Seriousness of purpose on climate policy
It is a sad thing when one so consumed by one’s own propaganda and nonsense that one cannot get oneself to admit the truth....
The 13th idea
In the run up to the federal budget, there are many points of view in the market of ideas for the government to act...
Staying out of power
The Cabinet has rejected PMUs but has no solution for DISCOs
Editor’s Note: The state of the State Bank
If the KASB Bank’s own valuation was correct, then it actually was sold for a song by SBP. If the auditors’ valuation was correct, then was SBP sleeping on the job when it let things get so bad at KASB?
How the HBL PSL became a reason to believe in Pakistan
Take a look around you. It isn’t a pretty picture, is it? The country is teetering on the edge of default, the International Monetary...
Politics is not a dirty word
A favourite trope of the urban Pakistani middle class is to say that all of Pakistan’s problems could be solved, were it not for...
Editor’s Note: The dangers of misinformation
It used to be that companies would hire public relations firms to manage their image in the media by trying to put the best...
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 quite a...
“Look Ma, no profits!”
Farooq Tirmizi, our contributing editor isn’t too confident about the viability of Daraz.pk, as is plain to see in his write-up on page 22.
And...
Dear reader, we’ll be talking in lakhs and crores from now on
Forgive us for how long this has taken, but we did put a lot of thought into this decision. From now on Profit will...
In defence of our startups
Much has been said about the rise of the startup ecosystem in Pakistan. From enthusiastic cheerleading to words of caution and cynicism, there is...
Time is of the essence
Rivers of gold. That's what media mogul Rupert Murdoch once said about the classifieds section in newspapers.
Now, though I am definitely no Pakistani Murdoch,...
A deadly crossroads
The country is now standing on a very dangerous precipice and more than ever before requires the highest quality decision making at the top...
Set the money free
Suppose, for a minute, that you are perusing the internet, looking to buy a property, and you find a listing online for a very...
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 believed.
This leads...
