Opinion
Budget & Ashrafiya
Pakistan is controlled and ruled by ashrafiya (elites)—comprising indomitable military complex, civil bureaucracy, higher judiciary, landed upper crust and cronies, industrialist-turned politicians, religious and...
PM Speech: Claims Vs Reality
In a country where the tenure of the Prime Minister is marred by uncertainty with each passing dawn, his recent address to the nation...
Ritualistic Budgets & Fruitless Debates
“Inflation is taxation without legislation—Milton Friedman—Editorial of November 11, 2009 in Wall Street Journal, titled, Taxation without Legislation
Federal budget 2024-25, announced on June 12,...
Anatomy Of “Tax Expenditure”
“We don’t do charity in Germany. We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments’ responsibilities”—Henning When, a German stand-up comedian
In Pakistan, the successive...
E-Governance: Way Forward For Prosperity
The rapid progression of technology has intensely reshaped the global structure, revolutionising the ways in which we work, communicate, and live. From the integration...
Eyes Are Not Enough
The graphically gruesome decree of Israel against the Palestinians to evanesce has somehow, inadvertently roped in every and each individual into the global court...