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Pakistan: In an effort to reduce public spending, the Federal Cabinet has decided to wind up the Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) and transfer
Pakistan: Over the past decade, the country has lost over PKR567bn ($2bn) in tax revenue due to tobacco smuggling and illegal cigarette manufacturing.
Pakistan: The Provincial Alliance for Sustainable Tobacco Control – an influential tobacco control non-government organisation (NGO), part of the Global Alliance for Tobacco
Pakistan: The Action to Counter Illicit Trade (ACT) Alliance has praised the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)'s efforts to fight illicit trade, which
Pakistan: During a policy dialogue organised by the Aurat Foundation, a women’s rights nonprofit organisation, member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Tahira Mushtaq called
Pakistan: In the Punjab province, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed implementing a track-and-trace system across all tobacco manufacturers in order
Pakistan: The government is struggling to enforce smoke-free regulations passed more than two decades ago, casting doubt on its ability to implement further
Pakistan: The Initiative on Risk-Reduction and Dependable Alternatives (IRADA) held a round-table workshop that spotlighted the urgent need to adopt effective tobacco harm-reduction
Pakistan: A civil society initiative addressing women has been organised by the Pakistan Girl Guides Association to launch the Pakistan Girls Empowerment Forum. Among
Pakistan: The Peshawar High Court has temporarily suspended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s plan to impose a cess (tax) on tobacco transported from other provinces.
Pakistan: The Initiative on Risk Reduction and Dependable Alternatives held a round-table conference in Peshawar on 2nd October to discuss effective tobacco harm-reduction
Pakistan: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) has called on the government to regulate emerging addictive nicotine
Pakistan: An expert from the Coalition for Tobacco Control Pakistan has called for urgent reforms to include smokeless tobacco in the country’s tobacco
Pakistan: The Action to Counter Illicit Trade (ACT) Alliance, a coalition of civil society organisations, has accused the local tobacco industry of avoiding taxes by
Pakistan: Health experts have called on state authorities to implement stricter regulations to curb the rising use of e-cigarettes, vapes and nicotine products,
Pakistan: The public health lobbying group Concerned Mothers has met with members of parliament to advocate for a ban on novel nicotine products. The
Pakistan: A public health non-governmental organisation (NGO) has criticised a proposal allowing Pakistani cigarette manufacturers to produce packs containing fewer than 20 cigarettes for
Pakistan: Health and social sector experts have identified naswar (oral tobacco) addiction in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as an escalating public health threat, press reports.
Pakistan: The Federal Board of Revenue, the tax authority in Pakistan, has granted exporters permission to move unmanufactured tobacco from green leaf threshing
Pakistan: The Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) at Khyber Medical University (KMU) and the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR)
Pakistan: Production in Pakistan’s tobacco industry dropped to 32.9bn cigarettes in the fiscal year ending 30th June 2024, down from 42.7bn cigarettes in
Pakistan: Civil society in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has called on the government to enact legislation banning smoking and tobacco use in public
Pakistan: The Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) collected 1.28% less tobacco cess (tax on tax) in the fiscal year 2022-2023 compared to the previous
Pakistan: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) has urged the government to prohibit the export of “kiddie
Pakistan: The Peshawar High Court in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan has stopped the provincial government from taking action against tobacco companies,
Pakistan: Tax evasion by the illegal cigarette trade costs the country over PKR310bn ($1.1m) annually in losses to tax revenue, press reports. Around 50%
Pakistan: The government of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has passed the Excise Act of 2024. The act did not adopt the proposal for increasing
Pakistan: The Finance Act 2024 entered into force on 1st July, imposing an excise duty of PKR1,200 ($4.30) on nicotine pouches.
Pakistan: The district government of Peshawar – the capital city of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a population of over 4.7m –
Pakistan: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed a bill to amend the Federal Excise Act. The bill proposes levying an excise duty of
Pakistan: Muzammil Aslam, finance adviser to the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported to the press that the province is considering increasing the
Pakistan: Experts and health advocates, such as the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), have urged the government
Pakistan: During a seminar on the impact of nicotine and heated tobacco products on public health – held on 19th March in Khyber
Pakistan: In response to the recent cigarette tax increase, the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) – an independent non-profit organisation – has said
Pakistan: The Pakistan National Heart Association (PANAH) is urging the government to ban nicotine pouches, press reports. One of the country’s leading health bodies, PANAH,
Pakistan: The government has raised the threshold under which expensive cigarette brands are taxed at the same time it has raised the excise
