Rupee drops to record low of 125 against dollar
The rupee further depreciated against the US dollar falling down to an all-time low of 125 against the greenback in the open market on Wednesday
Foreign investment takes a dip, down 26.2 per cent
According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday, the country attracted FDI of $237.9 million in May, down 26.2 per cent from $322.7 million in the same month of the preceding year.
Don’t cast your vote before you’ve seen these WhatsApp leaks
Two fictional characters each representing the PTI and PML-N, engage in an enlightening WhatsApp conversation that can help prospective voters make the key decision at the ballot box.
Chinese electric car manufacturers eye Pakistani market
KARACHI: The automotive industry is on the transformation worldwide and is converting their technology from fossil-fuel to electric motors to protect the world from...
Market Daily: KSE 100 sheds 5 per cent WoW
KSE 100 index closed down 721.23 points (-1.70 per cent) at 41,637.38 on the last trading day of the week
Don’t cast your vote before you’ve seen these WhatsApp leaks
Two fictional characters each representing the PTI and PML-N, engage in an enlightening WhatsApp conversation that can help prospective voters make the key decision at the ballot box.
Insafian vs Nooni: The choice before the voters
How the major national parties stack up on matters of economic policy
Energy: colliding visions for powering Pakistan
Both the PTI and PML-N offer competing proposals for how best to manage Pakistan’s electricity generation sector
Healthcare: the (hitherto) ignored priority
If one had to reduce the state of an entire nation’s healthcare to a single number, it would be average life expectancy, particularly how that has changed over time. For Pakistan, that number stood...
Water and climate change: the (hopefully not) insurmountable challenges
Here is the bad news when it comes to climate change: if the government of Pakistan consisted of 100% extremely competent and completely uncorrupt officials, if they devoted all of their resources and energy...
Fixing a badly broken school system
Both parties agree that the school systems need fixing, and both are focused foremost on physical infrastructure
Will the new boss at the PSX clean house?
The new CEO of the country’s only stock exchange has big plans to expand investor participation in Pakistan. But does he dare take on the power of the brokers?
Shan Foods, intent on spicing it up with a listing on the bourse
With disposable incomes on the rise, the Pakistani international spices giant not just doubles its size in the last three years, but with new products and an acquisition part of its expansion plans, the family-run business is evaluating tapping into funds from the capital market
What makes Pakistan plump for IMF time and time again?
Pakistan has been approaching International Monitoring Fund (IMF), intermittently, since 1988. The last programme was successfully completed during the period 2013-16. However, within a...
Editor’s Note: Moving the national debate
Elections have consequences, as commentators in mature democracies are wont to say, and perhaps none more so than those in a republic that is...
Editor’s Note: The relevance of financial journalism
At Profit, we see it as our role to ensure that those rays of optimism that one may feel from the generally positive long-term...
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Don’t cast your vote before you’ve seen these WhatsApp leaks
Two fictional characters each representing the PTI and PML-N, engage in an enlightening WhatsApp conversation that can help prospective voters make the key decision at the ballot box.
Rupee likely to fall below 125 to dollar after Eid
The rupee’s approximately 4 per cent drop against the dollar last week, from 115.63 on Monday to 121.39 by the close on Thursday, once again rattled the currency market amid renewed fears of inflation and a Balance of Payments (BoP) crisis.
How Arif Naqvi’s fall from grace put Abraaj on brink of bankruptcy
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OLX, CarFirst set to join hands
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Baskin-Robbins opens outlet in Karachi
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TCS helps NED Racers move race car prototype to Canada
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Global LNG-Asian prices continue climb towards double digits
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