Petroleum consumption in Pakistan has been booming. The demand for crude oil and refined petroleum products, such as motor gasoline…
Browsing: Cover Stories
There has been a constant debate about Pakistan’s credit risk lately and all sorts of theories and analyses have been…
In the last week of May, 2019, the Chinese Vice President, Wang Qishan made a historical visit to Pakistan. The…
Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) under Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving major paradigm shifts across all sectors and countries. This technology…
“We are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, value and proportion,…
Pakistan is the land of my forefathers; they are buried here and become part of our land and every handful…
The benchmark index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) is on persistent decline for the last two years. The recent hike…
Four pillars (addressing elite capture, safety nets for marginalized segments of the society, jobs and livelihoods as well as human…
In the past, companies have tried to optimize and unearth efficiency gains through value chain integration. Reason was that it…
Independence isn’t just a personal virtue, it’s a moral virtue. Abstractly independence refers to breaking chains. What we mean ‘independence’…
In June, 2019, the Chinese President Xi Jinping made his historic visit to meet President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg,…
“We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with…
The contribution of American MNCs in Pakistan has been very significant not just in monetary terms but from qualitative angle…
Balochistan is the country’s largest province, with nearly 44 percent of its surface area and a thinly dispersed population of…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
There is no denying that large organizations across the world expand their horizons by making investments in the countries where…
Pakistan’s electronic and home appliances industry witnessed a rapid growth over the last one decade. Its consistent growth attracted both…
Consumption is the process by which goods and services are put together for end user. Consumption is at the end…
In 2017-18, Pakistan Commercial primary energy mix was as follows: Conventional Primary Energy (Fossil & Nuclear Thermal and Hydro)-2018 Oil:…
At a recently held seminar at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Teresa Daban Sanchez, Resident Representative, International Monetary Fund…
The advancement in technology, over the last few decades, has completely changed the outlook of the world and so our…
Pakistan’s foremost economic tribulations at this juncture are twin deficit: The economic managers have been struggling to restrain imports and…
The trend to use internet has been growing fast in Pakistan for the last one decade. As the trend grows…
Household savings are key to ensuring financial wellbeing, especially in countries like Pakistan, that do not have well developed social…
Pakistan’s economy is characterized by low levels of household savings which play a very crucial role in stimulating sustained economic…
At the recent monetary policy briefing, Dr. Reza Baqir, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) defended persistent hike in policy…
There is no misgiving about the economic concept that the higher the national savings rate of a country, the higher…
With a population of over 200 million, Pakistan is the second largest economy of South Asia. The soaring inflation and…
Personal finance is the management of financial resources. Saving helps us to overcome significant problems in our lives. To manage…
The benchmark index of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) is on persistent decline for the last two years. The recent hike…
Recent Findex stats find that ownership of financial accounts in Pakistan – including those with commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and…
Over a period of time, particularly in the last decade, National Savings has transformed itself from a retail debt raising…
Recent Findex stats find that ownership of financial accounts in Pakistan – including those with commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and…
Balochistan is endowed with rich mineral resources. There is a wider scope for setting up mineral-based industrial units in the…
According to published reports, Pakistan’s National Ministry of Food Safety and Research said that the government will use various means…
Pakistan is among the top producers of cotton, sugarcane and food grains, i.e. wheat, rice and maize. However, significantly large…
Pakistan’s extremely blessed to have abundance of coal, natural gas and water resources and all these could very well be…
Our actions are our future So called agriculture country in food crisis, why? Pakistan is essentially an agricultural country given…
Potable water is scarce across Pakistan. One comes across the news from almost all major cities and even small towns…
The respective governments in Pakistan have been making efforts for the revival of the shipping industry since the early 1990s.…
Currently, Pakistan’s circular debt stands at a whopping Rs1.4 trillion, which includes the loans accumulated by previous governments. The alarming…
With a population of nearly three million people, the demand for water of Quetta city is increasing due to surge…
[box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]Zahid Mubarik SHRM-SCP, SPHRi, GPHR He is the CEO of HR Metrics and SHRM Partner in…
The e-commerce market in Pakistan has now been around for nearly 18 years. Though, the e-commerce sector has focused mainly…
Predicting the oil prices is a million dollar question; in fact, it’s a game of billions of dollars literally. The…
