Stocktaking of power sector challenges in NEPRA State of Industry Report
NEPRA released its State of Industry Report 2022 (SIR) on 30th September, 2022. This year's addition is particularly significant due to multiple...
Pakistan’s 2020 real estate prospects and challenges
Pakistan has been in a real estate rut since 2017. 2020 may be the year we break out of it, but the government will have to play its cards right
How (not) to induce market failure
Once in surplus, pricing structures of no economic sense mean there is now a shortage.
Leap Of Faith
A few months ago I took my head office team to a team building session at a nearby resort. Although I was...
What’s up at the stock market? A rebuttal
What’s up at the stock market? Contrary to recent opinion, its share prices and market sentiment
Provincialization of electricity distribution companies
Restructuring only way to achieve optimal efficiency
Transitioning away from a cash economy
What's wrong with extremely high levels of cash in our economy, and what needs to be done to fix this.
Symptoms of distress
The state is sick and the infection has set in inside its economy. But could we lose everything else in the process too?
What made the startups click in Pakistan?
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
Hop, Hop and Away!
Hussain Dawood is one of the richest men in Pakistan. However If one were to ask from exactly which business did he...
The case against a six-day work week
After a week-long constitutional crisis, a new government is finally in place. One of the first decisions taken was a rushed one,...
Solarizing household energy
Throwing a lifeline to lifeline electricity consumers
Are the banks being lazy? …or – plot twist – being responsible?
Lending to the government is not banking, Allied Bank Limited Chairman, Naeem Mukhtar told me over food at a family wedding in...
Housing Reconstruction: Building Back Better
As of latest estimates more than 1.7 million houses have either been partially or completely destroyed by the great floods of 2022,...
Rebuild Karachi
The city’s decline may have much to do with a lack of political ownership, but the situation cannot be allowed to continue. The way out is for the business community to step up with a common agenda