Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq A write-up published in an English daily on November 19, 2019 claimed that Mr. Babar Sattar, counsel for Justice Qazi Faez Isa of Supreme Court “raised questions and highlighted that for some years his client’s (Justice Faez Isa) wife has paid even more tax than Prime Minister Imran Khan....Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq “FBR has until 10.10.2018 received 482,275 Income Tax returns for the Tax Year 2018, which are 170,208 more than the 312,067 Income Tax returns received for Tax Year 2017 by the same date, registering an impressive increase of 55%—Press release of October 11, 2018 by FBR.    “Total income...Read More

The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about 32,943 of them paid no tax and 22,312 paid less than Rs 1 million in tax. These statistics were revealed as part of the analysis of the Tax Payers Directory...Read More

The top 500 companies in Pakistan paid Rs 364.325 billion in taxes during 2016-17. Out of 79,728 companies included in the Tax Directory 2016-17, about 32,943 of them paid no tax and 22,312 paid less than Rs 1 million in tax. These statistics were revealed as part of the analysis of the Tax Payers Directory...Read More

 PendencyNo. of JudgesCase per JudgeSupreme Court of Pakistan40,243172367Federal Shariat Court422584Lahore High Court, Lahore165,515562956High Court of Sindh, Karachi92,169342710Peshawar High Court, Peshawar29,624171743High Court of Balochistan, Quetta6,8428855Islamabad High Court17,08553417District Courts, Punjab1,095,5421291848District Courts, Sindh101,059359282District Courts, KPK209,984313671District Courts, Balochistan13,96917182District Courts, Islamabad36,29149568TOTAL1,810,7452,325779Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq Millions of Pakistanis by virtue of over 65 types of withholding taxes imposed under the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, both adjustable and non-adjustable, are paying advance income tax but only a fraction of them (about 1.5% file income tax returns). There are in Pakistan about 95 million unique mobile...Read More

Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq One should never forget the ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar. The deadly incident exposed hollowness of the argument of their “sympathisers” and ‘advocates” that these forces “are worthy of dialogue”....Read More

Dr. Ikramul Haq  We lost East Wing (Mushraqi Pakistan) in 1971 due to sheer shortsightedness and highhandedness of ruling military junta and its political cronies. In the name of defending “ideological frontiers”, the generals not only gave away big land mass but also committed heinous war crimes against ordinary citizens. Tragically, no one was punished....Read More

Huzaima Bukhari “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes”—Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. When we think of work, what more is it than an activity that involves putting in physical or mental effort in certain tasks to achieve desirable results. A good example would be that...Read More

https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/648 Harmony in Xinjiang is based on three principles Letter from Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador of China to the UK The Chinese people often say: “One does not know how vast and beautiful China is until one visits Xinjiang.”  Xinjiang represents the vastness of China because it is home to all of China’s 56 ethnic groups....Read More