Beefing up a one time giant
Mr. Burger, which is known for introducing the concept of burgers in Pakistan, has opened for franchising for the first time in...
Are Islamic Banks taking their customers for a ride?
Senate Committee grills SBP on Islamic banking practices amid soaring profits and record interest rates
Minority shareholders revolt at Merit Packaging
This company has not been doing well recently and the minority shareholders - who own about 17% of the company - want to know what is going on
Neck-deep in debt, is ChenOne and its parent company about to make a comeback?
Chenab Group, the retailer’s parent conglomerate, appears to be in the process of securing a restructuring agreement with its lenders. But will it be enough to revive the flagging retail chain and its textile export operation?
Punjab’s cluster development scheme for SMEs falls prey to the typical implementational hurdles
Despite an enthusiastic beginning, the plan to develop SMEs in Punjab in clusters has not come to fruition like it should have
Lethal medicine
Old furniture scrap and dried leaves scattered on the floor welcome whoever enters this worn-out Raj era building that houses an important...
Rates that kill: How banks blew their capital on PIBs
Yes, the banks messed up but are they entirely at fault? Did forward guidance misguidance play a significant role?
The magnetic pull of Zainab
After attending his classes at the Karachi University, Adnan Khan occasionally navigates towards Zainab Market, ignoring several glitzier shopping malls along the...
Islamabad needs to grow, but a 60 year old ghost won’t let it
In 1960, Pakistan made the momentous move of shifting its capital from Karachi to Islamabad. Establishing a new center of power and...
MCLEOD MAYHEM; FX and PSX woes
PSX down, CRR down to inject dollars and OMO injections to calm yields - mitigative steps to calm down mayhem on McLeod Road
Could Saad Rafique end up fixing much more than the railways?
It is easy to take something for granted if it has been around longer than even your great-grandfather could remember. In hindsight,...
RLNG: Winter is coming
With the world in the midst of an energy crisis, the upcoming winter is going to be challenging for a number of reasons, especially with regards to Regasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG)
Pakistan’s aviation sector: In ‘rapid descent’
An international forecast projects Pakistan’s domestic air travel to grow at twice the pace of global traffic over the next 20 years,...
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...
Tax fraud as a service
The FBR has alleges Rs11 billion worth of sales tax fraud through fake invoices for coal imported by cement manufacturers, but can only account for part of it with Power Cement; the companies in the tax fraud business appear to have many clients in the same industry