China wants to move to Faisalabad, the FIEDMC is setting up shop for them
Mian Kashif Ashfaq kicked off the new year side by side with Prime Minister Imran Khan at the launch of the state...
Losing to loose milk
On a Wednesday evening in one of Karachi’s oldest areas, Lea Market, Samir Rajput is working the phone, trying to seal a...
Another feather in Sialkot’s much-festooned cap
Amongst the town and cities of the undivided Punjab – quite like, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Lyallpur, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur – Sialkot, the north-eastern...
Telenor Impairment: Has the group lost hope?
Following this impairment, the recoverable amount of assets in Pakistan is estimated to be around $600 million down from $850 million
Is KASB Securities back from the dead?
It was among the biggest failures in Pakistan’s financial services sector: KASB Bank, the retail bank owned by the KASB Group had...
Has UBL paved the way for other banks to maximize arbitrage opportunities?
The recent financials of the banking juggernaut unveil a significant risk appetite
HBL vs Bank Alfalah: the race to buy Silkbank’s consumer lending business
The bank is one of Pakistan’s smallest banks, but it plays an outsize role in the consumer lending space, making its spinoff of that portfolio a coveted asset among Pakistan’s bigger banks… and potentially a big deal for the country’s e-commerce industry
How to fix the Pakistani economy: Dr Hafiz A. Pasha
The government should formulate a clear trade strategy, and then subsidise industries that can compete globally
Why are Pakistani advertisers ignoring TikTok?
Due to brand safety concerns, advertisers in Pakistan are working directly with TikTok content creators instead of working with the Bytedance platform. Profit investigates why.
National Foods’ excellent 2021
The famous spice company is determined to win the condiments and pickles department too
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
How Mastercard plans to gain share in the payments market in Pakistan
After decades of not really being involved in Pakistan, Mastercard wants to expand in the country. But their competition isn’t Visa, it’s cold, hard, cash
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...
Are two-wheelers just for men or are Pakistani women a huge market waiting to be tapped?
On a warm, mid-March afternoon in Karachi, after Friday prayers, I slipped in between narrow spaces outside the mosque on my motorcycle...
Hira Textile Mills introduces new yarn variety, hopes to get off defaulter list
Will the product be enough to change the mill's fortunes? It seems unlikely