What is Malik Riaz up to now?
On the surface, it is a transaction that makes absolutely no sense: why on earth is Bahria Town, Pakistan’s largest private sector...
Bloodbath at the bourses
‘For the market, uncertainty is worse than bad news,’ so goes an oft-quoted aphorism. The question is not whether the PML-N government...
Fan industry holding its own despite setbacks
A research study by Lahore University of Management Sciences under its SME Cluster Survey Project of State Bank of Pakistan in 2011...
A peek into the peak factor
It was a harsh day at university for Sarwat Ahmed who decided to book a Careem cab in the afternoon, not the...
The People Manager
Partner in four successful businesses, with two more in the pipeline, he is a family man who makes it a point to...
It’s a deal, it’s a steal
‘In business you don’t have to acquire a huge number of clients to be successful,’ this is the simple philosophy of Secret...
Is Qmobile’s iron grip beginning to slip away?
When it comes to hardware technology, one hardly finds a local brand as big as Qmobile. Regardless of which side of the...
How Political Power Attracts Undue Money
The final report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) into Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family’s foreign assets (the “Panama Case”)...
Our exchange rate policy
The rupee declined sharply against the US dollar during intraday trading Wednesday and no explanation and little rationale has been provided by the central...
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...
Lahore goes vertical : 5 upcoming apartment projects
Walking out from under his father’s shadow, Dascon Construction, Shahnawaz Ayaz Durrani set up his own, DCC Developers, launching ‘Address 73’. His...
The X Factor in Stationery
After opening a physical store and receiving a valuation of $1 million for his first startup AutoX – an online portal for...
A major cyber attack soon to hit Pakistani banks + 4 other unsettling predictions about digital banking
“Pakistan’s first Unicorn will be a fintech, which will provide a platform play as opposed to a single app,” Planet...
Stay horizontal or go vertical?
Despite the population of Lahore doubling over the past decade or so, the ever increasing sprawl and spread of it--which now extends...
Beards in business
Atif Karamat’s Naafey employs about 15 people and they have several high-value clients. But this GIK-qualified engineer, who has an MSc from...