It is low-value, far smaller an industry than that in India, and is actively being strangled by the government. But Pakistan’s white collar techies and tech-enabled services exporters may hold the key to the country's macroeconomic salvation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit surged by over 33% year-on-year (YoY), reaching $2.3 billion in February 2025, compared to $1.72 billion in the same month...
AKD Securities forecasts KSE-100 is anticipated to sustain its upward trajectory primarily driven by strong earnings in fertilizers, sustained ROEs in banks, and improving cash flows of E&Ps and OMCs
There is simply one poor policy decision that caused destruction to everything around the dairy ecosystem in the last few decades, and that is the government's obsession to control milk prices, rather than milk quality
Loss-making Public Sector Enterprises (PSE) and privatisation have been a national obsession for the last three decades. Successive governments, military and...
As a society, our culture wants us to conform and follow a laid-down path in life. Innovation requires breaking out of this which means facing our worries about failure, criticism, and the potential negative impact on our careers
Farmers in Pakistan have long struggled with financial challenges, from limited access to bank loans to relying on informal sources with high-interest rates. But...
A man with a simple appearance—rosy complexion, short height, and an ordinary demeanor—but his story was anything but ordinary! Seth Abid Hussain was a...
Dive into the fascinating yet challenging history of The Great Depression—one of the most significant financial crises the world has ever faced. In this...
Since BAT pulled their vaping product, Vuse, from the market, nearly all of the vapes being sold in Pakistan are illegally smuggled. With a criminally unregulated market to play around in, just how big is this business?
McDonald’s, KFC, Coca Cola, Pepsico are among the companies that saw a significant, often major, downturn in sales following the genocide in Gaza, but over time, their numbers have returned largely to normal out of ‘boycott fatigue’
Bureaucracy invokes Bhutto-era nationalisation law, sparking fears of state overreach; private market stakeholders reach out directly to the PM and SIFC
Larger vehicles appear to have recovered sales numbers faster than smaller ones, suggesting the economic recovery has hit the well off and upper middle class first