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Islamabad, Pakistan, June 4, 2026: Muhammad Amin, Chairman of Fair Trade in Tobacco, strongly rejected the narrative presented in a recent public appeal issued...

The annual tobacco tax campaign has returned at exactly the time when Pakistan’s budget machinery is most exposed to external pressure.On May 7, 2026,...

Islamabad, Pakistan, May 8, 2026: Muhammad Amin, Chairman of Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT), strongly rejected the latest call by the Sustainable Development Policy...

The suspension of 22 police officials in Karachi, including six SHOs, looks less like a routine disciplinary matter and more like a sign that...

Pakistan’s Graphical Health Warning requirement is not a minor packaging rule. It is one of the clearest legal markers of whether a cigarette pack...

SPARC, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, is a long-standing Pakistani civil society organization that positions tobacco control as...

Pakistan’s illegal cigarette trade is not a loose collection of petty violations. It increasingly resembles a parallel commercial system, organized, adaptive, and designed to...

Pakistan’s illegal tobacco trade should no longer be treated as a narrow tax problem. International anti-money-laundering and counterterrorist-financing bodies have for years described illicit...