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Tax-to-GDP Debates

Tax-to-GDP debates

"We have achieved the highest tax-to-GDP ratio and Pakistan's economy has been stabilising due to prudent policies of my government"-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif purportedly claimed during a meeting with Managing…

What Are Taxes For?

What are taxes for?

Why has Pakistan failed to enforce voluntary tax compliance? In democratic countries people can feel and even measure tangible benefits of taxes paid by them. They get facilities of health,…

Directionless And Dangerously Adrift

Directionless and dangerously adrift

At a time when the flames of the fire in West Asia (Middle East for the West) drift ever closer to our region, one sees the government directionless and seemingly…

Punjab’s War On Child Labour

Punjab’s war on child labour

A society’s moral health is gauged by the kind of treatment it metes out to its women, the elderly and children. Children form the most vulnerable group, most likely to…

What Is Our Real Problem?

What is our real problem?

People ask what the real issue of Pakistan is. Why there is dissatisfaction all around. Why military top brass is not happy with the performance of the civil government. On…

Pakistan’s Stability Agenda

Pakistan’s stability agenda

PAKISTAN today has achieved a measure of political, security and economic stability — due largely to the strategic clarity imposed by the ‘security establishment’ — and happenstance. Domestic and externally…

Diplomacy In The Time Of Disorder

Diplomacy in the time of disorder

As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s shuttle diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran concluded with initial encouraging signs, Pakistan was again struck with yet another Army Public School-like terrorist attack –…

Home-grown Threat

Home-grown threat

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Imran Khan discussed the reasons why the number of terror attacks in the country had decreased. “When the Americans were pushing…