Miscellaneous Turning on tobacco Are Pakistanis smoking less of tobacco these days? The country’s leading tobacco player, Pakistan Tobacco Company Published 10 Apr, 2017 06:05am
Miscellaneous Back to the future: a story of Pakistan's turnaround Tomorrow in Islamabad, Nadeem Ul-Haq is giving back-to-back lectures on his recently-published book called: "Looking Bac Updated 24 Jul, 2017 11:15am
Miscellaneous 'Our focus is the end user', Country Manager, and GM Dawlance With over 32 years of rich professional experience, Salih ArslantaÅŸ currently serves as General Manager of Dawlance. He Published 10 Apr, 2017 05:55am
Miscellaneous India’s unintended digital boost Contrary to some pundits’ projections, India’s cash crunch ensuing the November 8 ‘demonetization’ didn’t quit Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:44am
Miscellaneous IMF’s cautions “After three years of reforms, Pakistan has strengthened its macroeconomic resilience and economic outlook, providing Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:32am
Miscellaneous Rent seeking needs to go Rent seeking in Pakistan has its roots to pre-partition. In 1930s when congress decided to undertake land reforms in Ind Published 07 Apr, 2017 06:31am
Miscellaneous The father is always right Ten years ago Mr. M – a young entrepreneur from Karachi - joined his decades-old family business after passing his CFA e Updated 13 May, 2020 04:55pm
Miscellaneous Pakistan’s alarming cost of food exports A ground-breaking study published recently in the Nature journal has some alarming revelations for Pakistan’s already Published 06 Apr, 2017 05:41am
Miscellaneous Underreporting of CPEC-related imports The current account deficit has been widening, with the dual effect of rising capital imports and a long running dec Updated 07 Apr, 2017 07:22am
Miscellaneous Horticulture exports Another of our exports that has been taking a beating lately is in horticulture; for the eight months ended FY17, fruit Published 06 Apr, 2017 05:27am
Miscellaneous Fixing the NFC award Building up on our yesterday’s discussion on how to fix the NFC award, the first consultative meeting by PRIME Ins Published 05 Apr, 2017 05:50am
Miscellaneous SPS & exports: USDA’s training Last week, the USDA, in partnership with CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International) and Texas A&M Un Published 05 Apr, 2017 05:47am
Miscellaneous CPI at a 30-month high The CPI is slowly but surely creeping up – having recorded a 30-month high of 4.94 percent in March 2017. It was a Published 04 Apr, 2017 05:30am
Miscellaneous NFC Negotiations By now it is clear that the upcoming budget will be formed on the basis of the 2010 NFC Award. There is also little Updated 04 Apr, 2017 06:00am
Miscellaneous Women on the board The number of women on the corporate boards in Pakistan is still negligible; the recent news reports of 21 out of 559 (o Published 04 Apr, 2017 05:27am
Miscellaneous Dassu: moving ahead The much needed and long awaited work on Dassu Hydropower Project (DHP) has started with the Chinese Gezhouba Group Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:13am
Miscellaneous Economy is heating up Vibes are good and storytelling is positive. SBP's second quarterly report tends to highlight silver linings in the econ Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:09am
Miscellaneous On crowd-funding in Pakistan Last Monday, SECP, Pakistan’s corporate regulator, warned public about a crowd-funding website raising funds from the Published 03 Apr, 2017 05:07am
Miscellaneous Depoliticising census The census remains a sensitive subject since population is linked to political and economic distribution in various Published 31 Mar, 2017 06:22am
Miscellaneous What is driving economy? Numbers don't lie. Look at the GDP graph; in nominal terms, it changed gears in FY02 and the turbo is on since then - It Published 30 Mar, 2017 05:43am
Miscellaneous What next for Reko Diq? This year, the mighty and much-desired Reko Diq copper-gold deposits celebrate the silver jubilee of their 1992 discover Published 30 Mar, 2017 05:39am
Miscellaneous CPEC: Framing the right policy issues Now that the majority of CPEC early harvest energy and infrastructure projects are well underway, Pakistan needs to thin Updated 29 Mar, 2017 08:27am
Miscellaneous Tourism: Need for central coordination Well, cherries have now started to blossom in the picturesque Hunza valley. That will commence domestic tourism season i Published 29 Mar, 2017 06:16am
Miscellaneous Can Pakistan grow muscle on meat exports? In recent news, the Brazilian meat industry received a bad cut. A host of Brazilian meat buyers across the world had Updated 30 Mar, 2017 11:35am
Miscellaneous Rice export blues Rice exporters seem to be in deep trouble, as the latest PBS numbers spell out disaster; for the eight months ended FY17 Published 29 Mar, 2017 05:43am
Miscellaneous Between the heaven and a tax cut This year, the industry of philanthropy in Pakistan joins the ranks of those that ask for special concessions in federal Published 27 Mar, 2017 06:41am
Miscellaneous Cute ideas! Some ideas are cute, “only to be appreciated from a distance”, as one grey haired bureaucrat smilingly quipped last week Updated 22 Jul, 2019 07:18am
Miscellaneous Trade troubles continue Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported shows that trade deficit has dangerously widened by 34 percent in Updated 30 Mar, 2017 12:07pm
Miscellaneous Weak prep work for regional integration In yesterday’s op-ed section of this newspaper, Dr Shamshad Akhtar, the former SBP governor and current executive Updated 22 Mar, 2017 09:17am
Miscellaneous The black box of provincial economies By next summer Pakistanis will hopefully be heading to the polls to choose their national and provincial political leaders for the ensuing five years. Updated 26 May, 2017 11:06am
Attachment of bank accounts of taxpayers: FBR orders sales tax/FED recovery only after approval by field committees