Taking Pakistan higher on the World Bank ladder
In the realm of creating an environment for ease of doing business, Ms Fareena Mazhar is hoping that BoI would find an ally in the coming PTI government
Naya minister, meet purani ministry
The minister is already inheriting the purani ministry and if he fails to come up with a strategy for raising revenue, he will be the same as the purana minister himself
Pakistan, the next outsourcing hub?
With India and the Philippines ratcheting up the rates, will Pakistan be able to jump on the BPO bandwagon?
Fintechs: Goliaths of today, dinosaurs of tomorrow?
Innovation is not the done thing in Pakistan’s commercial banking and soon Pakistan’s financial services industry is expected to witness a David-and-Goliath contest of sorts, with Fintechs with negligible capital taking on commercial banks with billions, even trillions, in assets – and beat them
Padding up the cement tycoons’ coffers
With CCP timidly looking away, the APCMA is running a cartel, setting up production quotas and extracting rapacious rates from captive consumers
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
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...
The economy of Punjab’s graveyards
How the final resting places of citizens dead and buried are managed and maintained
Shopkeepers’ scam adds fizz to profits
Retail prices of Coke and Pepsi remain unnoticed while retailers overcharge consumers day in, day out by as much as 40 percent – making millions over the top, apparently unnoticed
Why Ishaq Dar deserves bouquets and not brickbats
Interview: Dr. Ishrat Hussain Former Governor, SBP
Having served two back-to-back terms as SBP governor in Pervez Musharraf’s dispensation, Dr Ishrat Hussain has...
Pakistan, promise unfulfilled
Established as far back as the middle of the nineteenth century, 1860 to be precise, the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and...
China to provide assistance for PIA, aviation industry
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have mutually agreed on extending their bilateral relations and to work collectively for the betterment of Pakistan International...
Aisha Steel Mills Ltd- Yet another business case built on protectionism
Located at Bin Qasim Industrial Park in Karachi, Aisha Steel Mills Limited (ASML) is aiming to more than triple its production before...
Spotting the fake Quaid in M1
Sana Saif, a housewife, recently opened an account in Meezan Bank and made a visit to her branch, adjacent to her apartments,...