ISLAMABAD: The federal government has replaced the chairman of the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR), Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said, four months after it had appointed a new head of the tax regulatory authority.
Dr Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed who is currently serving as Director-General International Taxes has been appointed as the new chairman of FBR, the information minister said in a press conference in Islamabad.
The federal government, on April 9, had appointed member IT Asim Ahmed as the new chairman of the FBR.
This is the seventh time the PTI-led government is appointing the FBR chairman.
Later in the day, the Establishment Division issued a notification for Dr Ahmad’s appointment — who is a grade 21 office.
Dr. Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed – a career IRS Pakistan officer, is the Director General, International Taxes, Federal Board of Revenue, Islamabad. He holds a Masters in English (Language & Literature) from the University of the Punjab, MS in (Economic) Policy Analysis from Saitama University, Japan, and PhD in Political Economy from the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad / University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
His Doctoral dissertation explores into the elite capture and its interplay with the extractive function from a Neo-Marxist lens of state autonomy in a comparative Pakistan-United States context. Dr. Ahmed has to his credit the World Bank Fellowship (1998-00), Fulbright Fellowship (2003-04), Charles Wallace Fellowship (2009-10), and Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship (2010-11).
His research interests include political economy of international taxation, tax reforms, state’s extractive system, state autonomy, state building, state capacity, and governance.
