Sugar ‘Crisis’ or a Health Opportunity

Posted on November 14, 2010
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Fatima Saleem The sugar scam resurfaces yet again. Skyrocketing sugar prices, in an environment where inflation is already a critical concern, is only adding fuel to the fire. Concisely, a whole chain involving politicians, ministers, mafias etc are said to be responsible. To begin with, I am unable to understand the mere basis of this […]

More Taxes, No Tax Reform

Posted on November 10, 2010
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Adil Najam Pakistan needs serious tax reform. That we did not get today. What it got instead was a collection drive – supposedly to pay for the post-flood rehabilitation, but probably even more because the international community has been pushing us to raise internal revenue collection. That itself is not a bad thing. Indeed, it […]

1000 Words: Death By Petrol

Posted on November 1, 2010
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Tamashbeen Illustration by: Murad Ali Shah Bukerai of Bukera Sharif, Tando Allahyar, in Daily Ibrat.

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