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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...
Budget Season Must Not Become A Shortcut For Policy Capture, Says FTT Chairman
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Islamabad, Pakistan, March 25, 2026: Muhammad Amin, Chairman of Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT), expressed concern that Pakistan’s tobacco tax debate is increasingly shaped...
From Tax Evasion To National Risk: Following Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Money
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A February 25, 2026, report described what revenue officials say they found inside the Karachi Export Processing Zone, a place built to encourage exports,...
The Budget Window Lobby: How NGO-Advocacy Campaigns Can Outrun Pakistan’s Tobacco Enforcement Capacity
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Pakistan’s tobacco tax debate does not unfold in a neutral calendar. It peaks when the state is most vulnerable to pressure, during the budget...
Illegal Tobacco Drains Revenues And Finance Terrorism, FTT Tells Lahore Media at Iftar
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Lahore, Pakistan, February 28, 2026: Muhammad Amin, Chairman of Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT), spoke with media representatives at an Iftar in Lahore and...
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