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?