IMF – The Capital Calling

February 9, 2025
Capital Calling
Execution, Health

Capital Calling and Dr. Hassan Shehzad’s change-making activism for tobacco cessation

Successful drives for increase in FED on cigarettes in 2023 budget; convincing IMF to propose higher tobacco tax and the government to accept IMF proposals 2024 budget About 100...

January 7, 2025
Capital Calling
Clean & Green

Reported misconduct of Vital Strategies, CTFK comes as a shock

Islamabad: The reported order by the Ministry of Interior to halt activities of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK) and Vital Strategies has raised concerns. These two International Non-Governmental...

May 29, 2024
Capital Calling
Business & Trade, Conflict Communication, Public Diplomacy

Capital Calling denounces illicit trade, demands tax raise on tobacco

IMF proposal for uniformed tax on cigarettes rational: Dr Hassan Shehzad Capital Calling, an Islamabad-based think tank, has Appreciated the reports suggesting that the International Monitory Fund (IMF) has...

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 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...