How bank CEOs rake in the big dough
As the curtain coming down on 2017 coincided with his premature exit as CEO of Pakistan’s largest commercial bank, Habib Bank Limited,...
IMF overblows external account concerns?
Interview: Najam Ali, CEO, Next Capital
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came up with a dire warning for our policymakers last week:...
How high should a high-rise be
The members of the Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD) heaved a sigh of relief after the Supreme Court judgement allowed construction...
Should you put Dalda in your portfolio?
On the surface, Dalda Foods looks like the kind of company that has characteristics investors would salivate over: the owner of a...
The great land theft
If there is a single place that can be thought of as the foremost cathedral to free-market capitalism, it is not the...
Our real estate and the Chinese
To be able to do away with the hassle of shifting rented houses now and again, Nouman Younus is in search of...
What happened at Habib Bank in New York?
The Grand Central Terminal in New York is, by some measures, the largest train station in the world, covering 48 acres in...
Sound and stable, despite the rather steep fall
From 52,000-plus, the KSE-100 index’s fall to 41,000 points or thereabouts in under three months, Haroon Askari, Acting Managing Director (AMD) PSX...
We need to revisit the whole taxation system
Dr Muhammad Irshad superannuated as Chairman FBR/Secretary Revenue Division on the last day of June this year after an illustrious professional career...
What is Malik Riaz up to now?
On the surface, it is a transaction that makes absolutely no sense: why on earth is Bahria Town, Pakistan’s largest private sector...
Bloodbath at the bourses
‘For the market, uncertainty is worse than bad news,’ so goes an oft-quoted aphorism. The question is not whether the PML-N government...
The People Manager
Partner in four successful businesses, with two more in the pipeline, he is a family man who makes it a point to...
How Political Power Attracts Undue Money
The final report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) into Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family’s foreign assets (the “Panama Case”)...
Lahore goes vertical : 5 upcoming apartment projects
Walking out from under his father’s shadow, Dascon Construction, Shahnawaz Ayaz Durrani set up his own, DCC Developers, launching ‘Address 73’. His...
Stay horizontal or go vertical?
Despite the population of Lahore doubling over the past decade or so, the ever increasing sprawl and spread of it--which now extends...