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...
Will the real economy please stand up?
Is it the robust economy with one of the best performing stock markets in the world? Or is it the economy with...
Editor’s Note: The great chasm
The median age of Pakistan is less than 24 years. Ours is one of the youngest countries in the world, and one...
Editor’s Note: The adult in the room?
If campaigns are conducted in poetry, and governing in prose, it appears that the Imran Khan Administration – at least insofar as...
Editor’s Note: The clear (lack of) strategy
By now, it is abundantly clear that the Imran Khan Administration has no clear strategy for reviving the economy, let along introducing...
Dear offended reader…
This one is for you!
‘Voodoo’ Economics, Habib Metro bank and a noodle
We were spoiled for choice this issue of Profit when it came to deciding what our cover story would be. It’s a...
Taking the fight to the big boys
In this issue we narrate the interesting times in Pakistan’s digital ad industry through a case study on one of its leading...
A disease Pakistan can do without
In this week’s cover story, we explore the advent of share buybacks in Pakistan’s capital markets, with major companies listed on the...
Editor’s Note: Freedom of the business press
It has been one full year of ‘Profit’. At the risk of sounding too full of ourselves, I think we can go...
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...
The rising economic power of Pakistani women
Two things are simultaneously true about Pakistan, both as a society and as an economy: it is heavily – and unjustifiably –...
Dragging it out
The prolonged uncertainty that has engulfed the country since the opposition’s move to table a no-confidence resolution against the Prime Minister needs...
Editor’s Note: An all-or-nothing bet
Those that the gods want to destroy, they first make promising. And promising is what Warid was when it entered the Pakistani...
Editor’s Note: PIA’s turnaround effort
It is no secret that Pakistan’s state-owned enterprises are almost invariably badly run, but even by the Government of Pakistan’s atrocious standards,...