South Asian tax Summit from 15th

KARACHI—A South Asian Tax summit will be held at a local hotel from April 15. An announcement here on Thursday said that the moot will be organized under the auspices of the Income Tax Bar Association Karachi (ITBAK) and the Nutshell Forum. It said that prominent tax professionals from all the SAARC countries will read papers during the different sessions of two day summit and will carry out in-depth analysis on the merits and demerits of the tax system prevailing in the SAARC countries. The Commerce Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, will be the chief guest at the inaugural session of South Asian Tax summit and he will speak on `Fiscal and Trade policies of SAARC Region-Vision 2020’. The theme of this summit is Regional Cooperation for Economic Development: Vision 2020. In a joint statement about South Asian Tax Summit 2008, Muhammad Azfar Ahsan (Global, CEO, Nutshell Forum, Abdul Qadir Memon, President, ITBAK, and S. M. Shabbar Zaidi, President, SAFA said.—Agencies