Dr Hassan Shehzad – The Capital Calling

May 23, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Business & Trade, Commodification & Politicization

Capital Calling concerned over illicit trade of tobacco products in Pakistan

Capital Calling, an Islamabad-based think tank, has expressed concern on the findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that “illicit trade market in Pakistan (of tobacco products) ranges...

May 15, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Education, Food & Consumption

Health activists proposed 26% increase on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), held a briefing session with journalists on Wednesday at local hotel in which it was shared that...

May 15, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Business & Trade, Climate Change

About time IMF stay put on its recommendation for uniformed tax on tobacco products

ISLAMABAD: In a pre-budget discussion, arranged by Business Recorder in Lahore, former finance minister Dr Hafiz A Pasha proposed to the incumbent minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, who was also present...

May 15, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
City Speak, Listening Post

Unsafe roads bleeding economy dry, account for 4 pc of GDP: Prof Zaman

ITP sends facilitation van to QAU for issuance and renewal of licenses three days a week ISLAMABAD: The losses incurred by road crashes account for about four percent of...

May 14, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Life Style & Landscape

Increase cigarette prices to save lives, accademicians appeal to government

International Monitory Fund (IMF) has pressed on the “need to limit tax incentives to cases where their economic benefits, such as employment generation and value addition to the economy,...

May 8, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Public Health

Is cigarette mafia working to snatch what IMF calls Pakistan’s ‘hard-won stability’?

Islamabad: Following the discussion of the Executive Board of the IMF, Antoinette Sayeh, Deputy Managing Director and Chair, has pressed on the country to “capitalize on this hard‑won stability…with...

March 20, 2024
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Business & Trade, Health, Uncategorized

Capital Calling welcomes IMF recommendations for uniformed tax on tobacco products including e-cigarettes

Capital Calling, an Islamabad-based think tank, has welcomed the reports that International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to impose uniform excise rates on both local and foreign cigarette...

July 19, 2023
Dr Hassan Shehzad
Uncategorized

Higher Tobacco tax helps bring down sale of cigarettes in Pakistan

In February this year, Pakistan’s federal government announced to jack up Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cigarettes after a consistent demand from anti-tobacco and social activists as a measure...