What on earth happened to TCS & can Saira Awan fix it?
The pace of change can sometimes overtake even the best companies, including those that have achieved the coveted “verb status”. In most...
Lobbying and philanthropy: how Pakistan’s largest businesses seek structural reform
It is no secret that the economy of Pakistan needs structural reforms in order to begin functioning adequately. And while many look...
This 18-year-old wants to put your own personal safety in the palm of your hands
What would you do if you are walking down the street and saw a fight break out? For 18-year-old high school student...
How D-Watson continues to survive the onslaught it faces from large supermarket chains
The pharmacy business in Pakistan is not easy these days. In days past, all one needed to do in order to do...
Warning Seth Sahib: The startups are coming for you
Mudassir Sheikha’s successful sale of Careem will galvanize the Pakistani startup ecosystem, and imbue it with something it has lacked so far: serious financial power
How Musadaq Zulqarnain became a billionaire by selling socks
In 1992, two brothers Musadaq Zulqarnain and Naveed Fazil along with their friend Tariq Iqbal Khan, set out to establish a company...
Is another tax amnesty scheme in the making?
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is not gathering many successes on the economic front. In February, the inflation rate reached its four-year...
How will the new automakers’ coming to Pakistan affect local auto parts manufacturers?
Pakistan’s auto industry does look like a cartel of Japanese auto manufacturers – Suzuki, Toyota and Honda – with Suzuki catering to...
This company wants to make your panwala your connection to the global financial system
If there is one thing that will make or break the current breakneck growth trajectory of e-commerce in Pakistan, it is the...
ACCAs will outnumber CAs in Pakistan this year. What does that mean for the accounting market?
It is one of the strangest facts about Corporate Pakistan: there is, and has been for decades, a massive shortage of accountants...
Why the Pakistan Banao Certificates are a bad investment
My first job out of college was at a brokerage firm in New York whose offices were just two blocks north of...
Careem brought with it a boom in auto lending for the banks. Then came the interest rate hikes
Muhammad Irfan started his rental car business in 2015 with just one used car. Then came Careem and Uber and the boom...
Will stock broker Arif Habib defeat the Government of Pakistan in the battle for control over PECO?
This is the story of a company you may never have heard of, but one that includes just about every ingredient of...
Karandaaz: the Gates-funded nonprofit seeking to bank the Pakistani unbanked
According to the World Bank, approximately two billion people do not use formal financial services and more than 50 per cent of...
Is the Pakistan Super League a viable business opportunity?
Perhaps it was fitting, perhaps it was ironic. The most expensive team in the fourth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL)...