Reports
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 the public record is a...
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 the government for higher taxes...
From Tax Evasion To National Risk: Following Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Money
A February 25, 2026, report described what revenue officials say they found inside the Karachi Export Processing Zone, a place built to encourage exports, not to supply Pakistan’s retail...
The Budget Window Lobby: How NGO-Advocacy Campaigns Can Outrun Pakistan’s Tobacco Enforcement Capacity
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 formulation stretch when ministries are...
The Cigarette Money Trail: How Iillegal Tobacco Financed Terror Abroad, And Why Pakistan Should Not Assume Immunity
Illegal tobacco is often discussed as a revenue story, a public health story, or a law-and-order story. The record shows it can also become a security story, with consequences...
Pakistan’s Illegal Cigarette Trade And Missing Graphical Health Warnings
A focused report on the Graphical Health Warning (GHW) compliance gap, its economic consequences, and required enforcement response (2020–2025 evidence-based).Why the missing GHW issue matters more than it looksIllegal...