Huzaima Bukhari “Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of education, the world will be so much a better place to live in.” ―APJ Abdul Kalam Schooling has always played...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.” ―Richard Wagner Living things have a natural tendency to respond to stimuli which are in fact, rapid changes. This is an integral part of biological and emotional life that helps humans,...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari Even if for some reason or the other, the women were forced against their will to adopt a conservative life-style, the least they could do was to raise their sons to respect women irrespective of who they were, but what transpired was extremely frightening. The seeds of hate for non-conformism were sown in...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation”—Napoleon Bonaparte. Whether a woman is good, bad or evil has nothing to do with the faith she professes, the stratum of society she belongs to, her ethnic origin, the language she speaks, her cultural background, her looks,...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Prime Minister, Imran Khan, raised vital issues in his extraordinary speech at ‘High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development’ at the United Nations in New York on September 26, 2019. One issue was related to assets stashed in various tax havens by loot and plunder or through tax evasion. He...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq According to Business Reorder of July 8, 2014, the Chairman of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is likely to lead a delegation to Switzerland from August 26-28, 2014 to “re-negotiate and upgrade treaty on Avoidance of Double Taxation [DTA] with Switzerland to retrieve and tax undeclared money deposited in...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “Freud has shown one thing very clearly that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”―Herbert Read, 20th century British philosopher Very small children, in fact, infants, are perceived as not being...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq The concept of delegated or secondary legislation is not extraordinary. The parliaments from where emanate various statutes, cannot be expected to work out the detailed application of the general principles embodied in the acts for their enforcement, therefore this work is handed down to the executive, local government/bodies as...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”―Edmund Burke The universe is a huge complex machine with the suns, stars, planets and living beings comprising its essential components and parts. Although this seems quite an odd simile but the fact is that with even...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Human beings are not surprisingly, attached to the place of their birth, no matter how advanced or how backward it might be but sometimes under pressing circumstances they are forced to migrate and settle in foreign lands. With the advent of twentieth century and two extremely horrific world wars,...Read More