Pakistan is launching its first development REIT. Should you be interested?
For the first time, Pakistanis will have a chance to have stakes in and become real estate developers. But should they go for it?
Income, culture, and inequality — who are Pakistan’s middle-classes?
With imperfect data and complex definitions of class, Profit tries to determine what it means to be middle-class, and why people want it to be their origin story
Four ticking time-bombs threatening Pakistan’s food security
Despite its great capability, Pakistan’s food security is hanging by a thread. Profit identifies key indicators of the systemic problems our agriculture faces
The world listened at COP27, but will Pakistan step up?
Loss and damages were high on the agenda this year but Pakistan must also plan on how they mean to spend the money if it comes their way
The motorcycle story
By far the most commonly driven vehicle in Pakistan, the humble motorcycle has a long, fascinating, history
The fate of Naya Pakistan Housing
Four years in, barely any work has been done on the once ambitious project
The big-boys of banking make big-bucks, but are they worth it?
Profit ranks bank CEOs based on their salaries and the returns they bring about
The rising pension problem… in the private sector
Rising costs of retiring employees is a well-know problem in the government, but even the private sector has been neglecting the management of their liabilities, and now the bill is coming due
What in the world is RUDA doing?
With the fate of the Ravi in the balance, is it time to let the project die?
Scrappy, cunning, and unrelenting – how Faisal Movers dethroned Daewoo
There has been a silent transition in the inter-city bus business. This is the story of how it happened
The barefaced lies of New Metro City
The pet project of property mogul Malik Riaz’s grandson, New Metro City Gujar Khan is a ...
Crop Talk: The many ways onions make you cry
The impact of the destruction of the onion crop will be far reaching in Pakistan
Death, devastation, and now starvation — what is the cost of this catastrophe?
With the cotton crop decimated and food inflation set to hit, will we do anything about climate change or sit and watch until the next catastrophe?
Going the Thar route
After decades of policy shifts on the energy front, will Pakistan go towards domestic coal to avoid the bloodbaths of the spot markets?
Rates that kill: How banks blew their capital on PIBs
Yes, the banks messed up but are they entirely at fault? Did forward guidance misguidance play a significant role?
