Thursday, January 1, 2026

In the war of imports, Daal and Roti face the banning block

What is luxury? And who gets to enjoy it in a regime of controlled markets?

Excelling at business while fighting with a killer disease

The decorations in his room contain awards, pictures taken with dignitaries recognizing him, souvenirs and sculptures of Hindu gods and goddesses. Designed in the...

Between a saint and a shrine: The curse of Bahria Icon Tower

Launched in 2009, the Bahria Icon Tower has constantly fallen prey to messy legal problems. With no buyers in sight, how long will the tower remain a ghost-town?

EY is evaluating an internal spin-off

The ambitious plan could see the Pakistan operations changing structure

Cherat Packaging to invest Rs1 billion in polypropylene plant

Cherat is taking out a long term loan to start its fourth line, in light of rising demand for the bags

Broker Categorisation: Separating the wheat from the chaff

Why size matters in the stock exchange in terms of risk management

Pakistanis do not hold $20 billion in crypto. Here’s why

The misconception came from a confusion between assets held and volume traded

A few select startups made the funding needle budge slightly. Are there any lessons to be learned?

The startup sector has seen a $ 6 million surge in one month after raising only $1 million in the first six-months. Is it a blip or something more?

The fate of the Indus

Climate change is the latest threat to the Indus, and without immediate attention, there will be hell to pay

How real are the crores raised on Idea Croron Ka?

In 2017, viewers of Neo TV were witness to the first season of a type of show that was new in Pakistan but had...

The world is digital. Are you at risk?

“As the world moves on towards becoming completely digital, cyberthreats loom large. How vulnerable are you, the country, and your business?”

Shaukat Yusufzai was (kind of) right. But the BRT is still a disaster.

The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact, the bard teaches us. The same can be said about the anchor,...

One more round of circular debt restructuring and why it still won’t fix the problem

The new instrument is an innovative structure to help ensure that the problem at least creates partial self-correcting mechanisms, but the government is still punting on the reforms needed for a permanent fix

Where there’s a rule, there’s a juggar, and currency is no different

Profit tells the tale of how rethinking regulations is the answer to dollarization in this dramatised explainer

“Banks of the future will be built on User Experience and lifestyle banking”

Ashar Nazim is the CEO of Aion Digital one of the fastest growing Fintechs in the region. Aion Digital is a platform that helps...