How a 30 year old became a media tycoon
Deep into the winding, messy streets of a Lahore township, on one end of a broken road stands a building five stories...
Forget Imran Khan, these entrepreneurs think they have the answer to Pakistan’s housing crisis
It is an audacious plan to say the least. Foolhardy if we’re being real, and straight up nuts if you’re a complete...
Meet the entrepreneurs with the ticket to a multi-million dollar industry
--E-ticketing has finally found its place in Pakistan. But will Easyticket.pk and Bookme.pk be the next big thing, or are they just...
The future of cars is electric, and Imran Khan wants to keep up
The world is dying. We have been told this time and time again but without a care as to the future the...
The pesky wrinkles in the fabric of Pakistan’s textile industry
In 1989, a young man from Karachi by the name of Shahzad Saleem found himself far away from his home city of...
Can this and other co-working spaces find their space in Pakistan?
Where do you go to work when you’re working on your own? If you are, say, an independent contractor with reports to...
How Pakistan Inc. gets away with ripping off its workers
On the 20th of April, the students, faculty and administration of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) woke to strange scenes....
Can Changan dazzle Pakistanis into buying Chinese cars?
“The automobile is an expensive commodity - a consumer durable you don’t forget buying for the rest of your life. You have...
Export reforms make way, apparently we need automation first
In December 2018, erstwhile finance minister Asad Umar, while chairing the first meeting of the steering committee, approved the implementation of the...
Does growing off-season crops in tunnels makes for a good business?
It's the first thing they teach you in economics class, demand and supply. The higher the demand for a product and the...
What entrepreneurs should do to get their startups financed
Bilal Arif, founder of a blockchain-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Block360, says all of his company’s clients are outside Pakistan – mostly from...
Is Ernst & Young about to exit Pakistan?
Ernst & Young, the global accounting and professional services firm that goes by its brand name EY, is re-evaluating its relationship with...
NADRA has implemented the new visa policy fast and well
In Pakistan, we are not used to the words “fast” and “efficient” being used with respect to anything our government does. Which...
Findmyadventure: the startup capitalizing on Pakistan’s rising tourism industry
It is a story more familiar in the popular imagination as having played out on the campuses of Stanford or Harvard in...
Is Lahore ready for apartment living? This textile group is staking its future on it.
Karachi is still the largest city in Pakistan, but by some measures, the greater Lahore metropolitan area may now be almost equal...