Pakistan's illegal cigarette trade is a heavyweight, but last year saw it lose a few rounds.Read More
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In parts of Pakistan, collecting cigarette taxes is not easy. It becomes easier if the price of the most modest licit cigarettes is as close as possible to the price of illicit cigarettes.Read More
Ten months after a tobacco-products tracking-and-tracing system was due to be introduced in Pakistan, the system’s tender process is being called into question. Read More
Some tobacco growers in Pakistan are claiming that tobacco manufacturers are exploiting them, and they have vowed to fight back.Read More
It must be difficult to devise rational, cigarette-trade policies when one group puts the illegal trade at more than 40 percent of the market and another group puts it at under nine percent.Read More
Tobacco growers in Pakistan are threatening to start a campaign of agitation unless the government changes its stance on tobacco imposts.Read More
Pakistan is increasing the size of its cigarette-pack graphic warnings in two phases, one year apart.Read More
One way to reduce the illegal trade in tobacco products is to cut the taxes imposed on them, but it is a strategy open to challenge.Read More
Employees of two tobacco companies in Pakistan have reportedly been sacked for trying to form unions to stand up for their employment rights.Read More
The government of Pakistan’s decision to lower cigarette taxes so that licit cigarettes can better compete price-wise with illicit cigarettes has come under fire.Read More
