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Dr. Ikramul HaqThe News on Sunday |
Almost on a daily basis, we hear from the higher judiciary that all the affairs of the state should be conducted according to the Constitution of...
In the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Suo Motu Case No. 2 of 2018 re ‘Maintaining of Foreign Accounts by Pakistani Citizens Without Disclosing the...
Each Province shall, by law, establish a local government system and devolve political, administrative and financial responsibility and authority to...
On March 23, 1940, All India Muslim League in its annual session at Lahore passed the Lahore Resolution, which ultimately paved the way for a...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in the wake of the staff level agreement in Islamabad on March 20, 2024, will approve by...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday called upon Pakistan to reopen discussions on the National Finance Commission (NFC) award, seeking...
The interim government has failed to broaden the tax base, with the number of income tax return filers shrinking 35% to just under 3.9 million...
Pakistan’s capacity to mobilize taxes is greatly under-explored. With a tax to GDP ratio of 8.5%, along with an undeclared economy almost the size...
The history of existing laws and the judicial structure in Pakistan dates back to the British colonial era—since independence, nothing substantial...
Fiscal decentralisation necessarily involves the transfer of taxing and spending powers to sub-national levels of government — in our context, local...
Fiscal decentralisation necessarily involves the transfer of taxing and spending powers to sub-national levels of government—in our context, local...
An official document reveals that the federal government is carrying a debt burden of Rs14.5 trillion above the statutory limit set by Parliament,...
“The State shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfilment of the fundamental principle, from each according to...
“The FBR is giving me a hard time, but I will persist, and when it becomes unbearable, I know where to go.” I am blamed for destroying the FBR, a...
The rather predictable order [short] by Supreme Court of Pakistan, issued on January 8, 2024, overturning by 6-1 its earlier five-member bench...
During 2023, due to structural impediments, lack of infrastructure and trained human resource, incompetence, inefficiencies etc, the Federal Board of...
Open government is the governing doctrine that holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow...
Lawmakers in Pakistan derive their legislative powers from the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Any kind of legislation that includes the...
“ The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me; it has its origins way back in time. For example, the Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun wrote...
“The impact of economic growth on the lives of people is partly a matter of income distribution, but it also depends greatly on the use that is made...
It is a great tragedy that for the last 17 years, the working class of Pakistan has been deprived of its lawful right to billions of rupees for the...
Negotiators also apprised the global lender about plans to separate tax policy from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) functions, a move that had been...
All public power is a sacred trust, which is to be exercised fairly, justly, honestly and in accordance with law—Supreme Court in Workers’ Party...
In any society, the administration and dispensation of justice should be the top most priority. A society without a sound, reliable and speedy...
Pakistan needs to increase revenue collection at all levels to improve tax-to-GDP ratio to a respectable level of 25 percent. Presently, it is...
All efforts in the name of tax reforms undertaken in Pakistan have miserably failed. These were nothing but mere patchwork here and there....
This article is a two part series. Read Part I here. An efficient justice system can only be established if efforts are made to produce highly...
“The live coverage of court proceeding will not benefit me, but the people of Pakistan. The live broadcast of court proceedings will expose some bad...
The alliance government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), during the 16 months of its rule, after assuming power on April 10, 2022, pushed...
“The Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution, which enabled the trial of civilians by military courts, was challenged in the case of District Bar...
In order to establish a resilient and self-reliant economy, Pakistan needs to avert the necessity for seeking IMF programs in the future which has...