After digital financial services, could startup acceleration be the new passion of Pakistani telcos?
Telenor Velocity is an accelerator that is hoping to help galvanise the telco into diversifying at a time when their original business is in freefall
Can Careem crack the super-app code?
Pakistan’s largest tech company has gotten people used to the idea of paying for rides online. Will it now succeed in creating its own online ecosystem?
Why are some cars being sold for below showroom price
Whilst the sector is in a shambles, automotive customers might have lucked out as investors have held onto a few cars for a bit too long
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...
EY is evaluating an internal spin-off
The ambitious plan could see the Pakistan operations changing structure
What’s the mini budget all about?
Looking back, there was a reason that both Ishaq Dar and Shaukat Tareen signed with the IMF within days of taking office. Yet Asad Umar chose to stay ambiguous
Hospitality industry resumes its northward trajectory
Post September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and subsequent US ‘War on Terror’, Pakistan tourism and hospitality industry took a...
Lockdowns again and Agent 007 – this week in Pakistan’s business and economics Twitterverse
As covid cases begin to peak again in Pakistan with the federal and Sindh governments locking horns over who is to blame...
Has Pakistan’s debt bomb detonated?
The country is left with limited options to tackle its increasingly unsustainable debt obligations
Chiniotis mean business!
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi, the greatest-ever Urdu language satirist, in one of his trademark quips said that Muslims of undivided India thrived only...
Atif Mian’s advice for the State Bank: explained
Pakistani-American economist and Princeton University Professor Atif Mian took to Twitter on Monday, January 20, in effect, critiquing the way central banking...
Jazz failed to build Veon into the WeChat of Pakistan. That’s why it will succeed
CEO Aamir Ibrahim’s willingness to abandon his failures and invest in his successes suggests a strong path forward for the company
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...
Clicks instead of bricks
E-grocery, commonly phrased as online grocery is expected to grow 9.5 percent worldwide to become a $9.4 billion industry this year. In...
Globe Textile Mills owners sue OBS to terminate merger agreement
Pharma conglomerate aimed to use acquisition as a backdoor public listing, now appears to be unlikely to go through