Yet another tax under Sales Tax Act, 1990
Sub-section (5) of section 3 of the Sales Tax Act (Act) empowers charging another specie of sales tax, up to 17% of value of supplies, in addition to tax levied…
Effective use of mobile in social media
Why is social media so important? More people are using social media through their mobile phones, computers, and tablets than talking, calling, emailing and texting. Do you find this surprising?…
Effective use of social media
Writing for the Impatient Optimists blog on the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation website, Jennifer James shares how she built an activist group. As the founder of Mom Bloggers for…
Funny the way we run things
Only after a madressah in Rawalpindi’s Raja Bazaar went up in flames (11 people dead from rifle fire and many more injured, a few critically), and only after returning from…
A woman’s burden
“It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict; and to be a poor woman even outside the theatre of war is…
Walt Whitman’s Pakistan
In the 1990s a brave new political culture emerged from the bowels of the Bill Clinton political machine. Stan Greenberg, James Carville and Dick Morris helped shape this new culture.…
Tell us the whole truth
In Islamabad the other day, many political leaders belonging to the PML-N and the PTI and their sidekicks like the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), journalists and commentators soaked in Islam and Pakistani…
The legacy
As Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela started his final journey, mourners outside his Johannesburg residence could be heard singing: “Mandela ha hona ea tshwanang le yena” (there is no one like Mandela).…
The game-changer
The Iran nuclear deal is the single most important game-changer in world politics after the cataclysmic events of 9/11. In fact, the world has now started to change in real…
Iran deal: regional view
THE `interim` agreement on Iran`s nuclear programme reached in Geneva two weeks ago was a seminal event in Iran`s relationship with the West and the world. Formidable obstacles remain in…
