The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) have ...

A growing debate in Pakistan questions whether raising tobacco taxes is the right approach to reducing smoking rates. While higher taxes are intended to deter consumption, Fawad Khan, spokesperson for ...

Fair Trade in Tobacco (FTT) while acknowledging the recent enforcement measures taken by the government against illicit ...

The first half of fiscal year 2025 has painted a perplexing picture of Pakistan’s cigarette industry. The latest data on ...

Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand cigarettes have long been smuggled into Pakistan, most likely from the neighboring Afghanistan, ...

Pakistan risks missing a historic opportunity to curb its smoking epidemic that claims 164,000 lives a year, according to a major report released today by international health experts.

Pakistan's economy is losing over a staggering Rs300 billion annually due to an unsustainable tax regime, which has inadvertently incentivised illegal trade in the cigarette sector; a crisis that ...

The argument that heavy taxation leads to the proliferation of illicit products is neither new nor unique to Pakistan ...

British American Tobacco (BAT) has urged the government to review its heavy taxes on smokeless products, including vapours, and to clamp down on the illicit trade of cigarettes that is expected to ...

Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand cigarettes have long been smuggled into Pakistan, most likely from the neighboring Afghanistan, according to multiple sources. Billions of KT&G’s Pine brand ...