July 2021

UNDERSTANDING MINIMUM TAX The state requires revenue to administer its affairs, to finance expenditures on public good and to pursue development activities. In the modern era, almost all states are generating substantial tax revenue for this purpose. Tax revenue from direct taxes is preferred to indirect taxes due to distributive …

The Future Trajectory of Pak-US Relations Pakistan and the United States have set the stage for a fresh impetus to their bilateral ties with pledges of greater engagement and economic cooperation. The icebreaker between Islamabad and Washington took place on May 23 in Geneva where national security advisors, Jake Sullivan …

Promoting Tourism in Pakistan There are certain advantages of promoting tourism in Pakistan. These advantages are mentioned in the following paragraphs one by one. Tourism will promote soft image of Pakistan in the outer world. Pakistan has remained a terrorism-hit country for more than a decade. Owing to militancy and …

Pakistan-India Relations The precarious path to peace Khan’s statement was neither impromptu nor surprising. The prelude came from army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa in early February when he said that Pakistan was committed to the ideal of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence and that “it is time to extend …

Pakistan Economic Survey 2020-21 FY21 Year of Revival The government has launched the Economic Survey 2020-21 which shows that Pakistan has surpassed the annual growth target of 2.1 percent and touched 3.94 percent with the help in growth in manufacturing and services sectors. According to the Survey, current account posted …

Pakistan’s Demography Challenges and Opportunities Throughout the history of human civilization, the size of a country’s population has been viewed as the most important pillar of its national power as it is crucially important for defence and labour. The human population remained almost stagnant during the Middle Ages because a …

THE PRIMACY OF FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAW IN NATIONAL SECURITY Modern states use their coercive authority through criminal law, which derives its legality and legitimacy through constitutional law. This linkage between a state’s penal and coercive power and its criminal law is not only to be found in Western democracies, but …

Federal Budget 2021-22 Make-in-Pakistan, Growth-focused Plan The government unveiled, on June 11, a Rs8.48 trillion pro-growth and relief-oriented federal budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. The budget focuses on pursuing all-inclusive, sustained and robust economic growth through comprehensive planning and development. In the new budget, the government have revisited their …

The New Atlantic Charter New Rules for New Threats Before the Second World War, states acted as they wished in international affairs, limited only by their resources and power. These circumstances began to change in August 1941, before America joined the allied cause. On a battleship off the coast of …

PUTIN’S Russian Roulette First and foremost, the dust has not yet settled over the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and that of South Ossetia from Georgia. Despite international opprobrium, Moscow, overtly and covertly, is building up military presence in the occupied regions. Trump administration tried to prop up Ukrainian dispensation …