Growth on paper, stagnation on ground
Pakistan’s economic survey reveals more spin than spark
Sit down, Mr Dar!
For a number of weeks, now former finance minister Ishaq Dar has been providing unsolicited input into the economic decision-making of the...
2023-2024 Budget
The Budget 2023-2024 was presented under constraints coming from all directions, and posed an almost insoluble problem for the Finance Minister. The...
Dear CEOs, please stop whining
One of the professional hazards of being a financial journalist in Pakistan is that when you get to meet and talk to...
If you’re not paying for journalism, you’re paying to not have journalism
Quality is the staple product of this stapled product. Or so we think. As do you, if reader feedback is to be...
Interest rate hiked
The State Bank of Pakistan’s Monetary Policy Committee on Wednesday increased the benchmark interest rate 100 basis points, to 21 percent, in...
Editor’s Note: The silver bullet
‘The government should drop the ancient practice of doling out plots as end-of-career economic security to its elite cadre of civil and...
An honest look at import policy is needed
Our own experience teaches us that import restrictions are only a very temporary way of curtailing imports. In the face if a...
For the love of all that is holy, leave the rupee alone! (Editor’s Note)
We were almost there. After letting the rupee lose about a third of its value, albeit begrudgingly, there was hope that the...
Our readers worry us
We hope the response on our story on the Naya Pakistan Certificates is not illustrative of Naya Pakistan itself
Why bother with ‘targets’?
Of all the bad habits the government of Pakistan has, perhaps one of the worst is the one picked up by the...
Rules to hold us accountable by
Over the past week, Profit faced a bit of criticism from one of the subjects of a story that we did. The...
Seth-ification ahoy!
Received wisdom told us that, given enough time, sophistication and exposure to best modern practices, family-run firms would transform into professionally run...
Can PTCL’s new CEO turn back the clock?
The market just isn’t big enough for these many players. This is a statement that is thrown around a lot these days,...
Editor’s Note: Immovable, like set cement
A cat might have nine lives but Dewan Group’s Dewan Yousuf seems to have thirteen. And counting.
The banks, to whom he owes...