Culture, religion or humanity? Huzaima Bukhari “’Hamlet’ is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims but all people equally, showing that we all share the same problems regardless of religion, nation and culture”―Haris Pasovic, Bosnian film maker What is always thought provoking is the idea of why we,...Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq At present, Pakistan’s public debt is almost 600 percent of tax revenues and development spending is significantly less than interest payments”— Unlocking Pakistan’s revenue potential by Ms. Serhan Cevik, Country Report 16/2 (January 2016), IMF Achieving revenue targets by keeping the rich and mighty outside the ambit of personal income tax according...Read More

Unprecedented story of courage Huzaima Bukhari “O’ God! Surely you know that whatever we did was not a competition to gain worldly positions and worthless physical attractions of the world but to show the true religious ways and to remove corruption from your lands, so that the oppressed feel secured and act according to your...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq If anything may be asserted with complete confidence, it is that governments through courtesy of the legislature undo many promises made to the public. Whereas the Constitution gives immense importance to relationship with the public, but it has been observed that in many of the jurisdictions of the world...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”―Eleonra Duse, We were never given the choice as to...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “A large part of crime is economics – if people are working and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate” –Vincent Frank        One does not need much common sense to understand that in order to reduce poverty and economic depravity,...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) 562 (HL), a famous British case decided in the House of Lords, Lord Atkin established that ‘duty of care’ should be displayed by all those who were engaged in an activity that directly affected other human beings. He expressively observed:     “…a manufacturer of...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari  “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted.”―Al-Quran, Surah At-Tin verses 4, 5 and 6, When the Creator has admitted that man has been conceived...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari  “We have certainly created man in the best of compositions. Then we return him to the lowest of the low. Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted”―Al-Quran, Surah At-Tin verses 4, 5 and 6, When the Creator has admitted that man has been conceived...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq In the past, the repeated claims by Muhammad Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, influential ministers of the cabinet of Nawaz Sharif that “Pakistan will be the next Asian Tiger” were never taken seriously by experts. Both proved wrong as economic indicators of their tenure [2013-18] show. Of course they...Read More