Bangladeshi export leftovers are wreaking havoc on Pakistan’s fashion retail industry

Social media marketing means that the local industry is being given a run for its money, by both smuggled and legally imported clothes.

The barefaced lies of New Metro City

The pet project of property mogul Malik Riaz’s grandson, New Metro City Gujar Khan is a ...

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

What’s up on the PSX?

The stock market performance

Why the IMF wants two private banks to recapitalize

In the recent staff report published by the IMF, two private sector banks were specifically highlighted. Why? And how do they plan on dealing with this?

Sethi gets the job done at Mitchell’s

During Sethi’s tenure, the company suffered losses and was teetering. But a turnaround was never what he was meant to do in the first place. He was there to sell

Trick or Treet: Decoding the meteoric rise in the stock price of the battery manufacturer

Treet Batteries Limited experienced an astonishing 358.3% returns in less than a month

Is this the end of Abu Dhabi group in Pakistan? And who is to blame?

A banker, a lawyer, and a Sheikh walk into a bar. What follows is not a joke, but a tale of high-stakes...

FINCA: Leading the way towards increased financial inclusion

Microfinance model was introduced four decades ago with the hopes of revolutionizing lending. There were high hopes of uplifting the not-haves of...

Can the Pakistan Environment Trust get the country to take climate change seriously?

A collection of wealthy Pakistani businessmen is trying to persuade their home country to focus on the environment – with the help of some few million dollars, and one bright 26-year old, but without much participation from local climate activists

Findmyadventure: the startup capitalizing on Pakistan’s rising tourism industry

It is a story more familiar in the popular imagination as having played out on the campuses of Stanford or Harvard in...

War on cash – Will the real payments revolution please stand up?

Contrary to common perception, Pakistanis are absolutely desperate to begin using internet-based payments; will the handful of well-funded fintech startups be able to break through the massive barriers to entry and get Pakistan on the road to its digital revolution?

K-Electric: Asleep at the switch

A bruising board fight has left the management adrift, at a time when the company is unprepared to deal with the coming age of solar energy

The incentive in going green

Either hot or very cold, mostly in the extreme, the weather is hardly ever temperate. One’s neighbourhood is hit by water scarcity,...

Why is the AnyMind Group coming to Pakistan?

Nearing unicorn status, the vertically integrated technology business has set its sights on a market where it has the first-mover advantage in bringing intelligence to publisher monetization