Education: over-diagnosed and under-treated
We hope Sarmad Masud's My Pure Land manages an Oscar in the foreign language films category. Even if it doesn't, the redoubtable Waderi Nazo Dharejo of Qazi Ahmed, the subject…
Call for independent financial reporting body
The Audit Oversight Board (AOB) established under the SECP Act, 1997 to regulate audit profession in the country and the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) recently formed under the control of…
Meaningful budget proposals
Every year before the announcement of annual federal budget, a plethora of proposals are received by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) from trade and professional bodies, tax bars and…
Is economic planning viable?
Planning, both short- and long-term, is an essential part of modern economic management. In order to delve into the arguments concerning their utility and usefulness, it’s prudent to briefly deliberate…
Corona, crises and reform
The emergence of the sugar and wheat profiteering scandal at exactly the moment in time when the most central debate of our lives is about the economic survival of the…
Government responds to ‘Misguiding the people’
Dr Ashfaque H Khan has written an article titled "Misguiding the people" carried byBusiness Recorder on 25-01-2017. In the article, the author has raised the issue of large-scale manufacturing (LSM) growth…
Public service reforms — II
Parliaments at the federal and provincial levels should make laws pertaining to the formulation of respective recruitment commissions (indicated in part-I of this series of articles by this writer) so…
Case for All-Pakistan Unified Tax Service: PTI & innovative tax reforms
Generally the taxation system in developing countries witnesses low tax-to-GDP ratio owing to several factors such as high compliance costs, complex tax rate structures, multiple tax agencies and narrow tax…
Bringing back ‘ill-gotten’ wealth
The task force set up by the PTI government for bringing back what is called the 'ill-gotten' wealth of Pakistanis parked in foreign countries has already held its first meeting…
‘PTI govt’ & tax reforms
The newly-formed coalition government of Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has to address daunting challenges on many fronts, e.g. achieving political stability by working with strong Opposition, uprooting terrorism, improving law and order…
