The writer is a strategist focused on AI & Digital Transformation in emerging markets. He tweets/posts @faizansiddiqi he can be reached at https://www.chinookstrategy.com/#principals
FeaturedPakistan is paying to rebuild its IT ministry into the leader of a digital state it does not control, cannot staff, and has just legislated out from under itself. The paperwork says transformation. The evidence says otherwise.
FeaturedThree and a half years ago I argued that K-Electric was the biggest fintech, data-tech, and social network in the country, if it wanted to be. It still hasn't wanted to. Here is the case again, sharpened by everything that changed since: a reset board, the rooftop-solar shock, and the one…
BankingA visual investigation: a bank with the cheapest money in Pakistan, sold at the exact moment its old engines fail. Three acts, one referendum on what banking Pakistan builds next.
FeaturedThe SBP just cleared the last big regulatory hurdle. The offshore infrastructure exists. The corridor is proven. What is missing is not law or technology. It is willpower.