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Pakistan has launched a three-year development plan, hoping to implement major projects to promote better integration of government and social…
Transit of goods through Southeastern Chabahar port of Iran has increased significantly in recent years due to offered incentives and…
Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the global economy and Pakistan is no exception. However, the glitches in the economic system…
The rise of branded chain of supermarkets, mostly people has switched traditional grocery to branded grocery in Karachi and other…
In the global fight against financial crime, Pakistan faces complex challenges. It is not the first time that Pakistan has…
Pakistan with more than 220 million people is an important country in geological and strategic location. One of the most…
Education is considered to be vital source of nation-building. In order of ensure national cohesion, integration and preservation of the…
Whenever thinking about investing, one thing that pops up in most people’s minds is real estate. Even in the time…
Demand for gold dropped to 892.3 tons in Q3 – its lowest quarterly total since Q3 2009 – as consumers…
Peace building, conflict resolution, conflict prevention, whichever term we use, sits uneasily within one particular field, discipline, or government department…
It is important that we emphasize how this year’s 11.11 sale is different and as cliché as it sounds, it…
Basic mindset of any type of investor is to manage the risk and maximize the returns. The common phenomenon in…
Currently Pakistan’s real estate serves as a big pillar in Pakistan economy. According to the World Bank estimate, real estate…
In Pakistan the three most contentious issues facing the farmers are: low productivity, distress selling of produce and huge post…
The entire world is at a war against COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, the magnitude of the negative impact is so huge…
Pakistan is a country with limitless growth opportunity in almost all sectors, construction being one of them. The government is…
Nation branding has become an increasingly important strategy for world because of increasing market complexity resulting from globalization forces, domestic…
In 1965, the Company was incorporated as Esso Pakistan Fertilizer Limited, to manufacture and market fertilizer. In 1968 urea plant…
Everyone knows the famous adage from Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? “A rose by any other…
It is not only the challenge of Cvoid-19 pandemic looming on the horizon of country’s economy, but also it is…
In 1860, Sheikh Noor Elahi, who came from an agrarian background in Gurdaspur, established a general store in Dalhousie, which…
As marketers consider how they may need to rethink their communications during the current coronavirus crisis, one suggestion from behavioral…
Easypaisa is Pakistan’s first mobile banking platform launched in 2009, the only GSMA mobile money certified service in the country.…
Communications service providers (CSPs), despite being at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, have been slow to invest in customer…
On 11th September, 1948, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah left us at the age of 71. He was an exceptional lawyer,…
Rising urbanization and growing middle class are key drivers of FMCG business in the country In Pakistan, a large middle-class…
The Pakistani government has invested heavily in port development and infrastructure construction in recent years, the social economy has been…
Industrialization and growing consumerism have led to the need for developing an effective transportation system. Key to the success of…
A unique and terrifying moment in modern history is unfolding before us, every day but it teaches us a lesson…
A famous adage goes as ‘The deeper the well, the cooler the water.’ The more the investment, the better the…
K-Electric does have any fuel storage facility nor they have an agreement with SSGC/PSO, yet they threaten to resort to…
Both the number of confirmed infection cases and deaths caused by coronavirus disease COVID-19 are still growing rapidly across the…
Your quality management (QM) program is probably well-established, with guidelines and definitions, rules, and ratings. But does it have a…
From last few years, sukuk is leading in the global capital market and currently it is the substantially growing Islamic…
Bykea, a four-year-old ride-hailing and delivery service, today has more than 500,000 bikes registered on its platform. It operates in…
All living organisms on earth need water for their survival. Water is life; It is an important constituent of any…
In Pakistan, marble and granite sector despite having abundant reserves of 30 billion tons have been operating in an unorganized…
Circular debt is one of the biggest challenges Pakistan’s energy sector is facing since 2008-09, which has just crossed the…
By the end of this year, China will officially eradicate absolute poverty. In the past more than 40 years since…
The outbreak of pandemic COVID-19 in 2020 was not only unexpected but also a surprise for the world. The COVID-19…
Amidst the post-pandemic scenario, the fast-paced, craftily competitive, exceedingly uncertain and globally challenging business scenario has dramatically raised the investment…
There are signs of business activity picking up in Pakistan at a faster pace as worries about new coronavirus (COVID-19)…
Economic structures Agriculture accounts for 25% of the country’s total economy. The main crops are cotton, rice, wheat, sugarcane and…
Reduction in interest rate is a must for bringing down cost of doing business in the country On 21st September…
Established in 1948, Unilever Pakistan is amongst the country’s largest FMCG business with over 30 brands spanning Home Care, Personal…
