Haleeb: What happened & how it’s being fixed
It might be hard for Pakistan’s current generation to comprehend this but back in the 80’s and for the better part of...
How Iqbal Z Ahmed became the Gas King of Pakistan
Search for Iqbal Z Ahmed on the internet and you will find stories of how one man has hijacked the energy sector...
The Dollar: Buy, sell or hoard?
Profit explains the flaws with the old FX policy, what measures the PTI took to keep the market relatively stable and where the USD/PKR parity is headed in the short to medium term.Â
The dominance of the Big Five banks is about to be broken
Two banks – Meezan Bank and Bank AL Habib – are knocking at the door of one of Pakistan's most exclusive and powerful clubs. Here is what that means for the country's financial services sector
Pakistan’s Newest Billionaire
Given the quantitative nature of financial analysis, it is easy to forget that investing is fundamentally about understanding people. You can stare...
The rupee is falling. Let it crash
Why letting the currency exchange rate fall may help fix some (but not all) of the structural flaws in the economy
The great life insurance swindle
How the industry has taken to selling it more as an investment and less as financial protection, often deceiving customers about the true nature of their product, shaking the public’s trust in a country that already has the lowest insurance penetration in the region
Waqar Malik is on his way out and a general on his way in. Is this the end of the civilian experiment at Fauji...
Civilian bosses seem to have run Fauji Foundation better than, well, Faujis. Why has the Foundation been given back to a retired general, then?
Why Shan Foods should actively consider an IPO
The condiments company has always remained intensely private, but growth, transition, and competitive pressures from publicly listed National Foods suggest it may be time to finally go public
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?
ACCAs will outnumber CAs in Pakistan this year. What does that mean for the accounting market?
It is one of the strangest facts about Corporate Pakistan: there is, and has been for decades, a massive shortage of accountants...
Will Askari Bank’s new CEO succeed in his desire to shake the bank out of its stupor?
Abid Sattar took over as the CEO of Askari Bank in August 2018. Somebody forgot to tell his LinkedIn profile, which still...
Is the PSL good business? For the PCB, yes. For the teams, not so much
The implementation of a new revenue sharing model has the hopes of the franchises up. But do some of them even want to run it like a business?
Chakri’s real estate gang wars
Caught in an armed standoff, Blue World City and Abdullah City are fighting over land they don’t own, all while they continue to sell plots illegally