Tania Aidrus’s big bet on creating a Digital Pakistan
It started, as things often do in Pakistan, with a WhatsApp forward. On Thursday, December 5, a group of Pakistanis living in...
Could the KSE-100 hit 60,000 by 2021? JS Global seems to think so
Given the recent beginnings of the economic recovery in Pakistan, what can investors in the equity markets expect as far as returns...
Inov8, Flying below the radar
PAKISTAN'S LARGEST FINTECH IS POISED TO CHANGE THE PAYMENT LANDSCAPE OF PAKISTAN
Founder and Co-CEO of Inov8 Limited, Hasnain Sheikh, is a man of...
Bank Alfalah looking attractive to investors
Despite a fall in profits, the bank’s dividend yield on offer will have shrewd investors interested
Raiding the sports league market
Since independence, Kabaddi is the only game that has kept Pakistan in the top ranks of the international ecosystem of sports. And...
Tab to taxpayers: Rs5 billion
Located around 318 kilometers east of Karachi, the headquarter of Tharparkar, amid the sand dunes lies Mithi – infamous for its...
Pakistan does not have a billion-dollar software company. Meet the man who wants to change that
Amir Wain is building i2c into a SaaS powerhouse that is rapidly turning into one of the country’s largest software exporters
Cut out the middlemen, increase profits
Pakistan’s textile exports have been falling at 3.5 per cent per year since fiscal 2013. Yet Feroze1888 Mills Limited has increased its...
The incentive in going green
Either hot or very cold, mostly in the extreme, the weather is hardly ever temperate. One’s neighbourhood is hit by water scarcity,...
Another trip to the IMF?
Pakistan has gone to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) many times for the ‘last time.’ This time it was for a 36-month...
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...
The promising life and tragic death of Inov8
Founders of Pakistan’s most valuable fintech, Bashir and Hasnain Sheikh squandered potential that they had for years, all the while trying to ‘fake it till you make it’. This is their story: a business tragedy in five parts, and the hamartia is hubris
After a lackluster first quarter, Hi-Tech Lubricants finally picks up
Hi-Tech Lubricants (HTL), which manufactures engine and machinery lubricants in Pakistan, finally managed to have a somewhat positive second quarter in fiscal...
Pakistan Textiles flourish despite the odds
Rendered uncompetitive owing to high utility prices, the Pakistan textile exports still make an appreciable surge
After Ferozsons, Searle jumps into the remdesivir market
As the world worries about the coronavirus pandemic and how to beat back covid-19, Pakistan now apparently has not one but two...