Cigarettes may die. Long live nicotine?
Cigarettes are fast falling out of fashion but the demand for nicotine is going nowhere. This is how Big Tobacco plans to answer the challenge
How to get away with defying the Competition Commission
An energy drink manufacturer jolts the CCP with legalities, but this is not the first time the CCP is challenged
Pakistani policy is being made on faulty data: can we fix this?
Pakistan’s National Statistical System is nowhere near where it should be – with consequences for the country’s development
Is the caretaker government about to compromise Pakistan’s agri exports?
 After more than 18 months of consistent back-and-forth involving permissions and all kinds of bureaucratic red-taping the caretaker government is set to...
Maintaining a good Image
From wholesale to retail to e-commerce, Image is growing!
Will retailers accept revamped PoS machines? Chikoo and Bank Alfalah seem to think so
The startup has partnered with Bank Alfalah to digitise merchants; it might change the market in more ways than one
Why can’t the government sell one of its most sellable assets?
Power plants are a coveted business opportunity in Pakistan. In the case of the Kot Addu-Muzaffargarh solar power plant, the government has botched it so badly that no one wants to go near it.
UBank’s strategy makes a sharp U-turn
Latest financials reveal UBank’s balance sheet shrinking at the same pace with which it grew
Not much has changed at Mitchell’s. Why then is it amongst the best performing stocks?
Mitchell’s auditors think that the company might have to shut down. The market thinks otherwise
Is Malik Riaz’s House of Cards about to come tumbling down?
As the Rs 460 billion Bahria Town needs to pay to the Supreme Court catches up with them, will they have to go down the default route?
Ten years ago Chenab Limited defaulted on its loans. Now it looks towards second act
Once one of the country’s largest and proudest exporters, the Chenab Group is looking to chart its course back to the top with the backing of its largest creditor, HBL
Why Lotte Chemicals shut down its plant for the second time this year
The country’s sole producer of PTA finds itself chained to the fortunes - or misfortunes - of the textile industry
Multan Madness: Is DHA Multan the perfect portrait of all the peculiarities of Pakistan’s real estate market?
The investors came in droves when the project was first launched. But then why have property values halved in the mega-project?
Is Pakistan Steel Mills stuck in a time-loop or are we going crazy?
Four years on and we are back to square one. And not for the first time
Can Raast do for Pakistan what UPI did for India?
Raast promised to bring a digital payments revolution when it was rolled out in 2021 – the platform’s upcoming phase is going to be the real test which will determine whether it will boom or bust