Photo Feature. Kindly ask your photographers to have a few snaps as suggested in the write up. I suggest the following captions for photographs that are also clues for the photographers what to shoot: Huddled under quilts the homeless brave the icy and foggy last night of 2001 Men...Read More

I hope you will like the Photo Feature. Kindly ask your photographers to have a few snaps as suggested in the write up. I suggest the following captions for photographs that are also clues for the photographers what to shoot: Huddled under quilts the homeless brave the icy and foggy last night of 2001 Men...Read More

Time to do away with it 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 6365584, e-mail: irm@brain.net.pk; website: http://www.paktax.com.pk). He is a member of the...Read More

Dr Ikramul Haq[*] Before one tries to understand the recent US military and propaganda outbursts against the Afghan Mujahideen [holy warriors], one must turn one’s mental clock back a decade or so, and recollect the legacy of the last Bush to occupy the Oval Office. It was George Herbert Walker Bush’s “new world order” that...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq[*] The failure to act prudently creates certain things as fait accompli in a nation’s life. The Income Tax Ordinance 2001, which is going to be imposed upon us before 26 September 2001, on the dictates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a precondition for release of the final tranche of Stand-By...Read More

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; website: http://www.paktax.com.pk). He is also a member of the visiting faculty of the...Read More

ByDr. Ikramul Haq* The persistent failure of our financial managers and tax collectors to overcome fiscal deficit and remove fiscal imbalances has created a situation where the very economic survival of the country is at stake. Our economic survival now lies in collecting taxes wherever due by abandoning the policy of appeasement towards the power...Read More

Analysis of Amendments in Income Tax Law By Dr. Ikramul Haq[*] The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has three mottos: passion for routine, resistance for change and promotion of mediocrity. The changes made in the different tax enactments through the Finance Ordinance 2001 [hereinafter: “FO 2001”] have to be seen in this perspective. Those who...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq[*] There has been much talk of reducing or even eliminating the contact between the tax payers and the tax collectors to overcome the deep-rooted corruption rampant in the tax machinery. The worthy Finance Minister, on more than one occasions, promised to carry out necessary reforms/changes to ensure that the tax payers are...Read More