The Walled City Exodus

Cramped real estate is lying wasted in the Walled City of Lahore that no one wants to take. Why is this so?

The gloomy fate of our State Owned Enterprises

Liquidation, privatisation or maintaining status quo? Complex problems related to all three scenarios makes it difficult to find a workable solution

Private Solutions to Public Problems – Can Miftah’s education vouchers work?

The jury is split on whether or not conventional public education spending can be replaced with something better

How to save a democracy with empty pockets?

The supreme court orders the State Bank to release 21 billion but how will the State Bank do so?

What’s in a name? For the average gold buyer in Pakistan, everything

When coins no longer clink, all eyes turn to the glimmer of gold

The year of the landa bazar

One trader’s loss is another’s profit

Wheat woes – Our need and inability to grow more

Severely hit by climate change and a weak supply-chain, Pakistan’s most important crop is under threat

Pakistani lawn makes the fashion dream come true, but is it worth it?

For designers, the only thing crazier than the wedding season is the lawn season

How the two and three wheeler industry, not cars, became the hallmark of Pakistan’s automotive sector

Amidst economic turmoil and factory shutdowns, the two and three wheeler industry has casually carried on whilst its four wheeler counterpart continues to flounder

How a bad economy derailed a move towards apartment living

Inflation has wreaked havoc on commodity prices making highrise building projects almost unsellable

The fault in our crops – Growing too much of one, none of another

How chai and sutta went from guilty pleasures to pricey indulgence

Uncompetitive and short in supply. The tragic and avoidable undoing of Pakistan’s cotton crop

As output falls with each passing year, the industry faces a bleak future

Pakistan Railways looks to monetise its assets, but will advertisers bite?

Cash strapped and badly run; setting up a fresh revenue stream is a tall order

A beginner’s guide to Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method for stock valuation

Stock market analysts use this method to find the intrinsic value of a stock

In times of high inflation, everything goes in the grocery store business

Is the era of leisure buying over? Or do big retailers still have the capacity to clap back?