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is now perceived in many developing countries as a key source of much needed capital, foreign…
During the recent past season of monsoon, which saw record-breaking rainfall in Pakistan, it saw people indulging and focusing on…
Corporate sector has crucial role in Pakistan business sector, socio-economic development and country development. Corporate sector includes different organization; NGOs…
Real sector Agriculture: Out of Rs 1,240 billion fiscal package on COVID-19, Rs 100 billion is allocated for the agriculture and…
Pakistan is one of the major beneficiaries of foreign remittances, whereas the volume of foreign remittances to Pakistan has also…
During FY20 Pakistan received record remittances. On a cumulative basis, workers’ remittances increased to a historic high level of US$23.120…
According to a recent World Bank report, remittances to low and middle-income countries are projected to fall by nearly 20…
Every year billion of dollar or payment sent by overseas to their home countries. Over the last twenty years these…
Webinar on ‘Halal Industry in Pakistan: Potential and Challenges’ organised very recently by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce…
As the economy moves towards the end of FY20, it continues to face high uncertainty owing to the challenges posed…
Remittances are seeing a global boost in digital payments even while the physical ones decreased as the pandemic set in.…
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) held a gong ceremony to mark the successful book building and listing of Pakistan Energy Sukuk…
With the world battling the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact has been felt on every sector and everyday life. Perhaps…
The year 2019 has been good for the Takaful in Pakistan. This is evident from the performance of the Takaful…
Asia Insurance Company Limited is one of the fastest growing Insurance Companies of Pakistan. The company offers various solutions which…
Speaking at the recent launch of a new financing programme titled “Women Ventures” (WV) by Karandaaz Pakistan, in collaboration with…
Globalization has greatly impacted the mindset of the people as a whole. Besides that rapidly changing demographic profile of the…
Virgin Atlantic is pleased to announce it will be launching flights to Pakistan in December 2020. Operating three new routes…
Previous research on plagues and pandemics ranging from 14th century to the recent Spanish flu has established that pandemics greatly…
[box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””] The Universal Insurance Company Limited – a part of Bibojee Group of Companies was established…
The Government of Pakistan has recently tabled an Amendment Bill to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Act (Regulation…
The Gravitational forces of global geopolitics and geo-economics is moving back towards East from the West and as this rebalancing…
During 2020 State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has reduced interest rate, which is likely to impact earnings of commercial banks.…
Health insurance is a mechanism for spreading the risk of incurring health care cost over a group of individuals or…
Recently, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that rising pension bill is a far more serious problem for the government than…
In an exciting development for Pakistan’s capital market, TPL Trakker, a pure tech based company, was listed at Pakistan Stock…
Pakistan has successfully managed to handle COVID-19 so far but its impact on Pakistan’s economy is so far massive. In…
The Punjab government deserves some commendation for initiating a digital solution to strengthen its wheat monitoring and regulation mechanism, and…
COVID-19 threatened the world in each and every sector of their economies and may also increase the chances of corruption…
Monthly sales of automotive industry for July 2002 were reported at 11,836 units, up 32%MoM, but down 10%YoY. This indicate…
There are new buzzwords in the marketplace, such as Solar power, Inverter systems, Lithium batteries. We here in Pakistan have…
Pakistan received workers’ remittances worth $19.62 billion in FY18 and $21.74 billion in FY19. They grew to a record high…
Prior to 2020, it would have been considered unimaginable, that a virus could disrupt the global economy, sequestering billions in…
While Pakistan’s frustration with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for not playing an active role in ending Indian brutalities…
Freedom is a feeling, a way of expression, an act of doing something with certain limitations or is it scope…
Pakistan offers the most efficient and cost effective transit trade facility to Afghanistan. In the recent past, Afghanistan started using…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will have a huge and lasting negative effect on the global economy; 2020 and 2021 will…
The biggest challenge Pakistan is facing today is to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Present government is committed…
Almost no facet of our world economy has been immune to the COVID-19 crisis not only as a health crisis…
Driven by an undeniable responsibility and its fundamental values, the Dawood Hercules Group and Engro Corporation are committed to solving…
Since March 2020 State Bank of Pakistan has cut interest rate by 625bps. It had also imposed restriction on payment…
Pakistan is passing through an unprecedented crisis and being a Third World Country it is impossible to control the pandemic…
There are plenty of organizations across the world, which have made tremendous efforts to pay back to the society by…
‘Money belongs to you, but resources belong to the society’. With growing awareness about corporate social responsibility (CSR) among stakeholders,…