Restructuring the tax system — II
The PTI Government showed lack of political will to reduce exemptions, concessions, waivers and immunities to the State Oligarchy. Total tax expenditure was of Rs. 1.5 trillion in the just…
Restructuring the tax system — III
While the FBR under the present economic team has performed excellently under the adverse conditions and despite heavy financial toll of Covid-19, especially in the midst of deadly second wave,…
System’s widening cracks
HYBRID rule may have delivered a semblance of political stability to the country but the system also has an inherent source of tension. The imbalance of power between the security…
We seem to have no understanding of what ails our taxation system
I never wanted to write the following article for the simple reason that there isn’t anything good to present. However, I am forced to write because there is so much…
Systemic racism
On September 22, The Hague District Court finally reached a verdict on [Mpanzu] Bamenga’s case. ‘Ethnicity does not have to be an objective indication of nationality, but it could be,’…
Systemic racism
Many pro-migration activists have pointed out that for all his talk of human rights and pro-migration policies, President Joe Biden has proven no different from his predecessors in his cruel…
Reflections of a systemnik
The recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban poses a grave danger to Pakistani society and state – but these dangers are not what a typically Westernised lens on Pakistan…
Poverty of political discourse
IN Pakistan’s deeply polarised and fraught environment the tone and content of political discourse has plunged to a level not witnessed before. Political conduct may not have been polite in…
Trending political talk
WATCHING political talk shows during the short, short Eid break, it struck me that our political analyses are also like fashion fads. Everyone sticks to the same themes and the…
A system for all
Not many know of what happened on September 23, 1958 in the East Pakistan assembly when a hurled paper weight hit the then deputy speaker Shahed Ali Patwary who passed…
