Is Sultana Siddiqui about to lose control over Hum TV?

A sudden spike in investor interest in the company’s stock has the market swirling with rumours about a change in control of one of Pakistan’s biggest media companies

Amazon added Pakistan to its list of authorized sellers. The sellers didn’t want it

Despite the hype and the pomp, Pakistan’s addition to Amazon’s list changes little for sellers

Marriage apps are here. Which one would you choose?

In the background of the big fat shaadi industry, two new apps are hoping to tap into how people meet

Greedy land developers want Pakistan’s agricultural land. Could the Supreme Court hold the answer?

For decades, real estate developers have had a free for all when it comes to acquiring land. Could a recent case in the Supreme Court set a precedent for tighter regulations?

The week everyone thought PIA was no longer a going concern

Some phenomena in life are so ingrained in our minds that we take them for granted: the Earth’s roundness, the sun’s faithful...

Does the D in DFIs stand for Debt?

The financial institutions have overhauled their strategy and now resemble a leveraged fixed-income fund

Ladies and gentlemen, here are your digital banks

With the central bank finally issuing NOCs for setting up digital banks, Profit looks at the contenders and their intentions

Cards not accepted here: Why fuel stations are turning on digital payments

OMCs are in a conundrum, and will face the possibility of a constriction in overall volumes

Bykea managed to dodge a bullet, but will everyone else be as lucky?

The Bykea hacking incident has raised some serious data security issues across the nation

PosterMyWall’s journey of coincidence

How did a bootstrapped Pakistani-American startup gain a globe audience?

How do petrol pumps make money?

After all of the hullabaloo surrounding the increase in margins, how does the petrol pump business model even work?

The heir to Agha Hasan Abedi

How Abraaj’s downfall has echoes of the earlier scandal of BCCI’s collapse, and how it might impact the place of Pakistanis in global finance

Why Sheikh Imranul Haque’s imprisonment should terrify Corporate Pakistan

Sheikh Imranul Haque has been in jail for approximately one month and nobody in the government – not even the serious looking...

Big banks are all set to run the open market. What does it solve and what it doesn’t

In early September, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) made a decisive move, signalling that it had had enough. It unfurled a...

The company that cried IPO

Dalda, the largest player in Pakistan’s edible oil industry, has wanted to go public for years. What is stopping them?