Primers
Pakistan’s Cigarette Market Has A Warning Problem
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 belongs inside the regulated market....
The Tactics Of Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Mafia
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 survive pressure from the state....
The Cigarette Black Market And The Threat To Pakistan’s Economic And National Security
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 tobacco as a serious predicate...
Tobacco Control By Convening: What SPARC’s Government-Facing Strategy Reveals
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 a child-rights issue, emphasizing youth...
Bangladesh Delivered, Pakistan Delayed: Who Benefited From The NGOs’ Pressure?
Pakistan’s export agenda is ultimately a foreign-exchange agenda. Every credible plan to stabilize the balance of payments rests on two levers: expanding the value and diversity of exports, and...
Foreign-Funded Tobacco Advocacy: Why Pakistan Must Audit NGOs’ Ecosystem
A serious conversation about tobacco policy in Pakistan should not be framed as a simplistic contest between “health” and “industry.” It should be treated as a governance question that...
Seizures, Seals, and Surveillance: The Government’s New Tobacco Enforcement Playbook
Why this year mattersPakistan’s tobacco sector sits at the intersection of revenue integrity, regulatory credibility, and fair competition. Over the past year, the Government of Pakistan has treated the...