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FTT Rejects “Farmers’ Appeal” Narrative, Urges Government To Continue Enforcement Against Illegal Tobacco Trade
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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...
Pakistan Must Not Let Donor-Driven Tobacco Activism Distract From Illegal Trade
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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,...
FTT Says SDPI’s Tobacco Tax Push “Donor-Aligned Policy Pressure” Detached From Pakistan’s Market Reality
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Islamabad, Pakistan, May 8, 2026: Muhammad Amin, Chairman of Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT), strongly rejected the latest call by the Sustainable Development Policy...
Cigarettes, Corridors, And Complicity: What The Police Crackdown Suggests
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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 Cigarette Market Has A Warning Problem
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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...
Tobacco Control By Convening: What SPARC’s Government-Facing Strategy Reveals
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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...
The Tactics Of Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Mafia
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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...
The Cigarette Black Market And The Threat To Pakistan’s Economic And National Security
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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 illegal...
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