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From Raw Tobacco to Missing Cartons: Mardan’s Cigarette Enforcement Problem

Mardan occupies a distinctive place in Pakistan’s tobacco economy. It is both a major production center for legal tobacco and a district that repeatedly...

Why Swabi Keeps Appearing In Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Investigations

Swabi is not merely one of Pakistan’s major tobacco-growing districts. Public records from January 2024 to August 31, 2026 increasingly place it at the...

Government Must Reject Lobbying Pressure From Illegal Cigarette Mafia And Continue Enforcement, Says FTT

Islamabad, Pakistan, August 26, 2026: Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT) has called upon the Government of Pakistan to firmly reject all political and lobbying...

FTT Lauds Government Enforcement As Legal Tobacco Sector Adds Rs. 41 Billion To National Revenue

Islamabad, Pakistan, July 29, 2026: Fair Trade in Tobacco has welcomed the substantial increase in tax revenue generated by Pakistan’s documented tobacco sector, describing...

Raids Without Convictions: How The Illegal Cigarette Mafia Survives

Pakistan’s campaign against illegal cigarettes produces a steady stream of raids, seizures, sealed factories, confiscated machinery, and official declarations. What it rarely produces in...

Government Must Intensify Action Against Illegal Cigarette Networks

Islamabad, Pakistan, July 16, 2026:  Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT) has expressed serious concern over the reported theft and misappropriation of 2,828 cartons of...

Selective Tobacco Advocacy Is Helping The Illegal Cigarette Mafia Win

Pakistan’s tobacco debate becomes distorted every year when the budget season approaches. A familiar network of Islamabad, Karachi, and Peshawar-based advocacy organizations begins pressing...

FTT Rejects SPARC’s Donor-Driven Tobacco Tax Narrative, Calls It A Manufactured Attack on Pakistan’s Legal Tobacco Sector

Islamabad, Pakistan, July 9, 2026: Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT) has strongly rejected the latest statement issued by the Society for the Protection of...

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From Raw Tobacco to Missing Cartons: Mardan’s Cigarette Enforcement Problem

Mardan occupies a distinctive place in Pakistan’s tobacco economy....

Why Swabi Keeps Appearing In Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Investigations

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Government Must Reject Lobbying Pressure From Illegal Cigarette Mafia And Continue Enforcement, Says FTT

Islamabad, Pakistan, August 26, 2026: Fair Trade in Tobacco...

FTT Lauds Government Enforcement As Legal Tobacco Sector Adds Rs. 41 Billion To National Revenue

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Raids Without Convictions: How The Illegal Cigarette Mafia Survives

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