Home-based workers are a major section of the society. They have to be seen as workers and producers. For making…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
Mobile Money The global financial sector is witnessing a significant transformation due to technological progress and the role it has…
Pakistani newspapers and magazines are full of praises for the Government of Pakistan (GoP) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)…
The Government of Pakistan (GoP) has launched ‘Prime Minister’s Kamyab Jawan SME Lending Program’ aimed at providing self-employment opportunities to…
The financial tsunami that erupted in 2008 has swept the global financial community, and the major financial giants also fell…
On Jan 21, 2017 the PSX signed an agreement for the sale of 40 percent strategic shares in the Pakistan…
Among the developing countries having agrarian base, Pakistan is bracketed with countries having a large rural impoverished population. According to…
The Pakistan’s economy is facing numerous challenges, which has impacted the overall economic activity. The economy is still and essentially…
The SBP Policy Rate set by Monetary Policy Committee MPC-SBP at staggering 12.25% needs re-definition and aligning it with our…
A robust banking sector is a healthy sign for the economy of a country. It is this sector that plays…
There are numbers of professional works in banks that are needed artificial review, which should be careful and conscientious. Therefore,…
Mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) have clearly been the main driving force behind the country’s recent surge in internet users,…
House mortgage refers to the loans provided by banks who obtain the debtors’ property house property or other effective bonds…
Though Pakistan is now 72 years old, still our economy is going through a transition phase. The stabilization policies are…
Though Balochistan has vast potential in insurance sector, yet the sector could not play its due role in the local…
Automobile finance is a financial activity that integrates funds in the process of production, circulation, and consumption of automobile, mainly…
The recently announced Rs309 billion agriculture package, with emphasis on improving crop yields, livestock development and import substitution can be…
Imagine a robotic lens zooming in on the wheat sprout. It captures images and sends them to an AI (Artificial…
Taxation on agriculture income has been a debatable issue in Pakistan since long owing to its intricate democratic structure. Since…
Pakistan stock market witnessed a substantial decline of 12% in Rupee terms and 23% in US$ terms during 4QFY19 amidst…
Agriculture sector have a great role in the economic development and prosperity of Pakistan. In the early time, it is…
Fisheries is an important sector but it contributes only 0.3 percent to the overall GDP of Pakistan and 1.3 percent…
Lot of area in Pakistan is lying uncultivated which is boosting the tractors industry in Pakistan. Population is growing day…
Since the independence of Pakistan, the food and agriculture sector has been engaged in recreating its economy successively. In the…
Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC) is one of the leading public listed fertilizer manufacturing & marketing companies of the country, with…
Public utilities refer to the business that is responsible for maintaining public service infrastructure. Maybe it will be under the…
The prices of all the food items are skyrocketing likewise the price of dates reached Rs300 per kg. Arvi Rs180…
Balochistan offers the investors lucrative opportunities to invest in fruit farms. The distinctive climatic conditions in the province provide diversity…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
As a result of globalization, today the world is changing rapidly. This is not limited to any particular country. Therefore,…
Nation-building is referred to the process of getting all the citizens involved in the socioeconomic prosperity of a country. However,…
The current population of Pakistan is 204 million which is 2.65 percent of the total world population. As per the…
In 2015, UNDP proposed seventeen 17 goals including a new global education goal (SDG 4) that need to be achieved…
Education is the main tool to develop human capital. The analysis of investments in health and education is unified in…
Analysts seem to have the reasons to believe that new Governor of State Bank of Pakistan, Reza Baqir, has not…
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, referred to as Pakistan, means “holy land” and “halal country”. It is located in the…
Currently, Pakistan is one of Asia’s fastest growing internet markets, with over one million people going online via mobile phones…
UIT has provided close to quarter of century outstanding service to the nation in the field of higher education in…
Logistics marketplaces are taking highly specialized areas by storm. With Container xChange, we’re building the first online platform for container…
Government must announce a new livestock policy involving the private sector for promotion of the organized cattle farming activities in…
Trying to stabilize the uncertain economic conditions of the country, the PTI government has set an ambitious tax revenue targets…
President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum (PBIF), President All Karachi Industrial Alliance (AKIA), Senior Vice Chairman of the Businessmen Panel…
June 11th was the lucky day for Hammad Azhar, Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs as he presented…
Pakistan is a developing country that belongs to an underdeveloped capitalist market economy. The economy is dominated by agriculture, whose…