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Illegal Cigarettes: A Billion-Dollar Tax Loss And A Wider Security Concern

Click this link to access the attached ACT Alliance Pakistan report, which examines the economic, enforcement, financial-crime, and national-security risks created by Pakistan’s large...

A Trillion-Dollar Economy Cannot Be Built On A Leaking Tax Base

Pakistan’s ambition to become a trillion-dollar economy will depend on far more than headline growth rates. It will depend on whether the state can...

Pakistan Customs Deserves National Support In Fight Against Smuggling: ACT Alliance Pakistan

Islamabad – Mubashir Akram, Country Director, ACT Alliance Pakistan, has expressed deep sorrow over the martyrdom of Customs Sepoy Jawad Ahmed and Excise ASI Sajid ul...

Illegal Trade Will Derail Pakistan’s Trillion-Dollar Economic Ambition

A Year That Exposed the Scale of the ProblemDuring FY2025–26, Pakistan’s illegal trade problem became harder to dismiss as a collection of isolated smuggling...

Pakistan Needs Permanent Enforcement Against Illegal Trade

Pakistan’s fight against illegal trade should not be treated as a temporary campaign, a revenue stunt, or a seasonal administrative drive. It should become...

Pakistan’s Smallest Businesses Carry The Heaviest Burden

Pakistan’s micro businesses are easy to overlook because most do not appear in corporate surveys, stock-market reports, or investment announcements. Yet they are everywhere:...

Three Sectors, Trillions At Risk: The Case For Permanent Enforcement

Pakistan’s illegal economy is not a collection of isolated market violations. It is a system that rewards tax evasion, weakens lawful businesses, diverts capital...

Illegal Trade in Petroleum, Real Estate, And Tobacco Requires Sustained Enforcement

Islamabad - Mubashir Akram, Country Director, ACT Alliance Pakistan, has called for stronger, sustained, and better-resourced enforcement against Pakistan’s illegal economy, saying that illegal...

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