Layoffs, board resignations as OPay-Finja clash prolongs. What is the dispute and what else is happening behind the scenes?
Finja is pursuing a strategy of going public with their concerns and exploring legal remedies. Meanwhile OPay’s Chinese investors are fast losing faith in Pakistan’s potential.
Ufone (PTML) dabbles into unchartered territory with ONIC, but what is there to gain?
What is a digital telco brand? What is the need of one? And what additional value does it offer customers already using a conventional network provider?
Income, culture, and inequality — who are Pakistan’s middle-classes?
With imperfect data and complex definitions of class, Profit tries to determine what it means to be middle-class, and why people want it to be their origin story
Productive policies or PR fluff — How useful were the interim government’s IT initiatives?
The interim IT minister claims large successes in five different areas. Profit looks at how much is real and how much is posturing
Could private labelling work inside an app?
From a grocery delivery startup to an FMCG manufacturer: what is Krave Mart up to?
The six local brands leading the Pakistani skincare industry
After years of either using totkas or imported products, Pakistanis are finally trusting local skincare products - and they are willing to spend money on them.
Pakistan’s candy kings
EBM and Mondelez are firmly placed in their positions as market leaders. But there is one local competitor that promises to show some fight
Watch out! Jazz is bringing its digital telco ‘Rox’ out to play
Months after Ufone introduced Onic to Pakistan, Jazz is gearing up to give them a competitor
After its own employees opposed an attempt to sell Samba Bank two years ago, the Saudi-owned bank is up for sale again. Will Bank...
UBL, Meezan Bank, Askari Bank, and Fatima Fertiliser among others had sought to buy the Samba. Will Bank Alfalah succeed where all of the others failed to close the deal?
Love, financial fraud, smuggling and murder – the tragedy of Seth Abid’s family
Seth Abid was larger than life. But his family’s fortunes have been sullied by a string of crimes - both financial and personal.
Frying the competition: How KFC made a comeback in Pakistan
KFC was dying a slow death when an HR professional was brought in
Who were the Truckanwalas and how did their criminal enterprise get three generations murdered?
They made their initial money in Punjab's transport business. But their criminal enterprise was involved in much more.
The badly kept secret of how Pakistan’s $2 billion media industry keeps losing money
If AdEx is declining, how are media agencies making money? Here’s what the last three RECMA reports suggest about media agency growth. Also, an inside track on what a leading pay television network is doing to capture a larger slice of the dwindling AdEx pie.
Does the D in DFIs stand for Debt?
The financial institutions have overhauled their strategy and now resemble a leveraged fixed-income fund
The big-boys of banking make big-bucks, but are they worth it?
Profit ranks bank CEOs based on their salaries and the returns they bring about