Microfinance banking sector’s crisis casts shadows over SBP’s financial inclusion strategy

Multiple banks miss financial reporting deadlines, raising alarm over sector's health

Pakistan’s auto industry shows little sign of improvement

Pakistan’s automobile sector is showing no signs of halting its continued decline. The auto industry experienced a 39% decline in car sales...

No, your car is not a good store of value

The myth that cars are a hedge against inflation needs to go so we can actually start treating our cars like cars and not long-term investments

The spectacular decline of Hubco

It is not every day one can characterize a company that made Rs11.9 billion in profits last year as struggling, but there...

How Pakistan’s Big Tobacco gets away with tax theft

They are called loosies in the United States. A single cigarette that is purchased and sold, usually in areas that are low-income...

The Pink Bus is the ideal stopgap solution; We just hope it knows when to stop

It’s a clever solution to a pressing problem; thinking of it as a long-term solution, however, runs the risk of it becoming the pink elephant in the room

Yusuf H Shirazi: A titan rests at last

In 1963, Yusuf H Shirazi was striking out, and everyone was telling him it was a bad idea. Here was a man...

Pakistan’s gold is going nowhere for now

The SBP has rejected unsubstantiated claims that they were about to pledge their gold reserves, but is that even an option?

How can the Asaan Mobile Account change Pakistan?

Pakistan has a huge unbanked population. How can AMA make them prosper?

Is a deregulated petroleum market the way to go ?

In a recent turn of events, sources have told Profit that the government is considering deregulating the petroleum, oil and lubricant market....

UBL discards its little known Swiss subsidiary

That’s right, UBL had a Swiss subsidiary since 1967

Despite a pandemic, Pakistani startups had their best year yet with over $65 million in funding

The coronavirus pandemic may have actually helped some startups, particularly as the fintech space in Pakistan continues to grow

There is a bidding war for a loss making fertilizer plant. But why?

Fauji Fertilizer and Maple Leaf have fired their first salvos in the bidding war for Agritech Ltd

Textile exports down 37% in May, unlikely to pick up any time soon

If you run an export-oriented company, you have to prepare for shocks. Perhaps you have to be on the lookout for other...

Oil, gas, commodities aren’t being weaponized — for now

In the 24 hours after Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two breakaway Ukrainian territories, the European Union, the U.K., and the...