Meet the man who delivers your food
Tanveer Khan, a delivery boy at Mr. Burger, runs his made-in-China to the maximum bike in order to reach his customer before...
Inside the secret $1.5 million stealth direct-to-consumer startup from Unilever Pakistan
Why would one of the largest consumer goods companies try to pivot towards a hinterto untried-in-Pakistan strategy?
Does the D in DFIs stand for Debt?
The financial institutions have overhauled their strategy and now resemble a leveraged fixed-income fund
The govt wants your telco to finance your next smartphone if you can’t afford it. But how will it work?
Yes, the risks are high, but the key just might be the prospect of blocking all the defaulters’ SIMs across the networks, reasons Umar Saif; all the telcos still aren’t on board
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
Three major banks are up for sale. Who will buy them?
For the first time in Pakistani history, three perfectly healthy and viable banks are simultaneously up for sale. None of them is...
The Suzuki Mehran is dead. What 800cc car will take its place?
Car prices are going to go down after the budget. But will they mean relief for customers or more difficulty in finding a car
The pesky wrinkles in the fabric of Pakistan’s textile industry
In 1989, a young man from Karachi by the name of Shahzad Saleem found himself far away from his home city of...
Attock’s eye-catching recovery
After recording its lowest net profit in nearly a decade last year, Attock has made a big comeback.
Where did all the Burnol go?
The household product is missing from pharmacies in Pakistan. But its brand recall still holds
The KIA Sorento 101 – How not to price a car
A story of corporate greed, brashness and the upside down dynamics at play in Pakistan’s car industry
The Big Short: inside the exchange rate volatility in Pakistan
Monday, July 18, was going to be a difficult day by any reckoning given the headlines of the night before. Imran Khan’s...
What’s up on the PSX?
The stock market performance
While PSX has a horrible year, one company more than doubled its share price
Avanceon Ltd’s CEO Bakhtiar Wain gears up for even faster expansion as cash flows in
The PDM’s inflation index
The situation is as bleak as it gets and the future government will be engrossed in an uphill battle in providing a lifeline to the sinking economy