Can RAAST usher in the promised fintech revolution?
On Thursday, February 3, the State Bank of Pakistan instructed banks to provide free person-to-person (P2P) payments services under Raast, the country’s...
Distribution woes again!
It’s not just a battle between the rich and the poor. There is also a conflict between the employees and their employers
Taken for a ride: Uber’s free ride wasn’t free after all
It was 9:07 pm and my thoughts raced like a tangled mess, loops of thread getting stuck at adjacent knots and reversing...
Governance system for local governments – Part 1
Devolution, decentralization and financial delegation
Pakistan’s ticking pension time bomb
The government must change its pension plans unless it wants to buckle under the weight of pension liabilities
Provincial subjects and their discontents
For all of the good it has done, the 18th amendment has not been properly utilized and implemented by the provinces, particularly in the case of taxation and labour welfare
The lopsided market structure of the automobile industry
Cars are supposed to go down in value. Here they are a fixed asset.
On what women wear to work, and why it should be simpler
Traversing what is and what is not appropriate for work is very different for women than it is for men
Blitzscaling
An ill-defined and oft-abused word in the startup ecosystem is blitzscaling. Earlier this year,
Airlift shuttered its doors, leading to the inevitable questions...
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
The whitespace in the $2 billion advertising industry of Pakistan
The urge to create relatively demanded goods along with services is the most challenging task out there.
The lost glory of I. I Chundrigar Road
If you’re over 35 and have a job in Karachi, chances are you’ve spent a significant amount of time at I.I Chundrigar...
The case for Pakistan
(Hint: it's not the next Indonesia)
The Pakistani meme that shook the world
On August of 1st, Muhammad Asif Raza went live on Facebook, as he sat with both new best friend Salman Ahmad Naqsh...
News bites — Khan saab’s glorious U turn, Advice for Miftah Ismael, Chopping education and more
The Great U Turn
He came. He saw. He left. After leading a frenzied mob all the way from Peshawar to Islamabad to...