menu_open
Dr. Ikramul Haq

Dr. Ikramul Haq

The News on Sunday

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Insensitive State, Muzzled Justice

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...

13.04.2024 30

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

The Hunt For Dirty Money In Pakistan

In the Supreme Court of Pakistan,  Suo Motu Case No. 2 of 2018 re ‘Maintaining of Foreign Accounts by Pakistani Citizens Without Disclosing the...

06.04.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

The Need For Municipal Self-Governance In Pakistan

Each Province shall, by law, establish a local government system and devolve political, administrative and financial responsibility and authority to...

30.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Reflections And Resolutions For Pakistan Day

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...

23.03.2024 20

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

No End In Sight To Debt Dependency

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...

21.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Pakistan's Taxation Woes Compounded By NFC Failures

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday called upon Pakistan to reopen discussions on the National Finance Commission (NFC) award, seeking...

16.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

It's Time To Dismantle The Dysfunctional FBR

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...

09.03.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Making Sense Of The Tax-To-GDP Ratio Debate

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...

02.03.2024 8

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: A Colonial Judiciary And Vernacular Justice

The history of existing laws and the judicial structure in Pakistan dates back to the British colonial era—since independence, nothing substantial...

24.02.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None And All: Self-Governance And Fiscal Decentralisation

Fiscal decentralisation necessarily involves the transfer of taxing and spending powers to sub-national levels of government — in our context, local...

17.02.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Self-Governance & Fiscal Decentralization

Fiscal decentralisation necessarily involves the transfer of taxing and spending powers to sub-national levels of government—in our context, local...

10.02.2024 30

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: The New Government's Debt Quagmire

An official document reveals that the federal government is carrying a debt burden of Rs14.5 trillion above the statutory limit set by Parliament,...

03.02.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Pakistan's Political Economy Will Remain Exploitative Even After 2024 Elections

“The State shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfilment of the fundamental principle, from each according to...

27.01.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Basic Precepts Of FBR Restructuring

“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...

20.01.2024 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Constitution, Supreme Court, Parliament & Voters

The rather predictable  order [short] by Supreme Court of Pakistan, issued on January 8, 2024, overturning by 6-1 its earlier five-member bench...

09.01.2024 6

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

The Economy's 2024 Roadmap To Prosperity

During 2023, due to structural impediments, lack of infrastructure and trained human resource, incompetence, inefficiencies etc, the Federal Board of...

31.12.2023 20

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Open Government, Judiciary & The Right To Information

Open government is the governing doctrine that holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow...

16.12.2023 9

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Distribution Of Legislative Powers

Lawmakers in Pakistan derive their legislative powers from the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Any kind of legislation that includes the...

09.12.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Taxes, Jobs, & Growth

“ 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...

02.12.2023 6

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: The State Needs A Paradigm Shift In Tax Policy

“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...

25.11.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Billions Belonging To Workers Remain Unpaid

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...

18.11.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: The IMF, SIFC, FBR & A Broken Tax System

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...

11.11.2023 20

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Elections, Democracy, Judiciary & Reforms

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...

04.11.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Fixing The Tax Appellate System

In any society, the administration and dispensation of justice should be the top most priority. A society without a sound, reliable and speedy...

28.10.2023 20

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Federal Planning & The Need For A National Tax Agency

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...

21.10.2023 9

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Institutional Tax Reforms

All efforts in the name of tax reforms undertaken in Pakistan have miserably failed. These were nothing but mere patchwork here and there....

14.10.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: All Pervasive Judicial Reforms (Part II)

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...

07.10.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: All Pervasive Judicial Reforms (Part I) 

“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...

30.09.2023 40

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Pakistan's Perpetual Fiscal Fiasco   

The alliance government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), during the 16 months of its rule, after assuming power on April 10, 2022, pushed...

23.09.2023 10

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Challenges Before The New CJP

“The Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution, which enabled the trial of civilians by military courts, was challenged in the case of District Bar...

16.09.2023 20

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

Malice Towards None & All: Pakistan & The Curse Of “Debtocracy”

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...

09.09.2023 30

The Friday Times

Dr. Ikramul Haq

ea3e4ecfa403523689cb87606a84232e