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Introduction: In Pakistan, sales tax on value-added basis is levied both on goods and services. There are numerous...

Introduction   As the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the government for 2023 was presented by the executive on 24th November 2022, it was the expectation that revenue generation bills were supposed to be tabled under a certificate of urgency for Parliament consideration. But from recent past, it has…

It’s time for Putrajaya to reach out to affected parties. 

While the Supreme Court, on the facts of the case, did not entertain the petition by the ED, it disapproved the reasoning offered by the high court that non-supply of the information or documents was a human rights violation as in the absence of the same, the information seeker would not be able to agitate for her right to promotion.

The Supreme Court has disapproved the observations made by Delhi High Court in a judgement passed last year wherein it had said that non-supply of service-related information under RTI Act to an...

The Kenyan government has been sued for increasing water bills and commercialising water and sanitation services without consulting Kenyans by conducting public participation forums.

Max Ganado speaks with Kenneth Wain, a philosopher, educator and Malta’s first Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations.

Today, April 12, 2023, marks 50 years of the 1973 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Unfortunately, its perpetual violation is being committed by political parties and state institutions with impunity

Although indigenous peoples of Nigeria curse Frederick Lugard, the Amalgamator, before him was an equally unjust man also with racial supremacist views: the merchant George Dashwood Taubman Goldie who formed the Royal Niger Company (RNC), originally the United African Company then the National African Company. Even before obtaining a Royal Charter that gave Goldie and his company enormous powers, Goldie had managed to get Treaties signed by native Traditional Rulers.

The National Assembly and  President Muhammadu Buhari may soon be on a collision course over the refusal of the later to sign into law the 19 bills sent to him for assent by the National Assembly. He signed into law only 16 of the bills.