Fatima S Attarwala
Are the people of Pakistan kind? The 2025 World Happiness Report ranked Pakistan 109th out of 147 surveyed ...
Published 24 Mar, 2025 07:03am
KARACHI: Five-year-old Zainab sits with her mother, having her hand painted on paper. Next to her, a toddler dabbles...
Published 22 Mar, 2025 06:34am
An uptick in machinery imports is an indicator that separates the wheat from the chaff.
Published 17 Mar, 2025 06:31am
Analyst says concerns raised by IMF over circular debt issue triggered correction in exploration and production (E&P) stocks.
Updated 11 Mar, 2025 10:08am
The price of a batch of pakoras has now dropped by roughly 20pc.
Updated 10 Mar, 2025 10:39am
Pakistan has lowest deposit, private credit ratios, SBP chief tells banking summit.
Updated 26 Feb, 2025 09:39am
Aurangzeb wants regulatory regime for cryptocurrencies.
Updated 25 Feb, 2025 09:31am
Digitising payments, especially business-to-business transactions for small players, could generate over $121 billion.
Published 10 Feb, 2025 07:29am
Low margins have contributed to the consolidation trend in Pakistan’s telco sector.
Published 03 Feb, 2025 06:19am
CM Murad says 2bn mangroves planted in various areas of Sindh; two-day climate conference concludes.
Updated 30 Jan, 2025 11:12am
Finance minister says green taxonomy framework would provide rulebook for businesses to understand the classification system.
Published 29 Jan, 2025 08:02am
In 2021, about 2,000 "ghost" employees were pulling salaries while being unauthorised as USC workers.
Updated 27 Jan, 2025 10:23am
The Prison Data Report, Pakistan’s Prison Landscape: Trends, Data and Developments in 2024, paints a bleak picture...
Published 20 Jan, 2025 06:39am
Govt has recently taken broad measures to curtail the pension budget, including discontinuing multiple pensions.
Updated 13 Jan, 2025 10:13am
Despite being in a cycle of making historic records, the market is still below its last peak in 2017.
Published 31 Dec, 2024 02:27pm
Card-based transactions at POS terminals have reached 83 million in first quarter of FY25.
Published 23 Dec, 2024 08:25am
After a rocky few years, VCs seem more enthusiastic about the road ahead.
Updated 17 Dec, 2024 09:57am
In a tech event this year, I heard a surprising thing. Some of the designs of Trump’s campaign were made by ...
Published 09 Dec, 2024 06:20am
T&D losses have added many billions of rupees to the circular debt which in turn pushes electricity tariffs up.
Updated 02 Dec, 2024 10:22am
India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Kenya leverage the banking sector to finance the private sector.
Published 25 Nov, 2024 07:48am