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Increasing Pakistan's tax net: Way forward

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"I do not want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly". These words of Narendra Modi can be best utilized and are true depiction of the way forward of increasing Pakistan’s net tax. But first, let shed an ink on the importance of the tax collection system. Taxes raise the standard of living and foster economic growth in the country. Government brings taxes to the fore to provide a conducive environment for business activities in the country and spend this money on the welfare of the people including education, health, and employment. However, at current times, Pakistan is facing the brunt of a severe economic crisis, and the decreasing tax base is one of the reasons behind this grim situation.  The question is why Pakistan’s tax net is eminently low. Some reasons behind it are the weak enforcement mechanism of tax collection, illicit tobacco trade and weak monitoring on the minimum retail price of cigarettes, financially weak local urban government framework

Deteriorating mental health and unpropitious parenting

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The Adults of contemporary era are quintessential tough people, continuously trying to break the generational gap, handling mental discrepancies, abandoning socio-cultural taboos, and most importantly yearning for individuality. Everything we long for can’t be attained single handedly, and if someone gets some potential to achieve it, he must be hindered by the society he inhabits. I am nowhere dissociating family from the society and by family I mean our parents who did their best to brought us up as adults, but being a part of the society that has nothing except toxic ascendency make them adhere a lot of the characteristics that needed to be demolished way earlier when their first child was born. The sad part is we cannot get out of the cultural regime that cages our dreams without a will to demean ourselves in front of society and not coming up to its standards. By following the socio-cultural norms parents make the life of a child nothing less than a hell. They try to surpass every

Settler colonialism and demographic changes in third world countries

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In the words of Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Man is a noble savage who knew neither vice nor virtue; until property and law existed." In the evolutionary journey of humans, they confront various constant changes in societies. Unlike the twentieth century, the twenty-first century can be referred as a century of power elites of capitalist terrains. The world is witnessing a novel phase of settler colonialism. The USA, a couple of centuries ago, was a settler colony of European nations. They were brutally suppressed and marginalized by the colonial tactics of European feudal lords and tribal chieftains. Similarly, having referred to the central idea of Rousseau's state of nature, it can be inferred by analyzing today's brutalities of capitalism that depict that today's capitalism wants a dominant hegemony over others' lands to glorify its corporate dynamics. There are various examples present in the contemporary era. Israel and Argentina are top of the lists. I